The Portland daily press., 1892-10-13
For additional Local News see
Fifth Page.
BRIEF JOTTINGS.

Yesterday was perfect october DAY.
The Board of Health have gone to Boston tc
examine the quarantine methods at that port.
The County Commissioners have laid out the
road from Harrison to Waterford.
The ladies of Oakdale will serve a harvest
supper at their hall tonight, from to s O'Clock
The Martha washington Society will meet
this afternoon with Mrs. DorcaS Bourne, No. 81
Sherman street.
The State Board of Pharmacy was in session
yesterday at the Preble House. Five applicants
for registered apothecaries were examined.
There will be a special meeting of Division
No. /, A. o. Ell. of A., Thursday evening. to per
feet arrangements for their drill and ball.
James Kennison, Waterman at the Eastern
round house, Turner's Island, slipped and broke
his left leg while getting on locomotive Tues
day evening.
A special meeting of the committee of arrange
ments for the annual ball of the Central Labor
Union will be held this evening at 7.30 O'Clock
at Painters and Decorators hall.
The Daughters of the King" of st. Paul's
Parish will hold sociable at the house of DIR.
Lockwood, No.9 North street. this evening
All are cordially invited.
The two rooms into which the old room for
registration of voters has been divided will be
used by the police and registration boards and
the truant officer.
The Committee on Public Buildings, at their
meeting Tuesday evening, authorized the
changes in the deputy marshals'. room at the
station.
Miss Maud Ball daughter of Mr.. Ball, keeper
of the Aims House, had her eye badly burned
by spark from the fireplace. DR.. Holt has
brought it to excellent condition again.
A small fire occurred at about 2 o'clock yes
terday afternoon on Congress street, in the
block Immediately west of the Union Mutual
building The flames were quickly subdued,
and the damage will be only trihing.
An excellent crayon likeness of ex-Collector
Samuel j, Anderson has just been placed in the
collectors room at the custom house. The por-
traits in that room now number IA, and include
those of every collector since the creation of
the office.
The artificial pond in the deer paddock at
Deerng Park is completed and the pipes are
being laid for the supply of water A number
of cedar trees are being transplanted in this
enclosure to protect the deer from the winds
this winter
Deputy United States Marshal Burton II
Smith went to Lewiston yesterday morning and
arrested Frank Peltia of that city for violation
of the internal revenue law. Mr., Smith.brought
his prisoner to the city yesterday afternoon and
PeIta was brought before Commissioner Brad
ley.
Little Jimmy Doherty, whose scalp was torn
off by jigger wheel last spring, and whose case
was considered almost hopeless, appears the
past week as the hero of another serious acct
dent. He was pushed down by a comrade, his
teeth nearly cutting off his tongue, so that it
hung, as it were by thread.
Deputies Chute Gould and Plummer went to
Brunswick yesterday and on arriving made
search in seven different places. They made
seizures at Gus Wright's place on Mill street,
Simon Laroche's on Main street and at place
on the corner of Main and Mill streets. the pro
prietor of which is not known at present
At the hair dressing establishment of Mr..
John NJ. Todd may be seen a relic of an event.
full time in the history of our city. 1t is the
massive lock and catch that secured the door
leading to the liquor agency under Old City Hall
on that memorable night of June 3D. 1856, the
date of the great liquor riot. tbs the property
of Mr.. Fred FL. S. Merrill, who is with Mr..
Todd.