The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-01-23


1t seems missioner to call this seven by nine
patch of territory, a Park; it is nothing more
than Square, and should be so styled. A Park
in its original Specification was an Enclosure of
pasture OF woodland connected with country
residence and used for purposes ofrecreation,
but chiefly for the support of a herd of deer
1t was subsequently applied to large enclosures
in cities adorned by trees, carriage drives, &C.,
as Hyde Park and Regents Park in London,
and Central Park in New York. L Hyde Park,
for instance, contains 400 acres, in which are
fine carriage drives and the famous Serpentine
river. Regents Park covers an area of more
than 450 acres, one side of which is half mile
long, another three quarters of mile, and con-
tains beautiful lake; either of these Parks is
considerably more than double the extent of
the district burnt over in the fire of July 4th
and one third part as large as the whole prom
ontory on which Portland is built. 1 would,
therefore, call the tractset apartfor public use,
Square, whose definition as given by Worces-
ter precisely meets the case, viz, ian open
area in town or city formed by the junction
or crossing of two Or more Streets" This cor
responds with the reserved and moderate sized
dTcdS LII uilduchphid ANcW 4oih anu IboSuou,
which have received their appropriate titles.
Our square is less than taoo acres. Let us not
make ourselves ridiculous by the misapplica-
ton of terms. tfG esltsIi44. ...l ..4
And 1 would suggest as a name, "Ligonia
Square," Ligonia was the name of Province
40 miles square, extending from Cape Porpus
to Casco Bay, granted in 1880 to certain adven-
turers to the New World, by the Grand Council
of plymouth in England. The first adventur-
ers made one voyage to Saco river in 1851, but
not being satisfied with the appearance of the
country and also finding it occupied under a
prior grant, they continued ON to Boston, and
abandoned their enterprise. They afterwards
transferred their rights to Alexander Rigby,
who being an ardent republican, and menu
Der of Parliament, had sufficient influence, un-
der the revolutionary government, to give
character to his grant Our first settler, George
Cleeves, being in England at that time. 1643,
having succeeded in being appointed by Rigby
his deputy, returned in that year, and pro-
claimed his commission in Casco, now Port
land, and held his courts in atplace. Cleeves,
took the title of Deputy President, held gen
eral assembly and other courts, made grants of
lauu, auu Iuleu over lut L TONtucc Until MaSSa-
chusetts, with a strong hand, extended her jul
risdiction in 1858 over ali the inhabitants as far
east as Casco Bay. 'Ne'i ~ sl
This name is therefore commended for its
euphonious sound, as well as for its historical
association. Indeed SO important and interest
ing was this association, that one of the eIIin-
emit members of the Convention of Maine, which
prepared the Constitution of our State, and who
was one of the committee which drafted that
instrument, proposed in the convention, that
the name of the new State should be Ligonid,
and sustained his proposition by an able and
interesting speech. But the present name, be-
ing more familiar to the people prevailed. We
should not, think, permit the ancient name
to pass into oblivion, especially in the town,
which was dignifed as the capital of that early
republican government, and the residence of
its chief magistrate, the founder of our town.
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MISSING =, SINGULAR FAMILY FATALITY
The bark Orsina, Capt Hiram Smith, sailed
from Key West for Liverpool the 18th of last
March, since which time nothing has been
heard of the vessel or those on board. Captain
Smith had sailed from this port for number
of years, and was respected by large circle of
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