The Portland daily press., 1884-01-07
Rrief xatriugs.

above at noon. Zero st D. M: wind uorth
The monthly teachers meeting this evening.
There were % arrests last week. of which "a
| wsr7 for drunkenness.
Ihere We're $50 car loads of foreien freight
brought here over The Grand Trunk hast week.
Inc Toronto sailed for Liverpool Saturday
afternoon. Her cargo was valued at S218 OIL
Mr. Charles Fsrrell is visiting bis cd home
in Portland.
Mr. Kimball OF Belfast officiated st tha
Williston church organ yesterday.
Capt. soule, of the Groyetoa Mile. is
seriously sick at the City Hotel.
| Merchants Wharf viii be rebuilt end
Browns wharf repaired by Samuel Teagae.
Its reported that tho new marine rail.ay
will be located at Fish Poiat.
The annual masquerade ball Of lie Dlus 8
VIII be given Washington's birth niaht,
nF. Faul Pr nee who met with scr ias,s fall
Oh the ice last week, came oat of bis sirnor
sunday morning, perfectly conscinns
Saturday night the c.tg sasel II ,,.t.o
so,eo % recommend the adoption Of lie new
ballot bex By the city.
Mr.. Geo W. Rich has taken the Maine
asency for Bosioa clotbiag firm, w:tA head.
quarters in Portland. 800
Yeltsfday az Epiphany aud was nron..,.
celebrated in the Catholic aud protesta,t
churches
Mr. Thompson, OF Thompson & Hal, Of ibis
CITY Is Threatened with pneumonia a. his hsrne
il OeerinY. ''s'"s
Mr.. G. W Taft, formerly Of the N,,iaoal
Het7l, Washington, has accepted o,s,ks,.s.,
at the Falmouth Hotel. p
Tbs fcrtpightiy conferences 81 tha~ass,a,,.,s
Charities Il be held at Rcceotia, Ha,, ~,
day, Jan. 7th, at $50 o'clock.
Tao usual crowd viewed the TRANSPORTATION
OIL tue second boiler Of the steamer sscret from,
t9alnn q Co., 10 the Portland Coropsn,
Inc Western electric lights were shn. ,.ff
haf an hour Saturday night BY the baat;ng
OF a crank pin.
Inc Sandman aud Austrian Of the A,l.u
Line are due here this week, and tba ssroi.
OF tho Dominion Line.
The regular monthly aud adjourne,, e.,,,a,
MEETING Of the Society of Natural Histor. ,.;,,
DO held this evening for tbs election of ois;oara
ana Transaction of other important hus;,ass
The Brotherhood OF Loesrpo,iva E;~a..e.
nsia meeting yesterday but Informed re-
p'i'sr ioE this paper there was nothing a. a
paellc nature connected with IT,
ihere were $1o,s47 paid into the con.,,
treasury Tor fines from the Mnnicinal Can't
SINCE March 10, 1888, and 81, 45o into the citr
Tor violation OF ordinances aud criminal oos.e
mere were four million dollars wor 4 -
.oi0ish exports and two million ,vo,th -
uomes1lc from this port in December IT,
Value lor Inc past week was $3.50. $40
Ahere are $40 bales of cotton in the Grad |
trunk shed bound to Liverpool from Taxas
ms is the hrst lot Of a Consignment Of abo,t
1000 bales. u aooas
The large stick Of candy in Perkins. w,naon.
weighed 100 "a pounds. Holdar, - $50
Nos. IS and 81 each guessed 1o1 nonnds .S 80
get the sweetness. '-1
Misses Beckett and Won Hillern have re-.
turned 70 their summer sketching-ground in |
tne Shenandoah Valley, and taken mn tl,a;r
winter quarters at the vendone. ~
Eiectrciiy fully illustrated ina ~
lect upon which Arthur B. Merrill Of tb;a c;tz
spoke Saturday evening at the Y. Sf q. Union
Boston. ol'on'
ne travelling salssmen who patroniza tho |
CITY OF Richmond presented Can't. ". n
Dshnlson with an elegant gold beaded cane
worth $75 New Years.
There will DO lecture before the Portland /
Teachers Association this (MonSayl evening
by John s. Clark of Boston. Snb;ect-ssrn
dustrial Drawing
Inc publishers of the Portland directory an
nounce 10 another column the commencement
q sae canvass for 1884, to which attention il
called sAA'ion 70
kF;e,
MISS Helen Louise Coe Of this city will rive
reading on Wednesday evening in Tho
Grange Hall. Buxton, in the leetnra conrsa
lhere VIII also be concert by the hest Rpv.
ton voices.
members OF Maine Lodge..are reminded that
tnere viii be public installation Of thai,
oncers and an entertainment on MONDAY ave.
ming, Jan. 7th. All members win mai.
friends are kindly invited to bs present
Inc next quarterly convention of the Re-
.o,n siuos i9r Cumberland county sill be
aed at Dry Mills, Gray, jan. 18th ana oath
All temperance workers are cordially invited
mere Will be free entertainment for an.
1here we're IL deaths recorded in Portland
ass week; consumption, heart disease br,,n
trouble and infantile each: scarlet feve,
Kidney disease, bowel tronble infant;,e .n5
ee thing one each. s''u
luesoay evening the battle of New asszarSsnrs
anniversary will be celebrated St = Civ Han
ua5or Deering will preside -, Chandler,s hand
slve concert frnrs- 50 to O'Clock am, ,hara
VII be srief speeches by well known cit;za,s
: 4he Newburyport Herald saye man birea
locomotive on a recent Sunday and made tb,,
trip to Portland from Boston in two boprs ca
thirty minutee, the fastest time ever made ~.
tween the two cities.
The Maine Press Association will ho,d l.,
annual meeting at City Building Januarv oaa
and 24th. DR.. Mi Ter of the waldoboro Naus
VIII deliver the essay, and Mr.. Owen. of the
NAME Farmer, the poem. Mr.. e. Ell. EIwel
VIII give reception to the members.
Capt. Abbey of cutter WOODBURY. rano,ts
TIE schooner David W. Hunt, Cart. Baker 81
Hodgsdon's Mills. for Fernandina. close il
flsherman'a Island with a bad sea hpt No
WIND and In danger Of going on the rocks. Tha
Woodbury. took her to Boo,hbay on the af,a,
noon OF the 9th inst
Mr.. Frank M. Floyd, driver Of Hook a,a
Ladder No. ], was probably accidentaIlv omit
ted from the Sunday Times notice or thanho
exte nded TO Mr.. Joseph H. Fernald for shelter,
ing the horses belonging to several of tbs fro
companies on the nighs of the fire Januarv la
ne taxes this opportunity of extending his
thanks publicly
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AQUATIC.