The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-11-26
Brief JOTTiNCS.

NAohuy yoSecIudys anu udtnp.
Services will be held in st. Paups church,
Thanksgiving day, at 1890 a. m.
The bankers and brokers will have BAN
quet at the Preble House next Monday eve
ming.
The Transcript is having. its counting
room torn to pieces, and a new front will be
putin. f- -~
The Street Commissioner is laying cross
walks on Congress street, at the head Of
Merrill.
The inspection Of the Ladies' Aid Society
Of Shepley Camp, S. of ", TOOK place last
evening.
Mr.. Robert Robinson, of Bolster, Snow g.
Co.. had had badly jammed Saturday, by a
heavy case falling upon it.
Bosworth Post will give fifty turkeys and
"fxins" to widows and orphans of members
OF the Post on Thanksgiving day.
Yesterday. the Lakeside Press began to
move from Auburn to Portland. The NOV
ing will occupy about ten days.
The rolling mills are employing 125 men,
with a monthly payroll of $4,000, and pro-
duce daily 100 gross tons of iron.
The First Parish coffee party will be given
~ NASNAsc AnAi tuuiUIEOW uiBut. llCktLS
can be- procured at Woodward's music store.
A very pleasant reception was given to
Rev. Mr.. Merriam, the pastor-elect ST Will
Hston church, at the church parlors last eve
ming dF
Martin W. Best, the Free street market
mag, has taken a contract to furnish 5000
Thanksgiving turkeys to persons In Cum
berand Mills. #
The Fraternity Cadets gave fine drill at
City Hall, IN aid Of st Dominic fair, last
night. Tonight the Cecilia Quar:ette Will
sing. ,. t.at'.
Civil service examinations for department
al service at Washington and the railway
mail seTyice will be held here May 21st and
Sept. 25th, 1890.
The. steamer Empress, which has been
bought by l.. E. Lunt. is rapidly being dis
manted for the sake of the old iron and
copper which she contains.
Mr.. Lane Of Gorham, while turning his
team around on CONGRESS street, was run in
to by an approaching horse car, and the for
ward wheel of his team broken yesterday
noon.
A fine illustration of the "Birches," the
new. cottage on Cushing's Island, designed
cy Fassett d Tompson, appears in the No
vember number of the Inland Architect Of
Chicago,
United States Marshal Harmon seized the
schooner Joe in this harbor yesterday after.
noon, on libel for damages sustained in
collision. The libellants are William O.
Perry of Millbridge and others.
fleet of over 200 sailing vessels was in
the harbor yesterday, wind bound. Some of
the vessels have been In ten days or two
weeks, and their masters are beginning to
wonder where they are to eat their Thanks
giving dinners.
Rev. Henry Blanchard will deliver the
:. third OF his historical lectures this evening,
;7.so O'clock, in the vestry of the Congress
square church. Subject: "Christopher Co.
lumbus." All persons interested are cor
daily invited to attend.
special car will leave Geo. c. Frye's
apothecaiy store. corner of Franklin and
Congress streets, this evening, at 7.45 o'clock.
Philip Flynn, Waterman st the Grand
Trunk, last evening rescued an intoxicated
coal HEAVIER from the dock. The man was
uninjured, and at once took himself out of
the way. 81
A petition has been drawn up and will i'm
mediately be put In circulation asking the
city government to extend Cotton street
from Free street to Monument square. If
i the petitioners should prevail the new street
would enter upon the square on the site of
the Donahue store and one OF the stores of
the Brown heirs, occupied by w. W. Whip