The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-11-08
BRIEF JoTTINGs.

| The monthly meeting OF the woman
Christian Temperance Union will be
held at SO Oak street today at $50.
The Unitarian Women's Alliance will
meet at the Parish house this afternoon
at o'clock.
The Troy laundry has been opened
under a new management at SO Preble
street, with Mr.. B. A. Crook as foreman.
The second large engine at the power
house is nearly set in place. The coal
shed being erected at the rear of the pow
er house is now nearly completed. 1t is
about 25 feet wide and about the same
length as the width of the power house.
with sloping walls of strong timber and
corrugated iron roof.
The class of '96, 2. Fl. S., will hold
reception in Assembly hall at O'clock
tonight. A dance will follow.
John L. DeLot & Co., of Addison,
Washington county, who bought State
street wharf have started to repair it.
They will build offices and granite polish
ing works upon it.
Mr.. W. Daniels, James and Ernest
Heal, have returned from hunting trip
at The Forks of the Kennebec. They
brought back four deer, nineA foxes, 20
cartridges and four minks.
Capt. Ben Seabury of the steamer Mad
eleine is hauling out for the winter the
steamer Alice and the yachts Zeta and
Sirocco to Falmouth Foreside.
The Allan liner Numidian, Capt. Mac
Nichol, left Liverpool yesterday for
this port via Halifax.
The steamer Mary Jane, Capt. Alex
Kennedy, will be fitted with new boiler
by Quinn & Co., her present boiler hay
ing been condemned by the y. S. steam
er inspectors.
Tug Seguin towed in the dredge Ply
mouth Rockland two scows yesterday.
The two-masted schooner Windsor
Packet. Capt. Wyman, lumber laden, from
Tusket, MS. for Boston, arrived in the
harbor yesterday.
The fleet yesterday was still waiting for
a wind.
A sailor, one of the Harvester's crew,
accidentally slipped off box in which
he was standing on Commercial wharf
and took an involuntary bath in the
dock.
Yesterday was a summer day. The mer
curry touched 81 degrees in the shade,
wind southwest.
The stated meeting of the managers
of the Board of Trade was held yester-
day morning. Papers were read from
several other boards upon which no Off
cial action was taken. Nothing of
general public interest was done.
Treasurer A. j. Cummings of theVeteran
Firemen attended the quarterly meeting
of the New England States Veteran Fire
mems Association Tuesday in Boston.
The Portland Choral Society will meet
next Friday evening at 7.30 p. m., lat the
Young Women's Christian Association
rooms and will begin Irehearsals at once
on several madrigals and part songs.
Later the society will take up some light
cantatas.
The Deering Electric car which left
the head of Preple street At - O'Clock,
yesterday. broke down on Portland street
a few minutes after noon. An accident |
to the motor was the cause. Temporary
repairs were made and the Car reached |
Deering at o'clock.
The county commissioners made their |
monthly inspect on TAT the Jail on Tues
day and found the general condition of
the institution in good order.
The decorated train load of molasses
for Canada, left yesterday.
A freight car of the Maine Central got
off the irons on West Commercial street
yesterday and the car was considerably
broken.
The harbor was like glass; yesterday.
The schooner Harvester brought 40, 900,
Vanguard $1,000, and Mary Hagan 10, 900
mixed fish yesterday