The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-10


improved condition and his friends are begin
ming to entertain slight hopes of his recovery.
THE parish of the Pavilion Congregational
church will no doubt hail with pleasure the
advent of their new pastor, who is to COM
mence his labors there next Sunday.
THE funeral of Dr. Allen of Saco took place
yesterday afternoon the ceremonies being con-
Quoted by the 1. o. o. F. of which body he was
a worthy member. The funeral sermon was
preached by Rev. Mr.. Weber, pastor of the
Free Baptist church.
IT is under consideration to furnish the City
Hall, Biddeford, with new stage, scenery and
stage appointments. With these improve
ments this hall will be undoubtedly one of the
best halls in the State and will offer an addi-
tional attraction to travelling companies
FEDERAL APPOINTMENTs.-It is generally
understood that Thomas H. Cole of Biddeford
and Moses Lowell of Saco will succeed to the
position of Collector and Deputy Collector of
the port OF Saco, in the place of Messrs Chad
bourne and Beattie, resigned
Two days of warm drizzling rain, mingled
with fog, have caused the snow in this vicinity
to disappear as if by magic, and its place to be
supplied with mud-the muddiest kind of mud
in the streets. The river has also received
considerable reinforcements and marked rise
is noticed.
PROF. TRIP delivers tonight the third of
his grand descriptive SERIES of lectures
These lectures are very favorably received
wherever delivered. The Professor has ex-
pended vast deal of labor upon them, and
and Astounding as they do in vivid pictures of
the events which they describe-to many of
which he was himself an eye witness-they
cannot fail to crafty and instruct.
WORK SUspENDED.-Work has been sum-
marily stopped on the centre pier of the Gooch
Island Bridge, the run by which the stone was
conveyed to the work, having been carried
away by the ice The derrick was expeditions
ly taken down and secured. 1t will be impos-
sible to resume operations at this point until
the water subsidies and the river becomes free
from ice. A few days more would have sufficed
to complete the work.
WATER SUPPLY.-Though the city of Bidde-
ford as yet, does not draw upon any lake or
pond for that indispensable fluid, water; yet a
reservoir is established upon hill in the very
centre OF the city; and several houses among
them the Biddeford House receive their supply
from it. The reservoir itself is supplied from
the river by the force pumps of the Water
Power Company. 1t is suggested that water
ing trough in some convenient location, to re-
ceive its supply from this source, would be very
desirable. Hve E
The following statistics furnished us by
Grand Secretary B. f. Hamilton, show the Or
der to be in flourishing condition.
The whole number of Lodges of Good Temp
lars in the State at present is 295. Thirty-onc
new Lodges have been instituted the past year.
and fourteen have become extinct
The whole number of members at the close
OF last year was 81 ,554; for the present year it
reaches $500, showing an increase of 1876.
The number of deaths in the Order the past
year is 179, being about twenty per cent. greater
than for the year previous.