The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-04-01

day April make its debut.
The sale of reserved seats for Maggie Mitch
ellis performance next week commences at
Halves & Cragin's to-day.
An inventive individual proposes to the city
government to put up grating onthe lodges Of
the City Building to prevent the pigeons from
roosting there. He wants $500 for his grating
Messrs. Eaton s. jackson say they are 10 re-
main on High street wharf We had Tue
statement of their proposed removal from "pa'
we considered unquestionable authori'y'
The picture in Hale's window, that we men
| toned in Yesterdays PRESS, we were INFORMED
| by the proprietor was collection Oh pnoto-
| graphs of the conductors of the Boston and
Maine road surrounding one of Superintendent
Merritt. Our statement wass erroneous as
they are the photographs of the conductors on
the Eastern road surrounding one of Superin-
tendent Prescott We are obliged to the Ad-
Uertiser for the correction.
| We are Informed that Prof. Walton of New
Jersey, arrived at the Falmouth Hotel last
evening, with his famous steam power WALK
ing man. He takes passage for England, this
afternoon with Capt. Brown of tie steamer
Moravian. To crafty our citizens. he has
kindly consented to give public exhibition by
a short walk on our streets, leaving the Fall
mouth about nine o'clock this morning. 1t
must be a great curiosity to see an iron man
walking like living being.
The P. M. B. Assembly last night was a sue
cess, and by request of many of the friends of
| the Blues they have been induced to give two
more dances; the second to be masquerade.
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Yesterday morning the new police force
were sworn into Office by the City Clerk ac
cording to the usual custom and were then ad-
dressed by Mayor Kingsbury as follows:
Gentlemen of the Police AS you are now
commencing new municipal year of service,I
have thought it appropriate to refer to the du-
ties pertaining to your position. Nearly all of
your number have filled the Office more or less
IN former years, and the fact that you have
the fidelity with which you have performed
your duties By the ordinances of the city,
the Marshal is made the chief of police, and
all the force are subordinate to him and SUBJ
ject to his orders. The Deputy Marshals off,
ciate for the City Marshal in his absence, and
are captains of the watch; and every other
night by turns, they are to discharge the duties
of that Office They are each night to assign
to the night police their respective limits, and
DO such other duties as belong to their rank on
on the police, during the hours that they shall
be on duty ITO patrol constantly throughout
their respective limits, to endeavor to prevent
all violations of law, and arrest and commit to
the station all persons found by them violating
any laws of the State. or ordinances of the CITY,
They are to obey all rules and regulations es-
tablished by the Mayor and Aldermen, and the
orders Of the Mayor, Marshal or Deputy Mar
insight into the duties OF each branch of the
police department. The faithful performance
OF them is of great consequence to the peace
and safety of the community, and any officer
derelict therein ought to be, and will be,
promptly removed. As before stated, the or
dinance provides and you are expected to patrol
constantly throughout your respective limits"
You are not to leave those limits, except upon
call sO.imperative as to render it an excusa-
BILE exception to the rule.
1t will be violation Of your duty to lounge
about the corners of the streets or in shops.
Especially do caution you to the utmost care
in avoiding disreptuable places of all kinds,
unless compelled by virtue of your official duty
to visit them. However innocent you may be
of all thought of evil, the uniforms you wear
make you marked men. And here permit me j
to suggest that the habit of somesef the police
of INDUCING in smoking in the streets is in bad
taste, hurtful as an exampleito the young, and
the cause of much unfavOrable criticism. In
making arrests urge upon you the impor-
lance of uniting gentleness with firmness. The
large proportion of those arrests is for intoxca-
sponsible for their acts or words, and are fit |
ting objects of pity and kindness. The po-
liceman on such occasions, and indeed on all |
occasions, should possess his soul in patience, |
and dignity his Office in the public regard by |
all gentlemanly and manly qualities. rec |
ommend, when intoxicated men are arrested, |
that you endeav0r TO ascertain where they OBJ |
tanned their liquor, and report the same to the |
City Marshal for action. l need not impress
upon you both for your own comfort and the |
efficiency of the 0pnartmant that ulfvatn /
kindly sentiments towards each other, and |
obey scrupulously and willingly the orders OF
those placed over you. Obedience to the au-
thority is the only rule by which the depart.
Gentlemen, wish you year of pleasant SER
vice, and in all the right ways, you will find
me ready always to cooperate with you
ELMwooD NURsERY.-Now that the great
church festival of Easter is at hand it is but
proper that our readers should be notified
where they can find the rare products of the
conservatory in remarkable profusion. A
pleasant walk, or short ride in the horse cars,
will bring them to Woodford's Corner where
the greenhouses of Mr.. Chas. T. Bryant ale
located. And what wealth of perfumes and
colors greet the visitor as he enters the fragile
abode of Flora, goddess of that realm. On the
one hand is an immense plant that displays
thousands OF rich yellow buds, and which is
most exquisitely proportional, notwithstand-
ing its great size. On the ether great cdcts
stand. sentinels as it were-their huge stalks
fringed with brstes-over the tempting array
of camelias of all Shades verbenias, heliotropes,
begonias, and roses which stretch along as far
as the eye can reach. Strange foreign plants
with great dark green leaves are scattered here
nd fharo ,,1a -, H.
bright colors of the flowers and affording re-
pose for the eye. A writer has said, "what
moral lessons to the thoughtful these shy and
lowly preachers hold forth and in their ravish-
ing beauty and fragrance they lead one to ex-
claim, Lord! what beauty hast thou provided
for thy saints in heaven. when thou affordest
bad men such 'oveliness upon earthr"
MAGGIE MITCHELL. This favorite actres
who has made great reputation in the chars
acter of "Fanchon, or the Cricket,"-placing
her in the front rank Of character actresses,
along with Matilda Heron in Camille Char
lotte Cushman in "Meg Merrilies," Kate Bate.
man in LEAH" Lucille Weston in "Nancy
Sykes" (Oliver Twist) and others we could
name-will make her first appearance in this
city, since 1869, on Tuesday evening next.
Maggie Mitchell has been on the stage since
childhood, her first appearance taking place at
the "Old Bowery" in New Yoek, under the
management of Hamblin. She appeared as
Constance in 'The Love Chase" in Philadel-
phia in 1854, March 2Oth, and produced. Gan
| chon" at Laura Keene's Theatre, New York,
now the Olympic, for the first time on June
| 9th, 1862, since then she has played it more
times than we could begin to mention, and has
realized from it handsome fortune. During
her engagement of three nights in this city
where on former occasion she has been
greeted at City Hall with crowded audiences
she will produce Little Barefoot" and in ad-
dtlon the play of the "Pearl of Savoy which
latter character she will essay for the first time
| in Portland.
BREACH OF TRUsT.--Some week or two since
| two young men came over to this country in
the steamer in charge of man who had been
| here before, and to whom had been entrusted
funds for their support until they could find
employment. One of the young men had a
ticket through to New York, which the CON-
panion obtained after their arrival here on
pretence of finding employment for them. He
| returned from New York and told them there