The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-05-31
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yB cotton umbrella costs $40 In Dixie.
v Rebel women in the South pay s55 for
q hoop-skirt
sy- The mackerell fishing, the present
season, promises we'll
~ The steamer Peruvian will sail from
Quebec for Liverpool on Saturday next.
sB- Twenty millions are the circulation of
the National Banks at the present time.
20 The Spanish contemplate cutting q
maritime canal around the Rock of Gibral-
tar. VA .44t 81
vA lady recently issued cards for sup
per party, and had "No Butter printed on
them. -
The Bridgeport Standard, Conn, says
there is more building going on In Bridge
port than 10 any other city Ia the State.
sB- Property In Lowell is changing hands
to an extent unknown before in that vicini-
ty.
10 Last year our imports from Brazil
amounted to s2l, 600 600; our exports thither
only $4,000
r1-A Presidential Convention, favoring the
nomination of Gen. Fremont, will assemble at
Cleveland to-day.
tn The Pope did not give $500 to our
Sanitary Commission. 1t was another chap.
One of his cardinals.
sg- Very cheering accounts in regard to
the wheat crop come from Central and South
ern Missouri and Southern Illinois.
EB- The new monitor Agamenticus was
unlocked at the Kittery Navy Yard on Sat
urday.
~ A finely executed bust Of Thomas
Starr King has been sent from San Francisco
to Boston, where 1t Is now on exhibition. 1t
will be presented to Tufts college.
ag- The Passadumkeag Broom Corpora
ton, chartered at the last session OF the Leg
islature, have organized and commenced op-
erations.
Surgeon General Hammond, who has
been arraigned before court martial, charged
with corruptly, iraudulantly and unlawfully
purchasing medicine &C., has been convicted.
~ Southport, with population OF about
500, and with most OF the adult population
away fishing, has contributed 500 to the
Christian Commission.
eE- Charles Lever Is writing a story call
ed "A Rent In = Cloud" Those dom. care
anything about that who want q tenement on
the first floor.
rV- Thackeray left his daughters amply
provided for, but the first money realized for
that purpose was from the lectures delivered
In the United States In 1862.
~ A financial writer says that the bank
of Genoa, which has been in existence hun
dreds of years, has, perhaps, proved itself the
strongest institution Of the kind in the world.
~ A young man named Hall had one OF
his fingers taken off at the Lewiston Bleach
cry on Friday last, as we learn from the Jour-
nal
sJ Mrs. Nathaniel Wilder, Of Jamaica,
VT, eighty -four years old and blind. set her
clothes on fire with pipe she was smok-
ing, few days ago, and was burned to
| death.
~ The Maine regiments have been In the
front ranks in nearly all the late engagements
and have probably lost more heavily, in pro-
| portion to the number of their troops, than
regiments from any other State.
~ A car buffer is in use on the Midland
Great Western Railray, which, placed on the
rails, will bring up heavily LOADED train go.
ing at the rate of twenty miles an hour in 8
space Of nine feet, without injury to the cars
/ s "Perley" reports the following death,
Of Maine soldiers In Washington: Amazia
Langley, Granville Duncan and Ephrain
Bowles, Of the LIST Artillery; Geo. E. Foss, 9Th
Infantry.
sV The terms OF the Worcester Daily
Spy, paper Of large circulation, are precise
ly the same As we'have announced for the
Press in It's enlarged form, and yet the Spy /,
smaller than the Press now Is.
sBMaj. w. C. Morgan, Sd Maine, killed
at the battle Of North Anna river, on Tues
day of last week, was practical printer, for
merly of Augusta. He entered the service a
lieutenant and was promoted for meritoriou
conduct on the field.
| sy- Kossuth's wife is suffering from can
Ger. The good husband seldom leaves her bed
side. He lost a sister in New York som
year or two ago. His two sisters kept lac,
store in that city, and fine women they wer,
What changes in the fortunes Of this orator
| sbutcohau oiu potitoi'N.
sJ-We have received from New Orleans
from "clerk at Gen. Banks Headquarters,
list OF casualties In the Maine 30th, on Re
river, on the Sth and 9th OF April, at Mans
field and Pleasant HILL We published such
list month ago, aud have also published tn
casualties in the same regiment in the late
battle, when Gen. Fessenden was wounded
Our New Orleans correspondent has laid U
under obligations by his disposition to serv
us.
sy- Col n. G. Taylor, Of East Tennessee
has addressed letter TO the members OF bot
houses of Congress. 1t is a most eloquer
appeal for the passage OF the bill authorizin
the construction of a railroad by which tbs
interesting section may be opened to con
merce, it's population released from indescrib,
BILE priyations, and the national Treasury sa,
ed from many war expenditures. II this raj
road was built II would deprive the rebels
one OF their vital extremites, and q large r,
gion saved from unprecedented spoliation an
re-secured permanently 10 the old Union.
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