The Portland daily press., 1864-05-02
Original IND SELECTED.

.B-It is proposed to raise the salary of the
Governor of Massachusetts to $1,000 year.3
sB~Gen. Halleck has been placed in COM
mand Of the Cavalry Bureau.
Senator Hicks will be able to resume
his seat in the Senate this week.
y-Navigation has opened on Lake Win
nipissiogee.
sB-Dr. John Ware died suddenly at his
residence, in Boston, on Friday last
sg-The city Of Boston has appropriated
$4,000 for a Fourth of July celebration.
CIT is said Secretary Chase is about to
resign and Senator Fessenden to be appointed
in his place. Don't believe it.
sg-Why is Faith like honey? inquiries
western wag. Because it consists of bee
leaUings.
sB-A wag says Goldfish aristocrat is one
of those men who can pin dried herring to
his coat-tail and imagine himself whale!
sg-The Bangor Times has added dollar
ayear to the price OF its daily. Other daies
will be compelled to do the same.
sB-Hon. Z. c. Ingersol has been nomi-
mated as the successor of the late Owen
Lovejoy.
sg-Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., is Captain OF the
Norway Light Infantry, now doing garrison
duty at Fort McClary.
ga small unoccupied house or School
street, Bangor, was destroyed by fire on Sat
urday morning.
sY-Capt. John Curtis. Of the ship Emma
Jane, burned by the Alabama, arrived at his
home, in Brunswick, ON Monday last.
sE-The Calais Advertiser will not be is
sued for two or three weeks, in consequence
of the Office being removed to new quarters.
sBM Mr.. Mason, in the employ OF b. +.
Carter, at Portage Lake, broke his leg, one
day last week, as we learn from the Aroostook
Pioneer.
1rMr. James Holbrook, the well known
special agent OF the Post Office Department,
died at his residence in Brooklyn, Conn.,, on
Thursday, after a long illness.
sY-The International Steamship Company
have purchased one half the steamer Queen,
which runs on the st. Croix river, between
Calais and Eastport.
sB-Hon. John kezar, of Parsonsfeld,
very worthy man and an excellent citizen,
died of typhoid fever, ed ult. He was in his
sd year.
rB-The Bangor Wing says Mr.. John 0.
Tilton, of Kenduskeag, a well known citizen,
died at that place few days since, OF the
small pox.
sg-Mr. Everett acknowledges in the Bos-
ton papers, up TO the present time, the receipt
of SOL ,6l2 ~ Tor the relief OF the loyal peo-
pie of East Tennessee.
- Diptheria has prevailed to an alarming
extent at Dennysyille and Edmunds; among
the victims are Capt. Hallowell and four of
his children.
"Sam, did you see the new oyerseer ?"-
Yes, massa, | meet him down by the cotton
| GIN" He's good.looking fellow, isn't he ?"
well, massa, he talks like a good-looking
man; he made bow, OATS all he said"
sg-The st. Croix Herald says "our bust
ness men in the eastern part OF the State are
beginning to find it 10 their advantage to
trade at Portland, instead of going further
west"
.rThe liquor dealers in Lewiston, find
ing the citizens determined to close up their
shops, said to them as the coon said TO Davy
Crockett: You needn't fire; | will come
down"
u" Have you read my Descent into
HELP" asked poor poet, DESTROYS of CON-
pliment, of Curran. "No;' was the witty but
equiyocal answer, "but should like to see
it."
sg-Laborers have become so scarce in the
Western states that the farmers have sent
man named Armstrong, Scotchman by
birth, to his native country to procure a num-
Der OF laboring men.
eHMr. Ii. Spearin, Of Benton, in the en-
ploy OF Messrs. Newhall, Gibbs q Co., on
Sandy River, was instantly killed on Tuesday
of last week, while starting pile OF logs
from the bank. So says the Wateryille Mail.
HMr. w. L. Hilton has been released
from TT. Lafayette, where he was incarcerated
last winter, aud has resumed his Printing
Business, ia New York. He was accused of
printing money for the Confederate Govern
ment.
ia small boy, engaged in a game of
football on the Boston Common, few days
since, threw off his jacket and cap, in conse-
quence of being overheated. In the evening
he complained OF being unwell, and died
during the night.
sg-T The Waterville Mail says, very truly,
that it is the duty, as well as for the real
interest of farmers, to cultivate as much land
as possible, TO hire all the help they can find
work for, at the best rates they can, and dash
into spring work with determination to make
it pay.
gVThe Belfast Age states that Mr.. Ii. n.
Lancaster lost large number of wine from
feeding them with refuse grain, which had
baen separated from a cargo of barley shipped
from that port. A small quantity of ergot or
Squirrel rye was discovered in the grain, which
is supposed to have caused the mischief.
sBDogs in Aroostook County are making
great havoc among the sheep. No one objects
to capital punishment for all such offenders
against the peace and dignity of the State,
and the security of the sheep fold. No doubt
"poor dog Tray" often suffers, not only from
evil associates but for the crimes of his infe-
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