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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-01

FREE DRAWING SCHOOL by referring to
the advertisement 10 another column it will be
seen that the free drawing school established
by the Maine Charitable Mechanics Associa-
ton last year is to be again opened to the pub
lie on the fifteenth of this month and be con-
tinued on Wednesday and Friday evenings
through the winter. This school was eminent
ly successful last winter, and though in the
nature of an experiment, the committee of
that year say in their report to the association,
that "fhe success that has attended the for.
nation and continuation of the school thus far
has made apparent the necessity for, and inn
portance of, such teaching as the association
has this year been able to offer to the public,
as also for its extension, so that it may uti-
mately more fully embody the idea had in view
in its establishment" and also expresses the
hope that "In the not very distant future, this
little school, inaugurated under such unpretend-
ing circumstances, may, year by year, grow TO
such magnitude and influence as to become not
only of good repute in our city and state, but
also an acknowledged, not less than important,
factor of education in mechanical pursuits
1t is the purpose of the committee this year to
widen its scope of usefulness should the pub
lie demand offer sufficient warrant therefor.
Hon. Warren johnson, State Superintendent
of Public Schools. in his report OF last year,
referring to this school says: ''The association
looking beyond the narrow limits of gifts for
physical sustenance merely. has attempted tn Q
experiment of meeting some of the intellectual
wants of adults by opening free school for
mechanical drawing chiefly. Knowing as do
the expressed wants of many of our mechan-
les in this dire ,tion, hail with great satisfac-
ton this attempt on the part of our education
al friends in Portland to supply these wants,
and to congratulate them on the success there
for attained, as the school is open to mechanics
from any pait of the state, and as towns are
now allowed by law to establish evening
schools for purposes similar to this school, l
have thought it desirable TO present this report
of voluntary effort outside of the public
school system, INDUCING the hope that the
two activities, public and private, might posi-
bly, be continued"
The full report of the associations commit
tee school, ito which Mr.. johnson hus alludes,
may be found in his report for 1875, pages 119,
121 and will well repay perusa
The school was largely attended last winter
and we commend the forts of the association
to faithfully discharge the self imposed duty
to the kindest consideration of the public sug-
costing to our citizens that during the progress
of The school they occasionally step in to wit
ness for themselves the practical benefit thus
gratuitousy offered to cur young men and me.
chanics.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-01

SUDDEN DEATH OF CORONER HALL-Coro-
ner Charles Ell. Hall died very suddenly at
Brunswick last night He went down with
tie Tilden Zouaves and was apparently in his
usual health. At about ten O'Clock, while
standing on the sidewalk looking at the pro-
cesson be was suddenly seized with fit and
fell. Water was brought and efforts made to
revive him, but to no avail, and be was carried
into the house of Mr.. Woodbury. Sweat, where
he died before medical assistance could be pro-
cured. The cause was doubtless apoplexy
His remains will be brought to this city this
morning.
Mr.. Hall was well known throughout the
city, having formerly been for several years
deputy marshal, and at the time of his decease
and for number of years previous coroner of
this county. He was about 67 years of age
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-01

MANY ladies complain of being defrauded in
buying spool silks, in some instances not get
ting more than half the plumber of yards rep
resented. Every spool of the EUREKA silk is
warranted full length and perfect in every re-
spect
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-01

REAL ESTATE SALES. The following are the
real estate transfers recorded in this county
Saturday:
Harrison-Lot of land from Oliver Edison to
Lizzie E. Allen.
Otisied-Lot of land ftom Benz. Stone Jr.
to Silas b Edwards
Scarborough-Lot of land containing nine
acres, with the buildings thereon from Chas
=. and Euoice Pillsbury to Howard L. Pills
huru
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-01

POSTERS and HAND-BILLS printed
/, M this Office.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-01

The lines are full and
complete, a large proper
ton of the goods having
been purchased within
sixty days. This fine
Stock amounting to at least
fifteen thousand dollars
will be thrown on the
market for the next three
weeks at a SLIGHT AD-
VANCE ON COST. All
intelligent People and
Candid Dealers must
acknowledge that prices
here quoted are ruinOus,
and il. continued must
terminate i'm Bankruptcy.
READ, Be ASTONTHED, and
WONDER.
Madame FOy's COrsets
for. 81 cts. each.
Fine w. Bone COrsets
from As cts. upwards.
Ladies' Heavy MerinO Vests
for 35 cts. each.
Ladies' Heavy MerinO Drawers
for 35 cts. each.
Ladies' Heavy Merino Vests
for so els. each.
Ladies' Heavy MerinO Drawers
for so cts. each.
Ladies' Heavy Cashmere Under
vests
for 81 cts. each.
Ladies' Heavy Cashmere Drawers
for 81 cts, each.
Gents Heavy Shirts & Drawers
from 35 cts. upwards.
ChiIdren's MerinO Vests
from 25 cts. upwards.
Boys Mixed Vests and Pants,
all sizes. 80 cts.
Children's New Britain Suits,
81 cts. and ST. 90 per suit.
Gents Heavy MerinO Hose
from Is cts. upwards.
Ladies' Heavy Cotton Hose,
10 cts. per pair.
Gents Heavy Shaker Hose
from Is cts. to so.
Ladies Wool BalmOral Hose
from 25 cts, upwards.
Ladies' Knit Jackets
from 50 cts. upwards.
so dOz. Canada Knit Hose
for so cts. per pair.
Best Quality Ball Yarn,
all cOI0rs, Is cts. ball.
Silk Lacing Cords,
all cOlOrS, 8 cts. per yard
Silk Tassels,
all cOIOrs, Sets. each.
Best Quality Dress Braid,
6 cts. a piece.
Bustles in fine variety,
from 30 cts. upwards
Unlaundried Gents Shirts,
Wamsutta. 50 cts 4 Sl.15 each.
Best English Needles Stuck,
4cis. IA paper
Splendid Line of Buttons,
~ to 21 cts
Trimming Buttons,
All our $l.OO Kid Gloves,
for IS cts.
Spool Silks,
all cOlors, for 8 els. a spool.
Space will not admit Of further quota.
tio1s. We exp cted to move to our new
store on the first of October; this we
| find is impO sSibte. We had part of our
| goods packed; we were compelled to un-
| pack them, and the result was, cur an
| CRY passions rose. We decided TO sell, il
possible, the entire stock at almost the
cost, and for short season do BUSI.
NESS FOR FUN. Where the fun comes
in, 'Dep0nent sayeth not"
Y0urs very respectfully,
j. I'll. Fitzgerald,
Cor. Myrtle 4 Congress Sts..
Portland, Me.
| BURT'S BOOTS
Reduced Prices
Our stock is now the largest and best in this
try, and while the Boots are decidedly better than
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-01
Sherif's Sale.

STATE OF MAINE,
CUMBERLAND, IS.
NVAKEN on execution in favor of Daniel z. Emery
i and Daniel F. Emery, Jr, against Woodbury.
S Mains, and will be sold by public auction to the
highest bidder. on SATURDAY, Nov 35th, A. d.
1876, at three ~ O'Clock in the afternoon, at the
Sherltf's office, in Portland, in said County, the
right to redeem the following real estate from the
following mortgages, namely A lot Of land with the
buildings thereon situated the Westerly side of
Plum Street, in Portland aforesaid; bounded, COM
mencng said street at the Northeastery corner
land or formerly OF Chas. Fobes; thence
Northerly by said street seventynine 79 feet eight
(S) inches to land of Portland Institute and Public
Library; thence by land of said Institute one hun
bred and twelve Q12) feet and six 6) inches thence
about eight ~ feet six @ inches to said Fobes land
thence hundred and twelve 12 feet six 10y inches
by said Fobes land to the first point subject to any
right which said Institute has in, to and over, a
strip the Northwest side thereof twelve az feet
in width on Plum street, and extending back to the
of said lot; being all the property conveyed
to said Mains by Clarissa CarIuthers and William
H. S. FrotbDgham
The mortgages referred to are one to Buxton &,
Hollis Savings Bank, dated January 26th, A. ID.
1876 and recorded in Cumberland Registry of Deeds
VOL 4i6, Page 525, and to Jacob e. Baker,
dated March oath. "a. D. 1875, recorded in said
Registry, Vol. 400, Page i66.
Dated at Portland the 23d day of October, A. D.
1876. MATT ADAMS,
w3w44 Deputy Sheriff.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-01
Army and NAVY Course.

The sale of seats for the annual course of en-
tertainments given under the auspices of the
Army and Navy Union will commence at their
hall this evening at o'clock The hall will be
open during the day and at o'clock in the af-
ternoon the committee will give out numbers to
all who come after that time. This arrange
ment will rot oblge the buyers TO remain SO
long in line, as they have only to present th-n.
selves at the desk when their number is called.
OF course there will be large sale, as the COM
mittee have prepared an unusually brilliant
series of concerts for the winter, and they pro-
pose later in the season to bring other first class
entertainments here and reserved seat ticket
holders will have the chacne to get tickets to
them at reduced rates. They are to give six
concerts, lecture by Rev. e II. Chaplin, who
stands foremost among the platform orators of
the day, an evening of select readings by Prof.
j. w Churchill, the best reader in New Egg
land.
Tie opening concert by Miss Emma c.
Thursby, Miss Anna Drasdil, VIM. j. Winch
and John f. WINCH with Hermann Kotzsch-
mar as accompanist, will be splendid enter
tainment, as the artists are among the best in
the country.
The second concert is by Mrs. Ell. M Smiih,
Miss Abby r. Clark, Mr.. w. HI. Fessenden and
NJ. w. Whitney. This concert will be sure to
draw packed house.
The third concert will be given by the Hyers
Sisters Concert Company, who gave such
pleasing entertainment in this course last sea-
son. Since they were here the company has
been strengthened by adding Miss May Dan.
ies, a Portlcnd singer, and Mr. Sam Lucas, the
greatest coored character artist in America.
The company will give the operetta written for
them, entitled "Out of Bondage The enter
tainment will close with grand concert.
The fourth concert will be by the Boston
Philharmonic Club, assisted by Miss McQuest-
en-, a noted singer of Boston. The club has
been reorganized since they were here, Mr.. AL
exander Freygarey, said to be the best harp
play er in the world, taking the place of Mr..
Gramm
The fifth concert will be given entirely by
home talent. Chambers full military bard
and orchestra with Miss Louise Linden, saxa-
phone solost and MIR. Fred Ter Linden and
Miss Linden, crystatophoue duet, will furnish
the Instrumental part of the programme, and
Miss Moody, Mrs. Cloudy, Mr.. Will Stockbridge
and w. S. Beckett will be the vocalists. For
the last concert the committee promise us
something fine and the people know they never
disappoint them.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-01
Wanted,

TITO purchase farm of 100 acres, less with
Il good buildings thereon. aud situated within 10
miles of Portland. Address,
w5w#45 BOX 1883, Portland.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-01

General Agent Of the Mutual Life Insur-
auce Company Of New York
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-01
M. @. M. A.

A STATED Meeting of the Maine Charitable
"A Mechanics Association, will be held in the
Library Room, Mechanics Building, THURSDAY
EVENING, Nov. 81, at u o'clock.
oc3ld3t r. B. SWIFT, Sec'y.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-01
Prices Reduced |!

We have succeeded in obtaining reduction i'll the
brices of Newark II cots of Is cents and
81 90 per pair, and at tue same time an i'm
provement in the manufacture, so that we are now
oc31dtf m. G. PALMER.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-23
The Last Time.

There is, says Bishop Foster, touch
of pathos about doing even the simplest
thing "for the last time" 1t is not
alone kissing the dead that gives You
this strange pain. You feel itwhen you
have looked your last time upon sone
scene you have loved-when you stand
in some quiet city street where you
know that you will never stand again.
The actor playing his part for the last
time; the singer whose voice is cracked
hopelessly, and who after this once will
never stand before the sea of upturned
faces disputing the plaudits with fresher
voices and fairer forms; the minister
who has preached his last sermon-these
all know the hidden bitterness of the
two words "never again" We put
away our boyish toys with an odd head
ache. We were too old to walk any
longer on our stilts-too old to play
marbles on the sidewalk. Yet there was
pang when we thought We had played
with our merry things for the last time,
and life's serious, grown up work was
waiting for us. Now we do not want
the lost toys back. Life has larger and
other playthings for us. May it not be
that these too shall seem, in the light OF
some far off day, as the boyish game
seems to our manhood, and we shall
learn that death is but the opening OF
the gate into the land of promise
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-23
A Conscientious Engineer.

Scr;bner's Monthly has the following
item Mr.. Peter A. Dey was the engi-
neer who surveyed and located the first
hundred miles CT the Union Pacific rail
road. He estimated its cost at not over
thirty thousand dollars mile. When
this estimate was shown to the directors
it was returned to him with orders to re-
touch it with higher colors, to put
in embankments on paper where none
existed on earth, and to make the old
embankments heavier, and to increase
the expense generally and then he was
requested to send in his estimate that it
would cost fifty thousand dollars mile.
When Mr.. Dey found that this part of
the road was to be let to parties at
$780, per mile, for work which he
knew could be done for $50, ,000-this
difference of$20, 600 mile amounting to
two millions of dolla on the first hun
dred miles, and to five millions ON the
two hundred and forty six miles-he re-
signed his position as chief engineer,
with letter to the president of the road.
He closed that letter thus
"My views of the Pacific road are,
perhaps, peculiar. look upon its
managers as trustees of the bounty of
Congress. YOU are, doubtless,
informed how disproportioned the
amount to be paid is to the work con-
tracted for. / need not expatiate on
the sincerity of my course, when you re-
fleet that have resigned the best posi-
tion in my profession this country has
offered to any man !"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-23
Pet Prairie Dogs,

We have great frolics with our little
prairie dogs, says correspondent. One
village, which was started by the intro
ductlon of six OF eight in our front
yard, now consists OF more than twenty
funny little creatures, whose antics and
gambols are equal to thoee of our house
strangers, and always seem to keep out
q picket guard to warn of the approach
ot foe. This guard changes, but is al
ways one of the old dogs. He remains
upright, watching while the others are
playing or feeding, and sounds his note
of warning by the utterance of success
sion of rapid squeaks or barks. At the
first sound the others Immediately
scamper like mice down their holes,
where they remain until the barking
ceases, when they timidly venture forth
again. Having habitually fed them,
they regard me as constant friend, and
my approach is the signal for the rally
ing of their forces around my feet.
They climb in my lap, up on my shoul-
der, impudently nibble my buttons or
fingers, while their inquisitive little
noses are shifting vigorously for the
cake or cracker which they know have
somewhere concealed for them. The
latter they are very fond of, and one of
the liveliest frolics was caused by giving
them some ginger snaps, which they
ate eagerly at first, but were quite dis
gusted at the burning sensation pro-
duced by the ginger. They scolded and
chattered, struck at their noses with the
hands which they use so cleverly, and
utterly refused to eat any more, though
they were very hungry. One of them
has been named Billy. and will always
come when called, even from the depths
of his hole; consequently he gets the
the others to take it from him. They
scramble and tumble over and over, five
or six after the same morsel, chattering
all the time like SO many monkeys.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-23
A Pigeon ROOst,

A Southland (Mo) paper describes
the pigeon roost there this year as fol-
lows: Pigeons have come into this part
of the country by millions. OF evenings
the sky is darkened with them in the
ueighborhood of DIR. Dodson's, on the
Auglaize. They have made Dodson's
farm their headquarters, and at nights
the trees and underbrush are loaded
down with multitudes. AS this roost is
hut short distance from our house we
have had ample opportunity to watch
their maneuvers, ard to hear the inces-
SAINT noise they make. A little before
sundowu large armies of pigeons are
seen coming from different points of
the compass, but each army passes on
ward as if they intended to change their
roosting place. After awhile they re-
turn and settle on the trees around the
roost, not many of them nearer than q
mile of the place. They make sudden
flights from these trees, and the sound
of their wings is like that Of q great
storm. There is constant roaring in
the air as myriads of the birds fly to and
fro. About dark they fly toward the
roost, and for a long time they fly
round and round, and have the appear
ance of bees swarmit G, although the
vast number and tornado like roaring
they make surpasses anything in the
power of man to describe. After q while
they alight on the trees and bushes, and
the limbs are bent downward. often are
broken of. The pigeons keep up con-
stant chattering which can be heard for
miles away. They are never still during
the night. So far as sleep is concerned,
such thing is out of the question with
O pigeon. They are disturbed by them
selves, such throngs assembling in
spot that none can be still for mo-
ment, and the incessant discharging of
firearms among them causes them to
change their location almost constantly.
This roost is visited every night by
crowds of men, some with guns and
others with poles, which they use in
thrashing down the pigeons that happen
to be at the point stuck. Hundreds are
killed every night; but when light ap
pears the vast armies again go forth with
apparently as much vjgor as ever.
Pigeons have been killed in New York
with undigested rice in their crops,
which they had evidently gathered in
the ricefelds of the Carolinas. From
bIlcoO dutt otuCl ~ huc
been estimated that pigeon flies at the
rate of mile a minute. Imagine, then,
millions upon millions of these birds,
all on the wing at the same time, over a
scope of country not more than two
miles square, and faint idea of the
noise they make may be obtained. But
no one can ever fully imagine what q
pigeon roost is or how much noise they
make until one is seen and heard.
There is an abundance of mast here
now, and we suppose the pigeons will
remain here until it is all gone. One
curious circumstance is that in the
neighborhood of this pigeon roost we
never see q pigeon from the time they
leave in the morning until they return
in the evening. They are not eating the
mast here at all, but somewhere they are
all feasting luxuriantly, for they are all
fat.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-23
Mich Cows i'm England.

In dairy show opened at Agricul-
turai Hall, London, a novel and in
teresting addition is made to the agri-
cultural exhibitions periodically claim
ing metropolitan attention. The dairy
farmers constitute an important section
of the community, the returns of last
year showing that in England alone
there were 100000 milch COWS, of
which number it was calculated 1900,
600 were in the hands of so, 900 persons.
The value of the milk produced by these
COWS, putting the price at sixpence per
imperial gallon, aud estimating that
each COW yields four hundred gallons a
year, would amount to twelve millions
sterling. With the facilities afforded by
the railways and the operation of the
Adulteration act, the milk trade is IA
pidly increasing, SO that there is as much
excuse for an annual exhibition of dairy
produce as of horses, poultry, dogs,
cats, barmaids, donkeys or babies. II
the dairy show leads to the vending of
pure milk and the total humiliation of
I" Simpson" calves brains," the
COW with the iron tail" and other aduI-
terants, until recently said to form com
ponent elements of London milk, u
the British Dairy Farmers Association
will not have lived in vain.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-23
The Belgian Railway Murder.

The Belgian railway case now takes
new aspect. 1t was supposed that the
officer Meers was murdered in the copart-
ment Car by the prisoner Aublin, but it
now seems that the two were alone; that
the prisoner watched an opportunity
| when the officer slept, and leaped from
he train while it was running at the
rate of forty miles an hour. The officer
instantly awoke and followed his pris-
oner, being killed by the fall. The pris-
oner, it seems, did not fall; he did not
in any way injure himself, but he ran
backward in the direction contrary to
that Of the train-that is to say, away
from Ghent, and then he jumped over a
hedge, which bounds the way, and
walked along the side of it, leaving the
marks of his feet, and afterward crossing
field, he was spoken to twice by
workingman, who was surprised to see
him, and to whom he made no reply.
The workman spoke Flemish. Aublin
walked II front of him with a firm step,
and with his hands in his pockets. 1t
was about six o'clock at the time. Con-
tinuing along the road which he had en-
tered, Aublin arrived at Tronchiennes.
He appears to have rested for short
time there in the house of a carpenter.
Then, avoiding the great roads and talk
ing q footpath which runs along the
Lys, behind the great Jesuit establish
ment, he reached the second iron bridge
over the Lys, and the stone bridge of
Tronchiennes. There he tried to make
bargain with the guard, who was
alone, for the sale OF his watch. They
came to an agreement, but the guard
had to take back Aublin to his house,
quarter of O league from the place, in
order to get the twelve francs he had
agreed to give him.
BY singular coincidence Aublin re-
turned toward midday in this way to the
very place where the workingman had
spoken to him in The morning, and at
distance of few hundred yards gen.
darmes were at the very time examining
the spot where the body of Meers had
been picked up. 1t was not known at
the time that prisoner had escaped.
The sale of the watch, however, gave
rise to suspicion. Aublin protested in
the most emphatic manner that it was
not stolen property. He received the
twelve francs, and went away without
being followed.
The escape of the prisoner Aublin is
said to have been source of much ex-
pense to the public Belgian treasury.
In fact more than six thousand dis
patches have been sent from Brussels
alone to foreign countries, including
| America, in order to circulate the de-
scription and other information relative
to the tragedy at Irochiennes. To be
added to this are the travelling expenses
of persons employed TO make inquiries,
and the expense of correspondence,
printing, etc.