The Portland daily press., 1892-11-19
BRIEF JoTTINGs.

| ton at Harrison Village Monday night.
The engine Coward which has beer
in the Portland g. Rochester engine re-
pair shop, made its first trip over that
road yesterday morning. Itwas used to
haul several cars of ties to Springvale.
| A barrel of flour fell on the foot OF
Fred Hamilton, clerk with Geo. G. Shaw
g. Co., disabling him for some days.
On Sunday the United States revenue
steamer Woodbury., Capt. M. L. Philips,
towed the schooner Nellie Eaton, Calais,
clear of the rocks at Dog Island upon
which she was drifting.
Uriah Berry paid his election bet yes
terday, wheeling Isaiah Slower in a wheel
barrow from the Observatory to Monu.
| ment square.
The Grand Trunk Railway has just
| completed new siding for the accom-
mediation of the Whitman Agricultural
Works at Auburn. 1t will accommodate
six cars. Another, of equal capacity, is
to be put in for Il. Wesley Hutchins'
box factory.
The pedlar law is being very laxly en-.
forced in some of the Maine cities.
The Women's Literary Union will hold
meeting at Bosworth Post hall this af.
ternoon. The subject will be ''Litera-
ture and Art.''
The adjourned birmingham case will
come up in the Municipal Court this
morning.
Yesterday was more like April than
November. There were heavy rain and
wind clouds scudding across the sky all
| day, occasional showers and sunshine.
The United States lighthouse steamer
Myrtle. from Boothbay, brought the crew
who have been setting up powerful
whistle at the Cuckold light which is to
be sounded by a caloric engine.
| Commissioner Griffin has had the as
phalt on Congress street scraped clean
and the holes filled with crushed stone.
| 1t is reported that new Safe Deposit
and Trust Company is soon to be organ
lied in this city, with an authorized cap
ital of $50O,00O 1t is intended to do a
trust company as well as a safe deposit
business. Negotiations are pending fol
leasing for term Of years quarters in the
lower story of the Union Mutual build
ing, corner of Congress and Exchange
streets.
There was no session of the United
States Court yesterday.
The Little Women will meet at $50
this afternoon with Miss Edna Bucket,
156 Bracket street.
There is some talk of E. S. Osgood
ESQ.,, editor of our esteemed contempt
rary, the Argus, for the consulship at
Cadiz, or some other Spanish port. Mr..
Osgood has an acquaintance with the
Spanish language that would make him
thoroughly at home in that Office.
The Auburn Gazette says that party
of Lewiston and Portland capitalists pro-
pose to build an electric railroad in the
spring to connect Auburn and Mechanic
Falls.
The return of 1901 votes in Wards 8,
and in Portland for Edmund B. NAL
| let,'' instead of Edmund B. Mallet, Jr., -
| left Mr.. Mallet defeated for Senator on
the face of the returns. This would elect
Mr.. E. B. Winslow if uncorrected. But
it was discovered that the ward clerks
had made the mistake in recording the
vote, and the matter will be righted to
the satisfaction of Mr. Mallet.
They were plucking marigolds in Win
ter street gardens yesterday.
st. Alban Commandery used the new
Masonic ritual for the first time last
Thursday evening.
Several street bonfires at Gorham' S
Corner were started last evening but were
extinguished by the police, owing to the
| high gale. Later the rain, in sheets, put
out all embers.
A large number of lumbermen are now
going into the woods to operate between
Lake Welokennebarook and Umbagog
The timber will be landed in Sunday
| Cove, Umbagog Lake.
The proposed buying out of A. B. Pratt
| by Mcleod of Portland, after hanging
| fire long time, is practically abandoned.
For which our town may well rejoice, in
! asmuch as Mr.. Pratt is one of our very
best and most popular citizens and bust
ness men, Bridgton News.