The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-02-13
Brief lettings.

| Seven inches of snow fell during fridays
| storm.
Fourteen deaths in Portland last week.
Total value of foreign exports last week
| $316, 81, including 774,79S feet Of lumber.
| A collection for the Widows Wood Society
was taken up at the Plymouth church yester-
day.
The ordinance of baptism was administered
at Chestnut street church yesterday.
The girl from Winthrop, mentioned in
| SATURDAYS PREsa, was of French extraction
and named Mary Jock, and she was in debt to
tradesmen in the village.
The Dirigo Underwear Company at Sacca-
Kappa has put new machinery into the mill in
| creasing its capacity.
1t is reported that the Partisan will sail for
| Portland April 10th.
| 1t is limited that the International Line may
run their steamers to Yarmouth, N. S., as well
as st. John, N. B., next season.
| The Franconia of the Maine Steamship
Company is to have new propeller shaft
The new boilers will be put in the City OF
Richmond the middle of March. The hull is
all repaired.
Burglars entered j. S. Giliatt's house,
corner of Lincoln and Elm Streets Friday
evening, while the family was out, ramsacked
the rooms, stole an album and some pies and
cake. They were Juveniles, evidently, as they
did not touch jewelry.
The number of scholars enrolled in Knight
vile upper school is 76, with an average at
tendance of p; lower school 60, average at
tendance 50.
Messrs ID. w. Clark & Co., have begun the
work of cutting ice on their large pond at
Cape Elizabeth, housing about two acres per
day. Their pond consists of about thirty-three
acres, and their improved arrangement for
cutting is well worth the trouble of a visit to
their mammoth house.
We learn that a course of popular lectures
by young men of Portland is soon to be given
in the First Baptist church
Kingsley's Yarmouth express broke down on
its way in here Saturday and it was with diff
fculty that it reached its destination, owing
to the immense drifts.
The schooner Waterfall, formerly owned by
Daniel Cameron of Southport, has been sold
to j. W. Sawyer and others of Portland for
the sum of $2,7O0.
The steamer John Brooks arrived at 10
U CLOCK SATURDAY from 0OStOu. Ou0 Stdlu at Cdpo
Ann during the heaviest part of the storm.
The crews of the Life Saving Stations in
this State and New Hampshire have remon-
strated against the establishment of their pay
at $500 per annum, while the crews in Massa-
chusetts receive $4,000 per annum, and those in
Rhode Island, on Long Island and New Jersey
receive $500.
Postmaster bennett of Medford Mass, has
arranged for a new evening mail, which will
arrive at o'clock in the afternoon from Port
land and towns farther east, including the
Halifax mail. This will increase the number
of daily mails to four.
Splendid day yesterday. Mercury 450 at
noon: wind west.
The train over the Ogdensburg which has
arrived at $50 p. M, will hereafter arrive at
6p. m.
The proposed mass meetings to be held by
the Y M. G. Association in the interest of the
local work Wednesday and Thursday evenings,
Feb. 22d and 23d, will be addressed by S. M.
Sayford, Y. M. G. A. State Secretary, of
Massachusetts, R. K. Remington of Fall River
and 81. M. Moore of Somerville.
The regular monthly meeting of the Y. M.
The first cargo of new crop molasses arrived
here yesterday from Cienfuegos by sch ooner
Edith consigned to Geo.. S. Hunt & Co.
Dances.
The High School Cadets will begin the sale
of reserved seats for their ball and reception
to be given the Bath High School Cadets Feb.
21st at Stockbridge's this morning. Collins
band will give an hours concert previous to
the dance. Collins has added basso, two
French horns and two saxophones to the band.
Next Wednesday evening occurs the grand
charity ball under the auspices of the associa-
ion of st. Vincent De Paul The assembly
promises to be one of the most brilliant of the
season. Collins orchestra will furnish some
excellent music, never before heard in this
city.
The Union Rowing Association are to give a
grand ball at City Hall Friday evening, Feb. |