Halifax, N. S., 25 Stoves. Boston Y. M. C. Union, Clothing. Montreal, Clothing. Musquodoboit, Clothing. Toronto, Meats. Taylor, Robert, Halifax, N. S., Boots. Peke & Eaton, Halifax, N. S., Tea. Hart, R. T. & Co., " Supplies. Victoria Corner, N. B., 12 pairs Boots. Canterbury Ladies, Bedding. Bridgetown, N. S., Supplies. Rev. C. McMullin, Hartland, N. B., Butter. Norwich, Ontario, Clothing. Philadelphia Maritime Exchange, Clothing. Gibson, Alexander, York County, Supplies. A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE FIRE IN THE TOWN OF PORTLAND, SATURDAY MORNING, 20TH OCTOBER, 1877. Just four months after the great calamity in St. John, the people of the Town of Portland were called upon to endure a hardship of almost equal dimensions. In one sense their endurance demanded even greater strength, for their trouble came, not in summer when the grass was green, and the air was soft and balmy, but in the very heart of a New Brunswick Fall, when the wind pierced the coarsest garment, and the ground was white with frost. It was in the small hours of the morning too, that men and women, half asleep and palsied by terror, rushed wildly into the street, shivering with cold and trembling with fear, as they heard the mad bell tolling the alarm. They lived in the merest tinder boxes, and in many of these were domiciled three, and sometimes four and five families. It was a fire of terrible importance, and at one time the destruction of the whole town was feared. But the lesson which the fire of June 20th taught had a salutary effect on the people, and, aided by a brave band of firemen, they made every effort to stay the onward march of the flames, and in this, success was partly attained. The fire destroyed seven blocks of buildings, and threw into the street two hundred and ninety-five families, which numbered, in the aggregate, fully three thousand persons. Of buildings swept away, there were ninety-seven dwelling houses, the Methodist Church and the Temperance Hall. The actual loss is estimated at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the insurance scarcely reaches the sum of seventy thousand dollars. One man suffered a horrible death, and a number of people were injured more or less seriously. The fire was indeed a sore and bitter trial, and had it not been that the community had only a short time before experienced the horrors of the greater conflagration, the present calamity would have ranked as one of the great fires of Canada. Coming so soon after the St. John's scourge, men failed to realize at once the magnitude of destruction which it caused. But those who had twice passed through the flames knew to their cost, and realized in an instant, what it was to be burned out a second time. Seven hundred persons from the burnt district of St. John's had taken up their residence in the suburban town. They were in most cases poor in a pecuniary sense, but their bands were strong, and their hearts were not downcast.