The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-06-06
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Maine regiment. by Mary.
Bankruptcy is making sad inroads into
the financial affairs of English merchants who
have invested in the blockade running business.
nYe There is man out West who labors
under the impression that "Hon." placed be-
fore mans name stands for honest.
GgThe Lenox (Mass.) Pate-glass Works
is the only mandatory of the kind in the
country.
DTNine of the eleven cotton mills in Fall
River are idle, and the linen mill has discon-
tinued operations for the present.
SB-A letter from Brashear City says that
the value of the cotton secured by Gen.
Banks will cover the whole expense of his
campaign.
nBMcssrs. Job Jenness and Son, the pop
uar landlords of the "Ottawa" on, Cushing's
Island last summer, will open the Surf House
at Rye Beach this season.
sBr The enrolling officers for Androscoggin
county took the oath of office on Wednesday
and the enrolment in Lewiston and Auburn
commenced on the afternoon of the same day.
sg- There have been copious rains in
Franklin county, causing rise in the rivers
draining that section of the State. The river
at Skowhegan rose five inches on Saturday
last.
u The Gardiner Journal says, N. o
Mitchell is now loading vessel with lumber
to go into bridge at Washington. Said
bridge will take $4,000 feet of pine lumber.
1t does not all go from that city, however.
lc"Dunn Browne" the army correspon-
dent Of the Springfield Republican, is known
otherwise as Samuel Fiske, of Madison, Conn.
He is a captain in the 14th Connecticut regi-
ment. t5E
GBrA lady having accidentally broken her
smelling bottle, her husband, who was very
petulent, said to her, II declare, my dear, ev-
erything that belongs to you is more or les
broken" True" replied the lady, "for even
you are little cracked
grThe Supreme Court of the New York
District yesterday morning decided, in the
case of Meyer against Roosevelt, that treasury
notes are not a legal tender for the payment of
bonds and mortgages contracted prior to the
act of Congress making these notes a legal
tender.
CO The Lewiston Journal says, on Sunday
lightning struck the barn of Mr.. j. Francis
in Livermore, tearing it to pieces somewhat.
A pair of two year old steers in the pasture of
Mr.. Job Chase in the same town were killed
by lightning the same day.
Gr The Kennebec Journal learns that own
ers have commenced shipping their ice from
Gardiner in great guam titles to the army and
various Southern ports. Between two and
three hundred schooners of 800 tons each will
be required in the transportation.
Hancock House can be removed consistently
without taking it down. 1t is estimated to
weigh twelve thousand tons, and that not less
than nine months would be required for its
removal.
LEA letter from Monticello, Kentucky,
speaking of the manner in which the people
received our troops in their recent advance
upon that place, says: One old lady, a mile
beyond this place said, as she saw our columns
rushing on after the rebels, "When l seed that
old flag comm, jist throwed my old bonnet
on the ground and stomped on It,"
.g-A Memphis correspondent of the st.
Louis Republican writes under date of May
2Sth that the capture of vicksburg is reduced
to certainty, and that in three weeks from
that date, the place regarded as the strong
hold Of the Confederacy will have fallen into
our hands. E4
sY-The citizens of Bath to the number of
1874, embracing many of the heavy taxpayers
have petitioned the City Council to appropri-
ately celebrate the Fourth of July. The
Times thinks if they are willing to pay the
bills there is no reason why Others should OBJ
ject to enjoying the entertainment.
ev A Washington letter to the Evening
Post of Tuesday, says that the secessionists of
that city assert that Lee is on his way to in
wade Maryland and Pennsylvania, although
military men consider his movements a feint
to cover the departure of troops to the south
west, or an attack on Suffolk. 80
To- The pirate Alabama is said to have
captured, April 4, ship Louisa Hatch, Grant,
of Rockland, Me-, from Cardiff, with coal for
Singapore; put prize crew on board and
made for the island of Ferdinand de Noronka,
where they arrived on the 10th, and the steam
er coaled from the prize. z-.
eV Prof. Longfelow has recently transla-
ted large part of the " Paradise of Dante's
Divine Comedy" 1t is to be hoped that he
will finish it and give it to the public. Mr.. L
w. Parsons has for many years had the In
ferno in hand. His version of it is under
stood now to be completed.
Iv The Home Journal, which keeps the
run of all such matters, relates that the latest
fashionable innovation was seen at the dinner
party of great official, namely, the photo
graph of the giver of the good cheer on the
back of the bill of fare of the dinner, one of
which was supplied to each guest.
sg The Hartford Post says that hereafter
everybody in New Haven is going to bed at
shutdown. The dry goods dealers combined
in an agreement to shut up shop at O'Clock
in the evening, and now the butchers, and
grocers, and so forth, are going at it. The
populace will retire at o'clock, but the
watchmen will sit up until 8.
Gg- An English Engineer has invented a
printing press which will print q, 900 sheets of
newspaper on both sides in an hour. The
paper from which it prints is in the web on the
reel, and after passing under the type is cut in
sheets. The machine does without feeding,