The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-05-27
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

saturday ana sunday were very cool days.
The value of last weeks exports was $685.
094.73.
letter box has been placed in the Union
Station.
The steam dredge will resume work on
Back Bay today
Clothe line thieves have been robbing the
lines in South Portland the past week.
The first installment of cherries from Flo
rida was received by Cameron & Leath Sat-
urday.
A mayoralty election bet in the form of a
supper, was paid at one Of the hotels Satur-
day.
We have received from w. E. Chandler &
Co., Bridal Song, by Laura A. Jones, dedica-
ted to S. A. S.
Aver won the chess tournament lately held
at the First Natisnal Bank building, he get
ing 1876 per cent.
Mystic lodge l. o. G. T. will give recep-
ton to the officers of the Grand lodge
shortly.
The yearly meeting of the Society of
Friends will begin at City Hall June 18th
and continue one week.
The Ottawa electric light plant is in nearly
running order. and $50 electric lights will
light the hotels.
Seventy signers have been received to
petition for new lodge of knights of Py-
thias in Knightyille.
st. Lukes is making great efforts to re-
move her debt. The diocesan convention
will be held there in June.
Co1sens, Tomlinson & Co., presented Mr..
F. W. Wiley, Friday, with an elegant silver
nifohar hot l.
The executive committee of the Oxford
Bears Association, will meet at 4p. M today,
at Messrs Byron Greenough & Co.'s.
The County Commissioners will lay out
highway on Harpswell Neck to the new
steamboat landing and one on Great Island
Branihall Hook and Ladder Company No.
3, have presented Mrs. Ida Pierce an elegant
silver set for her services at their sixth ami
versary.
The Plulatelie Express, a monthly paper,
devoted to the interests of stamp collecting,
and published by Mr.. j. II. Lyons, has been
started here.
The English hawthorn tree In Mrs. Small's
garden, corner of Park and Congress streets
is now in bloom, several weeks earlier than
usual.
Eight pairs of horses hauled the corner
stone Of the soldiers monument to Monu-
ment square Saturday evening. 1t weighed
135 tons.
There were Al arrests last week, of which
% were for drunkenness Officer Webster ar
rested three fighting roughs on Union street
Saturday evening.
Mrs. Wiley of Cumberland street was pre-
sented with an elegant silver cake basket by
The members Of the order to which she
belongs, last week.
Charles Bartlett, a Reform school gradu-
ate, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of
stealing wallet containing $53 from his en-
ployer, M. M. Nansen, the tailor.
While driving in from Martins Point
bridge Saturday, Mr.. N. S. Hazeltine was
thrown from his wagon by the axle break
ing, and his foot badly sprained.
Capt Knowlton left for Newburyport
Mass, Saturday, and will bring back the
steamer to run on the Greenwood Garden
route. She can carry $50 passengers and is
well equipped boat.
The Woman's State Relief Corps of Maine
has sent several gross of flags to the Grand
Army Post Of Richmond, Va They are to
be used in decorating the graves of Union
soldiers buried in and around Richmond.
EMr. Albert Whitney, with Geo. G. Shaw g.
Co., fell down stairs Saturday, at the store.
and six boxes Of tobacco, weighing 200
pounds, tumbled after him, but luckily he es
capped injury.
The clocks in the towers of the Union
Station and the First National Bank build
lngs will now be run on exact eastern stand
ard time, and the horse cars will be run ac-
cording to this time
Mr.. and Mrs. McNulty and daughter got
into row Saturday night and threw stove
covers at each other Officers Frank and
Eaton took McNulty and the daughter to the
station, while Mrs. McNulty is at home in
bed suffering from wounds. McNulty's head
was badly cut.
While Mr.. Charles Cummings of Portland.
was engaged in painting house on South
streetSaturday, the staging fell throwing
him to the ground, a distance of II feet. He
received bad cut on his chin, another on
his wrist, his ankle was sprained and it is
feared that he suffered internal injuries.
Mr.. Edwin Baker is erecting two story
dwelling in the rear of North street; Mr..
Charles Gushing one on Beckett street; Mr..
H. Z. Richards two on Beckett street; Mr..
Dana Miles one on Beckett street; Messrs.
D A. Skillings and Geo. H. Young and Geo.
Oook' each houses on Vesper street.