The Portland daily press., 1863-11-06
CRIMINAL AND SELECTED.


a1-Mr. Smead, clerk in the Treasury
Department Of Washington committed sui
eide Sunday night.
GA wag suggests that when Lots wife,
was turned into pillar Of salt he got fresh
one.
nH The Waterville Mail says Mr.. Gideon
Wells took 47O cattle to the Massachusetts,
market on Monday week.
~ The church organ mandatory of
Messrs. Geo. Stevens & Co., Cambridge, was
destroyed by fire on Monday evening last
~ The steamer Wawenock is to run for
the present between Wiscasset, Bath and
Augusta.
S6The Bath Times learns that steamer
of 1000 tons burthen is to be built in Rich
mond this winter.
Arrangements are being made TO COM
mence Immediately the building of the Ban
gor and Calais Railroad.
~ Prentice says Humphrey Marshall has
no popularity in this world, but he will be a
great toast in the next.
CO. There are 5000 teams connected with
the Army of the Potomac. If placed in a sin
gle line they would extend over 90 miles.
nVThe Granite Bank in Augusta is about
to erect block of brick stores on the site of
the present Bank building.
GA coon weighing 10 pounds was killed
near Wells Depot, on the 25th ult. 1t was
probably that "same old coon."
s1-Gen. Garfield was mobbed on Saturday
night, by gang Of copperheads at Uniontown
Maryland.
SE-The citizens Of Muscatine, Iowa, plant
ed, hoed and dug, by voluntary labor, twenty
acres of potatoes for the soldiers families.
lI-On and after the Goth of November
passengers can 60 from New York to Wash
ington without changing cars or baggage.
I-Henry Ward Beecher has been enter
tanned at farewell breakfast in London by
his friends.
% A Mr.. Marston, of Brewer, was seri-
ously injured on Wednesday last by falling
derrick, as we learn from the Bangor Wing.
W-Ofa all our Generals who were present
at the first battle of Bull Run, Gen. Heintzel-
man is the only one who is living who is now
connected with the Army of the Potomac.
nH- Miss Anna f. Dickinson heads the
list of lecturers engaged for the coming sea-
son by the Albany Independent Lecture Asso-
citation.
V-The pormotion Of soldiers that voted
for Vallandigham is about the same as will
be found in the guard-house and of the same
stripe.
1-Four thousand nine hundred bales of
cotton which arrived at New Orleans in a sim
gle cargo on the 2lst ult., were worth about,
two millions Of dollars.
"a fire was discovered in the Picker
room Of the Androscoggin Mills in Lewiston
on Tuesday morning, which was extinguished
before it had done much damage.
o. The city authorities of Lewiston have
offered 500 additional to other bounties, for
each volunteer who will count In the quota Of
that city.
1-On Wednesday last, the dwelling house
in the East Parish of Haverhill, owned and
occupied by Lazarus Page, was entirely con-
sumed by fire, together with the contents
~ We regret to learn that R. B. Street,
Esq, Clerk Of the Courts of Sagadahock
county,i is lying dangerously III at his resi-
dence in Richmond.
II The authorities Of Lewiston are talk
ing Of opening an evening school in that city
for the benefit of young men and women who
are employed during the day. A good idea.
10 Amanda, daughter of James Folsom
Of Burlington, was so severely scalded short
time since, that she died the day after, as we
learn from the Bangor Wing.
20 We learn from the Bangor Wing that
Mrs. - Parker of Garland, was 50 severely
burned on Sunday last, that her life is despair
ed Of
~ The Somerville lMass.) Bleachery was
nearly destroyed by fire on Monday afternoon
asst. The loss is variously estimated at from
$4,000 to 100000.
1-Gov. Andrew visited the inmates of
the State Prison at Charlestown on Sunday,
and at their chapel exercises addressed them
for nearly half an hour, on the higher teaching
Of misfortunes.
1-The Saco Democrat says four quarts of
corn planted by Mr.. Thomas B. Littlefield in
Wells, produced so bushels of ears Of good,
sound corn in llS days from the time of plan.
ting.
n1- The members of Rev. Charles Beech
er's church, in Georgetown, have voted Is to
"a to grant his request for dismission, but
the society refuse by a larger majority to rat-
fly this action.
n1-John G. Sawyer, formerly Secretary of
The State, and for many years occupying re-
spectacle position in the community, died in
this city on Saturday night last, another vic
tim to the excessive use of Intoxicating
drinks Maine Farmer.
To- The Nashville Union saws that JEFF.
Davis suspended the writ Of habeas corpus
over the whole of rebeldom more than six
months ago. He did it by private orders to
the Judiciary, and the order has never been
published.
s9-The New Orleans Bee says that there
is great scarcity Of labor on sugar plantations,
and 1t is estimated that In Plaquemines parish
the loss to planters, owing to the want of la
Dor, will not be less than ten or fifteen thou
sand hocsheads.