The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-11-09
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

Five new shoe stores will be opened In
Portland this week.
There were 46 arrests last week, of which
10 were for drunkenness.
The Turnvereins will expend $1,000 in I'M
provements on their hall.
Ellsworth Post will send an elegant testi-
monial to Smart Post Of Cambridgeport.
The hearing in the California wine case
will take place today in the Municipal Court.
A. S. Fuller, the teamster, found valu-
able horse of his dead in the stall Saturday.
The total value of foreign exports last
week was $33, O9454, including 1892 feet of
lumber.
Twelve cars will be at the City Hail. and
Theatre in future at the close of entertain
ments
There is no truth in the report that case
of small pox exists on Munjoy Hill There
are no cases in Portland.
The maekerel catch from June 1st to Nov.
18th has been 81, 527 barrels, against 104,224
barrels, same time in 1884.
The Dallas has been thoroughly repaired
and her machinery overhauled by Lidback,
and will make her trial trip today.
The elegant new residence of Mr.. E. t.
Burrowes, on the Western Promenade, is
being wired throughout for the incandescent
electric light.
A road is proposed connecting the Shore
road, at Pond Cove, with the old middle
road, which will lessen the distance to Port
land two miles.
Eighteen vessels brought 2311 barrels OF
mackerel last week and eight did not secure
4L4 a,,I 1e
have ended the season.
The Montgomerys will send an elegant
photograph of the company, taken by Lam
son and handsomely framed, to the Sarsfeld
Guard of New Haven.
The Portland Company are at work on six
locomotives, one of which is for the Roches-
ter road, and have completed two boilers for
the Casco Iron Works.
The Smaller Mission Band will give an
entertainment at the First Baptist vestry
tonight, and some of the children will be
dressed in Burmese and Karen costumes.
The travelling scenic artist has adorned the
outer wall of W. F. Stones store on Green
street. and placed several handsome speci-
mems of his skill in Lombard's fish store.
Mills & McMasters of Montreal and Alvan
Neal of this city will do the steyedore work
for the foreign steamers this winter, and
Capt. Willard will look after the coaling.
The treasurer of the Portland Widows
Wood Society, Mr. Samuel Rolfe, acknowl-
edges the receipt of 81, 900 from F. R. Barrett.
ESQ.,, executor of the will of the late Horace
Harvey Esq.
Edward O'Neil of Groton, N. H., has chal-
lenged w. W. Montgomery to wrestle for
| 800 and the light weight championship of
| New England. Montgomery will accept and
| name Laconia, n H., as the place.
| A two story house, located ON Summer
street, which was being raised Wednesday
last slipped its blocks and fell into the
| cellar. Mr.. Knowles, the superintendent,
was slightly hurt by falling bricks
| Saturday a number of papers were found
| at the base of the Casco street church
| steeple, of dates later than 1860 There
were copies Of the PRESS, Transcript, Star
and Boston Journal. The old clock and fire
alarm bell will remain.
Wednesday noon George P. Reed, mes
senger boy for the Union Mutual Insurance
| Company, picked up in the street. near the
Canal Bank, an endorsed draft for $37, 800,
the property of well known Commercial
street merchant
At the meeting of the Diet Mission, Satur-
day, 81 patients were reported; Miss Evans
and Mrs. Porter were appointed committee
on vacancies, and the president and vice
president ON rooms; and it was voted to give
| the patients chicken Thanksgiving.