The Portland daily press., 1871-08-21
Brief JOttings.

aged man of more than eighty, was stricken
with paralysis on Middle street Saturday morn
ing and taken into Hays drug store.
Samuel Libby has been appointed general
freight and ticket agent of the Portland and
Rochester railroad.
A Boston yachtmap displayed himself on
our streets Saturday clad in blue shirt, trim.
med with white braid, ladies underseeves and
blue kid gloves. That may be the style in cor
rect Boston, but in towns that lie on the boil.
der OF salt water it is considered somewhat ru-
raj.
A good many of our city ministers provided
substitutes yesterday. AT the State st. Church
Rev. Mr.. Noble of Pittsburg, offcatei; at st.
Stephens, Rev. Mr.. Matlock of PHILADELPHIA;
at Plymouth Church. Rev. Edw. Halves OF
Philadelphia; at CascO street, Free Baptist,
Rev. q. III. Ball, editor of the Baptist Union;
at the A. M. e. Church on Mountfort street,
Revs. Grafton johnson and j. p. Shreeves of
Boston; at st. Luke's, on State street. Rev.
Mr.. Dashiell of Richmond, Va, and Rev. Mr..
CLARK of Syracuse, N. Y, preached in the
evening and morning, and at St. Pauls, Rev.
DIR. Mitchell of Savannah, Ga, preached in the
morning.
Ihe undertakers who were referred to by us
on Saturday as having broken open the door OF
the receiving tomb in the Eastern Cemetery
admit the fact, and plead in extenuation that
they accompanied funeral procession to the
yard ON Friday, and had had no notice until
they arrived there that the kew had been re-
moved from its accustomed place, and that one
Oh them went to the place where they were in
formed that the key could be found as quickly
as posslple-the procession being kept in wait
ing in the street all the while. When he ar
rived at the place the Superintendent of Bur-
lals had gone to his home in the extreme west
ern part OF the city; so he returned and the
lock was forced, the body deposited, the lock
repaired Immediately, and the tomb left in as
safe condition as before.
The Star complains that livery stable keep
ers charge too much for their teams and thus
help repress the ambition of strangers who de-
sire to "do" the environs of the city.
Workmen are employed in Strengthening the
spre of the Casco street meeting house.
Yesterday was September day, with chilly
atmosphere and a hot sun.
An insane man who recently ESCAPED from
the Aims House, was arrested by the police on
Saturday.
SIgnor Ardavani and Mr.. Charles I'll. Nc
Lelian of Bath, will sing at the Cary concert
on Wednesday.
Three men named Dunsier. Armstrong and
blaekenourg were arrested by the police on
Saturday for INDUCING in an ARRAY in an alley
on Moulton street. Blackenburg was consid-
erably bruised III the fight.
All the business in the Municipal Court on
saturday was the payment of fine of $50 and
costs under search and seizure process.
a car-full of ticket holders to the Cary con.
cert is promised from Brunswick and Tons
ham
1t is sad that all the military companies in i
the State will participate in the grand open.
ing of the European aud North American
Railway at Bangor in October Our Portland
companies are discussing the question.
SIX DRINKS comprised the record of the DO.
lice office at 10 O'Clock last night.
ANSWER TO A CORRESPONDENT Our Bruns-
WICK correspondent is informed, in repIy to his /
letter OF Saturday, that the committee on the /
Gary Concert has advertised that the Maine
Central Railroad Company will convey persons
by regular trains from Bath, Brunswick. Free.
port, Yarmouth and Cumberland. to Por tland
free of fare, by showing their concert admission
tickets to the conductor, and previous to their
leaving for Portland they will show thei con-
cert tickets to the railroad ticket seller at the
depot station, who will furnish them with free
return tickets.
Parties in other towns in the vicinity desr-
ing similar information, are referred to the To-
cal columns OF the PRESS of Saturday.