The Portland daily press., 1864-07-22
oRIGINAL AND SELECTED.

hospital in Troy.
II fhs Norwegian settlers in Iowa dedicated
a college at Decotah on the 3oth Of June
T-Georee Francis Train is chosen delegate
to the Chicago Convention from Nebraska.
81 Nerada Territory has. within q month,
collected $50, 900 for the e. S. Sanitary Fund.
20 A New York Spectator WAS recently
"stuck" $4,000 9 on pork.
- sulphur in the stockings wo ks the cure Of
gout and rheumatism.
g-Look out for counterfeit tens on the Bank
of Rutland.
E9~The hay crop of this state bids fair to be
entirely cut oG,
.-The Kennebec Journal says Beale's Hotel
at logus Spring is in full and successful opera
,grThe prices of the weekly papers in Bos-
ton are to be raised about the middle of Au-
gust.
y The region of Lancaster. N. H., was
blessed with heavy shower ON Wednesday eve
ming last.
= Zen thousand Swiss emigrants are now at
Hayre and other European ports, awaiting pas
sage to the United States.
F-A valuable horse belonging to Isaac 7.
C.rville. got hung by his halter few days since
aud chosed tod death. in Lewiston.
EY-A notice of the late Washington " ilks,
by 5. L. Carleton, Esq, is unavoidably lad
over till tomorrow.
~ fhe British Government is prosecuting
another man in Liverpool for enlis,ing men TO
serve on Confederate cruisers
= The Palmerston Government has been
again defeated by majority of two ON the OK
ford religious tests question.
gA woman in London set her husband aire
when he came home drunk, and enjoyed the con-
hsgration far more than he did.
81 According to naval laws Capt. winsow's
( pria money will be nearly $780, 900, aud each
of the crew abont 81 500.
EE.Jats have grosn nine feet high in Califor-
MIA this season, AMI would have reached higher
but for the dry weather.
81 Dress bonnets in Paris are made without
crowns-howers, butterflies and llama lace ssJ.
ply what little covering is considered necessary
g Helen Martin, an American girl has taken
the first prize at the school for midwives in
Paris.
- Hawthorne said, "Somehov, though why
could never scern, / have always observed
that the popular instinct chooses the right man
at the right time
1.-THE concentration of troops at Montreal
s a,l tt,o q A. I.
city. have been under Consideration in the Brit
ish Parliament.
/ 70 Mexico is going into the cotton raising
/ business extensively. Macmillan was sent to
that country TO be overseer for that great PLAN
/ ter Napoleon the Third.
E-The late King of wurtemburg is said to
have been the richest individual in the world
his private fortune amounting, it is reported,
! to more than El2 200 900 sterling
sH-Shoes we're $50 pair at Petersburg on
I necessity that there is for making tracks
from that city.
50 The last and best definition We have seen
/ of eopperhead is the following; "a creature
which has ali the instincts of a rebel, without
! the pluck 10 be one openly
/ n The Washington Republican says it is es-
/ timated that the plumber carried OH and the
7 damage inflicted by the rebels in Maryland will
amount, to two millions of dollars.
! y Printers of newspapers might probably
/ take lessons from the kennebec Journal in the
art Of making up. 1t is one OF the neatest
/ papers in New England.
/ The Bangor Wing has been sold about
7 that last ''scare.'' The waggish Doctor of
I the Advertiser got that up for home amusement,
4 NOT for expectation.
% The Clarion says little girl named ].
I Ett.e Whittier, eleven years old, was drowned at
! Madison Bridge on the l4th inst. She was in
to ba,he, and got beyond her depth
q The Union Convention for the 4ih Dis
z trict, to Illuminate candidates for Congress AID
for Ele,tor, will DO held in Bangor August
18th.
q The Lewiston Journal says large party
I of Irish llborers commenced on the foundation
OF the Catholic church In that city. on Welnes-
day last.
Mad dogs are running wild in some coun-
ties OF Pennss lyania, particularly in Chester
and Dauphin. Between the bites Of the dogs
aud the nips Of the rebels, the Dutch farmers
were driven nearly crazy.
% fhe South owes the North in mercantile
obligations only $500, Ooo, OOe. New York holds
$50, 500 900 OF this; Philadelphia, S24 900 900;
/ Baltimore, 500, 900, 600; and Boston, $1,000
600.
-Y-There are now about lao, 900 sick and
. wounded soldiers in the hospitals throughout
the country. This includes all those in camp
hospitals, Of which there are about fifty thous-
and
RMaj. General Butler has ordered that the
battery in the resi- of the Curtis house, before
/ Petersburg, heretofore known as water battery,
be named Battery spoford, after Lieut.. Col. W.
P. Spofsord of the 18th Maine Volunteers.
1 81 The Chronicle says sailboat upset of
| Portsmouth harbor on Tuesiay last 1t con-
! tanned five men, four of whom chung to the boat
! aud mast, while the fifth swan mile to the
shore aud procured assistance.
4 The Pennington Chronicle says there was
terrible tornado at Pennington Falls ON Moa
(. dry of last week. 1t uprooted trees. demolished
fences, unroofei one barn, and wrenohed and
y badly injured other buildings.
81 The Manchester Mirror says the Print
Works ia that city have declared dividend Of
copper cent, and this is he fourta 20 per cent
six months dividend. or SO per cent in two
years.
An intelligent officer in the lst Maine
Heavy Artillery, writing to a friend in this city,
gives some information of Grants operations
which indicate that crash at Petersburg may
be looked for at no distant day.
. Il requires a pretty extensive outlet TO
swallow all the dispatches in relation to the
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