The Portland daily press., 1864-05-09
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


+! move from Sweden to South Paris.
agThe city liquor agency in Belfast has
been abolished by vote of the city government.
o. Mrs. Amy Solomon died in Attleboro',
Mass, on the LIST. inst, at the age of l07
years.
GSMontreal has now a population of
10000 inhabitants and is increasing at the
rate of fifty-eight per cent, annually
sB-The House Naval Committee has de-
cided in favor OF locating the Navy Yard for
iron clads at New London, CT.
syThe June number of Harper's Maya
zine has been received by A. Robinson, No. 81
Exchange street.
T-Ssven tons of maple sugar were made
in four small school districts, in Bethel, the
present season.
GB-Five persons were baptized in Water
vile last week, by Rev. Mr.. Pepper, and after
ward admitted to the Baptist church.
TEA sou of Dennis Desmond was serious
| ly injured while playing in saw mill in Ma
chias, on Saturday, Both ult.
Encourage domestic enterprise asd
keep the gold at home, should be the motto of
every loyal man and woman.
ag-Sperm oil is selling in New Bedford
at $lI0 gallon and whale bone at 1.5O a
pound That city is having streak of luck
as well as some Others
sB-We are pleased TO learn, as we do from
si,a al he, I
drews has so far recovered from his long and
severe illness as to be able to ride out
svThe Philadelphia Press truly says that
the denomination of President Lincoln is
measure that will infict the worst blow upon
the rebellion.
% The prospects Of the hay crop are
said to be good, as the winter-killing OF the
grass roots does not appear to have been ex-
tensive.
sy- daily paper is about to be started ia
Concord, N. II. The proposition TO remove
the State Capital to Manchester, is stirring
the people up.
FOrland keene was arrested in Lewis
ton on Tuesday, charged with an attempt to
shoot his wife. He was bound over in the
sum Of $50, as we learn from the Journal
sE-The Bath Times learns that store
house in Wiscasset, containing twenty tons of
hay, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday
night.
sg~The Machias Republican says the
wharves in that place present quite busy APP
pearance at the present time. The high prices
of lumber makes business brisk.
sV-Rev. ID. Boyd has resigned the pastoral
charge of the Freewll Baptist Church at Ex-
eter, Me, and has accepted call to take
charge OF a church at Milton Mills, n. H.
~ Among the passengers per steamship
Damascus, which left this port Saturday for
Liverpool, were John Hayden, Esq, aud son,
and Mrs. Capt. Potter, all of Bath.
Craftsmanship Damascus sailed from this
port at $50 z. NJ. on Saturday. She had
twenty-five passengers and full cargo. The
Damascus is the last of the Montreal line
from this port the present season.
sBThe confidence the public have in the
is beins ua''y taken. De~As- he had of
various sizes, at the First National Bank in
this city.
sy-The citizens Of Dixleld and vicinity,
gave the 18th Maine grand reception few
days since. j. b. Marrow, Esq, presided on
the occasion, and the address OF welcome was
made by Isaac Randall Esq.
SE- The Cincinnati Enquirer states that
General Pope, with several thousand of his
troops, is preparing to leave Milwaukee fo-
Washington. The militia are to take the
place of the troops on the frontier.
II A brick company has been started in
Boston, with capital of 100000, for the
purpose of manufacturing brick in this State
They are intending to make purchase in
Elliot.
sg~Ice is cheap in New York-two dollars
per ton at wholesale. Last year the price
ranged from five to twenty dollars during the
warm weather. 1t is rather slippery business,
the prices are SO fuctuating.
sg-The autograph original copy of Attor-
ney General Bates decision, placing negro
soldiers on an equality,with others as to their
pay and allowances, has been obtained Of
President Lincoln and transmitted TO Gov.
Andrew, of Massachusetts.
sCThe scandalous reports in circulation
about female clerks in the Treasury Depart
ment have been shown TO be without founda-
ton. There is a disposition on the part of
men who are seeking easy situations to traduce
young women who are occupying such places.
sgMrs. James Witham and her son, of
Gardiner. have been committed for trial for
inducing small boy to steal quite an amount
of jewelry and S400 worth of u S. bonds
The property was delivered to Mrs. w. and
son, they giving the boy s35.
sB- Capt Samuel Bunker, of Nantucket,
recently caught Goldfish OFF the South Shore,
weighing 70 pounds, in whose stomach were
found two ducks, two flat-fish and one soul
pin. A wag styles this the latest invention
for stuffing cod; one that does not appear in
the cook books.
sY-At a sale Of Mr.. Aliens books in New
York few days since, his copy of Eliot's In
dian Bible, printed in Cambridge, Mass, in
1868, said to be the most perfect in America
sold for 1926. His illustrated copy of Dibdin's
Biblimania" brought S720; plain copy,
500,