The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-01-14
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

-~~-SA~ ~AA"i W., -AuSuStlH Sptlft otucI
friends of America in France, to the Loyal
National League of New York.
V-On the fourth page-To Our Departed
original; Parching Corn.
sI-Cleavland O., is talking about big
Sanitary fair.
sTMrs. Douglas is still a clerk in the
treasury department.
I-The sentence of death passed upon
Obed Reynolds, OF Freetown, Mass, has been
committed to Imprisonment for life.
sBTThe Union sentiment in Eastern North
Carolina is daily increasing. The I'd North
Carolina regiment is filling up rapidly.
~The st. Croix Herald states that Rev.
Mr.. Philbrook, of Calais. has nearly recovered
from his recent long and severe sickness.
nyThe metropolitan police force of New
York has asked the legislature for an increase
pay, and will undoubtedly get it. The pa
trollmen now get $500.
LEA force of 1900 carpenters and railroad
laborers are going from New York to Nash
vile, Tenn, to complete the railroad at Chat
tanooga. "a
WThe Times Washington special says
the Republican members Of Maine, Illinois
and Indiana Legislatures will nominate Lin
colpeOr the Presidency on the % inst.
sBThe brewers of Cincinnati presented
to the Sanitary Fair one hundred barrels of
lager beer. but the committee refused to ac-
cept the donation. Each barrel was valued
at 50 making 5000 in all.
sFThe receipts at the late Sagadahoc
show and fair at Topsham, says the Bruins
wick Telegraph were 5000 dollars 103 gratu-
itous days work have been done by the peo-
pie on the half mile track.
sB-The stock OF wheat in store in Mil
waukee on the 1st Of January was ,134, 400
bushels, and the stock of oats S7'500 bushels.
A year ago the stock of wheat on hand was
3,4ll ,6o1 bushels.
~ There is "A prospect of the salaries of
collectors, surveyors and naval officers being
reduced to $1,000 year. Some of them now
get from $4,000 to $4,000. That is where
the money goes.
E1- Elihu Burritt, the "learned black
smith, has been travelling from one end Of
Great Britain to the other, and will immediate
ly publish the result as "a walk from Lands
End TO John O'Groat's, with notes by the
way" This walk was 600 miles long.
sy-The Massachusetts State Reform School
has nautical branch, from which last year,
81 boys were shipped in the naval service and
A in the merchant service. The addition OF
similar departments to the Reform School of
States would provea national advantage.
TF-A letter from East Tennessee says
move will be made for the organization of
that section as separate state. The policy
should be well considered both in reference
TO its present and future results, before it is
adopted.
Eg Gibson, the English sculptor, for many
years resident at Rome, and acknowledged
to be at the head of the English school, has
long advocated the tinting Of statues, after
manner which he maintains, in common with
.-Ny "a AAo HshOSf, was NOSuc III tuC pttlllN
days Of Grecan art.
s8-The following vessels have been built in
na"sss Di-sri-t assi.s the past year, snip
Dumberton, 9i1 tons ship Neveda, 7s2 tons
ship +. Carver, IA tons; bark Evening Star,
$50 tons; bark James E. Brett, $50 tons sehr.
Gen. Banks, 200 tons; schr. July Fourth, 1869
tons.
IA circular has been signed by the In
ion members OF the Pennsylvania Senate and
House of Representatives, endorsing the war
policy and general conduct OF the Administra-
ton, and cordially recommending Abraham
Lincoln asthe proper person for the mex. Presi.
dent OF the United States.
ga poor woman residing in the northern
boundary of Chicago, went into the city on
the Saturday Of the terrible storm to make
some purchases, leaving her two boys at home
Late in the evening she was found insensible
in the street, and apparently suffering from
the effects OF liquor. She was taken to her
home in the morning where she found her
two boys frozen to death, the youngest in
heap of snow.
s1-The New Orleans Era says, at Little
Rock, Arkansas, seven thousand men have
come in since the occupation, five thousand of
whom are now in the Federal army. The
people are satisfied that slavery must go by
the board, and are favorable to any instru-
mentality capable of bringing them under the
protection Of the Union government. In less
than.twelve months Arkansas, with new
constitution, will be in that honorable posi-
ton.
sr-A divorce case is now pending at New
York which was brought on by a dispute
abouta wash bowl. One morning my lady
refused to ablute as usual in the common bowl
OF the room and rang for another. 1t came
and her lord and master quietly smashed ii.
Tears and hard words proceeded from the
lady, and her husband locked the door and in
sisted upon her using the unbroken bowl.
She vowed no and he swore yes and finally he
seized his unamiable wife and forcibly washed
! her face. He then went to his daily business
and the wife went to a lawyer. The result is
| 1t is all a libel for divorce.
| sE-The number of clerks and other officials
in the various departments at Washington is
thus given in round numbers - State de-
partment 80, treasury department 1900, inte-
rlor 450, navy 100, post office 100, agricul-
tural department 80, commissioner of public