The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-06-25
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
REPoRTER.

gB-On the fourth page-Qua Cursum Ven
tus, poem Miscellany. TEy3r1
ga mad dog was killed in Lewiston on
Monday. a9e s5rf
vA correspondent of the N. Y. Herald
reports great confagration visible in
Charleston, S. c., on the night Of the 18th inst
Carleton of the Boston Journal says
Aide is pronounced Al-dee with the accent on
the last syllable, by all the upper crust vir-
inans.
sy-The Machias Union says salmon have
been taken plentifully at Dennysville for the
last two weeks. Prices range On Is to 20
cents per pound.
% The Bath Times mentions the sale, by
auction, of 18th of Ship Roanoke for IS ,45O--
2-sth of Ship Napoleon for s4,sOO Messrs.
w. & ]. Drummond were the purchasers.
% The house of Mr. d. o. Blaisdell in
Bath, was struck by lightning Tuesday after
noon. But little damage was done, says the
Times
sy Prof. Longfellow, the poet, has been in
Washington several days watching over the
sick bed of his son, who is now suffering from
chils and fever contracted on the Rappahan-
mock.
syThe Bangor Wing says that Daniel
Bicknell, Esq, of that city, who lives about
two miles out on Essex street, dropped dead
while at work in his garden Tuesday after
noon. He was seventy-five years old.
ng- Several New Jersey regiments of nine
months men whose term had expired, have,
at the request of Government consented to
remain and participate in the pending cam
paign.
sg- member of the Chicago Board of
Trade, speaking Of Jennison, the jayhawker,
the other day, attributed to him a remarkable
qualiacation-''lip enough TO eat corn out of
Jug
u The editor of the Saco Democrat, one
of the most violent Copperheads in the State
has had the manliness to copy President Lin
coins letter to the New York Democrats in
full. Having done this he has earned the right
to criticise it to his hearts content.
ng The Lewiston Journal says the rail-
roads will carry passengers to the Union State
Convention and back for single fare. The
same paper states that Gen. B. F. Butler will
be at Bangor and address the Convention.
s1- Col. Kane, formerly marshal of Balti-
more, has escaped to Dixie and been appointed
Major General in the rebel army. Kane is
the fellow who boarded awhile at Fort War
# =
talked of prosecuting Secretary Stanton for
false imprisonment.
sBr"God and Our Country" Deeds not \
Words" are the notices of the Santa Rosa
Newsboy, published at Fort Pickens, Florida,
occasionally" and at present under the spec
ial patronage OF the 18th Maine regiment,
member of which, George II. Ferguson, is ed
itor.
AsToNIsHED AT HMsELF.-The editor of
the Norfolk County (Mass.) Journal after
writing paragraph, suddenly stops short in
the ardor Of composition, and bursts out in ex-
utatiou:-"These are facts" iialicising facts
and showing as much glee at discovering he
could write paragraph Of real facts, as if he
had found a cent.
sg- The Saco Democrat openly and hon.
esty comedies the opposition of the Demo-
cratic party to the war. The course of that
paper is in refreshing contrast with that of
editors who, while pretending to demand
vigorous prosecution of the war, are saying
and doing all in their power TO bring the war
into disrepute with the people.
To- The Newburyport Herald says the
cla hop he I'm, no V.la
rivers produce, without any outlay for the
land, and without any cost in renewing more
value acre for acre, than do the ordinary
farms; and to persons employed in digging
them they pay double what ordinary farm
hands earn.
sy- The Portsmouth IN. H. Chronicle
announces that Amaziah Goodwin, of Lyman,
Me-. who completed his one hundreth birth
day on the 10th of February last, and who
was intending to visit Bunker Hill on the 18th
died at Dover on Monday, which place he
had reached when illness overlook him, while
on his way to Boston.
sg- As the train from Concord, Monday
morning, neared the Raymond station, the en-
gineer discovered woman Frustrated upon
Tie Track just rOunu u sharp curve. Every ell
fort was made to stop the train, but in vain.
The woman was instantly killed, being
crushed by the wheels and dragged along the
track. A bottle was found BY her side, and |
she doubtless fell down under the influence of |
its contents. She was supposed to be about
35 years of age Portsmouth Chronicle.
sy-The name of Hon. Samuel Cony, of |
Augusta, having been mentioned in our col |
umns by correspondent in connection with
the gubernatorial nomination, we take this |
opportunity to state, that we have the very |
highest authority for saying that Judge Cony
most respectfully declines to have his name
used, and while he will take this ground he
will give to the nominee most cordial support.
Y-Capt. j. II. Spoke, the recent discover
er of the source of the Nile, belongs to the
Forty-Sixth Bengal Native infantry He is
about forty years of age, six feet in stature,
and possesses great bodily strength. He is
the son Of Mr.. w, Spoke, of Jordans, near IL
minister, in Somersetshire. The captain be-
longs to an ancient Devonshire family, who, in
Henry H. time, spelt their name Espek, and
owned Bramford Spoke, near Exeter.
gg-The two rufiians, who killed themselves
in Troy Tuesday, after numbering two officers
and wounding several of their pursuers, had
been engaged in extensive depredations.
Harea- eto l;oer and ctcra. h.oal;,r -, Oc.th |