The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-08-03
ORIGINAL AND SELE fTED.
~ Hay is selling in Calais for s3oa on.


ance lecturer, is lecturing at st. John, N. B.
gA National Reporters Convention is to
be held in Chicago, next month.
81 Milk in New York is ten cents per quart.
Tremendous squalls expected.
EFrancis A. Winter of West Bath, was
killed at Tupelo, on the l4th inst.
ETThere is now direct line of railroad from
Mobile, Ala, to Bangor tins state.
9-The Philadelphia Press has raised its sub
scription price to $40 year.
EY-There is mile and half of new build
ings going up in Chicago.
8V. b. Palmer, of advertising Agency
fame, died at his residence in Philadelphia on
Friday last
% The wife of DR.. Geo. L. Bricket, Manches-
ter. N. II. died suddenly at his office, on Sunday
last. ew
EE-It is said cold winter generally succeeds
a dry summer. While it is too far of to pro-
duce chill, it may be well to be laying in fuel
R-A little fellow, Ii years old, has made ar
rangements in Boston to put in a representa-
tive recruit, costing Sl25.
RIn 1851 there were but 1000 miles of cleo
trio telegraph lines, while in 1868 there were
100, 900 miles
VThe Newburyport Herald says the tax on
matches of one cent bunch smells strongly of
birthstone.
BBath is credited with surplus of So, leav
ing 80 as the number to be furnished under the
last call for men.
R-A company has been organized in Machias
for the protection of the town against threat
ened invasion from over the eastern border.
q Active operations have commenced in
Charleston harbor; we hope with better success
than heretofore.
- According to the last returns emigrsnts
are arriving at New York at the rate of 427i
week.
- Shipbuildng is pretty brisk in some parts
of Nova Scotia, but the vessels are generally of
small tonnage.
EThe st. John Globe says vegetation is in
advance Of LAST year, and crops, except hay, are
very good
6Counterfeit $500 notes on the Producers
Bank, Woonsoeket, have made their appearance,
fac simile Of the genuine.
RJohn S. Raney, of Ohio, has pony 20
inches high and weighs only 81 pounds. Sup
posed to be the smallest in the world.
Br"The New National Tax Law" printed
from the official copy, with a complete summa-
ry, in convenient ''Dime'' pamphlet, has been
received by A. Robinson.
F-It is said the copperheads will ignore all
bands and martial music in their next campaign.
Such music savors not of peace. Their only
tune will be played upon Tyre.
IThe Calais Advertiser says the St. John
River is lower than it has been for years, and
those who have got lumber to market have done
SO at great expense.
EThe following Maine soldiers died in the
Washington hospitals on Sunday last; Charles
II. Merrill, b, 18th; Vim. B. Butler, II, 10Th; A.
J. Rowe, A, LIST Heavy Artillery.
q Eight cents quart is now the price of
milk in Biddeford. The fall feed being entirely
cut off by the drought, the supply of milk will
be much reduced.
y The ship Excelsior, from st. John, n. b.,
bound to Liverpool, England, put into Halifax
on account of the INSTRUMENTATION of the
crew.
EYrIt has required constant effort to prevent
the fires from spreading in the vicinity of Ban
gor The Mayor sent thirty men to the Essex
street road to fight fires on Sunday.
The Bangor Wing says Mr.. J. P. wyman
of that city, has disposed of his valuable horse
''Joe Hooker to New York gentleman for
one thousand dollars.
VEvery man who has little spare capital
should invest il in the 7-30 loan, and thereby
aid the government in furnishing men and
means to put down the rebellion.
RUnion sentiments are gaining rapidly in
Northern Texas. There are already ten lodges
of Union Leaguers, which are very secretly and
cautiously but constantly increasing their num-
bers.
q An enterprising but ignorant South
American has sent to an Albany locomotive
shop for one hundred "cow catchers.'' He
expects TO use them in taking wild cattle on the
plains of Paraguay in place of the iGsso.
EY-rhe Vallandigham Democracy are endeav-
oring to weave covering for their Southern
sympathy from the peace propositions promul-
gated at Niagara Falls, but the threads are too
ratten TO sustain the shuttle.
y Reports from Washington say that the
dispatches from all quarters received By late ar
rivals demonstrate that our relations with all
foreign powers are in a better state now than at
any previous period since the commencement of
the rebellion.
FA robins nest was found lately In a tree
ct the Oneida community which had interviewer
In its structure tEenty-nine ladies' collars, all
of which had been paFioinad by the birds from
the grass-plot where they were placed after the
wash.
-Y-"N hat part of speech is man," said a
pedagogue to ssilor-boy pupil. "A verb. sir, /"
replied the latter. A rerb, Ia It !" continued
the teacher, with a significant twist of his lips,
please give an example, MAN The yards"
was little tarpaulin's instant response.
VMrs. General Barlow, who has been ac-
lively engaged Ia the service of the Sanitary
COMMISSIONER angel of mercy at the bedside
Of the sick and wounded soldier, died In Wash
ington of typhus fever, contracted while en-
gagged in her noble work.
The New York Herald says there are four
hostile cliques among the Democracy Of that
city, viz; the Tammany faction: thS Mozart
the Young Coon, being a split from Mozart
against the Woods, and the McKeon-Gunther
faction.
EB-A match for $3.50 side was lately trotted
in England between the American horse Jack
Rossiter and an English mare named Matchless,
fifty miles. in harness. The mare died during
the race, and the horse won with great ease in