The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-15
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"Mind Your Own Business.o
City Hall was well filled last evening by an
audience assembled to hear the Rev. c. NJ. Pit
blado, the Canadian pulpit orator, who has won
the title of the Provincial Beeeher. Mr. Pit
blade is man of peculiar presence, slender,
well built form, tall, narrow head, and deep-set
eyes, and wears the English style of ''muttcn
chop whskers. His Voice is strong, but has
about it sort of muffled sound like funeral
drum, and its slightly nasal twang gives the
impression that it was nourished on the tradl-
tional east winds and Goldfish of New England.
| Many of the audience said it was the Scotch ac-
cent The speaker belongs to the school OF
theatrical theologans, and has many little
! tricks of voice and gesture which are very TAX
| ing TO a miscellaneous audience He has most
| remarkable manner of clothing truisms in
| novel garb, so that you eagerly accept his ideas
as something new. 1t not until you have
had time to think them over that you bacome
conscious of having heard them thousand
times before.
The title of the lecture was string upon
which he strung well considered reflections IN.
on morals and society, and keen thrusts at
sham and hypocrisy. The effort abounded in
strongly drawn and highly colored pictures, in
really magnificent diatribes against the pre-
vailiug sins of omission and commission. and
in sound and admirably phrased advice. 1t
was plentifully besprinkled with humorous an
ecdotes, in the telling Of which the speaker ex-
cells. A slight hesitation and peculiar drawl
lends an added point to them. The ludicrous,
and very often grotesque, ideas advanced, high
| ly pleased the audience, which greeted them with
shouts of laughter The stories were mingled
with much fiery invectye, and with many
grandliloquent outbursts. He has a peculiar
| aptitude for sarcasm, and made many really
admirable hits. After the manner of his schoo,
he deals much in forms of exaggeration TAX
ing it as whole the lecture was very able eff
fort, and one which well repaid the listening to-
The speaker deserves the encomiums which
have been showered upon him by the colonial
press.
The way to mind your own business, accord
ing to his idea, is to mind your own business:
that is, to devote yourself with your whole
heart to whatever you undertake. This the
speaker held to be the key note of success, and
he desired especially to impress it upon young
men. He illustrated his position by many
well-known examples, and by many apt a nee
dotes
BOARD OF TFADE.-A special meeting of the
Board of Trade was held at II a. M, yesterday,
President Hersey in the chair.
The following names were proposed for men,
bership: James H. Smith, Daniel W. Ames,
Micah Sampson, VIM. A. Winship and Ed
ward I. Patten.
| The following resolution was offered in refer
erence to the proposed visit, in August, of the
| American Association for the Advancement of
Science. Adopted:
Whereas The American Association for the
Advancement of Science will hold its next
annual meeting in this city on the Doth of Au-
| gust, 1873 therefore
| ReSoLOed That this Board recognizes the i'm
portance of the work in which it is engaged, as
well to material interests as to pure science,
| and that its members are the most distinguish
| ed names in science, in America; and further,
| that the fact of the mbling in this city, of
so many eminent men from all sections of the
United States and the Dominion of Canada,
must be of advantage to it in many ways; and
| will readily and cheerfuly cooperate with other
| Associations, and with the CITY Government in
| extending welcome to the members of this
Society to this city, and in making such ar
rangements for their meeting and accommoda-
ton as may be suitable and necessary.
Mr.. w. S. Dana reported that the Board of
Manufactures would be ready to report at the
first regular meeting in acknowledgement.
BIsBEE LITERARY UNIoN.-Thc members of
the Congress Square Universalist Society held
reunion last evening at the pleasant and COM
modious vestry of the society. A sumptuous
supper was partakcn of by all present, after
which a committee ON drafting form of con-
stitution presented their report, which was &C
cepted. A committee ON nomination of officers
was raised. Rev. Mr.. Gibbs made some inter.
esting remarks, in which he alluded to the OBJ
jects to be subserved by the formation of such
a literary society, and gave the reason for TAX
ing the name of Rev. Mr. Bsbee, who was the
talented, eloquent and scholarly second pastor
of this society.
Ex-Gov. Washburne also seconded the re-
| marks of Mr. Gibbs.
The officers nominated Were then elected
After this business was finished, the celebrat-
ed Bardell-Pickwick trial scene was enacted
for the entertainment of the company, and it
hardly necessary to say that it created great
amusement