The Portland daily press., 1873-04-07
Brief JOfliuGs.

The Payso n Literary Society hold an enter
tainment at the Army s. Navy library room
this evening, at which members and invited
guests may expect good time.
There will be a temperance meeting at Allen
Mission Chapel tonight. Addresses by Rev.
G. w. Bicknell and Sergeant Amber
There were seyeraliiquor seizures made by the
county deputies Saturday.
Two large flocks of wild geese, bound for the
Canadas, passed over this city Saturday.
Several youths and maidens were '1ally-gag
ging" about the Park Saturday night, which
we take to be most pronounced harbinger
The bar at the Maine General Hospital head
quarters, under the Falmouth House, will, it is
to be hoped, become popular place of resort
for those who which to treat a friend to mod
est quencher
The house built in connection with the new
trotting park at Stevens Plains is nearly COM
pleted. 5V
The resolutions of the Committee of the
Cumberland Bar Association, relative to the
death of Fl. p. Deane, will be read in the Su-
perior Court tomorrow morning.
The Congress street horse cars now run on
wheels.
The Boston & Maine railroad isextending its
double track towards the Walker Honse
Yesterday was Palm Sunday, and was duly
observed by the Catholic and Episcopal
churches.
The current of Spring travel has fully set in,
and robins are now lodging in some of our
principal trees Sparows also made an ap-
pearance yesterday.
U'Thara 10 our Haudn Coo;o4r. xa,nro
Thespian Society: there is our Commercial
Club; there is our Nameless Club; there is our
Fair Association; but where! oh where are our
wColen, furniture, boot and shoe factories
grain elevators and Touring mills?'-Dauas
TEXAS NeaUs.
Boston papers assume that the Atlantic sur
vivors supposed Faneuil Hall to be church.
because they took off their hats when they en-
tered,-from which we infer that Bostonlans
wear their hats in all buildings except the
churches.
Boys have begun to trundle hoops on the
sidewalks.
The annual parish meeting of State street
church will be held this evening.
Mr.. Nelson Leighton took occasion to remark
Saturday night that the new police were worse
than the devil. No man in the city is probably
better qualified to pass judgment in the case.
The Sheriff and his deputies visited WASH
ington street Saturday night, and made five
liquor seizures in that locality
Rev. DR.. Hill delivered the initial sermon of
his First Parish pastorate yesterday.
The Y. NJ. c. A, are to open Sunday school
in their mission building, behring's bridge !
The last week, of course, didn't pass with
out an accident en- the Grand Trunk. This
time it occurred at Norton's Mill, and was
collision between passenger and freight
train. One passenger car was telescoped, but
no passengers were seriously hurt.
The Board of Manufactures organized Satur-
day. by the choice of c. P. Kmball for chair
man, c. E: Jose for vice chairman, and W. W.
Thomas Jr., for secretary.
Messrs. Joseph Wescott s. Son, of this city,
have been awarded the contract for supplying
the granite for the Girard Avenue bridge across
the Schuylkill at Philadelphia The granite is
to be quarried at Buehl and Bucks Harbor
The estimated cost of the bridge is 81, 800, 900.
Green grass is showing itself in the Park.
MrsW G. Beckett, the merchant tailor, is
making the new uniforms for the police
One of our citizens complains that the GUS
toms authorities are lax about allowing the en-
try of foreign vessels. He says there is great
danger of contiguous diseases being introduced
among us.
The transfer station of the Boston and Maine
was broken into early Saturday morning and
some baggage stolen
The third grand annual ball of the I. A. r.
A. comes off at City Hall the 14th inst An
exhibition drill will be given by the Sherid
Cadets
There were % arrests for Drunkenness be
tween Saturday and Sunday nights.
April squeezed out a few tears yesterday, but
what the Incomprehensible was weeping
for no one seemed to know.
Two intoxicated individuals strayed into the
police station last night, and were promptly
taken in charge by Uncle Oliver.