The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-03-13
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up again.
The market is almost bare of corn. The ad-
verse winds has delayed the arrival of cargoes
and railroad receipts have been interrupted by
the snow blockades.
A large number of the subordinate city
officers elected on Monday evening were quail
fed yesterday. 90 o. -. ffF
Harry Brown has sold his ''Venice" and
Lake Como" which have been on exhibition
at Schumacher's, to gentleman in Boston.
Irving Blake, Esq, sold to packing concern
in this city eight hogs, raised by himself at his
bakery on Congress street, the average weight
of which, when dressed was 51S pounds. We
are ready to hear from the rural districts
The house of Henry Green, on Pine street,
was besmeared with asphaltum few nights
ago by some rowdies without apparent cause.
Mr. r. H. Howard. one of the conductors,
has joined a ring. 1t is diamond, and some of
his friends are responsible for it,
Sixty members of the Hayden Association
have expressed a willingness to join Gilmore's
great musical jubilee in Boston.
The new organ in the Free street Baptist
Church will be exhibited on Friday ev ening by
Dudley Buck s. .......t.r.g t.. sl.
appointed committee to present plan for the
formation of a building fund.
For particulars of the disaster to schooner
Silver Bell see marine news.
sold Probabilities owes an apology for not
warning the people of yesterdays storm.
The Portland Band has volunteered its SER
vices to play on the occasion of Mr.. Coles ben
eft at Lancaster Hall this evening
The last of the series Of Odd Fellows As
semblies will be held at Fluent Hall on Thurs
day evening, and ticket holders are desired to
bear this in mind.
Two trips per week will be made by the
steamers of the International Line between
Portland and st. John on and after the 18th inst
MARINE DIsAsTER.-Brig Antilles, of this
port, from Elizabethport for Portland, via New
York, with cargo of coal, left the latter port
on the LIST under charge of the mate. Went in
to Vineyard Haven on account of bad weather,
and in continuing her voyage took gale in
Massachusetts Bay, with exceedingly cold
weather On the 9Th made Cape Elizabeth
lights, but the weather continuing cold, the
vessel made ice rapidly and became leaky and
almost unmanageable. Found it impossible to
most exhausted and the condition of the vessel
becoming hourly more critical, put to sea and
ran down to the Gulf stream in 800 and thawed
out the vessel. Went about and resumed the
voyage. The cold and stormy weather contnu-
ing, ice formed again and the acting master
laid away for Monhegan in order to get good
position; then steered for Portland Arrived off
the Cape Monday night and anchored off Sim
onton's Cove. At daylight yesterday morning
signals of distress were made. The tug War
rior went down and towed her up and she at
once went into berth and began discharging.-
The mate reports the voyage as one of the hard
est he ever experienced Fortunately none of
the crew were frost-btten.
The past two weeks has been unusually severe
on the coast, and almost every vessel that has
arrived at the New England ports report storms
and exceedingly cold weather
REV. DIR. BoLLEs' LEcTUREs.-This course
OF intellectual entertainments at Fluent Hall
will close tonight; and the speaker has an
nounced that he has kept the most brilliant and
interesting things for the last. He has opened
to the inspection of his audience some of the
mysteries of vegetable and animal life, and
will tonight direct their attention to OPTICS in
Producing as a means of conducting his expert
ments the most powerful electric light ever
shown in this country, compared with which the
calcium light heretofore used by him is almost
insignificant By the use of this and the oxy-hy-
drogen light the phenomena and properties of
polarized light and its application to the mi
croscope will be shown, and the process of crys-
talization illustrated, retaining all the brilliant
colors of the materials. A portion of the even
ing will be given to an explanation of the
spectroscope and its application to spectrum
analysis, by which the light of the heavenly
bodies may be decomposed to thousands of
lines and the the chemical constituents of sub
stances may be determined by examining the
spectra of their vapors
The apparatus and materials to be used at
this lecture are large and expensive, and the
cost of preparation is heavy; but those who
have attended the previous lectures are assured
that the promised entertainment will far ex-
seed in beauty and interest those that have
been given. Each ticket-holder therefore should
secure the attendance of friend and allow
him to share in the enjoyment of the evening.
THE RAHRoADs-The storm of rain, succeed
ed by freezing weather on Monday, seriously
impeded travel on some of the railroads. On
the Grand Trunk the track froze up and for
distance of ten miles gang of men was EN-
ployed with picks. The train due from Mon
treal at o'clock Monday afternoon did not get
through until about 8 o'clock Tuesday morning.
The trains yesterday were delayed only about
an hour 'e
The axle of westem-bound freight train on
the Maine Central road broke about mile be-
low Gardiner yesterday at II o'clock and the
train of twelve cars was thrown from the track
and piled up. The consequence was that the
road was INSTRUCTED for about five hours. The
western passenger train could not leave there
until little before 8 o'clock, aud crossed the
eastern bound train at South Gardiner A
special was made up at Brunswick and brought
through the passenger from Bath and those by
the Androscoggin road, arriving at Portland
about four o'clock, over an hour behind time
DELEHANTY, HENGLER & SPAULDINGs Con
soLIDATIoN-This mammoth company was
greeted with another large audience at Music
Hall last evening, and the performance was
first class in every respect Delehanty and
Hengler, the acknowledged champions of the
United States song and dance artists were
repeatedly encored in their beautiful songs and
dance. Miss Georgia Dean Spaulding, the