The Portland daily press., 1864-03-26

IA rumseller, named Penneman, in
skowhegan, has been fined 500 and costs.
sR-The citizens Of Phillips and of Indus
try gave the returned soldiers banquet.
eY-The cattle disease has appeared again
In Massachusetts,.
~ is estimated that before 1875 there
will be forty States in the Union.
~ A Shovel Handle Factory is about to
be erected In Skowhegan.
l1- The Parish Poor house in ST. Stephens
was destroyed by fire on the 18th mat.
IF New York city has a groggery for
every 100 inhabitants.
aB- A testimonial fund is being raised for
George Thompson.
~ 1t is reported that Hon. Owen Love
joy is at Brooklyn, hopelessly Ill.
sE- Gen. W. y. Smith has been confirmed
as Major General.
kg- Ship fever is prevailing to an alarming
extent in New York.
~ Isaac r. Clark, Esq, has been chosen
Land Agent.
gg- The 10th Maine is under the COM
mand of 1t. Col. Farnham.
sv The Young Prince of Wales has been
christened. His name 10 Albert Victoria
Christian Edward.
sE- The last Joke Of the Sedson-The wiz
zened local of the Advertiser talking about
muddling! Heaven save the mark
sFFrancis Whittmore of Waldo. has
been arraigned at Ballast, charged with sell
ing unwholesome beef.
sy-Rev. L. Fl. Whitman Of Biddeford il to
go South with the 32d regiment, in connection
with the medical department.
arThe net profits ofa Universalist Levee
held in Gardiner short time since, exceeded
$500.
npRev. III. W. Rugg has been elected
experimenting School Committee, by the
City Council of Bath.
lVCol. Tilden of the 10th, has justreturn-
ed from his furlough at home in Castine, and
is now on his way to his regiment.
syMiss Wiley, of Calais, on returning
from neighbours house on Thursday night,
where she had been, at a late hour, on an er-
rand of mercy, fell and broke her arm.
sB-Capt. E. W. Atwood, Co. B, 10th Maine,
who has been confined in Libby prison, since
the battle of Gettysburg, has been paroled
and returned home on Tuesday.
sYIf butter should continue to go up in
price, as it has for few weeks past, 1t may
be necessary to organize an anti-butter socis-
ty.
EEThe New York Post gives some very
good reasons why the National Union Con-
vention should be postponed until the first Of
September.
1E-A building situated on Main st. in Lew
iston, and occupied by Mr.. Townsend and
others, was partially destroyed by fire, on
Wednesday last.
sJ-The Temperance Division in Stark
gave the returned soldiers of that town, a
welcome entertainment, on Tuesday of last
week.
sB-We invite careful reading of Gen.
Dow's speech, all of 1t, but particularly the
evidence of the internal plot to blow up Libby
prison, with its eight hundred inmates, Union
officers and prisoners Of war.
FThe Lewiston Journal says the only
lecture in the Course in that city, that has
paid its expense was that of Frederick Doug
las. AS the Course is sustained by private
individuals, the public should patronize them.
B-In Massachusetts, during the year 1868,
there were ifty-eight joint stock corporations
formed and seven old ones increased their
capital stock. The capital invested in these
enterprises in 1868, was about ten millions of
dollars.
nV-It is said Cove, the murderer of Sher-
where he was taken, so arranged that he
could have easily defended himself against
| twenty armed men. The wonder is that but
one victim is the result of his capture.
D-The Lowell Courier says man who
lent sheet for attiring Milford soldier for
a wake, would take no pay for it after it had
been inadvertently buried with the corpse
but insisted upon having the body disinterred
which was finally done, SO that he could get
his property. The Courier insists that he
was a "mean rascal"
nI-The Belfast Age says a man named
w. G. Hussey of Freedom, belonging to thu
batteries, was arrested in that city on Satur
day, for passing one or more 50 bills on tn,
Eastern bank, Bangor. A roll of bills of thu
same description, supposed to have beef
thrown away by him, was found in the stree
opposite the American House. He was ar
ragned before the police court, and boun,
over for trial.
YEA man giving the name of Geo ii
Smith, and a young woman have been al
rested in Boston of suspected crime. TIL
parties represent that they came from tow
in this State and are respectfully connected
that they are unmarried, but the lady bein
in trouble, she went TO Boston for tn
purpose of hiding her shame, her lover ac
companying her. That they took rooms witt
private family, in Charlestown where chill
was recently born, which has been made wa
with by Smith. The girl is apparently Ut
der the entire control of Smith. Both are
custody, awaiting further developments.