The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-19
Brief Jottings.


Fine day Yesterday Mercury $50 at sunrise,
500 at noon. 45o at sunset; wind southwest.
Judge BoDney BIAS gone to Chicago on bust
ness. He uill be away about ten d4ys
Capt. Charles Desiring of steamer Lewiston
Is lying very sick At his residence 10 Cape
Ez,b, tn.
Yesterday fellow was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff. Gribheu aud Sterling for stealing tools
from the Grand Tluuk railroad grounds.
The poicemeu's ball nettsd 1851 80, which
will tive each m-lnbsr OF the force trfie
over Ss7.
Mr.. Joseph Bradford # Gcrhsm was ii jured
while harvesting his horse Oh Saturday net
Sunday last as erroneously reported ID re.
cent issue Of HE paper.
The corfensed American Encyclopedias in
ou' .volulnss-D. Appleton & Co publishers
has been presented 10 The Y M. G. A. library
By q gentleman Of this city, whose modosty
fofhds the mention of his name.
The evening service at the First UniVersalist
church, Congress Square, will begin at 7
o'clock next Su day. The pastor, Rev. Henry
Blanchard, will lecture on "a Study of the
Story ri the Prodigsl Son.
AT meeting OF the National Bell Telephone
Company of Maine, held yestesdag eftsrnoon
in this city. it WIS voted to copsoiidste with
the Bcssnn & Nerlbern, MesSrs. Inghan, Gid
den s. Downs, Bay State, Granite State, ana
Suburban.
The Boston Journal says that reception
was rendered Hon. W. P. FRYE aid his wife
OF Lewiston, Me. on Wednesday evening at
the residence of Mr.. S, E. Benson in Melrose,
Mass. large nnmbef of prominent citizens
were present to tender their respects to toe
guest.
A horse car on PEBBLE street ran into the
team of Mr.. John Davis Wednesday after
noon, throwing him ont and knocking his
horse down. MIR. Davis fell directly across
the track, and ,be horse car was stopped Just
In season to escape running over him The
horse was somewhat cut about the breast
Ernest Gutter. who recently went to Ports
mouth from Portland, and with his wife has
been living on Holmes Court in that city, was
before the Portsmouth city court on two
charges, drunkenness and malicious mischief,
Wednesday. The first case was placed on file,
and be was fined $40, with costs taxed at SO. 9S
on the other.
General John Marshall Brown is having
built ut bis Falmouth Foreside estate a.wharf
200 feet In length by So feet wide, which pro-
jects from tho bank at the foot of broad car
risge road leading from his residence in New
Casco Village into Casco Bay, nearly opposite
Clapboar3 Island. General Brown is also
repairing his buildings and has erected two
large barns on his estate. His ste am yacht
will be taken up on the Portland Company's
wharf for winter storage. IN
Mr.. s r. Niles sailed for Europe last
Wednesday, the chief object of his visit being
to personally superintend some advertising
which large Paris house proposes to do in the
United States. MIR. Niles has done mere Eng
lish and French advertising than any other
agent in this country, and las done it in so
skillful u manner as to have acquired reputa-
tion abroad that has caused steady growth
in this foreign business. Mr.. Niles is very
careful in his contracts, meihodical in his sys-
tenn, and prompt in tho prosecution OF all
business.-Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.