The Portland daily press., 1889-01-21
BRIEF JorTlNos.

Schooner Matte Dyer arrived Saturday
with 10000 weight of fish.
The exports for last week amounted in val
ne to $685., 1882.
The Portland Company are making repairs
on steamers Richmond and Lille.
DIR. Whitaker, treasurer of the Methodist
Minister'S Relief. has paid $4,000 to their
widows the past year.
The annual meeting of the Portland Rail-
road Company will be held this afternoon.
The Grattan Literary Association will in
augurate series of assemblies at Gilberts
Hall, next Wednesday evening.
The new armory of the Blues on Plum
street will be open to the public for inspec-
tion this afternoon.
There were IS deaths from diptheria, IL
from Group, aid 43 from pneumonia in Port
land the past year.
Whole number of arrests made during the
week was 43; DRINKS, IT. There were SIX
dodgers Saturday night
Bosworth Post, No. 2. G. A. e.. has spent
81. 065.33 the'past year for the relief OF SOL
diers. widows aud orphans outside the order.
The steam shovel is doing good work on
the Ogdensburg extension. excavating about
eight hundred dump-car loads Of earth per
week.
Next Thursday evening the grand hop by
the Argonauts comes off at City Hall. A
grand good time is guaranteed to all those
who are fortunate enough TO attend.
The adjourned ting of the advocates of
a steamboat line between Portland and Au-
mill fob a Mo hn ntc Nv
change, at IL a. M. to-day.
Two new incandescent lights have been
placed In the train shed at the Union Station
for the better accommodation of passengers
and hackmen.
Saturday was the coolest day for long
time. There was stiff north wind which
knocked the mercury down to 50. Sunday
was bright and clear.
John G. Mitchell. better known as ''Scis.
sors" Mitchell, pitcher of last years Port
lands. has been signed by Harry Wright fol
the Philadelphia.
A nmbuer of the friends of Sheriff Wor-
NELL of Bethel, twenty-five in all, gave him
an elegant dinner at the Ocean House, Fri
day evening.
G. C. Gerrish & Co., of B snton Falls, will
pay seventy cents on the dollar on e xtended
time ON large liabilities and sixty-seven cents
cash on small accounts.
Friday evening, January 18th, is the 130th
anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, the
poet, and the ladies of the New Jerusalem
church will celebrate the event.
Burglars: broke into the Maine ICentral
depot at Cumberland Mills, on Friday night
but only secured fifty cents for their trouble
The safe was not meddled with.
The Portland Paint and Oil Club held its
monthly meeting and supper at the Falmouth
Hotel Saturday evening. There was full
attendance Of members and good supper
was enjoyed.
Mr.. Benjamin Wade, employed in the paint
shop of Gray Il Son, was presented with a
silver watch and chain Saturday. The gift
came from his fellow workmen, and is highly
appreciated by the recipient.
THE regular meeting of the Portland Socie-
ty of Natural History occurs this evening al
seven o'clock. Dr.Wood will read paper on
"Sago Palms. their products and relations
other families of the vegetable kingdom.
The Maine Central Company's new build
ing is lathed, and Messrs. Kelly, Ward and
Devine will do the plastering. The steam
piping will be done by the Portsmouth Ma
chine Co., and the plumbing by Lewiston
parties.
Mr.. B. f. Harris, of Harris, Gage & Tolmar
was presented by the employees of the firm
Saturday, with an elegant gold headed cane
The stick was made from the w.od of the old
English Frigate Somerset, wrecked off Cape
Cod, In I77S
st. Adams Commandery will go on their
Southern trip October 3rd. They will go via
Worcester and New London, visit Gettys-
burg and the Lurray Caves, pass four days
In Washington at the Arlington Hotel, at.
tending the Grand Encampment of Knights
Templar, returning the following Saturday
The Atlantic base ball club OF this city are
laying out a plan for next seasons work. II
they do not get into the Maine league they
will play two or three games each week in
Maine and New Hampshire. They purchased
the suits of the late Portlands and are full,
equipped.
The matter of forming base ball league
was favorably talked over by those present
at the meeting at Lewiston, Friday. There
were representatives from Portland, Angus
ia, Bath, Waterville. Lewiston, Cumberland
Mills and South Portland. The league will
probably be formed. Another meeting will
be held some time in February.
The cost of moving the marble statue, the
pearl Diver" from Buffalo to Portland ant
placing it In the Baxter building where il
now stands, was nearly hundred dollars
This sum has been paid by Mrs. r. H. Tur
ner. who is the sculptor's niece. Mrs. Tur
ner and her sister, Miss Avonia Hill, are tht
only relatives of Paul Akers, now living in
Oakland