The Portland daily press., 1864-06-28

% he government is about 10 build an ar
my hospital at Utica, n. Y.
John NJ. Clay's 800. 900 race horse was
stolen by Morgan's raiders.
John Cochrane, the Cleaveland candidate
for Vice President, has taken the stump.
81 The Connecticut legislature has passed a
$4,000 appropriation for the Nex London
Navy Yard.
q Bangor was visited BY light showers with
heavy thunder. on Friday and Saturday even
ings.
DA little daughter Of Mr.. George s. Fone,
Bangor, was knocked down and severely injured
by passing carriage
VThe Rockland Gazette says there were
eleven divorce cases before the late term Of the
Supreme Court in that city.
ETA U. s. paymaster drew the prize of the
Nevada silver bar valued at $4,000 at the st.
Louis Fair.
81 The Times says Messrs. Z. & A. Sewall,
of Bath, have laid the keel for another ship, of
the same size IS the one recently launched.
HIt is stated that there were A2 applica-
Va
by the death Of Mr.. Giddngs
VA wharf is nearly completed at Tenants
Harbor. St. George, for the Portland and Ban
gor steamer to touch at.
9Ths weather in New York for few days
past. as ascertained by record, has been warmer
than at any time during the past ten years.
ETA terrific hail storm swept over the towns
Of MARROW, Stoddard and Antrim, N. H., on
Monday OF last week.
The farmers about Hartford, Conn, are
in the midst Of haying and are getting a good
crop.
r James r. Cheney, an excellent young
man aged II years, committed suicide in STRAIT
ham. N. H., ON Tuesday afternoon.
II The Houlton Times says Augustus, SON Of
Mr.. Charles Glidden Of that town, was quite
seriously injured by horse, on Tuesday of last
week.
VWilliam II. Fitzgerald. Of Portsmouth,
has received the appointment of Acting Mas
ter's Mate, in the U. s. Navy, and ordered to
report to Admiral Paulding at New York.
VAbout two hundred cords of wood, near
the track Of the Portsmouth and Manchester
railroad, were destroyed by fire on Thursday
last
~ The Knox County Temperance Associa-
ton Of the Sons Of Temperance will hold its
quarterly session at Rockport tomorrow, COM
menciug at 2o'clock.
Mrs. Patterson Allen, indicted in Rich
mond for treason to the Confederacy e. G..
for being loyal woman) is under 500 900
bail, and is to be tried on the 10th Of July.
RThree thousand dollars worth of liquors
we're seized at the Dartmouth Hotel, in Hano-
yer, n. H.. on the i4th. Large quantities are
said to be seized in Kccne, daily
IQne hundred sick and wounded Maine
soldiers we're accidentally sent to Montpelier,
VT. instead Of Augusta. Such accidents are in
excusabe.
ETA Chicago correspondent OF the Boston
Transcript says, never in the history of that
city was business so brisk. and at the same time
80 profitable, as at present
GIVE hear excellent reports of the hospital
arrangements at Augusta. No sick or wounded
soldiers were ever made more comfortable than
these.
81 The New Hampshire Legislature is fight
ing this hot weather on removal question: the
removal Of the seat Of government from Con-
cord to Manchester.
The Calais Advertiser says the numbering
operation on that river were never more brisk
and remunerative than they are at the present
time.
Rev. Nj. Fiske, of Bath, returned home
on Saturday from Virginia where he has spent
six weeks in the service Of the Christian CON-
mission, rendering aid to the sick and wounded
soldiers.
e Hon. John d. Henderson. Senator in Con-
gress from the State Of Missouri, after long
and painful illness, is now slowly recovering,
and may be expected to take his seat in the
Senate even before the adjournment.
VA terrible drought is prevailing in Texas
The prairies are absolutely SO parched that the
earth is cracked into assures, rendering il hazar.
dous to journey on horseback by night Cattle
are dying there by thousands.
kS Anc bctrVlt lrlDune says tnat Michael
Shoemaker. ex-Collector OF the port OF Detroit,
is on trial in that city for swindling the govern
ment He was appointed by President Bu-
chanan.
81 Edward B. Nealley, of Iowa, recently
confirmed as Attorney Of the United States for
the Territory Of Montans. is a son of Z. S. ].
Nealley. Esq, Of Bath. and nephew Of Mrs.
Senator Grimes. HenryP. Jersey. OF this state,
is appointed Secretary Of the same Territory.
ECharles G. Leland is said to be preparing a
volume "On the Derivation and History Of Amer
lean Slang Phrases The Round Table think,
the labor not worth the effort, but that Mr.. Lee
land will find himself perfectly at home in the
work.
II All the employees OF the Dunn Edge
Tool Co., at West waterville. with three eIcep-
tons, recently appropriated the proceeds of a
days work to the sick and wounded soldiers;
the result being q purse Of seyenty-four dol
lars.
FFanny Fern. who ought to know, says,
speaking OF cotton "The ladies, as we all know
owe something Of their angelic symmetry to the
pure ana delicate Southern staple. or AL the
products Of the earth it is nearest to their
hearts
EVA large number Of colored schools have
been established in Nashville, Tenn, and are
now in a fourishing condition. An effort has
been made to crush them, but. by the protec-
ton afforded them by Gov. johnson they have
been sustained.
H-A Western Court has decided that kiss
Is valid consideration and forced an old bache-
Tor to redeem the promise made to pretty
maiden that he would give her a pony for a
kiss. He had tried to crawl out Of his bar
gain.
II Petersburg is the grand centre of FIVE lines
Of railroads. The City Point road, 10 Mills
long, the Norfolk road so miles long, the Great
Western road l64 miles to Weldon, and 1872
miles to Wilmington, the Petersburg and Lynch