The Portland daily press., 1879-11-22
MAINE CITIES.
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LEWISTON AND AUBURN.
FRIDAY, Nov. 81.
The cold wave has arrived.
Overcoat thieves are on the war path.
Slippery side walks and broken limbs are
now in order.
Elias Gore says the government owes him
fifteen million dollars.
Que lonely lodger direct from "old Ire
land'' was at the station last night.
The mercury fell to ten degrees above
zero this morning.
The rubber trade is booming.
Mr.. Symonds' house is nearly completed.
1t is a cosy and substantial affair.
The Express company are having such
heavy receipts it will soon be necessary to
supply twO-horse truck teams.
The Dewitt propretors are substituting
Kerosene for gas lights in some sections of
their house.
We had the pleasure Of interviewing
Moses King, Jr., to-day. He reports the
causes which he represents as prospecting
and thinks the millennium is near at hand
We fear that Good Templars' boom in
Auburn is no gu.
Officer Hodgdon resumes duty on Mon
day.
The fall term of Bates College closed to-
day. The students will have vacation of
six weeks.
The Chronicle issued Thanksgiving
supplement" to-day. We take ours about
noon next Thursday.
The police fail to discover the wherea-
bouts Of young Craig. He doubtless left
town.
VIM. Hallowell was released from the city
prison this morning. 1t was ascertained
that he was defending his mother from the
violence of the ''old man" like dutiful
son.
Mrs D. E. Parlan has a crayon portrait
on exhibition in Douglass & Cooks win
dow.
CroWells, the commission fruit mer-
chant, team was the cause of a bit of SEN
sation this forenoon in front OF Savings
Bank block. Much is due to the noble eff
forts of three jewellers, sixteen clerks and
two lawyers, by whose prompiness said
team escaped with but slight damages.
Lots of Thanksgiving liquor is being laid
in. OF course it is all for private use.
We regret to learn of the decease of d.
T. Wright, Esq, at his residence on College
street yesterday afternoon at three O'Clock,
mot early i'll the morning as a local paper
reported it, Mr.. Wright has been con-
fined tor long time with complicated
heart and lung trouble. He was one of our
oldest attorneys, a prominent member OF
the Bates street church and Masonic fra
ternity, and politically a conservative DEM
ocrat. Mr.. Wright was considered one of
the shrewdest and most arduous workers
in his chosen profession. He was at one
g .1~.
His family have the sympathy Of the COM
munity.
Prof Sumner fell upon the sidewalk on
Park street last evening and fractured his
hip. His condition is considered serious.
The city fathers cannot give too much at
tention to keeping our walks well graveled
during the cold season. Yesterday espe-
cially the danger to pedestrians was great.
The officers unearthed ten gallons of
whiskey from Patrick Haley's premises yes
terday afternoon, and Mr. Haley was heavi-
ly fined at court this morning on two COM
plaiuts-search and seizure and nuisance.
F. w. Kimball is doing editorial work on
the Chronicle.
The skate market is being literally pat
ronized.
Capt. Crosby, who keeps a boarding house
on Lisbon street, has followed the sea a
large part of his life, having sailed to almost
every port on The globe. He is always ready
for yarn and withal jovial. kind hearted
old gentleman.
The snext entertainment in the Star
course is humorous lecture by DR.. j. J.
Vilers on the evening of Dec. OH.
The Reform Club is making extensive
preparations for the reception and enter
tainment of delegates to the state conven-
ton, which meets in this city Dec. 81 aid
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