The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-05-16
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an Hour in a Washington Hospital.
SB On the fourth page The Soldiers
Welcome, by David Barker.
StThe Eastern Queen has taken her place
on the Boston and Kennebec route.
1B| Substitutes for the rebel army are now
quoted at $1,000 to 5000 offered. Few in
the market.
sg- The Houlton people have petitioned
Gov. Coburn for permission to organize com
pany of militia. Etf
er Winter Street Church, Bath, contribu-
ted the largest amount to the cause of foreign
missions, during the last year, of any church
in the state, to wit: S712.
% Mr.. Helper, U. S. Consul, author of
''The Crisis" has recently married, SO says the
correspondent of the New York Post, at Bu-
enos Ayres, Miss Rodrigues, of that city. She
is said to be beautiful, accomplished and rich.
sB- marriage is noticed in the Duxbury
Times, in which the happy pair are unusually
explicit in stating their position. They say
mo cards, no receptions, no wedding tour"
GA New Brunswick paper speaks of an
Indian named Mitchell, who ran twenty-five
miles in four and half hours, one morning
last week.
s@ The Toledo Blade of Saturday last
says: "Sixty tons of catfish were taken from
lines in the river near this city yesterday
The catch of Thursday and Friday amounted
to over one hundred tons.''
IE 1t IS said that Mrs. Lincoln will visit
Boston to attend Commencement at Cam
bridge College, where her eldest son (Robert)
is student, and he will escort her to the
White Mountains.
sE- General Corcoran has succeeded in OBJ
tanning court of inquiry into the circum-
stances attending the death of the late Lieut..
Col Kimball. The court was convened on
Thursday, by order of Gen. Peck.
sB- President Lincoln has approved the
sentence OF death passed upon two men con-
victed of recruiting for the Confederate army
in Kentucky, and they are to be executed on
the 18th inst
gBThe Oxford Democrat says the state
ment.wa recently made, in the Commissioners
Court, that at one of the ferries on the andre
scoggin, the property is valued at $500. This
is underlet so as to realize a net income of
$500 per year to the owners.
NE-The Bath Times says that Mr.. Thomas
N. Aver, at Sheepscot Bridge, has barque
nearly timbered ofabout 600 tons burthen. Mr..
+. l.. Carney is stretching the keel of barque
in Newcastle, which will be about 425 tons
burthen.
Gg- 1t is stated that Gen. E. d. Keyes. in
command of the Federal forces at Yorktown,
and who has done good service on the PENN
sula, resided some years since In Mount Yer
non village, in this State, where he was clerk
in store.
Is DIR. Allibone has nearly finished the
second volume of his Dictionary Of Authors"
OF Smiths alone he is said to have recorded
about six hundred and eighty authors, of whom
more than eighty bear the inevitable prefix
"John"
rThe Augusta Journal understands that
on Tuesday, II inst, a man by the name of
Charles Webber, whose residence is in Vassal-
boro', while at work upon the steam mill on
the east side of the river, fell through a scut-
tie, a distance OF about 25 feet, and was so Sc
verely injured that he will not recover.
Stanley House, at Augusta, has been feasting
the editors OF that city. 1t is lucky for him
that Pike is out of business, for he is a terri
bly, destructive fellow at the table. If Sawyer
fills the place of his predecessor, Mr. Kicker,
the pnblic will see that he receives full JUS
tice.
gr The Dayton (Ohio) lDispatch, in speak
ing of the damage done at the late Copper
head riot, amounting to some s225,OOO, says
that the "butternuts" concerned in the late riot
are to be taxed each equivalent to his means,
until a sum is raised to defray the loss con-
nected with their outrage, besides term in
the penitentiary.
ggThe Augusta Farmer says the expert
ment of running two trains day on the Ken
nebec & Portland Railroad has thus far proved
more successful than in any former season.
1t is great convenience to business men, and
we trust the enterprising Superintendent, b.
II. Cushman, Esq. will find it for the interest
of the road to continue the arrangement
throughout the year.
sY- Several valuable farms in this county
have recently changed hands. The Messrs.
A. and G.. j. Talbot of Wilton. have sold their
farm to Jas. L. York for 81 800. David Miller
of Wilton has sold to the Messrs. Talbot for
$500 Mr.. Cooper of the same town has sold
to Nathan Eaton for 81 500. Mr.. Albert Dag
gett of this town has sold to Geo. f. Briggs
for $1,000. Mr.. James S. Stanley has sold to
S. +. Fuller for s. ,000.-Mr. Il. A. Smith has
sold to j. Q. johnson for 81 ,000.-I Pennington
Chronicle
syThe Richmond papers derive consola-
ton from the fact that Stonewall jackson was
not shot by Yankees--that he was killed by
bullets from his own men. We should not feel
agrieved to learn that their satisfaction was
still further enhanced by the shooting of JEFF.
Davis himself by his own men. Yankees
would willingly accord to the rebels the privi-
lege of shooting all of the conspirators. They
would cheerfully allow the Devil to kill his
own meat.
sB- The Argus seems disturbed at the idea
of union of the loyal men of the State of all
parties, and very Enthusiastically intimates that
no Democrat will be drawn into the move
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