The Portland daily press., 1882-10-23

Number of arrests for the week, "A. drunk
20.
Pine street church will give an old-fashionet
! harvest supper Wednesday evening next.
The Portland Company are now delivering
fiat cars to the Maine Central railroad, on an
order to furnish two hundred.
Total value of foreign exports for the pas
week is SIG, 1893 10, including 2S2, 1881 feet o.
lumber.
street extending from Congress to the
base of Bramhal hill running parallel with
new St. John street is being laid out.
Judge Goddard has Just completed some
very noticeable repairs and improvements on
his summer residence at Falmouth Foreside.
There we're four arrests for drunkenness yes
terday, and one for indecent exposure of per
son.
The Weston Electric Light Company ex-
pect to commence operations in their new
quarters rear of Lancaster building, in about
two weeks.
The New York boat which arrived Saturday
had among her freight 4 900 hides from South
America, consigned to tanneries in Norway
and Canada, and 600 bags saltpetre for the
powder unlllS at OOTHaL0.
No religious society in the city gathers SC
large number of young men on Sunday even.
ings as the Young Mems Christian Associa.
ton. The meeting last night was conducted
by Mr.. 81. W. Shaylor.
Some OF the pictures used by Mr.. French In
his course of lectures at City Hall cost him
over $40 apiece; the average cost was over $50.
al H.,
thrown upon the screen.
The members of Mystic Lodge, No. 2, I. O.
G.. t., will visit Ray of Hope Lodge, Bidde-
ford, this evening. They leave on the $50 p.
m. train. This appears to be the rising lodge
of the State.
The whole number of deaths in the city for
the week ending Oct. 2lst was IL, from the fol-
lowing causes: Consumption, 1; cholera infan-
tum, 2; pneumonia, 2; child birth, l. Group, 1 !.
disease of brain, /; disease of lungs, 1; infan-
tile, 2.
Two large locomotives from Rhode Island for
yard use on the Port Huron and Chicago
branch of the Grand Trunk railway, passed
through the city Saturday. These engines
have patent attachment, by which the bell is
ruDg by hand or steam.
The sherffs seized at the Boston and Maine
depot and Boston boat, Saturday thirty-one
half barrels of lager, four barrels of ale and
barrel of whiskey. Seizures were also made at
John Feeney's, York street, Nellie Dennis's,
Centre street, rear Of John Horrigan's on York
street and in an unused cellar on Fore street.
Laying the Corner Stone of Browc
Block.
Saturday forenoon the corner stone of the
new Brown block was laid in an informal
manner, in the presence of the members of the
document was placed:
PORTLAND, Me-, Oct. 90 1882
The structure which is to be erected over
this corner stone is to be built by John Rand,
Philip Henry Brown and john Marshall
Brown, trustees of the estate of the late j. B.
Brown of Portland. It is to be called the
Brown block, and is intended as q memorial OF
Mr.. Brown.
observation-disclosures Shanahan.
Architects-Fassett and Stevens.
Carpenter-George Brock.
Mason-James CRnnin CHAM.
Granite Daniel Mannix.
Ter a Cotta-Boston Terra Gotta Company.
BrickS-JameS Lucas.
Freestone-Crowley Il Cunningham, Boston.
The box which was placed under the stone
also contained the following:
Elwell's Portland and Vicinity.
Daily Press of Jan. 10, 1881.
DAILY Press's special report of American Board of
Commissioners of Foreign Missions.
Daily Advertiser of Oct. 20. 1882.
Daily Eastern Argus, Oct, 81, 1882.
Portland Daily PRESS of Oct. 1882.
National Bel Telephone Companys list of sub
scribers, october, 1852.
Map of Portland, showing burnt district in 1856.
Calendar card for 1882.
New York Stakeholder of Aug. 16, 1861