The Portland daily press., 1864-12-15
ORIGIN.4L AND SELECTED.

% Laura Keene and her dramatic company
have been playing with success in Chicago.
% The s'Ticket-of-Leaye Woman is the title
Of new play just produced in New Orleans. i
- The Skowhegan Clarion has raised its
price from 81. so to
RWm. Lloyd Garrison will lecture in Bath
this evening. - A. - = ~ 4
80 The Boston Courier announces that it will
be issued asan evening paper, commencing from
the 1st of Jan. e
81 Thurlow Weed contributed $500 towards
purchasing o house in New York for Admiral
Farragut oae,F .5o-eset az
20 1t is no misfortune for nice young lady
to lose her good name if a nice young gentle
man gives her an equally good one.
BYhe Bangor Jefsrsonian and Tines have
put an unfavorabee construction upon the Id
pertiser' support Of Mr.. Fessenden. We feared
they would fsags s,as Is
81 Arithmetic of Consumption - Two thin
shoes make one cold; two colds one attack of
bronchitis; tive attacks Of bronchitis one coffin.
lex. aae;aii9s AZ esaeol
+ HAmong the prisoners committed to the
Tombs at New York the other day were
father and five sons, all arrested for highway
robbery. as'eN a94g vi asFl sa1 y
HWe always make discount on the religion
and humanity Of man who sprinkles no ashes
upon the icy walks in front of his house, or
leaves his horse in the street without hitching
Bcony, the trained dog man, is exhibiting
his learned CANNES and monkeys in st. Louis
Instead Of the drama he deyotes himself to the
dogma. IA .raoy tsel sbeebsgi5 ~
RDr. Watts is Governor Of Alabama-no
relation Of the pious DIR. Watts, although he
undoubtedly "hears from the tombs doleful
sound indicating the fate of the Confederacy.
III Boston Post. 1r 2 q mo1f 4s at
go Some unknown person has forwarded
from New York to Mr.. VIM. O. Poor Of Belfast,
$40 US. note, which the writer says, was
taken from Mr.. Poor's store at sundry times,
and in small sums. before the war.
RSinee the snow has caused the horse cars
to be put on runners, we notice an indefinite ex-
tension of the track, the conductor being able
to run at viii in any street, as he would an om-
nibus. hnali1oa ,.5a egr naagIe 0E wGasi
- The Montgomery (Ala.) Appeal mentions
areport that occasioned much excitement in that
city on the 10th, that large Union force had
landed Of Pensacola, and was marching upon
| Pollard AA1eS i9AA y 4 A3s2a F79@ri4ss
BAn old lady of 'ninety-fve who died in
Trenton, j., lasely. was one of the band of
maidens who. sang an, ode of welcome when
Washington passed through Trentonin 17e9, on
his way to NewY York Al On bi&g lis ,ls3iq
RA kind-hearted gentleman recently paid
the fare of two scamps on the railroad, because
&n4s i 80
fore he parted from them, they robbed him of
his watch worth $l7o oa p ssee9 ssaslsls5 Pc!
BThe pay Of captains on lower Mississippi
steamers is $500 per month, of mates from 800
to $500, of clerks $l25 to $500, of pilots $3.50,
of engineers from $685. To- $3.50, head steward
and carpenter l25 each. ,a1D 5aa essssta4 2.
9 The Clarion says Miss Ella Stevens,
daughter of Dr. H. Stevens of Skowhegan, had
her collar bone broken in two places on Monday
last by being run into by some girls who were
sliding on the sidewalk ifoHi 4 SORT
i R-The Macon Telegraph Of Nov 18th says
Es'We noticed on the street yesterday a6ne-hoase
Wagon, containing exactly six sticks, for which
the modest sum of thirty dollars was deman-
kded.'
BThe heir to the Irish Earldom of Wicklow
died recentlyin Dublin. in a house Of ill-fsne,I
in state of the most miserable restitution; he
lived scandaleus life and died in middle age,
leaving wife and child .ssils "a s4ssl "a
% The Inducements to enlist in Gen., Han
COCKS new corps are enticing. A veteran who
enlists for three years receives twelve hundred
dollars bounty, one thousand of which is paid
when he is mustered into service. = EBoston
Post. ese ,.-..-.,s 5s 70 III -
BrAletter from traveller in the new oil re-
gionsof Pennsylvania says: sssWe were padded
across the creek by an oil prince, aged fifteen,
heir to Q million, coatless and hatless, and with
bur one suspender to keep his courage and his
trousers ups soq sarov ,s8fissYq
gan Arkansasjudg lately charged q grand
jury, in Pulaski county, that .'holding or selling
slaves is crime, amounting to felony,''1 and
four-Afths Of the qualified jurors agreed to find
billsiof indictment against the shareholders
Of that county, in accordance With the charge Z
/ R-A dentist wishes to correct the statement
made on Horace Walpole's authority, ! that alum
is . preseryatiye Of the teeth. he says it is on
the contrary one, of the most destructive agents
with which the teeth come in contact.-[ Boston
advertiser.
f gA justly irate correspondent complains
that the condition of the streets is d-etesta-
ble' an1expTssses the opinion that if the Off
d GERS in charge Of them should break their necks
the public grief would not be poignant. A[Bos-
ton POST 70 swaI sds div oonEiiemoo nj 81
B Thepaper that claims to receive over the
Independent Line all the dispatches of public
interest. didn't have d word yesterday from
Montrealia relation to the release Of thersiders,
and the grounds on which the judge justified his
Infamous proceeding. That was not of public
interest, probably ,s6aoa sisis s3esss
RssYou say" said the judge to a German
whom he was trying for bigamy, sstheclergyman
who married you to your first wife authorized
you to have sixteen Z What do, you mean by
that 20 "Vel, - said Hans, she dold me dat I
should have four batter, four worser, four richer
and four poorer-and in our country four dimes
four make sixteen. - - H.. t..-..,s.
HThe Georgia legislature recently voted q
3 levy en- masse and then ran away, whereupon
the Augusta Constitutioralist said: eve did
hope the Legislature would have initiated some ONE
what the valiant Harry or the dignifed Senate,
when Rome survived. But, alas, for human
calculation and sublunary prognostic With
our Georgia fathersit was all 60 and no follow.
all .skedaddle and NO austere defiance in the
teeth of the barbarian.
e The Rochester Union probes the Tom
Thumb baby story ;don't believe Mrs. Thumb
has got little Thumb; says that in May last the
] reported parents were in that city on exhibition
and were then no parents at all, although sccor-
ding to the London papers the baby should then
have been Eve or six months DID, In short, the
Union regards the baby story as a humbug.
circulated from time to time to awaken d pubic
interest and draw larger crowds to the levees of
% the little folks.T gTTWNGg u grAu
.aE . A Rev. Mr.. Burnham, recently enlisted as
/ private. and was sent to the rendezsous at New