The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-08-31
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The match for the cham ponship of Vermont
between Mortified and Sprinsf field clubs re-
suited in victoryof the latter.
Comptroller Hubbard has authorized the es-
Enlistment of National Banks at franklin,
Ky., Menosha. Wis, and Atlanta, Ga. The
| banks will be named and commence business
as soon as their bonds are deposited.
A delegation of the Illinois Press Associa-
ton. composed of editors in that and other
States, with their wives the whole party num-
herring 10S, arrived at Boston via Montreal,
Saturday evening. - -is
Ossipee, N. IL. has voted per cent. of its
valuation to aid in the extension of the Great
Falls and Con way railroad to West Ossipee,
which it is expected will largely increase
mountain travel.
Tee famous Coliseum organ, which was con.
sidered demoralized by the gale eff last Sep
TENDER, has been reconstructed and toned
down, and is about to be put up in Rev. Mrr
| Talmadge's new church at Brooklyn, for which
| it is now very well fitted, the church having a
seating capacity of 5000 persons.
| The BoylstOn marke. (boston) building built
| in 1909, 100 feet long by 81 feet wide, and
| weighing 5000 tons, has just been moved back
| distance Of eleven feet, in order t. allow of
| the widening of Boylston street, and so well
had all arrangements been made that the ac-
| tual time required for moving it was but little
| over ten hours. The cost of the job was $780,
600.
| Among the dozen or more stabbing and
| shooting affairs in New York on Sunday were
those in which Mrs. Mary Brown, Stanton
| street, split her husbands head open with a
| Ratchet, and Mrs. Mary Vaughan corrected
| her husband by huring kerosene lamp which
took effect in the small of the back and pros
| traed him forever.
| The chief attraction at the annual tourna-
| ment of the Boston CALIFORNIAN club last week.
| was Donald Dinnie, the champion athletic of
| Scotland. Among the feats with which he as
| tOnished his fellow countrymen were the
| throwing of hammer, weighing IA pounds, a
| distance of ia feet, and the throwing of a 56
| pound weight at distance of p feet. A
unique feature of the contests was three leg
| ged race, which consisted of trial of speed be-
| tween couples of men, who had the left leg of
| the one strapped to the right leg of the other.
| A recent visitor from Hartford to Martha's
| Vineyard camp ground, who had been suffer-
| ing from the exOrbItant charges made for
| everything during Injecting week. such as
| four dollars day for rooms, two dollars for
breakfast, etc, was strolling past the societies.
| tent (which encircle the tabernacle) where
| meetings were being held Just as he was
| passing one, the voice of an exhOrter was
| heard, "SalvafiOu's free, salvatiOns tree." He
| stopped at once and said, "Pll take some of
that; it's the only thing I've heard of since I've
| been here that haven't had to pay big price
| for"
| A Boston harbor resort boasts of a hotel
|
| up game dinner of Is kinds of fish and %
kinds fowl To satisfy the eaters that the
| kinds were all different and precisely what he
named them in the bill, he also produced I'M
| dressed specimens OF each kind and verified
| them with the descriptions of Agassiz and Au-
du6on. This display was to decide a wager
| laid between Boston and New York parties
The landlord, however, knew nothing of the
| wager and after dinner took his guests TO his
larder and showed them AZ kinds of fish and
| fowl. ID -
A correspondent of the Springfield RepubLi-
can sends the following story, hich seems too
horrible for belief, yet which is vouched for as
true: A woman now in her S6th year. and the
mother of ten children, one of whom is a Sc
lectman worth his thousands, was turned out
of home in Greenfield, the other day, to shift
for herself as best she could. The actor in
this inhuman affair was her son-in-law. a man
worth $4,000 with whom she had bern living
until Monday night of last week. Since that
time she has been turned into the street 10
shift for herself as best she could, by this ind-
vidual, and has been supported by the neigh
bors, who have given her food and shelter
The town authorities have refused to provide
for the old lady as long as her children neglect
to do so, while they are SO thoroughly able and
thus the matter stands, the poor old woman
being cared for by the melest charity.