The Portland daily press., 1884-02-16
Rrief Iaffinas.

Colder yesterday with sunshine in the after
noon. Mercury 27o at Z .. no, 29o at noon, 27o
at sunset; wind northwest.
DIR. Buzzel and Mrs. Buzzell are at the
Everett House, jacksonville, Fla.
The Reform Club will hold no meeting 10.
morrow evening.
The woman's gospel temperance meeting
Will be held at the Mission this evening at 80
o'clock. All are invited.
Ihere Is rumor that Manager Sawyer of
Woodiord's rink is making arrangements for
skating excursion to Rochester.
An autopsy on the body OF the late
Frederick j. Deland revealed the fact that he
died OF congestion of the brain.
Rev. Samuel Annear of England will preach
at the Dsering Bridge Mission Sunday eve
ming.
The Eastern railroad has adopted Dion g.
Mignault's patent car coupler for freight cars
1t is estimated that $500 will be required.
The mid-winter meeting of the York Society
will be held at Reception Hall Feb. 2Sth when
short papers, relative to the early history of
the county will be read.
There will be no temperance meeting at
City Hall tomorrow evening en- account of
the regular monthly temperance meeting at
the Second Parish church.
COL A. W. Bradbury was the lecturer be-
fore the Law Students Club at its regular
meeting last evening. His subject was
Criminal Pleading and Practice"
The Portland High School Cadets have in
vited the Portsmouth Cavalry to participate
in their annuasiball which will take place
about the 18th Of March.
The regular meeting of the Portland Soldiers
and Sailors Monument Association will be
held at Reception Hall. City Building. this
evening at IL o'clock.
The adjourned meeting to organize a local
historical and genealogical society, for this
county, will be held at Reception Hail. Mon
day evening at 7.30 o'clock.
Mr.. Chamberlin of Chambe lin & Homstsd,
gave reception to his clerks Thursday night.
] here was singing. Instrumental music and
capital supper.
Z. d. Woodmap, Esq, of China has ao-
cepted position as the general agent of the
Boston Post fer the State of Maine. He will
make his headquarters in Portland.
Mr.. Giles o. Bailey, of the Sunday Times,
and Mrs. Bailey attended the reunion of
former citizens of Waterford held in that town
Wednesday evening.
Upon the steamship Dominion, which al
rived at this port yesterday. was package aa-
dressed to H. Smallmau, London, Ont.
Canada, containing clock 1870 years old The
package came from Scotland.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Green, who reside at
slroudwater, We're thrown from their sleigh at
tne west End yesterday afternoon. Mr..
Green aad an eye injured seriously, and badly
bruised. Mrs. Green escaped with bruises.
The New York Sun of yesterday saws that
James Whitford of 81 Henry street, in that
city, has applied for letters of administration
on the estate Of his sister, Kate Whitford. who
committed snicide in this city on the 10th inst.
The personal estate Is valued at $4,000.
The steamer Dominion, whose arrival was
ansounced yesterday brought 40 passengers
and three fine Clydesdale stations. besides .
good cargo She ran into the wharf while be-
ing locked yesterday morning, and did some
damage TO the wharf and planking.
George Prescott, the young man VIII, made
MS escape from Portland Jail last fall, and
who was reported as having been killed in the
railroad accident at Toronto, has written 10
his parents, who reside in Buxton, that he ia
alive aud well.
The order of dances for the cbildrens fancy
dress party will be decorated on one side with
Kate Greenaway figure, and on the other
nave the names of Mr.. M. B. Gilbert and
those OF the floor managers, Elliot G. Mitchell.
Philip B. Hunt, John @. Brown and George
Deake.
There was narrow escape from fire at the
residence of S. W. Sanborn, on Clark street,
last evening. A burning match was careless
ly dropped into large basket of grasses which
hung beneath chandelier. In an instant the
basket was ablaze and the flames rose to the
ceiling, but after some quick work the fire was
extinguished
>, MIR. Arthur B. Morrill,, teacher OF physical
science IN the Portland High School, is to lee
tnre at the Y. M. G.. Onion in Boston this eve
ming, giving a history Of the steam engine.
Win models, diagrams, apparatus; operation
OF the hlgh-prssscre engine, with its essential
parts, fully shown
In Boston Thursday, Henry r. Wharton of
this city, master of the brig N. G. Mariner.
was held in 800 to the March term Of the dis
trlct court, on charge Of beating and wound
ing member of the crew while on the high
seas. Fred G. Walton was a witness in the
case, and he was arraigned on the charge of
perjury, end held in $500 for his examination
yesterday.
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