The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-12-03


Mobile bay. within three miles of the city.
| e When rich lady marries poor man it
must be with view of outstanding her re-
sources.
81 Pittsburg has one foundry for about each
thousand of its population, and a dozen drink
ing saloons for each found-dry.-lPrentice.
81 Congress assemblies on Monday next.
The message of President Lincoln is to be for
warded by telegraph.
- Henry F. French of Cambridge, was elec-
ted President of the Massachusetts, State Agri-
cultural College, Tuesday, by the Trustees
81 Mr. E. G. Patton of Bangor, aged GA
years, died few days since of injuries received
by being thrown from his wagon.
81 The price of the New York Journal of
Commerce has been put up to $500 per
year.
williamson r. w. Cobb, lately expelled
from the Rebel Congress, accidentally killed
himself last week in Alabama with pistol.
BA special act of Congress orders the re-
measurement of vessels on the LIST of January,
| 1865.
! . Pennsylvania has furnished hundred
million dollars worth of iron, coal and petre-
leum this year.
H-"Wouldn't you call this the calf of
/ leg 20 asked Bob, pointing to one of his neither
limbs. "No," replied Jim; 81 should say it
was the leg of a calf.'
BA drunken Irishman in Jersey City, threw
a stove lid at his wife on Saturday, and knocked
out the brains of daughter eighteen months
old.
| HA petition from fifty thousand citizens of
Illinois will be presented at the coming session
of the legislature of that state for the repeal of
| the Black Laws.
R-The Ladies of the Saco Soldiers Aid As
ISOLATION are to hold Fair in the Town Hall,
Wednesday and Thursday afternoons and eve
nings. the 2lst and 22d inst.
RThe Democrat says Dea. Geo. W. Chap
man of Bethel, "a years old and totally blind,
was thrown from a carriage on Sunday last, and
had two of his ribs broken.
- Mr.. " m. Keen of Mechanic Falls, has re-
Gently sold a horse to parties in New York, for
$250G. He made 2:37 on the Lewiston track
recently.
The Secretary of War has given the Union
prisoners just arrived at Annapolis, thirty
days furlough after they have been duly
paid
HIt is said the ladies of Bangor powder
their hair when they attend balls, because pow
der and balls go SO fttingly together in these
war times.
RWe understand vigorous effort is being
made to start new paper in Brunswick = not
political, but that shall generously support
the Government.
VA notice of recent steamboat explosion
in Western paper ends as follows: ''The Cap
tain swan ashore. So did the chambermaid;
she was insured for $15,O 900, and loaded with
iron"
4 RThe U. 8. Circuit Court, New York, has
given a verdict of $4,000 to pers IN for DANA
ges sustained while crossing the street, from a
stage. The law is that pedestrians have the
right to the crossing Of the street onfoot.
RIt is a significant fact that in all the ap-
peals to the people of Georgia to rally and i'm
pede the progress of Gen. Sherman, none has
seen published as coming from the Governor Of
the State, Mr.. Brown.
RThe Stark Mills at Manchester, N. H.,
have commenced spinning fax. Before the
war, these mills were making 100000 seamless
cotton bags per month. They expect soon to
turn out 10000 Of linen, per day.
RA Sabbath School girl in Bangor, only
ten years old, recently received the prize Of q
Bible for committing 1860 verses to memory in
six months. The teacher should be prosecuted
l-LRockland Free Press----
- The Quebe Mercury says about 20 or &c
able-bodied men have left that city by steamer
for Nassau, N. p, to run the blockade to Will
mington. They are going to join Lees army.
Why were they not arrested?
RA private letter from a gentleman just
from the front states that the vote of Aroostook
soldiers gives upwards of one hundred majority
for Cony and the Union County ticket, which,
with the home vote, will give clean majority.
Pioneer.
~ The Boston and Providence Railroad
Company propose to increase their capital
stock by the creation of three thousand one
hundred and forty shares, for the purpose of
completing double track between Boston and
Providence.-[ Boston Trav
9An exceedingly modest young lady, desir-
ing leg of chicken at the table, said: "I' II take
the part that ought to be dressed in drawers -
uice young gentleman who sat opposite, inn
mediately said '.I'll take the part that ought to
wear the bustle!'' h@
% The Oxford Democrat says Lieut.. Yelling
ton Hobbs of Norway, 18th Maine regiment,
was killed while on picket duty near Petersburg,
about the 9th of Oct. His body was brought
home for interment, and buried with military
honors.
- Gen. Butler, in an order dismissing Sec-
ond Lieutenant John Clancy of the Colored
Light Artillery, from the service, says: ssHe was
in state of intoxication. which is reported as
! huf hat -
beasts do not get drunk
John d. Read, native of New London,
was murdered by Mosby's guerrillas, at mid
night on the 10Th, near Falls Church. He was
taken from his own yard, carried into the woods
and shot. He instructed o Sunday school of
freedmen. Hence his bloody fate.
50 The demise of VIM. S. Cochran, ESQ, late
Bank Commissioner, took place at his residence
in this city, on Wednesday evening, Nov. 23d.
His age was AZ years, month, 10 days His
disease was consumption. = [Rockland Free
Press.
- The Providence Journal calls attention to
the fact that, precisely in those States which
were said to be most aggrieved at the policy OF
the administration and the sentiment of New
England, the gain of Mr.. Lincoln during the
last four years has been most striking
% If we deliver papers at the doors of sub-
scrioers we fulfil our part of the obligation, and
should not be called upon to make good stolen
copies. When the white paper costs within a
mere triae of what we charge for the printed
sheet we can poorly afford to have leaks of this
kind.
y The report that the rebel congress ha
voted to JEFF. Davis his salary in gold is re-
affirmed. 1t was done in secret session and
efforts made to conceal the fact, lest it might
disaffect the southern people. His regular sala-
ry, $4,000, in Confederate paper, at current
price. would amount to about 1925. ntS
Prof Agassiz of Cambridge, sent a note
to the Boston Post, Nov Both, saying. "I am