The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-07-14
Brief Jotsings.

| The Women's Centennial Executive Com
mittee are to give centennial ball December
18th at City Hall, and children's fancy dress
party the next day at the same place.
The Boston & Maine Railroad Company give
free return tickets to all members of the Third
Maine Regiment passing over that road to at
tend the ninth annual reunion on the 9th and
2Sth inst.
The New Jerusalem Sabbath school 60 to
Little Chebeague on the barge Island Belle,
Thursday.
Officer Bell arrested Mathew McGlinchy,
Monday night, for an attempt to rob John F.
MeCarty
In communication from the Clerk of the
Biddeford Company, received yesterday, he
takes occasion to nail as false the report recent
ly published in the Biddeford Times in regard
to the treatment of that company in this city
on July 9TH. He has as yet been unable to
trace the report to any source, but he is very
emphatic in the denial.
A large crowd of people went to Peaks Is
land yesterday.
The number Of vacancies in the list of
school teachers given in the issue of
yesterday was incorrect, as quite number
of those named will not be filled, as the posi-
tions were merely temporary.
The suspension of Mr.. Henry T. Carter, en-
gagged in the manufacture of brushes, is an
nounced His liabilities are not large Mr..
Carter is confined to his residence by severe
illness.
The members of the Fraternity Lyceum are
requested to meet at the society rooms Friday
evening.
A temperance meeting will be held at Old
Orchard camp ground Sunday afternoon.
The Biddeford Times complains that the
shops in the grove at Old Orchard are kept OPP
en- Sunday and sell CIDER wine, etc, as freely
as any day in the week.
The regimental drum corps are requested to
meet at their armory to-nighe, as business of
great importance will be brought up
OBlTUARY.-All those who attended the Port
land School of Medical Instruction in 1864 will
emember as one Of the most brilliant, studous
and promising of the students of that year.
Frank Carter. They will be panied to learn
that he died on the 22d of June last in Roch.
ester, N. Y, where he had practiced his pro-
fession with eminent success since his gradual
tion. DR.. Carter was educated at Brown Uni
versiiy and received medical diplomas from two
of the oldest colleges in the country. He spent
several years in France and Germany, where
he pursued his studies, and on his return to this
country entered the I'D q. S. Infantry as sur
geon. At the conclusion Of the war he settled
in New York, where he gained an enviable
reputation in his profession and gave promise
of becoming one of its most marked men.
DR.. Garter possessed, in addition to his fine
professional qualifications, those qualities of
head and heart which endear man to his as
socates, and his death will be deeply felt by all
who were on intimate terms with him. The
brilliant promise of his youth was amply sus-
tanned by the performance of his manhood.
His kindness, sef-reliance, and sense of right.
qualities of peculiar worth in the profession
which he adorned, gave lhim a position with
those with whom he was brought into contact,
of which he and his friends have justly reason
to be proud. His loss will be mourned by all
who knew him.