The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-03-25
Brief JOttings.

Four hundred and fifty Detroit hogs paid
Sunday morning visit to Thompson s. Leigh
ton, pork packers of this city. They were per-
suaded to stop and see how the machinery for
chopping up polk worked.
The removal of liquors from one room to an
other of the City Building yesterday attracted
a crowd of thirsty looking individuals who
snuffed the air like warehouses;
The subscribers to the Lynch reception are
requested to meet at the parlors of the Fall
mouth House at 4.30 this afternoon.
Deering is getting as famous for town meet
ipgs as was Vallambrosa for leaves.
The want of library room is agitating the
M L. A.
There was collision between railroad car
and hay cart on Commercial street yesterday.
and the railway car was the sufferer! The hay
cart is to be patented.
A mscheivous. healthy boy, who is suffered
to run about the streets, is small fortune to a
tailor One spoiled a new suit of clothes or
Commercial street by getting one leg Of his
breeches caught in cart hook and then being
dragged through the mud for several rods.
The designations of deputy sheriffs Varney
and Brooks took effect Saturday. Capt. True
vacancies.
The most profane man who speaks the Eng
lish tongue couldn't by any possibility do JUS
tice to the condition of the crossings.
James o Brennan, descendent of Nal, the
great monarch of ireland, who conquered the
Romans in 401, is wearing the shamrock in re-
membrane of the 18th of March.
Yesterday was notable for nothing but for
being the oath of March. 1t was peculiar in
that respect, and no other day in the whole
year. we venture to say, can dispute its claim.
Arrangements have been made for the admis-
sou OF pupils of the public schools to Prof
Churchill's reading, at a r duced rate. A very
large attendance is looked forward to. The
reading will be given at City Hall on Thursday
evening" and not on Wednesday as has been
advertised.
A rough clad man, wearing a smoking cap
upon his head, amused himself while walking
down Exchange street last evening, by shaking
his fist at the shop windows he passed. 1t
seemed to do him heaps of good.
What does s. d. G. mean? Some dramatic
club Or small dramatic club,or sprightly dram
ATTIC club, or-or-what does it mean?
The Nation and the Atlantic are having a
passage at arms regarding John X. Paine's
oratoro of 'St. Peter" but both agree in pro-
nouncing it the most important musical work
ever produced in this country.
The Atlantic Car Company have completed
four frst-class passengers cars for the Eastern
railroad, which are said to be of elegant design
and workmanship They are the first cars that
have been built at the Atlantic Works.
Twenty-Five hogsheads of molasses went to
sweeten the briny ocean Sunday night. They
formed part of the cargo of the 'Linoke"
The prospect is good that the county iail IL
brary will reach the size of the Bodleian. The
ten cent fees exacted of the immense numbers
of women who throng to see Wagner, already
amount to huge sum- Some advocate applv.
ing it to the liquidation of the county debt.
Two gentlemen from the church of the Pill.
grims, were at State street church Sunday in
search of pastor
We are authorized to state that the staamer
Lewiston will continue on her present route
between this city and Machias, and that be,
owners have no intention of selling her to apy
other line.
The prospects for Wagner's acouittal ar.
Frightening. Six doctors have examined the
blood on his clothes and pronounced it human
so of course it isn't as six other doctors will
presently swear.