The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-06-12
Brief lettings.

6rl0I JOUUlnSS.
Part iof the Evangeline troupe is at the
Falmouth and part at the United States Hotel
Children's Sunday will be observed to-mor-
row evening at the Abyssinian church.
Rev. G. Morton Stills, the new canon of St.
Luke's Cathedral, will preach at St. Paul's
church tomorrow morning.
The Cumberland County District Conven-
ton will be held in this city on the 2eth of
July.
The monthly meeting of the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union will be held at the
Friendly Inn this afternoon at 3 o'clock.
At the praise meeting at Williston Church
tomorrow evening the pastor will give further
account of the familiar and standard hymns
The feast of st. Barnabas was celebrated
yesterday morning at ST. Luke's cathedral.
Bishop Neeley and Rev. Mr.. Stills officiated
Officers Sterling and Hanson arrested crazy
woman. Mrs. Gardner, on Cumberland street
yesterday.
A new freight engine for the European and
North American railroad was sent to Bangor
yesterdas from the Portland Company's works.
1t weighs thirty-seven TONS
A Leghorn hat was stolen from the store of
Eastman & Cults, under the United States
hotel, yesterday
Yesterday morning the deputy sheriffs seized
twenty gallons of liquor at the Eastern depot.
At $40 Commercial street they got twenty
three bottles of beer.
Harry Brown will close his studio the mid
die of next week and start on his summer
sketching tour.
!. The Gazelle will go on the route June 18th,
and the Mary w. Libby and Express June
2Sth.
The High School Cadets through their cap
tain, Richardson, presented their drill
master, I. II Baker, with an elegant solid
gold seal-ring, with handsome stone, after
their drill Thursday evening.
A series of cards, devoted to the various
churches of the city. handsomely framed, the
work of F. S. Hutchinson, and headed
Church Register" has been placed in the
various hotels.
The meeting of the Temperance Union at
Congress Hall Sunday evening will be ad-
dressed by MIR. Charles H. Fling, G.. A. Merry
and others. 1t is expected that this meeting
will be one of unusual interest. All are in
vited. Meeting commences at 7.3O o'clock
In drunken row at CasI's corner yesterday
morning, James Burns, a section hand on the
Boston and Maine railroad, received a severe
wound from pair of brass knuckles, opening
cash in the cheek two inches long, and near
ly destroying one eye.
A general description of the newt Natural
History building, from the plans, was pub
lished in the PRESS some time ago. A more
detailed description will be given when the
building is tremendously opened in Septem-
ber
Fisk's offer to make present of handsome
suit of clothes to the boy who sends the first
written solution of the card puzzle he is dis
tributing, interests the youngsters more than
the circus does. The offer is open till the LIST
of July.
We would call the attention of our readers
to the summt arrangement of the Interna'
tional Steamship Company, which will be
found in our advertising columns this morn
ing. Those who will take the trouble to call
at their uptown Office, No. 40 Exchange street.
will learn of some very attractive exclusions
for 1880.