The Portland daily press., 1864-11-28
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ey-The Judgment of Solomon was only g case
EEBlondin is in Moscow where he has "no
fear of the rope" MSNf |
GThe fashionable hotels in New York are
asking "a day, with meals extra
RSan Francisco has a population of l2o,-
600. In lS4s it amounted to 450. i q u u
eEThey are to hang woman-Sarah Jane
Smith-in st. Louis Illuminating spectacle.
RThe homestead of Thomas Jefferson, at
Monticello, has recently been sold for $50 500.
R-Gov Andrew, of Massachusetts,, is in
Washington. II Tr rf r, ~a Afl
RrThe Journal says diptheria is prevailing |
in the vicinity of Lewiston
1Punch proposes for the spirits to turn the
multiplication table
VFourteen dollars year is the new price Of
the Chicago daily papers.
~ The papers announce the death Of the
widow Of thelate Joshua R. Giddings.
81 The salary Of the Mayor Of Boston has
been increased from $4,000 to $1,000 per
annum.
H-An old unoccupied house at Cooks Cor
ner, between Brunswick and Bath, was destroyed
by FIRE on Tuesday evening Of last week.
B Mr. Speaker Colfax while at Lewiston the
ether day, spent an hour or two in visiting the
cotton mills in that city.
HThe Cepperhead Ans0n Advocate has CEN
cluded to wait until January to see whether it
will die or not. ss tN
RContempt Of Courts said to be common
sentiment where Judge MeCann holds out in
New York.
EA sheep-grower in Middlebury, VT, has
refused $40 900 for his two bucks "Gold Drop"
and Silver Nine"
RCongress viii commence its session one
week from to-day. The Message win probably
be delivered on Tuesday.
RThe Democrats in the New Jersey Legis-
lature viii have q majority Of five on joint
ballot.
81 There are seven cotton factories ct Great
Falls, N. H., with only one-half of two of them
running.
BrOne Of the livslest localities in the city is
in the nsighborhood of the Grand Trunk
depot.
EIti is said that $4,000 of the rebel priso-
ners at Rock Island have been enlisted in the u
g. Army.
~ Moseby, it is said, offers fifteen hundred
dollars for Sheridan's head. 1t is the only way
he can get q head of him. &~ 0
RIn New York, Fenton's vote for Govern
or is 1000 larger than Mr.. Lincoln's, while
Seymour's is 700 less than McClellan's.
EGov. Boutwell's name is mentioned in
connection with the Secretaryship Of the
Treasury. sg4 8 a8ssA
| Tba - Al.
have turned out more than nine million tons, an
increase OF half million tons over last year
90 Secretary Stanton has SO far recovered
from his serious illness as to be able to visit his
Office
EVA young woman in New York stole ten
dollar greenback on Tuesday, and when arrested,
swallowedit it.
CD There win be strong set of the current
this evening towards the City Hall. Mr.. Colfax,
who lectures before the NJ. L. A., is one of the
ablest men Of the West.
VWilliam Beals, Esq, senior proprietor of
the Boston Post, celebrated the 5Oth anniver-
sary of his wedding on Monday evening of last
week.
81 Prices great invasion of Missouri, politi-
/ oally secured that State. He conscripted and
robbed s'all alike" Hence the glorious rolling
upof Lincoln's great majority.
V The next Congress win stand, probably,
14O Union to A Democratic. The Union ma
jority win be seventeen more than two
thirds
VO OF twenty clergymen who voted at
the recent election in Princeton, N j., twenty
six voted for Lincoln and johnson, and only
one for Mcclellan and Pendleton
B-The Waterville Mail says that Mr.. BENZ.
Mitchell of that town dug three hundred and
eighty-three bushels of potatoes from one acre of
land. Has anybody done betterf
VThe 92d birthday of Gen. Jesse Robinson
was commemorated at Waterville last Tuesday,
by pleasant gathering of family and friends
at the old homestead
H The rebel government, determined to con-
vert every pound of able muscle into STOOD for
powder" has organized school for theinstruc-
ton of females as telegraph operators.
| EVA bill, it is said, has been introduced into
the Vermont Legislature, to indemnify the
! st. Adams Bank for the money carried off by
the raiders.
of the death of M. Jules Gerard, the celebrated
traveller and ion-killer He is said to have
been drowned in the river Jong, enc hundred
and twenty miles from Sierra Leone.
81 Hon. John D. Willard of Troy, N T., re-
Gently deceased, bequeathed $4,000 to Dart
mouth College. Another gentleman in the
same State has given 81 900 to found scholar
ship.
E Charlestown, Mass, is soon to have
water celebration, to celebrate the introduction
of frooh into 81 cs<x
land be blessed with such season of re-
joicingf s@ -
HA An editor has been arrested for treason,
in Ohio = only q little more out-spoken, but
otherwise not less deserving than twenty Of the
Copperhead class in New England. - PORTS
mouth Journal
RA Democratic paper consoles itself as fol-
lows: SIT is no shame to belong to the minority.
Noah and his family were in the minority, while
the vast majority went to destruction, pretty
much as they are going now.''
81 The Washington Chronicle gives Gail
Hamilton's "New Atmosphere terrible exco-
ration, speaks of the author as she, and styles
it 1.-TWO hundred pages of Mandolin nonsense,
sent forth to the world under false pretense.''
cyan extensive strata Of excellent coal has |
( been recently discovered at Fort Rice, in the
region situated on the head waters Of the Mis-
souri, river, on the United States side Of the |
boundary line.
- The New York .News, anxious On account |
of the scarcity of men in the confederacy, is ex-
horting the rebels who have sought refuge in
that city, said to be some 10000, to go home
and fight.
81 The only country on the Eastern conti-
nent that has public school system fashioned |
after or similar to that of New England, is
Liberia. That black diamond on the African
coast may yet become the light Of tho whole
Eastern world.