The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-12-23

A good invesement" of Savannah
by Grant, Boston Daily Advertiser
gsE- The French citizens of Chicago are
about to erect church in that city at cost of
SIC, 900. 4-.-.------.-s-.....
WGen,, Sherman is making active lprepara-
tons to compel the speedy surrender Of Savan-
nah.
The bill authorizing the construction of
revenue cutters on the Lakes has received the
signature of the President.
-rR Recently at St. Paul the m ercury for four
days ranged from 26 degrees below zero to 10
above Not very ambitious mercury that
80 The Australian papers mention the case of
a man who was lost in the bush. and survived
after eleven days abstinence from all but water.
RAn honest hack driver has been discovered
in New York. He is to be killed and stuffed and
placed in Barnum's Museum.
81 There were on Tuesday ~, patients in
the government hospitals of Philadelphia and
vicinity.
81 The Pennington Chronicle learns that
Hutchinson's Mills, in Carthage, were burned
last week. Loss, $4,000. No insurance.
R-A shoe peg factory at Liyermore Falls
uses up $50 cords of wood annually in the man
ufacture of $50, 900 worth of pegs frgs
~ The Congregational socisty in New
Sharon have purchased the Universalist Chapel,
andsre preparing it for yestry. 4sv sso ISL 8ois
EAn original story by ''S. s. N" was in.
tended for tomorrow morning, but we are COM
PEELED to defer its publication one week. ''''. -
R L. p. Warren of Sunderland, Mass,
raised 1850 bushels of onions on one and half
acres. and sold them for $ls25. 99I n
HOn the first page will be found very in
teresiing account of Sherman's grand march
from Atlanta to Savannah n 7, = ESQ ~ yl,,s ID
% The beggars in Richmond do not ask for
pennies. Their petition is put thus: "Will. you
give me FIVE dollars to buy loaf Of bread f''
ETA competent authority calculates that be-
tween $i2O, 900 and $50, 900 yearly is expen-
ded in New York upon the religious music Of its
churches. i9liatiqz raf a eel aisi1s % b4a2lE E.
Rsamuel Williston Of Easthampton, Mass.
acknowledges to the internal revenue assessors,
to an income of $l52, 1882. Comfortable for q
country gentleman. .ssss4 w. - go
T0ilis struggling to the surface and run
ming away down the rivers in southern Califor-
MIA "A company is forming in New York to
assist its struggles 49, IN se.e y, ". s5.y.s
R-It is reported that Gen. Sherman came to
Savannah with AZ, 900 more men, black and
white, than he started with from Atlanta That
is rolling up snowflake to some purpose. aifra
RThs Lewiston Journal speaks very highly
of the interior finish and taste of the new Uni
versalist church at Auburn. The frescoing was
done by Mr.. Schumacher of this city,
II Gen. Grant recently informed Senator
Wilson that for charge he regarded negro
troops as unsurpassed, and Gen. Meade has also
expressed himself warmly in their praise. an
EThomas Powers was almost instantly
killed by the bursting of fast revolving grind
stone, at Winsted, Conn, few days since He
was thrown fifteen feet across the room into
pile of scythes. - =, ~. 49,. -
RItisnot little remarkable that Mr. Day
ton, our Minister tol Frances, and Mr.. Mason
who preceded him in that mission, both died of
apoplexy, in Paris, while attending to their Off
cial duties. i95riS nol4 die2 ~ ,a9ia0
B Government has stopped the expectation
Of hay from this state, but will take at full
market price, all that is not needed for home
consumption. The price psid, says the Farmer,
is from $26 to s2s per ton. s.s,.s f.s. 5t sa
RThe Congregational society at Skowhegan
have added $500 to the salary of their pastor,
Rev. Temple Cutler. The Methodist society in
Pennington have added 500 to Rev. Mr..
Jaques' salary. ~ "A s, ~ n ,,-. ss'....5
I RA daily paper called The Repeille is being
published at Bangor, in connection with the
Ladies' Sanitary Fair. From 2,o00 to $500 en-
trance tickets were sold on Wednesday, notwith-f
standing the storm. s1e'1sfai
cyl am deeply interested, /" said st. Au-
gustus, ssto know whether women will rise in
the last day as women, for it is to be feared in
that case that they may continue to tempt US
before the throne of heaven itself'' aaoa Z "a.
Rft is reported from Paris that the King Of
the Sandwich Islands has sent an ambassador to
France to say that he would gladly accept the
protectorate Of Napoleon, giving a large terri
tory in return for the support. sss .ay0I q /
50 The editorial correspondence of the Bos-
ton Herald from Norfolk, says refugees. from
Richmond report that JEFF. Davis had the mayor
of that city put into Castle Thunder for saying
he would surrender theeity to the Federal troops
rather than have IL DESTROYED.
: ~ Miss Bremen bears witness to the cunning
of the Swedish crows, and relates the story Of
fisherman, who. having found his lines on one
occasion all in confusion, watched and saw the
crows come and pull up the hooks with their
claws from under the water, and eat off the
bats. sri Rs 6pa ,sfasf S fFai Ii III yas z .5
+ ROne of the Richmond ladies Of the pave
was recently aned for getting drunk, and a negro
was whipped for allowing her to lean upon his
arm Bhilewending her way home. The lady
| pleaded that the colored gentleman was her own