The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-30
BRIEF JoTTINCs.

There were 40 arrests last week, of which
21 were for drunkenness.
Mr.. Andrew Cross owns a razor, once the
property of the poet Burns.
Portland harbor is the only harbor on the
New England coast entirely free from ice.
The Grand Trunk snow pillow cleared Com
mercial street Saturday.
Burns's bake cart tipped over Saturday.
and bread, pastry and cake were scattered
all over the streets.
Marshal Booth was warmly welcomed at
the Salvation Army barracks Saturday even
ing.
The Longfellow G. L. S. C. will meet this
evening with Miss Flora Berry, GA Free
street. A full attendance is requested.
An ice cart and coal team collided in
front of the Falmouth Hotel Saturday, and
the coal cart was smashed.
There were 1922 feet of spruce lumber
and 1894 oak shocks exported last week.
There were no imports.
George Atkins, who lives on Paris street.
slipped on the ice Saturday and sprained his
leg
The Board of Trade dinner will take place
as soon as the members of the committee
have all returned to town.
William Fogg, of Pleasant Hill, Scarboro,
had two stacks of hay stolen from him last
week.
While the Winthrop is being repaired, the
Franconia will take her place on the New
York line.
Quinn & Co. are building Acton boiler,
and the Portland Company surface con-
dansar for fhe New Brunswick
The Presumpscot Advertiser is the name
of a new Journal edited by Jackson & Du-
rell of Cumberland Mills.
Bosworth Relief Corps will give an enter
tainment in Grand Army Hall, Thursday
evening, consisting of vocal and instrument
al music.
The total eclipse of the moon came off ac-
cording to programme Saturday night. Few
people fingered on the streets, however, to
watch the observation.
The exercises at the fifth anniversary of
Shepley Camp, s. of ", Wednesday even
ing, will include banquet speeches. and
miscellaneous entertainment
The horse belonging to W. III. Saunders,
ran away on the Deering road Saturday.
throwing the occupants from the sleigh, but
doing no damage.
Bramhall Pythian Circle will meet Jan.
Both and Feb. 9th, at s o'clock p. m, at SO
Chestnut street, corner Of Oxford. A full
attendance of members and those entitled to
membership is requested
The annual meeting of the Woman's Aux
iliary to the Y. M. c. A., for the purpose of
electing officers, etc., and the transaction of
whatever other business may come before
them, will be held this afternoon at o'clock
A full attendance of the Auxiliary is desired.
The weather Saturday night and yester-
day morning was bitterly cold. At a. m.
yesterday, .Senter's thermometer registered
11o below zero, and at a. m. the mercury
varied from 50 to 200 below, in different parts
of Portland.
A Portland gentleman offered to pay the
500 necessary to secure the admittance of
an old lady to the Aged Women's Home, if
she would collect million cancelled postage
stamps. She has secured them, and the gen.
tleman has paid the $780,
The alarm from box 513 Saturday morning
was for small fire in Frank G. Johnstons
house, No. 1859 Cumberland street. The fire
caught in closet in some unknown way. 1t
was extinguished with few pals of water.
and the damage will not amount to more
than $50. The loss is covered by insurance.
The Boston & Maine Railroad Company
has issued orders that all wheels on through
trains be hereafter tested at Salem, which is
a new move. The order went into effect on
Wednesday evening, and one Of the first
good results was the detection of a cracked
wheel ON the smoker of the Flying Yankee.
The car was at once side-tracked and anoth-
er substituted.