The Portland daily press., 1864-07-12
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


- Locusts are appearing in immense num-
bers in Wisconsin.
q Commencement occurs at Dartmouth Col
lege, n. H., the Sd week in this month.
EE-Gen. Butler has been relieved of the COM
mand of the 18th Army Corps, and Gen. Badly |
Smith succeeds him.
y Farmers in Illinois are Offering three |
dollars per day for harvest hands, with few
takers.
- The steamer "Rose Standish,' running
between bingham and Boston, was seized by
the government and loaded for the Potomac
ET-Counterfeit Gives on the Eastern Bank,
Bangor, were put in circulation in Boston on
Saturday last.
50 Fanny Fern says: 81 am getting sick of
people. am falling in love with things. They
hold their tongues and don't bother
q The tobacco sales in the Louisville market
ending with the 30th of June, amount to 80, l67
hogsheads.
B-A soldier-nota "reliable man just from
Richmond-thinks the rebs are on their last man,
their last dollar, and their last loaf
EB-The Connecticut legislature has passed a
stringent dog law for the better protection Of
sheep.
n Francis Lowe, master, and Drummond
Rogers, mate of the Julia Baker of Bath, are
prisoners at Castle Thunder, Richmond, Va.
R-women dressed as soldiers are said to
commit daring robberies in Louisville. They
escape detection by resuming their petticoats.
- Martel, the inventor of cognac brandy,
is dead. ''The evil that men do lives after
them
BA special meeting of the Foreign Emf
grant Association of Maine, will be held in this
city on the Goth inst.
R-The Longshore men in Boston are receiv-
ing fifty cents an hour and are not satisfied with
| that.
~ Capt. Samuel Thompson, wealthy re-
tired shipmaster, residing at Portsmouth, n.
H., committed suicide on.Thursday by hanging
himself in his barn.
! 3 Three young girls, under fifteen years of
age, recently held fair at West Cambridge,
Mass, for the benefit. of the Sanitary Commits
| sion, which netted over $1,000.
~ Michael Fuller, fireman on the Grand
/ Trunk freight train, was killed on Wednesday
night last, by being run over by the cars near
Toronto, c. W.
IIn the list of prisoners captured at Gaines
Mill and sent to Libby Prison. we notice the
names of Lieut.. n. s. Coffin, 3lst Maine and F.
/ W. Chase, 18th do
! 81 Hon Edmund Burke of Claremont, n H..
was waylaid by one Byron S. Noyes, ON Mon
day last, and shot at three times with revolver
Mr.. d. was unframed.
1Edward Cooper in a fit of delirium ire
mems, jumped from a window in Boston, on
Thursday evening, injuring himself SO badly
that he died on Thursday.
GIVE learn that another base ball match is
to be played between the Harvard and Bowdoin
boys at some future time The Bowdoin boys
are not willing to give it up so.
1-It is stated that a grand champion base
ball game, to be open to all New England
clubs, Will be played on Boston Common some
time during the ensuing autumn
- Miss Rebecca Brown, of Fox Island, this
state, left the Pigeon Cove House. Gloucester,
the belief she has drowned herself
E-Dr. Gareelon, of Lewiston, has returned
from the Army of the Potomac, where he has
been spending the last ten months, in looking
after Maine wounded soldiers.
y The twelve surviving heroes of the Reyo-
luton have received a vote of thanks from Con-
gress. The only one in this state is VIM. Hutch
ings, York.
,og MNE 5w Eq A M bns r. Az dh he -
on Tuesday of last week, II is supposed she
threw herself from the wharf in fit of tempo
rary insanity.
y Gen. Butler has been assigned to the
command of all the troops in the Department of
Virginia and North Carolina, except the 18th
Army Corps, with headquarters at Fortress
Monroe
q The Bath Times says blue-berries are plenti-
full and cheap. They may be plentiful, but far
from being cheap in this city. Twenty-Five
cents quart, the price asked here last week, we
call rather steep.
1rThe New Nation, Gov. Fremont's organ,
of its own party, says, There is little differ
ence between this party and the Democratic
party thatit would be easy to adopt common
ticket, which would sweep everything before
it.''
p In the list Of casualties reported by
Carleton in the Boston Journal, in the
trenehes before Petersburg, we notice tho follow
ing names of Maine soldiers: Uriah Cunning
ham, c, 3lst, wounded in the right thigh; Grin
Hatch, E, SD, breast
y The certificates to be issued TO persons.
ladies' or gentlemen, who furnish representative
recruits under the recent plan announced by the
Provost Marshal General, are being sent to the
Provost Marshals. They are handsomely execus
ted, and will hereafter be source of pride TO
those who possess them.
! y Mrs. Jane Pishon, Formerly exhibited as
Miss Jane Campbel) Barnum's fat woman,
died at her residence at Brookfeld, Conn, June
30, aged "A years. Her coffin was feet long.
10 inches deep and feet wide, and it took ten
men to place the body within it. She weighed
$50 lbs. at one time.
I-Col. Robert Carr Of Boston. printer,
now 50 years of age, read the Declaration of In
| dependence before the veterans of 1912 in Pha-
delphis, on the 4th Of july Col c. was an APP
4 prentice of Benjamin Franklin. His memory
and eyesight are as good as they were fifty
years ago, and he still supports himself by man
! ual h Dor
/ 0S We are in regular receipt Of the Arizo-
ma Miner, small weekly sheet published at
/ Fort Whipple, Arizona Territory We infer
from its general tone that it has the full conf
dence if indeed it is not the organ of the Terri
/ torial Government. Hon. John n. Goodwin.
recently Representative in Congress from this
district, is Governor of Arizona.
B-fhe Bath Times says son Of serg't vii
! liam Ford vino is now in Co. G, sd Maine reg
iment, before Petersburg, aged about S years,