The Portland daily press., 1885-12-07
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

There were 80 arrests last week, of which IL
were for Drunkenness.
The total value of foreign exports last week was
s167 ,14e.7o, including 915,e54 feet of lumber.
The publication of the Sunday Gazette has been
suspended.
The Congress Square Union and Annex will
hold Christmas sale Dec. 9th and 10th.
J. S. Bradstreet Esq, Of Gardiner has given
the Maine General Hospital $3.50 to support a
free bed for one year.
The lobster eatchers at Chebeague are getting
quite excited over having their Holsters opened
on reaching Portland.
The Methodist Episcopal Church at Chebeague
is about building q new parsonage, the old one
having been sold to B. j. Thompson
The Cadets will hold a meeting tonight to con-
slider aninvitaton from the Haverhill City Guard
to visit that city February IS, 1885,
The Dominion and Allan lines each employ 10
longshoremen on their steamers 80 of whom
came from Montreal.
Mr.. Herbert F. Libby has sold his boarding
house on Free street to Mr.. and Mrs. Seneca CT
Lawrence, Mass.
Messrs. L. A. Goudy & Co., shipped rs barrels
of hard tack and so boxes fancy biscuit to the
African coast last week ON order.
Mr.. Sawyer. Saturday, took in charge horse
belonging to Samuel H. Sweetser of Yarmouth
which it is claimed has not been housed since
early summer. The horse was covered with frost
In Algenon Stubs window, in Harrington
Block, may be seen a fine painting Of game BIRDS
executed by Alex Urquhart, master painter of the
Ogdensburg road.
The Bosworth Relief Corps fair will open at
City Hall, Dec. 18TH A grand dress parade of
the military companies, reviewed by Governor
Robbie, will be a feature.
fba Chacfp1,t Cfraat NJ II Nburoh vactardau
morning. ten were received upon probation and
fifteen into full membership, seven of them by let
ter and eight from probation.
Capt. Quinn's little steamer the Lizzie, has just
been sold to a party of Philadelphia sportsmen
and will be taken to the Rangeley Lakes. She is
being reitted at the Portland Company.
We have received the Odd Fellows Register
and Masonic Journal for December, w. II. Smith
editor, and it is, if anything, fuller of bright and
interesting articles to the fraternity than ever.
The Fish Exchange committee will leave for
Gloucester today. A remonstrance against the
free admission Of Canadian fish is being largely
signed here.
Quinn are building 3o-inch boiler for l..
A. Cloudy g. Co., and another of so horsepower
fer 0. S. Thomes new grist mill in West Cumber-
land.
The steamer John Brooks, of the Boston line
and Cumberland, of the st. John line, are laid up
here for the annual oyerhauling and the steam
ers Forest City and New Brunswick are running
in their places.
w. & c. r. Milliken have sent the bark Ysidora
Rionda, Capt jones' on trading trip to Mon
rovia. She will be gone year and carries cargo
containing everything from lumber for houses to
skin ointments, and valued at S11 900.
Prof Walters article in the December Century
Tlanu in
tains some interesting and important facts that
should be widely known. The dangers that Turk in
the water of wells or streams polluted by sewage
are not sufficiently needed
The buildings of the International Steamship
Company ON Railroad wharf are undergoing ex.
tensive alterations, and as soon as completed all
their uptown offices, now located in the First Ma
tional Bank building, will be removed to the
wharf
The steamer City of Portsmouth, lying at Pier
wharf, in Portsmouth, N. H., was libelled on
Thursday last by the Portland Company for work
done and supplies furnished when the steamer
was repaired in this city some time ago. Hon.
Charles F. Libby is attorney for the libellant.
The brig Matte B. RUSSELL whose rough exper-
fence has been published, has arrived with coal
for H. L. Paine. She lies at the Boston and
Maine wharf. She shows the effects of the gales
The wreck of the brig Anita Owen, as she lies
sunk off Strawberry Hill, Nantasket Beach, was
sold at auction for $50; the GOO tons of coal in
the vessels hold brought $40.
The resolution adopted by the Portland Fishing
Exchange, requesting Congress to make law
against the landing of mackerel caught between
December and June of the following year, is gen
orally approved by the trade in Boston. The
sending of vessels south early in March unsettles
the market depreciates the quality of the fish for
the whole season and diminishes the supply on
the New England coast