The Portland daily press., 1883-09-21
Brief Jottings.

Piioi JObt1QRS.
Summer day yesterday. Mercury 500 at
sunrise, TAO at noon, 70o at sunset wind west
The steamer City of Portsmouth of Pclts
mouth has come to Portland to haul up for the
winter.
Judge Walton will preside al the October
term of the Supreme Court in this city.
Mr.. Fassett has submitted his plan for the
enlargement of the Kennebec county court
house to the county commissioners for their
consideration.
Collector Dow is in attendance on the State
fair in Lewiston.
Mr.. Albro e. Chase has been rendered the
principalship of high school in city in Mas
sachusetts, with a salary of $2600.
Rev. William Matthews pastor of the Meth.
odist Colored Church of this city, is in Bidde-
ford collecting money for the liquidation of a
debt which now encumbers his church, He is
recommended by Mayor j. W Deering, Rev.
George d. Lindsay, and OF her prominent citi-
zons Of Portland.
little son of William Lucas, the brick
maker, was pushed from the steps of the school
house at Nasons Corner, East Deering,
Wednesday, and had one arm broken by the
fall.
Mr.. Allen B. Moulton, of the firm of W. &
o. r. Milliken, is expected home from his voy-
age to Cape st. Vincent, on the brig Proteus,
today. He has on board the body OF Lieuten-
ant Commander W. X. Wheeler, U. S. N, of
New York, who died and was buried in Africa
year ago. The body will be forwarded from
here to New York as soon as the brig arrives.
The ShurtieH house is reported to have been
sold to John W. Dyer for $500.
The Unknowus challenge the Mystics to
play them this afternoon on the Western
Promenade, game to be called at 2.3O o'clock
The Pine Street Sunday school will observe
with appropriate exercises their forty seventh
anniversary next Sunday evening.
DR.. e. P. Thwing and wife of Brooklyn are
spending week in Portland. DIR. T. will sup
ply the pulpit of the Second Church next Sun.
day and will preach in the morning sermon
appropropriate to the 18th anniversary of his
ordination which occurred in this city Sept.
%, 1858.
Campmeeting John Allen arrived yesterday
morning from Boston, on the steam
or John Brooks. He entertained the passen-
gers with an impromptu address and recita-
tions of Scripture. He is now in his 89th year
and apparently in excellent health.
The Portland Company has forwarded two
more locomotives to the Northern Pacific.
Michael Mcdonnell was arrested on the
Lewiston fair grounds, Wednesday afternoon,
for liquor selling. He had his stock in bottles,
making headquarters in stall on the
grounds. Mcdonnell was brought to Portland
to settle with the United States author-
ties.
The annual meeting of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union will be held tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock, at the Friendly Inn
All ladies interested are invited.
The police were furnished with their new
canes yesterday. They are very neat and
much more serviceable and appropriate than
the old whipstocks.
A rather fine looking Englishwoman was
brought to the station by Officer Barbour for
being drunk and disorderly at Vests, on Mid
die street. A crowd of 500 people had gathered
on the street last night attracted by the noise.
AWoman tried to obtain fifty cents from Mrs.
Brewer who keeps an employment Office, by
sending her letter signed City Marshal, telling
her it would be the worse for her if she didn't
FsJ. 4h0 WOndA w DC dIIontou anu lOCh0u up.
new watering trough was placed in posi-
ton at the corner of Washington and Congress
streets, yesterday.
The game of ball between the Saccarappas
OF Saccsrappa and the Presumpscots of Cum
berland Mills, for the championship of West
brook, played on the horse Car grounds, yester-
day, resulted in victory for the latter club by
score of 80 to 49,
William Jacob and wife, from Massachu-
sets, will give Bible reading at Friends
meeting house, Oak street, at p. m, today,
and will hold meeting at p. m. Edward s.
Hacker will hold temperance meeting at
Friends meeting house, Deering. on the Sab
bath, at p. m.
The stores in the new and substantial three
story building, just erected at the head of
Widgery's wharf by W. E. Wood, will be oc-
cupied by the grain firm of S. A. & j. II.
True.
1t is stated that Twitchell, Champlin & Co.
will not build the projected store on Merrill's
wharf at present. They will occupy the
bailding now occupied by s. A. & J. FL. True.
They will erect the boiler house and make that
building four stories instead of two and use
the upper stories for grinding their spices, etc.