The Portland daily press., 1886-11-01
BRIEF JoTTlNcs
Last night was All HaIloween.

Last night was All Halloween.
Two councils of United Fellowship will be
instituted in Maine this month.
There were 81 arrests last week, of which
10 were for drunkenness.
The Express will be enlarged today, add
ing column to each page.
Dirigo Hose house at the West End has
been reftted and furnished.
Loring, Short & Harmon have received the
Maine Farmers Almanac for 1887.
The new Silsby steam fire engine is in the
repair shop.
Ivy Lodge d. of r. will visit the Bidde-
ford Lodge December 4th
Commencing Tuesday evening Bosworth
Relief Corps will inaugurate series of six
sociables at Gilbert's Hall
The board of underwriters held a meeting
Saturday afternoon at Merchants Exchange.
Business of private nature was discussed.
The new timetables of the Grand Trunk
and Rumford Falls roads will go into effect
today.
The value of last weeks exports amounted
to $S,37S.47; there were 564, ,5S5 feet of lum-
Der exported.
Two boys were arrested Saturday for
stealing hens from J. M. Baxter of the Bax-
ter House.
Several women were taken to the station
from Clara Johnson's, 2IS Washington street
Saturday night.
The fine of $500 imposed on the British
schooner Alba for not having manifest has
been remitted.
The ministers of Portland and vicinity will
meet at Y. NJ. G. A. Hall today at 10 o'clock.
Rev. ]. w. Bashford will open the discussion
"How to promote Revival"
November 18th st. Dominick's Conference
will give their first coffee party for the poor
of the parish at City Hall. Grimmer's or
chestra will furnish the music.
Rev. j. w. Bashford will deliver his lee
ture on Orators and Oratory' before the
students of the Greely Institute on Novem-
Der l1th
We have received from Charles Paine
printer, the Journal of Proceedings of the
Grand Encampment l. o. O. +. for Maine
for 1885,
1t took Marshal Hawkes. and three officers
to arrest colored yirago named Hayes, who
lives on Mayo street, Saturday. She is sup
posed to be insane.
There was lively row on the corner of
Fore and Moulton streets Saturday after
noon. -Four or five men were engaged in it,
and one OF them had his noSr badly dam
aged.
The Boston National League Base Ball
team have signed Richard b. Conway, the
leading pitcher Of the New England League,
whose good work at the last of the season
this year largely aided Portland in winning
the championship.
There was slight fire in j. p. Smiths
barber shop on Middle street, caused by the
cVerturning OF lamp, Saturday night. The
names We're extinguished by two of the
hands and Officer McGrath with slight dam
age.
The Dominion and Allan lines of steamers
VIII run alternate weeks between Portland
and Liverpool, the coming season, as they
did last year. The Oregon of the Dominion
line win arrive about November 18th, and
the Sandman of the Allan line, November
22d.
AT the annual meeting of the Cosmopol-
tan Club III. III. Emery was elected president.
Mr.. Henry B. Sanborn secretary and treas
urer, and the executive committee includes.
besides the president and secretary, Mr.. H.
Virgin, Miss Ellen Bacon, Miss Elizabeth
Stevens and Miss Charlotte Pierce.
A horse belonging to a countryman, fell
down near the Grand Trunk,Depot yesterday
afternoon. The horse was very old and it
looked as II he had lain down to die, crowd
OF zoo men and boys standing around for two
hours, before Officer Morse cam. along and
induced the animal to get up, after a number
from the crowd had tried to start the horse
without success.