The Portland daily press., 1894-10-01
BRIEF JoTTINGs.

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On and after tonight the Boston steam
ers will leave Boston at 6 p. NJ, for
Portland. instead of p m. The hour
for leaving Portland remains I'M
changed
The A thletic Club cadet class starts
next Thursday with rs members.
The value of last, weeks foreign ex-
ports amo united to S8. 461.27.
| The Twitchell- Champlin Company
have canned $50, 600 cans of corn at Port
land and Waldoboro.
The annual meeting.of the Diet Mission
will be held at p. M, Saturday, Octo-
| her 6.
I be police relief ball will be held at
| City Hall October 30th, and Chandler
will furnish the music.
Thirty of the fifty men employed at
Portland Head were discharged by gov
eminent Saturday. The other twenty
will remain another month.
| The new organ purchased for St. Law
renee street church has been placed in
position.
Captain c. b Hall, U.S.A., who has
been instructing and inspecting the
state national guard. reports to the gov
eminent that the Portland armories are
disgrace to the city on account of poor
construction and repair, ard that it is a
wonder that the men consent to drill in
| them.
During Friday night an unknown man
| fell from the wharf at Portland Pier and
struck on spar. He was seriously
| hurt. The captain of the JIG. Jameson
rescued him. The captain could not OBJ
| tain the mans name.
The alarm from box 81 at IL. 30 a. m.
Sunday, was caused by overturning kerr
| osene lamp at the Friendly inn. The
| boy who pulled the alarm was arrested,
but Immediately discharged. as in the
face of the gale blowing the action was
proper.
| rests last week, of which rs were for
drunkenness, and 3S received lodgings.
The regular monthly meetings of Port
land and Westbrook will be held to-
night. President Lane of the Westbrook
city council is at Rangeley.
The Camera Club will hold a meeting
at the Portland Art Club rooms tomor-
row night, when those st. Louis and
New York slides will be shown.
The Odd Fellows Mutual Aid Associa-
ton OF Piqua, Ohio, will do work in
Maine. Mr.. ". a. Rice Of Bangor is state
deputy, with headquarters in Portland.
Professor, Stetson of Auburn conferred
with mem bers OF, the Board of Trade Sat-
urday, in regard to the visit of the
American Educational society to Port
land next July. They have accepted the
Invita- ion to come here, and will bring
about 1000 people.
Eight of the nine new MIGRANTS or
dered have been put in place.
Engine houses No. 2 and have been
fitted with steam.
The first regular monthly meeting of
the season of the Women's Maine Indian
Association will be held in the Friends
meeting house, Oak street, tomorrow
afternoon, at 8 O'Clock.
The Portland Evangelical ministers
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morning.
The fine yacht Tom boy was in the har-
Dor yesterday.
Ivanhoe Lodge, K of P, will confer
the rank of esquire tomorrow evening
Charles Gail, who was indicted tor re-
ceiving stolen mileage book and
skipped his bail, was arrested on Satur-
day by Officer Skillings on the street.
Call had shaven his moustache, cut his
hair, and had on an old fisherman's
suit. Judge Bonney gave him two
years.
A large number OF railroad men went
to Island Pond yesterday to attend Con-
ductor Browns funeral. I'll !,
Tukey's bridge will be closed until
further notice, owing to a slight acct
de mt to it on Saturday last.
Saturday was a lovely autumn day,
with the warmth OF summer. A tre-
mendous blow came up early yesterday
morning, and in a few moments the mer
curry dropped fifteen degrees. Yesterday
was cold and raw.
The Portland Stove Foundry Compa-
ny, makers of the Atlantic ranges and
furnaces, have just placed on exhibition
in the window of E. S. Pendexter, the
jeweler, on Congress street, near Oak
street, an art PLAGUE, made of iron as
a sample ofrrartistic work done at their
foundry on Kennebec street. No person
should miss seeing this beautiful piece of
art.
TIE directors of the Rumford Falls &
Rangeley Lake railroad met Saturday
in this city, but have not yet decided as
to whom the contract to build the road
will be awarded.
October Dividends.