The Portland daily press., 1884-02-11

for week. The mercury rose to 46o at moor.
Yesterday was Septuagesima Sunday.
The value of foreign exports last week was
S515, OO7.So.
Mrs.. j. Ell. Ellison assumed the position of
contralto in the First Parish church Yesterday.
Inc Times says Hon. W. l. Putnam says he
does not desire the Supreme Court iudgeshir
Charles e. Adams of this city, Is clerk at
the Southern Hotel, ST. Louis.
The City Of Portland arrived Saturday at
Boston from St. john.
Natives OF Waterford, resident here viii at.
tsnd the reunion at that town next Wednes-
day.
The Boston Maine railroad has contribut-
Maine General Hospital
Hop. s. f. Cary repeated his lecture ON
WINE, its Use aud Abuse" a. City Hall, be-
fore large audience last evening.
Two vessels from Georges Bank brought in
$4,000 pounds of fresh fish last week, and the
market is well supplied.
The Cumberland County Medical Portrait
Association will collect the portraits of mem
bers VI the profession.
Bnswcr.h Post make their traternal visit to
Custer Post, Lewiston, today, leaving at 500
p. M and returning at II 90 p. NJ
The theriffs seized twenty barrels Of beer
from an Eastern railroad car at Tarner's ISL
and, Saturday night.
Aloro Il. Chase and j. Fl. Wentworth, Past
Grand Dictators, will attend the Grand Lodge,
K. OF H., meeting at Lewiston, Feb. Goth.
A iigger colliding with the hydrant corner
OF Fore and Union streets, Saturday, broke
the msin water pipe, aud the street was
flooded.
The Chestnut street church has been rath,
DARK at evening services, and an elegant CEN
trai sasaller has just been placed Ia the
churoS, which is great Improvement.
The steamer Thornhil. Capt Wetherili. ar
rived from Liverpool, Saturday. after rough
voyage of a months duration. and awaits or.
ders.
Mr.. +. w. Fairbanks Of Gorham, who was
on the City of Columbus aud escaped death
was in town Saturday, and starts for Florida
again.
Col. John Payne. auditor of the Grand
Trunk, is in town, and Mr.. T. T. Merry of Au-
burn, State agent of the Northwestern Life
Insurance Company.
The pilots will circulate a petition that
Portland Head Light be restored. and il the
potion fail will ask residents on the Cana shore
to put out the lights on the shore side OF their
dwellings.
Coi. "A. w. Wildes was threatened. at the
treble House, Saturday, with pneumonia. He
was better yesterday. Mr. q. o Leach ia verv
III With pneumonia at his house on Newburv
street.
At the Unity Lodge entertainment Wedpes-
day, Mrs. L. A. Cloudy, Mics Lizzie M. Brown.
Miss Elsa Russell, Messrs. A. E. Pennell Z.
Y. Farnsworth, Charles Rickford. and Harvey
Murray win assist.
AT the Young Mems Christian Association.
tuesday, Misses Leila Farrell, Fannie Millken.
Messrs. David Moulton, G. FL. 'Brien, Charles
Cram, 9. A. Farrell S. Merrill, and E. Fl.
Paine will take part,
John OConncr has five little children in
destitute circumstances, receives aid from the
CITY, and yet keeps six dogs. As he refused to
get rid of the dogs he was arrested Saturday.
and fined $40 and costs.
Ihere were ~ arrests recorded last week. of
which "a were for drunkenness, and IA tramps
were lodged at the station. Officer Sterling
has been transferred TO Officer Rice's old beat
aud Officer Morse to Officer SterIing's.
Oharies Burns of Hallowell, bright lad Is
years OLD, has helped support his neither, ana
she has given him PERMISSION to seek his for.
tune No As stopping at the police station mn
til he can get work.
Inere we're fourteen deaths recorded in
roftland last week, three from lung fever. two
each from consumption and congestion of the
Grain, and one each from old age, lung conges-
tion, kidney disease, paralysis, cancer, pneu-
monia, and infaptile disease.
The Ontario, of the Dominion line. took ont
70 Liverpool Sunday morning, 275 cattle, 6el
sheep, and cargo valued at $198, 73S. The
dominion and Sarmatian are due at Halifax.
the Sarnia sailed from Liverpool direct the
IT'D, and the Toronto which is here, is having
Ian put in her propeller.
Herbert j. Banton, who was brought before
Judge Webb, Saturday. for being connected
wilma gift enterprise, says he shall sue the
augusta journal, and some other Republican
papers, for saying that he swindled people and
was put Ia roitfand jan. Mr. BanJon was M
one time editor of the Freebooter.
An exchange says: "Rev. DR.. Basbiord. of
the New England Conferences, has received
and accepted call to the Chestnut street NJ.
Z. church, and Rev E. T. Adams of Bidce.
ford has accepted call to the Congress street
Nj. e. church, both subject, of course. to the
decision of the bishops"
Ii never rains, but it pours, as the family of
Mr. A. Colby, OF this city, have discovered. A
daughter had been sick for some time. aud
Mrs. Colby had Just risen from sick bed.
when she received Thursday despatch saying
that her only brother, Mr.. Frank A. Niles Of
Boston Highlands, was dead. She LETT at onca
Ior Boston, accompanied by Capt. Lewis. and
Friday night Mr.. Colby received telegram.
calling him to Boston at once Mrs. Colby bay.
ing broken leg.