The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-12

The Portland table at the Homeopathic Fair
in Boston will be in Music Hall, and numbered
q.
Portland firm is about to start lobster
factory at Searsport They will employ about
twenty-five hands, to be under the manage
ment of Mr.. J. Ford of That place
The exercises at City Hall this evening will
be interspersed with good orchestral selections.
Sea fowl are now abundant among the islands
in the harbor.
The bark Ranger, from Newport, England,
with $40 tons iron rails for the Boston & Maine
Railroad, arrived at this port Wednesday night.
The value of dumb-bells as a means of daily
exercise will be fully illustrated by the Bow
doin gymnasts at City Hall this evening
Sheriff Perry yesterday made three seizures
as follows:-About ninety gallons of liquor
from John h. Costello, on Fore street; five gal
Ions from f. f. Birmingham, same street, and
small quantity at Bridget Moles', on Com
mercial street.
The Directors of the Mercantile Library As
ISOLATION will hold meeting this evening to
complete the organization of the Association
The gymnastic tricks of the circus ring will
be rivaled at City Hall this evening
A splendid crayon portrait of the late Hon.
Eiiphalet Greedy is in Hale's window.
The steamer Carlotta, from Halifax, brought
122 passengers yesterday @-
Mile. Zoe, the pantominist and danseuse,
with good company, will open at Music Hall
shortly
A car will henceforth be run over the Horse
Railroad from this city to MorrilPs Corner,
leaving this city at 9.15 p. M.
1t is to be hoped that the Bowdoin boys will
receive liberal patronage at City Hall this
evening, for the testimony is that they are more
than ordinarily good in the performance of
athletic exercises.
The celebrated Jubilee singers appear at City
Hall ON Monday, the Odd inst. on the 25th the
"Haymakers'' will be repeated; and the Odd
Fellows hold Convention on the 26th.
An extra rehearsal of the Arion Club will
take place this friday evening, and full at
tendance is requested.
II should think you would be afraid of break
ing" said visitor at the circus to the Clown.
"Why?" was the reply. Because you are a
lumber" This joke was made long before a
gymnasium was established at Bowdoin.
Capt. Treadway yesterday relieved Capt.
Henriques of the command of the revenue
steamer McCulloch, and the latter gentleman
departed for his new station on Lake Ontario.
Capt. Henriques' friends part from him with
regret, for our station has been favored, in his
presence, with an able officer and thorough
gentleman.
1t will be seen by advertisement that Bos-
worth Post No. 2, G. A. R., commence the sale
of reserved seats for the Drummer Boy to.
morrow morning at Stockbridge's
waiting" is the title of fiue piece of piano
music just published, composed by the .popu'
lar writer G. d. Wilson author of Shepherd
Boy. Can be obtained of Halves & Cragin
Congressman Lynch presented in the House
Wednesday, the petition of the Stone Ware
Manufacturers of Cumberland county, praying
for an increase of the duty ON stone ware; re
ferred to the Committee of Ways and Means.
The Rossini Club will give Soiree Musicale
April 18th, in their room in City Building A
limited number of tickets may be found a
Stockbridge's to-day and to-norro.o. Seats re
served without extra charge. Concert to com
mence at eight o'clock.
Mr.. Fitch will begin another term of his
afternoon singing school for children mex
Wednesday. M
Only four arrests for drunkenness have beer
made by the Portland police within the pas
seven days.
The Bowdoin boys look to the citizens Of
Portland for a generous patronage tonight
They have prepared splendid programme.