The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-03-11
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


10 On first page,-Pay of Colored Sol
diers-Remarks of Hon. W. p. Fessenden.
nT4-Friday evening.
nrAnother mail bag from the wreck has
been found.
nB-An lrishman On Fore street got hard
used last evening, in a drunken row.
ny-We would call attention to the notice
of the U. S. District Assessor.
nrThe Evans building cost s23, 900, in
stead of $4,000, as stated yesterday.
nvTwo more vessels have arrived, to take
portions of the I'd Me. Cavalry.
sy-Many families are leaving Ohio this
spring, for the fusther West.
g-Bayard Taylor, at last account, was
i'll in Michigan.
srHon. Fernando Wood is recovering
from his recent severe ilinesss.
n1-The city authorities of Newburport
have decided TO purchase steam fire engine.
GB- The Senate has confirmed the nominal
ton of Charles II. Howard, as Assistant Ad-
jutant General, with the rank of Mayor.
TThe New York Times calls the Miss
ouri broil in the House "a flremans fight,
while the flames are raging"
WWe learn that G.. II. Bailey, who was
SO badly injured on Wednesday, was quite
comfortable yesterday.
hVThe freshet at New Market n. ii. was
very severe, destroying much property, on
Monday and Tuesday last.
sE-The damages on the Boston and Maine
Railroad, have been repaired and the trains
are running regularly.
BcWe are indebted to S. w. Larrabee,
Esq, for copy of the Militia bill, introduced
by him in the House of Representatives.
rvThe Gardiner Journal says, W. Gar
land, deserter from the 10Th Me- Reg, was
arrested at his home in that city, on Monday
night last.
svWe learn from the Machias Union that
Gardiner Copeland, of Corinth, was killed
few days since by falling tree, while lumber
ing on Mopang stream.
eVThe dptheria is very fatal in Phillips.
| Four children were lying dead in one house
few days since, children OF Mr.. NJ. Bray.
Their ages were IL, 10, II, and 10, years.
% The enterprising managers Of the
| Portland & Kennebec Railroads, design put
ting on another train daily each way, on the
first of April.
bTDr. w. A. Anderson, of Gray, Assis-
tant Surgeon Sd Maryland Regiment Infantry,
has been promoted to Surgeon of the same
regiment.
gYMr. Curtis, in his lecture on Thackeray,
| says Englishmen and Americans are brothers.
So, says the Boston Traveller, were Cain and
| Abel.
sg-A merchant in Vermont was knocked
over his counter a short time since, by an
explosion, caused by putting lighted candle
near the bung OF a kerosene oil barrel.
egThe amount subscribed in Boston and
vicinity, for the suffering loyalsts of East
Tennessee, up to Wednesday last, was S52,-
| l20.
N- Mr.. Thomas Norcross of Augusta,
| few days since shot a bald-headed eagle,
which measured eight feet from tip to tip of
his wings. Mr.. N. has prepared the bird for
exhibition.
H-Edwin l. Blake, son of Lewis and Eve
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| G, 18th Maine Regiment, died of typhoid few
| er, in the Hospital at Brandy Station, Va. Jan
goth, aged 81 years and months.
GB-James Halpine, of Concord, while driv-
Ing toward Manchester, N. H., on Monday.
near midnight, drove off the road near Hook
sett, and into the river and was drowned as
was also his team Of two horses.
I-The Gardiner Journal says, Thomas
Douglass, member Of Co. c, I'd Me. Cavalry,
was thrown from sleigh on Monday night
last week, and so badly injured that he died
on Wednesday following.
nY-It is said a recruiting officer from Mas
sachusetts paid the fare of 1870 of the men
who came over in the Nova Scotian; about
100 Of the number he took with him to Bos-
ton, the remainder he will be obliged to
hunt up.
1-During the storm Of Sunday and Mon
day,a heavy sea was driven into the harbor
of Rockland and several wharves were sub
merged. The lime in the store OF Mr.. Jona-
than White, started a fire, but it was soon ex-
tinguished.
V-At meeting of the stockholders of the
Calais & Barring Railroad Company F. X.
Swan, Esq, was elected Director to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of James Sar-
gent, Esq. The Directors elected George NJ.
Porter President.
GA wealthy but ignorant farmer, in a
recent town meeting not far from Bridgeport
Conn.,, moved with great dignity that 'this
meeting do now adjourn, ipse dixit." The
motion was amended by adding "E Pluribus
Unum," and unanimously carried.
nI-The Union men of Portsmouth celebra-
ted their signal victory of their State election
on Wednesday evening, by speeches, ringing
of bells, firing cannon, a procession, music,
Illuminating their houses, displaying fire.
works DC.
~ According to the Argus about half a
million dollars of patronage is distributed to
the Republicans of Portland. The statement
is as near the truth as almost anything com
ing from that paper. Who wonders that it
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