The Portland daily press., 1885-09-21
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

A large number of people visited the prom
enades yesterday afternoon.
The walls of the new Lyman block are up
and ready to receive the roof
There were "A arrests last week of which
26 were for drunkenness.
The value of exports last week was $780,,
462 81, including 1885, 100 feet of lumber
The two teams from the Willard Club that
shot match last week, will try another to-
day
A. S. Gould, the swindler of the Maine Ac-
cident Insurance Co., was arrested in Vance
boro Saturday.
Seventeen vessels landed 1855 barrels of
mackerel in Portland last week. Herring
have struck in in abundance.
Thomas Shannahan has been awarded the
contract to build the retaining wall on the
| Western Promenade.
An excursion party of about 200 people
came in from Sanford Saturday morning and
went to Peaks Island on the Mary W Libby.
At meeting of the Aldermen Saturday
morning, an insane man was sent to the
asylum at Augusta.
Mr. G. G. Shaw bought handsome horse
from Mr.. G. II. Irish, Saturday, for $175. He
| has replaced the horses lately burned.
Charles Paine's programmes for the
Stockbridge course will be unique and a
| beautiful souvenir.
| Two new dynamos for arc lights and two
| for the incandescent system, $50 lights each,
| will be required by the electric light COM
| pany
The citizens of Deering in the vicinity of
! Pleasant street and along the Plains road,
have petitioned the Sebago Water Company
for extension of their water system
The Reform Club held public temperance
meeting last evening in their hall and ad-
| dresses were made by large number of re-
| formed men.
Rev. L. H. Hallock of Williston Church
yesterday, delivered a very able and inter
esting sermon from the text Neh. iv :6-"The
people had mind to work"
The electric light company will commence
| stringing the wires for the incandescent
| lights today and the work of putting in the
| arc lights is well advanced.
Yacht Viva, formerly of this port, but now
of the Eastern Yacht Club, has sailed for
Cape Small Point, where she will remain
two weeks while her occupants are cunning.
1t is reported on good authority that the
Boston firm of Cobb, Bates & Yerxa, fancy
grocers, will occupy the large store in the
new Davis block, corner of Exchange and
| Congress street, as branch house.
| The annual retreat for the clergy of the
Portland diocese took place last week at the
residence of Rt. Rev. Bishop Healy, and was
conducted by Rev. Father Francis Ryan, S.
| j., of Chicago.
The shops of the Eastern Railroad at Sa-
lem and of the Boston and Maine at Law
renee have been unusually busy this summer,
making repairs and building good many
new cars to accommodate the increa sing
traffic of the roads.
| On her trip to Portland from Boston, Fri
| day night, the fremont touched lightly on
| the ledge outside the Salvages, east of
| Thatcher'S Island. No great damage was
done. She returned here Saturday night
light and will go into the dry dock
The alarm of fire from box No. "a Satur-
day morning was caused by slight fire in
the closet of a bed room in the third story of
Daniel Hollywood's house, No. 80 Pleas
ant street. Loss about $500, covered by
$500 insurance with G. l. Goodwin.