The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-12-14

BRIEF JOTTINGS.-Lemuel Dyer's store in
Westbrook was entered by burglars on Friday
night. They got about 500 in cash and some
groceries.-Miss Beebe sang at the First Par
ish Church Sunday evening in Kotzschmar's
"Te Deum."-Mr. Howard Gould's family
We're made sick Saturday by partaking of some
ham suspected to have been infected with some
poisonous disease. They are all we'll now
Mr.. Sweetsir, the proprietor of the Mart, says
our informant, who is member of the Y. M
G. A., is mistaken when he says the Mart is
granted free Of expense to the Society on Sun
day evenings. That the Mart is out over $1,000
on the velocipede humbug, otherwise he should
have been happy to have given it free.-Mr. j.
c. Ward, No. II Union street, was the fortu-
nate recipient of a beautiful silver watch and
chain few days since, purchased of A. Dun
yon, and the gift of a friend.-A great many
people will no doubt he in a condition this
week to sing,
Bells ringing all the day,
Money spent and thrown away;
o there was the deuce to pay,
When we went out sleighing.
MANY City Mothers" send us com munica-
ton trusting that the School Committee will
appoint teachers of penmanship in the public
schools, for they consider that the penmanship
Is the weak point in their otherwise excellent
education.-Why is dogs tail a great novel;
ty? Because it was never seen before.-The
sloop Stephen Orr, sunk in Seal Harbor, has
been raised Her hull is not much injured
but her rigging is badly damaged. 1.-The Soule
boys, arrested for burglary at Cape Elizabeth
last week, have been discharged on account of
their youth and through the intercession of
friends.-The third pillar was hosted to posi-
| ton in front of the new Post Office yesterday.
The names of the superintendent and clerk of
| the works, the Portland Transcript, thirty or
forty business cards, and the Farmers Alma
nae for 1870, were all put in tin case and de-
posted under it by James f. Dearborn, one of
the workmen. Mild, sunny day yesterday. A
| slight fall of snow took place early Monday
SAD AcCIDENT.-Mr. Lorenzo d. Miller, one
] of the members of the police department, met
with a sad accident on Sunday night. He is
quite advanced in years and has had, not long
since, stroke of paralysis. On the night in
question, about ten o'clock, he raped on the
| door OF Messrs. Littlefield & Wilson's planning
MILL No. % York street, and asked permission
| of Mr.. Charles Averill, the night watchman
employed there, to come in and warm himself,
saying he felt sick and was afraid he had an
other attack of PARALYSIS coming on Mr.. Aver
i'll invited him to come u seeing that he looked
quite sick, and told him to come up in the
counting-room and he would light fire. They
went up the stairs, and while Mr. Averill went
to light the fire, Mr.. Miller went to go into the
| counting-room when he was suddenly taken
with shock and fell down the stairs bringing
up against barrel. He broke one of his
wrists in the fall, dislocated the other, injured
the collar-bone, and cut his face badly. Mr.
Averill got help and had him Immediately re-
moved to his home, where DR.. French was
called, but owing to his age, the nature of thu
disease, and the serious injuries he has receiv
ed it is doubtful if he will recover.