The Portland daily press., 1863-06-17
RIGINAL AND LECTE ID.


9R-The Aroostook Times says the grass
crop in that county never looked better.
svThe Bangor Wing says colored man
was drowned in Brewer, on Saturday last.
gy-The Post speaks of "porcine Stanton"
That is piggish epithet.
LEA New York letter writer is informed
that Mrs. Tom Thumb is-becoming decidedly
interesting!
LEA drop or two of Kerosene oil put in
side a caterpillar's nest, will destroy the whole
family. So writes friend.
g The Wamsutta mills at New Bedford
have suspended operations on account of the
scarcity ofcotton.
gpThe next session of the National Dvis-
ion Of the Sons of Temperance will be held at
Cleveland, Ohio, June 4th, 1864.
sB-A broker in Albany recently lost $500
by being curious to see passing regiment.
A rouge stepped in and made a grab.
gD- The Houlton Times. says the grass
crop never looked better, and fields and forests
are clothed in the brightest of green.
ay-The Lewiston Journal says one of the
corporations in that city paid over $4,000 rev.
enue tax for the month of May.
Gee. T. C. Judson Med Buntlin) has
been sentenced to two months imprisonment
at Fort Norfolk, Va, for desertion.
&C. c. Coffin, Carlton, of the Boston
Journal) has gone to the seat of war on the
Virginia and Pennsylvania borders.
sBrThe body of Capt. John b. Hubbard,
who fell at Port Hudson, is to be brought
home to Hallowell for interment.
sB-The Bath Times says the hay crop will
be light in that vicinity. The roots of the
grass were badly winterkilled in many old
fields.
sgIt is estimated that the next clip of
American wool will reach 10O,000,0OO pounds.
California alone will send forward 100000 lbs.
against 100000 last year.
gg-The Hallowell house has been purch-
ased by Mr.. Ambrose Merrill,l of that city,
The Gazette does not know who will occupy
the house.
sB-The Portsmouth, N. H., Chronicle
says that it is rumored that a company OF con-
trabands are coming from Fortress Monroe to
garrison Fort Sullivan in Portsmouth harbor
~Presdent Benson of Liberia, writes:
"Our home affairs are moving on quit encour-
agngly. This government and people are I'M
der God strengthening daily"
ry-If the invading rebels are suffered to
AL d. r..
show so much smartness as we hope to see
evinced.
grThe New York Tribune having said
that you cannot make man with a musket
and bayonet over his shoulder contemplate,
the Boston Post calls upon Horace, for decen-
cys sake, to shoulder arms
ay-It is stated that Gen. Mcclellan sent
letter to S. S. Cox, declining the use of his
name in the Ohio Convention, and saying
that he did not harmonic with the move
ments of the peace Democrats in that State.
sVThe Ellsworth American says that Mr..
Daniel Henderson of Long Island, Bluehill
Bay, drowned himself on Monday morning
last week. He was married the evening pre-
vious No cause is knowS4br the deed.
rE-To-day is the anniversary of the Bat
tie OF Bunker Hill. 1t will be observed at
Concord, n. H., by one Of the largest meet
ings of the people of that State that ever as
sembed within its borders.
LEA catholic school is about to be started
in Houlton, and if the attemptproves success
full, says the Times, it is the intention to estab-
lish an institution of higher religious charac-
ter under the auspicies of the church.
saturday forenoon fire was discovered
in the house of Mr.. Thomas Trickey, on the
cornor OF Jefferson and Cross streets. The fire
took from the chimney in the l.. The dam
age will probably amount to $500, aud is, we
believe, fully insured Bangor Wing.
sg- The Bangor Wing expresses doubt in
relation to the truth of the report of Gen.
Nickerson's death. His name has not been
published in the list OF casualties, and private
letters received since 1.-The battle do not men,
ton his death.
s1The Brunswick Telegraph says impor-
tant changes have been proposed in the Medi-
cal school located in that town, securing
greater efficiency in many respects; some will
go into operation Immediately, others will
follow as soon as practicable.
LEA new oil well opened at Oil Creek, Pa,
the other day, spouted up stream o. oil to
a hight of fifty feet, with noise like a hurri-
cane, and escaping at the rate Of two thousand
barrels per day. A stop cock was got on after
much trouble, and the flow can now be regu-
lated to suit the demand.
sB- The Advertiser seems inclined to doubt
the existence of any such political organize
ton in the North as the Knights of the Golden
Circle, and to regard them in the same light
as Guliver's Lilliputians and the giants of
Brobdinag. Perhaps our neighbor doubts the
existence of such a thing as treason or traitors
in the country.
10 The Bridgton Reporter demonstrates
against the too common practice Of pushing
infants aboutin their little carriages, thus COM
pelling them to ride backwards. Few ladies
can ride backwards owing to its nauseating
effect. The writer suggests idiocy as the nat
ural effect ofpushng infants about in this man
ner.
gB- A letter from a soldier in Grants army
received at Washington, states that General
Grant gave two chances for the women and
children to leave the city, and they would not