The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-02-12
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

SV-on the fourth page-Miscellany
SVrSaturday Evening-Feb. 18th. 2t
~There is some talk of erecting large
hotel in Augusta.
srJohn l.. Hunter has left the editorial
charge Of the Augusta Age.
sr The State of New York has sent to
the war, for longer or shorter periods, 1921 s2
men.
SB-Mr. Joseph w. Mason, Co. F, LIST Maine
Cavalry, of this city, died in Hospital in
Washington short time since, aged "A years.
1-New Hampshire has a sufficient num-
Der of men placed to its credit to meet the
two last calls of the President.
aE-A brick block in Plymouth N. Fl. be-
longing to ]. S. TUFTS, Esq, was destroyed by
fire on the 4th inst
DV-The Congregational churches of Som
erset County, will hold their semi annual con-
ference in Skowhegan, on February 23d, inst.
sB-Liberty hall, in New Bedford, was des-
troyed by fire on Tuesday night last. Loss
about $4,000.
An attempt was made on Monday night,
Hancy, in Bangor.
GSThe Lewiston cotton mills employ
| about $500 hands and runs more than l46, 900
| spindles.
nH-The man who imagined himself wise
because he detected typographical error in
n pav .ac
dicular view of the rainbow.
sB-Hon. p. M. Stubs of Strong, has paid
his thirty-second yearly subscription to the
Kennebec Journal. There are but few papers
old enough to say that of a subscriber.
sYEdward W. Green, the Maiden muir
derer, has been committed to Jail at East Cam
bridge, and his case will come before the
Grand Jury Immediately.
nE-Col. Lombard, the Journal says, is get
ing out freight cars at his factory in Augusta,
that are superior to any ever brought into
Maine.
W-A deserter, confined in Augusta Jail,
in fit of delirium tremens, attempted is cut
his throat on Thursday last. He was seized
by the guard and turnkey and his life saved.
sTCharles c. Drew, Adiutant of Sd
Maine Volunteers, and nineteen other offic-
ers, pronounce the charge against Maj W. c.
Morgan, false.
svThe improvement in artillery and small
arms, during the progress Of the present wal.
has been unprecedented in the history of any
previous war.
s1-Lt. ]. W. Paine, formerly editor of the
Yankee Blade, has been appointed Major of
the LIST Louisiana Cavalry. He will probably
take his yankee blade" with him.
a1-The Bangor Wing says, Seth G. Low,
of Robbinston, arrested on charge of enlisting
men here for towns out of the State, was ex-
amined and dscharged-the evidence not be-
ing sufficient to warrant committal.
ga document has been found circulating
among the rebel soldiers OF Tennessee, urging
them to return to their allegiance, and accept.
Lincoln's pardon, rather than submit to rebel
injustice.
sTThe Portsmouth Steam Factory is now
employed in manufacturing enameled thread.
So great is the demand for this thread that
the factory Is kept running until half past
nine at night.
sB-A movement is on foot to raise fund
OF 100000 for the purpose ofbuilding mon
ument TO Shakespeare on the spot of his birth
Better appropriate the amount when raised.
to the education of the children of the place
of his nativity.
sB-Authentic advices through a Federal
released prisoner just from Belle Island, Rich
mond, show that not only have the rebels
not forwarded half the food and clothing sent
TO them.
evThe Pennington Chronicle says that
Rev. lothian Sewall preached more than
thousand sermons in Chestervile. The
Chronicle hopes soon to publish a book from
a manuscript history of Chestervlle prepared
by the late Oliver Sewall.
TThe Bath Times says, as Christopher
c. Henderson, aged years, was sliding down
hill with another boy, on Saturday last, by
sudden turn he was thrown of, one side of the
sled running over and breaking his leg in two
places.
srThe editor OF the Gardiner Journal
threatenes TO "trounce" the editor of the
Lewiston Journal If he don't take back a
statement he made In regard to the business
of Gardiner. Pitch in "Hi" make the pen
fly lively and the ink flow freely, but don't
allow the scissors to take part.
sy-We recently received letter from f.
B. Turner, Esq, of Texas, who did such good
service in this position of the State during the
last campaign. He wrote from Brownsville,
near the mouth Of the Rio Grande, and spoke
encoursgingly for the prospects of the Union
cause in the clone STAR State
~A Newfoundland paper, in speaking of
the House Assembly on that Island, eulogzes
it in the following equivocal language
"Take them for all in all, from their Speaker
downward, we do not suppose that a greater
set Of low-lived and lawless scoundrels, as
public men, can be found under the canopy of
heaven"
eB-The hay put on board the ship alive
Oak at Belfast, was repressed by Harding's
new Compress" which is capable Of reduc-
ing bales of 40 inches in hight to IL or14 inch
es. Each press, worked by four men win
reduce 200 bales day. This is very great
advantage as by reducing the bulk the freight
is very much essened.