The Portland daily press., 1863-05-21
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

cv-President Lincoln has been invited to
visit Philadelphia on the 4th of July next.
DB-When man gets drunk in Lewiston it
is said that he has 'lost his dignity
lYrThe Maine convention of Universal
lists is to be holden this year, in Calais.
sBrWhatever Midas touched was turned to
gold. In these days touch a man with gold
and he will turn into anything.
srThe Machias Union says son OF Mr.
Smith at Dennysville, had his foot and anckle
badly crushed in mill one day recently.
sB-The citizens of Dover and Foxcroft
made the handsome contribution of $500 for
the Sanitary Commission on Tuesday last
gB-The general conference of the Congre-
gational Clutches of Maine will be held at
Biddeford on the 23d, oath and 25th of June.
aB- Prof Whitney, the State Geologist of
California, found among the Sierra Nevadas,
about 1000 feet above the level of the ocean,
an almost perfect jaw of a rhinoceros.
IBAt copperhead meeting in Indiana,
recently, one of the speakers excoriated Mr..
Lincoln for denying the people "the right of
Corpus Christi"
B-Maine had eight Regiments in the late
battles and Massachusetts had eighteen. Maine
regiments lost a total in killed, wounded and
missing, of 533 men, while Massachusetts, reg
iments lost only 1872.
nvr The Belfast Journal says Mr.. B. C.
nipcp,n
sons in his shoe mandatory in that city. 1t
is quite unnecessary to say that they are quiet
workmen.
% A newspaper editor in the interior of
Wisconsin, who recently perpetrated matri-
mony, appended to the announcement the fol-
lowing: "Cards issued upon short notice at
SO thousand.
70 And the last words of dying shipmas-
ter, recently deceased in Brunswick, Me-,
were, Steer the ship easy-steer the ship
easy" Felcitous words expressive of calm
confidence that he was gliding into the final
haven OF rest.
sy-The Bangor Wing says that Mr.. o. NJ.
Shaw of the Bangor House, sold a fine pair of
horses few days since for 5000, and he has one
left that will walk around the track better than
thirty, which he is reserving for his next Gus
toner.
rB-The Portsmouth Chronicle publishes
list of births in that city. 1t might lead out
siders to form a more favorable opinion of the
morals of the people of that ancient town, if
the births followed the marriages, instead of
preceding them.
sv-The remains of Peleg Tallman, Esq.,,
who recently died in Kentucky, were received
in Bath on Tuesday afternoon, and were bur-
ried yesterday afternoon, the funeral services
having been performed in Grace Church in
that city.
gg-The Wing says that the columbiad. of
ten-inch calibre have arrived at Fort Knox,
and will be Immediately mounted and placed
In readiness to prevent the approach of enc
mics. A good supply of ammunition has also
been received.
sYThe Lewiston Journal says Miss Anna
Ham, of that city, daughter of the Mayor,
was severely injured by being thrown from
horse which she was riding Monday evening.
The horse threw her and she was taken up I'M
concious, but she was quite comfortable the
next day.
SB-The Argus copies on its editorial page
without credit, the anecdote of learned New
England judge who startled the sheriff by d.
recting him in Latin to Ill up the CRATE. 1t is
good story: we thought well of it when it
first appeared, editoriaily in the columns of
the Press.
sgThe Bangor Wing says one paper in
Maine-it don't tell what one-devotes col
guished traitor Stonewall jackson, but not
word has it to say of the services performed
by our own deceased soldier and patriot, Cen
eral Berry.
LEA gentleman visiting a hospital at
Washington since the late battles, heard an
occupant OF one of the beds laughing and
talking about Joe Hooker. He seemed in
such good spirits that the gentleman remarked,
You must be very slightly wounded p yes"
said the brave fellow, "very slightly-I have
only lost one leg"
sy-The Journal says an Irish girl named
Roach was gathering chips in Bearces saw
MN ~ bS"iSsoh, -"ohuas hisht, WITH sHc
made misstep and fell through the floor,
twelve feet, striking on her head, and it was
thought injuring her fatally. 1t was believed,
however, that she would recover
sE-Mrs. Betsy Stetson, wife of Elisha Stet-
on, who lives out of the city few miles was
burned so severely on Friday by her clothes
aking fire, that she died on Saturday. She
las been insane more or less for four years,
nd was alone in her room at the time the ac-
ident occurred. 1t is supposed that her dress
aught fire in some way from the stove.
Lewiston Journal
% The State House at Jackson, Miss,
,urnt by Gen. Grant, was beautiful struc-
ure, erected at a cost of half million dollars.
The same city contained an executive man
zion, the State lunatic asylum, the penitenti-
Try, sundry churches and three or four news
paper offices. 1t was, before the war, the CEN
re of large and lucrative cotton trade
About 10000 bales used to be annually shipped
rom there. The population, according to the
asst census, was about 5000.
LEA deserter from the Maine Seventh,
named Joseph T. Marshall, of Dresden, was
arrested in Bath, on board the Eastern Queen,
IN Monday evening, and lodged in the lookup
IF that city, from which place he was convey
d to the Augusta Jail. The Times says he has
been arrested several times for desertion. He
IS now in a tight place, and the treatment be-
Co. al.