The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-08-02
OHIGINAL ANJ SEIEcTEn

want Of water.
. A compan of 100 men has been organized
in Eastport for home protection.
- Jacob Russell will probably succeed Nc.
Cisco, as Sub-rreasury Agent in New York.
- "A military definition of a kiss-A report
at Recommendations Journal.
20 The season has been good for brick-makine
no rain, plenty of hot sun. and fresh breeze.
- The bell and fixtures on Harpswell Acade-
my have been stolen, and $25 reward is offered
for their recovery.
- The Prize Defamation of the Junior class
at bowdoln College, came off last evening, at
Rev. DR.. Adams church, Brunswick.
% To make good wholesome bread without
-four. Use plenty of good rye and Indian
meal.
% 1t is little singular that the Cathedral of
Notre Dame in Paris, though five hundred Years
old, was never dedicated till recently.
lg~A handsome Jewish synagogue has been
erected at Melbourne, in Australia. There are
one thousand Jews in that city.
gTNearly twenty tons of powder were used
in mining the Notifications around Peters
burg.
% An attempt is being made by the working
men OF New York to reform the government of
that city. 1t will be found "big job
Eg-Gov. Gilmore has called an extra session
of the New Hampshire legislature for Aug.
9th.
e Don't fail 70 read the 1st and 4th pages
They almost always contain something to in
terest instruct or amuse.
% Ex-President Pierce is talked of as the
nominee of the Chicago Convention. Too old
to run over so hard road.
Eg~J. E. Berley, 7th Me-, and joseph D. Wv
man, 18th Me-, died at Washington, ON the 81 st
inst.
II Mrs. Margaret Tinker and Miss Grace
Gilman, of Waltham, Mass, were drowned
while bathing in that town on Thursday last.
% Gen. Dix is the Oldest general now in the
Federal service. He was born in New Hamp-
shire in 179s
n There is to be special election in Penn
sylvania, to-day, to decide the question of SOL
diers of that State voting.
H-The Congregational and Methodist Sab
bath Schoolsi in Saecarappa make an excursion
to buxton Center, on Friday next
% The funeral of Gen. Mcpherson was at
tended by large number Of persons at Clyde.
n. y. The body was escorted to the grave by a
regiment Of Infantry.
y young woman named Corson, 20 years
of age, residing in Brunswick, was abducted ON
the 4th of July and has not been heard of
since.
. Capt. W. II Mace, of Lewiston, Co. d.
SD Me-, was fatally wounded on the 22d inst
and died the next morning, as we learn from
the Journal.
% The 9th Massachusetts, regiment went to
Washington, through Baltimore a few DAYS
since. They were received at the latter city with
cheers and waving of handkerchief.
E4-fhere is copperhead outbreak in Wood
ford County, Illinois, rendering it necessary to
put all that portion of the State under martial
law
81 The Herald of Progress, Spiritualist
paper, has been suspended. Andrew jackson
Davis, the Poughkeepse seer. was one of its
conductors.
% In list of deaths in the hospital at Hamp-
ton, Va, published in the New York Tribune,
are the names Of Daniel Colnane, 9th Ne. !;
Charles Knight, 9Th Maine.
-The members of the Liverpool ire-police
have been supplied with felt helmets instead of
the hats usually worn by this branch Of the SER
siss,
9-Adjutant General Fuller of Illinois, asserts
that official documents show that that State has
sent to the field ISL 900 three years men and is
clear Of the draft for 500, 600.
R~Severai Sabbath Schools on ina line Of the
York and Cumberland Railroad will make an
excursion to this city and. to the Islands on We'd
nesday. Fare for the entire excursion so
cents.
Ensfhe american BOARD Of Foreign Missions
have been somewhat embarrassed in their opes
rations on account of the high rate of exchange,
% per cent. of all their expenditures being
abroad. n
R-rhe MaOhias Republican says the three
rebels now in jail in that town, are rather more
than suspected of being no rebels at all, but
simply persons trying to raise the wind for the
purpose of making noise.
During the month of July the Daily Press
has been able to hold its own, its net increase
being only six. The weekly, in the consequence
of the expiration of the clubs which we would
not consent to renew, has fallen off thirteen.
B-The Aroostook Sunrise says Mr.. Amos
Lally of Tobique, was killed by bull on Mon
day of last week. He was attacked by the en-
ragged animal in the pasture and killed almost
instantly.
sYTCharles Dickens is to receive e12,0 900 for
his new serial novel from his publishers, Messrs
Bradbury & Hall-e6,0Oo on the publication of
the first number, and the remainder on the COM
pletion of the work.
20 The newspaper reporters of Philadelphia,
have determined TO form an association for self
protection, mutual improvement, and "the ele-
walton of the members to an exalted standing in
society,"
- There are now nine thousand rebel priso-
oners in the barracks at Rock Island, Ill, and
five thousand three hundred and seyenty-seyen
AZ lamp douglas, lineage. There are also sew
eral hundred at Alton
0-A sharpshooter, being mortally wounded
the other day, just before his death expressed
his willingness to die, declaring to the sur
geon that he had killed sixty rebels since the war
began.
RThe crinoline is fast disappearing from
Partisan society. At many of the watering
places abroad it is quite abandoned, and it is
said that in another twelvemonth it will be COM
paratiyely unknown.
. The Advertiser has a call for a District
Convention in this city on the 10th, and the Ar
gus has call for the llth Have Tammany
and Mozart been transferred from Gotham to
Maine
E-The man who enlists in the Union army
for three yeors gets in pay Si326, or SAP per