— .... ■ --- -- --- .. * ---—----—- ESTABLISHED JUNE 23, 1862.-VOL. 15. PORTLAND. SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 22, 1877. TERMS $8.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE ENTERTAINMENTS. MISCELLANEOUS. MISCELLANEOUS. MISCELLANEOUS. THE PRESS. Recent Publications. Single Famous Poems, edited by Kossiter _MISCELLANEOUS John90D, (New York: Henry Holt & Co. Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon) contains SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. 22. Notable among tbe gift-books for the holiday MUSIC H X LL. a great number of poems which have.taken a season is Tbe Flood of Years, a poem by Wi)_ strong hold of popular fancy, and which were MILLINERY! Every regalar attach# of the Press is furnisher liam Cullen Bryant, illustrated by W. J, Lin- written by men and women not eminent as Dec. with a Card certificate couotersigned by Stanley T. ton, Tbe poem is in and treated Saturday Evening, 22d, large design so Editor. All poets, that they are no vol- Pollen, railway, steamboat and hotel with freedom and breadth. It is a seal which represented by —3 ume will confer a favor us of collected writings. one will fiDd managers upon by demanding the after sets Every poet’s hand, many years, upon in credentials of every person claiming to represent otu this volume some poems which have pleased Qranfl Graeco-Roman Wrestling Match. THE H. S.KALER&G0., the written scroll of bis young faith and poetic onrnal. him and which ha will _ be gratefal to Mr. John- Goods! ENOCH aspiration, Thanatopsis. Tbe design is in a Holiday son for from the circula- LORD, preserving temporary The El Faso Trouble. measure conventional, yet the earnestness and & Best Assortment tion which ends in oblivion. The volume is Largest of the take it sus- 259 Middle Street. latest advices from the scene dignity poem away from all vs The of the tasteful in appearance, with Miller Bauer. 130 picion of It is rather the full-gilt edges. Exchange St., El Paso trouble are to no commonplaceness. — of — the effect that forcible exposition of familiar things, by a poet Mexican citizens have anything to do with Poems hy Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton BEST a IN 3 FALLS. GREAT MSI (HIT SALE! OFFERS FOR whose long experience and clear vision give his & the affair. As should be well understood, (Boston: Roberts Portland: Co., words a large measure of propbetio weight. Brothers; Loring, Contest to commence promptly at 8 o’clock. Box Tukesbury OVER 500 BENCHES the is Short & a conflict between native-born citizens o( The torrent of time is Harmon )is dainty volume of musical office open on Thursday morning at 9 o’clock for rapresented as flooding this and United States poems. 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One halt to be paid at advantage One lot Black Tips, possession, right- description; the illnstiations are the sixth 51 Street former price $1.00, now 50 cents poem—a noble work of the whose the time of subscribing and the balance at Exchange of this as it is a rare fully enough it would seem, of some salt aged singer rather spirit*! but careless and io to of even- chance. Another lot Black Tip-, scratch/ lesson. Private lessons given pupils any de20 dlw COMMON FURNITURE Homerie head aod form are so former now 75 cents which have been held in common dignified well and lesseu ing classes free ot charge. price $1.50, ponds manner; really the reader’s pleas- Another lot Black Tips, known and honored iu the streets of the Very Respectfully. of all descriptions. the for more than two hundred city ure by the disappointing portraits of former price $2.00, now $1.25. by public whey give N. B. 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Texas, beneath the white ashes of & former now former years burned aspect best the Co., price $3.00, $2.00 from railway communication and nearly pleased reader’s fane;—bat Tukesbury Another lot Black Tips, out, which were for cheer and illumination to whom Mr. Hoppia as the Tlieati former now six hundred miles above the extreme nav- depicts commonplace Fanny Marsh’s e, price $4.00, $3.00 the As he of and lot Black JbJ. people. saag lasting hone young man and woman of the Another Tips, XiOni), of period and not 537 St. now igable point the Rio Grande. Thus in his PORTLAND. Congress firmer price $5.00, $3.50 courage yonng days, so in his old years favorable sped mens of their kind. decll dtf Another lot Black NOW IS THE TINE TO BLV Tips, the ponds have become of great value does the venerable tbe of former now 130 Exchange Street. poet .sing triumph One Week 1 price $6.00, $4.50 nov12 dtf Positively Only Another lot Black and the inhabitants have relied upon them faith, which passes the waters Tips, through parted Cherry the author of Cornin’ fo mer now $6.00 Ripe, by thro' price $7,50, for their supply of salt. accustomed as a wall to the right hand and left. Commencing Monday. Dec. 17th. Grand One lot Shaded Tips, Long the Rye (New York: D. Appleton & Co., Port- Dec. 22d. Silver Ware, former price $1.50, now 50 cents to take what salt liked have come The illustrations by Mr. Linton are of singu~ land: Matinee Saturday, they they Bailey & Noyes) is an One lot Colored Tips, lar extraordinarily to consider that the are common delicacy and powsr, imaginative and re- beautiful former price $2 50, now $1.50 ponds prop- novel; written with sustained power, Extraordinary, Also a vorieiv of Colored served, while their mechanical execution is ad- Engagement large Tips, erty.