The Portland daily press., 1883-08-20


The sidewalk in front of City Hall is under
going much needed repairs.
The streets were full of pedestrians Satur-
day night enjoying the beautiful evening.
Number of arrests for the week, 35; drunk,
90.
The whole number of deaths in the city for
the week ending August 18th was %.
Geo. S. Hunt & Co. received 513 hogsheads
of sugar the past week from Arroyo, Porto Rico.
Next wednesday the Diamond Island Asso-
citation will hold meeting and basket picnic
on their land on Great Diamond Island.
The Portland Company will ship two loco
motives to the Northern Pacific roilroad to-
day.
The Grand Trunk round house is undergo
ing repairs The cumbersome dome will be
removed and neat tower built in its place.
Old Orchard was visited by thunder shower
Saturday night, and telephone communica-
tion was interrupted thereby.
There are one hundred and twenty prisoners
now confined in Portland jail an unusually
large number
Schooner Young Sultan of Portland, Capt.
Holbrook, arrived Saturday with $4,000 lbs.
of cod.
Total value of foreign exports the past week
is S53,839.57, including 2,244,511 feet of lum-
Der.
Mr.. Samuel Seeley has recently purchased
an elegant Concord coach to run for the
United States Hotel.
Several sailors from the Tennessee were in
toxicated Saturday night and disporting them
selves in rather lively fashion on the streets.
Two were locked up.
A handsome bouquet of choice flowers
adorns the deputy's desk at the station daily,
from the garden of D. W. Eaton on Ellsworth
street.
Messrs. Deane Bros. & Sanborn of this city
have been awarded the contract to supply the
life saving stations in the Maine and New
Hampshire district the coming year.
Schooner s. Ell. Pinkham of Portland, Capt.
Doughty, arrived Thursday from three days
halibut fishing off shore. Her crew shared
SCI EACH
Tine Portland Photographic Society give an
other moonlight sail down the harbor this
evening on the steamer Express. Chambers
Band will furnish music for the occasion.
j. s. Lombard & Son furnished bountiful
supply of albinos, new fish in this market, to
the night turnkey, Alex Bell, which the latter
cooked in his best style and served out to the
night force Friday night.
Mr.. Albert Davis, driver Of one of Princes
teams, while on his way Wednesday night to
the Boston boat, was brutality assaulted by
four ronghs who boarded his team at the foot
OF Franklin street. His injuries were so
severe that he has since been disabled from
work.
Saturday afternoon a horse fastened in the
rear of Exchange street took fright at the snd-
den escape of steam from the exhaust of a
mandatory, and ran furiously for nearly a
mile before he was caught. Except that one
wheel was sprung the vehicle to which he was
attached was uninjured.
A horse standing in front of Cloyes' market
Saturday, attempted to brush off fly that
was biting his ear with his hind foot, but caught
his toe calk in his bride, threw himself down
and cut one knee seriously, besides wrecking
the harness.
A great temperance mass meeting, under
the auspices of the Grand District Lodge of
Good Templars, is to be held at Brunswick
next Thursday. The meeting is to be held on
the mall commencing at 10a. M. The colleges,
paper mills and cotton mills are to be opened
to visitors on that day
Charles Mullins team ran away on Fore
street Saturday. When near Gorhams Cor
ner, the team collided with another wagon.
Both teams were totally wrecked, AID the
driver of the latter was pitched unceremoni-
ously into the ditch.
We understand that the Young Mems
Christian Association are to move their quar-
tiers, on or about the first of September, to the
rooms now occupied by W. M. Furbush &
Son, in Harrington Block. The Messrs. Fur
bush are to remove to the elegant rooms, now
being fitted up for them in the new Brown
block.