The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-09
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Clouds, hail, sleet and rain yesterday. Mer-
curry 140 at sunrise, 2o' at noon, l60 at sunset;
wind northeast
The Reform Club will hold temperance
meeting at their hall tomorrow evening, COM
mencing at Z o'clock.
Mr.. Staples was quite badly injured at Cum
bsrland Mills Wednesday by coming in COLI
sion with moving pulp car.
Hon. Enoch Foster OF Bethel and Capt.
Wylie of the Allan steamship Caspian, are at
the Falmouth Hotel
a gentleman slipped on the sidewalk in
front of DR.. Vose's residence Thursday morn
ing, and broke his arm. He was stranger in
the city.
We are pleased to see Mr.. J. Fl. Hall, of
Thompson & Hall, again upon our streets. He
has been confined to his house some four weeks
with a fever
The new steamer Numidan, building on the
Clyde by the Allan Line will be launched in
the spring. She is several hundred tons larger
than the Partisan.
The tenth and last lecture will be given in
the First Parish church this afternoon at 8
O'Clock by Judge Goddard. He will speak on
"ConstantinoDle."
The invitations issued by the Society of Art
to the opening of their new clubhouse are
beautiful specimens of engraving. A picture
of the new club house heads the invitation.
Mr.. w S. Lowell was the artist.
Col. E. G. Harrington will give an address
az Preble Chapel tomorrow evening Sab
ject-"The constitutional amendment and the
relation of intemperance to crime and pauper-
ISM" The public are cordially invited.
party left this city for pleasant ride to
Saccarappa skating rink last Wednesday night.
Although it was rather stormy all enjoyed
themselves highly. A pleasant time was
passed at the rink after which they partook
of an excellent supper at the Highland House.
B. Thurston & Co. have just printed an 'sin-
dividual ledger" for Casco National Bank, and
Mr.. Qaincy bound the same which, he says, is
the largest book ever bound in his binderv.
The ledger is, when open, 45x26 inches, is
bound in Russia leather and weighs So pounds
Mrs. Leroy Sanborn, who resides at No.
1854 Congress street, saw a girl about seven
teen years of age, come into her yard Thurs
day night and proceed to rob the clothes line.
Mrs. Sanborn went out and discovered some of
her clothes in the girls possession. She at
tempted to hold her but the girl broke loose
and got away.
The colored men Of the State will hold a
meeting in Portland next week to memoralize
Congress to pay to the depositors of the old
Freedmen's bank the sums lost by them by
the failure of that institution. The ground
taken will in substance be that the govern
ment made the Freemen's Bank semi
national institution, and that the bank OBJ
tanned its credit chiefly on that account.
The Allan steamship "Caspian," Can't.
Hugh Wylie, from Liverpool 24th and Neville
Saturday a. m. 18th of January via Halifax
arrived in port 80 p. m. Friday Capt. Wylie
reports having experienced very severe weather
the entire passage being a succession of heavy
westerly gales. He also reports being detained
Is hours by fog off Halifax. The Caspian
made the passage from Halifax in 25 hours.
She brings cabin and 3S storage passengers
and 600 tons of cargo.