The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-11-08
BRIEF JoTTINCS.

There were AZ arrest last week, of which
% were for drunkenness.
Megquier & Jones will put new elevator
In the Printers Exchange.
Bramhall Hook and Ladder Company will
give dance at Mechanics Hall, November
18th.
The value of last weeks exports was $780,
9O992, and there were 921, $40 feet of lumber
exported.
The Munjoy Chautauqua Circle will meet
this evening, with Mr.. ]. H. Gerrish, No. 6
Atlantic street.
large plate glass window in the store of
Il. A. Atkinson & Co., was shivered by a
falling awning.
carpenter had al hand caught in the
gearing of the elevrtor In Printers Exchange
and two fingers were broken.
Bosworth Post on its visit to Bddeford to-
morrow, will be accompanied by the Maine
State Fife, Drum & Bugle Corps.
AtChestnut street church yesterday morn.
ing eight persons were received upon lproba-
ton and seven into full membership.
One OF the clerks at Eastman Bros. & Ban.
crofts was badly injured by falling down
stairs Friday. She was taken home
The contract for the plumbing at the Maine
General Hospital was awarded to j. III.
Bond q Co., they being the lowest bid
ders.
Three cartridges were caught in the city
last week; one on State street, one on Grove
street, and one in the Maine Central railroad
yard.
Saturday was the last day for entries of
pictures for the November exhibition bv the
Society of Art The exhibition will oaen
Monday.
Charles Stowells store, corner of Preble
and Cumberland streets, was broken into
Saturday night, and small quantity of
goods stolen.
The shower early Saturday evening was
accompanied by vivid lightning, and unwary
pedestrians had their umbrellas turned in
side out by the wind.
A Gloucester vessel arrived in the harbor
Saturday with 1926 barrels of mackerel. In the
present state of the market, the catch will
be worth nearly $1,000
Yesterday afternoon, while workmen were
employed in securing the steamer Empress,
one OF them tumbled into the. ice cold water,
and was rescued safe and shivering.
The Longfellow Chautauqua Circle meets
at Chestnut street vestry this evening. An
interesting programme is arranged and the
president will answer several questions.
Samuel Harrington of the Portland & Og-
densburg road and Simeon Hartford of Cape
Elizabeth, had a wrestling ma CHI Saturday.
They weigh over 600 pounds. Harrington
was the victor.
A horse attached to cart frightened
by the dumping of coal on Randall & Nc
Allister's wharf Saturday and backed off the
wharf into the dock. He was rescured after
considerable exertion,
Free street church has discharged its
choir and will hereafter have only congre-
gational singing. There will be an organist,
who has not yet been engaged and f. v.
Chase. Esq, will lead the singing
The four-masted steam schooner JEANNE
now discharging a cargo of sugar at the
Grand Trunk wharves is one of the few YES
sells of her class afoat Her steam power is
intended for use in Gains and navigating riv-
ers and bays
The sentence Of Sergeant Kelley now con-
fined in Portland Jail for the shooting of
Young Smith at Fort Popham, expires the
18th of this month. To restore him to cit-
zenship petition signed by many prominent
public men of the State will be presented to
President Cleveland, asking that a pardon
be granted Kelley on the day his sentence
expires.