The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23
BRIEF JoTTiNCS.

Additional hot air pipes were put in the
High school building Saturday.
The new road scraper of the Horse Rail-
road Company did effective work Saturday.
Twelve new members have Joined the Turn
verein.
Capt. Long had Henry Kane arrested for
stealing barrels on Long wharf Saturday.
A lady friend of the Argonauts has pre-
sented the club with an elegant lambrequin.
The meeting of the Longfellow c. L. S. G
has been postponed one week.
There were q arrests last week Of which
20 were for drunkenness.
The steamers of the Portland Steam Packet
Company win leave Boston at 6 p. m. instead
of p. m. after February 1st.
Michael Bennett, an employe of the Roll
ing Mills, had finger caught between two
rails and it had to be amputated.
1t is unoffcially announced that the ocean
steamship business from this port will be re-
sumed February 10th.
Sixteen posts have been erected in Deering
on the highways and cross roads, and proper
sign boards placed thereon.
Chief Engineer Cloyes shot bald headed
eagle at Scarboro that measured feet
inches from tip to tip of his wings.
Tonight the P. II. S. class of 81, and on
Wednesday night the Cumberland Bar, will
dine at the Falmouth Hotel.
BY an overflow from a faucet in Union
Hall Saturday, the ceilings in the stores be-
low were damaged.
The entire harbor above Bug light, was
frozen over yesterday for the first time this
winter.
The Clark & Chaplin Ice Company had
pay roll Saturday of $500. They are fast
filling their ice houses.
Some inhupa6 person covered dog with
kerosene OH Friday night, on Howard street,
and set the oil on fire.
The crew of the schooner Matte T. Dyer
got $40 a piece for their large part of fish
Saturday. Some of them then got drunk and
quarrelsome, and were pulled in.
Shippers and receivers are now signing
petition to tie Grand Trunk for warm
freight car to be run between this city and
Island Pond once week.
Capt. Geo. H. Abbott, inspector on the
staff of the commander-in-chief has been pre-
sented an appropriate badge by Bosworth
Post.
Rev. A. J. Swarts, the editor of the Men
tai Science Magazine, will give pointed lee
ture in Christian Science at Room 6. Browns
Block, Thursday. at $50 p m.
Capt. A. j. Pettingill and A. ID. York have
purchased the A. M. Smith. fishing planet,
and will conduct it under the name of A. j.
Pettingill & Co., with A. NJ. Smith as mana
ger.
Some time during Friday night burglars
broke pane of glass in the front window Of
Johnson s. Lambert's store on Wilmot street
and entering the store stole $40 worth Of CT
gars.
There were 5000 bushels of potatoes i'm
ported last week, and the exports were 1873
empty hogsheads, 166 packages of fish, 1925
clapboards, $4,000 shingles, 46,695 feet of
lumber, and $3.50 shook and heads.
Webb g. Gushing, the shoe manufacturers,
have purchased W. d. Sawyer's factory, and
Messrs. w. f. Dresser, Albert Pennell,
Charles Galley, and Charles Allen will start
a cooperative factory on Plum street.
Tho ferry boat Cornela III. broke her rud-
der ON one Of her trips Saturday morning
and was laid up for repairs the greater part
of the day. Her place on the line was sup
piled by tug boat.
Mr.. George Gowan, the carpenter, was
taken with chills Saturday, while working
on Mr.. Baxter's new house on Mackworth's
Island, and was taken home in dory by his
fellow workmen. 1t took two hours to get
the boat through the ice.
The Paint and Oil Club dined at the Preble
House Saturday evening and entertained Mr..
j. w. Sherer of Power & Weightman, Phila-
delphia, President j. I'll. Dow Of the Com
mercial Travellers Association, and G. W.
Thompson.
Saturday and Sunday were the mort trying
days of the winter. The wind blew from
the northwest on Saturday and the mercury
didn't rise above 70 during the day Both
days were very clear and bright, but the
mercury ran from 60 to 100 below zero yes
terday morning. At a. m. 1t had run up to
lac above.
Boston g. Maine was stiff at 210 Saturday.
1t is claimed that the Maine Central people
know of no conference to be held in relation
to lease of the Portland & Ogdensburg
road. They admit that the matter has been
talked over informally, but assert that no ac-
ton is likely to De taken, for the present at
least