The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-08-22
ORIGINAL IND SBLECTED.


is ON fire, IS 1t ct .quette to blow il opt7
y wom@,'s tears soften "a mans heart:
her batteries HRS head
q The exc drsion from Lewiston to Camden.
via Portland, has been postponed
- The largest taxpayer in Pennington is +.
6. Butler, Esq, who pays s29l.l5.
. The Boston Book Trade sale commences
IN that city at O'Clock on Tuesday.
p The latest demand of the coal miners in
Pennsylvania is for So an hour.
20. n. Bradbury, A. D. Manson. and Lewis
Barker have been nominated for the Senate by
the Union men in Penobscot.
n The next meeting of the Cumberland
County Temperance Association will be at STAN
dish on the 10Th of September.
20 Mr. Geo. ii. Pearce, Of Hamilton, c. w.,
the eloquent temperance advocate, will labor in
this State during the month of September next.
81 The Show and Fair of the North Kennebec
Agricultural Society will be held on the 9th and
2Sth of August.
20 pair of large oxen were killed on the
track of the Maine Central Railroad on Wednes-
day, In Readheld, by the passenger train.
g The Sherbrooke Gazette saws the crops in
the frontier towns of Vermont and Canada. are
looking finely.
! . The grave-diggers in a cemetery in Brook
Ign, \. T., are on a strike, and threaten to make
( ghost of him who interferes.
1 20 The citizens of Connecticut are TO vote to-
/ do nua N MI firrat1 Al 80
ing soldiers to vote
n The town of Topsham has voted to pay
accepted enrolled men, $500 for one year, $500
fortwo years, $500 for three years
- The new comet forms with Jupiter and
Arcturus an equilateral triangle; but it beats
both these old fogies quite out of sight
y Tomatoes, the most healthful vegetable
that is placed upon our tables are offered in our
market in large quantities and at reasonable pri-
ces.
= Over $4,000 have been contributed by the
citizens of the Sandwich Islands to the U. S. San
itary Commission.
p The Augusta Hotels are undergoing ex-
tensive Improvements. The removal discussion
has accomplished something.
u The large factory erected at Livermore
Falls for condensing milk is nearly ready for
operation.
y Col Hubbard, of the 30th Maine regi-
ment. returned to his home in Hallowell on We'd
nesday last.
% jeremiah Owen, Jr.. of Brunswick, died
about the 10th inst, on the passage from City
Point to Alexandria lie was a member of the
4th Me Battery
q Orders have been received by Capt Kicker
to hold Co. B, State Guards, Bangor, in readi-
ness to proceed to Fort McClary, Kittery, to re-
lieve Co. A.
81 John Taylor Wood. Captain of the Talla-
hassee, is son of Assistant Surgeon General
Robert c. Wood, U. $. A., and grandson of the
late President Taylor. jeff Davis is his uncle
II The Aroostook Pioneer thinks no village
in the State has suffered so much by reason of
loss in population, since the commencement of
our present war, as Presque Isle.
q OF the forty young men of Concord, n.
H., who enlisted for the navy, all but half doz-
en- or so were rejected, as the government re-
quires men with some experience at sea.
n The Cheshire Cheese Factory consumes
100 gallons of milk day, and turns out seven
cheeses weighing $50 pounds each. About $50
cows furnish the milk.
- The Fenian Spirit is the name OF new
Irish paper just started in Boston. The editors
and proprietors are Messrs. Warren & O'Neil
Larkn.
r II is estimated that ten thousand people
listened simultaneously to the preaching at As
bury Grove camp meeting On Thursday AFTER
noon.
n Last Tuesday evening, II. W. Pettee, a
fireman on the AIRLINE Railroad, was instantly
killed in Brookline, while attempting to step
from train on the track to one passing He
was intoxicated at the time.
q Secretary Stewards c6lored coachman
shot another colored man in Washington Mon
day night. Thecoachman gave himself up, and
says he thought the other man was going to
shoot him when he fired.
u clergyman, who has studied our pres
ent conflict from the American and European
standpoint, comes out in the most decided terms
against an armistee. He says il 1riH cost far
less 10 fight ii out nolc once for all.
gE-Are the voters of the State of Maine will
ing TO accept peace on the terms that JEFF Davis
shall dictate, after the immense sacrifice of men
and money TO maintain the unity and authority
of the government
- Can anybody tell why peaches, which are
twenty five cents bushel in Philadelphia. and
Oh, . H. =. u -
cents quart, or eight dollars a bushe, in this
cityl
y Edwin Sanford and George Wheeler. of
the sth Maine, were wounded ut Petersburg on
the 18th inst-the former in the back, and the
latter in the lungs. 1t is believed that, with care,
Wheeler will recover
- The Brunswick Telegraph says that the
track of the Topsham Fair Grounds, half
mile, is nearly completed and it will be one of
the best in the State The grading has been done
with great care.
ES-0n the 7th inst. the house, barn and out
buildings of Eben Courier, in Sedgwick, con-
tanning about ten tons of hay, together with all
/ his farming tools, were totally consumed by FIRE
caused by lightning. Not insured.
! = Major Baldwin and Capt. F. W. Sabine, of
! the nth Maine, were wounded on Sunday, the
! l4th, near Deep Bottom. Capt. Sabine was
wounded in the head; how seriously it is not
stated.
n Railroads, says the Boston Poet, have
been the means of developing the resources of
| the United States more than any other works of
internal improvement During the past two
! years there have been built at the West 1856
miles of railroad cost of S253, as0, AGA.
~ At recent railroad dinner, in compli-
ment to the legal fraternity, the toast was given:
can honest lawyer, the noblest work of God;"
but an old farmer in the back part of the hall