The Portland daily press., 1886-01-30
BRIEF JoTTINcS.


The Maine Central Railroad has declared
semi-annnal dividend of per cent, payable
in February.
There will be an anniversary Sunday
school concert at St. Lawrence street church
tomorrow night.
The Conversations in the vestry of the
Church of the Messiah, will be given on
Thursday evening of next week.
Mr. Hallock's fourth lecture at Williston
church will be given tomorrow night at
O'Clock. Subject: "After Pardon, What? ?"
Rev. J. j. Hall will lecture in the Vaughan
street church Monday evening, at o'clock.
Subject, London and London Life" Rev.
J. j. Hall is from London, Eng.
Rev. W. H. Fem, DID,, will speak at High
street church tomorrow evening, on 1.-THE
Greater Distinctions in English Church Ar
chitecture- their religious meaning"
At the Chestnut street NJ. E. church to-
morrow, at p. M, Rev. Asa Dalton will
speak by special request upon John Wesley,
his work and the works which have followed
him.
Remember the youths temperance concert
at the Mission tonight at 73O O'Clock. The
exercises will consist of readings, recitations
dialogues and singing. All are cordially in
vited.
One of Benson's charcoal teams capsized
on Moulton street yesterday forenoon. The
horse started to run, but the driver chung to
the reins until the animal was stopped by a
bystander.
slight fire occurred in Mr. Sullivan's
house on York street, Thursday night, catch
ing from the stove, while the occupant was
temporarily absent from the room. 1t was
extinguished with slight loss.
The jury in the case of Annie E. Stillings
against the Eastern railroad, returned YER
diet before Judge Carpenter in the United
States Circuit Court, Boston, Thursday af-
ternoon, finding for the plaintiff in the sum
of $500.
The first meeting of the clergy OF. Portland
of all ACKNOWLEDGEMENT be held at Y.
N. C. A. hall on Monday next, Feb. LIST, at 10
a. m. Subject for discussion, "The better
observance of Sunday" opened by Rev.
Henry Blanchard.
Tho public are cordially invited to attend
the prayer and testimony meeting at the Y.
u. ". A. IOUI1lS GlllS CNCHluS db . " SAONhs
Young men are specially invited to the meet
ing for men only, held every Sunday morn
ing at O'Clock.
On Middle street, near the corner of En-
change yesterday, sleigh occupied by two
gentlemen, was overturned by the runner
catching on the car tracks, which were uncov-
cred at that point by the heat from yester-
day mornings fire. A bystander helped
them to stop their horse, and no harm was
done. The team belonged to ]. Coyle 81 Son.
The Maine Central railroad purchased 170,-
600 sleepers for their track last year. This
year they have contracted for liz, 900, all they
will probably use, as a considerable portion
of the main line had a complete renovation
in the summer. The life of a cedar sleeper
is rated at twenty years under ordinary traf-
fc, that of hackmatack sleeper about ten
years. The heavy freight trains, with the
fast trains, pound out sleepers in about eight
years on that part of the line used the most.
italian Art.
The lecture, devoted to the art of North
ern Italy, with Da Vinci, lCorreggio, TintOr-
etto. Paul Veronese and Titan as the central
figures. began with Illustrations of famous
churches at Milan, and reproductions of Da
Vinci's 'Last Supper" with an account OF
the artists influence upon his times. From
Milan, visit was paid to Parma, the home
of Correggio, where his finest works are pre-
served, and thence the audience was taken
to Mantua, where Ginlio Romano'S strange
frescoes in the palaces of the city were
shown. Padua gave glimpses OF st. An
thongs striking Byzantine church and Man
tegna's statuesque paintings-after when
Venice was copiously illustrated, with eXhl
bition and description of its Ducal Palace
and churches, and the paintings of the
greatest Venetian masters-Titnoretto, Paul
Veronese, Giovanni Bellini, Paris Bordone
and others, ending with Titan, and a dis
play OF his great Assumption of the Virgin.
The lecture was the most varied and richly
illustrated of the course
1t is with deep regret that our most criti-
cal and intelligent art students, and lovers of
art. have seen Mr.. Dickinson's course draw
to close. The lecture last night was his
last. He has done much to forward the pro-
gress of art in Portland, and he will be
parted from with regret.