The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-14
BRIEF JoTTiNos.

Ivanhoe Lodge K. of p. will confer the
rank of Esquire this evening.
The Paint and Oil Club will dine at the
Falmouth Hotel next Saturday evening.
The Hardware and Iron Dealers Club
took dinner at the Preble House Saturday
evening.
@The Portland light infantry will have an
election of officers the first Tuesday in
January.
Mr. Bellows's two remaining lectures on
Modern Literature will be postponed un-
til after the holiday season.
The HarbiBger colt Dandy, 2 424. owned
by c. K. Gage of this city. has been sold
to John Kelley of Bath for $500.
We have received calendars for 1892 from
Hall L. Davis Sc Co. They are sent free to
any address on application.
The Portland Kerosene Company are
now delivering ten thousand gallons a
week in Lewiston and Auburn.
" Anciens Brothers Lodge, 1, o. o. F.. will
have public installation of officers the
first Thursday in January.
Officer heath, yesterday, found some
buds on plum and cherry trees in his yard
that seemed to be about to burst into leaf.
There were several arrivals of cod and
haddock yesterday among them being the
j. &. Craig. Fairy Queen, Nellie Burns and
Helen Written,
The first annual meeting and election of
the Veteran Firemen's Association will be
held next Thursday evening.
The whole fnumber of arrests for the
week was 20, from the following causes:
Drunk, 10; larceny, A.; assault, 8: vagrant.
i, search and seizure, /.
The carpenters have finished work on
the steamer Chebeagne, and the painters
will have their turn now. In about week
the boat will go on the route.
The first anniversary of Mt. Vernon
lodge 1863, n. E. o. P, will be celebrated
Tuesday evening. The grand officers will
be present
There will be sale of Christmas articles
next Wednesday and Thursday, at the
Swedenborgian vestry. On Thursday an
operetta will be given.
Rev. j. G. Wilson, colporteur of the
W0man's Christian Association, during
the quarter ending December 1, visited 34S
families in the city and distributed many
papers. books, bibles. etc.
Deputies Merrill and Sterling and Off.
GERS Firth. Merrill and Heath made the
rounds of suspected gambling houses Sat-
urday night but failed to develop any
wrong doing anywhere.
Mitchell 81 Bickford have Joined their
printing business with Smith & Sale. Mr..
Mitchell will continue as the publisher of
Figaro, and the Stockbridge programmes
and as the outside manager of the firm.
Misses Medora +. Atwood. Sarah A.
Coolidge and Alice Ii. Howes hold studio
exhibition at LOT Oak street, on the after
noon and evening of next Tuesday and
Wednesday. The exhibit will consist of
water colors and china paintings.
There was a slight fire at Thompson q
Fowler's slaughter house, Saturday, which
was evidently set en- the outside by boys.
1t was extiDguished without alarm by Off
Ger Burnham There was also little blaze
in Wallace's restaurant.
The case of Geo. e. Dunton of Augusta,
who is Indicted for sending obscene ltera-
ture through the mails, will come up in the
United States Court again on the Both.
when motion Tor arrest of Judgment
will be argued.
The funeral of the late DR.. John 81.
Heating, was held at st. Dominic's Satur-
day morning. Rev. FIR. Hurley officiating
Christmas Figaro which was Issued Satur-
day, was foe production, being filled by
special articles and poems by local authors
of note.
There will be parlor sale at 165 State
street on the afternoon and evening of De-
cember 10Th, for the benefit Of the Day
Nursery and Free Kindergarten. Articles
for the sale may be sent to Mrs. Hunt be-
fore December 14th
The stereopticon entertainment of Mr.,
Struthers of Toronto. will be given at the
Clark Memorial M. E. church Tuesday De-
cember 15 under the auspices of the Ed
worth Lsague. The entertainment has
given delight to large audiences, both in
this country and in Canada.
Baxter Scott, Mrs. Alpheus Sterling's
father, who has been living with the Sterl-
lngs on House Island. has had a delusion
tnat hs was a source OF trouble to his
daughter. He tried to put and endsto il by
drowning himself. He was rescued by
Charles Irefethen and restored to con-
sci0uSnesS by DIR. Torrington.