The Portland daily press., 1864-06-18
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

tnat MS COWS have been regularly MIXED by
black snakes.
CoTToS is quoted at $3.50 pound, which of
course, carries all the fabrics into which that
article enters, up with it.
THE city of Salem appropriates $40, 900 a
year for schools and SIS, 900 for the support of
the poor.
We learn from our exchanges that the frost of
last week, was quite destructive to bean and
corn crops.
Thu 10Th Maine, at last accounts, was near
the mouth of Red River, il5O miles above New
Orleans.
WAsHERwoMES say ladies wear long dresses
to hide darned, dirty stockings Don't believe
ii.
SECRETARY Chase, in speaking of the una
workable necessity of taxing incomes over 5000,
ten per cent, said he would willingly submit to
an income tax of fifty per cent
THE first allotments of s2I 900 have been re-
ceived at Augusta from the 10th and 3oth
Maine Regiments, and are now ready for distri
bltion
ASYLUM FOR DRuSKARDs.-Y Yes, the one at
Binghampton. N. Y, will soon be opened. 1t
will hold about 500, and already more than s, OOO
have applied for its protection
THOSE who had bets that gold would sell for
200 in the month of June. have won. At st.
Louis on Friday, large sales were made at that
rate.
LAND case has just been decided in st. Louis,
by which John Mcguire has recovered, after
quarter of q century of litigation, lands worth
fve&undred thousand dollars.
THE New York News refuses to recognize the
Journal of Commerce, as an exponent of DEM
ocratic principles. The harmonious Democra-
cyl
FRANK Webster Kelley, Esq, of Frankfort,
was admitted to practice in all the courts of this
State, at the late term Of the Supreme Court in
this city, on motion Of Ex-Gov. Crosby.
NEW post office has lately been established
in the town of Sherman, Aroostook county, to
be called Sherman Mills, and 5. Robinson, Esq,
appointed P. NJ.
Corr. Fred. +. Heath of Bath, Co. G., 32d
Maine was killed in the battle Of the Sd inst.
He was bat 10 years of age and had the reputa-
ton of being brave soldier and a genial COM
panion.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for supply
ing the sick and wounded Maine soldiers with
proper refreshments at the Boston & Maine
Depot, in Boston, when they arrive there ON
their way home.
Those who have been trouting in Oxford
county the present season, are inclined to tell
large stories in regard to the number taken; all
true of course, but some of them, we mean the
stories, are little fshy.
"BESSEr Mus, - in Norway, owned by ] b.
Brown and others, have been sold recently to
c. c. Sanderson. Esq, Of that town. The
Democrat says improvements are in contempla-
ton but to what extent has not transpired.
The only surviving scholar of the first Sun
day School in this county, established by Mr..
Slater, the Original cotton manufacturer. in
IT'D, talked to the boys at.the Connecticut Re-
form School, and the Sunday School children in
Meriden, on Sunday.
REv. ]. E. NJ. Wright. Chaplain of. the sth
Maine regiment, in letter to a relative. writes:
''In one of the recent battles on the peninsula,
soldier Of our regiment was saved by his
Bible. II was IN the breast pocket near the
heart. The ball struck and glanced off, and
struck his arm on the opposite side, wounding
it slightly
LONDON QUATERLr.-The April number has
come to hand from the American republication
office OF L. Scott & Co., New York Contents;
/. The Prospects of the Confederates; p Pom
pei; 3. The Empire of Mexico; L. Life of Gem
eral Sir William Napier; 5. Shakespeare and his
Sonnets, 6. Foreign Policy of England; I. The
Privy Council Judgment
HENRY W. johnson, of Canandaigua, a col
ored man, was admitted at the general term of
the Supreme Court at Rochester, New York, to
practice as an attorney and counsellor in all the
courts of the State. johnson was a barber in
that town, and studied law with H. Cheesboro,
Esq. He proposes 10 practice in Liberia. He
Is said to have passed an excellent examination.
oLD ABE's CuorcE.-A gentleman in CONVEX
s,tion remarked to President Lincoln on Friday
thai nothing could defeat him but Grants cap
ture Of Richmond, to be followed by his nomi-
nation at Chicago and acceptance. ''wel,"
said the President, II feel very much like the
man who said he didn't want to die particularly,
but If he had got TO die, that was precisely the
disease he would like to die off,
SuIcrDE.-We learn thata Mr.. Howe of Wa
terforl, aged about SIS, committed suicide. By
hanging, on Saturday morning last 1t is re-
ported that the day previous he had some
trouble with his son, which probably caused
him to commit the fatal deed The deceased
was member of the Methodist church and has
always been respected by the Cit zens of the
town.-[0xfo Democrat.
ALMOST every paper we take up contains ac
counts of accidents, more or less dangerous.
frequently fatal, happening to ladies' BY their
hoops catching in machinery, or otherwise en-
dangering their safety. young woman, in
East Hartford, on Saturday caught her hoops
in the machinery of paper mill, and was
frightfully injured, her life being saved only BY
the breaking of the shaft.
THE Newburyport Herald says soldier who
was very badly wounded, belonging in Maine.
went through that city over the Eastern Rail-
road on Thursday morning. As he could not
be moved except on a stretcher, Mr.. Superinten-
lint Prescott, with his accustomel kindntss of
heart, had a attached to the train for his
benefit, that he might be carried with as mush
comfort as possible. Such acts will rear forMr
Prescott monument more lasting than marble.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Biddeford Journal
urges the importance of an carly train of cars
from South Berwick TO Portland. He saws TO
transact business in Portland, requires one to
be absent over night. Ii would be a great ac-
commodation to many in the county, and an
advantage to the trade in Portland; for as it is
now, it takes no more time TO go to Boston,
which many do who would prefer to go to Port
land.
THE Oxford Democrat says Mr.. Charles Bick-
nell, who was killed by an explosion at the