The Portland daily press., 1870-12-24
Santa Klaus.

| Yesterday morning was cold and cherries
and the leaden skies telokered he.yy fal' o
now TO usher in the Christmas eve but sill
there seemed to be little if any of diminutiol
! in the thropg of Christmas purchasers.
At s. F. CoBB's. Deering Block, Congress
street, will be found large variety Of toys 0
every description and fancy goods, stereoscopi'
views, musical instruments, music books, ant
| nice organs.
KENDALL & WHITNEY, old City Hall, offel
very fine assortment of all descriptions, clip
pers that will rejoice the heart OF any boy, and
the probability is that splendid opportunity
will be afforded them on Monday to test theil
capabilities on Haggetts Hill.
RAND & THoMEs No. 26 Market Square, Of
fer most attractive stock of Parian ware; al
80, Bohemian and Porcelain vases and Majoli-
ca ware French dinner and tea sets, cutlery
silver and plated ware, and much else that is
highly appropriate for gifts. We are sure that
call at Rand & Thomes' will result in finding
much that is elegant and really useful.
SAWYER & WooDFoRD, No. 119 Exchange
street, present very beautiful assortment OF
useful as we'll as ornamental gifts, especially
make specially; handsome basket, particu-
larry nice lunch basket, is one of the most
convenient things to have about the house es
pecially in city like Portland where island
parties in summer are SO frequent, and where
The distances to be reached by cars from the
large cities is SO great.
BUTLER & REED. No. II Market Square,
will furnish you with pair of slippers TT for
Cinderella or big enough for the Iowa giant,
made OF the best material and in the latest
styles. Their line of rubbers is very extensive
and worthy Of trial
II. G. QUINCY, old City Hall, offers large
variety OF fancy goods including nice sleis,
2arlor croquet, etc. You will find him glad to
see you at The we'll known north corner of that
venerable building.
A ton of csal or cord of wood is a present
that at this inclemeUt season will send joy to
the heart of the poor and the suffering Coal
Is down to 50 a ton this winter and We would
advise the benevolent to call at any of our well
known coal and wood dealers such as RANDALL
y McALLIsTER, No. go Commercial street;
JAMES & WILLIAMS, No. BOG Commercial
street; ROUNDS 8 Sons, So Con mel cial street;
BAKER, 1913 Commercial str. ct; j. w. DEER
ING, Commercial, foot OF Uniou street; W. II.
EVANS, 28l Commercial street or w. H.
WALKER, A2 Commercial street.
J. T. SMITH, at No. 1876 Middle street, oppo-
site Cogia Hassan's, is celebrated among the
ladies for the nice hair work to be obtained
there.
All the illustrated papers such as ''Every
Saturday, Frank Leslie's," "Harper's
Weekly" the various magazines; interesting
periodicals without number, and not q few
very fine gift books can be procured of FEs-
SENDER under Lancaster Hall, MARQUIS under
U. s. Hotel, CHISHOLM at the G. r.. Depot.
and A. ROBINSON under the Falmouth Hotel
A glance in at the window of No. 1853 Mid
die St, w. s. Dyes, will show you a sight
will be worth looking at.
The eleventh-bour man frequently gets a
full penny. P. M. FEosr, who is no stranger
to Portland buyers, is a little behind his CO.
temporaries in calling attention to his fine
stock; but as dry goods are always in order, ir-
respective of any festive season, we have no
doubt that the next week will give him a large
patronage and full purse.
In conclusion we wish all our Christmas ad-
vertisers merry holiday and q liberal and
hearty custom, and to the public generally we
would say that there is one present you can
treat yourself or your friends to for the year
1871 which you never will regret, a years sub
scription to the PORTLAND DAILY PRESS.