The Portland daily press., 1872-12-16

One of our citizens carries lot of vermifuge
about him as shield against small pox.
The Portland Benevolent Society has rising
$4,000 invested funds
The time has now come for the papers to say
"the press of holiday advertisements obliges
us to cut short our usual interesting variety of
local and general news
The beautiful weather. Saturday brought out
crowds of promenaders upon the streets.
There was a chair squalr' on Middle street
between two women, Saturday morning. The
dispute was about the propretorship of a
shawl.
The first train over the Boston and Maine exr
tension ran into the city Friday night. What
made it more welcome was the fact that it was
apaymasters train. Each car 1--WE suppose)
was heavny freighted with greenbacks.
Christmas purchases began Saturday and
the shops were crowded with customers.
The weight of the engineer on the P. S. & P.
freight train is 100 pounds, of the conductor
230, and two brakemen 215 and 209 each. These
gentlemen must be the champion heavy weights
of the road
Liquors were seized at Rufus Stanley's on
Fore street, Saturday.
to have al new store put up fon the corner
of Fore and Plum streets, to be used as a bond
ed warehouse for their own importations.
The winter term of Westbrook Seminary ba-
gins to-day.
The India Street Universalist Society fair be-
gins at the vestry of the church this evening,
and will continue all the week.
The Boston and Maine turn-table will prob
ably be ready for use to-day. The Y. to the
engine house and the Y. to the Maine Central
track were completed Saturday.
A lady of this city who has recently had oc-
casion to visit dentist explained her imperfec7,
ton of speech to her young child by the state
ment that the doctor had pulled out all her
teeth. ''Did he pull out you tongue, too, NAM
map" asked the youngster amazed at the quiet
which reigned in the household.
1t is not true that the sheriff has ordered a
certain insurance sign ON Exchange street to
be taken down because of the glass of ale which
Washington wears on his hat
A gentleman by the name of Talford was
thrown out of wagon Friday while riding be-
tween Portland bridge and the railroad bridge.
He received no serious injury.
'Weve got something new at our house"
geefully exclaimed an errand boy one day last
week as he entered the store where he was EN-
ployed. "What is it?" blandy inquired the
clerk thinking perhaps it was baby or some-
thing of the kind. 'O my sisters all broke
out with the small pox" was the delighted re-
ply. The firm have secured the services OF a
new errand boy.
Rev. w. H. Murray of Adirondack fame, was
in town Saturday.
Drunkenness was fearfully prevalent yester
day. A young and well-dressed woman, with
bonnet crushed to shapeless mass and shaw
bedragged in mire, was seen on York street
and two boys, apparently not twelve years Of
age, were reeling along Fore street, scarcely
able to stand.
A man escaped from the Work-house yester.
day; grey-haired woman was brought into
police station by officer Durgin last night; two
boys were arrested on York street yesterday for
throwing snow. The preceding is the sum Of
the police news.
The people on Elm street were regaled witt
the sight of man and woman maudin drunk
with arms entwined about each others necks
passing along that street yesterday