The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-11-03
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

g The price of gas has been raised in
Bangor to $50 per 1000 feet.
% About eighteen hundred men are now
employed in the Kittery Navy Yard.
sg- A large brick building is about to be
erected in Pennington for the Western State
Normal School.
.R- Brig. Gen. Carleton, now in command
of the Department of Santa Fe, is Maize
man, formerly residing in Bangor.
EnBr The Hutchinsons will sing at Angus
ia this evening, which will be their last con
cert in this State at present.
sB- Over fifty sheep have been killed by
dogs in the town of Perry during the past
summer and fall.
g- Stewart, the New York merchant
prince, will sell $4,000, 900 worth of goods this
year.
GD-The project is on foot to advance the
educational interest OF Vermont by consoli-
dating all the Colleges in the State, merging
them into State University.
aE- A man by the name of Joseph T..
Marston was drugged and robbed of 500 in
Veasie, on Thursday last, as we learn from the
Bangor Wing.
az A drunken man remarked the other
evening from major generals window at
Washington, that he was five drinks ahead of
anybody in the room. That was a good deal
to say considering the company he was in.
sBrThe Lewiston journal says there was
foot race between man and woman in
Auburn Wednesday morning. The man
beat A race of tongues issued. The woman
beat of course.
The Skowhegan Clarion says that Mr..
George Ladd of Starks has spanish buck
which weighs 100 lbs, Tor which he paid $500.
He is two years old and shear ed % lbs. of
wool in May last.
gB- Mr. Edward Hamilton, of North Var
mouth, brakeman on freight train on the
Grand Trunk, who was severely injured in the
head by striking against bridge, while on
top of the train, near Gorham, n II. has since
died of his injuries.
aBEThe PASSPORT Sentinel says that the
amount of freight for Aroost ook by way of
st Andrews Railroad is very large. The
numbering supplies for all the great County of
Aroostook now go from Boston to Calais and
thence by railroad
sR- Elections will be held in Massachu-
sets, New York, New Jersey and Michigan
to-day. There is not opposition enough to
the Union ticket in Massachusetts to make it
interesting. In the other States there will be
spirited contests.
gB- A large proportion of the members of
the old regiments from this State have signi-
fled their intention to the government to re-
enlist for the ,car. Having been in at the
first OF the war, they are determined to see
the thing .fsished.
GB- Rev. T. ID. Howard, who has been at
tending to the moral and intellectual training
Of contrabands at Hilton Head, has recently
returned to his home in Perry on a short va
cation. Mr.. II. is one OF the most devoted
and unselfsh men of the times.
CO The editor of the Progressive Age,
who has had large experience in breaking in
new boots, says the application of castor oil
renders them as soft as buckskin glove and
they readily adjust themselves to the feet 1t
is also the best application that can be made
to render a new boot waterproof.
@ The report of the crops for 1862 and
'03, shows in some instances an increase and
in others decrease upon last year. The crops
Of wheat and oats are larger than last year,
while those of corn, hay, potatoes, rye, barley
and buckwheat are less. The hay crop is sup
posed to be 1928, 163 tons less this year than
last, although it is generally of better quail
ty.
IL The Boston Journal mus. be slightly
mistaken in saying the great Snowman" Ar
temas Ward, was drafted in Piscataquis coun-
ty and has failed to report. ARENAS halls
from Water-ford, Oxford county, near Ram
ford, he would say, and has been spending the
past season with his respected friends" in
that town.
- Evening adult schools have been found
Of the greatest advantage in nearly all the
large cities of New England. There are hun
dreds Of young men in this city whose early
education has been neglected who would be
glad to avail themselves of some such oppor-
tunity TO become acquainted with those BRAN
ches which are so essential in the transaction
Of business.
eE- Mr.. Aurin Littlefield of Sheboyguin,
Wisconsin, formerly of Skowhegan, this State,
was killed at the battle of Chickamauga. The
Clarion says that three days previous 20 the
battle in which he lost his life, he seemed to
have presentiment of his coming fate, for in
letter he wrote his wife, he spoke of the ap-
preaching battle as his last, and made dis
position of his worldly affairs, gave directions
Tor his funeral services and bid his family fare
well.
ga correspondent of the Eastport Senti-
mel who is evidently well posted in the BUSH
ness affairs of Portland says: ut is rapidly
growing city, of which the State of Maine
may well be proud and see no reason why
she may not ere long become the great COM
mercal Emporium of the State, and furnish the
interior and seaport towns with foreign and
domestic goods at as reasonable rates as
they can be obtained in Boston, and thus keep
the money in the State that now goes to
enrich Massachusetts.
gH- A letter in the Dover Enquirer, refer
ing to the recent draft riot in jackson, n. H..