The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-02-05
Brief Jottinks.

"Pc" is talking of writing history of Pot-
land
twenty additional names have been added
to the subscribers to the Merchants Exchange.
Subscribers will soon have to show checks OF
admission
| There will be no meeting of Teachers Asso-
citation tonight, because the hall is to be occu-
pied.
| The "Union young peoples prayer meeting"
| will be held in the vestry of the First Baptist
church this evening at o'clock
The business at Saccarsppa postoffice has in
| creased to such an extent as to necessitate a
reconstruction of the building so as to afford
| the public more convenient acc ommodations.
These changes will soon be made
The Portland Company can now turn out
seventy engines year with their force of 500
men. They will deliver the 81 ton locomotive
"Sanford" to the Rochester road shortly.
There were IA deaths in Portland last week.
Squashes are scarce and are quoted at $75
per ton.
Total value of foreign exports for the past
week was S435 ,S72.37, including 931 ,257 feet of
lumber
An oil lamp exploded in Billings grocery
store, corner of Cumberland and Oak streets
Saturday evening, calling out Machigonne's
hose carriage. Damage slight
The grocers and -four dealers voted Saturday
that the delivery of the Lorillard tobacco
through the State, free, would be impractical
BILE as the traders deal in mixed goods.
Arrests last week &c., drunkenness 81.
The friends of the A. O. Fl. will not forget
the second annual ball which takes place this
evening at City Hall. Chandler will furnish
the music.
Among the Franconias freight from New
York Saturday were one hundred and fifty
hogsheads of raw sugar for a Canadian sugar
mandatory.
Wednesday Lent will begin, and close Eas-
ter Sunday March 25th.
There was a break in the main water pipe on
Exchange street Saturday. The water forced
its way underground and ran into the cellar of
this Office where it did some damage.
The regular monthly meeting of the Society
of Natural History, will occur this evening
The subject of the shell heaps at Damariscotta
will be again alluded to and notices will be
taken of the donations laid over from the last
meeting
There will be sociable at the State street
vestry this evening to enable the parishioners
to meet Rev. Mr.. Bayley and Mrs, Bayley.
Cloudy yesterday morning; clear in the af-
ternoon and evening. Mercury 25o at sunrise,
$40 at noon, 800 at sunset; wind north.
The Herald says: Fred A. Plaisted the well
known oarsmen is amusing himself by making
big propostionswhich enterprising news CLEAN
ers in Chicago snap at as frog gobbles red
rag. To row turning race of two miles, for
$1,000 side, with Edward Hanlan, is what
the sage of Saccarappa says he would like to
do, as soon as the ice breaks up. The people
on the island in Toronto bay will laugh when
trey hear of Plaisted's latest joke
A man complained at the station last night
that he had been struck in saloon on Fore
Street. He evidently had received tremen-
dous blow entirely closing one eye.
Quite an amusing as well as harmless &C IL
dent occurred Friday to the stage that runs
between North Yarmouth and Durham. On
its return trip in the afternoon, when near the
Pownal line without any warning it was COM
pletely overturned by the runners cutting
through on one side, and passengers, tho stage
with crowded seats, boxes and straw were hud-
died together in most familiar manner, no
one was injured, and the mishap added much
to the amusement of the trip.