The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-07-20
ORIGIN1L IND SELECTED.
g The chinch bug is making sad work with
the Illinois wheat crop this year.

9 The chinch bug is making sad work with
the Illinois wheat crop this year.
- The rebels have rumors that Gen Candy
has landed at Mobile.
q Hay has been sold in saco, direct from
the field, for S25 ton.
day.
- - Ross Winan's carriage and saddle horses
were seized in Baltimore for cavalry.
e The rebel Gilmore recruited fifteen hum
dred men near Baltimore.
- The milkmen of Albany have raised their
price to eight cents in consequence of the search
ty of water.--tTroy Wing.
n II is rumored that the Rothschilds will
opena bank in Mexico, with capital of fifteen
millions. ca
r. A large party of students from Brown
University are on pedestrian excursion to the
White Mountains
- The New Orleans Picayune has received
permission TO resume publication, provived it
will sustain the government.
q The Legislature Of New Hampshire ad-
journed sine die on Saturday last The session
has been rather an exciting one.
n Mrs. Emma Willard, who was on the
train captured by the rebels at Magnolia Sta
ton, has arrived safely in New York
n The convention of newspaper men at
Springfield, Mass, on the 18th, adjourned with
out arranging any fixed rates of advance.
- Elk Secretary Chase and Hon. Charles
Sumner were at Newport, r. l., ON Monday
last kt
y The French Government has made ar
rangements to receive %, 900 Circassian emf
grants in Algeria.
y The Steamer Clipper. purchased by Ross
l. Sturtevant Of this city, is to run between Sa-
CO and the Pool
81 The Methodist Quarterly Review says,
that "Mr. Phillips speeches might, for several
reasons, well be entitled Philippines $50
p Major General J. H. Butler, Of Bangor,
the Wing says, has resigned his commission as
Maj. Gen. of the State Militia
= The Murche Mills, Midtown, Ne, cut
$4,000 feet of long lumber, l5O,O laths. and
$4,000 pickets per day. sfft
~ Forty men turned out last Sabbath, at
Daysyille, CT, and cut and hauled in the hay of
a poor soldier who is dying in the hospital far
away.
II The hay-makers have had glorious wealth.
er during the past week; not cloud to be seen.
But corn and potatoes are suffering exceed
ingly
. The loss BY the fire that occurred in Ports
mouth, n. H., on Monday, was from $50, 900 to
$4,000. About thirty families have been rem
dered homeless.
e Referring to the case of the Third Parish
Church in this city, the Bath Times suggests
that "the world moves and the church is taking
lessons
% Lieut. Col. John G. Chambers, of the sd
Mass. regiment, who died last week Of his
wounds received at Petersburg, was formerly
reporter and printer of Boston.
q The Worcester Transcript says: The
rapid drifting away from all social economy
among our women is the bane of our national
prosperity"
Y-Gen. F. ?. Blair, in letter expressing his
satisfaction at tho nomination of Mr.. Lincoln at
Baltimore, abuses the convention for letting
in the the radical delegation from Missouri
n The centennial anniversary of the settle
ment of Ticonderoga viii be celebrated at the
Old French line, on the Fort grounds of the
town, on Monday. July 25.
y A little boy FIVE years of age, son of John
Brock. of Alfred, was burned so severely in that
place on Saturday, by his clothes taking fire
from matches with which he was playing, that
he lived but three hours.
y Two large tanneries, at "Ayer's City,"
SO called, In the southern part of Lowell, Mass,
were entirely destroyed by fire, together with
several other buildings, on Saturday night last.
Loss about $4,000
q The Houlton Times says, the grass crop
in that section viii be very light, owing to the
drouth which prevailed last month. Other
crops are looking finely, as the occasional show
ersof late have furnished relief.
- The rebels burned the mails that we're on
board the trains they lately captured between
Philadelphia and Washington, first opening some
Of the letters for money. but meeting with poor
luck.
E- The little brig Vision, which recently
sailed from this country. bound for England,
was spoken on the 9th instant by Gloucester
fishing schooner, on the northeast part of
Georges.
- Some of the Copperhead papers are COM
our Revolutionary naval hero. The difference
between the two is this Jones captured guns
aud Semmes ehronometers. 1t is the difference
between warrior and highwayman.
~ Yesterday afternoon race of a novel
character took place on the Mile End Race
Course. 1t WAS between Mr.. Austin's steam
wagon and Mr.. Lsfamme's pacing mare, two
heats out of three, and was won by the animal.
I Montreal Witness.
81 Albert A. Burleigh, in Bakers Cavalry,
son of Hon. P. p. Burleigh, Of North Lin
neus, was severely wounded and taken prs-
oner by the rebels, during General Wilson'S
late raid on the Danville and Petersburg rail-
road 500 W.
20 BY depositing one hundred and twenty
five dollars with the State Treasurer Of Massa-
chusetts, any patriotic person not enrolled or
liable to enrolment, can secure representa-
tive recruit Persons liable 10 drqt7 cannot
procure substitutes in this way.
r A Clergyman had just united in mar
rage a couple whose Christian names were
Benjamin and Ann. g How did they appear
during the ceremony?'' inquired friend
"They appeared both animated and Benefited"
was the ready reply.
II Mr.. William B. English, well known as
a theatrical manager, died on the 18th inst, of
dysentery, at Stratford, Canada West He was
returning from professional engagement at
the South, via Canada, where Mrs English,
who had come North a few weeks earlier, was
daily expecting his arrival.
II The Washington Chronicle says, "among
the FIRST of the forces that came to defend Wash