The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-11-28
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

ng-Alfred has filled her quota under the
last call of the President.
sE- Mr.. Lewis Strickland of Skowhegan,
haslrecently lost four children by diptheria.
oldest physicians in Washington county, died
on Monday evening.
s- The F. w. Baptist Society of Bidde-
ford, has engaged the pastoral labors of Rev.
W. II. Yeoman of Gimanton.
sI-Gen. Dix declines to surrender his mil
itary position to accept the Office of mayor of
New York.
sT Washington letter-writers deny the
report that Judge fancy has resigned his seat
upon the U. S. Supreme bench.
T-It is understood that Gen. Sigel will
take the place of Gen. Schenck, in command
of Baltimore, after the latter takes his seat in
the House.
Mg-The production of coal is constantly
| increasing. The amount brought to market
! last week was $4,000 tons greater than the
week previous.
Ng-The mother of General Winder, pro-
vost marshal of Richmond, was arrested in
Baltimore, on Saturday last for correspon-
| ding with the rebels, and will be sent South.
sy-George w. Howe was ordained pastor
OF the West Buxton +. w. Baptist church, on
Thursday 18th inst. Mr.. Howe is graduate
| OF Bowdoin College in the class of 1860
av-Thaddeus Bolter deserter and thief
was arrested few days since at Eddngton
Pond and lodged by the Provost Marshal in
a very tight place.
IL The late freshet has washed out the
bank SO near the new Universalist church at
Rumford that fears are entertained for its
safety. Ought to have built on rock.
| Lee The Pennington Chronicle says there
has been no case of murder in the county of
since its last issue.
re- r. b. Caldwell, Esq, Of Pittston, for
merly publisher Of the Rural Intelligencer,
died at his residence on the oath iast., aged
40 years.
sH- The prizes of the Senior and Junior
classes, Bowdoin College exhibition, which
took place on Monday evening, were awarded
equally to Owen w. Davis, Jr., Great Falls,
| N. H., and Charles Jewett of Bath.
sT We are pleased to learn that Rev. H.
Philbrick of Calais, who has been for some
weeks very dangerously i'll is now recovering.
He was chaplain of one Of our regiments UNI
til his health failed.
~ The Kennebec Journal says nobody
but horse mackerel would oppose horse
railroad between Augusta and Gardiner.
Such an institution could be made to pay
we mean TIE railroad, not the mackerel.
eHThe remains OF Capt. Ruel W. Furlong
and Lieut. Henry Waite, who fell at Kappa
hammock Station, arrived at Calais on Tues
day and were buried with distinguished
honors on Thursday.
aV We learn from the Pennington Chron-
icle that the damage to the Androscoggin X.
r. was quite serious. Trains run only to Liy-
ermore Falls, II miles from Pennington from
thence passengers are taken by stage.
V We judge from the suggestions of the
|
fculty in obtaining a man to I'LL the place to
he made vacant by aao resignation OF Judge
Rice, will be TO select the best man from the
large number in the State so eminently fitted
for the position.
SB- We learn from gentleman who was
present, that Rev. Mr.. Putnam of Yarmouth
gave very able and appropriate discourse at
that place, on Thanksgiving day, from the
text Hitherto the Lord hath helped u.s." He
gave history Of the progress of the war
showing the hand of the Lord In all its events
from the beginning TO the present time.
o. The funeral services of the late Hon.
Stephen Emery on Saturday, were conducted
by Rev. A. G. Adams al the residence of Rev.
Mr. Butler in Auburn. The following gentle
men were pail bearers: Judge Walton, Judge
May, Judge Little and Judge Prince. Vice
President Ham,in and family, relatives of the
deceased, were present, with many Others.
sTThe Ellsworth American learns that it
is in contemplation to establish steam boat
rout between this city and Machias and in
termediate points. As there is large trade
| SioWiuS UP uStnccu Jul mciSuautc anu LAST
ern Maine it is of the greatest Importance
that every possible facility for trade and trans
portation should be furnished.
sv-The New York Tribune denies that
Wendell Phillips said recently in public in
that city, that President Lincoln told him the
Emancipation Proclamation was the greatest
mistake of his life.' 1t seems the New York
Herald originated this falsehood, which is
upon the tongue of the Eastern Argus, and
every other lying copperhead in the country
To- Mr.. George Grant OF Phipsburg, a
member of Co. X, 18th Maine volunteers, died
on the 9Th inst. at Fort Schuyler hospital, N.
Y. of wound in the knee. His remains were
brought home and inferred in the quiet resting
place at Phipsburg Mr.. G. was brave soldier
and devout christian. He has left widow
and three small children who are entitled to
the kind circumference of all whose country
he fell in defence OF.
sVThe Farmer says it is estimated that
there are now in camp in Augusta about 1900
men enlisted in the several regiments-300 for
the I'd Maine cavalry, Col. Woodman; 500 for
the 10Th veterans, Col. Beal; and 500 for the
30th, Col. Fesenden,-Recruits enlisting for
each of these regiments are daily arriving in
camp, and it is confidently believed that they