The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-25
BRIEF JorTINcs.

There were % arrests last week, of which
10 were for drunkenness.
The Sarmatian, of the Allan line, will be
due tomorrow
Bosworth Post will hold a campfire Fri
day evening.
Steamer No. 3, and other parties, have con-
tributed $67 for the relief of the mother of a
ormer member. A generous act.
A meeting of the Maine Veteran Associa-
ton will be held in the Grand Army Hall in
Boston shortly.
The Willis Chautauqua Circle will meet
this evening with Mr.. Fred Eastman, No. 81
Emery street.
The Advertiser Saturday, had a very anus
ing draft of proposed ordinance on skat-
ing Kinks.
The funeral of the late H. d. Hadlock, Jr,
took place from the Falmouth Hotel yester-
day afternoon, Bishop Nicely officiating.
Steamer LongfelloW arrived here Saturday
morning. and will leave Tuesday evening
for Macbias
DR.. Sarah W. Deyoll will lecture on ''Spe-
cial Physiology to ladies at High street
church vestry at 4.3O p. m. today.
The Portland Company are building lot
of tanks for the Cumberland paper mill, two.
of them being 12x6a feet.
The value of foreign exports last week
was $4O9, 1922. There were COS, 73S feet of
long lumber exported.
The booksellers vii, close their stores this
afternoon, between the hours of and 8
o'clock, to attend the funeral Of the late Ed
mund S. Hoyt
Dunlap Commandery, Knights Templar, of
Bath next Tuesday evening, will have as
guests the Maine Commandery of Gardiner,
and Knights from Portland and Bangor
The Longfellow Chautauqua Circle will
meet Monday evening, at 7.45 o'clock, at the
residence of Mr.. Warren Cole, 800 Cumber-
land street.
A ship owners petition to Congress for
the revival of cooperage, has been numerous
ly signed here and it is said that every Com
mercial street firm is represented ON the gen.
eral petition
A meeting of the Young Womans Chris
tian Temperance Union will be held at 81
Exchange street this afternoon, at o'clock.
All young ladies are most cordially invited
to be present
The Mayor and Aldermen will give hear
ing to all persons interested in the matter of
keeping the tracks of the street railroad free
from snow, next Wednesday evening, at 7.3O
O'Clock.
Saturday afternoon, about 525 o'clock,
there was brilliant flash of lightning no.
ticed by many of our citizens. Its effect in
the telephone Office was to throw down all
the annunciators, and the flash was very dis
tinct there.
Friday night, two Deering men in sleigh,
had dispute with two Portland men III
sleigh about the right of way, on Green
street The Portlanders chased the Deerlng
men, and fired three shots from revolver at
them.
In the window of j. I. Stubs art store,
on Congress square, is exhibited fine crayon
photograph Of ex-Collector Fred N. Dow,
which will be placed in the custom house.
The picture was taken by Hearn, and hand
somely framed by Mr.. Stubs.
A Portland firm has gone into the manu-
facturs of new barrels for apples. The firm
buy the stock for the barrels in Ohio, the
slaves, heads and hoops shaped and all put
together. the hoops and slaves of elm, and
LDe U6duS VI DdSo. he barrels cost % cents
each.
A man raised disturbance at the Saliva
ton Army meeting last evening, and Officers
Warren and Merrill were called in. The
fellow objected strongly to going with the
officers but was locked up, and will go be-
fore the court Tuesday morning.
All the members of the Woman's Auxiliary
to the Young Mems Christian Association
are requested to be present at the annual
meeting of the Auxiliary, to be held this af-
ternoon. at o'clock, in the hall of the asso-
citation. The executive committee will meet
half hour earlier.
There were several runaways Saturday :
one an American Express Company team
and two on Congress street The sleighs
were overturned, but no one was hurt. A
horse attached to sleigh overturned the
sleigh ON Green street and spilled the occu-
pants, three young ladies. He was caught at
the Portland House.