The Portland daily press., 1884-07-07
Rrief .Iotfings.

Brief J0ttings.
Fine day yesterday, with a stiff northerly
wind. Mercury $50 at sunrise, 73o at noon, 700
at sunset.
DR.. Storrer will leave for bis new post today.
Rev. A. f. Hutchinson baptized Is converts
at South Gorham yesterday.
OF the arrests last week, 80 were for drunk
enness.
The striker is broken and st. Stephens bell
will not strike for fires at present
Hand grenades have been placed in all the
engine houses for use at incipient fires.
A new drinking fountain will be placed at
the corner OF Portland and Weymouth streets.
The total value of exports the past week was
$6,698.40, including 35O,079 feet Of lumber
Rev. 7. G. Wright of Hartford N. Y, is at
the City Hotel.
The island steamers were crowded with pas
sengers yesterday.
Attention is called to the adjourned meeting
of the Plymouth church members tonight.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond (Annie Louise Cary
are passing the summer at the Atlantic House,
Scarboro Beach.
Mr.. Clarence Pullen's nomination for Sur
veyor General of New Mexico, was confirmed
by the Senate Friday.
Maple Lodge and the Sunday school at AL
lens Corner have purchased the old school
house and fitted it up as a neat hall.
The bids for the work of improving Casco
street school house will not be opened until to-
day noon.
There are two California fine cones in Dean
Bros window, Clapp's block, each 20 inches
long.
Frank Lord had one of his hands mangled in
friction roll in the Cumberland paper mills
last Thursday.
Saturday night the members of the 18th
Maine Regiment decided to mold regimeutal
reunion at Peaks Island Aug. Goth.
The second platoon First Maine Light Ar
tillery has been removed from Portland to
Brunswick.
The police discovered break in the fish
store of Perkins & Shurtlef yesterday morn
ing, but nothing of value was taken.
Dennis McCarty had hand injured by the
premature discharge of pistol on the fourth
inst.
About two hundred people attended the open
air meeting, conducted by Rev. D. W. Le-
Lacbeur, at the corner of Fore and Pearl
streets, yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. nlsley Noyes, who has returned from
Virginia, leaves today for Portland, Oregon, on
business connected with the Union Mutual
Life Insurance Company.
Some time Friday night burglars entered the
Vaughan street church and stole a large Ok
ford Bible, silver goblet and a clock. There
is no clew to the thieves.
The Mary W. Libby will leave Custom
House wharf at p. m. tomorrow and take all
the guests to the opening of the Chapman
House free. She will return at IL o'clock
The Teemer-Conley race was again post
poned, on account of rough water, from Satur-
day until today. The betting was $1eO to $75
on Teemer Saturday.
j. R. Osgocd and Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. An
Jhony of Boston were at the Falmouth Hotel
Saturday, and also John Torrance, manager of
the Dominion line.
Mrs. Minnie Little, the well known music
teacher, and daughter are visiting Portland,
and also Mr.. Clancy of the Dominion line of
steamers.
@. j. Green, carpenter of this city, was Sc
vsrely injured last week while at work on a
building in Gorham, N. H. A bracket gave
way and he fell about 20 feet.
The telegraphic loss by the fire at Bartlett,
H, in Saturdays PRESS, was greatly exag-
gerated. The loss will be $4,000, with $1,000
insurance. There was $500 worth of lumber
burned.
The Portland Society of Art will hold en- ex-
hibition from July 18th to Sept 1st at the Art
Building, of over sixty water-color and black
and whites, from which the Century Magazine
illustrations have been taken.
q l.. A. T. A.
past week. Consumption and old age caused
three deaths each, and apoplexy, paralysis,
stoppsge, poison, cholera infantum and yioI-
ence caused one death each.
Drs. Gerrish, Smith, Baker and Hitchcock
held the post nlortene examination over the re-
mains of the late Annie Gilman Saturday but
will withhold their finding until after the in
quest tomorrow.
Mr.. @. o. Hudson the confectioner, was
driving into town from Scarboro Saturday,
when the whifdetree bolt broke, and Mr.. Hud-
son was thrown from his carriage, and his left
arm, above the elbow, broken.
Capt. Isaac Knight is the possessor of fine
portrait in oils, on ivory, of W. G. Rivers,
Minister to France under Jackson. The
miniature can be seen at Rounds art store on
Temple street.
The locomotive attached to the train for
Portland, due in Lynn at 7.57 Saturday morn
ing, struck the horse of George W. Richardson
at the Market street crossing killing the ami
NAL. The driver had narrow escape.
There was a slight fire in q heap of rubbish
in the rear of May street, which called out
several of the engines, Friday afternoon, but it
was extinguished with a trifing damage to
property by the efforts Of ladies in that vi
cinity.