The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-10-16

BRfFF J0TTIEOS.- ~ al eoFer tO~H, saiu
one maa TO another on the street yes;e;d
s.Wba,'s all over town. said the one ad-
dressed. "The rain," said his fiiend.-We
have 10 doubt we shall make amends this
month for the long drought during the sum.
men-Commodore Churchill of the Yacht Club
takes out the yacht owners, and few personal
friends, on an excursion in the Ethel to-day
Commodore Hull of the NAVY, who succeeds
commodore Pope in the office of the Light
House Department in this city, has arrived
in town.-The Portland boating men gained
fresh laurels at Brunswick on Thursday.
Pastry has proved itself good article of diet.
This week is Jubilee Week in the Catholic
Church. There is visitation of the churches
by all the clergy in the Diocese. Thursday the
school children of the Cathedral, accompanied
by the Sisters Of Notre Dame, visited at.
Dominick's. There are services every night IN
the week at the church.-That fellow who Is
rebuilding his ark is not so crazy after all,
considering the weather.-The letter carriers
of this CITY have delivered 38,073 city letters
the past mouth, and collected 56,51S mail let
tiers and 1O47 city letters. They have delivered
| 20, 500 newspapers and collected 640,-Kate
ReiguOluS pdiu taA VI poo IeCclplS
for her two performances in this city. The
receipts were probably more than that
We should like to see the cross-walk continued
to the opposite sidewalk from the City Build
ing to the head of Exchange street. At pres
ent, in rainy weather, quite lake of mud and
water collects there Somebody suggests that
the cross-waiks should be cleaned once a
day in muddy weather.-The Dartmouth Col
lege Nine passed through here Thursday to
play match with the Bowdoin Nine a. Bruins
wick.-The Archbishop of Halifax arrived here
Thomas Maskell, who entered Stevens foun-
dry on Union street last week, has been ar
rested by the police. He confessed to the rob-
berry and told where the copper could be found.
BODY FoUND.-Yesterday morning about
nine o'clock, man named John Stillwell, en-
gagged between the Victoria and Atlantic
Wharves collecting old Junk, etc., saw the
body of what he supposed to be dog floating
on the water. He picked it up and found it to
be the body of a man about fifty years of age,
dressed in nice black frock coat, black pants,
white linen shirt, two cloth vests, and flannel
undershirt and gaiter boots. The remains
were in badly decomposed state. the flesh
on the head and knees being mostly eaten
away He had no money on his person, and
only two tailors' thimbles and a small PEN
knife in his pocket.
Coroner Gould was called aud ordered the
body to be carried to the dead-house, first send
ing the coat and piece of the pants to S. S.
Rich's, the undertaken, for Identification
Here two young women called who had work.
ed for Mr.. Murphy, tailor and said the de-
ceased had worked for the same man, and that
his name was Martin Flynn. They recog-
nized the coat as belonging to Mr. Flynn, and
notified Flynn's wife. She described the cloth
ing accurately, and also the contents of the
pockets, which corresponded to what the de-
ceased had on and in his possession, and the
coroner delivered the body to them. 1t seems
that work being slack, Mr.. Flynn told an aunt
of his, who lived in the house, on Monday, the
4th inst that he guessed he would go to New
York for job, and as he did not core home
at night or the next day, they supposed he had
gone there, and were not alarmed at his alb
Sence. EI
WE are indebted to Sylvester Mari, Esq,
for four magnificent pears of immense size,
and fine quality, known as the "VIcar of Wake
field" variety They were grown in Califor-