The Portland daily press., 1863-10-29

ports two missionaries in Germany.
sg- A single firm pays $4,000 year to
the London Times for Advertising. AS We
sow, so shall We reap.
gy- Madame Varian, now Mrs. Hoffman.
has been giving very successful concerts in
Detroit
sB-The Friends at Maple Grove, Aroos-
took Co., have erected commodious house of
public worship.
sB- The Teachers of Somerset county are
to have Convention on the 9th of November,
at Skowhegan.
g-Mr. j. ID. Pulsiler was to report phoao-
graphically two murder trials at Pennington
this week.
gD- John James, son of Mr.. Isaiah James
OF Waterville, died on board the u S. Frigate
Colorado, at sea, Sept. 9TH, aged Is years.
aB-We learn from the Lewiston journal,
that train of thirty-five cars loaded with cat
tie passed over the Maine Central Railroad.
on Monday.
SB-The n. Z. Farmer says, Mr. William
Miller, of Maine, after putting his cattle in
his wallet last week, had it stolen at the de-
pot as he was about starting for home.
% The Hutchinson Family will give
concert at Winthrop on Friday evening and
at Pennington on Saturday evening of this
week.
sB- A young man in Portsmouth, n. II.
has been arrested for robbng house in the
town Of York, Me-, of 1910. and then setting
the building on fire. He has till now borne
good character.
sv- Rev. A. B. Pendlcton, late pastor Of
the Baptist church at Livermore Fails, passed
through this city yesterday on his way to Mi
nersville, Schuylkill county, Penn, where he
is expected to be located for the present
sg-The Bangor Times says 1900 bushels
of potatoes were brough. in and sold in that
city on Thursday, at an average price of 80
cents bushel. This is thought to be 4 fair av-
erage Of the entire week.
sgA small neighborhood in ArDostook
Co., called Violet Brook, has sent 10 men to
the war. All who were drafted from that
place answered to the call. So says the 'sSun-
rise
% The Montreal Witness says Gen Nc
Clellan did his best for the Democratic cause
at the recent election in Pennsylvania, but he
appears to have been as unsuccessful as a poll
tician as he was as a general
sB- Washington Dispatch says the mon
ey received by government for communications
say ten or eleven millions-is TO be appro-
priated to recruiting under the new procla-
nation by the President.
sy- The Concord IN. H. Statesman con-
tradicts the story of the Patriot of that city,
that ChiefJusti Bell has decided that screen
backs are not legal tender, and says he has
simply prepared the case for submission to the
full bench. 10 -
u A report says there are seven hundred
soldiers in camp at Augusta, for Col. Beal's
veteran regiment. Ii FIVE are rightly informed
there are only about four hundred in camp at
Augusta, and three hundred with the Army of
the Cumberland.
sEr A cattle show Of the East Piscataquis
Agricultural Association wound up with race
for creased pig. This may afford amuse-
ment Tor certain class of persons, but we
question if such entertainments add much to
the dignity or usefulness of such associations.
iHr A copperhead exchange says, I'VE
don't know that the President can raise 300,-
000new volunteers but he can place Buell. and
Mcclellan i'll the field, and that would be
worth half the number" Why not add Fitz
John Porter and thus equal the other half?
% The papers report that Miss Kate
Chase. daughter of the United States Secreta-
ry of the Treasury, will be married to Hon.
William Sprague, Rhode Island United States
Senator, on Thursday, the 18th of November
Invitations are already out.
a' The price of coal in Cincinnati is now
from sl2 to SIS load of twenty-five bushels,
and it is favor, says Western paper, To get
it even at such enormous prices. The City
Cou neil have placed 900 in the hands of a
committee, 20 purchase coal and sell ii to the
citizens 1t cost.
- 1t is said the landing of P rof Kings
balloon in New Brunswick, caused great ex-
element among the persons in the neighbor-
hood where he landed. They thought the
Day Of Pentecost had come and set to praying
and preparing for an immediate change from
time to eternity. The baloonists found it dit
fcult to get any assistance from them In eff
fecting 4 landing.
y- correspondent OF the Rockland Ga
zette says, on the Assessors list, in the town
of Waldoboro', there are only $50 taxable polls,
| and it is estimated that one hundred of these
did not vote The number of votes thrown
was 974. Can any believe there were that
number OF legal votes cast? We hope there
will be such an investigation as will place this
matter right. On the purity of the ballot-box
depend all our rights as citizens.
aB- Rev. Mr. Wetherbee closed his pastor
al labors with the Wesley Church in Bath on
Sunday last, and is now on his way to join the
18th Maine Regiment as its Chaplain. Mr.. w.
has been in Bath some three and half years,
and has won the confidence and esteem of all
who have formed his acquaintance. He is Il
| preacher of more than ordinary ability and of
rare faithfulness. His Society gave him up
with the creates. reluctance and will find it
difficult to fill his place.
ny- The war on dogs has commenced in
| Lewiston. Nineteen were killed ON Friday:
by order of the City Marshal. Poor Tray. he