The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-10-26
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

| National capital Liquor tfainc Ill virginia.
sH-On the fourh page-A Call to Duty;
Miscellany.
sy-The hop crop of New England is unu-
sualy large the present season.
L. The Everett House, New York, has
been sold under the hammer for less than
$4,000.
GA man in California has pack of dogs
which he sends out in the morning to forage.
They visit the neighbor's premises and
bring back hens, ducks and geese.
nv-A fine iron sea-gong steamer, says the
Price Current is this winter to be placed on
the route between this city and St. John,
NIB
p-We leorn from the Pennington Patriot
that the trial of Jesse Wright, charged with
the murder of Jeremiah Tuck, last spring is
assigned for Tuesday next at the S. j. Court
now in session in that town.
lE-The draft was rather severe in New
Hampton, n. II. 1t took the only physician in
town, two of the select men, the principal
| teacher in the literary department of the Sem
| mary, all the theological students that grad
| uated July last, and six of the class in theo-
| logy at the present term.
sH- 1t is presumed that Mr.. Geo. L. Pugh
of Ohio, not having been elected Lit. Gov. OF
that State, will not feel called upon to march
an army of the State militia to the Canada line
to escort Mr.. Vallsndigham to the capital for
Inauguration.
sy-The Price Current says the opening of
the Horse Railroad has thus far been COM
plete success. The cars have carried, on an
average, 800 passengers per day, each car pay
ing $50 per day. averaging the receipts for
the first week about $4,000.
To- The Montreal Witness says the Indians
of Lower Canada are very anxious to have
English schools established among them, feel
ing dissatisfied with the state of ignorance
in which they are kept by the French Catholic
priests who are set over them.
@HeWe learn that Rev. Mr.. Weatherbee
of the Wesley Church in Bath who has been
appointed Chaplain of the 18th Maine regi-
medt, leaves for New Orleans to-day to enter
upon the duties of his Office, Mr.. w. will car
ny with him the earnest wishes and sincere
prayers of numerous friends for his salty and
| early return.
sy-The subject of fruit growing is receiv-
| ing the especial attention Of the agrcultursts
of Maine. 1t is expected Mr.. Goodale, the
Secretary of the Board of Agriculture will
give that subject special attention in his next
annual report. Fruit-raising ought to be bet
ter understood in Maine and made more profit
able
LEA correspondent of the chronological
Journal says, three generations spent for the
most part in the open air, battling with the
piney monarchs that girt the Umbagog, the
Moosehead and other lakes and streams of
that wild, bracing northern climate, have Civ
ell the backwoodsmen Of Maine the most gi-
gantic development of physical power which
] eyer saw or had any authentic account Of
s1- The Loyal Sunrise expresses our sem
timents exactly when it says that county or
town fairs will fail of being what they should
be until farmers take the direction and man.
agement of them Farmers should consider
them as peculiarly their own institutions, and
should devote that attention to their manage
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| direction.
LEA large number of horses have recently
been purchased in Somerset County for Cav
airy purposes, at prices ranging little below
one hundred dollars. Ii success should attend
the efforts to raise Cavalry regiment in this
State, good horses will be in great demand.
There is probably no State that has better
facilities for raising horses than Maine and it
pays as well as anything.
aB-The proprietors of the Portland Daily
Press have added to their machinery one of
| Hoes fast presses to enable them to keep up
with the demands of their issues. The sue
cess of the Press is one of the marvels OF
newspaperdoin in Maine, owing in part TO
special and local causes, Its daily edition is
now over three thousand copies and is still in
creasing. II is pleasing to learn of so much
prosperity in good loyal paper in our State.
| Il Ken. Journal.
TEA correspondent of the st. Louis Re-
publican writeing from Louisville, says.
"the stock of horses in the South seems to be
running short. Their supplies from Kentucky
and Texas are stopped, and the cavalry
which, under Stuart and Morgan, played such
an effective part, is now fast dwindling into
contempt, partly for the want of horses and
equipments, and from the restricted nature of
its service"
To- The balloonists that recently 'went
up" from Bangor, travelled in an air line about
240 miles in less than six hours, landing in
Sudbury county, New Brunswick. The ex-
cursionists with some forty or fifty invited
guests, took dinner at the Dwinel House, Ban
gor, on Tuesday, to celebrate their great ex-
cursion and safe return. Besides doing ample
Justice to the dinner, speeches, sentiments and
poem by DR.. Jordan descriptive of the voy-
age, was had.
sg- Our respected fellow-citizen, Hon. l..
ID. N. Sweat, has not yet authorized us to say
that he declines the equivocal honor of mis-
representing this District in the next Con-
gress. Mr.. s. is presumed to be a man of
honor and consistency, and therefore we are
not without hope that he will yindicate these
qualities OF character by sending in such
notice at an early day. When he does so we
shall take pleasure in laying it before our
readers.
nB- Henry Ward Beacher addressed over
| 5000 people iu Manchester, Eng on the10th