The Portland daily press., 1892-12-02
BRIEF JoTTiNes.

The city committee on biennial cleo
ton held meeting last evening.
An overcoat was stolen from Shaw $
Business College yesterday.
Winona Council, d. of P, will hold a
meeting Saturday evening, for special
business.
The Portland Stone Ware Company
will send a large and handsome exhibit
of their pottery to the Worlds Fair.
Sisterhood Branch, No. 652 will meet
with Mrs. Wentworth, No. p Myrtle
street, this evening.
The bears at the Oaks eat but very lit
tie now, and will soon indulge in their
long winter sleep.
Mr.. L. A. Goudy has sunk a well 1855
feet deep, and will furnish the water for
his new bakery.
The weekly meeting of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union will be
held at SO Oak street today at 3 p. m.
The Arcadian, the Allan line collier,
sailed at 1.3O yesterday for Halifax,
where she is to be laid up for the winter
James Aver has been elected president
Percy Townshend secretary, and H. A.
Waterford treasurer of St. Luke's Chap
ter, st. Andrews Brotherhood.
The sloop Sabrino, from Bath, loaded
with lumber for Fort Preble and the
new ferry slip, encountered the storm
on the way and lost most of her deck
load.
The law office of Hon. William 81.
Clifford and Elgin G. Verrill, ESQ.,, was
yesterday moved to the First National
Bank building.
The fine store of Messrs. Eastman
Brothers has just been decorated in a
very pretty manner for the Christmas
holidays.
A girl named Quillan, about II years
of age, who was sent from Portland to
the Industrial School for Girls, has es-
capped from the institution and is sup
posed to be in the CITY,
Mr.. II. G. Berry gave an exhibition of
mesmerism at Williams Hall last night,
for the benefit of a man who is suffering
from severe injuries. A good sum was
the result.
A thief stole a fine new blanket from
the back of Mr.. Fred Johnson's horse,
while the animal was standing on Main
street, Westbrook, and replaced it with
Mr. Tohnson's huffa1o robe
The Kelley cure graduates in the city
have elected Fl. F. Thompson chairman,
and John F. Keefe secretary of their So
cial club, and J. H. Hamel, J. F. Keefe
and Fl. F. Thompson a committee to Sc
cure rooms.
The entertainment Of the West Metho-
dist Epworth League last evening was a
success socially, and the society desires
to express their thanks to those who so
kindly volunteered to assist in the even
ing's programme.
Jacob Saltpetre, Hebrew, is under
arrest in Boston for theft and forgery.
He obtained goods from B. Ginsberg &
Co., of this city, and several Boston
firms also, using the name of a well
known pedlar.
Yesterday afternoon, the patrol wag-
on was called to the corner of Oak and
Congress streets, where an intoxicated
woman was found and taken to the
station. The incident drew together a
large crowd.
Yesterday morning there was an unus-
ually high tide. In Back Bay the water
was considerably above it's usual level,
and came near overlooking the new pill
ing which borders the marginal way.
Along Commercial street many cellars
were flooded, but no special damage is
reported.
Line. Daniels has received deer's
head for mounting, the horns of which
are so beautiful and unusual in shape
that it has been sent to several sporting
centres to be photographed. The horns
contain numerous branches, and form
almost perfect circle. They lack about
an inch of touching in front of the head.
The Bluff Cottage Club enjoyed ven
ison dinner at the invitation of James
Miller, at the marble works of Thomp-
son on Prebie street, yesterday after
noon. Robinson, the caterer, prepared
the dinner. 1t was delicious. Guests
were present from out of town, includ-
ing City Treasurer Walker of Lewiston.
Two stores in the block under the Eye
and Ear Infrmary on Congress street,
have been changed into one, and it has
been leased by Messrs. Stevens & Elwell
of York and Congress streets, and will
be opened for business in week or so.
Mayor Ingraham is re-arranging the
municipal library in his private office.
All The old state documents and other
book not relating to municipal affairs
will go into the vault under the main
staircase or the clerks Office, and only
municipal reports of Portland and other
cities be placed in the municipal library.
The Society of Art will keep the exhi
bition, which opens December 18th,
open on Sundays, has elected three new
r,emhers and addad To the Worlds Fair