The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-20
Brief LOtfiuaS.


Brief lettings.
There will be Washingtonian temperance
meeting this evening at the Allen Mission
Chapel Locust street. Addresses by Francis
Murphy and others. The public are cordially
invited.
There 10 painful report that VIM. L. South
ard, formerly wholesale merchant in Portland,
is an inmate of the Lunatic Asylum at Somer-
vile, Mass
Rev. DR.. James Pratt has given St. Stephen
parish 800 towards building new lecture
room. lt
Rev. George C. Needham, ''the Evangelist, -
preached at Woodford's Corner yesterday.
John Cummings, who was hurt by a fall on
board one of the New York steamers, two
weeks ago, died Saturday. -i
The President and several of the directors of
the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad, leave
this morning for an examination of the project
ed line from Swanton to Ogdensburg. rr.s..r
Mrs. Louise s. Mariner of San Francisco, and
vited to join the bouquet of artists" at the
Boston Jubilee. 1t is proposed to give her a
complimentary concert on her departure for the
east -
A welcome visitant-the rain. ta
Fifteen cargoes of coal, three of pig iron, one
of nails, two of SALT one of hard pine lumber
and one of corn have arrived at this port since
Saturday morning. .I
Another mass temperance meeting will be
held at City Hail. Thursday evening. Hon. r.
H. Hubbard of Biddeford, will speak.
Two lots of land on Deering street, 80 by 100
feet each, were sold at auction ON Saturday, by
F. o. Bailey & Co., to R. o. Conant, for rs
cents a foot hf ,51l -i..l. 49, .t-.
Steamship Prussian, from Liverpool for Que
ec,passed Farther Point on Saturday morning,
with 80 cabin and $50 steerage passengers.
Consul Murray is to read at Westbrook Sem
mary this evening B8e. SAa44Ah
Ex-Deputy Marshal Wentworth has been ap-
pointed on the Boston police force.
Steamer Sebago, on Lake Sebago, will begin
her trips to-day.
A splendid locomotive, built at the shop of
the Portland, Saeo and Portsmouth railroad
company, at Cape Elizabeth, under the charge
of Mr.. John Donnell, has been named the
Francis Chase, by permission of President
Lothrop; which is well-mented compliment to
the energetic and successful Superintendent of
the road
The new tug-boat VIM. II. Scott, made trip
down the harbor Saturday with party ON
board. She did sixteen miles in an hour, which
stamps her as one of the fastest boats in the
harbor. PM .-
Thirteen children were born on board steam
ship Scandinavian ON her last passage from
Liverpool to Quebec
Henry C. Houston has been presented with
handsome cane by his comrades of Post Bos-
worth, as a recognition of his earnest efforts in
advancing the interests of the order.
At the India Street Uniyersalist church next
Sunday morning the services will have special
reference to Memorial Day Post Bosworth
will attend in body.
David Rice, who has been an inmate of the
Aims House for number of years, where he
has been supported by his friends died Sunday,
aged over so. --.t-s--s Ttf.Ert EHETHI
A case of varioloid made its appearance at
the corner of Oak and Cumberland streets on
Saturday. The person, a Mr.. Holland, was
taken few weeks ago, and it was not ascer-
tanned by his physicians until Saturday, wheth-
er his illness was measles or small pox. He was
at once taken to the City Hospital and the
house fumigated by the health officers.
Some changes are contemplated in the en-
Payments of the State Reform School. Here
tofore many of the boys have been kept in the
workshops all the year round. 1t is now pro-
posed to put them to farm work in the sum-
mer and increase the department of the farm
Additional machinery for the manufacture of
shoes is to be put into the shop.
Hard coal has fallen one dollar ton in this
market. -.. .-..l ..1.-..
On dit that the Star editorial force is to be in
creased, and chat it is to come out as an organ
of H. G.
The gross receipts of the State street fair and
festival for the benefit of the Williston Chapel,
last week, were about $780, ..
The Saco River train on the Portland and
Rochester which has left here at $50 p. M, will
hereafter leave at go
WHITsUNDAY.-Yesterday the Anglican and
Romish churches in this city celebrated the fes-
tival of Whitsunday, which commentaries the
miraculous descent of the Holy Ghost upon the
apostles. Special services of the most joyous
character are appointed for this day. In the
afternoon the Sunday Schools connected with
St Luke's and st. Pauls churches observed
their anniversaries. In the former prizes were
distributed 10 JHe various Glasses, anu tueIe
was very pretty display of flowers The of
ferings of this school for the past year amount
ed to $3.50. At st. PauPs there was an elabor-
ate display of rich flowers, and the ceremonies
were of great interest At both places, before
the festivities begun, a number of infants were
baptized.
FATAL ACcIDEET.-Thomas w. Carr, a labor
er, living on Congress street above Washington,
met with serious and probably fatal mishap
at his house early Sunday morning by falling
from the attic window to the concrete sidewalk
below, distance of about thirty feet. His left
arm was broken, the left side badly bruised
and internal injuries received which the physi-
clan says will prove fatal. Carr accounts foi
the accident by saying that he had been work
ing all day Saturday upon ladder, and being
very tired at night laid down upon chest neal
the window, which was partly open. He
dreamed that he was at work again and rose
up, pushed up the window, and stepped out, al
he imagined, to go down the ladder. .H .