The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-04-18
ORIGINAL AND sELECTED.

On fourth page-C0nsolatlon Tor the Lonely
Mother, poetry; Shocks on Bores; Items.
ag- Senator Douglas widow writes that
she is not department clerk at Washington.
lH-Hard coal is selling at s14 ton at
Augusta.
eH-An establishment for remodeling hoop
skirts has been started in Vassalboro.
~ The boiler makers of Taunton, Mass,
have struck for the ten hour system.
sH- The Californians are experiencing a
very severe drouth.
aB-The quota of Bangor for all the calls is
full.
1rThe Penobscot River steamers have
commenced running between Oldtown and
Mattawamkeag.
gy-The Wiscasset and Kennebec Railroad
corporation will hold an adjourned meeting at
Wiscasset to-day.
ag-The counting house of Mayo & Son, IN
Foxcroft, took fire on Friday 18th inst, which
was luckily extinguished without damage.
gH-More snow fell in some parts orthe
State on Sunday and Monday, 10th and 18th
inst, than at any one time during the winter.
sB- Mr.. Thomas, the radical anti-Frank
Blair candidate for Mayor Of st. Louis, was
elected by over twenty six hundred majority.
sBNearly all the municipal elections this
spring have gone in favor of sustaining the
administration.
sEMr. John A. Guptil of Wesley, recently
killed the biggest wolf that has been seen in
that region for many years.
sB-The running of an increased number
of trains between Augusta and Gardiner is to
be commenced immediately
sgThe steamer Queen will be put ON the
route between Calais and Eastport to connect
with the Portland and New Brunswick
steamers, this week.
sB-Capt. Abner McAllister & Co., have
recently launched a steam tug boat, which
they intend to put on Calais river the coming
season.
CA barn connected with the parsonage
of the Baptist Society in Shapleigh, was des-
troyed by fire recently, at midday, says the
Biddiford Union.
drews, with her entire crew, except three
men, was lost in the Bay of Bengal, about the
10th of January.
u There will be three important Grim
inal trials at the approaching term of the S.
j. Court in Franklin county,-those of Doyle,
Richardson and Thompson.
" The Boston Transcript says the first
Penobscot river salmon, weighing twenty
| pounds, was received in that city from Bucks
port, on Friday last.
IA young man was up before the Police
Court in Philadelphia on Tuesday, 18th inst,
for picking the pocket Of Mr.. Salisbury, of
this State. As Mr.. S. had gone home, the
prisoner was discharged.
B-Rev. Messrs. Avery, of Fayette, and
Smith Of Wayne, have resigned their connec-
ton with their churches. Mr.. Smith goes in
TO the army, as a delegate of the Christian
| Commission.
-E- An elderly friend in the country
writes, " The Press is highly spoken OF by
those who read it. May it press the copper
heads out of Maine, at least, though they fall
| INTO the last ultcn.
sB-An enterprising contemporary, Satur-
day, had three brief editorials, which, by sim
| gular coincidence of ideas and of language
had appeared in the Press, in the same words
about twelve hours previous.
- The Franklin Patriot says the house
occupied by Mr.. J. NJ. Barker in New Vine
| yard, with the barn and out-buildings, was
totally destroyed by fire on Friday, 9Th inst.
No insurance.
sC- The churches and Sabbath schools in
Massachusetts are contributing in aid of the
East Tennessee sufferers. Any amount of
money cannot be appropriated to more wor-
thy or deserving object.
u The patent granted to Mr.. Henry T.
Carter, of this city, was for improvement in
the valve Of steam engine, and not the
"tube gear" p as copied by US from a Bos
ton paper.
-B-The Kennebec Journal says the Port
| commenced the foundation of building for
new machine shop, in rear of their principal
| office.
sB-"Hartford," writes q correspondent,
zone of the back towns in Oxford, without a
lawyer, physician or liquor agent within its
borders, has not only filed all her quotas, but
has a surplus for another CALI
nB-Lieut Col. Harris of the Sixth Maine,
says the Machias Republican, arrived at his
home on Saturday last. He was confined to
his room ten days in this city, with fever and
erysipelas, but gained strength on his way
home
lY-On the 7th inst, the dwelling house and
two barns, in Sangerville, belonging to Mr..
Benz. Farnham, were entirely destroyed by
| fire, together with his farming tools, and the
most of his furniture and grain. His loss is
estimated at about $1,000. Insured at "de-
funct" office.
sH-Rev. Mr.. Stockton has become pastor
| of the Freewil Baptist Church at the Branch,
| Wells.--Rev. |. M. Thomson has removed
from Alfred to take the pastoral charge Of the
| First Baptist Church in South Berwick
Rev. &. ID. Balantine has become pastor of
| the Baptist church in Acton.
sB-An officer in the army who has paid
much attention to the matter, states it as
well ascertained fact, that three-fourths Of all