The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-22
Brief JottIngs.

HOW mu0Cy II lsI
The price of coal holds at $3.50.
Buffalo Bill at Music Hall tonight.
Elder Grants meetings at Union ball are
largely attended and very interesting.
The Maine Central Railroad Company have
sixty locomotives
Many of the searches made by the depu y
sheriffs for liquor are fruitless
A grand athletic and sparring entertainment
Is billed for Tuesday evening at Grand Army
Hall.
Alderman Haseltne is looked for tonight.
The next Mechanics Association debate will
take place Wednesday evening.
There was another decline in sugar yesterday.
GRADUATED is now quoted at 81 cents, and Elk.
@. at sat wholesale.
Mr. NJ B. Gilbert will open q school for in
struction in Ball Room Etiquette and Dancing
at Army and Navy Hall Saturday evening.
James Haley, who assaulted Deputy Sheriff
Libby Wednesday afternoon, was brought be-
fore Judge Knight yesterday morning and
fined $40 and costs, and refusing to pay was
committed to Jail for the term of 30 days.
The new plank sidewalk recently laid at
Knightville is being extended along the Ocean
House road to where it intersects the
Turner's Island road
The small structure at Knightville which
has been erected for the purpose of the Trial
Justices court and the lookup, is nearly fin
ished. The work has been done on contract by
Mr.. d. f. Seaman.
Yesterday morning officers Hanson and Gar
land made small seizure Of liquor at shop
L. AZ o,d Dr;o IN ho
run by Andrew Conley. The shop has since
been vacated.
Matthew Gillep, notorious rough who va!
arrested by officer Hanson Wednesday fol
drunkenness and disturbance, has been sent to
Jail for 80 days.
On Thanksgiving Day at the Congregations
Church, Woodford's Corner, VIM. E. Could
Esq, will deliver an historical discourse irelat
ing to the first parish in the town.
At present the catch OF Holsters is not hall
large enough to supply the demand. So many
small ones are taken for packing purpose thai
it greatly curtais the crop of large ones.
The Tourist was taken to the head of Maine
Wharf yesterday, where she was put 10 condi
ton to float This morning she will be hauled
to the landing at Custom House Wharf, wher'
she will be hoisted on TO the wharf and re
paired.
Div. No. l, Ancient Order of Hibernians, viii
give their second annual assembly at Lancaste
Hall Thanksgiving eve. Music by Chandler
Quadrille Band.
A Thanksgiving ball will be given at Brown
Hall, Cumberland Mills, next Thursday eve
ming. Music by Manchester.
Mr.. Henry Kimball, father of Charles Ell
Kimball, the architect, has a large oily painting
in Roesel & Bsnson's window of scene in thu
Yosemite, which attracts considerable atten
ton.
Franklin Wharf has been completely pavet
with granite blocks, and now the railroad tract
at that point is being relsid and Lewly ballast
ed. These improvements have made it one o
the most substantial wharves il the Icity.
DR.. Loveioy, representing the Old Colon.
road, was in the city yesterday taking look a
the injured ones by the Wollaston disaste
whose claims are unsettled. He found then
doing very nicely. he left for Boston on tn
Pullman train.
Alderman Cushman displays in his stor
window quite variety of winding toys, among
which are several representing his greenbacl
brother Butler.
Mr.. John F. Slattery, formerly Of this city
but now of Boston, was married to Miss Mar!
McKerney of Yarmouth, lately teacher il
one Of the public schools CT this city, yesterda.
morning. The ceremony was performed at tn
Cathedral chapel by Father Ryan. The part
took dinner at the Preble House and left fo
Boston by the Rochester ad in the afternoon