The Portland daily press., 1864-07-28
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gg-The Lewiston Journal has raised its price
to 81.
9-The Albany Journal styles John Coehrane
''a political bounty jumper"
u Shipping boards are held at S25 in the
Machias market.
u The Skowhegan Clarion has been shown
an English Bible printed in 1880. owned by
Capt. John Philbrick, of that town.
20 A friend asks to what trade the editor of
the Louisville Journal was ever a-Prentics To
that % scog in maker, of course.
80 Semmes' experience in piracy with the
| Alabama has proved thorough. He has got to
the bottom of the thing. Prentice.
II Mr.. Tracy, our accredited Travelling
Agent, will call on subscribers in sagadshoc
county, this and next week.
Right Rev. John McCloskey, the newly
appointed archbishop of New York, will be in
stalled on the 2lst of August.
R-We understand that Gen. Shepley has OBJ
tanned leave of absence of twenty days, to
visit his home in this city.
gEx-President Pierce, we are told, favors
the nomination of Mcclellan, by the Chicago
/ Convention.
! EYThere have been extensive fires in the
woods for few weeks past, not only in this
state, but in all the New England and Western
States. The loss will be incalculabe.
! The oldest inhabitant. There is terrapin
in Strabin township, Pa, bearing the ini-
1 tails, IN. t., 17lo." He is an old settler, sure
| enough.
| q The Louisville Journal thinks the Rich
mund Wing tells larger number of inverted
/ truths than any other paper in the rebel Con-
/ federacy.
/ The State of Rhode Island will raise its
I quota without draft. She has an excess of
/ 1000 men in the army and 1000 men enlisted in
! the navy.
BThe Lewiston Journal, speaking of the
low state of the river at that place, says, '.The
| falls are bare and pedestrians can walk at
/ pleasure where the torrent usually thunders.''
/ E-The railroad destroyed by Gen. Rousseau
was the only main line of communication be-
tween Alabama and Mississippi. and the only
one left for their military service.
1 q The price of the Boston Courier is now
/ Sl2 year-a pretty high figure for the mean
est and most REASONABLE paper in New England,
outside of Portland.
70 friend in neighboring town inquiries
what time the Kennebec boat leaves Portland
We are unable to givethe information The cars
leave at l:l0 and s:l5 P.a N.
7TThose who thought the few drops of Mon
day night were the prelude to a more plentiful
reckoning.
Miss Helen Morton, of the United States,
has just graduated at the head OF her class as
4 midwife, in the Maternity School of Obstetrics,
Paris, (where only female students are admitted, }
and was awarded the first prize of honor.
Morrissey. once the poor and brutal pu-
gilist, is said to be now worth $500, OOo-- is a
great stock operator, and keeps several of the
largest gambling houses in the city of New
4 York.
! GIVE have received a catalogue of the grad
( yates of Bowdoin college, embracing acomplete
list of the graduates who have served in the war
against the rebellion, published by Joseph Griffin,
I Brunswick.
Ewe were absent when yesterdays paper
was put in type and do not know whether Josh
Billings was about the Office, but we notice that
one item spoke of the ''6arqte Comfort" and
referred with an evidently watering mouth to
I the preparations for "mammouth chouder.',
y Honest but rough Ben Wade of Ohio,
says he prayed so earnestly that Judge fancy
might live through Buchanan's administration,
that he overdid the thing, and probably prayed
him through Lincoln's; which is more than he
had in his mind.
The Portsmouth Copperhead paper says,
"fwo truer and nobler men God never made"
than Frank Pierce and Thos. II. Seymour.
whereupon the Manchester Mirror suggests
that the generality are at fault in their opin-
ions"
R-"Voices from the Dead" Such is the
title given BY the New York Herald to letters
from Ex-President Buchanan, urging the noni-
nation of Judge Samuel Nelson of New York,
for President, and voorhees, of Indians, for
Vice President, by the Chicago Convention.
II The papers, for the second or third time
within half a dozen years, are publishing the re-
solve passed by western Sabbath School-good
though it be old-"that a committee of young
ladies and gentlemen be appointed TO raise chill
dren for the Sabbath School,
ETA New Haven paper says that the police
force in that city are the most endurable set OF
men in that community. They never agitate
the public mind by making important ares $,
but if poor fellow gets drunk and isn't dan
gerous to handle, they take him quietly to the
lookup. 8a& ;
y The Clarion learns that dwelling house
was destroyed by fire in Scion, on Sunday last
also that the dwelling house, porch, woodshed
and stable of Mr.. " m. Me,son of Arson. were
totally destroyed BY fire on Tuesday last, to.
gether with four tons of hay, forty bushels OF
corn, sc. Loss about 81, OO0
There was severe hail storm at Winches-
ter and Kinsdale in the western part of New
Hampshire recently. At Winchester, the steepe
of the Methodist church was blown down, sew
barns unroofed, and one barn razed TO the
ground. Crops were good deal injured.
AT Hinsdale the damage is estimated at S3o,-
900.
1.-THE Lewiston Journal is responsible for
the categorical story of two old maids in Leeds
-monomaniacs-who have been trying to see
hoy many cats could be multiplied from one
pair They began with one pair when the Rebel
lion broke out and as the kittens have grown and
multiplied, their number now reaches Al cats
and kittens
IA Canada paper saws the Rev. F. G FL
hot, who has recently become incumbent OF
Sandwich, was called upon few days ago by a
number Of his former parishoners of the town.
ship of Colchester, and presented with a hand
some claret jug and salver, as a token of their
esteem. Mr.. Elliot probably is clergyman of
the gay and festive" stamp. ~
While the enemy were in Maryland, a