The Portland daily press., 1864-08-08
ORIGINAL And SELECTED,

a youuk pfiac uIOppcu ut1u III tne streets
of Hartford the other day, of heart disease
gThe property destroyed by the rebels at
Chambersburg, reckoned at present prices, will
amount to near $4,000, 900.
e Hon. L. B. Washburne of the Sd Illinois
Congressional District, has been renominated
by reclamation.
sT-It is said $il 900 900 worth of silks have
been exported from Paris to this country this
last year.
rY-We learn that General CAN'T, of Arkansas
is to speak at Alfred on Wednesday next, on our
national affairs.
B-Gen. Hood since he took command of the
rebel army in Georgia, has lost IS 900 men in
killed, wounded and prisoners.
FThe Universalist Sabbath School and
friends, of Bath, make an excursion to Hume
wells point on Wednesday next.
- Hon. D. L. Somes has declined the appoint
ment as Consul at Curacao, rendered him by the
President.
u Charles A. Poole. a sailor boy of Bruins
wick, was on board the kearsarge in her fight
with the Alabama
- Carleton will publish in few days 60 Ed
mund Kirke's" new volume, " Down in Tonnes
see''
q Cooley says the next fashion for ladies'
bonnets is to be one just covering the nape Of
the neck Crinoline has disappeared entirely in
Partisan circles
sBS. p. Brown, Esq, formerly of 0rland,
this State, has been elected President of the
Metropolitan Railroad Company, in Washing
ton, d. C.
BThe proposed amendment to the Constitu-
ton of Pennsylvania allowing soldiers to vote,
as near as can be ascertained by the partial re-
turns, has been adopted,
"A man is astonishing the Parisans by lift
ing a barrel of wine with his teeth. Many a
man in this country has lifted more than bar
rel of ''R. g." with his thumb and finger
The Bath Times, for reasons too often ex-
planned not to be understood, has increased its
subscription price to $500 per year. Payment
to be made strictly in advance.
% The fires that were SO generally prevailing
and so terribly destructive, in the woods in this
State, were pretty thoroughly squinched,' by
the powerful rains of Tuesday and Wednesday.
RMr. Thomas D. Simmer was almost in
stantly killed, on Thursday last, by falling from
the fournh story window of his residence, No.
% Beacon Street, Boston.
sFThe Lewiston Journal says Mrs Jason
Pettengill of Auburn, had her shoulder disloca-
ted on Tuesday by being thrown from a car
rage.
R-A ten pound mud turtle, caught recently
in the town of Rochester, Mass, laid ffty-nine
eggs seven hours after its head was severed from
its body. An eggs-sell-ent story.-[post.
S-The posthumous papers of Hawthorn. in
GLIDING many of his old contributions to re-
views, magazines, and ANNALS, will be soon
published by Ticknor s Fields.
g-A history Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the diocese of Massachusetts,, will
soon be written byRev. VIM. s. Bartlett, the
author of g The Frontier Missionary
q Bangor is to vote on Tuesday on the act
of the Legislature authorizing 1t to loan its cred
it to the amount of $500, 900, to the European
and North American Railway Company.
H-The people of this State will vote in Sep
TENDER On the proposed change of the Constitu.
ton, so as TO allow our soldiers to vote in the
field If the change is adopted, our brave boy.
will have a voice in the Presidential election.
1 BA Democratic paper complains of s. Gen
Hooker" for quarrel ng with offices in the army
He has quarreled with more rebels than almos'
any General in the service, and done so witt
more lasting effect.
! 2 Mr.. Thomas Jenness, one of the leading
merchants in Bangor, died at his residence in
that city on Saturday morning. He had oeeu.
pied the same stand between thirty and forty
years.
g-The Ellsworth American says, that not
outstanding the hard times, the dry times, the
wet times, and the times of high prices, there i:
quite an amount of building going on in our
village
Ewilliam Jewet, of Woodstock, n B., was
shot in Calais on Sunday night of last week, by
a man named Eye The Herald says Eye has
been bound over for trial at the next term of the
Supreme court.
gAt meeting of the directors of the NJ. c.
R. R. held at Auburn on Friday, Hon A.
Morrill, of Readfeld, was elected Superintendent
Mr.. Morrill, is now President and Superinten-
deut of the road.
grin the list of deaths of New England sol.
diers that occurred at Washington on Thursday
are found the following belonging to Maine Reg.
ments:-Sergt Albion Kennison, 18th John Eos.
ter, 3lst.
-Y-The Pepperell Manufacturing Co., Bidde-
ford, have DECLARED dividend of 80 psr cent
(Sl5O per share) payable August LIST The Sacc
Water Power Co. has declared an annual divi.
dend of SIS per share.
FDuring the heavy thunder shower of Tues
day, Rev S. S. Fletcher of Exeter, N. H., who
was standing in the depot at Saco, received
shock that paralyzed his left hand. as we learn
from the Ballot.
FA fine span of horses, belonging to Col
c. March of Greeland. was stolen from the
streets of Portsmouth, on Friday last. The
thief was overtaken in Newburyport and the
property recovered.
rF-The Biddeford Journal learns from gen.
tleman who passed through several towns in tn,
upper portion of York county last week, that
the crops have stood the drought remarkably
and, now the rain has come, promise full har.
vest, with the exception of grain, which in many
places is an entire failure.
gA correspondent of the Lewiston journal
writes that change has taken place in the Com.
manding officers of the Maine sth. Capt John
Z. Bryant, who for some time past has been do.
ing duty as Provost Marshal at Beaufort, S. c..
has returned and assumed command. Several Of
the officers who were wounded in the early part
of the campaign, have returned to duty, and
others are expected.
p The Biddeford Journal says, that during
the thunder storm on Tuesday the lightning SCI
fire to the barn of Mr. Jameson at old Orchard