The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-10-24
Brief Jottings.


Dense sea fog outside Saturday.
Deaths in the city last week u.
Foreign exports last week foot up $47, 1864.
The boiler Of the Magnet is being repaired,
and the New Brunswick will take the John
Brooks place to-day while the latter is repair
ing.
Some fifty tons of cabbages are shipped daily
from Cape Elizabeth to Boston. They have
advanced from $15 to $50 per ton.
The Savings Bank building is being divided
so that the bank offices will front entirely on
Exchange street, and the Express Company's
Office on Market street with the main entrance
to the latter's Office on Post Office avenue
Mr.. Arthur L. Bates, in the Union Mutual
Life Insurance Companys office in. this city,
was married lately, and Saturday his associates
in the office presented him with a beautiful
French mantel clock
The Maine Marine Engineers Association
commences its meetings for the winter to-
morrow evening. The branch Of the above in
this city numbers about fifty members and is
in fourishing condition.
Ivy Lodge, d. of r., celebrated its tenth an
niversary Saturday evening. After the usual
business meeting an hour was passed pleasant
ly with vocal music and readings, after which
an elaborate supper was served.
This is the last week on which discount of
three per cent on taxes will be made.
The Grattan Literary Association will cele-
brate its fourth anniversary at Gilberts Hall
Tuesday Nov. Sth. A debate and paper to be
read by Joseph MCGOWAN will be the promi-
nent features of the exercises. There will also
be vocal and instrumental music and dancing
to be followed by banquet.
Prof Faulhaber, instructor of Modern Ian
guages in Phillips Academy. will deliver two
lectures in Free street church on Germany and
France Nov. I'd and 9th.
Rev. S. f. Pearson will open branch of the
Gospel Mission in Lawrence, Mass, next
Wednesday.
The Globe understands that Merrill & Bros
corn packing factory at Cumberland Center
has made profit of about $4,000 this season.
The new International line steamer building
at Bath will be $50 feet long, 81 feet beam and
IA feet depth of hold. 1t will contain 81 state
rooms and carry about 600 passengers COM
fortably. The boat will register about 1900
tons.
Tickets for the police ball are selling rapidly
and there is every prospect of a large attend
ance.
We have received the first number of the
Cape Elizabeth Sentinel. 1t is bright, newsy
sheet, just what our neighhors want. 1t is very
neat in its typographical dress, and has got the
right young men to edit it.
The extensive additions to the Portland
Smelling and Reduction Works are now near
ly completed and tho new furnac es will soon
be in operation The acid works are turning
out large quantities of acid each week. The
furnaces at the old works have been shut down
during the past week on account of the want
of proper ores for fuxes.
q. A. Brown is building house at Browns
Point, Yarmouth.
The ordinance of baptism was administered
to number Of converts yesterday at u o'clock
noon by the Rev. S. F. Pearson at the shipyard
back of Munjoy Hill. A large crowd witnessed
the ceremony.
Officers Skillin and Garland arrested man
on suspicion of stealing a gold chain yesterday.
John Smith resisted officers Massure and
Hanson in the discharge Of their duty yester-
day. John was gathered in.
A large pit of coal, containing about 800
tons, owned by the Forest Pulp Company at
Yarmouth, caught fire from spontaneous COM
bustion last week and continued burning
through the week. 1t was kept under control
during that time without doing other damage.