The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-11-10
ORIGIN AL AND ELECTED

AS ne hicHiHoHu DispdtcH says lnat u.
S. Treasury notes command premium of ITO
per cent, in the rebel capital.
J- Mr.. Bradbury Dnsmore of this town
hit his foot smart clip with the sharp edge
of an axe one day last week, INJECTING an ugly
wound.-lSkowhegan Farmer.
To- The Quakers of Lynn, who declined to
contribute to war fund, have sent famous
supplies of warm under clothing for distribu-
ton to the inmates OF the hospitals.
NvMr. Bradbury Dinsmore of this town
hit his foot smart clip with the sharp edge of
an axe one day last week, enficting an ugly
wound.-[Skowhega Farmer.
To- The County Commissioners of Saga
hoe County have decided that Henry A. Be-
vey, of Bath, is elected Register of Deeds for
that county.
g- Patrick O'Donnell, of Lewiston, known
as an extensive railroad contractor in that re-
gion, and lately sutler at Washington, died
in Lewiston on Monday last.
s@The advance in the prices of paper and
ink is sore trial TO the publishers of newspa-
pers and has caused those in the large cities to
increase the price of their papers, Augusta
journal,
IEA telegram from San Francisco, an
nounces the death, on the Both of October, of
James Deering, ESQ.,, formerly of Denmark.
lie died OF congestion and dysentery, after an
illness of only four days. Oxford Dem.
T-Mr. Seward writes to the New York
Chamber of Commerce that the circumstances
attending the fitting out of the pirate Alaba-
ma in England will be brought to the notice of
the English Government
s- VIM. r. Croker, OF Providence, r. L.,
and other parties recently arrested for robbing
the gunboat st. Louis, when at Memphis, of a
large sum of money, have been released. The
thieves were an officer and seamen of a boat
sr James Brown, the competitor of Mr.
Potter for Congress, in the Milwaukee district,
is, says the Bangor Times, son of the late
Enoch Brown. of Hampden. Both he and Mr.,
Potter are, therefore, natives of this State.
.- Mr.. H. NJ Carter, of this CITY. having
become Involved about $500 by losses in his
late Fair, tells us that he has enlisted in Capt,
TEACHERS company of nine months volunteers,
and paid every bill with his bounty Ports
mouth Chronicle.
srThe store of Capt John Harris & Son.
Bethel, was broken open one night last week,
and two hundred and thirty-seven dollars
taken from the safe. The Captain says they
were polite enough not to take the goods be-
cause they were marked SO high II Democrat.
s-The Montgomery Ala Mail states that
reports have reached high official quarters in
that city to the effect that the rebel General
los n Iohnsfpn is To aHa a
that Johnston will at once assume command
OF the army of Tennessee.
sH~The Newborn Progress says the story
about the rebels at Wilmington organizing ne
gro regiments is untrue, for it has direct inteli-
gence from that place that the dstrust of the
negro is so great that the rebels dare not trust
him with arms.
@-"Hannah," said the landlady of board
Ing house to her new maid, "when there's any
bad news, particularly private Affections ALWAYS
let the boarders know it before dinner. 1t may
seem strange to you Hannah, but such little
things make great difference in the course of
year."
S- A new county road has been located
from this village, through Industry, Starks and
Norrldgewock to Skowhegan. We understand
the route is quite level and is six miles shorter
than the present one, making the distance be-
tween the two points about 81 miles-IFar-
mington Post.
- The Bath Times understands that Miss
Cornelia Sedgeley, who was seriously injured
about week since, at Macomber Mill, Bow
doinham, died Wednesday night, having lin
gered some four days in great agony from the
injuries received.
sB- The Lewiston Journal estimates the
probable revenue of the Government in the
I'd collection district, composed of the counties
of Androscoggin. Franklin, Oxford and Saga
dahoc, at $4,000 per annum, two thirds of
which will be paid in Lewiston.
ACcIDENT.-Mr. Samuel Maddox, of Els
worth, lell from his load on Wednesday after
noon, and the wheels passed over his body.
dangerously iDjuring him. He had on his
team wagon load of sugar box shocks. which
must have weighed as much as two tons, and
the wonder is that he was not instantly killed.
Ellsworth American.
u Capt. Fl. c. Little writes to the Bridg-
ton Reporter that on the passage of the 23d
Regiment from Fall River to Jersey City. in
the steamer State of Maine, some of the boat
hands stole some of the baggage belonging to
the soldiers. By searching the boat it was re-
covered.
.g- The U. S. steamship "Huron," which
has been undergoing repairs at the navy yard,
has received telegraphic orders to put to sea
with all Dispatch to intercept the 1890" should
she attempt to evade the Vanderbilt" by
hugging the North Atlantic coast. The "Hu-
ron" is one of the fastest steamers in the navy
~EThe Washington correspondent of Bos-
ton Herald writes that the freeing of the slaves
in the District of Columbia, "has made little
or no change in their domestic condition. Most
of them still remain with their former mas
tiers and mistresses, while not single one can
be induced to leave the District"
The PIRATE ALABAMA.-The Bath Times
publishes an extract from letter written on
board Steamship City of Washington, from
New York for Liverpool dated Off Cape Race
Oct, 2lst, from which it would seem that this
steamer saw and signalled the pirate steamer
Alabama, on the goth. Why the fact was not
communicated to Government by telegraph
from Cape Race, remains to be explained
gThe Cumberland mill of this village,
owned and operated by r. Gibbs, has trauact-
ed business to the tune OF S104,0 900 for the last
four months. 1t is running day and night on
army blankets.
The saw mill will start up in week estwo.
Itp &c., Al