The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-23
For additional Local News see
Fifth Page.
BRIEF JoTTiNes.

Yesterday was bright and decidedly
frigid.
The principal grocery stores of the city
will close all day Thanksgiving.
Mariner & Co.'s grocery store will be
open this evening.
Deputy Marshal McCallum was in Lew
iston on business yesterday.
Duputies Sterling and Plummer made
seizures at the old Printers Exchange
yesterday.
Sousa's band dihed at the Union station
restaurant yesterday. The were enroute
to Brunswick.
Negotiations are said to be in progress
by the Postal Telegraph Co. for the Com
mercial Union Co.
The stairway that leads from the main
corridor down to Myrtle street is being
rebuilt in the city building.
Coroner E. N. Perry has decided that an
inquest is unnecessary in the case of the
man found dead at New Gloucester.
1t was suicide.
Rev. John Carroll Perkins will preach
the Thanksgiving sermon at the union
service at the I'd Parish church to which
all are invited.
1t is understood that Mr.. Patrick He's
sian of this city and Mr.. Harkins of Mon
teal will do the stevedoring for the Don
aldson line at this port.
The street commissioners crew started
paving the lower side of Middle street,
yesterday, from Deer towards Hamp
shire. Block paving is used.
Messrs. Willis Gould, George Tolman
and DR.. Charles D. Smith returned yes
terday from their two weeks cunning
excursion in the eastern part of the state.
They brought home two fine bucks.
The Boston & Maine officials have or
dered the cancelling of eleven of their
regular freight trains on Thanksgiving
day so as to give the privileges of the
day to as many of their employees as pos
sible.
Messrs. Line. Daniels and Charles
Dow had the unusual dish of broiled an
telope for dinner yesterday. 1t was sent
to Mr.. Dow from Colorado by friend
who borrowed his gun one afternoon and
and went out securing six.
The students of Gray's Portland Bust
ness College and their friends gathered
at the college rooms last evening and
listened to pleasing entertainment after
al, oil io;raI w
good time.
drunkenness is terribly on the in
crease in this city and give warning now
that I am quite sure that the next batch
brought before the court will be sent to
the Portland work house." said Judge
Cram in the Biddeford police court the
other day.
Last week one OF the sidewalk men at
work near Shaw's store on Congress
street, tapped brick and it fell out of
sight in the ground. He ripped up one
or two surrounding bricks and finding
nothing but hole kept on ripping until
he had taken up six that were entirely
unsupported.
Telephone linemen have begun to re-
place the regular circuit metallic circuit
between Biddeford and Portland 1t is
believed that when the new circuit is
completed Biddeford and Saco telephone
subscribers will have no further cause
for complaint on account of the hum
ming of the wires.
The passenger and freight traffic on the
Northern Railroad and its branches now
leased by the Boston & Maine is much
larger than ever before. Yesterday 10
extra freight trains were run between
Concord and White River Junction. If
the present rate of increase in traffic con-
tinues mu h longer, the double tracking
of the road between Concord and the
junction will become an imperative ne
cessity.