The Portland daily press., 1894-12-03
BRIEF JoTTINGs.

lie regular monthly mSeIluS VI oHc
Female Provident Association will be
held in Room Q, City Building, this
afternoon at 2. so O'Clock. A full attend
ance is desired.
Steamer Reesing brought 5000 Holsters
Saturday.
The schooner CD. Willard has been
ref tied and new stern built.
There were 81 arrests last week, LOT
which 90 were for drunkenness.
Officers Norton and Miles were sus-
pended from the force Saturday, on
charge of unlawful conduct.
Monument square was packed with
people Saturday night watching root
er" who had become denoralized with
low. He was safely got under cover by
friends.
At the meeting Of the Diet Mission,
Saturday, % patients were reported on
the list. Vaughan street will serve De-
cember 4th to 18th; Plymouth, 18th to
18th: Diet Mission, 18th to 25th; Willis
ton, 25th TO January Sth.
Off Custom House wharf, Saturday,
the lines of the schooner Albert Brock
became entangled with something at
the bottom of the dock, and the crew
pulled out a grocer's delivery wagon,
belonging to Littlefeld & Co. 1t is
supposed the wagon was mischievously
pushed .into.the dock.
A freight car came in Saturday over
the Grand Trunk that had travelled $500
miles. and was loaded with $4,000 pounds
of walnuts for E. Dennis.
The Sarnia is due tomorrow, and the
Hibernian, of the Allan line, will be the
next ship of that line from Boston.
The Sarmatian. Captain johnson,
from Glasgow for Boston. arrived Satur-
day noon. She had rough passage, but
sustained no injury. She brought 20
cattlemen and about 300 tons of cargo
for this port. After unloading her Port
land cargo she will proceed to Boston.
Thomas P. Anderson of Boston fell on
the sidewalk on Cum berland street,
near the Cathedral Friday night and
fractured rib.
Bosworth Post annual election will be
held.next Friday night, and delegates
will also be elected to the state encamp-
ment.
Next Wednesday the officers of the
First Maine Regiment, M S. NC, will
go to Biddeford on the ~. 40 p. m. train
to attend a school of instruction.
The police in future will be paid the
third day of the month instead of the
first.
New arc lights will be recommended
at the corner of Roberts and Washbu
streets. and corner of Beach and Com
meroial streets; 65 series at the foot of
Freeman street, and 80 series on Mayo,
between Oxford and Cum berland.
Monument street schoolhouse was
thoroughly fumigated on Saturday.
The 1-1O-29th Ladies' Auxiliary regi-
mental building at Long Island will be
begun at once as the lum Der is on the
ground.
Last weeks foreign exports were val
ued at $17s, 4S5. 76.
Tempered brass brads, five inches
long and two inches apart, are being
placed about the betting, pediments and
column as of the post office building to
keep the birds out. The number of
brads required will be $500.
Captain Ben Willard has the sword of
the largest swordfish ever captured by
Portland people. The fish was 81 feet
long, and weighed when dressed $50
pounds. The fish was caught August
~, 1865.
A colored family on Valley street in
cludes five generations. The Oldest is
Mrs. Johnson, aged SO. There is but
one older colored person in town, Mrs
Butler. aged 81.
Shepley Camp, S. of ", will hold its
annual election tomorrow evening,
which Will be followed by a campfire.
Crowds of young people enjoyed the
skating at the Oaks Saturday. 1t is
hoped to have the new waiting room
ready in two weeks.
Portland and sWestbrook city govern
ments will hold their regular monthly
meetings tonight.
Az High street church last evening,
one of the strongest features was the
singing of Marston's song 4Ohl Love
Divine" and "Oh Rest in the Lord" by
Mrs. Halves.
The weather Saturday was cloudy and
raw Yesterday lively damp snow
storm set in, and several inches fell.
The Board of Overseers of the Poor
have voted that it is inadvisable to
change the location of the present house
of correction at the almshouse to the
lower ward in the new addition to the
insane ward.
Mrs. Charles Sessions was unpacking
trunk at her boarding house on Brown
street Saturday, when the lid fell on
her wrist and broke it.
Rev. Matt Hughes will lecture at
ME-. church Monday eve
ming, December 3, at 7.45 O'Clock.
In her talk to ladies' Mrs. Saulson al
ways gives to ali, both young and old,
some new ideas to take away. with them
and live by.