The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-12-10
BRIEF JoTriNcs.

About $4,000 were realized from the Catho-
lie Cathedral fair.
The new furniture was put into the Public
Library building Saturday.
That elegant new wagon of the Merchants
Express Con- pany cost $500
The letter carriers will give ball at City
Hall New Years Eve.
There were forty arrests last week of which
twenty-four were for drunkenness.
The value of exports last week was $277,-
622.S7.
The Travelling Men will meet Saturday
evening, December 22d, to arrange details
for their dinner, December 31st.
Mr.. Atkins team has been recovered, but
the man who stole it has not yet been identi-
fed.
Mr.. Thomas Laughlin will address the
Prohibition Club this evening, at 7.30 o'clock,
at the club room.
Haskell Brothers are building steam tug
and water boat, and Quinn & Co. will make
the boiler.
At the Cromwell benefit given by the Turn
verein tonight. Master Harry Bond will as
sist in the musical part.
The Deering schools begin to-day, with the
exception of those ON Saunders street, which
will be postponed one week.
Some fishing vessels arrived in port Satur-
day morning with a small catch, not over
$4,000 pounds.
Arcana Lodge, assisted by Mrs. Adele Lib
by, elocutionist, will give an entertainment
in their hall tonight.
The first Board of Trade dinner for this
season will be held at the Falmouth hotel
next Saturday evening.
The Gospel Temperance meeting at Prohi-
bitiou Hall last evening was an interesting
one.
William jerks, employed in the stove foun-
dry had small bar of iron fall on him strik-
ing on two Of his teeth. and cutting his lower
lip badly.
Mr. Maurice Rice and Miss Lizzie Weeks
broke through the ice while skating at Deer
ing Park Saturday but escaped with a wet
ting.
The Katie /. Barrett takes from Portland
to Glen Cove, l.. l., the largest cargo of syr-
up barrels ever shipped from this port, 400
barrels.
The Sarmatian will sail Thursday after
noon for Liverpool, and the Partisan and
Sarnia are expected from Liverpool next
week.
Two teams collided ON Turkey 'sIbridge Sat-
urday. and one driven by boy named An
derson, broke its leg and Mr.. Sawyer had to
kill it.
Mr. Ira +. Clark has presented six boys of
the School for the Deaf with suit of clothes
ooh. ha Ice
the girls.
The Longfellow C. L. S. Circle will meet
this Monday evening. December 10th, with
Mrs. Fisher, corner Newbury and Church
streets.
The puppy pointer Duke of Maine, has
won the Derby stakes at Amory. Miss. j. A.
Greenleaf's of Auburn, Sancho, was defeated
by j. l. Cases Florence Gladstone.
A new arc light has been placed near the
Congress street crossing of the Maine Gen.
trail, and an incandescent light on Grove
street.
Messrs. j. Ii. Dow. Fl. G. Eastman, E. G.
Jones, j. w. Collins, George Gould, Charles
Dow and Fred Beal are the committee for
the Cadets for their annual dinner January
4th, 1889.
The James O'Neil who lately killed his
wife at Hayerhill, Mass, was formerly en-
ployed in the Portland hat factory and
boarded on Bracket street. He was danger
GUS and quarrelsome when in liquor.
An employe of the Union Commercial TEL
egraph Co. cut an electric light wire at the
First National Bank. and while trying to
piece it, the electric current melted half of
the iron in his screw driver. Luckily, the
man escaped injury.
An axle on freight car ON the Portland &
Rochester was broken, about mile this side
OF Saccarappa, Saturday. The truck frame
was demolished and the car thrown down.
The damage was slight, and trains delayed
only half an hour.
Mrs. Rebecca Dithredge, of New York,
while waiting for a train at the Union Sta
tion, occupied her spare time with walk on
the Promenade. She lost her watch and
chain. Two men found and restored the
property and she presented each of them
with a new overcoat.