The Portland daily press., 1862-11-08
ORIGIN AL AND SELEC TIE d.

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g- Massachusetts in 1925 towns cast 10000
votes for John A. Andrew, and 49, 21 for Gen.
Devens.
- The Maine Farmer mentions that sew
eral fine blocks of new stores are nearly COM
pleted in Augusta.
~ The Aroostook Times says that great
many mechanics are leaving st. John, n. b.,
for the higher wages paid in the State.
sy- The Lewiston Journal says that Jacob
Cox, of East Hebron, has six sons in the ar
my. They are all three years men.
sY- Mr.. James +. Otis, of Kittery, has
been appointed Acting Ensign in the U. S.
Navy.
| Washington Robertson, who was taken
prisoner at the first Bull Run fight, and re-
leased, has again returned home to Bethel sick.
.rThe Bridgton' Reporter speaks of the
| unwonted activity of the shook business in
Brdgton and vicinity.
rY- Lieut. Marston of Co. d, 18th Maine
regiment, has been compelled to resign his
commission on account OF continued ill-health.
sg- The registered and enrolled tonnage
of the District of Portland for the year end
ing Sept 81, 1862, is 49,, 240 tons. Total i'm
ports SlS,740. Exports 66,323-as we learn
from the Price Current
Gy- We agree perfectly with the Bangor
! Times in relation to corrupt appointments and
corrupt contractors, bnt we can see neither
fitness nor friendship in its senseless fling at
the Press.
rH- A private letter, received from an Off
Ger in the 18th Maine regiment, states that the
regiment has lost "a men by death since they
went out of the State, and that there are now
| 800 names on the sick list.
LIZ The Rockland Democrat learns that
Gen. Berry has not yet regained his health
He has endeavored to keep with his brigade,
but has at length been obliged to leave it and
attend to his health.
FIRE AT SOUTH PARASITIC stable belong
ing to Mr.. James bennett, at South Paris, took
fire, Saturday afternoon last, and was burned
to the ground. A shed, connecting with the
house, was torn down. and the fire confined to
the building in which it caught Dem.
gg- The Advertiser is sorry for the cleo
ton of Ben. Wood. We don't see why, for
Wood advocates precisely the doctrines that
have of late been seen in the light of the
"stray CLEAN of fire" that has been kinded up
in the columns of that paper.
FIRE-An old house situated on White ST.,
near the covered bridge in this city. owned by
the Saco Water Co., and occupied 10y Dennis
Morgan, Mathew Brannan, and Michael Ed
wards as tenants. was burned down, last Tues
day night, about IL O'Clock. = Biddeiord
Union.
FIRE IN NEwBURG.-On Saturday morning
last a large and valuable BARN belonging to
Mr.. Solomon Newconb, at Centre Newburg,
was destroyed by fire, together with 40 tons
of hay, 500 bushels of grain, one yoke of OK
en-, three cows, and horse. His dwelling
house, near by, was saved by the great exer-
tons of his neighbors. The insurance is only
sl75.-tBangor Wing.
IL A recent copy of the Richmond Dis
patch says;
"An invasion !. designed to which all we
have seen of invasion is mere child's play.
We speak it--not for the purpose of creating
unnecessary alarm-but to warn our people OF
what they have to expect, and to prepare them
for the OCCASION"
supposes we have the sighted feeling of jeal-
ousy because of its having an occasional ad-
We are glad 10 see such evidences of the lib
eralty of the administration, and we alluded
to the fact only to illustrate the correctness of
a proposition which that paper had disputed.
APPoINTMENT.-M. d. L. Lane ESQ.,, Judge
| M hp in oit, L,c
appointed Consul at Vera Cruz, in place OF
Hon. Mark II. Dunuel resigned. Judge Lane
will resign his present. situation and proceed
to Vera Cruz Immediately. The appointment
of Judge, until the annual municipal cleo
ton next spring, devolves upon the Governor.
s- Those who have read both papers on
the election, could not fail to see that the Ar
gus has been much more modest over the re.
suit than its more ardent co-worker, the Adj
vertiser This Is to be attributed, no doubt,
to recent conversion, as new converts are al
waps more zealons than those who have borne
the burdens of many hard fought battle.
eg- A gentleman's black kid glove has been
left at the Advertiser office, and the editor
begs for its mate. He is doubtless making
preparation for that expensive funeral" If
single glove will not meet the wants of all the
mourners, it viii be sufficient for any one of
them, as no one viii be silly enough to put Oh
more than g halfmourning."
| % There is one consolation left for print
| ers: The increase in the price of paper, the
three per cent. tax on advertisements, the tax
on printing material and the greater telegraph
ic tolls, will leave them no income and so they
will escape the income taxi. No great loss
without some small GAIN Advertiser.
Our neighbor of the Advertiser can draw
consolation" from another iact--that the sin
come tax" does not apply TO papers of small
circulation!
IL Referring to the sad case of supposed
suicide at Berwick, the Biddeford Union learns
shat some doubts are entertained asto wheth-
er Miss Keays came to her death by commit
ting suicide. 1t has been asceltained that the
route she pursued was quite circuitous and not
direct to the river, and there is reason to sup
pose that laboring under temporary insanity,
caused by her bodily sutierings, she jumped
from the window and wandered of uncon-
seious of what she was doing, and accidental
ly fell into the river"
g- Nothing like modesty, and sinking
ones self in great and holy cause. A city