The Portland daily press., 1864-08-09
ORIGINAL IND SELECTED.


9r Milk is 16 cents quart in Washington,
and poor at that
Gen. Benz. F. Butler has been made an
Ii. D. by Williams College.
B-A friend wishes to know in what consists
the bassness of game of base ball?
q Gov. Ames was dangerously wounded in
tbs battle before Petersburg on Saturday last.
. General Johnston, lately in command at
Atlanta, has been assigned with some of his
troops to the Upper Potomac
20 Thirty young men of Concord, N. H..
pledge themselves to enter the Navy for one
year.
% The Baltimore Clipper has been reduced
in size, but it is issued new type. 1t is an ex-
celentloyal paper.
q Several girls employed in the Laconia
Mills, Biddeford, have been detected in stealing
cloth.
Es-A woman in Hamilton, New York, COM
mitted suicide few days since, to avoid lin
gerng death by cancer.
Ey-The Boston Post says some of the best ed
torials of the day appear in the columns of the
commercial bulletin.
. The photographers of Rockland, Thorn
aston and Camden, have combined to raise the
price of their work
B-"Colorado Jewett" is in limbo He is up
before the New York courts on charge of
swndling.
20 The public debt, in round numbers, is
ST. SIS, 100000; a large percentage of which
bears no interest.
% The Canadian steamer Hibernian, on her
outward passage from Quebec. July sth, made
the run to Liverpool in nine days
| - The list of casualties in the Maine 3lst
copied into the Press yesterday morning, should
have been credited to the Bangor Wing.
gYThe Catholic population of the world is
| double the Protestant-the former ls6, O41 900,
and the latter SIS ,9l5,0 900.
| B-We learn that the town of Falmouth, on
Saturday, voted to raise So, 900 to obtain men
to fill the quota under the last call.
e During the thunder storm near Rossville,
Ga, on the l4th ult., nearly the whole of the
18th Missouri regiment was Frustrated by the
! lightning.
q Mr.. Everett acknowledges, through the
Boston Daily Advertiser, subscriptions for East
Tennessee amounting in the aggregate to Sl02,
lis SO.
g-A boy named Murphy, in Dover, n. H.,
had his leg crushed by the cars in attempting to
get on for the purpose of ridinga short distance,
ON Tuesday of last week.
The little "Kings," Metella and Thee. L.,
have issued their little "Lady's Book for Au-
gust, sparkling like dew-drop, and as free
from spot or blemish as a snowflake.
BThe scare in Salem harbor last week, will
remind.the proper authorities that it will be safe
to be on the lookout for such long, low, black,
rakish crafts as attempted to enter that harAor
I-The Portsmouth Chronicle says the hotels
of that city are doing large business, board
ing houses are crowded, and tenements in great
demand.
y 1t is said to be the intention of Gen.
Candy to draw the reins very tight on the seces-
sion sympathizng business along the Mississippi
river
BA report has reached Memphis that the
rebel Gen. n b, Forrest died on the 22d of July,
| Ut Allss., OF ne was the
hero of Fort Pillow, of infamous memory.
EY-The funeral of Col. Mulligan was attended
at Chicago on Tuesday The eortege was the
most magnificent ever witnessed in that city. A
home is to be purchased by the citizens of Chi
cago, for his widow.
gY-The friend who has sent us the slip con-
taining an account entitled Twelve years in a
Kentucky Prison. is informed that that thrill
ling narrative has already appeared in our col
umns.
U-A tornado of wind passed over the east
part of Hampton on Tuesday evening, blowing
down the chimneys of the Bears Head Hotel
and unhousing several camping parties on the
beach.
Eg-A committee, consisting of some of the
leading business men of Bath has been appoin-
ted to make the necessary arrangements to re-
ceive our Congressional visitors in an appro-
pirate manner.
g-The Chicago Tribune says there was
double the amount of produce in that city on
the 25th ult., there was at the same time last
year, which fact indicates speedy collapse in
prices.
BLook out for sensation dispatches about
this time, of changes in military commands,
mysterious movements, peace negotiations,
trouble in the cabinet, Pennsylvania captured, -
&c.
y Writers do not agree in the spell OF
weather that has so long prevailed. Whether
drouth or drought is most proper is now imma-
terial as the spell is broken and all nature is
decked in her most lovely attire
ET-The northampton Gazette thinks some
body will get bitten one of these days by hold
ing on to his butter for a rise in price. The
late drenching rain was a decidedly ''wet blan-
ket" for this class of spectators.
B-The Bangor Times has reduced its size
and increased its price. Ii Isles than half the
size of the Press, and is sold for FIVE cents q
number, or six dollars a year. By the single
number it comes to $3.50 per annum. 1t is q
good paper, and has large circulation.
Eg-The Bellows Falls Gazette recommends tn,
newspaper men in Vermont to purchase or build
paper mill and operate it for their own con-
yenience The Gazette insists that paper may
thus be secured for less than sixteen cents pei
pound.
Y-A clergyman in Connecticut, few sab.
baths since, dismissed his congregation in the
middle of the sermon, and. leading off, he AND
his people engaged in lighting fire. A good
many clergymen engage in that diversion every
sabbath, without leaving their pulpits
Y-Refering to the attendance upon divin,
service in that city on the late National Fast day
the Rockland Gazette says: eff we are to judg,
of christianity and patriotism, by the numbers
in attendance, we are compelled to say thai
Zion is low and Patriotism at a discount
git is stated that the month of July, from
the great number of fires, has been the mos
disastrous month for insurance companies fol-