The Portland daily press., 1890-02-17
Brief JOTTlNCS.

The value last weeks exports was $685.
625
Mr.. E. Sargent leads in the chess tourna-
ment.
Regular meeting Of the Press Club at 7.3O
O'Clock tonight.
There were 20 arrests last week of which q
were for drunkenness.
The net proceeds of the ball for Alex
Bells benefit were S201.
A good deal-cf- cod and haliput was
brought in last week by the fishermen.
The regular meeting of the Natural His
tory Society will be held this Monday eve
ming at 30 o'clock.
herman g. Spinney, the Kttery Navy
Yard thief, was fined $50 in the United
States court Saturday.
Tomorrow night the so-called citizens
party will make up their municipal slate at
their headquarters on Middle street.
Augustus +. MoultOn, Esq, will lecture
tonight at Summer street NJ. e. church, Cor
ham on "a Trip Across the Continent"
Quinn & Co. are building large bleaching
kity for Lewiston bleachery and an up
right boiler for Sebago Lake steamer.
A decision in favor of a separate main
tenance for Mrs. F. F. Hale has been
granted by the judge, but Mr.. Hale appeals.
Miss Josie Sullivan, employed in the box
factory. corner OF Pearl and Middle streets,
had three fingers of her hand badly managed
in a machine.
Nelson Starrett and Frank Rose two
Haverhill boys, ran away from home SatuI-
day, and were arrested here Saturday night.
They had quite sum Of money.
Decided change in the weather Saturday
A stiff northerly gale drove the mercury
down from 400 to 1S' Saturday digit, and to
120 Sunday morning Sunday was fine.
The principal and interest of the bequest
of j. Warren Merrill to Colby University,
amounting to little over $4,000 has been
paid in full to the treasurer, Judge Bonney.
There is no truth in the rumors that
anonymous letters had been received by
Mayor Melcher and the Berlin Mills Com
pany in regard to intended incendiary fires.
A snow-drop was open in front of the old
Merrill house on Congress street, Saturday.
The earliest blooming heretofore has been
February 81, 1880, and the latest March rs.
1885.
The Longfellow Chautauqua Circle will
meet this evening In the ladies' parlor of
Chestnut street Methodist church. Roll
call responded to by quotations from
Shakespeare.
A committee Of Portland Commandery, K,
T., will take set of jewels to Charlestown,
Mass, tomorrow, to present to Ceur de
Lion Commandery. They can be seen at C.
j. Farrington's store.
The next meeting of the Evangelical As.
ISOLATION will be held today at II a. m. in
the parlors of the Y. M. C. A. Mr.. Richard
Chase of Boston will present tie advantage
Of society for the prevention of vice.
petition is circulated asking the school
committee to increase the salaries of teach
els who do not receive more than $500 a
year, provided these teachers have been en-
ployed in the city schools not less than TWO
years.
According to the official score which is
now issued regularly from the Marshaps
Office, there have been 10 seizures by the
police since Feb. LIST, consisting of 1914 bot
ties Of lager beer, So gallons OF ale, % quarts
of hard stuff.
A man named James King fell from a
staging to the deck Of schooner Saturday
striking railing in his decent. while dis
charging cargo of guano. on the Boston q
Maine wharf and received severe bruises
about the head and body.
1t is rumcred that Mr.. NJ. B. Gilbert, the
dancing master. is looking for more spa
cious hall. and has opened negotiations for
Mechanics Hall, which, If the bargain is
concluded, will be completely remodeIed and
VIII have balcony for the orchestra. His
present quarters are rather contracted for
the large gatherings often seen there.