The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-09-18
BRIEF JOTTINGS.

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which 20 were for drunkenness.
John Frates was arrested Saturday fol
badly beating his wife.
The Deering Drug Company will be
open for business tonight.
Two dozen bottles of lager were found
in a lot on Cross street by Officer Phillips
Saturday night.
Yacht Mystic went ashore on God
dard's Point, Falmouth Foreside, Friday
night, but was nos seriously damaged.
There was baptism of several men,
bers of Emmanuel church at Curtis's
shipyard yesterday afternoon.
The Stevens school at New Gloucester
will open tomorrow with full number
of students.
The G. L. Fox studio. day and evening
classes, will reopen Monday, October 16.
The bark Beatrice Havener, of Sears
port. Captain Hichborn, arrived Satur-
day from Turks Island with 22,2e1 bush
els of salt for Lord Brothers.
We were shown some handsome pear
blossoms yesterday, plucked from tree
in garden at Oakdale.
The lighthouse steamer Lilac came of
the marine railway yesterday afternoon.
The harbor was very smooth yesterday
afternoon, and several local oarsmen i'm
proved the opportunity for a spin in
their racing shells.
Governor Cleaves sent message OF
congratulation to General Hyde on the
successful performance of the Castine.
The Cape Elizabeth Sentinel says it is
doubtful if Cape Elizabeth ever before
produced SO poor and scanty an apple
crop. There is neither quantity nor
quality.
Westbrook Seminary has lately re.
ceived gift of 100 books from the libra
ry of Ex-Governor Perham.
The committee on streets have decided
to build that crosswalk along the south
erly side of Monument square to Preble
street.
Steamer Katahdin, of the Bangor-Bos-
ton line, put in here for harbor Satur-
day morning. She had 125 passengers
and 25 valuable horses from Bar Harbor.
Many of the passengers took the noon
train for Boston. The State of Maine al
so laid over until after the storm.
The bicycle stolen several weeks age
from J. R. johnson, a young man EN-
ployed in the post Office has been recov-
cred by E. S. Pendexter. The wheel
was found at Cumberland, where the
thief resides.
The regular meeting of the Central La
Dor Union will be held this evening at
730 o'clock. Every delegate having La
Dor Day tickets out is requested to bring
them in.
Deputy Sheriff Gould went to Bruins.
wick Saturday and arrested Augustus
Wright, Albert Corrier and George Buck.
ley, proprietors of Brunswick Hall, in
dicted by the grand jury.
The Kings Daughters of South Port
land have paid S70O into the Peoples
church, and by means of a fair the last
of this month they will endeavor to
make it an even $1,000.
It is stated that $4,000 attachment
in a suit for trespass was filed Saturday
by Andrew O'Donahue against Angus
Lemieux, otherwise known as Gus
Wright. The case grows out of liquor
war at Brunswick. The plaintiff was
employed as a spotter, and accuses the
defendant of assaulting him.
The Portland Evangelical Ministers AS
ISOLATION will hold its first meetingsfol
the season this morning, at 1870, in the
Y. M. c. A. parlors.
The band concert, postponed from Sat
urday, will take place tonight at the
Oaks if pleasant; if not pleasant the
next fair evening.
The new timetable on the Spring
street line eff the Portland Railroad Com
pany goes into effect today.
On account of the rain the run of the
Portland Wheel Club was postponed I'M
til next Sunday.
The Maine Press eXcursionists left fol
the Worlds Fair via the Maine Cent? al
Saturday morning. They occupied three
splendid Wagner cars. and were in the
best of spirits.
A fakir named McQuade, hailing from
Auburn, made about $50 out of crowd
on Federal street Saturday evening, Of
fering to give present for every ten cent
bottle of rheumatic cure he sold. The
presents were not forthcoming, and Nc
Quade was arrested, but soon released
for nothing could be proven against him.
Rigby Park.