The Portland daily press., 1864-10-05
ORIGINAL AND SELECTnD.

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of the Kittery Navy Yard on Saturday
BProf King is to make balloon sso.n.;o,
at Bangor on Thursday.
% The way to put down butter; spread h an
nice, sweet, fresh bread.
% Brandy is from S IL to SIG gallon; god
reason for regarding it as contraband.
% John Gross of Lewiston, has taken out a
patent for an improved parlor cooking stove.
. The Chicago Telegraph, the leading Fe-
mont paper in Illinois has come out for Lincen
and johnson. Frr0t NFN
% The London Times says that the captue
Of Atlanta is regarded as the browning SUGGEST
the Southwestern army.
R-It is reported that wound received |
Mosby, the notorious guerrilla chief, has di,- |
bled him from all active service. II
~ British troops with artillery have arri1 |
at Windsor, c. w., to prevent further raids fro
the Canadian shores.
B- One of the students at Harvard has los
an arm, the result of pistol shot by an out
ragged Freshman. iasil p-aials- is7. si.
81 A fire occurred ON Water street. New
York, on Saturday night, by which the loss was
$3.50 900.
ED- We admire to see a fellow take twenty
FIVE cent cigar from his mouth to grumble at
| paying five cents for morning paper.
- An absent-minded housewife is said to
have wrung out her baby and put the dish cloth
to sleep in the cradle. aas E1M
81 Chas. W. Slack, Esq, has become pro-
prietor of the Boston Commonwealth, and
proposes to make it first class paper.
Hon. Robert Pierpont of Rutland, VT, an
eminent lawyer and formerly judge of the cir.
cult court, died on the 23d ult., aged 70 years.
RA man named Richard Neville was muir.
dered on Plum street, Providence, on Sunday
afternoon. : &@
- The annual meeting of the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
takes place at Worcester the present week.
81 Robert Mcfarland of Brunswick, who
was injured on the railroad, has had his foot am
putated.
h 81 Prof Whittlesey of Bowdoin college ha,
: again entered the service on Gen. Howa,ds
staff. frr srr Nar rAr
70 Rev. George Knox has resigned the Jas
torate Of the first Baptist church, in Lawrence,
Mass, to accept the Chaplaincy of the goth Ae
regiment
80 The saw mill belonging to Gen. ]. c..
Humphrey, of Brunswick, which has lain lille
for four or five years, has been leased and putin
operation by parties from Phillips.
% The ''coal-at-cost'' companies who have
made their contracts are now embarrassed in
their operations by the fall in price, enabling
dealers to undersell them.
RA girl has been recently refused adms-
sion to the high school in Providence on account
of her color, and there is much indignation
4. thereat N u AtAs1. sA i ga
Gen. Fry, in reply to a communication
of the Mayor of Washington, says that addi-
tional drafts will be made until the entire quotas
are filed. -e 49,.
81 The only females who should take snuff
are the dairy maids. Laundresses. by its care
less use, might stain their work, but the dairy
maid can work it into the butter SO that it will
not show.
81 Gen. Ord, who was wounded in his bril-
liant attack on the enemy's works before Rich
mond, q few days since, has arrived at Balti
more. It is hoped his wound will not keep hin
long from the field.
T. ~ The Richmond Examiner moaneth thus
''The result is disaster at Atlanta, in the yer!
nick of time when such victory could alon,
save the party of Lincoln from irretrievabl
RUM
81 The New Bedford Mercury says that tive
or three million dollars worth of goods takel
out of bond last week by A. I. Stewart, the dr.!
| odo3. of M How Ion,. lxaJ
prices to correspond with gold at 81 So
4 Br Parties are about to commence in Water
vile, the manufacture Of batting from woolel
and cotton rags, carded into sheets, and pre-
pared for the market in rolls like the usual cot
ton batting. ia
BA brave young officer with Gen. Sheridan
writing from Winchester, reports that one o
our generals, when he saw the rebel line breal
and OF Fisher NH, exclaimed, There goe
another plank out of the Chicago Platform %
Should the Democrats again come int
power and abolish s'greenbacks'' and re-estab
lish ''specie currency it is presumed they vii
remove the Goddess of Liberty upon our coli
and substitute manacled negro. no
R-It is reported that sixty-seven potatoes
the largest weighing ID ounces, were dug iron
single hill in Msriden, Ct. This may all b
true, but We are inclined to think the man VIII
counted them had been using glasses that caus
persons to see double. -.
81 The dry goods store of NJ. Frank, in 0g
densburg, N. T., was entered by burglar
Thursday night, the safe blown open, all tn
money and notes distracted, the store riaed 0
every piece of silk. and other goods taken to tn
amount of $4,000. ai sllaaa5 .ss5z 81
4 ETC.,. Bridges. ESQ.,, Managing pirecto
of the Grand Trunk Railway Co., has give
$4,000 to the Montreal General Hospital, in be
half of that corporation, for the care and atten
ton bestowed upon the sufferers of the lat
Beloeil accident. a
/ B-The publisher of the Portsmouth Jour
nal last month gave sixty-two cents labout one
third of years subscription) for peck of pc
tatoes, to one of his subscribers, who abou
thirty years ago gave ten bushels for year.
paper. 659s
q Said gentleman from the country to u
day or two since, after remarking upon ths
prospects in the field and at the ballot-box
"well, on the eighth of November Mcclellan
will find himself in the same condition he did be
fore Richmond; he gill want few NOR
4 men, vac SIC sos gs5. qsl hsav.abnn "a
4 ES Says the Providence Journal, ''there Is
thrilling significance in the announcement thai
! Farragut has been ordered to the command o
the North Atlantic squadron. A part of thai
squadron is blockading the porto Wilmington
We suspect that the blockade runners will no
be at all grasiied that he is to visit their neigh
borhood..' $780,,
Mr.. Blair stated in his recent speech in
Cooper Institute that if Gen. Mcclellan had
turned his back upon the Chicago peace propo.
sitions, thus giving strong proofs of his wish tc
see the war vigorously prosecuted. the President
had concerted with Gen. Grant to bring him
again into the field as his adjunct. Mcclellan
never did improve the golden opportunity.