The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-11-26
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

VWarren's Comedy Company is playing in
Worcester, Mass.
The net earnings of the Androscoggin
Railroad for the past year, viii reach about
| $50, 600. s6 Mr. vFfe4e
RIt is said that extensive deposits of coal,
heretofore unknown in China, have been discoy
cred in the Province Of Kunshankan.
1The project Of cutting canal through
the Isthmus Of Panama has been again re-
vived M
80 The Sioux Indians demand from the u.
s. Government that their annuities be paid to
them in gold. oA f.rs
| 4 HIt is said that five million dollars worth
Of silks is annually manufactured in the United
States
R The Concord PGtriot-poor authority
says Hen. ]. P. Hale is on the track for Govern
or of New Hampshire.
81 Governor Richard Yates of Illinois, is
pressed for the Office of United States Senator,
in place of VIM. A. Richai dson.
R The resignation Of Mcclellan makes
Gen. Halleck the senior General Of the regular
army.
| H Lieut.. Cushing of rebel ram Albemarle
fame, is to have command Of the gunboat Mon
ticello.
RThe total number Of National Banks thus
far organized is 57s with capital amounting to
| $108, so, 100. f-s e-e sssa
WIn Franklin County Lincoln's vote was
nine larger than Cony's in Sept, and McClel-
lan's was ten larger than Howard's. Gz~
E During the rain of Tuesday the water PEN
etrated . lime shed in Rockland and fire result
ted, destroying $50 casks. t-ma
\ 90 The Free Press says petition will be
presented to the legislature for setting off part
of Thomaston to Rockland ~ 5h69
EHon. George Thorndike has resigned his
place as Clerk Of the Courts of Knox
| County.
B-The Gardiner Journal gives encourage
ment that new Hall, to be known as johnson
Hall, is to he opened in that city.
~ The schooner Christopher Loesor, Of
Phiiadelphia, now lying at our wharves, il
oficered and manned by negroes. - lGardiner
| Journal.
EThe Ellsworth .american, an excellent
weekly paper, has adopted the strictly in-ad-
vance system. This is what every paper should
| do. nz a GWt
~ The roof of the main building Of the
New Hampshire state prison caught fire from
sparks on Wednesday morning, but the FIRE was
extinguished with slight damage.
+ 81 Rev. VIM. Davenport Of Otis6eld, is about
starting for the front, to labor for. the soldiers
under the auspices Of the Christian Commits
sion. fr 4
BPanch suggests as pleasant experiment
for medium humbugs, that they be put in the
stocks and Kept there until the spirits release
them. as
EThe vintage has been 50 abundant in al
parts Of France this year that the proprietor
OF the vineyards cannot get casks enough to
hold the wine produced.
| " An Irishman was challenged at the polish
| Windsor, vt, and his naturalization papers de-
manded. After much hesitation he handed over
paper that proved to be bill against himself
for two barrels of whiskey.
Every man who is put into the United
States service in Concord, N. H., has his photo
graph accurately taken. On the back of it his
descriptive list is placed, and it is then fled away
for future reference. Pas es
TThe Saco Democrat says SON OF Samuel
=, Carey Of that tevn, . cavalry soldier. was
I Thrown from his horse in Virginia, a few days
since, and killed. His body was embalmed and
/ sent home for burial.
E"Norman'' is respectfully declined, for
three reasons; l. 1t is unaccompanied by o real
name. 2. Its too long, 8. 1t is better suited to
e Young Loves Album than to our matter-of-
fact columns. 40 atG sy1a1aaSia a.1is1s
+ RThere is no questioning the fact that John
b. Cough, as . public lecturer, will do the lar
gest amount of business on the smallest amount
of capital, Of any man before the American
public. asH.
EYT The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire is also
the Caliph or successor to the Prophet. He is
said to be avery conscientious Mussulman; and
neither drinks nor smokes, and moreover has
but one legal wife,
R Jas Hobbs, Esq. Of Fryeburg, 90 years
Of age, went to the polls on election day, and
deposited his ballot for Abraham Lincoln. He
voted for Jefferson, and every Presidential cleo
ton since He always acted with the democratic
party until 1S56.-[Par Dem. sa ~
HA traveller, who appears to have recently
carried his explorations to an imprudent extent,
writes: "The champaign crop in New Jersey
had been gathered, the fields were bare, and the
late election had left a coppery scent in the at
mosphere''
VIn onetovn in southern Illinois the only
vote given for Fremont in 1856 was cast by q
Yankee schoolmaster, who was promptly ex-
PEELED from the place by the tools of the slave
power. The same place has just given MAORI
ty of itsvotes to Lincoln and johnson.
HA Connecticut clergyman illuminated his
house in celebration of the election, and ex-
hibited over his door transparency, with the
quotation from Genesis: 'sAnd the angel OF the
Lord called unto Abraham out Of Heaven q
| second time.'' feasa; - id 5tFass swe1s 3; a#
~ Al r
started from New York to cross the Atlantic in
o little boat Of two or three tons, and since
4 getting to sea nothing has been heard of them.
| We may pity the dog that was deluded and
seduced to such an undertaking II Newburyport
| Herald
VPaper from corn-husks is made in Austria
by government establishment. The ten-cent
notes of our government are printed ON that
kind Of paper, and large quantities Of il have
been purchased by private parties. Il win thus
4 be seen that swine and prodigal sons will pres
4 emily have to select some other kind Of food
Boston Advertiser. N8i5aE3atF NJ.
NH The Louisville Journal says the question
is no longer how slavery shall be saved from
\ wreck, but how itshall be finally extinguished
and with the least jar to the social institutions
Of the South 1t admits that it has proved a
curse to Kentucky. ss
i H A parsimonious sea captain, answering
the complaintso Of his men that the bread was
bad, exclaimed, "What complain Of your
bread that is made from nouri What do YOU
think Of the iApostlesf They eat shew bread
| made from old boots and Shoes aas'
ARThe leading article in the argus Thursday
morning, was excellent. 1t related to Thanks
\ giving and reader remarked that twas the most
loyal leading column he had seen in that paper
for long time. 1t was in two parts, the first
from the pen Of Abraham Lincoln and the
second from that of Samuel Cony. S.r. s..ssp
81 EThe Argus treads back from its wholesale
praise of Mr.. Coughs lecture, and gives him
sharp hit for his 'smere buffoonsrye and .slow
partisan abuse'' Mr.. Cough was introduced
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