The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-12-24

Custls shop window on Congress street and
the father was wrapt in a contemplation of the
| elegant scarfs, etc., contained therein. The
boy at length got impatient and pulling his
fathers hand said, sob! do come and look into
Perkins window, father, you'll want to stand
| three hours there '-Minster Thornton is COM
ing to Portland when the Peabody remains ar
rive.-Ladies that would like nice sewing
machine that does button holes and overseam-
ing should get the American" at 1876 IL Mid
die street.-The Presidents of the Western
lines of railway who held a conference with
the Directors of the Portland s. Ogdensburg at
the Falmouth Hotel on Wednesday evening
held a consultation with the Mayor at his Of
flee yesterday morning at which it appeared
that the conference had reference to union
1 passenger depot at the west end of the city, the
| laying out of THE new street to accommodate
travellers over the Cape Elizabeth bridge, etc.
| The State Executive Temperance Committee
| will hold a session in this city next Monday af-
| ternoon-The services at st. Luke's Cathe-
dral on Christmas Day will consist of
o'clock in the morning service with Christ
mas Carol composed by msmber of the con-
gregation. The full service at 10 10 A. NJ,
when the Bishop will preach the sermon, and
evening prayer at P. M. The clergy, organ
ist and choir will spend Christmas evening at
the Bishops house.-Cogia Hassan suspended
yesterday. In other words, he hung himself
The cause of this rash act, we hear, was from
| fear that the little boys would carry him off,
| they have such love for him.-The Directors
of the Portland Rolling Mills will present each
of their employees who is the head of family
with nice fat turkey on Christmas Day. As
there are 100 ofthem it will require that num-
Der of turkeys.-We understand that the Com
mttee of the M. L. A. think they shall clear
about $500 from the course of lectures just fin
ished.-Mayor Putnam went to Bath yester-
day.-Gen. Hill, commaLdant at Fort Preble,
received an order from the Secretary of War
yesterday, ordering him to Cooperate with the
civil and government authorities in paying the
proper marks of respect to the remains of Mr..
Peabody.-The children of the Public Schools
will enjoy weeks vacation, commencing to-
night and ending Sunday Jan. 1--WE hope
there will be good attendance at the Christ
mas Festival of the West Congregational So
ciety tonight. The exercises will be very in
teresting.-The pole horses attached to horse
car sleigh slipped and fell on Congress street
last night and were dragged some distance by
the leaders, creating some little excitement. A
horse attached to another horse-car slipped on
Middle street in the morning.-One arrest and
that for drunkenness up to ten o'clock last
night.-The police Office is being decorated
with evergreen
The handsomest juvenile book of the season
that we have seen, is the one published by our
enterprlsIng townsmen, Hoyt, Fogg & Breed,
and is entitled "How Bonnie Did It." We |
intended 10 present our readers with liberal |
extracts from its pages, but the crowded state |
of our columns prevent our doing SO at pres |
emit. The book is written for youth and is |
specially adapted not only to their tastes but
to their wants. The lesson inculcated by the
story is calculated to impress their minds with
the value of honesty and good morals, and pa
rents may be sure that it will not only delight |
but benefit their little ones. The book is we'll |
printed and splendidly bound. The illustra-
tons are good. We shall speak of it more at |
length hereafter.
Mr.. VIM. L. Lincoln is soliciting subscrip- |
tons for book called Remarkable Charac- |
tiers and Places of the Holy Land,' comprising |
an account of patriarchs, judges, prophets, |
apostles, women, warriors, poets and kings, |
with descriptions of ancient cities and veneer |
Grated shrines, by Charles w. Elliott, author |
of ''New England History etc., etc., with |
twelve illustrations and articles from Theodore |
D. Woolsey, Rt. Rev. 7. M. Clark, Rev. Jos.
Cummings, G. Stoddard, S. f. Smith, VIM.
Adams and Henry w. Beecher. 1t is pub
lished by j. B. Burr & Co., Hartford, Conn.,.
and is sold only by subscription. 1t is COM
manded as good book by several of eur citi-
Gems most competent to judge Gifts merits, and
we trust that Mr.. Lincoln, who was "good |
soldier" in the late war will find many anxious
to place so good book upon the shelves of
their libraries.
HARPERs MAGAZINE for January contains
articles on Frederick the Great" (second pa
PERI "The Site of the National Capital, LA
dy Fortune, "''Beast, Bird and Fish," third
paper,) "Paul Du Chaillu once more,' "Thun-
der Struck" 'The Wife of John Carver "The
Leigh Hunt Memorial" ga Plain State
ment Of Facts,'' "The Spanish Revolution"
"Auteros," "Mss Bridget's Christmas Box"
"The Comic Side of Life," and the Editors
easy Chair" Record and "Drawer''
SAD ACCIDENT.-Yesterday morning man
met with serious accident at the Portland &
Kennebec Railway station in this city under
the following circumstances. The man, whose
name is Michael Brannan, belonging in Bos-
ton, has been at the National Soldiers Asy-
lum at Augusta, for the past three or four
months, and had previously served in the 9th
Mass. Regiment during the war; He was dis
charged from the Asylum yesterday morning
and, with two comrades, was on his way from
Augusta to Boston. When the Boston train
was about to leave the Kennebec station in
stead of getting on as his comrades did he
waited till the cars had acquired considerable
speed when he made the attempt laden with a |
carpet-bag, bundle, and cane. Furthermore |
he was a one legged man, having lost the 9TH |
er in the war and wore a wooden one in it's
place. In trying to get on he slipped and fell
by the side of the track, his right arm falling
across it, and the wheels of the train stripped
off all the flesh from the elbow to the wrist, but
luckily broke no bones. DR.. Robinson was
called and the man was removed to the Albion
House where his arm was dressed by the Doc
tor who thinks he will never recover the use OF
it. The accident was caused by tie mans own
care.essness He expected to go forward to,
Boston in the afternoon train yesterday
where he has friends.
I FOREFATHERS' DAY was celebrated at Sacca-
Kappa by large gathering on Wednesday