The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-29
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

The teachers in the public schools will be paid
today.
At the regular monthly meeting of the Citizens
Relief tomorrow evening several important mat
tiers will be acted upon. See advertisement.
Rev. L. H. Hallock will conduct the Bible class
at the Y. III. G. A. rooms Friday afternoon at 4.3o
o'clock. Subject, "Jesus at the Well"-John iv,
5-2e.
Clark s. Chaplin of this city have purchased an
interest in Marston g. Durgin's ice houses at
Biddeford.
The Samaritan Association will meet this after
noon with Mrs c. NJ Plummer, No. Ill Middle
street.
The Democratic county committee has elected
A. w. Bradbury, chairman, V. c. Wilson, secre-
tary, and Kimoall Eastman, treasurer.
The report that the yard men at the Rolling
Mills had struck for higher wages proves upon
investigation to be without foundation.
At a meeting of the Board of Health, held yes
terday afternoon, the contract for removing city
offaI was awarded to Joshua L. Taylor for $1,000
for the year.
The Portland School for the Deaf and the
Female Orphan Asylum have accepted invitations
from the ladies of Bosworth Relief Corps to
attend the May Day Carnival.
number of Hungarian emigrants who arrived
here Tuesday have been ordered back to Europe,
being entirely without money or means of sup
port
Lieutenant Penny of the Augusta Corps of the
Salvation Army has been promoted to captain,
and will take charge of the corps in Portland. A
new lieutenant will be assigned to duty in
Augusta.
Senator Frye presented in the Senate yesterday
petition signed by Thompson g. Hall, Howard E.
Soule, and forty other wholesale dealers of Port
land, urging the passage of bill taxing
imitation butter. He also presented petition of
the North Yarmouth Grange for the same object
Commencing wi b the first of May, the signal
service station in this city will be prepared to
exhibit the new wind direction and velocity sig
nails They will be used to foretel the direction
of expected winds blowing at a rate dangerous to
vessels.
The National Board of Fire Underwriters have
offered a reward of $500 for the detection, con-
viction and punishment OF any person or persons
who may on trial be found guilty of firing the
premises on Free street occupied by w. II. San
born & Co., on the 28th of March. The offer will
remain open for one year.
A subscription Is being circulated in Biddeford
for the purchase Of a new flag for Post Sheridan,
G. A. r. The old flag, which was the property of
the Portland Light Infantry before the war and
was the first flag to- be sent into the service from
this State Is so badly torn that 1t is unfit for use.
The new flag will be procured for use Decoration
day.
An invention for heating cars by steam from the
engine has been on trial on the Maine Central for
some time past. General Manager Tucker is fully
satisfied with the results. A company will be
organized here next week, of which Hon. Bion
Bradbury will be president, and the manufacture
Of machines on a large scale will be at once COM
menced.
United States Marshal Harmon was in Buck
field Tuesday, and arrested j. E. Fuller of Hebron
for traffic in liquor without a United States
license Several Of the witnesses "skipped'
when they learned what was up, but the Marshal
was too much for them. He quietly left with his
prisoner for Portland, leaving behind commits
sion for deputy marshal for the occasion; and
George II. Brigham, being sworn in, took the
papers and secured enough of them for all pract-
cal purposes.