The Portland daily press., 1864-07-23
ORTGINAL AND SELECTED.


81 Alexander Dumas has commenced public
readings from his own works, in Paris.
y The terms of the New York Evening Post
are now SIP year.
y The house occupied by Jere Spencer, at
Argyle, was destroyed by fre-on Wednesday.
g-Commencement at Bowdoiu College, We'd
nesday, Aug Sd; at waterville Aug 10Th
y The Lewiston Journal learns that on the
Goth ult, the Maine sth had 2l5 men fit for duty.
q Two hotels have been opened this season
in the town of Oxford.
-y-The Bath Times learns that Fort Popham
is so far advanced that fourteen more guns can
readily be put in position,
Gs-The Governor has authorized the Mayor
of Bath to organize company of State Guards
under the existing law of the State.
g-Seyeral of the Bangor merchants have re-
solved hereafter to sell goods only on the cash
principle.
~ Prejudices are like rats. and a mans mind
like trap; they get in easily, and then perhaps
can get out at all.
y fhe produce spectators in New York are
tumbling down, and no one has the slightest
compassion for them.
- Geo. Peabody, ESD, the eminent Ameri
can Banker in Londonshas contributed go 900
to the Sanitary Commission.
gg-A friend in Fryeburg writes, ''the drought
hereabouts is very severe. and the heat almost
insupportable.
Es-A waggish friend says he has never had
Ii. D. attached to his name, but he often finds
it written with DIR. attached
10 The publication of the Round Table = an
elegant and talented literary paper in New York
has been suspended
~ The City Crier in Bangor fell from hay
NOV on Tueday, and fractured three Of his
ribs.
The theatres in Washington are all closed
Shoulder straps are not very common at that
capital.
ES-A company of nine hundred Mormons,
most Of whom had emigrated from England.
left New York on Wednesday for Utah.
gwatermelons the size of an infants head,
are sold in Alexandria, Va, for one dollar
each.
EY-A fire broke out at seabrook, n. H.. on
/ Wednesday afternoon, which destroyed ten
dwellings and stores.
! - North River travel was never so heavy as
this season. The railroads and the boats have
/ all they can do.
Fwilliam s. Brown, Bugler 9th Maine Bat
I terry, died at the Portsmouth Grove Hospital on
the 10th inst.
/ EB-Why is a drunkard like a Copperhead /,
Because he is always sticking his nose into meas
( Ut $ to hurt the Constitution
I sIA company of one hundred able-bodied
men is being raised on the Kennebec to garrison
Fort Popham. Fifty volunteers were obtained
in Bath in FIVE hours.
q The Pennington Chronicle learns that
another shooting case has occurred in Temple
/ Anuis Ames is said to have wilfully shot at hi.
son-in-law, badly wounding one arm.
-S-A leyee in aid of the Maine Soldiers Re-
lief Association, under the auspices of the Sons
OF Temperance, was held IN the Congregational
vestry, in Brunswick, last evening.
R-John Hopper, son of Isaac T. Hopper, the
celebrated philanthropist, died suddenly at his
| home in Milton, on the Hudson river, on Mon
day.
give shall be greatly obliged to our Auburn
/ friend il he wiH perform the service to which
ne refers. wepropose to beat "Old Bowdoin, .
and hope to see him there.
/ ETf-Gen. Dix has ordered the arrest and pros
ecution of L. IL. Fuller, editor of the Newark
/ IN. ~ Journal, for the publication of an arti-
/ Gle inimical to the draft
EThe Belfast Age says u S. gunboat ar
/ rived of Castine on Sunday night last, and has
since been lying of Lighthouse Head ready TO
engage any rebel bluenose craft that may enter
/ that bay.
D In Collinsville. CT, on Tuesday morning,
drunken woman set FIRE to her bed, and her
little boy of two years was burnt to a crisp, and
/ his sister, two years older, received dangerous
injuries.
. The Toledo Express. the last German
/ paper in Ohio TO advocate Fremont, saws that
unity and loyalty, under existing circurnstan-
ces. are identical;" and it therefore runs up tbs
Baltimore banner.
q national convention of colored citizens
is called to meet in New York city on the 4th d
Oatober. The objects are not clearly defined
but appear to relate to the general interests Of
the race.
2 The Hartford Courant says a gentleman
from Ohio stated the other day that the farmers
IN his section were packing butter away and that
in his county alone there was enough "salted''
to supply the New York market for the winter.
81 "A eoxcomb, talking of the transmigra-
ton of souls, said: I'm the time of Moses,
have no doubt was golden calf'' Every
likely" replied lady; time has robbed you Of
nothing but the gliding
~ An English married lady has consulted
her lawyer on the question, whether, having
married her husband for hi. money, and that
money beng all spent, she is not n widow and
at liberty to marry again. Decision reserved.
q The town of Mount Washington, in Mas
sachnsetts, has neither church. postoifice, cler-
gyman, lawyer, doctor, income, license, carriage
nor plate, and pays not cent to the internal
revenue department.
~ Speaking of the probability of ladies
wearing pantaloon., an English writer saws:
only do hope they won't get into the habit
Of standing with their back. to the fireplace and
their hands in their pockets
~ Governor Seymour will not appoint n
State Agent to recruit at the South, but if cities
or counties choose to pay bounties and appoint
agents for this purpose they can, and the State
authorities viii give them such facilities as the
act OF Congress directs
p The Ellsworth American puts forth some
very sensible views, adverse 10 the exceedingly
democratic practice OF rotating men out of cleo
tive offices jus. as soon as they have acquired
sufficient experience TO become useful to the
country and an honor to th.ir constituents