The Portland daily press., 1871-07-06

THE HORSE TROT.
a large crowd collected at Forest City Park
in the afternoon to witness the races for two
nurses one to horses that had never beaten
2:Ss 500 for the first, $15 to the second $40 to
the third, and one for horses that had never
beaten $50, $50 to the first, $15 to second, $40
to the third. The track was in good condition,
the day favorable and among the occupants of
the judges stand we noticed Mr.. Lon Morris
of the celebrated Morris Bros Minstrels and
lover of good horse. The judges were Lon
Morris, William Davis and Frank Libby
The following entries We're made for the 2:3s
race:
James Jack names br. e. Hard Road,
j. f.. Haines names br. &. Brown Nathan.
Frank Emery names b. G. No Time Here.
Charles Turner names br. g. Dragon.
Only two horses started however, Hard
Road and Brown Nathan, Emery's horse 'No
Time here" being ruled out on the ground
that he had beat 2:38. Brown Nathan had the
pole. First heat was won by him in 243,
while the second, third and fourth heats and
race were won by Hard Road in 2:46, 248 and
$50.
The following entries were made for the
2:5O race:
c. E. stevens names b. m. Lady Tottle, formerly
Portland Girl.
owner names b. s. Abdallah Boy, 9-
q. ID. Miller names br. e. Doctor.
j. f. Hames names 8. G. Honest Shaker,
G. P. Merrill names br. g, Brown DAN
Austin Branagan names bks. q Baugh
A. u. Hines enters s. g. John Morgan. ~
On the first heat all were dstanced except
Honest Shaker and Abdalah Boy, the latter
named horse winning the heat in 2A5. Hon.
est Shaker won the second, third and fourth
heats in 2:4S, 2:43, and 2:46 and consequently
the race. Everything passed off pleasantly
and everybody came away apparently we'll
satisfied. 1t will be seen that the average time
was better in the second race than in the first.
BASE BALL MATCH.
A large crowd of patrons of the national
game numbering some eight hundred gather
ed on the grounds Of the Rolling Mills to wit
ness friendly game betwe en- the Resolutes-
the Junior Champions of this State-and the
Athletics of East Boston, senior club The
Athletics were attired in white hat trimmed
with blue, white shirt with blue monogram,
dark blue knee pants with white stripe, blue
and white checked stockings and white base
ball shoes. The Resolutes in white Shirts
blue pants with red stripes, blue caps with red
cord. The Resolutes won the toss and went
to the bat The Athletics were puzzled by the
left handed pitching of Wilson of the Reso..
lutes and at the end Of the ninth inning the.
game stood 80 for the ResOlutes to for the
Athletics, the Resolutes winning the game.
T fetal . 11-s&a s.sssCial,a;tsess
The Resolutes played an excellent game but
the Athletics played rather poorly. St. John
of the Resolutes made a good foul ball catch,
and there was some splendid playing on the
part of Briggs he making clean score;
good double play was made by Ayers aud Lib
by. e
BAND CONCERTS
tfallsbrOught heavy fog with moisture
enough to wet through the thickest clothing
in brief space of time. This interfered with
the success of the fireworks and reduced the
crowds which would otherwise have gathered
at the band concerts. Still the as. emblies
were respectable. The Portland Band was
stationed at the head of India street, and gave
some of their best music until 10 O'Clock. At
ter this, they, with few friends of the host
were most generously entertained by Council
man John w. SWEET of Ward q The Var
mouth Band were stationed at the head of
High street and drew together large crowd
by their excellent music. The public display
Of fireworks was eclipsed by that Of daring
man named Fuller, who lives on Congress
street, near the head of Casco He succeeded
in drawing off alarge majority of the people
from Congress Square.
ACCIDENTS.
There seemed to be more than the usual
number OF accidents or else more came to our
than usual. A Mr.. Quincy OF
left his he rse and wagon at the
door of Messrs. Nash's stove store on Ex-
change street for few moments, when the
horse, which was blind, was frightened by the
explosion of some fre-cra ckers ran on 10 the
pavement where be slipped and put his head
through the Nash's window, breaking two
arge squares Of glass, and threw Mrs. Quincy
rom the wagon, tanning her side and shoulder
BADLY. A little son of Mr.. John D. Lord, liv-
ng on Paris street had an eye injured by the
explosion of fre-cracker, but will save the
light. boy named Mccarthy, living on Cen
re street, was badly burned in the face by the
explosion of small vial of powder, and anotlh-
n named Sullivan was slightly injured, in
ront of the U. S. Hotel, by the explosion of
mall paper of powder with which he was load
ng pistol. Several other boys were injured
~ careless use of firearms or gunpowder.
CONCLUSION.
Never can we remember a noisier night than
he one that preceded the GLORIOUS Fourth,
Hardly had the midnight bell ceased before it
seemed as if besieging army had opened its
batteries upon doomed city. We never felt
~ popular authoress that "boys seem to have
'een born simply to answer the purpose in the
human economy that feas do in the animal
IS we tossed from side 10 side of the couch
Tainly woOing slumber. Fire crackers were
tut as pop-guns to the loud reports of cannon
md musketry, united With the bowls and
cheers of the midnight providers. How we
blessed our stars that the Fourth came but
,nce year. Frankly, however, it seems as if
i've o'clock in the morning is early enough for
he boys to commence their fun. There was
not as large crowd of people in from the
country, notwithstanding special trains were
run, but there were enough present to crowd
he streets towards night, steady stream of
filling the principal avenues. The
horse cars apparently did God business, and
\ great number of people visited Evergreen
Cemetery. One mistake in the days arrange
ments was forming two distinct professions of
the military and firemen, detracting from the
display, and crowding too many features of the
programme together. The committee of ar
engagements on bells, or the bell-ringers them
selves, have the heartfelt thanks of the citizens
uptown for shortening their part of the cele-
bration. in the morning. Take it all together
the day was not quite as great success as its
and we incline to the opinion
and always shall, that a fine display of fire.
works calls more people to the city than any
,ther entertainment that cen be provided, and
that it does not pay to try to do too much with
sum of money that is only large enough to
10 few things we'll. 1t is true that the fog of
Tuesday evening would not have benefited an
elaborate display of pyrotechnics. but it is not
oggy every Fourth of July night. There was
40 more intoxication than is common on the
Fourth, and only seventeen drunkards and
our dodgers were recorded at the station house
of the twenty-ioar hours ending at midnight.
The police performed their arduOus duties most
and are entitled to great credit for
the good order that generally prevailed.
The EXCURSION OF FOREST CITY TEMPLE
OFF HONOR to Lake Sebago yesterday, was pre-