The Portland daily press., 1864-04-28
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noon.
% Rev. A. A. Miner, d. D., was elected
President of the State Temperance Conven-
ton, which met in Boston yesterday.
SB-Two monster whales have RECENTLY
been captured off Sandy Hook and brought to
New York.
lfThe Norway Light Infantry has been
ordered out for two months garrison service
to relieve veteran troops.
20 We learn that Gen. Shepley will not
visit Portland at present, as he has been or
dered to Norfolk and Portsmouth.
sWe Rev. J. o. Fiske, of Bath, has obtained
leave of obsence for six weeks, to labor for
the Christian Commission.
gVThe Baptist Missionary Union of the
United States, has invited the Hon. Rev. Bap-
fist Noel to attend its approaching annual
meeting.
sr The jury at Pennington have found
Richmond of Temple, guilty of murder in the
first degree. The trial of Doyle will proceed
Immediately If jury can be secured.-I Lew
iston journal.
sg-The New England Loyal Republican
Society, in Boston, have repubished large
portion of Gen. BOWS recent speech in this
city, as reported in the Press.
% The two companies of heavy artillery
at forts Constitution and McC lary, are ordered
Southwark. Their places are to be supplied
with State militia.
G-Frank Blair, Jr, has been presented
with a sword, the scabbard of which is solid
silver, by some of his admiring friends in the
House of Representatives.
sB- Several small wooden tenements in
the rear of the school house, on State street,
Bangor, were destroyed by fire on Tuesday
last, says the Wing.
sH Prof Conant has lately performed sew
eral difficult surgical operations before the
medical class at Brunswick. These opera
tions are performed free before the class.
nB-Measures are being taken to put
through the Wiscasset and Kennebec Rail-
road. Unlesss the Bath people move in the
matter, they will be left out in the cold, so far
as this road is concerned.
tfcpitsthSaeift otVSh. ouC VI tit tOu~
mittee to investigate the Fort Pillow case, tel
egraphs that the facts Ia regard to the massa-
ere are more horrible than the published &C
counts.
sg- The Loyal Sunrise, Presque Isle, says
nearly all the type-setting OF that paper is
done by one young woman, besides making
up the form and preparing the paper for the
press.
eg The Machias Union (Democratic) says
a well authenticated report prevails that Ste
phen Longfellow has been commissioned as
Collector of Customs for the Port of Mcchias,
in place of William b. Smith Esq.
sD-York Association, Congregational
will meet in Buxton on Tuesday, 81 of May
The Cumberland Association will meet at the
vestry of the I'd Parish, in this city, on Tues
day, May 10th, at 2 O'Clock, p. NJ.
sB-The Arson Advocate says the Hotel
Keepers of West Somerset have held meet
ing at Arson, and decided to adopt scale
OF prices for entertainment some 80 or 40 per
cent. in advance ofold prices.
Niautt, WIZ ultu III oOuln
Wilbraham few days since, made his own
coffin, dug his own grave, and had monu-
ment suitably inscribed, leaving blank to
be filed with the date of his death.
sy-It has been decided by an Ohio Judge,
that all divorces which are granted in Indiana
to parties not actually residents of that State,
are void, and second marriages contracted un-
der such circumstances render the parties Ii
able to an action for bigamy.
sE-The Providence Journal saws the
steamer Nova Scotian, which arrived in this
city, on Saturday last, brought out several
families Of mill operatives for Rhode Island
manufacturers, who paid their passage over
and are to be repaid in work.
sB-Mr. Caleb A. Wall has purchased and
assumed control of the Worcester Transcript
and will aim to make it worthy the liberal pat
ronage of the people OF Worcester county.
We hope he will meet with good success in
his new enterprise.
sB-The several companies garrisoning the
forts in Boston harbor aud elsewhere along
the coast of Massachusetts having been or
dered TO be in readiness TO leave for Wash
ington, it is probable that the State militia
will be called into service for limited period
TO do garrison duty.
~ Anew Portland correspondent of the
Lewiston Journal says young men are leay-
ing and have left Somerset county, for the
gold mines Of Idaho. Six have lately gone
from that town, including Mr.. Geo. II. Clark,
the Postmaster whose successor is not yet
known.
sg-Republicans and others who support
the National and State Administrations, Of
the Second Congressional District, will meet
in convention at Auburn, on Tuesday the 10th
day of May, at IL O'Clock, A. NJ, for the pur-
pose of selecting two Delegates to the Nation
al Union Convention to be held in Baltimore
on the 18th day of June next.
sB- The New BedfordsAlercury quotes
from letter written by a Massachusetts off
Ger, which says that Gen. Banks, in the fight
at Pleasant Hill, had two horses shot from
under him and was wounded in the hand.
The rebels canteens were full of Louisiana
rum and gunpowder. They bayoneted our
wounded who were left on the field.
sE-The Bath Times publishes "from the
Leriston Journal" the analysis by Prof.
Hayes, OF samples of Ale, &C., sent to him by
Rev. ID. b. Randall, OF Lewiston. This report