The Portland daily press., 1886-12-25
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

A merry Christmas to all.
The harbor is full of vessels waiting the
abatement of the storm.
The steamer Oregon of the Dominion line
passed Cape Race yesterday morning.
A new lodge of the Order Of the Golden
Cross will be instituted here soon.
Stockbridge's music store will be kept
open all day today.
There was heavy sea outside the harbor
yesterday and storm was evidently raging
at sea.
Manchester has been admitted to the New
England Base Ball League, having been vot-
ed in unanimously by telegraph
Webb & Gushing presented each of their
employees with a two dollar bill last eve
ming
A car load of tOboggans arrived here over
the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad yes
terdav consigned to Mr. w. w. Burnham
The services at the First Parish church
Sunday morning are to be adapted to chill
dren.
The flag on the City Building was at half
mast yesterday out of respect to the memory
of the late John Edwards.
We have received from Mr.. V. r. Foss,
general agent of the New England Mutual
Life Insurance Company, a very handsome
calendar for 1887.
The bids for dredging Portland harbor
were opened yesterday and awarded to the
National Dredging Company of Philadel-
phia at thirteen cents foot.
Last evening the members of Grimmer's
orchestra called him aside at the theatre and
presented him with an elegant copy of
Moore's Encyclopedia of Music Mr. Grim
mer appropriately responded.
gentleman was knocked down by horse
that was being speeded on Congress at the
head of State street last night. He escaped
serious injury, but this fast trotting on Con-
gress street should be stopped.
Yesterday young child of Mr.. Roscoe G.
Hilborn, who lives at No IS Howard street,
fell and received a cut between the eyes.
necessitating the services of a physician who
took three stitches in the cut
horse belonging to Scarboro man
ran away yesterday morning. At the corner
OF Centre and Pleasant streets he cleared
himself from the sleigh, which was left be-
hind smashed to pieces
heavy rain set in early last night and
increased in violence until morning. The
streets were badly washed and the sleighing
spoiled. The storm was accompanied by n
strong south wind.
Tomorrow will be Children's Sunday at
New Jerusalem church. The little people
will occupy the front seats, take part in the
Christmas service and be addressed by the
pastor on the birth of the Savior"
fhn
church tomorrow evening there will be SER
vices appropriate to Christmas. The subject
OF Rev. Mr.. Hallocks sermon will be. "Can
the religion of Christ be made clear to the
average man?"
by persons interested in the welfare of our
Chinese residents, it is requested that all
who can, will call for work intrusted to
them before five o'clock today, to better ena-
bic them to attend the Christmas services at
the Second Parish Sunday school at six
O'Clock.
The usual holiday Office hours will be OBJ
served at the Post Office today: the cash
iers office and general delivery, to a. m.
ana to p. M; carriers deliveries, a. m.
ana l.45 p. M; collections, and II a. m and
6p. M All others omitted
Rev. Henry Blanchard's lecture ON "Christ
-co-worker with Workingmen," will be civ
en- tomorrow evening in Congress Sqaure
church. Our types yesterday stated the time
as Tuesday. A cordial invitation is extend
ed to all persons interested and especially to
Knights of Labor
Ex-Alderman James Cunningham met
with an accident while returning from the
Mccarthy lecture Wednesday evening. by
falling upon the ice, and injuringh his leg SO
severely that he will be confined to his house
for three months at least, SO his physician
reports. This is the third time the same leg
has received a bad injury
M. E. Duffy, catcher, has signed to play
with the Portlands next season. Duffy was
catcher of the Columbia college team last
year and also of the Bergen Points, the am
ateur champions of New York State. He
finished the season with the Hartfords. He
is highly recommended by Tying of the Har-
wards and Stagg of the Yale base ball
team.
In order to secure necessary witnesses in
the case of the man Deputy Marshal John
son arrested yesterday for smuggling he was
obliged to make journey of eight miles over
snow drifted logging road through the
woods to logging camp where there were
some twenty men. His appearance created
CONSERVATION among the loggers, until the
marshal made his errand known.
Our esteemed morning contemporary is
still weeping at the grave of Poe. 1t is not
exactly cheerful business, especially at
Christmas time-neither is wading through
slosh in quest of locals As a choice of
evils, perhaps weeping in "Sweet Maryland"
is to be preferred. But tobogganing in
Deering is more agreeable than either, and
we can't quite understand why our esteemed
contemporary doesn't choose that, unless it
be that it is appalled, by the effort required
to walk up the hill.