The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-03-19

Yesterday was Palm Sunday, and spring
day. Bright and warm, mercury 45O at noon,
wind southwest.
Number of deaths last week 49,
Arrests last week %; drunkenness 16.
Value of foreign exports last week $153, 791.-
o.; long lumber exported 436, 712 feet.
Next Tuesday evening Cape Elizabeth will
chose a school clerk and agent.
Southern strawberries are selling in our
markets for rs cents box.
The Pearl Club dance at Rossini Hall Satur-
day evening was pleasant affair.
Conant has taken a fine photograph of the
late Judge Fox for the United States Court
room.
There was large attendance of ladies and
gentlemen, Saturday, at the exhibition of the
Herkomer collection Of paintings.
A large delegation from Bosworth Post, G
A. R., will go to Springvale Thursday to insti-
tuts new Post in that village.
The High School Cadets were entertained
by Mrs. Ulmer Saturday night, and a bounti-
full collation. furnished.
Don't forget DIR. Hills interesting lecture to
night on his trip to the Galapagos Islands, be
fore the Natural History Society.
the observatory for the accommodation of
members living on Muujoy Hill.
Mr.. E. A. Thomas, the caulker, who was in
jured at Knightville, last week, was not in the
employ of Mr.. Leighton.
The Union Young Peoples prayer meeting
will be held in the vestry of Casco St. Baptist
church this evening at y o'clock.
The old officers of the Ocean st. Railway
Go. have been reelected. Possibly the rails
will be extended from Lunt's Corner over
Tukey's bridge this year
Diamond Island Association, at their
meeting in Reception Hall tonight will au-
thorize the building of wharyes and decide on
the action and time of selling the lots.
We have received the handsome sovenir
from the Madison Square Theatre distributed
"Young Mrs. Winthrop"
A paper which has been in circulation few
weeks for the purpose of securing names for
organizing an Odd Fellows lodge at Cumber-
land Centre, has already over 40 names on it.
The medals which have been won by Miss
Pierce, the young lady who is to give All ex-
hibition of fancy skating at the rink tomorrow
night, are on exhibition in Atwood & Went
worth's windows.
Last Monday aman giving his name as
johnson hired team at Cooks livery stable,
Cumberland Mills, for the purpose of going to
Limerick, as he said to attend a funeral. The
man Or team has not been heard from since.
The team was valued at $500.
Mrs. Albert Plummer, living on Congress
ST., bought an album of a pedlar, paying So
down and agreeing to pay the other So later.
The next day the pedlar tried to run off with
the album. He succeeded, but not before Mrs
Plummer had nearly torn his coat to pieces
The Portland Stove Foundry Co. have jus
received an order for five hundred rice kettles
to be sent to Africa; also another lot of those
old Dutch ovens such as our grandmother
used. The darkies do all their cooking in the
open air and are beginning to appreciate some
of the utensils OF modern civilization.
The Argus has defined its position
upon the Looney Ryan case in par
ticular and similar cases in general by the
assertion that when man is denounced in 1T
columns as a swinder, scoundrel, an apps
tate, and other equally foul appellations, tht
public are to distinctly understand that the IN
dividual thus assailed is personal friend o.
the city editors, but of > different polltica
creed, and these epithets are indicative OF the
- pheasant personal relations" which exist be
tween them-Portand Globe.