The Portland daily press., 1863-10-24
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

p- On the fourth page - The Misers
Bequest.
Gp- In the Sunrise county they raise cab
bages weighing "a pounds each.
gg-The death of Mrs. Trollope the novelist,
recently announced, occurred in Florenc.
1E- There is to be Musical Convention at
Skowhegan on the 9th inst.
@B-Chicagois to be supplied with water from
lake by tunnel costing S3l5,130.
sB~Col. Moses b. Lakeman, of the Maine
Sd, has been appointed Major General
ggSix vessels are building in Waldoboro,
several OF them of large dimensions.
av The quota of New Hampshire under
the new call is 376S men,-about four reg-
ments.
lrA marble mantle from the old Hancock
House in Boston, has been placed ina new
house in Skowhegan Me.
GA firm in Chicago did not discover the
trifiing mistake of 1925 900 in their income
until an officer called their attention to it.
srThc diptheria is prevailing to an alarm
ing extent in the towns of Lowell, Sweden and
Andover in this State.
9rRecent reports from Oxford county
confirm the previous statement that the pota-
to crop in that county will be very light.
aB-The "Bowdoin" boys are at their old
tricks again. The Chapel bell on Saturday
night was non est inreatus.
sY-Messrs. A. C. Dennison & Co., Mechan-
ic Falls, have nearly completed their arrange
ments for Manufacturing paper from straw.
To- Geo. ii. Benson OF Bangor, Act. En-
sign U. S. steamer Horace Beales, died at
Pensacola, Florida, on the 9th inst.
aB-A session of the S. ]. Court commence
es in Rockland on Tuesday next. Judge
Dickinson will preside.
sB-General Schenck says"a peace Demo-
crat is one who prefers piece of the Union
to the whole of it.
IF The Saco River Quarterly meeting
Baptist will hold its next session at Lining
ton, on Wednesday Oct 2Sth.
g A Musical Convention under the d.
rection of Prof. E. ii. Frost, will commence
in Augusta on Wednesday and continue IN
til Saturday.
cB- Assistant Paymaster Edward Putnam,
son of Mayor Putnam of Bath, arrived in New
York on Wednesday on his way home on Il
furlough, as we learn from the Times.
- Rev. Charles Beecher, recently tiled
for heresy by anecelesiastical council in Mass,
has resigned the pastoral charge of the church
in Georgetown, in that State.
To- The Bangor Wing says the Hutchn-
son Family had an enthusiastic reception at
Norembega Hall on Thursday evening. They
sing at Bath this afternoon aud evening.
sI-It is reported that the ship Atlanta, of
Richmond, Me-, was sunk by the pirate Ala
bama mo datel, while on her voyage from
Moutevideo to the Chincha Islands.
eYLieut. Charles A. Poor of Co. A, 18th
Maine has boon presented by his company
with beautiful sword and belt as token of
their friendship and esteem.
IL The annual Town Fair will be held
at Bethel Hill on Tuesday next The people
of the adjoining towns have been invited to
join them.
sH-Hon. Gideon Tucker, prominent and
esteemed citizen of Saco, and member of the
|. State Senate of 1862, died in that town on
Saturday last, aged 81 years.
lF- Potatoes are selling at Skowhegan for
forty cents a bushel, and at Bangor for forty
five cents. large quantity will be purchased
the present season for shipping.
ry- The Houton Times says that the pota-
TO crop this season In Maine will prove the
best gathering in that county for a term of
years. The potatoes are OF an excellent quail
ity and the yield is large.
nY- Pat Conley of Bath, having imbibed
freely of bad rum, said some bad things about
his neighbors that caused him TO get bad
bruise on his head. One bad thing leads to
another.
EE-The Montreal Witness says Petroleum
has been obtained in Casper, Canada East, by
boring 500 feet, and that the region bids fair
to be very productive of this valuable sub
! stance.
~ Cooper, the great English violinist,
would not like TO be called Casper, nor Osti-
nelli see his name printed with an 4. Our
types did all that in our article on Mad'le
Urso yesterday.
II Lord Lyndhurst, recently deceased at
the ripe age of 92 years, was an American by
birth, having been born in Boston, May q
1772-three years before the battle of Bunker
Hill.
sF- Mr.. Daniel Foster has been appointed
Deputy Collector of Customs at Fort Fairfield
to fill tho vacancy occasioned by the death of
William F. Hopkinson Esq, as We learn from
the Pioneer.
sB- 1t is currently reported that Rev. Mr.
Keep Of Ashland has gone to Canada. Whether
or not he has gone to administer spiritual con-
ISOLATION to Vallandigham in his recent Attic
ton we are not prepared to say.
sB-The citizens of Kennebunk are making
arrangements TO have course of home lee
lures the coming winter. Kennebunk is one
of the most moral aud intellectual as well as
one of the most delightful places in the State
sH- We learn from South Carolina cor
respondent, that the Swamp Angel Battery
was manned by detachment from the Maine
18th volunteers, commanded by 1st Lieut..
Cha,lo. Sall,,nr