The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-02-11
OR IGINAL AND SELECT TED.

sB- On the fourth page-A War Hymn;
Bifhop Colenso under Homeopathic Treat
ment; &c.
ev- The Saco Democrat says VIM. S. Noyes
of that town, Hospital Steward in the Maine
9Th, has been appointed Assistant Surgeon.
sB- Real estate operations in New York
last week amounted to nearly one million
of dollars.
V- The Houlton Times defines "grass
widow to be one whose lands afford fine gra-
zing for thousands of cattle.
sB- The Boston Post has increased its size
to its former portly dimensions. 1t is now the
largest daily in New England.
sD- Gen. McClellan's body guard COM
pany of the 18th regulars-has gone to the ar
my of the Cumberland.
aB- Capt. Larrabee and Quartermaster
Wakefield, of the Maine 10th, arrived home
at Bath on short furlough on Monday last.
n1- The Bath Times says Rev. Mr.. Rugg
of that city has been confined to his room with
illness for the last two weeks, but he is now
improving
V- Ex-Secretary Guthrie 'has written
letter to his old Assistant Secretary, Peter G.
Washington, ESQ.,, in which he says the Union
is worth fighting for ten years.
I- The Masonic Lodgein Bangor has two
Colonies, one LieIt. Colonel two Majors, four
teen Captains and any quantity Of under Off
GERS in the war.
gyr The Rocklaad Democrat says that
Captain Alden T. Spear participated in the
fight at Galveston, and came off safely with
his vessel after doing all that could be done.
sV The Beaufort Free South says Mrs.
General Lander has been appointed by the
Secretary Of War, Superintendent Of Nurses
for the Military Department Of the South.
gp An old citizen of Concord, n. H., says
that during several days in the early part of
January, 1910, the people there ate dinners in
rooms, the windows of which were raised.
eN We are Informed that since the remov-
al of the Advertiser Office, the local depart
ment of that paper has been placed in charge
of the local editor of the Argus.
IL What is to happen? The Argus
quotes approvingly Horace Greeley and Fred.
Douglas. That paper should be looked after.
Is its collar working loose?
sV Our reporter was mistaken in saying
there was no appeal from the decision of the
chair on the resolutions offered by DIR. Chad
wick There was an appeal, but the chair
was sustained, - to 8.
gr Beecher was on the same train with
Mcclellan Saturday-in front car, the hero
behind. "where is the general?" inquired a
companion. "In the rear, as usual" replied
Henry Ward.
aH- The Lewiston Journal says Surgeon
Wiggin of the 18th Maine, has arrived at his
home in Auburn. He brings cheerful accounts
from the Army of the Potomac. The troops
have the utmost confidence in Hooker.
sY- The Eastport Sentinel says the Rock
land Free Press is the only democratic paper
that holds fast to the loyal position it took at
the outbreak of the rebellion. The Free Press
is as true as a flint.
10 Mr.. Geo. Brown was engaged in Bos-
ton in taking rum sweat" Friday evening,
TO relieve himself of a cold, when he burned
one of his legs quite severely. The accident
threw him iuto n fit, and he survived only ten
minutes.
sv- 1t is hoped that the hymeneal editors
of New York will do up the Tom Thumb
wedding in good style. To secure proper OBJ
servance of it in this regard, we wish the great
event of making the two little folks one, could
come off in this city.
sr Rev Mr. Beard OF Bath, who has re-
Gently experienced severe affection in the loss
of his wife, has been granted brief leave OF
absence from his parish, and will spend the va
cation in Connecticut. We received a short
visit from him a day or two since, as he was
on his way to his place of destination.
sv A few days since the fact of a Jail de-
livery at Belfast was mentioned in the Press.
One of the prisoners was a young man named
Winslow, charged with robbing a jewelry
store. After his escape, we learn that Wins
low sought the house of his uncle, who re-
rides in the vicinity of Belfast. Like an hon
est man, the uncle persuaded the fugitive to
conveyed him to Belfast and delivered him
into custody, but refused the 800 reward
which was offered.
- The Advertiser has dropped out its
significant heading "Pen and Scissors" which
seems to have been used to demonstrate
that the scissors is more powerful than the
pen, and has substituted as a heading for its
items, the euphonious name "Medleygraphs."
This is supposed 10 come from two Latin
roots-ride Stetsons Latin short-cut-viz:
medley. hodgepodge, and graphs, thin or wat
cry, literally "a thin or watery hodgepodge."
The heading has been chosen with Singular
felicity and appropriateness.
sv- The person who has written us from
Baldwin in relation to the "borning" of twin
babies, weighing exactly l-2 pounds each, is
informed that We see nothing in the circum-
stance Of so remarkable a character as to call
for publication. Non-intervention with such
domestic institutions" is our rule. When
lady becomes sufficiently patriotic to intro
duce four or five native Americans" at a sim
gle effort, as they do sometimes in the fertile
portions of the State, the fact becomes one of
public interest.
GHr The Belfast Journal has dolorous ar
ticle about "the war upon democratic papers,"
and complains of the unjust arrest of Mr..