The Portland daily press., 1871-03-27

Was somcsuiuB fearful. lDe mercury was
down to $40 at q. M, and there was thin ice
formed in the early morning.
Mrs. Henry Burrell fell in tho street on Fri.
day and fractured her leg.
Miss Helen M Greeley of Portland, was reg
istered at the Paris office of Bowles, Bros. s.
Co., March 10th.
A couple of sailors were arrested Saturday
for breaking into the cabin of British bark
lying in the harbor, Friday night and stealing
few trihing articles. They had just been dis
charged.
Officer Hall arrested on Saturday afternoon
an Irish boy named Todd for badly injuring
another boy by throwing stones at him.
The Public Library has received donation
of twenty eight volumes of valuable miscel-
laneous reading from the Unitarian Associa-
tion in Boston, and has purchased some very
valuable reference works including "Cressey's
CyclopedIa of Civil Engineering" "Maupratt's
Chemistry" "The Physical Atlas of Natural
Phenomena" in four volumes, and Others
j. M. Kimball & Co., have leased the Mart,
for carriage repository.
The Superior court comes in to day at which
time the justice trials will commence.
William W. Thomas, Jr., has received from
the United States Department of Agriculture
large amount of seeds and cereals for the use
Of the Scandinavian colony.
The Adams House has added smoking
room and billiard hall to the establishment.
Saturday was "Annunciation Day."
The Adelphians are to come back to Music
Hall on the evening OF the 18th prox.
Lieut.. Larrabee has been nominated as I'd
Lieut. of the 23d regular infantry but having
been first Lieut., brsvet Captain, will not prob
ably accept it.
The billiard match between Shiel of Port
land and White of Bangor will probably be
played in Lancaster Hall the last of April.
The forfeit money has been placed in the
hands of Nj. Joseph Bonney.
A fine day Sunday.
The Portland fraternity have secured three
fine rooms with hall at 1858 IL Congress Sts.,
where games of all kinds, periodicals, news
papers, etc., will be provided for the amuse-
ment and instruction of all those who desire
resort of the kind, during all the day and eve
ming All persons having games, periodicals,
papers, etc., that they are willing to bestow
will please send them either to Mrs Charles
E. Jose, Mrs Thomas Shaw, or Mrs. Noah
Burgess who form the committee.
Rev. Mr.. Fem announced to his congrega-
tion yesterday morning that enough money
had been subscribed to pay off the debt of the
debt of the High street church and leave some
thing over. I
The view OF the White mountains from the
head of high street yesterday was very fine.
They stood out in bold relief upon the sky,
their sides and summit streaked with white.
Rev. James De Normandie of Portsmouth,
N. H., preached very fine sermon at Park
street church yesterday.
G. Montgomery Campbell, professor of class-
les at the University of New Brunswick in
Fredericton, formerly Kings College, died in
this city yesterday. He took severe cold in
the early part of the winter which was not
considered serious until about a fortnight ago,
when he was advised to consult physicians of
this city owing to his feeling oppression on the
lungs. Everything was done for him here that
skill could accomplish but he had no strength
to rally. His remains will be conveyed to bis
homo in Fredericton.
Col. Harding and Mr.. F. o. Moses of Bath,
were in town on Saturday stopping at the Fal
mouth Hotel. We understand their visit had
reference to the disposal of the steamer "Eas-
tern Queen" to New York parties
We are glad to hear that Chas. Fl. McLellnn,
Esq, of Bath is considered out of danger and
his health improving.
Prof. Denton had an audience at City Hall
yesterday afternoon that more than filled
three quarters of the space down stairs and
was introduced to the audience by Mr.. James
Kurdish. He is decidedly "Spiritualistic" in
his views.
Prof. Stowe of Hartford, was in town last
week.
In consequence of the illness of Mrs. Sher-
wood, she will be unable to sing at the concert
at City Hall this evening.