The Portland daily press., 1871-08-08

| Brief JOttings
The total amount of Internal Revenue taxes
assessed in this district for the past mouth wa.
$23. 2542S.
That excellent troupe, Skiff & Gaylord's AL
bion Minstrels will be at Music Hall, on the 18th
and 18th insts. People who invest in theil
tickets will get good performance and no dis
appointment.
The Cary Concert will be given on Monday
evening, Aug. 23d.
The receipts OF the Maine Missionary Society
durii the month OF July, were $685.
Allan Mail Steamship Prussian from Liver.
pool for Quebec, passed Father Point. Sunday
at p.m, with eighty-ore cabin and seven
hundred ar one steerage passengers.
A match game of base ball was played be-
tween the Deeiing and Enterprise clubs, Of
Deering, Saturday, resulting in victory for tho
latter by score of Al to %.
| A lad named Joseph Fonseca, son of the ci-
gar dealer under the United States Hotel, fell
from a tree Saturday, and fractured one of his
arms. DIR. Small attended him.
There is to be meeting at the st. Julian
Hotel, this afternoon at 8 o'clock, for the pur-
pose of forming State boating association.
Each club is requested to send two delegates.
Misses A. w. aud L. j. Cutler, Miss A. M.
Williams of Maine, and Miss Stanley of Au-
gusta, were at Geneva-on the 18th of July. AL
ford Dyer of Portland, and Col. Stowall of Au-
gusta, were registered IN Paris on the ed. At
London, at the same time were General Fran
els Fessenden and vile, and Miss Matte Fes-
sender. Miss S. T. Holt and Prof D. s. Talcott
and the Misses Talcott of Bangor, w. Woods,
of Maine, was in Liverpool on the 18th.
Mr.. Moore, of this city, is at Cherryfield,
with steam drill, deralin and nitro lycerine 10
clear out the falls on the Narragaugus.
William Davis, of Portland is at Cherry field,
canning blueberries. He expects to put up 200
bushels per day. Some of the families in that
vicinity earn from ten to fifteen dollars day
picking the berries.
The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association
are contemplating course of scientific lee.
lures the ensuing winter. --1 .-g
BusiEess will be good on the Portland and
Ogdensburg road to-day. Besides the regular
franc there will be excursion parties from
Hiram and Windham to Portland, from Port
land to the Lake. and the directors and invi6.d
guests who 60 to Conway to examine and test
the new iron bridge.
DR.. George B. Loring and family, Of Salem,
passed through this city, yesterday afternoon,
en- route from North Conway for home.
The o. s. Circuit and District Courts we're
In session, Yesterday, but no business of inter
est was transacted. s
Mechanics aall has been engaged by Post
Bosworth, and will hereafter be the heaeouar-
tiers of this organization. The knights Of Pyh-
las will also meet there
Quite a number left this city, yesterday
morning, for Alton Bay, where they enjoyed a
sail on the lake, and those that had no longer
time to spend at that charming resort, returned
last evening. The new arrangement of the
Portland and Rochester Railroads provides for
this excursion in single day.
AMERICAN MARBLES FOR DECORATIVE AR
cHIrEcTURE.-The new Custom House on
Fore street IL almost completed, and early in
the month of September our customs officials
will take possession of these elegant quarters.
The building will be the means of adding to
the value of property in that part of the town
by drawing around it and occupying lots but
buildings of a substantial and
imposing character. The architecture OF the
building, we think all must agree with us, is
good, the interior well-arranged and the mate |
rial-Concord grarite--of fine texture, pleas |
ing color and freedom from discoloring ele- |
ments. In selecting this granite Mr. Mullett,
the supervising architect has shown not only |
good taste but excellent judgment, and has ex-
hibited ono of our most elegant native building
materials, the supply of which is almost mex
and easily procured.
Visitors to.the principal room within few
days have been especially attracted by the
marble counters which the workmsn have just
put in place, and all unite in pronouncing
them them the most elegant interior finish ev-
er put into building in the United States.-
The base is dark veined marble, the piasters,
cornice and panels of red variegated, the bead
ing in the panels jet black and the counter |
slabs of soft grey or dove colored marble. The |
effect of the combination of colors and the |
rich material is very striking,
when viewed from the balcony of |
the hall. Naturally one supposes that great
expense was Incurred in the use of foreign
marble, imported at high cost, further in
creased by heavy duties But this is errOne-
GUS. This elegant material is the product of
New England, at point very near US and by
our railroad communications made available
to builders every day. The quarries from
which these marbles were taken are on an
island in Lake Champlain. The supply is said
to be very abundant, and the ledge crops out
also on the main land. 1t is not long since
this stone was discovered by the owner, Phil
adelphia gentleman, who submitted specimens
to Mr. Mullett. the supervising architect Of the
Treasury Department for his examination
AS Mr.. Mullett has for years been practically
testing the value of all our native building
stone he very quickly discovered the value OF
the Champlain marble and Portland is the first
city to possess this new and beautiful material
n its flushed state in public building, and
exhibit an article SO admirably adapted to dec.
orative architecture and destined to enter
largely inte the construction of public and first
class private edifices.
Foreign marbles pay duty Of fifty cents
per cubic foot and twenty per cent. ad valorem,
and SO we have been prohibited their use except
at an extravagant expense; but in the Cham
plain quarries we have rival with the finest
imported article, susceptible of a high finish
and at moderate cost. Eventually, we say. it
will come into general use, for though little
more costly in the beginning than iron or fine
woods, it has the advantage of variety of color,
durability, indestructibility by fire, and, unlike
iron, does not expand and contract with the
changes of temperature. 1t is worth some
thing to be enabled to place this valuable ma
terial at the command of the public and d.
minish, if not estop the demand on Europe
for choice material. +.a- as
SUDDEN Yesterday morning Cor
oner Hall was called to visit the body of
Patrick Kelley, who died suddenly at
his house on Washington street, al about quar-
ter past 9 o'clock. 1t appears that Kelley and
Michael McGrath had a drunken sqnabble on
Adams street about o'clock Sunday night, in
which Kelley was thrown violently to the
ground. He soon afterward went home intoxi-
Gated, and showing some slight bruises and
went to bed. In the night he became insensi.
ble,and his breathing stentorous. In the morn
ing DR.. Webster was sent for, but the man was
beyond aid. McGrath was arrested and lock-
ed up to await the result of the inquest. Cor
oner Hall summoned jury, but before taking
any testimony the body was given in charge of