The Portland daily press., 1863-10-24

Gg@ The Oxford Democrat says Stephen b.
Hart aud Joseph G.. Grcenlow, of Eaton, n.
H., were committed to Paris Jail on Monday,
charged with stealing quantity of pork i'll
june last of Messrs. Ansel and Alvah Thurs
ton, Brownfeld
u The names of Hon. d. ID. Stewart.
Judge Tenney and Hon. Geo. b. Barrows have
been mentioned in connection with the posi-
ton of President of the State Senate. Either
of these gentlemen would discharge the duties
of the position with fidelity and ability
nU- We learn from the Somerset Farmer
that dwelling house in Smithfcld on the
Mercer road, owned and occupied by Mr..
Frank Gilman, was consumed by fire on Sat
urday night last. 1t was set on fire by an in
sane pauper girl by the name of Hannah
Holmes whom he was keeping. Loss about
$1,000. No insurance.
sY-A meeting of the stock and bond hold
ers Of the Somerset d Kennebec Railroad is
to be held at the treasurer's office, in Angus
ia, on the 3lst inst, to see if the stockholders
will ratify contract made with the Kennebec
& Portland road, by which the former road is
leased TO the latter for term of twenty years
at an annual rent of s35 900.
lg-Woman's sphere of occupation has been
very much extended since the war has called
away so many Of the young men. In all the
various departments where light labor is to be
performed young women are very generally
employed. We are glad to see the means of
obtaining an honorable livelihood placed with
in their reach
IS-The editor of the Gardiner Journal
wakes romantic when speaking Of the view of
Chelsea from his "back window He says he
should be happy to lend the view to any good
looking young lady. The buildings on the
kennebec must be peculiarly located if the
only views worth mentioning are from the
back windows. 1t would so seem from edito-
rails all along the banks of that beautiful river
B- The Grand Jury in Lincoln county at
late term of the S. j. Court, found indict-
ments against % persons for violation of the
liquor law, Of which six were disposed of by
sentence, o were continued for sentence (costs
paid) and the others continued open, two go
ing to the Law Court, "on exceptions" The
iiuNo Nhh NootofoS NC ttiu run Tie Dtlu
Times, amount TO something over sS7j.
syThe Argus has soiled its new and beau
tiful type with an unhandsome and untruthlul
fling about the newly appointed collector. No
important appointment has probably ever been
made in the State that more generally salts
factory. Union men land candid democrats
alike speak well of it. The "curses not low
but deep exists only in the Argus imagina-
ton.
sy-Lieut. Farr of the 10th Maine furnishes
the kennebec Journal the following list OF
casualties in that regiment in the sharp little
engagement at Briston Station, Va, as fol-
| lows:
kitied-Franklin A. Wood, Co. b.
| Ipouaded-Co. A, Frank Ingalls,; Co. b. /.
Ii. Cross, VIM. Ii, Small; Co. +. Walter Jer-
rold, WIN. Strange; Co. G, L. G. Trask; Co.
| III, George White, Chas. Bigelow, Geo. Tuck
err, severely, Francis Brown, Chas. Judkins
Co. X, G. Plummer.
| LIZ We would call the attention OF our
temperance readers, which we have no doubt
embraces large proportion of them, to the
communication of adam jerks" on the out
side Of o-day's issue. We do not fully en-
dorse the doctrine that the Maine Law has
been failure because the work is not yet &C.
compished, and that it should be abandoned
| for some other instrumentality. We might say
as well, because bullets and bayonets have not
conquered the rebels we will resort TO blank
cartridges. The soldiers would say "give
them little more grape