The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-08-27

contefred upon cur once the honor of a brief
visit. We regretted the call was made in our alb
sence
y Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont, has been
honored ~ with an invitation to do the pray
ing for the Chicago Convention. Appropriate
selection Like priest, like people,
y Bayard Taylor viii publish new novel
in September, entitled .'John Godfrey's For
tunes, related by himself, an American nov
ell"
! . The New York Herald maintains that Gov.
Seymour is only held in the background By the
Albany Regency until Mcclellan is killed of by
the first ballots at Chicago.
y Persia bids fair to be cotton producer.
The Odessa Messenger states that sixteen thou
sand killogrammes of raw cotton. grown in Per-
STA, have arrived at BOSTON,, on the Don.
/ y A writer in the N. Y. Post thinks no good
husband can be kept at home with poor bread.
Bad bread spoils his digestion, and hence his
! temper and his manners.
! % The Sagadahock House, Bath, has recent
! ly been renovated and put in first-rate order
/ The landlord, Mr.. Shannon, is man who ''knows
how TO keep hotel"
I 81 Mr. A. jackson, of Bath, has made ar
/ rangements FOR an excursion from Lewiston,
Lisbon, Little River and brunswick, to booth.
bay, on Tuesday, August 3oth.
! y John G. Fremont has written another
letter in which he suggests willingness to with
/ draw If Mr., Lincoln will do the same Hcis
/ brilliant youth.
! r The Oxford Democrat learns that Capt
! John 5. Baker, Provost Marshal of the 81 Con-
| gressional District, has resigned A successor
has not yet been named
n The Postmaster General has ordered the
! appointment of Joseph W. Foster, Postmaster at
| Vest Danyi!le in place of William freeman re-
signed.
! - The Boston Advertiser came out Thurs
/ day in new dress. This is one Of the neatest-
4 printed, best-conducted and most reliable and
! loyal newspapers in the country.
~ General Burnside, who was announced to
! be in Portland, has, by flank movement, gone
10 the White Mountains by way of Dover, New
Hampshire.
e The rebel iron-clad Tennessee, taken at
Mobile by Commodore Farragut, is found to be
valuable accession to our Navy. A few more
of the same sort would be acceptable.
! - The citizens OF Wins,e1, Conn, all went
on blackberry raid one day last week, and Sc
cured eighty bushels, all of which are to be pre-.
pared for the soldiers. 4 good example for 9TH
ers to follow
n The Richmond Dispatch of Saturday
says that Gen. Stoueman has been sent from Ma
con, Ga, to Charleston, S. c., and that regu
lar s. sttm of exchange of prisoners has been es.
/ tablished there.
/ % The Hartford Post says the War Depart
ment has issued orders to the Provost Marshal
to arrest and imprisoH every substitute broker
who may be guilty of takinga recruit out of his
own town to enlist.
q The Rochester Union says there are qbopt
10000 rebel prisoners at Elmira, n. y, and more
are coming up daily They are mostly able
bodied men, evidently of good families at the
soub.
~ The New England Female Medical College
in Boston has received legacies of Sl4 900 with
in the past year, and SAL 900 within nine years,
so, 900 Of which go to the free scholarship
fund
- A wounded rebsl captain brought into
our lines in front of Atlanta, on being asked
how long he thought Hood would be able to
hold out against u.s. said dryly, 81 guess he has
men enough for about two more Killings
- Some students having introduced horse
into their recitation room, the College professor
entered, saw thequadruped, and quietly remark
ell: you've got new classmate, see. am
glad ii is q horse; there were jaekasses enough
before -
- One firmof friction match manufacturers
viii, under the new tax law, requiring every
small bunch to be stamped after the first of Sep
,ember, pay more than thirteen hundred dollars
per day. 1t viii require Ia, 600 one cent stamps
daily for their use
y Godey's Lady's Book says festooned
dresses are now all the fashion, and street
sweeping skirts are rarely seen. In other words,
while the ample proportions Of the skirt are not
lessened, a reef is taken in them when the fair
mariners sail out upon the public promenade.
y OF sleep it is said that women require
more than men, and farmers less than those 9TH
erwise employed, though their occupat on is
conducive to souGd slumher, Editors, report
ers, printers, postoffice clerks and telegraph
operators are not supposed to require any
sleep.
~ Alfred Johnson, of Belfast, made speech
in the Copperhead tent at Bangor in favor of
Peace. In 6l this same johnson was one Of the
first boilers from the traitor convention in Au.
gusta because peace resolutions were adopted
and his own war resolution was voted down.
He was always big swell, and little else.
% An advertisement in the Bangor Wing
informs US that "eyery variety of literary COM
position" will be promptly executed upon rea-
sonable tsrms,n ON addressing certain 2. o.
Box in Bangor. Sermons written TO order; po-
stry turned off with any desired rap;dity, al
prices to suit the times !-IKen. Jour.
Y The Lewiston Journal says Joha Shana-
han, in the employee Mr. j P. Norton, on We'd
nesday fell from staging on which he was work.
ing in Central Hall in that city, and was picked
up insensbe. He struck on his head, and the
distance he fell was eighteen feet. This (Thurs-
restored. 1t is thought, however, that he may
recover.
% The New York Herald estimates that half
the newspapers in the country will die in two
months. The Herald oyerlooks the cat-like tenac-
ity for life of this singular vegetable. An ex.
change says newspaper will live on nothing
longer than a turtle, but once dead. it is very
dead. With the support Of the newspapers con-
centrated upon just about half the present num-
Der, and with prices raised like other articles, to
correspond with the price of gold, the business