The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-01-15
ORIGINAL AND LECTED

g- 1t is rumored that Gen. Butler may be
sent back again to New Orleans.
sg- Prof Briggs is giving his course of
readings at Augusta.
srA. Robinson, No 81 Exchange street,
has received the Tribune Almanac for 1868.
sT A wise man has said that the largest
room in the world is the room for improve
ment.
sy- Mrs. Betsey Tenny, of Antrim, N. H.,
has woven 80 yards of cloth in hand-loom
last autumn. She is y years of age.
1g- Commander J. NJ Wainwright of the
Harriet Lane, killed at Galveston, was a ma
tive of Massachusetts.
sgr The New York city government, spite
Of the Mayors veto, has voted to issue $4,000
600 in shin plasters.
Gr Baron de Rothschd of London, has or
dered for his town house staircase of white
Carrara marble, at cost of $4,000
gH- The cornerstone of a new church for
Rev. L. Starr King, has been laid in San Fran
cisco.
lg- Nicholas Longworth, so years of age,
the famous wine grower, is lying dangerously
i'll from paralysis of his left side.
gr The Supreme Judicial Court commen-
ced a session for Lincoln County, at Wiscasset,
on Tuesday last.
sB- A Connecticut editor, having got mar
ried, raised the price of his paper, on the ground
that married mans paper is worth more than
that of a bachelor
rr Twenty thousand dollars amount of
postage stamps that have been used as curren-
cy, have already been presented at the Boston
postotiice for redemption.
sgr Mr.. Bonner of the New York Ledger,
announces that he does not want any more
subscribers, the white paper costing nearly as
much as the subscription price.
20 The Boston Journal says there is not
word of truth in the rumor concerning the re-
call of Admiral Wilkes, who enjoys the full
est confidence of the government
sB- One of the New Haven churches is
making speculation by taking the cotton
from the pew cushions, and replacing it with
ID cheaper material.
GY-The names of II. Ramsdell, Co. G, and
VIM. Z. Packard, Co. E, 10Th Maine regiment,
are found in the list of recent deaths at the
Washington hospitals.
sTHenry Mcfarland, lad about Is years
DID, son of Mr.. VIM. Mcfarland, OF this viii
lage. sawed one of his fingers off with the cir
cular saw in Abbott's Sash and Blind Factory
Saturday afternoon last.-SkoUhegdn Farmer
rB-We learn from the Sentinel that son
of Sheriff Dibbles, of Woodstock, while skat-
ing on Wednesday, went into an air hole, and
was with difficulty rescued by two boys before
life was extinet-Aroostook Pioneer.
sg-Old DIR. Beecher once prayed 80 Lord,
We pray Thee that we may not despise our
rulers; and, o Lord, we further pray that they
may not behave so that we cannot help it,"
There is great need of this prayer in these
times.
SrThe coachman of VIM. B. Astor of New
York, lately drove his carriage on a cross walk,
and refused TO move for policeman because
he SAID Il drive for VIM. B. Astor." The funk
ey was arrested and Jailed because he refused
to paysa tine of 81.
sg- A country friend 81. NJ. G." writes:
"'The Constitution as it u.s. This means, alter
the Constitution as much as you please to
strengthen slavery, but never amend it in be-
half of Liberty"
lB- We see it stated that r. ii. Dana
Jr. of Boston, has received from Bombay the
sum of $1,000, with a request that it may be
given for the relief of some family which has
suffered in this war.
.g- The sunken steamer Karnack, which
was bought for $500, raised and repaired for
$4,000 is now worth 100000. Messrs. Ar
mold & Kimball of Nassau, two ''live Yankees"
from Bath, were the fortunate purchasers.
s1- The Portsmouth Chronicle says the
new steamship Ossipee has arrived at the
Washington Navy Yard for repairs to her ma
chinery, which broke down on her trial trip
from Portsmouth to Fortress Monroe.
sg- Gen. Butler very wisely declines all
public dinners and ovations. He evidently
believes in working rather than eating-eat-
ing only to live, rather than living simply to
eat.
rn- The Lewiston Journal says that
young child of F. NJ. Jordan, Esq, in Auburn,
a day or two since tipped plate of hot fat
down its throat and neck, burning it so badly
that it died, after lingering in great suffering
for twenty-four hours.
gg- The Rockland Democrat says that,a
man by the name of Isacac Brewster, of that
city, jumped overheard Monday morning from
IA vessel in that harbor, and drowned himself
He was supposed to be suffering from insani-
ty.
% An Albany paper tells pretty tough
story of dog which forsook his master, an
Englishman, the moment he renewed his oath
of allegiance to the British crown, and took
refuge at the railroad station where the Stars
and Stripes are kept flying and dog-gedly re-
fused to be enticed away even by the choicest
of sirloin steak.
sg- The readers OF the Press will not lose
sight of the fact that we publish the legislative
proceedings quite as early as they are publish
ed by the Augusta Tri-Weeklies. This has
never been done before in this city. The
wretched arrangement of the trains from the
Capital, obliges us to have recourse to the tel
egraph.
rB- A curious fact brought out by the re-
port of the State Comptroller of New York, is
that the rumors circulated at the time of the
Trent difficulty about blockade of the port
of New York nv a timber raft had n fnuuda-