The Portland daily press., 1863-11-14
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of Rivers.
sB-On the fourth page-Our Flag-orgi-
nal; Miscellany.
sE series of burglaries have recently
been perpetrated in Searsport.
SB-The Gardiner Journal says it continues
very sickly in that city.
nVThe army under the command of Gen.
Grant is estimated at 100000 men.
s4- Thos. Darcy MCGEE is soon to lee
ture in Kingston, c. W., on the future of Ca
NADIA.
nB- Returns from North Carolina indicate
the success of the Union party at the recent
election in that State.
sVThe Rockland Free Press says, business
has not been so brisk in that city for several
years as at the present time.
v Mr.. James F. Patterson, for MANY
| years Cashier of the Gardiner Bank, has re-
signed the office, and removed to Dresden.
sB- Horace Sawyer, the postmaster at
Marsardis, has been arrested for fraudulently
obtaining his exemption papers.
To- Col. Lakeman, declines the appoint
ment Of Brigadier General, prelering to re-
main with his regiment.
g1 Sergeant Roberts, of Co. II, 9th Me-.
SO honorably mentioned in connection with
the capture of the rebel redoubts at Kappa
hammock Station, belongs in Dexter.
Tho 10Th Naipa raoo;,oJ a oo...,o.l
atory order from Gen. Meade for its share in
winning the victory at Bristow Station, few
weeks since.
Mr.. S. S. Lambert, of Philips, arrested
two deserters in his county short time since,
viz, Ambrose Rowe, of It'll Maine, and Ma
than A, Barker, 18th Maine.
sH- The Montreal Witness thinks the re-
cent Union victory in Maryland must be con-
sidered greater victory for the North than
any yet obtained on the battlefield.
TAn indictment was found at the Octo-
Der term of the S. J. Court for Knox county
against DR.. J. Rouse, for an assault with an
intent to kill Cornelius Hanrahan.
ss The Union majority in Maryland is
about $4,000. Illinois shows a Union gain
from last year, in forty-five counties, of more
than $4,000, and Wisconsin, in thirty counties,
a gain of 1891 from 1861.
lBr The Bath Times says, Mr. Charles o.
Moses, son of Mr.. Eben Moses of that city,
died on his passage home from Liverpool, on
board the ship Pochahontas. He was % years
of age.
sIThe Gardiner Journal says that on
Saturday noon last a daughter of widow Par
ker, of West Gardiner, aged nine, went into
an out-building to kindle fire, when her
clothes caught and she was so badly burned
as to cause her death that evening.
rg- The Lewiston Journal says that girl
of IL years, named Mary Z. Mcdonald, day
or two since had the index finger of her right
hand taken off by being caught in the ma
chnery at No. /, Bates Mills, where she has
been at work.
lV Bartlett Redcken, of Co. A, and Syl-
vestus Bumpus of Co. c, Sd Maine regiment,
were wounded-the former in the hand and
the latter in the lungs - at one of the late
skirmishes on the Rappahannock, and have
been sent TO the hospital at Washington.
sYThe 18th Maine regiment is now under
the command of 1t. Col. Heseltine. Col Rust
now being Provost Marshall of the I'd Con-
gressional District of Louisiana This regi-
ment is represented to be in a fine condition.
The order TO enter the field was received with
great satisfaction.
sv The Argus has been caught mapping.
1t copies and commends the words of old Fa-
Their Byles of Boston, in Revolutionary times,
against political preaching. Byles was no.
torious tory, and it was the patriotism of the
pulpit of that day, and its zeal for free gov
eminent, that prompted his conservatism.
u The travelling public will be pleased
to learn that Mr.. Cushman who has managed
the business OF the Kennebec and Portland
Railroad with so much prudence, is to retain
the same position, Notwithstanding the APP
pointment of Judge Rice as President of the
company.
sE- The Arson Advocate says, a large new
stable belonging to Mr.. John Turner, Of
Moose River, was consumed by fire on
Wednesday night last, together with horses,
6 yoke of oxen, so tons OF hay, 500 bushels of
grain, dc. The cause of the fire is unknown.
Loss estimated at $4,000 No insurance.
y- A special dispatch to the Chicago
Tribune, dated st. Louis 9th instant, says that
the radical State ticket is undoubtedly elected,
if the soldiers votes are not thrown out, The
conservatives have only $500 on the home
vote, and soldiers and counties still to hear
from will easily overcome that.
V- The Bangor Wing says two soldiers
being the worse for liquor, got into wrangle
with an Irish boy, John Cronin, on Wednesday,
when one of them, named David Rankin,
stabbed the boy in the side, the knife pene-
trating between the ribs. The wound, though
severe, is probably not dangerous Both the
soldiers were arrested by the police and locked
up.
ry-Rev Mr. Graham will give a discourse
on Friday afternoon at his church, on Casco
St., in which he intends to speak kind word
to young men in relation to the evils of in
temperance, and the temptations that now,
more than ever before, are in the path of the
unwary. We hope DR.. Graham will have the
nlaasura of saainO n laroe number of tho class