The Portland daily press., 1862-10-10
ORIGIN AL AND SELE re ID

9th.
10 Two smart shocks of earthquake were
felt at Memphis on the 9th ult.
sy- The Lewiston Bank has declared a
semi annual dividend OF three per cent.
gE- We are indebted to Mr.. How, Foreign
Mail clerk in the Post office, for late Liverpool
papers.
% The Pennington Chronicle says that
considerable quantities of fax have been raised
in Franklin County this season.
sB- Mails for Europe, per steamer Anglo
Saxon, from Quebec for Liverpool, will close
at the Post office in this city, at IL NJ, to-day.
y- Oliver Moses, Esq, has been chosen
President of City Bank, Bath, in place of Jas.
H. Mcclellan, declined.
to- A lady who has reached Philadelphia
from Alabama, says there is plenty of salt in
Alabama, large quantities having been laid in
| previous to the war.
We shall be glad to send our Bowdoin
College friend a copy of the Press Daily, if it
will satisfy him for the attentions to which he
refers. We await his answer.
FIRE,-The barn Of Mr. Isaac H. Edwards
in Pennington, was destroyed by fire on Sat
urday last. Quite quantity of hay was burn
ed, as well as variety of tools.
nD-A Port Royal letter says that contra
bands are still coming in. There is no cessa-
ton in the stream constantly and regularly
arriving. 1t is thought the arrivals are great
er in number just now than hitherto,
B-The house of Mr. William Critchley, on
Bridge street, was entered by two boys on
Saturday noon last, and two twenty dollar U.
5. Treasury Notes and few postage stamps
acknowledgements Chronicle. fr.
I- Burglars, says the Portsmouth Chroni-
icle, have recently been operating in Concord.
| From one house they stole watch and SIS,
from another about SIS, and from third over
$50.
| % By the collision of two vehicles, at the
close of the Agricultural Fair in Belfast, last
week, a valuable horse belonging to Mr.. N.
Mansfield, was SO badly injured, that he died
in a short time.
| The Pennington Chronicle says there
are no new developments in relation to the
Strong murder. The evidence against Doyle
is SO trtling that we do not think the grand
jury will indict him
r- The Bangor Wing announces the death
of Mr.. Romulus Haskins, an old and highly es-
| teemed citizen, and for many years an active
and influential business man in that city. He
died on Wednesday, aged 90 years.
~E-The necessity of the enforcement ofthe
order abolishing the spirit ration in the navy,
is apparent from the fact that since the rebel
lion broke out, no less than three hundred and
seventy officers have been dismissed for DRINK
| enness.
IL The Lewiston Journal mentions some
Instances in which Father Dunnng has recent
| II recovered stolen property, through the
means oil the confessional. He is exercising
wholesome and restraining influence over
his people in that place.
DRowxEp.-We are informed that a desert
err who was being carried back to his regiment.
jumped from the steamer Clinton Just after she
had passed the HalloweIl bridge, and was
drowned. His name was Nolan, and he be-
longed in Augusta, we believe Gardiner
journal. hHE rF SEQ
sE-William G. Davis, son of John A. Davis
OF Lewiston, fell in the battle of GAINESVILLE,
Va, on the 18th of August last, aged q years,
II months and 25 days. He was Color Ser
geant in Company +, I'd Regiment Wisconsin
Volunteers.-LetristoaJ Journal.
e The Advertiser evinces Its support of
President Lincoln's administration by stealing
from the Boston Post without credit, and in
sorting among its editorial items, such filings
as the following: ,Qte
They arrest anybody in Warsaw, just now,
who ventures to wear green spectaces. The
Government will permit none of its subjects,
in Poland, to ''see anything green" in its per-
formances.
sg- The Boston Journal says 'the adjourn
ment of the Democratic State Convention
without making any nominations for State Of
ficers, must be taken as conclusive evidence of
the desire of the democratic leaders to defeat
the Republicans, as the fact that they were
about equally divided on the question of adopt
ing the Faneuil Hall ticket testines to the
strength of the tie which binds the party to-
gether.''
CONTINUANCE OF HEAT.--We gave 90 deg.
as the extreme heat of Wednesday, WHICH we
believe unparalleled in our records of heat in
October-but if by possibility there has been
single day in October, in the records of this
century or last, as hot as Wednesday, we chaI-
lenge every honest record to give the heat OF
two successive days, as late as the sth and 9th
as high as so and IS deg, the latter being the
extreme heat of Thursday in the shade, while
in one locality where the thermometer was
exposed to the sun it stood at l07 deg.
STEAMER CITY OF BATH.-We learn from
the Bath Times that this steam propeller, built
by Oliver Moses, Esq. made au excursion trip
down the river on Wednesday, taking large
number of ladies and gentlemen, who ex-
pressed themselves much pleased with the APP
pearance Of the boat, her accommodations and
sailing qualities. She is It's feet long, 25 feet
2 inches wiae, measures 500 tons, and though
designed more particularly for freight, has ac-
comnodations for 100 passengers. She is to
run between Bath and Boston, and is to be
commanded by Capt. John L. Brown. Her
first trip was TO be made last evening.
RAILROAD CAsE.--In the case of Jabez c.
Woodman ct ais, in equity, VS.. the Androscog-
gin Railroad Company, a preliminary hearing
was had before Judge Walton on the I'd inst.
Last Monday, in the Supreme Judicial Court,
at Auburn. the Judge rendered his decision,
apJa tla H.