The Portland daily press., 1888-11-22
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

The stone steps of the postoffce and City
Hall buildings are covered with boards.
The steamer S. E. Spring was sold at auc-
tion to Fl. ID. Quimby for $3.50.
The schooner Abbie M. Deering. Captain
Coffin. arrived yesterday from the Western
Banks with 5000 pounds of halibut
A neat iron top rail has been added in
front of the deputy marshaps desks at the
police station.
A part Of the thing on the floor of the low
or hallway in the City Building has been
taken up and relaid.
William White of Ward /, has passed at
the physical examination before the Police
Examining Board.
The Samaritan Association will meet with
Mrs. Sweetsir, 331 Congress street, this af
ternoon.
The revenue cutter Woodbury. arrived at
Portland Tuesday from Eastport making
the run quicker than she ever made it before.
The Thatcher Relief Corps yesterday con-.
tributed 500 in cash to the Soldiers Monu-
ment Association. w. ssas
Harry Brown is painting from photo
graph picture of Wolverstone church, Eng
land, for Rev. DR.. Dalton, whose grandfath-
er preached in that church. Tsr
A man named Judelson reported at the po-
lice station that two dogs belonging to Mr..
Feeney, on Chatham street, bit him yester-
day morning. ,@
Yesterday morning was remarkably cold
for November. the mercury ranging from 90
to 100 above zero at 7 a. m In different parts
Of the city.
Every member of the Portland Light In
fantry is requested to meet at the armory on
Plum street tonight Business of import
ance.
Young Mems meeting this evening at Y.
III. G. A. Hall, at 7.30 O'clock Leader, Mr..
G. N. Dinsmore. Subject, "The Christians
Responsibilities" All young men are cor
daily invited to attend.
The Portland Transcript says: 1.-THE
guns referred to by DIR. Holmes were not
muskets, but cannon. For he suggested the
possibility that they were used as posts at
corners of the streets of Portland"
viii members Of the Young Mems Repub-
-iican Club and others who have not returned
the bells used by them at the Republican
celebration, please return themqat once to
Mr.. w. S. Corey, at No. 1877 Commercial
street. aA sg4Aer r.
Three newsboys got into scuffle on Con-
gress street yesterday morning and one of.
them threw stone which. accidentally, went,
through large pane of plate glass in L. A.
Gould's window. The cost Of the glass was
S75
DR.. Beardsley will deliver a series of lee
lures on practical Physiology" in the Con-
gress street Methodist Episcopal church.
The opening lecture will be on Thursday
evening. This will be an excellent opportu-
nifty for those to hear him who have not at
tended the series just closed in Congress
Hall.
Yesterday forenoon the long line of shaft
ing In Lidback's machine shop came down,
falling on the lathes and other machinery.
doing considerable damage. The accident
was caused by belt catching on the coup
ling. Mr.. Lidback had narrow escape
from instant death, as he was standing near
ly on the spot where the shaft struck. The
damage will be about $500.
Rev. ii. s. Burrage has received the fol-
lowing contributions for the Baptist free bed
in the Maine General Hospital: Free street
church. Portland, $SO.7S; Mrs. G. c.
Knowles, Corinna, 80; baptist church and
Sunday School, Dexter, 1915; Moses Gid
dlngs, Bangor. $40; Baptist church, Fairfield.
81. There have been SO many applications
for the bed this year that three free beds
would not have met the demand. DIR. Bur
rage says in this weeks Advocate, "Can we
not have at least two free beds next year?v