The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-01

| De SAID IN feSaru TO Tie COnuitou VI elO holSOo
in this city. There are new cases constantly
occurring the horses that are having the run
| of the disease being generally comfortable, and
some are improving. Quite number are dan
gerousy i'll, and are not expected to live. Dr.
| Eliphalet Clark lost his faithful animal that
| has done him so much service, yesterday, and
| four deaths are reported at the extreme West
| end Of the CITY, The horsemen have generally
| determined not to expose convalescent horses
| until they get their health and strength fully
restored for fear of relapse; the present sea
| son with its changeable temperature and raw
atmosphere being exceedingly unfavorable for
| weak animals.
The Fire Department has but two horses fit
for service; and the Chief Engineer appeals to
the citizens for help in case of necessity
Should an alarm of fire be given every able
bodied citizen is asked to assist in drawing the
steamers to the place. Drag-ropes have been
| provided, and we have no doubt that in an
emergency we shall find one of the largest and
most willing body of men responding to the
call that WIS ever seen in Portland.
We hear that most ridiculous stories have
been circulated abroad in regard to the extent
of the horse disease in town; among others,
that the oxen are afflicted. This is not true.
Those who have sound horses and desire to
come to town should not hesitate ON account of
the disease. The contagion is not confined to
localities. The most isolated places are visited
by it, and it is just rs safe to drive horse into
the city as it is to keep them in the barn; so
ones business should not be interrupted by fear
THE PEAKS ISLAND STREET.-We hear that
an order for laying out new street on Peaks
Island as prayed for will be introducedin the
Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Monday
evening The location, as surveyed by the City
Engineer, is acceptable to all the residents the
only question of difference among them being
the width Some desire that it should be 100
feet, while others are opposed to a thoroushfare
over 30 feet wide. A majority we hear, want
sixty feet. The great benefit that will accrue
to the island and the city from this street has
been presented in these columns and we hope
that the City Government in deciding the main
question will have the foresight to lay out the
way in such manner that hereafter no change
will be called for. 1t is easy now to settle the
question once for ALL By-and-by, when the
lots are occupied, it will be exceedingly costly
to widen. The expense of the street at the
present time will be comparatively nominal
RECEPTION OF THE CoNTINENTALs AT Bos-
ToN.-The Continentals speak in the highest
terms of the generous manner in which they
were received in Boston Wednesday night BY
some mistake Gen. Lawrences order for col
lation miscarred, but when he learned that the
boys had taken their place in line without sup
per, he went to Major Melcher and placed at
his disposal generous sum of money and sent
an aid with them to Williams Hall, where a
substantial collation. was obtained. The best
possible provision was made for them during
the night, and in the morning they breakfasted
at the Warwick House, the guests of DR. Shat
tuck, who commanded the division to which
they were assigned. OF course our boys are
loud in the ir praises of that gentleman, as they
should be; nor do they forget the compliment
Gen. Lawrence paid them by putting them in
so honorable position in the line.
A Coon MEDIcNE,-We ask those who are
afflicted with those terrible disorders, constpa
| ton and dyspepsia, to read the advertisement
| of Loring's Vegetable Specific for these COM
| plants. Mr.. L0ring has been a practical phar-
macist in this city for over twenty years. and
| in the daily practice of dispensing medicines
has had an opportunity to acquire knowledge
of almost all kinds of disease and the causes
which produce them. The medicine which he
adyeftises is the result of long and careful study
| and observation. Its virtues are attested in a
number of difficult and long-existing cases, and
the proprietor has many strong testimonials
from those who have used it. We can recon-
mend the Specific as an article of real merit,
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place implicit confidence.
The Popular Course Of Scientific Lectures
| at Music Hall
The fifth lecture of this course will be given
| this evening by Professor Bracket. His sub
ject will be the Spectroscopc, and will be amply
| and beautifully illustrated by experiments.
| Those who are acquainted with the operations
of this wonderful instrument will be sure to be
present; and to those of our citizens who have
| not pursued scientific research we will promise
rich entertainment, both from the expert
ments and the Professors explanations. We
hope the hall will be filed.
THE PORTLAND CONFERENCE.-The Bos-
ton Journal gives the Portland battalion, which
participated in the parade on Wednesday even
ing, the following notice:
This admirable Grant and Wilson organiza-
| ton has done yeoman service during the present
| campaign in Portland and vicinity. 1t is COM
posed of merchants and young men represent
| ing mainly the wholesale business OF Portland.
| They are fine, stalwart body of men, well
| drilled and generally veterans of the late war.
| Most of them belonged to the Commercial
| street continentals of 1863 They are organized
| as a battalion of four companies, Major II. 5.
| Melcher commandant, and Adjutant w. ii.
| Judkins.
THE stMERcANTILE'' COURSE OF LEcrU RES.
The Mercantile Library Association announce
he most attractive course of lectures this sea-
son ever before given, reference to their
advertisement in another column will clearly
demonstrate and the demand for tickets at
such low prices ought certainly to be such as to
completely fill the hall every night. The sale
of reserved seats will commence on Wednesday
morning next at O'clock a. M, at Stock
bridges music store Exchange. street.
Mrs STowEs READINGS : Mrs. Harriet
| Beecher Stowe has no superior as an authoress
in this country She has fine powers of descrip-
ton, keer appreciation of the humorous and
strong in argument, To her, perhaps, as much
as to any person, is the nation indebted for
some of the great reforms of the present gem
Grafton. But upon the platform she is mis-
placed and her achievements there will not win
her any additional fame.
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