The Portland daily press., 1884-12-15

90 and cost.
and cost and months in County jail. Appealed.
Brief sottings.
Cloudy yesterday but warmer. The mercu-
ry indicated $50 at noon; wind southeast.
Photographs Of the fire of 1866 have been
placed in the house Of Bramhall, No. 8.
Thatcher Post, G. A. b., will occupy their
new hall January LIST.
Mr. Arthur Libby, the well known furni-
ture dealer, was smitten with paralysis Friday,
and Is v.ry Ill st his residence.
TIE Universalist fair at Stevens Plains clear
ed $500, and Mrs. Benson drew the quilt cost
ing sos.
Snow Commenced falling about IL O'Clock
last night, and continued until O'Clock this
morning, when 1t turned into drizzling rain.
The Deering people will send a remonstrsnce
to the legislature against the setting off part
Of the town near Libby's Corner to Portland.
The Pgthian Circle fair held Friday and Sat
urday, 1T Ferry Village was great financial
success.
There were AZ arrests last week, of which %
were for drunkenness, and SO tramps were
lodged.
Portland, was 1868 81, including 1,416, 359
feet Of lumber.
Mira. Fl. P. Ingalls,, No. 231 High street, has
tickets yet uosold in the Afghan and quilt do
natsd to the Soldiers Monument Fair.
There was break Saturday night in the
water main, corner of Federal and Exchange
streets.
Bishop Healy preached at the Catholic Ca
thedral yesterday, having arrived from Balti-
more.
There is grain enough now in the Grand
Trunk eievat and awaiting shipment to En-
rope to fill six steamers.
One Thousand bales of cotton from st. Louis,
are lying in the Grand Trunk sheds waiting
for steamer.
Capt. McDougall, S. s. Prussian, Allan Line;
Jno. d. Ring, New York; f. W. Waterman,
q. s. R. M; J. B. Pearson, Boston, are st The
Falm nth Hotel.
Capt. G. II. Scott of this city, of the 18th
Maine Regiment, has just received large
sum OF back pension money and has had his
pension increased to $72 a monty.
1t was F. A. Clark not f. W. Clark, that
the City Government, at the last meeting, re-
ferred to when it ordered the city treasurer to
foreclose two mortgages given by him.
There was belief That there was case of
suspended animation in town, but investiga-
tion showed that the person had died from
natural causes.
At meeting of the Board of Mayor and Al
dermeB, held Saturday morning, Charles D
Brown aud Joseph Fl. Snckney were drawn as
jurors for the United States District Court.
The regular scientific meeting OF the society
of Natural History will be held this evening
t7.45. Several matters of popular interest
will come up fer notice and debate.
The Partisan of the Allan Line, and Brook
Ign of the Dominion Line, will arrive here
this week. An Antwerp steamer will take
special freight. and two extra steamers are re-
quired for the accumulated freight.
The number of deaths last week was ~, of
which two each were caused by old age Group
and brain disease, and one each by cancer,
tumor, heart disease, insanity. diphtheria and
infantile disease.
Six lectures, under the auspices Of the Graf
tans, will be given this winter, including
Judge Symonds on Hawthorne" W. E.
Gould on Bankers and Banking" and one by
d Fl. Ingraham.
There was slight fire at 7. Laughlin &
Sons block factory, corner of Centre and Com
mercial street, Saturday afternoon, caused by
the woodwork around the boiler becoming
overheated. Tue damage Was covered by insur-
ance.
Stockbridges Journal for December has
been received. 1t contains several pretty pieces
OF music and much interesting reading. We
also acknowledge Belssco's Down upon the
Silver Strand" sung by Lolita, and Lowthian's
''Venetis Waltz"
The ladies of the Martha Washington Socie-
ty will give supper at the Congress street
Methodist vestry, Wednesday evening next.
December 18th. A good supper and pleasing
entertainment may be expected. A commit
tee will be at this yestry at any time after two
O'Clock of the day to receive donations.
Thete was large attendance at the adjourn
cd meeting Of the Children's Christmas
Club, held at Reception Hall Saturday
afternoon. All the collectors bat ten reported
gums collected varying from ten cents to eight
dollars. A large number of tickets were issued
and the meeting adjourned to next Saturday
afternoon at the same place.
Advertisements appropriately coming under
the classification heads, WANTS, HELP WANT
sd, SITUATIONS WANTED, FoR SALE, To LET,
BOARD and Rooms aud LOST AND FOUND, not
exceeding forty words, will be inserted in the
Dairy PRESS one week for twenty-five cents, ii
paid in advance. When payment is not made
in advance, regular rates will be charged. The
large circulation of the PRESS makes 1t the
best medium for these advertisements.
Mrs. Susan Ferguson. who died of old age at
the St. Joseph's Home in Deering at the age.it
is thought OF 106, was buried Friday. She had
been an inmate of the Home two years, bat
was very bright person. She came from
county Leitrim, ireland, swhen very young and
resided fifty years in Portland. Her husband
died in 1871. She leaves son-in-,aw, John
Ross of Portland.