The Portland daily press., 1872-05-22
Brief J0ttinQs

Brief J0ttinRs.
j. s. Bailey & Co., sold at auction YESTERDAY
the bennett farm, at Buxton, to j. NJ. Mar.
shall for $1,000 cash.
We understand that the Committee of EST.
mates of the City Council have reduced the es.
Inmates of the School Committee for the eur.
rent year $1,000; $25O0 on salaries, and $1,000 on
current expenses; making reduction of $1,000
from the school expenditures of last year.
Among the items in the School Committee
appropriations are $1,000 for wood contracted
for last season, and $25oO for steam heating ap.
paratus in some of the school houses.
The choir of the First Parish Church will
sing at the re-opening of the Baptist meeting
house at Buxton Centre to-day
Yesterday was an April day-all smiles and
tears A
= Bishop Bacon will lay the corner stone of q
French Catholic Church at Nashua, N. H.,
next Sunday forenoon, and in the afternoon
perform the same service for the French Cath.
ole population of Manchester
On Thursday next the young lady pupils Of
st. GATHERINGS Hall, Augusta, will visit Port
land, and unite with the boys of st. Angus
tines school in this city, in services at St Lukes
Cathedral. Bishop Nicely will oficiate.
The two-story house and lot No. Halls
Court was sold at auction yesterday, by f. o.
Bailey & Co., to John Murch, for $685.
The body of full grown female infant, in
an advanced stage of decomposition, was found
floating in the harbor yesterday. Coroner
Gould ordered it buried 4
George III. Bailey enters the brown mare
"Myra Shaw" for the five-year old purse at
Mystic Park races, commencing on the 18th
prox., and John May of Augusta, enters the
grey gelding whirlpool ,y-rt..r-
Mr.. VIM H. Sheridan, formerly of this city,
has been appointed General Superintendent of
the st. Joseph and Denver City Railroad Com
pany.
Arrangements have been made for a temper.
ance meeting at Yarmouth village next Friday
evening. j. X. Osgood, esq.,, of Gardiner, is to
address the meeting and form club, if desira.
BILE.
f. S. Warehouse of this city, and Mr.
Pratt, have been elected delegates from BowdoiI
College to the Alpha Delta Phi Convention t.
be held at Detroit tomorrow.
ScHUMAcHER's SALE OF PAINTINGS. thu
ConocIlOH VI paintings W Do SOlu aG Ocnu
macher's on Thursday is new landscape b,
Brown, numbered 1 ON the catalogue and en-
titled Lake Logano. 1t is fine little bit O
scenery, warm in tone and brilliant in colorine
1t represents tree-embowered cottage on tn,
border of the lake, with the ripping water il
the foreground and looking across to the fur
Their distance the snow-capped mountains ris
in majestic grandeur. j. B. Hudson, jr., ha
pleasant little piece, mo. SOY representing
bit of water with rocky bluff on the right
with clinging trees, dressed in gorgeous au
tumn colors. Mr.. Hudson has handled tn
subject with a great deal of skill. No. SO is
rural scene from G. j. Schumacher's pencil
The central point is a matched barn, with fe
male figures and flock of chickens in front
No. 8 is Island Pond twenty years ago, b!
grows better with acquaintance. 1t is faithful
and those who saw the spot, as we did, befor
it became railroad centre, will prize it for it
associations. Benjamin Champney contribute
No. 8, view of Osippee Valley; with a dec
autumn forest in the foreground, looking acros
the meadows to the hillsjin the distance. Nc
40 is view in Stowe, VT, by Gerry-a sum
mer picture, with excellent perspective, an
some remarkably fine tree studies. Bradbur,
of Hollis, whose forte is wild flowers, has tw,
entitled Wild Columbine and Forget Me Not
which are much admired. There are man.
other fine things in the collection, which ar
worth examination and purchase.