The Portland daily press., 1883-11-28

Cooler, clear weather yesterday. Mercury at
sunrise 400; at noon 45o; at sunset $50. Wind
Northwest throughopt ths daS.--------..s
The Boston boat remained in port Monday
night because of the storm.
Mr.. s. w. Matthews editor of the Aroostook
Republican, was in the city yesterday
Congressman Reed left Portland for WASH
ington at noon yesterday.
Surveyor Pulen left the city yesterday to
spend Thanksgiving day at his former home
in Foxcroft. He will return on Friday.
Remember the sale of reserved seats at the
Portland Cadets armory this evening at 7.3o
o'clock.
Kimball, the architect, is drawing plans for
the Sprague residence in Biddeford, and also
for the Chaplin receiving tomb in that city.
Capt. Jas. S. Sawyer and wife, 40 Wilmot
street, celebrated their silver wedding Monday
evening.
The regular monthly meeting of the Port
land Society of Art will be held at the rooms
of the society this evening at s p. M. business,
new club house.
j. S. Crockett, Esq, retired Commercial
street merchant, will leave about the middle
of December for a trip to the West. He ex-
poets to be absent nearly all Winter
The immense fleet of coasters which have
sought shelter in our harbor within few days,
to the number of 200 sail, left yesterday with
the of-shore wind.
Mrs. Abba Goold Woolson and Miss Anna
Stetson OF Bangor, with five other ladies and
Swiss courier, are travelling in Spain. They
were at Madrid on tho Sd inst.
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joyful Thanksgiving season will take care
that the little folks at the Orphan Asylum sre
not forgotten. Any contributions to make a
festival there will be gratefully appreciated.
British steamer Craigton, which was par
TALLY loaded at this port by the Canton Mills
Co., had her cargo completed at Bangor, Mon
day, by T. j. Stewart, and cleared for Glas-
gov, taking 1,iS6 600 feet of spool wood.
John o. P. Wheelwright. Esq, late student
with Drummond & Drummond, left for Min
neapolis yesterday morning, where he will
enter upon the practice of law. Mr.. Wheel
wright is graduate Ct Bowdoin College in the
class of 1881.
Mrs. Sarah F. Hobbs, mother of Clarence
W. Hobbs, formerly of Portland and now of
Lynn, and of Mrs. John NJ. Adams of Deer
ing, died recently at the residence of her son
in Lynn. She was native of Andoyer, Me-,
and the widow Of William W. Hobbs, Esq, of
Norway.
There was pleasant party last evening at
S61 Congress street, of the friends of Miss Alice
Brazier and Mr.. Julian Elmer johnson, who
are to be married to-day. Congratulations
and kind wishes were cordially rendered, and
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happy pair.
Those ladies who depend upon the annual
Christmas sales for many useful and fancy
presents will be glad to know that the Social
Circle OF State street church will early in
December be ready to. supply their needs.
The number and variety of aprons will be
much larger than usual this year.
This evening Cssco engine company, No. 5,
give their much talked of ball, complimentary
to Saco engine company, No. 1, of Saco, and
Eben Simpson engine company, No. 2, of
Biddeford, at Mechanics Hall. Chambers
orchestra will furnish music. The fire laddies
anticipate right good time Grand march at
O'Clock.
The business in carriage and ssddlery hard
ware, formerly carried on by the late James
Bailey & Co., will be continued at the same
place under the old name by j. W. Bailey,
son of James Bailey, j. B. Dunbar and L. j.
Carney, who have formed copartnership for
that purpose. The house was established in
1876, and all these gentlemen were long assc-
ciated with Mr.. james Bailey in his business
Petitions to Congress asking for the repeal of
the law of 1920 and acts supplementary there
to, by which four years term was established
for many officers of the civil SERVICE are being
circulated This is in accordance with the
action of the National Civil Service Reform
League, which holds that the existing law
operates to the prejudice of the reform begun,
by making it easy and convenient to turn out
an official for partizan or personal reasons,
irrespective of his efficiency and fidelity, on
the pretext that his term has expired. A copy
Of the petition has been left at the Merchants
Exchange for signatures.