The Portland daily press., 1888-11-19
BRIEF Jorruncs.

The fifteen law students of this city will
reorganize the Law Club.
There were SO arrests last week Of which
% were for drunkenness.
There have been &c rainy, cloudy and is
pleasant Saturdays this year.
And now there is talk of forming still an
other lodge of Odd Fellows.
Hadattah Lodge will visit Norway Lodge
Tuesday evening.
DIR. Lunt Is building house on Verandah
street. and Mr.. H. Humphrey will build on
Main street, Deering.
At Owen, Moore & Co.'s can be seen a
table cover made in Bulgaria two hundred
years ago.
Tonight DR.. Beardsley will lecture in Con-
gress Hall. This win be special lecture to
gentlemen only.
Ten young girls met at 125 Emery street,
Saturday, and formed another society of
Kings Daughters.
The Portland Company will deliver two
more engines to the Boston & Maine road
this week.
The Portland Glee Club visited Mrs. r. t.
Little at Gorham, Friday night, and gave a
pleasant Entertainment.
Gates are being put up at the crossings on
Main and Windham streets, Cumberland
Mills by the Portland & Rochester road.
The market was very bare of fresh fish
last week. Saturday. the Ella M. Doughty
Drought In 5000 pounds Of cod and paddock.
The Veteran Association Of the Blues will
hold their adjourned meeting tonight and
the honorary members will hold meeting.
The streets looked decidedly winterish
Saturday morning with the branches of the
trees covered with snow. Yesterday the
mercury dropped to 1so att o.. IN.
Mr.. David Lynn, the young man who was
recently badly wounded by firing revolver
into box of cartridges. died from blood
poisoning Friday night.
The Young Mems Republican Club are
talking Of giving a grand banquet at the
Falmouth Hotel, with speeches by prominent
men.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hoogly. who passed
through Portland to New Brunswick on Sat-
urday, had eight children with them. Six OF
the children formed three pairs of twins.
young man named Blood was acciden-
tally struck on the head while working Sat-
urday on the new hotel near the Union Sta
ton and badly hurt.
The Indurated Fibre Co. are negotiating
for the purchase of Whitney's Falls, North
Gorham, and bounding land on both sides of
the river for quite distance.
The regular monthly meeting and dinner
OF the Paint and Oil Club took place at the
Preble House Saturday night. The club will
join the National Association.
By the breaking dewn Of Alonzo Knights
carriage on India street, Miss Florence
Knight was badly bruised. and Mr.. knight
dragged quite distance aud bruised.
A I'VE year old boy named Johnnie Smith,
who lives on Wilson street, fell from the ell
Of the house, distance of fifteen feet, Sat
urday. and was badly hurt but no bones were
broken.
The Portland Society of Natural History
VIII resume its meetings for the winter this
evening at 7.45 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Hill will
read paper upon the illusions of Sensa-
tion."
Our climate is delightful. Mr.. Dennis
picked three ripe raspberries in his yard on
Cumberland street, one morning, and the
water had frozen, making Ice half an inch
thick the next.
Cora e. Mclaughlin, of Togus, was
brought to Portland by U. S. Marshal An
drews Saturday morning, and appeared be-
fore the United States Court on the charge
OF selling liquor without license. She was
fined SOS.
The winter time table Of the Spring street
horse cars will 20 into effect TODAY. The
Vaughan street trips will be discontinued.
all cars starting from the corner of Bowdoin
and Neal streets After s o'clock In the
evening the Post Office will be the eastern
terminus.
The Boston & Maine surveyors Saturday
were making surveys for the erection Of
storehouses and oil tanks on the line Of the
western division of the Boston & Maine in
the outskirts of Biddeford for the Portland
Kerosene Oil works. Large tanks will be
put in to supply dealers between Portland
and Boston,