DATLY PORTLAND _ ESTABLISHED JUNE 23. 1862—-VOL, 22. "PORTLAND, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1, 1885. HBB'KrfKfflSffil PRICE THREE CENTS.

MPECIAIi NOTICES. THE PORTLAND DAILI PRESS, THRILLING STORY. FOUR DAYS’ RAIN. FISH AND FISHERIES. THE ttEE Olttl HCHOOI.. Party Discipline. The Business Failures of 1884. Published every day (Sundays excepted) by the PUBLISHING Ckriilmai Entrrtaiumr nt Given Hie (Boston Journal.) PORTLAND COMPANY, Interesting Statistic* Compiled by Prof. by Some Will Hinted and Sensible Mugget- At Exchange Me. Schooner John Griffin Knocked Western Garfield C'ald Water Battalion. From its returns for all but tbe last week FOSTER’S 97 Street. Portland. Rivers Higher than Ever Baird. linns Applicable lo Other I.oe tlilies than Terms: Dollars a Year. To mail subscrib- of tbe Bradalreet tbe num- Eight About in a Hurricane. That for Which They IVere made. year 1884, places ers, Seven Dollars a Year, il in advance. Known Before. 1 Christmastime was observed at the State Re- paid , Dec. 31.—The Public Printer ber of business failures the Unit- Rates of Advertising: One inch of the throughout space, has published a volume of matter furnished form latt of or twelve lines consti- School, Cape Elizabeth, evening by The following ai tide appeared as a common, FOREST CITY BYE length column, nonpareil him by Prof. 8pencer F. Baird, United States ed States at 11,600, involving liabilities HOUSE, tutes a “square.’* THE KAIN STILL the regular Christmas entertainment of the icatlon in the N. V. Times. The CAPTAIN RESCUER FRO?I A FALLING, AND BUSI- Brooklyn, 13 PREBLE STREET. first week: 75 cents Commissioner of Fish aud Fisheries, relative amounting to $240,000,000, id having assets $1.50 per square, daily per Barfield Cold Water which was or | to new discoveries aud Battalion, signature will be reoognizsd by many as that dec9 sneodtf week after; three insertions leas, $1.00, continu- WATERY GRAVE «V HIS SON. NESS AT A STANDSTIiLU. observations, applica- valued at $130,000,000. Nl iberof failures ing every other day after first week, 60 oents. tions connected with fish culture -nd the tish- attended by a large number of the friends ol o( a gentleman lawyer in Brooklyn and whose Half square, three insertions or less, 75 cents; one eries. Relative to the oyster industry of the the from Portland in 1883 was 10,299; the liabilities, $175,968,- week after. school, coming principally inllaence