The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-12-06
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

w HOOD called the samming Of door by q
person in passion, wooden oath.
BThe Argus gives out the ring of the true
metal-genuine copper.
IA Massachusetts editor heads leader.
"our fntestineenemies." Worms, probably.
- Water is brought to Paris from the river
Jordan for baptismal purposes
80 The latest reports from the Protestant mis-
SONS in China are very encouraging.
BA hundred thousand people Aocked to
Newgate street to see Muller hanged.
The best s'strike'' of the season = when
Sherman Strikes salt water. -[Post.
% The Message will be delivered to-day. We
shall receive it by telegraph, and publish to-
morrow morning.
RThe Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle says
that all thevaluable machinery has been removed
from Augusta to place of safety.
"a Geo. B. Mcclellan is now substitute in
one of the New Hampshire regiments; not the
King of Spades but another George.
BNo less than twenty-one theatres in Great
Britain have been occupied during the last
month by Mr.. Bourcicault's dramas.
U0ur Bath friends letter came to hand
after the article to which he refers had been
made use of.
~ Hon. Bion Bradbury and family left here
for Portland. Thursday last. We have not
| learned that Mr. Bradbury has decided where
to locate permanently.-[Ea stport Sentinel
~ Il is estimated that in one district alone,
not less than five thousand persons were drown
ed by the land food of the storm waves, in the
disastrous cyclone in India.
EAdeaf mute, named Sylvester Clough, be-
longing to Wentworth, N. H., was run over on
the railroad at that place, a few days since, and
instantly killed 1889 -
The London papers of Nov. 18th announce
the arrival of Gen. Tom Thumb and family in
that city. They are holding daily leyees in
hotel near st. James palace.
n Peter B. Sweeney, one of the pillars of
Tammany Hall, is about to institute legal pro-
ceedings against James Brooks, the Congress-
man, for libel.
BThe people both of Salem and New Bed
ford are being agitated on the water question;
the introduction of pure water into those
cities. ~
% The rebels in Savannah are said to be trem-
bling in their shoes. So many of them are bare
footed that this expression may be considered
figure of speech.
% The Boston Saturday Evening Express
announces that it has retired from politics, and
will be henceforward strictly independent
paper.
The q. s. Steamer Contocook was sue
cessfully launched at the Navy Yard ON Satur-
day afternoon, no accident of any kind occur
ring to mar the interest ofthe occasion.-[Perts-
mouth Chronicle. s.
l
VA gas or kerosene stove has Been invented,
price dozen dollars, which will do the cooking
for family of ten persons, roasting, boiling
and baking all at the same time, at cost of
four cents an hour. va
B-The New York Post says that eff General
Dix gets hold of the incendiary rascals of that
city they will be strung up at once, commission
or no commission. and ninety-nine out of q
hundred people will respond, Amen"
" The Indianapolis Journal says that Hon.
Daniel W. Voorhees, contemplates removal to
New York city, and an abandonment of his
Congressional seat to Col. D. Il. Washburn, the
/ contestant
~ Master Midshipman Thaddeus Lincoln,
son of the President of the United States, ar
rived in Philadelphia the other day, en- route for
probably where he is a student-[Ex.
BThe telegraph has given a great many
contradictory reports of the condition of Gen.
Candy. 1t seems now definitely settled that
he is getting along as well as can be.-[P Prem
tice.
% Both of the papers at Presque Isle repre-
sented the Press as grossly slanderiDg the peo-
pie of Aroostook, bnt neither of them has seen
fit to notice its disclaimer of such an effense
against loyal county. Such is the usual
courtesy Of our valued country cousins
- Miss Alvina Jones, popular actress, was
recently presented by the manager of the Mem
phis theatre with a Newfoundland dog, as a liy
ing token of the esteem of the citizens. Miss
Jones expressed her thanks and the dog wagged
his.
- Millen, often referred to in the accounts
from Sherman, is grand railroad junction,
nearly south of Augusta, and on the Savannah
river. 1t is the point at which the main line
from Savannah into the interior is intersected
by the road from Augusta.
R Speculations are rife in relation to the
Chief Justiceship. One of the latest rumors is
that one of the Justices of the Court will be
promoted, and that Elk Postmaster Blair will be
appointed to fill the vacancy created by such
promotion.
BThe rebel papers are belaboring Govern
ors Brown of Georgia, and Vance of North
Carolina, for their defense of State rights while
the Contsderacy itself is in danger. This pet
notion of State sovereignty, upon which the
Confederacy is based, is likely to prove the de-
struction of the ediice resting uponit.
RThe Bangor Times says E. R. Burbee,
Esq, Civil Engineer, of st. John, arrived at the
Bangor House Friday evening. Mr.. Burpee
has been engaged the past season in making
surveys of tho line from st John City to the
mouth of the Mattawamkeag. The line from st.
John city is connected with the line already sur
veyed and located from Bangor at the mouth of
the Mattawamkeag.
RWe learn from the Bath Times that rich
mines of iron have been partially opened in
Arrowsic-near Bath-and that a company has
been organized to work them. The ore has been
| analysed and is found to be of the usual rich
ness. The Times says from the convenience of
transportation, it is stated that the ore can be
quarried and carried to the landing on the
henneBec river, AZ cost OL one dollar per
ton.
E-It is said the Argus is very much in the
condition of a toad before being swallowed by a
snake. The advertiser is the reptile that is
looking upon it with fascinating eye while score
ting the necessary saliva to slobber it over SO
that its rough hide may slide easily down the
fatal gullet. When the Advertiser has swallow
| ed dirested and yoided all the other connarbaod
papers in the state, it is most deyoutly to be
hoped that it may end the comedy by devouring
| ITSELF Ii ,
Senator B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri, has
written letter in which he advocates the ex-
tension of suffrage to men of color The st.
Louis Democrat. while doing eminent iustice TO