The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-12-25
BRIEF JoTTINGs.

The PRESS will be issued tomorrow as
usual.
Park Commissioner Smith requests
that those having Christmas trees send
them to the Oaks after they are through
with them. The trees are to be used in
the deer pen to make the little animals
feel at home.
The Veteran Firemen attended the
funeral of their late Comrade Ellis yes
terday afternoon at No. 1870 Green street.
Yesterday was very cold in the early
morning the mercury touching degrees
Later it moderated, the wind got rouno
to the east, and there WAS quite Lively
snow squall.
Our entire stock is positively for sale
at retail until Decem Der Both. The goods
must be sold, as we vacate our present.
store at that time. We have everything
that can be found in jewelry store. w.
W. Mansfield & Co., wholesale jewelers.,
96 Exchange street, city. Open evenings,
and also Christmas morning.
A most attractive calendar received by
us is that of the State Mutual Lie AS
surance Society of Worcester. Mass, OF
which Andrew J. Chase is agent tor
Portland.
The Pomeranian, of the Allan line, is
due from Liverpool and Halifax today
or Wednesday.
The Mahattansswill 60 on the railway
and dry dock in New York this week,
where she will be renovated. 1t will
take a month to make the repairs.
The arrivals of fish yesterday were
schooner Eliza H. Parkhurst with $4,000
hounds and the Mabel Kennison with
90 600 pounds. During the same blow
that struck the George Pierce the Park
hurst broke her fore boom. The Rovers
Bride. Fannie Hayden and John Nye
brought 10000.
The smacks Carrie S. Rogers, True
Republican, Planet and Superior
brought II, 900 HOLSTERS yesterday.
A Maine boy from Denmark, PATROL
man Rufus G. Fessenden. has just been
promoted to sergeant in Boston.
The schooner George Pierce arrived
Yesterday from shore fishing trip, and
reports the loss of her foretopmast and
foremost head during recent blow.
Chief Clerk Mitchell of the railway
mail service. said yesterday that the
mails are not SO heavy this year as they
were two years ago, but are heavier
tina they were last year. On all postal
cars double crews of men are running,
and tons f:mail are being handled on
every train.
The following were drawn yesterday
to serve AZ, traverse jurors: Cullen c..
Chapman, Andrew J.Rich and Freder-
iok WInslow.
There.were 1854 men in the county Jail
Sunday night. and every cell was occu-
pied.
The committees on electrical appliance
es. lights and fire department met yes
terday.
The steamship Labrador, Captain Nc
Auley, of the Dominion line, sailed
from Liverpool;D eember Goth, for Port
land.
A new hotel will shortly be built on
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land, by NOVEL; & Batchelder of Boston.
The building will be 100 feet long, 60
fest wide, and 2 1-2 stories high 1t is
intended to be ready for occupation next
summer.
Chestnut street schoolhouse will be
fumixated this week, not because tine
Board of Health think there is any real
necessity for it, but to satisfy few peo-
pie who are uneasy about contagious dis
eases.
The store of F L. Merrill & .Co. will be
kept open this forenoon to accommodate
those looking for Christmas presents.
The Harper's Ferry Jubilee singers
will give concert at Chestnut street
church Thursday evening. A programme
of unusual intrest has been prepared.
Mrs. Robert Jackson, of No. 10 Paris
street. is reported i'll with typhoid fever.
Charles S. Harmon, of 20 Newbury
street, was arrested Monday, charged
with taking a twenty-five cent neck tie
from the store of Eastman Bros. & Ban
croft.
A seizure was made Monday by Mar.
shall Tricky and Deputy Marshal Sterl-
ing at the rear of 81 Washington street.
Usual holiday hours will be observed
AZ tho most office todav