The Portland daily press., 1873-12-22

Brief J0ttings.
The upper end of Atlantic Wharf is being re-
banked, to pile material upon to rebuild
the wharf in the spring.
The gas is 10 be shnt off to-day from nine
o'clock until about noon, to connect the main
at the railroad crossing on Park street.
The steamer North American, Capt. Miller,
sailed Saturday night at nine O clock, with sew
en- cabin and twelve steerage passengers.
The meeting at the rooms of the M. L. A
Saturday evening to organize debating socie
~ adjourned without effeciing an organization
A boy on India street made himself obnOx-
ious Saturday by snow balling couple of young
colored women.
Owing to the severe indispositon of Gov.
Perham, he will be unable to deliver his lecture
in the India street Lyceum Course this even
ing. ID. H. Ingraham, esq.,, of Portland, has
been engaged to deliver his highly interesting
lecture entitled Architecture in Europe
Every one should go to Grand Army Hall to
night tosee the amusing play entitled Mr. Duck
lows Investments
The funeral services of the late Cyrus Ham
ilton were held yesterday morning at India
street church. Ligonia Lodge of Odd Fellows
q
There were about ten couples present at Ian.
caster Hall Saturday night, at the band prom
enade.
Miss Barb ur, of the Public Library, was run
over and knocked down by coal cart Saturday
as she was crossing Congress street by Kinds
rug store. Fortunately she was not seriously
injured
puug was badly smashed up on Middle
street Saturday night, occasioned by runaway
There are upwards of forty prisoners in the
Jail, and Nelse Leighton is the best behaved of
the lot
The Allen Missien was crowded to its ut
most capacity last evening, and the concert was
one of deep interest.
At the temperance meeting this evening at
Allen Mission earnest advocates of total absti-
nence will address the audience, and there will
also be singing and speaking by some orphan
children.
The steamer Express, bearing the flag at hal f
mast, took the body of the late Capt. Cyrus
Hamilton to Great Chebeague Island yesterday
for interment.
SACRED CoNCERT.-One of the most perfect
concerts of the season was given last evening
at the City Hall by the Beethoven Quintette
Club of Boston, assisted by Mrs. j. NJ. Osgood,
of the Old South Church, Boston. We may
consider ourselves very fortunate to have heard
Mrs. Osgood, as she was offered every induce
ment to sing with the Handel and Haydn So
ciety in the oratorio of the Messiah, given in
Boston last night, but being previously engag-
ed by Mr.. Jones, was obliged to decline. Her
voice is a remarkably clear and rich soprano
which was displayed to great advantage in
Longfellow's pathetic poem of ''The Reaper
and the flowers music by Balfe, and in Schu-
bert's lovely Ave Maria, which pieces gave to
the concert an air of sacredness otherwise lack
ing. Mrs. Osgood made very pleasant inn
preston upon the audience, being young, good
looking and possessing good taste in dress.
The Beethoven Quintette Club is already too
well known to Portland audiences to require
further commentator from us. Mr.. Rietzels
flute solo, from Rigoletto, was most beautiful
and would have been encored had the time not
been so limited. The browning feature of the
evening, however, was Mr.. Mullaly's violin
solo, "The Fantasia Capriccios," iof David
the late eminent professor of the Leipsic Con-
servatory Mr.. Mullaly's playing as nearly ap'
prOacneS perIectlOn as anything We nave hedIu
this season. He received an encore in answer
to which he played an "Elegie parVieux Temps.
Schumann's 'Traeumerei" being somewhat ia
miliar was appreciated and encored. Beethov-
ems music, however, appeared to be at dis
count.
Had this concert been given on weekday
instead of Sunday evening the audience would
have filled the hall to OVERLOOKING AS it was,
the attendance was excellent.