The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-07-03
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

Muggy and sticky yesterday
st. Stephens church Is to be refrescoed
and recarpeted.
Mr.. Lewis Littlejohn received bad hit in
the eye Monday by the falling of trunk.
There is fine photograph Of the Hotel
Ponce De Leon, at 81. Augustine, Fla, In
Loring, Short & Harmon's window.
The usual gospel Temperance meeting vii
be held at the Mission this evening at 7.45
O'Clock. All are invited.
Thirty three out Of the sixty-three X. OF p.
lodges in this State have responded to the
call for aid for the Johnst0wn sufferers, ag-
gregating about $3.50 all told.
c. A. Chase's delivery wagon came to grief
In Longfeliow square yesterday forenoon by
breaking the forward axle in the horse car
track. Nobody hurt.
There will be So rooms on the hurricane
deck and 16S below OF the new Portland
steamer or 514 berths in all. The finish in the
staterooms is cherry.
A lad named Darrah was bitten about the
head and through the hand by dog. near the
corner of Fore and Exchange streets Mon
day night. 20
The well known fiye-master, Gov Ames.
from this port, was spoken June l, three de-
grees south of the Equator. and is supposed
to have since reached Buenos Ayres.
The total quantity of seized liquor spilled
yesterday was 81 whole barrels, 10 dozen
lager beer bottles, % quarts, 8 pints. 10 jugs,
tub, water pals and s'sprinklers.
Mr.. Eugene c. Williams, of No. 1893 New
bury street. received severe fall from BIZ
cycle he was riding Monday evening and
fractured the bone OF his leg just above the
ankle.
The Women's Christian Temperance Un.
ion desires to thank its friends for supplies
and labor furnished for the restaurant held
during the Friends Yearly Meeting. The net
receipts were $lSS.51.
All the hotels in the city and at the islands
have been supplied with neat boxes contain
ing handy samples of the celebrated Carter's
Inks. which are being furnished by Hall L.
Davis, the Exchange street stationer.
The trustees Of the Eastern Railroad have
exhausted their funds for buying certificates
of indebtedness, and will not make further
purchases till payments for the year ending
September 1890. are made.
The graduating class of the Butler school
went to Long island yesterday. the West
Congregations! Sunday school to Great Che
beague and the Prebe Chapel Sunday school
to Sebago Lake. soH
The First Free Baptist Sunday school, Ply
mouth, will go on their annual picnic to
Mariners Landing, Long Island. Thursday,
July 18th, leaving the city at a. IN. by the
Casco Bay Steamboat line
a young man named Mediums fell in fit
I'm EnuuraSe ctraat yactar1ov forenoon UIa
was standing on jgger riding up toward
Munjoy Ill., when, just before reaching
Mountford street hef fell off striking his
head against the paving stones and inflicting
an ugly wound In the scalp. "t ~
Assistant Adiutant General Edwin c. Mil
liken left for Milwaukee yesterday forenoon
TO perfect arrangements for the reception of
the comrades from this Stat, and they will
be cared for by having fifteen rooms in the
Kirby ilouse reserved for them.
Mond,y night two men tried to e,it,r Nul-
toms grocery store corner of 0xfc:i and
Stone streets. They succeeded in cutting out
pane Of glass when the noise awoke Mr..
Foden, who lives near. lie went to the win
dow and called out at them and they left
The Second Advent Church, Sunday
School and Society, will 60 on their annual
picnic to Cushing's Island next Saturday.
The steamer leaves Long wharf, foot of Ex
change street at o'clock. AS the steamers
run about every hour during the day those
who desire can go on later trip.
Who says the dog is not an intelligent
newspaper animal? Hardly had
yesterdays issue of the PRESS gone out to
the public when gentleman, uptown, saw a
red setter dog chase Il sparrow across the
street catch him and chew him up feathers
and all.