The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-03-01
Labor and Materials,

The report then goes on to give the amounts
expended on the various streets. There was
$3,974.75 expended on cleaning streets, ST.
2O7.25 for cleaning culverts, $51O4 cushing
stone, $143.4 cutting stone, $1.76792 carting
and screening sand, 1,625.95 moving ice and
snow, $670.73 miscellaneous. There was So
614.72 expended on Vaughan's, $2,2S7.6S on
Tukey's, $172.O5 on Pride's, $134.96 ON Stroud
water, and $719.41 on Clark's bridges. The
smallest sum expended on any one street was
$3.50 each on Poplar and Locust streets, and
the largest 81 ,494.11 on Congress street. There
was So, .38 spent on various streets and
small repairs not enumerated under any spec
ial street.
There was 1907 Ito yards of pavement laid
OF which 2,14S Is yards were granite, and
SS1 $40 granite replacing wood. There were
set, and reset, 10,S99 feet curbstone, 12,447
yards sidewalk including 354 $50 new brick.
There were also laid 9S7 square yards plank
sidewalk
CITY MARSHAL.
The City Marshal reports the following ar
rests:
Assault and battery, 1877; arson, 2; affray, "a;
attempt rape, 1; assault with deadly weapon
3; adultery, 5; breaking and entering 10; bas-
tardy: 3; common drunkard, %: cruelty to ami
mails, 2; common thief, L drunkenness, $50;
drunk and disturbance, 557; delivered up by
bondsmen, 1; discharging firearms, 1; desert
ers, 8; disturbance, l; embezzlement, 3; evad-
ing fare, 5; exposure of person, 3; forgery, 2;
insanity, "A; illegal transportation of liquor, 1;
keeping pawnbroker's shop without license,
1; keeping billiard saloon without license, /;
keeping dog do, l; keeping junk store do, 1;
keeping house of ill-iame, 1; larceny, $50; ma
licious mischief, %; murder, 1; open shop, 16;
obtaining goods under false pretences 2; OBJ
tanning money 40, 2; obstructing streets, 2; DO
lygamy, L; riot, Z; receiving stolen goods, 2;
run away from workhouse, II; run away from
ship, 4; run away from home, s; running away
fir om Reform School, 4; robbery, 1; rape, 1;
swindling, l. Sabbath breaking, 10; seizures,
s; single sale, s search and seizure, 81; selling
liquor. Z; suspicion of larceny, 10; suspicion OF
breaking and entering, 4; suspicion of murder,
i; suspicion of arson, 2; suspicion of robbery,
suspicion OF forgery, L; suspicious persons, l;
tramps, IS; truancy, 10; using obscene Ian
guage, 1; utterlng forged paper, /; Migrants,
Violations of city ordinances: Allowing
COWS to run at large, 4; allowing goats do, i !;
allowing hogs do, 1; collecting house offal, 90;
driving hack without license, 1; depositing
filth in street, l.; fast driving 6; keeping
pawnbroker's shop without license, l. resisting
police, 81 obstructing sidewalk, II; shouting
on Streets 49,; snowballing on streets, 20;
throwing stones on streets, ID: playing bat and
ball on streets, 3. Total, 2,213.
OF the above number 992 were put before
the municipal court, 1923 discharged without
complaint and 103 discharged by consent of
compliments Ireland leads the list of ar
rests with 1897, and the United States follows
with 49, All other nations are fairly repre-
sented. The total number of lodgings furn-
| ished was 1857. There has been received and
restored to the owners $5272 worth of stolen
property. Amount of money collected for
hack and dray licenses was $213.5O There
| were 1857 lodgings furnished during the year
against 5000 in 1878, showing very large fall
| ing off. There were 1876 less arrests this year
| than in 1879.
There were 2S5 stores found open and Sc
cured the past year, Al stray teams found and
| put up, rs lost children found and restored, 7
| fires extinguished without alarm, 9 cases of
small pox reported, and II sick and mad dogs
| killed.