The Portland daily press., 1864-06-29
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


healthy for this season of the year.
% Sperm oil is selling in New Bedford at
S20o gallon.
T"Gal Hamilton Is the nom de plume Of
Miss Abigail Dodge. of Hamilton, Mass.
g-Ths continued dry weather is seriously
affecting the hay crop in this state.
1Tom Hyer. the distinguished pugilist died
on Sunday.
q Edward X. Hall. Esq. has been appointed
Postmaster Of Nobieboro. vice Geo. L. Hall, re-
signed.
u The London Spectator says the masses in
England know nothing at all about geography.
and the educated classes know very little
ETA Dutchman describes New York as
BERRY fine people who go apout der streets
scheating each oder, and dey call dat pizziness -
II Yellow Fever, which the last steamer re-
ported as prevailing in HAVANA, is now raging
at Key West.
81 Andy johnson says that his nomination
has settled one thing in the Republican party -
that Tennessee is in the Union.
VA man in Wisconsin got up in the night
and drowned his two young children. in order,
he said that they might be sure to goto Heaven.
RJ John Bright has contributed to the Phila-
delphis Fair some very elegant specimens Of
embroidery.
EY-In Penn Yam. the proprietor of single
whiskey distillery paid So, 900 taxes for the
month of May.
BThs keeper OF liquor saloon at SPRING
asld. Ohio, was lately chopped up into small
pieces BY two OF his drunken customers.
~ There are said to be twenty thousand
Southern women in the boarding houses of New
York city.
Yin the state of Connecticut last year there
were 3, 467 marriages-23l less than in 1868,
s,Sl2 dsaths-9o less than in 1862.
TThe senate has passed the bill to provide
for compensation to postmasters by fled sala-
~, in lieu Of commissions.
FThe Messrs. Smith, Boston, who are in
confinement at Fort Warren. are to be released
on bail Of 20 900 each.
EThe House Of Representatives has refused
to strike out the Communication clause in the en-
rolment act, Nv avote Of So yeas to Oh nays.
HA grandson of Daniel Webster, and son
Of the late Col Fletcher Webster, has enlisted
~ q private soldier. and Is on the way TO the
field.
HThe following deaths of Maine soldiers oc-
CURED in Washington on Monday last: BENZ.
Royal, 9th Me. ; Lieut.. Lafayette Carver, 10Th
Edward Baker. Sd Me. Battery. ~
cyan old Indian who had witnessed the
effect of whiskey for many years said barrel
labelled whiskey contained a thousand songs
and fifty fights.
Ewe are indebted to Hon. Lot NJ Morrill,,
Of the U. S. Senate, for copy Of his speech in
the Senate May aist, against the repeal of the
fishing bcunties.
II The ID District Congressional Convention
meets atAuburn to-day. to nominate candidate
for Congress and also for election of President
aud Vice President.
VPrivate letters from California say Rev.
DR.. Bellows is meeting with very cordial re-
ception in that State. and his addresses in be-
half Of the Sanitary Commission have met with
. most glorious response.
VBrigham Young is expecting great rush
Of people who will want to join the ''saints.
and is urging the Mormons to hoard up all their
wheat and grain so that there may be no scarcity
Of food.
VHenry C. Carey, the American writer on
political and social scisnns- has haAn ~i>e.Aa :.
Forsir- Member " Of "The Naples Royal
Academy of Moral Science and Political Econ
omy."
81 The drought is very severe. Water is
getting so low in the streams that some people
have conscientious scruples against drinking
il. through fear that they will impede naviga-
ton.
II The Portsmouth Chronicle learns that
Col. Mark =. Wentworth of the sd Me-, Regi-
ment. returned from the "front" on Monday
morning, on leave Of absence Of twenty days
on account Of i'll health.
vThs Lewiston journal says young man
aged u years. sailing Sunday forenoon in the
mill pond at North New Portland Village, on
Sandy Stream. lost his balance while standing
In the boat. pitched overheard aud was drowned.
e An exchange says Speaker Colfax has
been honored by having street in Washington
named Colfax street.-the first instance Of a de-
parture from the system Of letters and numbers.
The avenues are named after States.
vThe New York Independent says of Gen
Fremont's newspaper organ-"among respecta-
bic American journals. not one, in any quarter,
seems to US so entirely unpatriotic, bitter and
malignant as the New Nation.'''
HThe sids-whsel steamer Tiago, of the East
Gulf Squadron, arrived at Portsmouth, lower
hsrbor on Sunday, with the yellow fever on
board. Three or more officers, including the
paymaster and several seamen, have died of the
disease on their way home.
IThe latest Boston motion is the oresni-
xation Of the children of the city into league
which pledges the members to abstain from
rum, tobacco and profanity" The title Of
this Juvenile body is the Young Temperance
Volunteers"
VA son of Sergt. Long. Of the 4th Maine
regiment. was drowned in the pond near Gen
Ulmer's residence in Rockland, last Sunday
morning. His body was recovered after re-
naming in the water two hours, but all effort:
to resuscitate him were fruitless
TDr. Palmer, Of Gardiner. late of the Sd
Maine, il Medical Director at the new Hospital
at Annapolis. The Hospital is situated on the
line Of the Washington and Baltimore Railroad
equal distant from either city. DIR. Wheeler
Of Topsham. Me-. is the Surgeon in charge
EWe learn from the Saco Democrat, that q
large quantity Of burglars tools has been dis.
covered under the bridge near Powers Corner
in Sanford, which upon comparison, exactly fl
the hole bored into the Alfred Bank Safe, last
week.
II The income tax agreed upon by the com
mittee Of conference is as follows: over $500
and not exceeding $4,000, per cent; over $4,000
and not exceeding $40, 900, 7 la per cent; owe,
$40. 900, 10 per cent. No additional rates arr