The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-11-24
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


ny-On the fourth page-The Dying Sol
dier to his Mother.
IL The "Ironsides" burns forty eight tons
of coal per day, or 10000 tons per annum.
IL See advertisement "Schoolmaster
wanted"
gB- The Sons of Temperance in Bath are
making arrangements for Thanksgiving en-
tertainment.
o. The young people of Bath are getting
up dramatic entertainment, the proceeds to
60 to the Ladies' Soldiers Aid Society.
sT The U. S. Sloop-ofwar emo will be
in Boothbay. in few days to receive recruits
for the several branches Of the service.
10 A large hall, built by the citizens of
Searsport, at an expense of $500, is to be
dedicated on Thanksgiving day.
CO M. d. Travern, of Midtown, St. Ste
phens, has lost within short PERIOD seven
children by dpthera.
q J. A. Worcester, Esq, has been ap-
pointed Postmaster at Carmel, vice B. F. Hop
kins, Esq, resigned.
1T The Biddeford Journal says the labor
at the machine shop in that city, for the COM
ing year, bids fair to equal the busiest seasons.
% A fine lot of horses have been pur-
chased for the I'd Maine Cavalry, at an aver
age of 1920.
V-"Ida Perley's" fayors are received and
marked for insertion as soon as the pressure
upon our columns is somewhat relieved.
nvA young child of Mr.. Jerey in North
Conway, N. H., was drowned near his fathers
house, by the rapid rise of the water, during
the late freshet.
u A Festival is to be held in Wscasset
on Thanksgiving day, the avails of which are
to be appropriated to the Sanitary Commits
sion.
kY- The city authorities of Biddeford, have
appropriated $1,000 for repairing its side walks,
for which they will receive the thanks of all
its citizens.
&C. P. Carter & Co., of Belfast, have
contracted to build two barks, of about five
hundred tons each, the coming season, for II.
ID. Brookman & Co., of New York.
sy- Rev. DR.. Graham will lecture ON the
subject of Temperance, at the new City Hall,
on Sunday evening next, under the auspices
Of the Young Mems Christian Association.
sVThe steam mill Of I. 7. Hobson & Co.,
of Wscassett, Me-, saws 10000 logs a year,
making about 10000 box shocks, 100000
pairs headings for hogsheads, and large
quantity of merchantable lumber.
IeDelaware has elected Union member
Hon. N. B. Smithers-to Congress. Mr.. S.
was member OF the Convention that nomi-
mated President Lincoln. All hail "Little Pea
Patchr'
~Mrs. Phoebe A. ingalls,, of West Bux-
ton, was so seriously injured Sunday night by
falling down flight of stairs at 9S Prince
street, Boston, that she was conveyed to the
Massachusetts, General Hospital for treatment.
sUThe Gardiner Journal says that thous-
ands Of logs have been lost on the Kennebec
by the late freshet. Messrs. Jewett d Han
soon lost 800. Most of the millmen had an
unusually large number piled for winter use.
nT S. l.. Goodale, Esq., of Saco, we are
happy to learn, was but slightly hurt, in at
tempting to get off or on the cars when in
motion few days since, the injury extending
only to the tearing Of his coat, as the Bdde-
ford Journal is informed.
sH The bodies of Capt. Henry Crosby, Of
Hampden, Capt. Case of Kenduskeag, and
Capt. J. B. Mckinley Of Bucksport, came
through to Bangor in the Katahdin on her
last trip from Boston, in charge of the Eastern
Express.
@H-The total majority for the Union ticket
in Wisconsin will not be less than $4,000. In
Illinois, seventy-seven counties show Union
gain of 30, 216. The returns heard from in
Missouri insure radical majority of about
1000.
sV Returns from eighty-six of the one
hundred and two counties in Illinois, give the
following results: Union majority % ,S95
Democratic majority in 1862, 1887; Union
gains 37,7S2. The sixteen counties yet to
come in will increase the Union majority a
little.
sr We learn from the Machias Republican
that barn owned by Charles Elder, who re-
sides at Jacksonville East Machias), was
burned Sunday evening, 10Th inst, together
with some five tons of hay, three cows, two
oxen and horse. Cause OF the fire unknown.
Mr.. Elder is at present in California.
sVSubscribers are requested to read the
terms of the Press. In consequence of the ex-
travagant prices Of printing paper, and the
high rates of everything connected with ma
king paper, we shall be obliged to insist
upon the exact observance of the published
terms.
nH- 1t was somewhat remarkable that, at
the immense tempesance meeting at the City
Hall on Sunday evening last, all Of the speak
ers we're British subjects, one from Canada,
one from Ireland and one from England. 1t
was pleasing fact which may have escaped
the notice of hundreds who were present.
sFThe only Kennebec names we have
heard in connection with the Judgeship made
vacant by the resignation of Judge Rice, are
those of Mr.. Baker of Augusta, and Mr.. Dan
forth of Gardiner. As the resignation leaves
that portion of the State without Judge, 1t
is reasonable to suppose the appointee will be
taken from the Kennebec valley.
sH- Philadelphia editors are the most
modest of men. We wonder they do not die
of excessive dffidence. The editors of the
Saturday Evening Post, an excellent literary
paper with which we do not exchange, propose