The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-09-02
ORIGINAL IND SELECTED.

in New York on the 4th of October.
q Recruits are offering in PHILADELPHIA fast
er than they can be examined.
81 The worms are damaging the cotton crop
in Louisiana.
e The Kearsarge is on her way home. The
Iroquois takes her place
y A rascally bachelor calls the friendship of
two women always plot against a third
e Hon. F. A. Pike is addressing large meet
ings in Knox and Waldo counties.
y Gen. Nickerson has been assigned to an
important command.
- The pay of female nurses in the Hospitals
is forty cents a day and one ration.
- 1t will be remembered that the New Eng
land Agricultural Fair commences on Tuesday
next, at Springfield, Mass
~ Wilmington. n c., is now the only har-
Dor the rebels hold, with any reasonable chance
of running the blockade
r house owned by Charles Foster, ESQ.,,
at East Machias, was destroyed by fire on Tues
day night.
The Quarterly Session of the Waldo Coun-
ty Temperance Association will be held at Jack
son Village, on the 2lst inst
y Five hundred persons made an excursion
from Lewiston to Boothbay on Tuesday last, and
we're Joined by as many more on the route.
e Mr. David Niles, of Niles Dover Ex-
press, was robbed of $4,000 in the Boston and
Maine Depot, on Wednesday last.
81 We learn that the quota Of Augusta is
now full, several having been recruited in the
rebel States.
e A daring attempt WAS made to rob the
safe of Mr.. p. NJ. Blake, broker, in Bangor,
Tuesday night, as we learn from the Wing.
e A man who courts young woman in the
starlight, probably expects to get wife in q
twinkling.
- The hostile Indians in the West mount
ed on the heetest horses, and are armed with
long-range guns.
- Scion s. Beedle, son of Rev. John Beedle.
| of Gardiner, was killed in the battle at Deep
Bottom, La, on the l4th inst.
| Il Freddie Baxter, Gardiner, little lad Of
sonnet or years, had two ribs broken, by being
run over BY cart on Tuesday.
! e Some one wishes to know if, when the
! poet spoke of taking no note of time," he re-
referred to doing cash business for fear Of los
| ing by bad paper.
e Gen. Sherman suggests that an efficient
force might be obtained by organizing the re-
cruiting officers of the different States into
brigade and giving it active employment.
y Gen. Grant declares that il he had q hun
| dred thousand fresh men, he could in fifty days
| do all the fighting that needs to be done during
the war.
81 New York journal learns by private
information that Mr.. Soule has left the Csnfed-
eracy for the purpose of fixing his permanent
residence probably in some part of Europe.
e The New York Herald says that coal in
that city has come down in price two dollars per
ton by wholesale, and that large quantities are
ACCOMPLISHING along the docks.
p The academy at Lewiston is OVERLOOKING
with patronage. 1t is believed, says the Jour-
nal that over 200 students will be in regular at
tendance in few days.
81 An accommodation Train is now run
ming over various roads to abuse President Lin
1 coin. He will soon learn that he is on the wrong
track; possibly get switched of.
! e The Paris Pays asserts that Secretary
| Seward did make demand on the English Gov
eminent for the extradtion Of the pirate
/ Semmes.
y Mcdonald, the soldier who killed Fenton
at Burlington, Vt, on Sunday, has been CON-
mitted for trial for murder. He is young man
of twenty-five.
- That's what call repetition exclaim-
ed wag the other day. whats that, Tom!''
said his friend. "Why, look at that sign across
the way. Z. Weller, jeweller"
I A rnbust mamma trial 10 ,,r,oo1a har
son, likely lad of thirteen, over the Stonington
! lie was detected when the cars reached Provi-
| dence
/ EB-A foot race recently took place in England
in which the winner ran mile in the extraordi-
nary time OF four minutes, twenty and half
seconds, being the fastest time ever made in run
ming that distance
81 An lrshman on board a vessel when she
was ON the point of laundering, being desired to
come on deck as she was going down, replied
that he had no wish to go on deck to "see him
self drowned
81 Sir Robert Peel says that the farmers of
Ireland have Gl4. 600 900 sterling in the banks.
and despite all that has lately been said and
written, there are abundant evidences Of the
growing prosperity OF the country.
- The scenery around Portland, says the
Progressive Age, is much admired by the numer-
Gus visitors. popular author, now in this
city, declares the view from Bramhal's hill, at
sunset, the finest he has ever seen.
II The Thirty Third Annual Exhibition Of
the old Kennebec Agricultural Society will be
held on the Society's grounds at Readfeld Cor
ner on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct 18th and
18th next.
81 ANY person selling friction matches ON
and after the LIST of September, without revenue
stamps upon each box or package containing
the same. is subject 10 fine of ten dollars for
each offense.
e The East Somerset Agricultural Society
will hold its annual Cattle Show and Fair at
their Show grounds in Hartland ON Tuesday
and wednesday, the 18th and i4th of September
newt.
e man Of greatresearch, who has prob
ably devoted his life 10 the investigation Of the
matter, has come to the settled conviction that
the end of spotted dogs tail is always white.
and that OF spotted cat black
81 Edward r. Ruggles, Of the class Of 1859
at Dartmouth, has been appointed instructor in
modern languages at that college, in place of
Prof Packard who is transferred to the chair OF
Greek
y Senator Wade was recently censured in .
formal resolution BY the Union convention Of |
his own county in Ohio, for his manifesto with |
Winter Davis. The Congressional district where
he resides follows in similar expression of !
sentiment.
81 The Wilmington On. CO. Journal Of the |
18TH ultimo expresses fears that the remarkable
which that place has had from attack,
now that the Mobile forts are taken. will not be
long suffered to exist, and accordingly it ad-
vises immdiaete preparations for defence
81 During the year 1868 eight barques, four
briggs and eleven schooners, total tonnage O,