The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-04-08
Brtet JOltiMRs.

The ladies of the Unitarian Circle, grateful
ly acknowledge the generous gift Of 100 spools
OF cotton from Cogia Hassan.
The Austrian, Capt. Wylie, sails for Liv-
erpool to-day. Mails close at the Post Office
at 2 P. NJ.
The Westport Bros will display their won
derful feats at Portland Music Hall tonight.
They claim to he equal to the Davenport Bros.
in their wonderful spiritual manifestations.
The house will be crowded.
Remember that the last of the Promenade
Concerts by Richardson's Quadrille Band
takes place at Lancaster Hall tonight. The
series will be ended by the grand Masquerade
Ball on Fast Night
Our readers must not forget the grand Eas-
ter Ball of the 1. A. r. A. at City Hall on
Monday evening. This is the eighth annual
ball of the nociety and they are always one of
the season in Portland. Chambers full Quad
rifle Band will furnish the music.
The grand ball OF the Emerald Boat Club on
Monday night at Fluent Hall will attract a
very handsome party. Be sure and secure
your tickets of the managers. Raymond's
Quadrile Band will furnish the music.
Ancient Harmony Society which has been SO
successful in pleasing all lovers of good music
are to give gratutious Concert at the Allen
Mission Chapel, next Monday. Proceeds for
the benefit of the Poor.
Halves & Cragin have received the Orphe,ss
for April.
Fine Spring day yesterday. Weather warm
and the thermometer stood at $50 at P. M.
Some five hundred emigrants from Nova
Scotia arrived here on tho steamer New
Brunswick yesterday on their way to Califor-
mia.
A despatch to the Merchants Exchange yes
tsrday says the barque Sunbeam was total
" wrecked in Pigan river on the 31st March
She belonged in Thomaston.
The Trustees of the State fund for the bene.
fit of the orphans of soldiers and seamen paid
out to thirty-nine families in this city yester-
day the sum of $40, in amounts of $40 or &12
to each family.
Messrs. Ford & Perry, two excellent practi-
cal printers, have established a general job
Office at No. 40 IL Exchange street We have
seen some very handsome work from their
presses.
The dramatic company under the manage.
ment of Mr.. John L. Hall, which pleased our
theatre-goe so much few weeks ago, are to
return to Portland on the 18th inst.
As team belonging to the Forest City Su'
gar Refinery was crossing the track of the
Portland & Ogdensburg railroad Thursday
the pole was struck by the train and the horses
were pushed along the track for some distance.
The harnesses were badly torn but the horses
escaped uninjured.
There will be temperance meeting at City
Hall Sunday evening. Addresses will be de-
hvered by Neal Dow, Rev. James M. Palmer
George l.. Kimball, and perhaps others. Sun
day after next Rev. Geo. III. Vibbert will lee
ture at the hall on "Young Women and In
temperance"
The Portland party that has gono to San
Francisco were at Laramie on the lat inst
halfway between Omaha and Salt Lake.
Kate Field lectures at City Hall on the 9th
inst.
The Annual Conference OF the Methodist
Church comes off at City Hall on the 29tl
inst.
Shaw's Quiptette Club give concert a
City Hall on Fast Night
We are glad to gee the Street COMMISSIONS
at work yesterday dwelling the ridges left b
the frost coming out of the ground, at the hea
of High street, SO that water could flow int
the cutters and not stagnate on the surface
the ground.
The Annual Session of the Grand Lodge
Good Templars will be held in this city ne'
week, commencing at clock 2. M. Wedne
day, and continuing through the next da
The sessions will be held in Fluents Hail. !
candidate for the chief office in the Gran
Lodge is Rev. David Boyd of Rockland.
A -simile autograph of Charles Dicken
on delicate scroll, enwreathed with Englis
holly, with the legend, "Keep my memor
ever green" suitable for framing, has lust bee
issued by Prang; also "The Storm is Coming
after James M. Hart, illustrative of the seer
in Thomson's Seasons" where
The cattle stood, and on the scowiing Seovons
Cast deploring eye, by man forsook eN'
The latter is to be seen at Schumacher's