The Portland daily press., 1864-07-13
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

N,
laid the keel of schooner of $50 tons
EE-A regiment of one hundred DAYS men is
to be raised in Penobscot and adjoining counties.
- The amount realized by the Catholic Fair
in Bangor, was over $4,000.
% Bangor was visited by heavy shower on
Monday evening
% Mr. John c. Barstow was killed in Groton,
N. Ii. recently by falling tree.
- The whole number of deaths in Portsmouth
and vicinity from the contagious fever is l6.
y Letters from Idaho say the bar-diggings
are about ''played out"
EFT is said the milk in New Bedford is so
freely watered as to contain polywogs.
- Ihurlow Weed, ESD, has been sued for
libel by ex-mayor Opdyke of New. York.
B- Gen. Sherman calls his ianking of the
rebels, "corkscrewing the hounds out of their
position"
~ Geo. L. Grows, Lieut. of Co. X, 10th Me-,
died of wounds received in battle on Thursday
last. His residence was at Brunswick.
g-Ihe ladies of Washington are providing
substitutes for themselves and sending them to
the front
- Col Smith, of the LIST Me. Cavalry. who
was wounded in a recent engagement, has ar
rived at Eastport.
- Emma Webb, who tried to be the Anna
Dickinson of the copperheads, is playing, at
theater at Alexandria, Va.
- Any person is permitted to ride in my of
the railroad cars in New York, who cor. forms
to the regulations. without regard to color
APPROPRIATIONS are making for the ext nsiye
cultivation of cotton at Tahiti and other Pacific
islands.
- The price of board at the principal no, els
in Boston, is to be 81 per day, on and after
Monday next.
y The House of Mr.. Geo. Hammond, Elliot,
was destroyed by fire on the 4th of July. Sup
posed to have been the work of an incepdiary
p The Ticonderoga, recently at this port but
now after the pirate Florida, is CT the same class
as the Kearsage.
70 The timely discovery of fire in a lemon
box in the store of Mr.. Darrah, in Lewiston.
1e'Sh au eAtchSlNt
Eg-Capt Samuel Garcelon, one of the oldest
and most respected citizens of Lewiston, died ON
Saturday last
EgrA fire broke out in Concord, N. f., on
Sunday evening, and destroyed two dwelling
houses and carpenters shop.
u Simmons, the Sculptor, mas lately received
an order for Medallion in bronze of Gen.
Grant. Ii is from the citizens of Providence. r.
l.
. An exchange heads one of its sensation
dispatches "A very large rebel within six
miles of Washington. Can't Barnum get hold
of that big rebel and exhibit hi m in a eager
u The new American cent pieces are refused
in Montreal and other parts of Canada Glad
of it. They are made for home convenience
and should be kept at horne.
ia quack doctor called to prescribe for
scarlet fever, said that he knew nothing of that
disease, but he had medicine that oud throw
the patient into fits, and he tcGs death on fits
- 1t viii be seen by the letter of our Angus
ia correspondent, that the Congregational
Church in that city was burnt by lightning on
Monday evening last.
70 Capt John c.. Lord. of Kennebunk. has
been examined and appointed as Acting Ensign
in the U. 5. Navy. lie left his home for service
July 4th.
% Mr. Miles Chesley. jr., one of the most
prominent and influential citizens of New Dur
ham, N. H., was killed on Wednesday of last
week, by an enraged bull
q DIR. Bellows delivered an Grafton at San
Francisco on the Fourth of July. Passages de-
nouncing the monarchical schemes in Mexico
were received with the mos hearty applause.
y The graduating elias at Amherst, Mass,
this year, was but %, and, is the smallest ever
known. Seventeen left the class to join the
army. -"
% French Pope is talked of to succeed the
present one. There is q Bonaparte among the
Cardinals. He is young, but even now he Is
above thirty.
n The bronze statue captured at Lexington,
Va, by General Hunter, reached Wheeling, Va,
last Saturday. It is the first bronze statue of
Washington ever cast.
ETA girl in Iowa, seventeen years of age, in
order to get a marriage certificate, took an oath
that she was orer Is. She had the figures Is in
her shoes.
% private note from the 14th Maine Vol
unteers. dated Morganzia, La, June 10, states
that they were about to embark for parts un-
known with ten days ratons.
q Abner P. Guild. Esq. of Bangor, who
was attacked with paralysis a few days since
while at work in his garden. died on Sunday
morning.
y At the recent session of the Canadian
Legislature, charters We're granted to no less
than thirty mining companies. The Toronto
Globe thinks they are not all bona .fde.
ID-The hands in the Wing and Courier office,
Bangor, gave each the proceeds of one day 8
work in aid of the sick aud wounded soldiers,
amounting to S26.o5. The publishers gave an
equal amount
% Mr.. c. NJ. Currier, of Lewiston, had his
right hand and wrist injured severely a few
days since by being caught in some of the ma
chinery at the Porter Mill, as We learn from the
Journal
~ The following Maine soldiers died in the
New York hospital during the week prior to the
9TH inst: Samuel W. Dagget, Co. b, LIST Artil.
lery; JOHN Harding, goth; Albert Ingersol, 3lst
, Andrew n. Slower, Co. |, 10th.
n A chimney about one hundred feet high
comts lining about 90, 600 bricks, and estimated
to weigh over 200 tons, has been moved dis
tame e of one hundred feet in Worcester, without
distocating brick.
- Jesse Stedman, Esq, of Springfield, VT,
died suddenly on the 4th inst, just after having
addressed public assembly, and while he was
upon the platform. He was eighty-two years
of age.
Y The Lawrence American says the Bay
State Bank officers have no knowledge of any