The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-05-14

The match game of billiards at Congress Hal
last night between Smith of Augusta ant
Shiel of Portland, for the championship, calet
out a large audience, and some splendid play
ing was shown on both sides. Shiel was til,
winner by 50 points. Smiths average u 8 5
Shells do, 10 is. Time of game, 245
| Splendid salmon from Halifax can now bt
found in our market. Fresh mackerel have
| also put in an appearance.
Hon. r. H. Dana, Jr., is in town, stopping
| at the Preble House.
The Boston Post states that Miss Dollie Bid.
wells performance of Cynthia in the '.Flowers
of the Forest" at the Boston Theatre last S at
urday evening, was a great success, and that
she received many elegant floral tributes when
called before the curtain.
The third lecture of the course before the
New England Conservatory of Music in Bos-
ton Thursday, by Rev. e. P. Thwing of Port
land in which the need of an carly, popular,
symmetrical, generous and Christian culture
was inculcated.
Kinds, under the Preble House, has an as
sortment of toilet and fancy soaps that is not
surpassed by any in Portland.
strong force of harpsts, violinsts and
kand-organs have taken possession of our
streets.
Morris Minstrels passed through the streets
yesterday in Robinson's barge, "the Cham
pion," drawn by six horses, the band playing
and the horses plumes waving.
Some person either through fun or spite
hung the effgy of man clothed in the habili-
ments of the sex to the second story window of
residence on the corner of Pearl and Oxford
streets, Thursday night, and labelled it The
Cardiff Giant" 1t was cut down in the morn
ing as soon as discovered. The question that
arose was as to the point Of the Joke, if icke it
was.
Mrs. e. Cunard (and family wife of Sir e.
Cunard, owner of the Cunard line of steamers,
was in town yesterday and stopped at the Fall
mouth Hotel
Everybody is going to California now-that
possesses the means-just as they used to 60
to Europe and consider they had travelled.
. But then Europe has got sort of played out an
old story, in fact. People arc tired of the
Boulevards and Hyde Park, and all that sort
OF thing; so they are rushing to see the Nor
mons, and the 70 Semitic, and the polar bears
in Alaska. OF course they get their tickets of
Henry p. Wood, at greatly reduced prices.
good for sixty days, because Henry wants to
be accommodating and had rather get less
commission than not have his friends perfectly
suited. So just bear these facts in mind when
you purchase your ticket
Dr. Hendrick is an eccentric genius. He
has taken the upper side wall of the Printers
Exchange, just overlapping his store, and
painted thereon, Store house of DR.. Hen.
bricks Bitters." The idea Of the insinuation
that there is such an accumulation of bile in
that building that it is nothing more that
vast bier filled with bitters, continually exer-
cising their gentle purgative qualities upon
the occupants thereof Why, the idea is a
fearful one and could not be entertained for
moment. We know, however, that the btters
are SO popular that the Doctor never has any
store on hand to speak of. They sell like hot
cakes.
The streets were in an awful scrape yester-
day, but the hocrs accomplished a good davis
days work.
The invitations to the Alpha Delta Phi Con-
vention exercises to be held at CITY Hall in
this city Thursday evening next, are among
the most elegant specimens OF the eugrayer's
art we ever saw. They were executed by
Lowell & Brett.
Alderman Curtis's health is improving slow
Iy.
Rev. Mr. Libbey, Universalist minister at
Yarmouth, writes to the Gospel Banner how
drunken man came at him while hewas walk
ing in the woods, and pointing gun at him
threatened to shoot him. The people of Yars
mouth are much excited over the matter.
Two men were arrested by officers Cammett
and Gribbin yesterday for fee fight at Mrs.
Douglass boarding house.
A man named Martin Chenery was found in
the eastern part of the city yesterday morning
at an early hour, by the police, in an insensible
condition, and carried to the station. Dr. Fogg
Was called.
Rev. w. Fl. H. Pillsbury, we understand,
enters tomorrow upon his duties as pastor of
the Congress st. NJ. e. Church.
A lady's sash and belt was picked up in the
street last night by the police.