The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1861-11-29

said requisition, unless they 80 armed and
equipped for the war.
y The New Orleans Crescent says prices
are constantly increasing in that city. Rice,
which at Charleston sells at 9 IL to cents
per pound, retails at New Orleans at 7 cent?.
Flour goes up at the rate Of 25 cents per
day, and other articles Of necessity follow
suit.
At Memphis, wheat is sold at $40 per
bushel -four gil ,25 per barrel salt 80 so
per sack ham Csc. per pound.
UA late New Orleans paper states that
the stock Of cotton on hand in that city is
IL .907 bales. SO far this season, 1889 bales
had been received. Flour was quoted at
wholesale as high as sl0,75 per barrel corn
81 IL per bushel. Only four barrels whis-
key had been received in the city during the
previous week. Not barrel Of pork had
been received for several weeks, and the re-
ccipts Of beef were very small.
II Tho Machias Union says that teams
are already getting OF to the woods. Two
thirds to three.quarters as much numbering
will be done on Mashias river the coming
winter as was done last winter.
y A terrible murder was committee in
Holliston, Mass, recently. Two women.
mother and daughter, were the unfortunate
victims. The murderer has been committed
for trial.
~ On Monday, Mr.. Hutchinson, freight
conductor on the Boston and Maine railroad,
while engaged in unshackling a moving train
of brick cars, fell upon the track and was
run over, being instantly killed. Hc leaves
wife, to whom he had been married only
about year.
e The Portsmouth Chronicle states that
little child. about Is months old, Of Mr..
Nehemiah Pickering Of Greenland, was scalt
to death few days since by pullinga dippcr
of hot water from tho stove into It's bosom.
" At Calais, recently, a boy about 8
years old, while playing near the railway
track, had car weighing about ton pass
over his body, without doing him serious
damage. In day or two hc was out as
usual.
II The Newburyport Herald states that
the Ocean cotton mill has started up on short
time. They have recently added to their
raw material by the purchase of part OF
the Globes cotton. The Globe is not likely
to run this winter.
Y According to tho Chicago Tribune,
business never was better in that gateway to
the west-the city Of Chicago. That paper
says the business is buoyant, money flowing
unimpeded in its usual channels, and itseems
US though the "good time coming" had come.
LEWISTON, ME.-This place is fortunate in
having machinery adapted to the manufac-
ture of goods in demand. While almost
every considerable manufacturing place Is
suffering extensively on account OF tho de-
preston in business, and large proportion
of their spindles are lying idle or runningo on
short time, in Lewiston never before has 50
much been doing in manufacturing. The
Journal represents the town as In highly
prosperous condition.
PERTAINS THIRD EScuRsIos.-Pcrham an
nounces his third grand excursionn to WASH
ington and Fortress Monroe. Tickets good
to leave Boston any time previous to Dec. 10,
and to return on OF before Dec. 81. Fare
from Boston to Baltimore and return. only
$3.50. Tickets from Baltimore to Fortress
Monroe and back not to exceed SO. Fare
between Baltimore and Washington sl,75
each way. This is fine opportunity for
visiting the Capital during the session OF
Congress, or for a trip into the land Of Dixie
as far as Fortress Monroe.
Y $1,000 copies Of the mechanical por-
ton of the Patent Office report, which was
ordered by Congress for distribution among
their constituents, were destroyed by the fire
in Petitioners bindery at Washington.
Y The Argus says Mr.. W. s. Boothby,
Of Limngton, brought to the Portland mar
ket last Tuesday us chickens, which
weighed, in the aggregate, 452. pounds.
y A grand review Of fifty thousand Of
our troops was to take place on Wednesday
last near Bailcy's Cross Roads, on the south
side of the Potomac. This a large number
of troops than was ever before reviewed in
one body in this country.