The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-11-16
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

aH- On the first pasc-Graphic Sketches
of Army Life, by Bayard Taylor.
To- On the fourth page To S. F.
original.
nv A large building is being erected in
Biddeford, for shoe mandatory.
aC There have been three murder trials
in this State within the last month. Two at
Pennington and one at Machias.
rF Keels for two 1000 tons steamers, re-
Gently ordered by the Department, have been
laid at the Kittery yard, and the work on them
will be pushed forward as fast as possible.
% The latest returns from Missouri re-
duce the conservative majority to 1910, which
will probably be wiped out by the soldiers
vote and give the radicals majority.
~ B. Gratz Brown, formerly editor of the
ST. Louis Democrat, and thorough Enamel
pationist, has been elected U. S. Senator from
Missouri, by seven majority in the Legislature.
Wr Arrangements are being made to Sc
cure the services of Miss Evans, the distin-
guished lecturer on Temperance, to lecture in
several cities in this State.
s1- The Rockland Gazette, chronicles the
death OF Mr.. Frederick f. Kurdish, acting en-
sign of U. s. Steamer Tennessee. He died at
New Orleans on the Goth ult.
~ The Dover Observer says that Albert,
son of Ephraim Gerry, of that town, shot him
self with pistol in Garland on Tuesday last,
and died in short time.
~ The foundation is now being laid for
Wooden Factory in Hartland, Somerset Co.
The building is to be ready TO receive ma
chinery next May.
" II. w. Owen, Esq, has purchased the
buildings, rights and privileges of the Ne
quasset Lake Ice Co., in the vicinity of Bath,
as we learn from the Times.
s1-Gen. Robert Anderson has been relieved
from the command at Fort Adams, at Newport
r. /. His increasing i'll health will not allow
him to continue longer in the service.
~ No one man has ever done more than
H. w. Beecher to correct public sentiment in
England, and to beget feeling friendly to this
country, but still, the copperhead slaveryites
will continue to abuse and sneer at him.
~ 1t is said that the coal miners of Penn
sylvania-all foreigners of the most ignorant
class - who, three years ago, were glad to
work for 81 per week, now get 1924 per week
and do less work.
sH- Mr.. Stephen l.. Goodale was quite
seriously injured on Thursday last, in attempt
ing to jump upon the freight train near the
Saco station, as we learn from the Biddeford
Journal.
~ We are pleased to learn that the health
OF the family of Rev. F. Knowlton, of South
Montville, is improving, bidding fair to allow
of his departure on his mission South some
time in January. .EsF
I- The Gardiner Journal saga S. w.
Townsend, ESQ.,, Of that city, killed pig last
week, months and four days old, which
weighed 33s lbs, dressed. He challenges the
State to beat it. TsFfEt ..i -f
s1- 1t is believed one of the first acts of
congress will be to repeal the duty on coal,
SO that ships that 60 out to England with
grain may return with an article so much
needed at the present time. The price would
thereby be Immediately reduced.
~ The great Fair at Chicago for the ben
eft Of the Sanitary Commission has been very
successful. 1t has been visited by about 49,
600 people, and the receipts will be about $780,
900. The Fair closed on the It'll inst, at
which time contributions were still arriving.
II The distress in Lancashire, we are
glad to learn, steadily diminishes. There is q
prospect that next year the supply of cotton
will enable the mills to run four and half
days per week, in place Of three days as at
present
~ 1t is said parties in England have Of
fered $4,000 for the original drafts of Presi-
dent Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
1t has been donated to the Northwestern San
itary Fair committee to be sold only to be-
come the property Of some Historical Society.
sV We learn that the Universalist Quar-
terly Record, much enlarged and improved, is
to re-appear about the LIST of January, with
Rev. Thomas tB. Thayer as its editor. The
best talent in the Universalist denomination
will be exhibited in the Review.
~ The veteran Democrat, Daniel S.
Dickinson, has made speech in New York
which produces remarkable point. He de-
clared that In the war Of 1912 Mr.. Madison
made ten mistakes where Abraham Lincoln
has made one, yet the democratic party sus-
tanned the executive then, and made their for
tunes as a party by their patriotic course.
|Co oil. William r. Brewster, commander
of the Excelsior brigade of New York, has
written to the Adjutant General OF the United
States army, that this veteran. organization
will re-enlist for three years or during the war
providing the brigade is allowed the privilege
Of recognized as mounted infantry, and an
allowance Of sixty days furlough to go home
and recruit to the number of 5000 men. The
six regiments now constituting the brigade
now aggregate only 1921 officers and men pre-
sent for duty, and 1Ol5 men absent.
nNo less than thirty indictments have
been found against liquor dealers in Knox
County, by the Grand Jury recently in SEES
sion in Rockland. Some have paid their fines
and others have put of the day ofsettlement
The Free Press says, County Attorney Howes
is discharging his duties faithfully and ably
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