The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-11-16
ORIGINAL lind Subjected

EThe death Of John Leech, the distinguished
artist Of Punch. has been announced.
g-The net proceeds of an Episcopal Fair in
Bangor last week, were $1,000.
- A lad named Richard n. Hober was
drowned in Orrington, On Thursday last.
~ Eland Fuller has been appointed Post
master at North Turner vice Lewis A. Farrer.
~ Mayor Lincoln, Boston, has been repomi-
mated for the sixth term.
H-The population of Boston is now 1884,
800.
BWe learn that four inches Of snow fell in
Pennington on Monday.
EHon. William S. Hubbard, a leading MEM
Der of the Suffok Bar, died at his residence in
Boston, on Monday. anoe s
B-In Maryland three of the six judges are
Unionists. In the Legislature there will be 26
majority on joint ballot. Soc. 49,
1In 1885 it required four days, travel to
get from Boston to New York, and that by the
fastest coaches then ON the route.
~ The editor of the Saco Democrat
proposes to reduce the size of that paper. The
smaller the better. ga EMEM
BAmong the deaths reported in Washing
ton are the following of Maine soldiers: Lyman
D. Atwood, 32d; Jas. W. Libbey, GOTH.
HThe Mammoth OK which was presented
to President Lincoln, has by him been presented
to the Sailors Fair in Boston, as a contribu-
ton.
: % The Hsulton Times says Hon. Z. p Wes-
ton of Gorham, delivered an interesting lecture
on Education, in that town, on Wednesday eve
ming of last week
Since Mr.. Lincoln's reelection is made
certain, " Cabinet y makers are very busy.
Gems. Butler and Banks are spoken Of in con-
nection with the War Department
BSeth Adams, ESQ.,, of Boston, formerly
of the well-known printing press manufactures,
has given $500 in aid of the Medical Depart
ment of Bowdoin College. ~AQ2 +
H-In the list of rafies at the Sailors Fair, as
published officially in the BoatsWain's Whistle,
is.s large sofa rug, $75, carpet department.
Mrs. H. N. Jose, Portland.
BA Mcclellan man, in Providence, as a for
fixture of q bet on the result of the election,
wheeled negro boy through the streets Of that
city, preceded by band Of music. $50
EThe ddvertiser has understood a very
foolish thing in relation to Mayor Mcclellan.
We can inform our copperhead neighbor that
the mayor never proposed getting up the Union
celebration at the expense Of the city. 40 /
- An exchange says Nc lellan received the
news of his defeat with resignation. The World
claims it as virtue that the resignation was be-
fore he knew of his defeat; which resignation
the President promptly accepted.
81 There was congratulatery meeting al
the Methodist Church, Gardiner, last Sunday
over Free Maryland. One hundred and twenty
five dollars was collected to purchase supplies
tor the I'd Maine Cavalry. 5.@tf
~ The Bath Tines saysthat q trialwas had
with the Parrott guns at Fort Popham on Sat
urday, one Of the three shots striking the large
on whales Back so called, distance o
ala miles.
RThe capture of the blockade runner Hope
deprives Mrs. Jefferson Davis Of materials to re
plenish her wardrobe, contained in large boz
directed to her. tits proposed to send the DO,
to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. 49,
While the deacons were taking up con
tribution in a church in New Haven last Sun
day, little girl asked her mother, ssWha
do those men pass around corn pepper
for?'' ei sea us tes aaif
H-We learn from the Saco Democrat that OF
Saturday little French Canadian boy, employ
ed in one of the Pepperell Co.'S Mills, fell from
the window in the sixth story of the building,
distance of about eighty feet. killing him in
stantly. s fr ss.s =
HThe Abolitionists Of England feeling sur
t of the reelection of Mr.. Lincoln, had, befor
, the sailing of the last steamer, been talkin,
, strongly of holding great meeting 70 celebrat
the event when news of its occurrence SHOULD
be received. qaaiis3 saa1 80 g 44
The recuperative powers of East Tennes
see will beseen by a fact stated in the Knoxvill
Whig, that the First National Bank of Knox
vile has declared dividend Of five per cent OF
five months business, and that the government
loan through this bank up to Nov. /, is abou
$94, 900.
, HA gentleman who has travelled exten
sively in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, says
within the last two months he has travelled owe
a thousand miles, and yet outside of Nashvill
he had seen but three school-huoses; two wer
nearly empty and the other, newly started, ha'
only thirteen scholars. A library was found il
; but two houses. o
@The Saco Democrat is very sparing OF it
war news this week. The Confederate force
not having met with any successes during th
past week that paper can find but little wort
recording. 1t has word of comfort for it
southern friends, in the assurance that ssGran
has suspended operations until spring. '-ssSheri
dan is on the defensive ''--s' Hood is marchin.
on to Chattanooga all, and would b
considerable if true.
H The Lewiston Journal says Deputy Pro
vost Marshal Blossom on Thursday arrested F
w. Parker, in Pennington, q deserter from tn
LIST Maine Cavalry. This fellow is hard case
Last spring he was sentenced by court-martia
to be shot. His sentence was committed by tn
Presidentto hard labor at the Tortugas for {
term of years, but he managed to elude his guart
on arriving at New York, and escaped ant
came home.
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