The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-09-23
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

Last weeks exports were valued at $29, 459,
Steam yacht Peerless sailed Saturday morn
ing. -, ~ ,e.etn,,a
Frof. Lee has leased Union Hall for his
new gymnasium. ..stau,.
There were 40 arrests last week, of which
% were for drunkenness. o.e 9eee1
Patrick II. Welsh was arrested Saturday
on charge of larceny Of $12.
The repairs on the First National Bank
building will be completed this week.
The sun crossed the line Saturday night
and it was quite autumnal yesterday.
Parties are going about stealing the silver
plated numbers from the doors Of dwellings.
Mrs. Ann f. Fairfield. Of Franklin street,
fell while visiting in Standish and broke her
leg
Smacks b. f. Brown and General Worth
arrived Saturday with $500 live Holsters
apiece.
1t is reported that Mrs. Maybrick despairs
of obtaining any mitigation Of her sentence,
and has refused food entirely.
The ladies of Bosworth Relief Corps will
meet at the horse car station, Sept. %, at 8
O'clock, to visit Mrs. Colesworthy.
N nov ShSdnpniChb OQu EliOMc anu a
newt lodge of the New England Order of Pro-
lection will soon be instituted here.
1t is reported that syndicate will build .
big hotel on one Of the islands In the harbor
to be occupied exclusively by westerners.
A sailor named Thomas Collins stole bag
of clothes from Edward Chambers. He was
arrested and the clothes were recovered by
Officer SkilliDgs.
A trot on the Western Promenade was won
by Farrington's White Wings in 2.45. Mr..
Joseph Small's Gipsey Queen made the mile
in 2.4S.
The case of the Hebrew debtor will be
brought before the courts this week. Mr..
Abrams took the debtor from the jail on &C
count of his health.
Mr.. James A. Thurrell of Cape Elizabeth
has been awarded the contract Tor building
the waiting rooms at ferry landing at the
Cape, and will begin at once.
The Warren Fire Bucket Co. will exhibit
their Standard Fire Bucket and Universe
ExtinQuishing Compound at fire to be built
on the market lot at 2.30 p. m. today.
Mrs. Greenwood, Clark street, attempted
to lift her two year child from the floor, and
accidentally wrenched the child's arm 50 as
to break one bone and dislocat. the other.
The annual meeting of the Maine Women's
Indian Association will be held In State
street church, October 24th, when Rev. Ed
ward Everett Hale Of Boston will speak.
Two hives Of bees in the centre of one of
G. c. Shaw e. Co.'s great windows, Saturday
night, with pyramids Of bottles of golden
honey on either side, attracted much atten-
tion.
1t is reported that countryman met two
new acquaintances here on Saturday, took
drinks with them, and found himself in a
field near the Maine Central minus gold
watch and SIT. ,e
The Young Ladies' Mission Band will hold
sannual thank offering social at State street
chapel this evening at 7.45 o'clock. Miss
Susie Tyler, recently returned from South
Africa, will tell Of her work among the
Zulus.
A large photograph of Ex-Secretary Of
State Bayard, handsomely framed. may be
seen 10 the window of Roche's art store on
Congress street 1t was presented to Hon.
w. L. Putnam by Mr.. Bayard. 1t will be on
exhibition until tomorrow.
Hereafter no tickets will be sold by the
Boston and Maine railroad to Cinnamon to
points in Canada, or to points in the United
States by any route requiring the passenger
to go through Canada. This rule is made
necessary ON account of national Legislation
regarding Chinese immigration, and must be
strictly observed