The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-10-08
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

The adjourned monthly meeting of the
City Government will take place tonight.
The roadway at Custom House wharf has
been much improved.
Today the Prohibition State Committee
will meet at Auburn.
Fifty more Italians left for New York on
Saturday.
The new iron and enamel street signs will
be placed in position this week.
Mr.. Allen Frazier. 16O Federal street,
fell and broke his leg.
Greenleaf Royal Arch Chapter of Free and
Accepted Masons has lost twelve members
by death since January LIST.
Out Of the last 65 days, rain fell on AZ.
Since July there has not been an entire week
of pleasant weather.
Fassett d Tompson have made plans for
the remodelling of No. Us house, so as to ad-
NIT Eagle hook and ladder truck.
John Lannon, employed at the Rolling
Mills, had his left eye badly burned by mol
ten lead Saturday.
The funeral of Seargent James e. Flaherty
OF the Montgomery Guards, was postponed
from yesterday until today at D. m.
Casco steamer No. was returned to duty
from the Portland Company Saturday, and
the spare engine goes to No. As house.
The ladies of the First Parish have Sc
cured vestry rooms over f. B. Clark's on
Congress street.
The Dallas has been moved to Central
wharf and is all ready for her trial trip. She
will go into commission November 1st
There were 5000 pounds of halibut brought
in SATURDAY. nd fhot oil fba al
reported.
The ladies of the Cathedral of the Immac-
ulate Conception will give a grand fair at
Kavanagh Hall the last two weeks in No
vember.
The cabbage crop at Cape Elizabeth will
be larger this year than ever before. 1t is
estimated that there was between five and
six thousand tons raised the past season.
Harper's Weekly gives fine cut of the
Longfellow statue taken from a photograph
made in Rome. The PRESS cut was also
made from copy of the same photograph.
The grand promenade concert advertised
to be given by the Republican Battalion at
City Hall tomorrow evening" has been post
poned to time to be mentioned hereafter.
The railroad companies are busy weighing
the mails to decide on the basis of remunera-
tlon for carrying them for the next four
years. The government also weighs the
mails.
There were 80 arrests last week, of which
"a were for drunkenness, and a man
was brought in for alleged malicious mis-
chief peeIing into windows on Danforth
street.
The Portland Company has nearly COM
pleted the ten large steel tanks for the Cum
berland Mills. Each tank is eight by twenty
feet square and win hold 10000 gallons of
liquor used for the pulp.
We were misinformed as to the parties
who furnished the clambake at the Mont
gomery and Meagher Guards excursion to
Long Island on Friday. 1t was Mitchell &
Gushing, not Fletcher g. Littlefield.
Work on the addition to the Casco Engine
House will progress very slowly for some
time to come. In order to excavate for the
cellar 1t has been found necessary to remove
large amount Of solid ledge, covering about
half the area Of the cellar.
The chemical laboratory at the High
School has been remodelled In accordance
with the system of study on which the new
text book in Chemistry is based. There are
16 working cupboards, IA wash bowls. indi-
vidual apparatus for class of 16 scholars
and desk apparatus for the 16 tables.
The Franklin Canning Company of this
city, have just finished the erection of a
large canning establishment IN Strong. The
main factory is 150x30 feet, and is conve-
niently located alongside the railroad track.
The building containing the cut room boiler
house and bath rooms occupy another build
ing 140 feet long.
Mr.. August G. Schlotterbeck has bought
the A. M. Wentworth jewelry stock and fix
lures of Byron d. Verrill, assignee of Mr..
Wentworth, and will continue the business
in its various branches at the old stand UNI
der the firm name Of Wentworth & Co. Mr..
A. M. Wentworth will continue in charge OF
the store.