The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-05-28
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

Saturday was a fine day. The threatened
storm failed to materialize.
The fountain in Deering Park was started
up Saturday
There were thirty-four arrests last week,
of which twenty-four were for drunkenness.
The Commercial Telegraph Co. will soon
open an office in Portland.
1t was the Clinical, not Clerical, Club, that
dined at the Preble Friday night.
The Longfellow G. L. S. Circle will meet
this evening at Chestnut street vestry Quo
tations from flowers.
The members of the Cumberland bar will
close their Offices at o'clock every afternoon
from June to September l.
The schooner John Fl. Kennedy came in
Saturday with 10000 pounds of cod and had
dock, and few small boats also came in.
Mr.. John Evans, agent of the Great East
ern Fast Freight. was presented with an ele-
CANT Knight Templar charm Saturday.
The Portland Reform Club is out of debt,
and the event will be duly celebrated tomor-
row evening.
The monthly meeting of the Art Society
will be held Wednesday evening next at 8
o'clock.
Many Of the cottagers are moving into their
houses On Cushings Island. Another arte-
sian well has been sunk.
While the boilers were being repaired the
Portland Company closed its works Satur-
day.
Burnham & Merrill have leased a large
BURBERRY canning factory at Harrington.
They will can several thousand cases of
blueberries.
A horse belonging to Mr.. Wright, of Milk
street. fell down on Moulton street, Satur-
day, breaking the shaft and throwing the
driver off his seat, injuring him slightly.
The store in the Bethel building is being
fitted up for the u. S. recruiting Office which
is to be removed from its present quarters on
Exchange street.
Assistant Adjutant General 4. c. Milliken,
Department of Maine, G. A. R., will muster
a new post, No. I51, at Lowell Centre this
afternoon.
A water pipe burst in the basement of
Duncan Bros store on Commercial street
yesterday, but Officer Skillings was there
and shut it off before much damage was DONE
Henry Russell has been awarded the con-
tract to put up tower clock at Bar Harbor,
similar in style to the one on the First Ma
tional Bank building in this city.
The imports last week were 5000 railway
ties, 1,453 cases canned Holsters, 1900 feet
spruce boards, 1,426 hhds., 1877 tcs., 16 bbls.
molasses. Exports, 800 brrrels.
A small boy who was playing on Holyoke
wharf, Saturday, fell overheard and Mr.. w.
p. Larkin. Jr., pulled him out more wet than
hurt.
A reception to the professional and ANA
teur artists of Portland will be given Wed
nesday evening from to 10 o'clock at the
club house of the Portland Society of Art.
The Boston g. Maine railroad has offered,
through the kindness of Mr.. Flanders, to
take the Primary Fraternity boys to Old Or
chard Beach next Saturday.
lot of land at Underwood, Falmouth |
Foreside, is to be made the subject of litiga- |
ton. 1t has been claimed by Captain Fred |
Stackpole, formerly of Thomaston, but now |
residing in the West.
l.. A. Gray chartered the steamer Gordon, |
Saturday, and took about fifty Of his students |
on a sail to Harpswell, The College Band |
played number of selections and the trip |
was most enjoyable one
By the breaking of an axle Mr.. j. L. Best
and Mr.. Samuel Harrington were thrown
from carriage Saturday. Mr.. Harrington |
stopped the morse before either gentleman |
was hurt.
There will be special sale of trimmed hats
and bonnets at John E. Palmer's, 5S4 Con-
gress street, on Tuesday evening. The ad-
vertissment states that rare bargains will be
offered on that evening
The Young Peoples Christian Workers
will give party members only at the vestry
of the Church Of the Messiah next Wednes-
day evening. A business meeting will be
held this evening in the vestry.
In the window of Eastman Brothers store |
Saturday was displayed an immense Pomelo |
orange which was raised on tree in the |
orchard owned by them in Plymouth, Flori |
da. The fruit measures IS inches in circum- |
ference, and weighs q pounds.
The organ presented to BSwdoin College |
by Mr.. and Mrs. G. c. Stevens, of Boston,
was dedicated in Kings Chapel, Brunswick, |
Saturday. by a concert by Mr.. III. Kotz-
SEMINAR, organist, Mr.. Will Stockbridge,
tenor, and the College Glee Club.
George q. Gordon has been selling rugs for
Mr. >. a. llsley, manager of the Metropolitan
Manufacturing Co. Mr.. llsley reported
Gordon as having sold lot of goods and
skipped to Boston with the proceeds, where he
was arrested. Deputy Marshal Merrill went
after him and brought him back to Portland.
A lady residing on Hampshire street re-
Gently found, among some debris, three cop
per coins attached to brass chain. One was
IN English coin, J farthing piece dated
1866. The others were also foreign coins. one
arge and the other small, of the same design,
and both bore the likeness Of King George
II. and were dated 1885,