The Portland daily press., 1882-11-13
Brief lettings.

Sunday was regular spring day, the mer-
curry touching o64 at noon.
Mr. Isaac Berry says the statement that he
had three car loads of potatoes frozen in tran
sit was untrue.
At the last shooting match of the Mechanic
Blues, Captain Davis won the 200 yards badge
and Sergeant Batchelder the 500 yards badge
Mr.. Charles Cornell, engineer on the East
ern Railroad, who has been confined to the
house for the past ten days the result of bad
scald, resumed his duties again last week.
The young people of Ferry Village and vi
cinity are about forming dancing school un-
der the charge of Prof. NJ. B. Gilbert of this
city.
Mr.. Webb Hannaford of Cape Elizabeth
was thrown from his wagon last week, receiv-
ing broken arm and other injuries.
Deaths in Portland the past weok, II.
Number of arrests Saturday night, 10,
all for drunkenness. Number for the week,
so; drunkenness, 80.
Saturday a Union Pacific Railroad Car ar
rived in the cily over the Grand Trunk road
Il was loaded wholly with canned salmon and
is bound to st. John, N. B., to which placedt
will be forwarded from here by the Maine Gen.
trail road.
DIR. N r. Macalaster has sold his fine blood
ed colt to party in Saccarappa. John Hitch
ings sold five horses the past week for lumber
ing purposes.
The members of the fire department will
give their annual ball Thanksgiving evening
at Congress Hall. Tickets can be Obtained of
the members on and after to-day.
About twenty-three tons of paper are
shipped weekly from the Brunswick paper
mills to the New York Herald. This paper is
rolled on spindles las they are called, each of
which weighs about 300 pounds.
The total value of exports for the past week
was $3S ,4s416, including 6SS,607 feet of lum-
Der.
Steamer Lewiston, of the p, b. and M.
line, was towed 10 the Portland Company's
wharf Saturday and her upper works taken
out preparatory to receiving new boiler.
Steamer Lily is to receive a new boiler.
The foundations for the new round houses Of
the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad have
been completed, and the buildings will be
pushed forward as rapidly as possible The To-
comotives of this line are being changed from
wood tc coal burners.
Mr.. George Lewis, who recently returned
&ato Cumberland Mills after an absence of twen-
ty years, finds great changes and improve.
ment. Within five years over 100 dwellings
have been built.
The Cape Elizabeth Sentinel has purchased
the press of the late Sunday Nnion, and here
after will print the paper at hume.
Those who run boats from Harrison do moi
seem to think that their business will be seri
ously damaged by the railroad to Bridgton. Il
is thought that all of the freight to Harrison
Waterford, No. Bridgton and Sweden viii
continue to be carried on the boats in the sum
mer season. Jordan & Kimball are intending
to put on an additional boat next season.
The lecture before the Payson Literary So
cieiy announced for this evening, will be post
poned on account of the sickness OF Rev. Mr.
McWhinnie
All should attend Harry W. French's lee
ture entitled "From the Golden Gate to Bos
ton Harbor," KIT Thursday night. Seat'
should be procuI at once as tho indications
are that there W be rush.