The Portland daily press., 1884-12-29
Brief .I0ttinns.

HrHef lettings.
The thaw set in yesterday. The day was
cloudy, with the mercury indicating 2Ss at
sunrise, 400 at noon, $50 at sunset; wind SOUTH
west.
Ivanhoe Lodge will celebrate their fourth
anniversary JAM Goth.
Thomas II. Bibber had an overcoat stolen
while coating Saturday.
The fremont did not run down from Boston
Saturday night. The Forest City arrived.
The value of foreign exports last week, was
1886 S44. 80.
Nj. J. Prince, Of Carney & Prince, is recoy-
ering from his late attack of typhoid fever.
Isaac Berry & Bro. have shipped 5000 bar
rels Canada Baldwin apples to England.
DIR. G. A. Ring has gone on trip to Cincin-
natl.
Mr.. J. s. Libby is convaescing from his late
serious illness.
j. o. Winship, OF Cleveland, O., will be q
delegate to the National Encampment, G. A.
r., next summer.
The Maine Historical Society will meet in
this city Jan. 8th, and present resolutions OF
respect to the late Prof. Packard's memory.
There were 27 arrests last week, of which 16
were for drunkenness, and IA tramps were
lodged at the station.
D Mr. Teague, who is rebuilding Sturtevant's
wharf, will build government wharf at Mt.
Desert.
Miss Proctor, the early friend of the Chill.
dren's Christmas Club is in town, and will at
tend the festival tomorrow.
The Salvation Army have secured their
bass and snare drums from friends, and parad-
ed with them yesterday.
President John e. Dewitt, of the Union
Mutual Life Insurance Company, has returned
from his vacation in the West.
We acknowledge the receipt of calendars
for 1885 from Hall L. Davis and Loring, Short
& Harmon.
Mr.. ]. f. Libby, the well known livery pro-
prietor, presented each of his drivers, Christ
mas. with barrel of "Pillsburys Best
Mr.. ]. F. Stetson was presented by his em-
ployer, Mr.. Thomas Briggs. with q handsome
gold watch Christmas
Mr.. Hill, engineer Of the Brooklyn, is the
only one of the present attaches who was
aboard of her when she went ashore in this
harbor.
Mr.. Edwin F. Waters, formerly of the Bos-
ton Advertiser and wife, have completed
their voyage around the world, and will spend
the winter in Italy.
Mr.. j. e. Burton, clerk. and Miss Lucy Nor
rison, housekeeper at the Falmouth Hotel, re-
ceived handsome remembrances Christmas,
from guests and employees.
Isaac and Robert Meserve, and J. A. Gustin
OF Scsrboro, sent 5000 Christmas trees to Bos.
ton this year. 1t is estimated that 80, 900 trees
went to Boston and 10000 to New York, from
Maine, at 10 cents to So EACH
Mrs. Mary J. Gary, who was buried in Port
land Friday, was descendant of the earliest
settlers of Portland, and the mother of Mrs.
Twitchell, wife of the publisher of the Cor.
ham IN. H. Mountaineer.
Headwaiter Keating, of the Falmouth Ho-
tel, and Coleman of the Preble House, receiy.
ed handsome Christmas gifts from the walters
In their hotels and from the boarders They
deserved them.
j. w. Blackstone, Denver, Col; Irving Em.
erson, Hartford, Ct; A. C.Whiting, Vermont;
Paul L. Thiery, New York; VIM. Walden,
Lynn; Thomas Msir, s. X. Hamilton and
Isaac P. Gragg of Boston; were registered a,
the Falmouth Hotel last night.
There was fire Saturday morning in the
Office of F. r. Fay, Of the Boston Globe
and Portland Express. The furniture was
injured and $40 in bills destroyed. The
fire was extinguished by Aachigonne, No. 1,
without an alarm.
William WEIGH had hand crushed while
Stacking cars in the Eastern railroad yard
Saturday, and A. e. Depnisop, 25 Merrill
street, engineer on the Grand Trunk, lost fin
ger while unshackling his engine from train
Saturday.
There were 16 deaths in Portland last week,
Consumption caused 3 deaths; Group caused 2
deaths; old age, heart disease, brain disease
pneumonis, blood poison, cold, spinal meningi.
tbs, typhoid fever, paralysis, peritonits and in
fantile disease caused one death each.
As the Salvation Army was passing Cor.
hams Corner yesterday forenoon, it was as
sailed by hoodlums with snow balls, and Can't.
Happy Gray and others struck. The police ar
rested one of the lads, named Sullivan, and
locked him up.