The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-01-07
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

The third regiment question is being agita-
ted in military circles.
The value Of last weeks exports amounted
to $155, 16O.67.
The Sisterhood of the Iron Hall dance Fri
day evening Melted $25.
The Somerset Fibre Co. will receive their
soda ash machinery today.
There were % arrests last week Of which
% were for drunkness.
The schooner Martha C. brought in 1900
pounds of fish Saturday.
The boiler which Quinn & Co., are making
for the Moore d Wrigh. dredge will weigh
Is tons.
Tomorrow evening Beacon Lodge will hold
a public installation and entertainment
and tonight Maine Lodge will have one.
Owing to heavy snow storm in Boston
the Boston DO at did not leave there nor Port
land Saturday night.
The alarm from box 3 Saturday morning
was caused by chimney at the Chadwick
house burning out No damage.
A lodge of Knights of Pythias with 40
members will be formed at West Falmouth
tomorrow.
The teachers monthly meeting will be held
this evening. Rev. Marion Crosley will adj
dress the association.
Frank E. Orr has resigned the position of
master of arms of Trinity Lodge X. of p,
elected to fill the vacancy.
The Boston & Maine and Maine Central
brakemen have placed in their room in the
Union station fine McPhail piano.
Robins have been seen and theard every
do fhic xviutar hx in. fba
ern part of the city.
The Law Students Club win argue their
first mock court case before Judge Peabody
next Friday evening.
[ THE Grattans will hold meeting and give
an entertainment in their new hall in Oxford
block tomorrow evening.
There will be union prayer meetings every
day this week at Y. NJ. c. A. Hail at A D. m.
The public are cordially invited to attend.
Col. Perry will muster a camp of Sons of
Veterans at Freeport tomorrow evening.
Camps from Portland, Auburn and Lewis
ton will attend.
The Little Women will give the proceeds
of their ball Feb. 22d to the Soldiers al nd Sail
ors' monument fund. Prof. Gilbert is drill
ling the fancy dances.
There were over 100000 tons of coal hand
led in Portland last year, and the paint and
drug jobbers did about million and half
| of business.
| Alderman Smith has received a cannon
bali dug up in Douchetts Island, St. Croix riv-
| er left there in 1907 by Dumants's party. He
will give it to the Maine Historical Society.
The fire department will receive six
months pay today. Eagle Hook and Ladder
Company will give a ball at Mechanics
Ball Jan. 16.
The Maine General Hospital has received
| from the Maine Baptists through the Rev.
DR.. Burrage, $3.50 in renewal of their free
bed for another year.
| Hon. Moody Boynton and some prominent
| Massachusetts gentlemen visited the Port
land Company Saturday to see Mr.. Boynton's
| bicycle locomotive.
| The schooner Lizzie j. Clark which went
ashore on Richmond's Island, few years
| ago is In the dry dock to be repaired. She
first cost $4,000
Shaw, Cooling & Co. Relief Association has
elected A. ii. Thompson, president; G. NJ.
Smith, secretary; l.. L. Moore, treasurer.
Last years receipts were $500, payments,
$431 amount in treasury, $1,000.
| A consignment of one hundred carloads of
stock came to Portland. Saturday night. from
| Montreal via. the mountain division of the
Maine Central to be shipped to England via.
| the Dominion line.
The committee in charge of the Turnyerien
exhibition is composed of Messrs. ]. B.
Moore. A W. Lowell, J. B. Henly, J. A.
Dickson, G. A. Beane, G. NJ. Hanlen, @. ID.
Lothrop, L. B. Laughlin. T.. A. Thompson
and Prof. Doldt
All members of the Portland Colony of
Pilgrim Fathers are requested to be present
tomorrow evening as the election and install
lation of officers will take place and other
business of Importance transacted.
Casco No. 8, fire engine company, ex-
pect to have their new house lighted
by electricity, and get in before Feb
%. Steamer rs new fiues will be put in by
the Portland Company.
woman bought black lace scarf at one
of our dry goods stores marked $1.50. took it
home, changed the one dollar mark to a two,
carried the scarf back and got the clerk to ex-
change it for one of the value of S2.s7, she
giving the 81 cents difference.
At a meeting of the Typographical Union
held Saturday evening, thanks were extend
ed to the newspapers. Atkinson House Fur
nishing Co. Electric Light Co., and all who
contributed to the success of the late ball
ball and supper. The net receipts were 1885,
horse beloning to Charles P. Fessenden,
ran away Saturday night and ran into Sam
Seeley's hack on the corner of Federal street
and Market Square. The pole of the hack
was broken and the horses thrown down but
not injured. Mr. Fessenden's carriage was
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