The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-07-02
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

sv- The Morris Brothers. Ethiopian Min
behring's Hall, this evening. See advertise
ment.
Governor Andrew Of Massachusetts,
will give the Centennial Address at Windham
July 4th at II o'clock, A. NJ
| E-A little girl, five years of age, died re-
Gently at st. Peters, G. B. from the effects of
eating the phosphorus substance off the ends
of lucifer matches.
OTTAWA HoUsE.-We call the attention of
our readers to the advertisement of this new
house in another column. 1t will be favorite
place of resort during the summer months.
To CORRESPONDENCE Mills.
Your favor shall appear tomorrow.
sg Diptheria is making fearful ravages
among the children in Palmyra. 1t is terri
BILE disease, the more so because it is so rapid
in its development. 1t is not so fatal when
treated properly in season.
sB-Last Saturday noon Bangor was visited
by tremendous hail storm. Junks of ice fell
as large as a mans hand.
sB- The Oxford Democrat says there is
promise now of great abundance of fruit of
all kinds this season. The trees are literally
loaded. Farmers also begin to talk more en-
couragingly of the hay crop, the late rains
having given the grass good start.
IF The Washington Star publishes large
number of extracts from Maryland papers,
-
in the State of Maryland. Ex-Governor Hicks,
Hon. Reverdy johnson and Senator Sellman
are said to be open advocates of the new order
ofthings. The Baltimore American, the ablest
paper in the State, keeps up its fire in support
OF the Presidents policy on this subject
sg- We are panied to learn that Menander
Pearson, ESQ.,, of Bangor, was attacked with
apoplexy on board the cars, while on his way
home from Boston, last Monday afternoon,
and died at his residence about nine O'Clock
the same evening. What adds sadness to the
occasion, says the Wing, was the fact that he
had been summoned home by the dangerous
illness Of his wife.
~ Capt Brown Of Bangor, of company
NJ, lst Maine cavalry, arrived at home last
horse during Banks retreat and has firlough
of thirty days. He reports that the five COM
panies at Front Royal were ordered to Join the
regiment at Manassas under Mcdowell, on the
18th ult
A STRONG FENcE.-"Well, what next?'
said Mrs. Darlington, as she interrupted Ike.
who was reading the war news,-"the pickets
were driven in five miles? Bless nv poor
soul, but that viii make a strong fence Isup-
pose they had TO be driven in deep, to keep the
sessionaders from digging out under them"
And here the old lady inadvertently rocked
upon the tail of the old house cat,-"Ike, take
your feet out Of the bread, dear. / want it to
rise for breakfast.
ExcTTING.-The Portland Press man has
been miring up with a family evidently Of
foreign BIRTH He describes with great pathos
"a solemn and Interesting OCCASION which
happened mot thousand miles from Bruins
wick" in which there appears to be a strange
commingling of persons and kissing. He does
not say whether he pitched in."-lConrier
No, We didn't pitch in,' neither was it sex
citing" although it might have been to the
handsome editor of the Courier had he wit
messed it. We are used to such scenes.
A VOICE FROM TENNEssEE-The Nash
vile Union is journal whose motto appears
to be 'Union first, Slavery Afterwards while
that of many papers in the free States seems
to be Union and Slavery, now and forever,
one and inseparable.r In a late number OF
that journal is the following blunt statement:
The rebels who were the prime movers in
the rebellion are the loudest TO complain that
slavery is being injured by the war. Keep
yeur fingers from under our trp-hammer, then
The federal army has no time 10 catch rebels
negroes, and ought not, If 1t had time.