The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-11-10

Partly clear at sunrise yesterday, raw and
| gray in the morning, rain in the afternoon.
Mercury $50 at sunrise, 4So at noon, 43o at sun
| set: wind northeast, east and south.
Next Monday evening Mr. John L. Stoddard
| will lecture at City Hall on Munich
| Col. e. Q. Harrington will give the opening
address at Preble chapel tomorrow evening.
The Wonsn's Gospel Temperance meeting
will be held at the Mission this evening at 7.30
o'clock. All are invited.
The attention of the Portland High School
| Cadets is called to the meeting tonight.
The clouds cleared and the moon appeared
| at 9p. m. last night.
A special train will run to Bath, over the
Maine Central, to the launch next Thursday.
| A fine colored photograph of Miss Margaret
Bryant the vocalist, is on exhibition in the
window of Atwood & Wentworth.
Orville T. Hodsdon has been elected ianitor
of Odd Fellows Hall, and has assumed his
duties
A young man named Joseph Silva lost a
finger in the heeling machine at Sawyer's shoe
shop yesterday.
| The carriage manufactures in this city are
| running on extra time and doing an immense
business
| A party Of Portland sportsmen will leave
here this morning for Maryland, where til ey
will spend several days quail shooting.
Remember the all day dedication OF Faith
| Hall and Faith Cottage at No. 1870 North street
| Tuesday, Nov. 18th.
E. R. Burpee, of the New Brunswick Rail-
| road, j. B. Morse, j. @. Paine, New York, j.
| IT A.,.hrn
are at the Falmouth.
| Yesterday forenoon a gentleman and his wife
| were riding up Temple street, when the for
| ward axle of the carriage broke, letting the
| occupants down TO the ground.
| The Reform Club will hold public temper
ance meeting tomorrow evening at their hall,
| corner Of Temple and Congress streets, com
mepcing at o'clock.
Steamer Gszelle has been lowed round to
Custom House wharf, and workmen are en-
| gagged in removing her topworks. 1t is re-
mored that she is to be remodeled as a pro-
| peller.
Young men are especially and cordially in
| vited to attend service at the State street
church Sunday evening, Nov. 18th, when the
| pastor, Rev. Frank T. Bayley, will speak es-
| pecially 10 young men.
| Yesterday forenoon the funeral of Edward
| Connors,a member of the Montgomery Guards,
took place. The Montgomery, with the Bidde-
| ford Band, attended the funeral, and escorted
| the funeral procession to Calvary cemetery
| There will be a Sabbath school concert in
the vestry Of the High street church tomorrow
| evening at o'clock. An autumn exercise,
entitled an Autumnsl Story, will be given,
and the fire choir of the church will aid in the
| singing.
The alarm of fire from box 90 just after six
| o'clock yesterday morning, was a false alarm.
| man was using a kerosene lamp, when it
exploded and made quite a blaze. The man
ran out and told policeman, who struck the
alarm. The department turned out, but the
little blaze had been extinguished before the
| engines had arrived.
Comrade B. P. Brackley, of Edwin Libby
| Post, G. A. R., of Rockland, is general agent
| for Portland for a new book entitled "The
Blue and the Gray" The book is the joint
work of Union soldier, the Rev Theodore
| Gerrish, and a Confederate soldier, the Rev.
John s. Hutchinson. The book treats of the
| Virginia campaigns in the late war It is
| commended in Introductory letters by Colonel
| Augustus G. Hamlin of Maine, and General
| Firzhugh Lee. Comrade Seth B. Day, of
| Bosworth Post, will assist Comrade Brackley
in canvassing this city for subscribers.