The Portland daily press., 1872-03-07
Mr. md Mrs. w. j. Florence.

The announcement that those distinguished
actors are to play a brief engagement of two
nights at Music Hall on Friday and Saturday
evenings will be hailed by theatre goers with
delight and to predict that crowded houses will
| greet them is perfectly safe on our part. The
play to be presented by them is the thrilling
sensational Irish drama by Edmund Falconer,
entitled eileen Oge" or "Dark's the Hour be-
fore the Dawn" and is of the same class with
the colleen Bawn," peep O. Day, ETC.
The story goes that Patrick ODonnell a
young gentleman farmer of the old stock, and
Eileen Moriarty, the daughter OF another gem
tleman farmer are betrothed to each other.
Henry LOTUS, ESQ.,, the landed proprietor falls
in love with Eileen. Patricks lease runs
out and through the intervention of Rev. MIR.
Mahoney, the village priest, and Eileen's father
the lease is extended by LOTUS. But Lotus is
DESTROYS to get Eileen for his own wife and his
steward, Maclean, consnmmate villain. plans
q way. When Patrick desired an extension of
his lease he wrote Lotus a manly letter to that
effect This letter Machian secures and hand
ing it to his clerk, Tim, skilful penman in
duces him to counterfeit the handwriting in a
letter purporting to come from Patrick to Lof-
tus threatening his life if he does not extend
his lease. By the laws of Ireland such letter
is punished by exile. Patrick is-therefore ar
rested and sent off for term of years. He es-
"
counters Bryan O'Farrell, q broth of boy, who
takes letter from him to his sister announcing
his return and requesting an interview in an old
NM. Machian intercepts the letter and con-
ceives the project of cooking Patrioks goose for
him. He therefore reaches the mill in company
with McSham, bailitf, and hides so as to catch
Patrick when he arrives at the rendezvous. In
hiding the bailitf leaves his pistol on the table.
Patrick comes in along with Bryan and after
little talk, Bryan leaves Patrick alone The
Dallitf and Machian rusb pa trick and cblpro-
form him and then throw him into the mill
stream, after which the bailiff goes off. At
this junction in comes Miss O'Donnell to meet
her brother. She is seized by Machian but
with the bailiffs pistol Bryan then starts for
home, but on his way discovers Patrick in the
mill-stream and rescues him before life is ex-
tnct. just as LOTUS is about to marry Eileen
(who has been induced to marry him through
the urgent entreaties of her father, who has
lost his property through reverses) the soldiers
come in and arrest him for plotting with Ma
chan against the life of Patrick, Maehian hav-
ing sufficiently recovered to turn States evil
dence The play ends with virtue triumphant,
Patrick marrying ELLEN and Bryan Bridget.
All is lovely and the curtain falls with every
body happy that ought to be. -
Messrs Kurdish and Wilson announce that
frst-rate company will support Mr.. and Mrs.
Florence and the reserved seats will be for sale
at the theatre at ten o'clock this morning
THE Loss OF BARK MARY c. Fox.-Capt
Ross of the bark Mary c. Fox, of this port, re-
ports that in the binding snow-storm Saturday
night, the bark gave heavy lurch, shifting her
cargo of COAL which threw the vessel on her
beam ends, the sea sweeping the decks and
breaking the boats. The crew worked all night
trying to turn the coal but we unable to right
her .. -''"
At daylight on the 3rd all hands were at the
pumps. At 8 a. m, cut away the mainmast
and righted the ship; got the ship before the
wind and headed for land. At 330p. M, off
Nauset steamer Norwich came alongside and
took us in tow. Some of the crew was shipped
by the steamer. As the steamer started ahead
the bark nearly capsized, was half full of water
and unmanageable. A heavy sea parted the
hawser five times, but finally succeeded in get
ting on the shoals, one mile from Pollock Rip {
light ship, where she struck bottom and came
to an anchor. At 2p M, on Monday, the
steamer sent more men aboard to work the
pumps, and at O'clock got the bark under way
in tow for Vineyard harbor. At $50 o'clock
the steamer was signalled that the bark was
sinking. Capt. Hines of the steamer sent
boat which took off the crew, and at the same
time tried to get the bark in shoal water, but
the hawser parted, and at 745 the bark sunk in
4 1-2 fathoms