The Portland daily press., 1884-03-24
Brief Jottings.

The total value of foreign exports last week
WAS 1926, ZIG 65.
Gardiner ladies have collected Sl77.15 for
the Maine General Hospital.
1t is said that Mr.. John Winshin will MAN
age the Dirigo base ball club this season.
The Union boas-house will be raised several
feet' telephone aud electric light put in, and
large balcony built.
Mr.. W. L. Sawyer of this CITY. has written
poem Tor Cincinnati paper, entitled "Under
an Umbrella"
Inc Marine Engineers Association has for
warded $66 to members of the order in Cincin.
nail who were sufferers by the flood.
D. r. Hastings of Fryeburg is at the United
States; G. M. Bailey of Winthrop is at the
Prebe
Mr.. Herbert Patten and family will leave
for their new home at Los Angeles, CAL, on
Wednesday.
MIR. V. l.. Leavltt, general travelling agent
OF the International Line has returned from
his Florida trip.
There were 80 arrests last week, of which 30
were for drunkenness, and 10 tramus were
lodged at the station.
There were 10 deaths in this city last week:
of pneumonia, consumption, paralysis, and in
fantile there were 2 each; of ovarian tumor
and drowned one each.
hon. j. Perry. president of the Oxford
Bears, will attend the York Society meeting
Wednesday evening. and Gov. ROBBIE has been
invited to be present.
Next Friday the hearing for the appointment
OF receiver of the Ogdensburg road in New
Hampshire, will be had in the Circuits Coprts
in Portsmouth.
Toe Ocean Street Railway Company. In CON-
nection with the Dsering line, will run on
wheels in day or two, and new car will he
put on fof the summer business,
Ten horses imported on the Toronto, bv q
D. Crane of Kansas, are valued at $1s GOO
Seven are draft Clydes and two Cleveland
bays.
The Secret will go on her new route from
Annapolis to St. John this week, and the New
brunswick on the line from Boston to Var
mouth, N. s.
Ihose children who are to dance the Minuet
at tle Hospital Fair, are requested to meet AZ
Reception hail. City building, Monday the
oath, al 4.30 p. m.
Kicker, formerly pitcher for the Portland
Reds, left Thursday for East Saginaw. Mich.
where. as stated in the Press, he will play the
coming season in the ball cub of that city,
The mammoth locomotive, No. 365, built
by the Portland Company for the Northern
Pacific has attracted great attention at Ports
mouth from its many improvements.
Mr.. Alphonso Brunei, the we'll known ner;-
odical and bookseller, died yesterday at his
residence after long illness, Mr.. Brunei rep
resented Ward 3 in the Board of Aldar.
men in 1872 '73 and IA.
The Scandinavian of the Allan, and the Do
minion of the Dominion line ar. due this week
The Quebec sailed Saturday afternoon for Liv-
erpool via Halifax, with cargo valued at
$l12 457.
There will be meeting OF those interested
In the work Of the Gospel Mission this evening
in the hall at o'clock to devise means to car
ry ON the work. All friends of the cause Of
Christ and temperance are earnestly invited.
Prof VIM. J. Merrill. gave fine exhibition
of fancy skating at the Bijou Saturday even
ing. There was very large attendance. The |
rink will now be open every afternoon and ey- |
enlng until further notice. Some fine attract |
NJ soon bs announced.
ions w.. - from the Grand Trunk an /
The committee -aay. They report
ployes returned home Satu. Manager
a very pleasant conference with -
dickson. and that they stated to him that they
could not live on a reduction of the present
gay. They say there is no intention of a strike
md they also think no reduction will be made.
Rev. T. F. White of the Elm st. Baptist
church, Bath, occupied the pulpit of the Free
St. Baptist church in this city yesterday,
preaching two impressive and acceptable SER
mons to large congregations. Rev. Mr..
dcWhinnie the pastor of the church, sup
piled the pulpit of Mr.. White at Bath
"The Influence of Excessive Schooling on
the Health of our Children" is the sub
ject of lecture that will be delivered in the
Congress street NJ e. church this evening at 8
O'Clock by Charles r. Crandall, M. d. School
teachers. pupils, and parents will profit by
hearing what the doctor has to say on this i'm
portant topic.
In order to test Wallace Ross sculling pow
ers, a number of Thames and Tyne oarsmen
have arranged handicap race ON the Thames |
for April II. Ross gives from 10 to so seconds
start. Ross is now giving exhibitions to crowd
lustrates various styles of scullng, among 9TH
ers those of Hanlan and Bubear
The Portland Savings Bank has just placed
in its vault very massive burglar proof safe
from the celebrated mandatory OF George l.
Damon. Boston,. The safe weighs ten tons and
is without doubt the heaviest, finest finished
and strongest safe in Maine. 1t reflects great
credit upon the manufacturer. Mr.. Damon is
also building the vaults aud doors, twenty-five
in number, for the First National Bank, Port
land, a very large contract, embodying all the
latest devices and improvements.
music AND DRAMA.