The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-07-18
ORIGINAL IND SELECTED.
R'If you would grow up to the skies, you
must be planted first low in the dust.

n The yellow fever is prevailing in Nassau,
n. p, and many strangers have died of it.
- Well executed fives on. the bingham
(Mass) Bank, have made their appearance.
3 The price of all the daily newspapers in
Boston viii be increased on the first of August.
1.-THE champion college races, on the goth
inst. are to be held on Quinsigamond
- Mr.. j S. Sands is raising company in
Saco, for one hundred days service
30 Kew potatoes are selling IN Lewiston at
$500 per bushel.
1BrWhy is bridegroom worth more than
bride. Becauseshe is given away and he is sold.
81 Clouds never send down to ask the grass
and plants below how much they need; they rain
for the relief of their own full bosoms.
-yrThe British have sustained another defeat
in New Zealand, with considerable loss, includ-
ing several prominent officers.
r. Blockade running still continues quite
brisk, but is daily becoming more risky to the
operators.
% The Boston Post says the General Fremont
papers out West are shaking in the knees, and
begin to squint towards Lincoln.
% An ivory tusk weighing eighty -one pounds
was found in the stomach of an elephant recent
ly killed near the Cape Of Good Hope.
gMicheal Moran, carrier for the Bangor
Times Office, died from the effects of sun stroke
on Thursday last.
Lieut.. A. W. Turner, recently of the Maine
Sd, is raising company of one hundred days
men, in Bath, for the service of the country.
B-Deputy Collector Smonton, of Camden,
recently made seizure of 100 hhds of struggled
salt at the islands in that vicinity.
Eg-A Boston bookseller took bill in payment
on the back of which was written-'.P Please don't
spend me for rum, or butter at forty cents
poundr'
20 The Baltimore American compliments the
colored men Of that city for their promptness in
responding to the call for volunteers for the
army. Ek ~#@EE E
Eg-The mining regions of Lake Superior, in
consequen seof the large demand and high price
of copper, are exceedingly lively the present
season.
ITwo thousand eight hundred and ninety
six persons have been saved from death by ship
wreck on the British coasts by what is called the
mortar and rocket apparatus.
.SThe drouth is very severe in the eastern
part of the State. The farmers think there will
not be half crop OF hay, but in this they are
frequently disappointed.
~ Hon. james +. Simmons, one of the Oldest
manufacturers of Rhode Island, and for several
years a member of Congress, died ut his resi-
dence in Johnston, July nth.
BQuite number of buildings, in the neigh
borhood of Maslinonge, c. f., were struck by
lightning, and burned down, during thunder
storm which took place on the Goth ult.
ET-1he Montreal Witness says a recent shock
of earthquake, lasting from seven to nine Sec
onds, took place at Malbaie about 100 P. NJ, on
the 9th inst,
B-Col. Frank T. Sherman, of Boston, chief
Of staff for Major Gen. Howard, was surprised
and taken prisoner, with his orderly, while on a
scouting expedition in Georgia few days
since. NE N@ NHN
% -The Waterville Mail says Mr.. Horace
Getehell, of that village, was seriously injured
on Tuesday afternoon, by getting his foot caught
in moving machine with which he was at
work
- An attempt was made to burn the build
ings of Seth Tisdale, Esq, of Ellsworth, on
Tuesday night, by setting fire in the stable.
The hay used for the purpose was green and the
fire did not spread as the william intended
B~0n Tuesday of last week, a little boy, son
of Mrs. Robert Given of Brunswick, aged FIVE
years, fell from the X. 4 p Railroad bridge into
the river, nearly forty feet, but was rescued by
young man who hastily threw OFF his clothes and
plunged in after him.
- The Paris correspondent Of the \. Y.
Times, says that Gowan, the brave sailor who
had his thigh crushed while serving one of the
guns of the Kearsarge, died on the 10Th ult., in
the hospital at Cherbourg. A monument is TO
be erected to his memory. aAt
- The Portsmouth Chronicle says shipbuild
ing on the Piscataqua appears to be discontin-
ued for the present outside the Navy Yard. The
splendid steamer Gan. Grant, recently launched,
is yet lying at the wharf, uneompleted. There
are also three spall vessels on the stocks.
YThe European letter which We publish to-
day, was written by John Hayden, Esq. of
Bath, who is now in Europe on business. Mr..
Hayden is a Keen observer, and understands
men and things as well as almost any other
man.
EE-New York city daily papers are to be
raised to five cents, and after the first of Au-
gust. The increasing cost of all the materials
that enter into the manufacture of a newspaper,
has made this step positive necessity, and one
which could no longer be deferred.
E-The Lewiston Journal says small carpet
bag was stolen from the Brunswick depot on
Thursday, containing nothing but some old rags
and box of salye, valuable only to the owner,
who isa cripple. The thief ought to be kicked
by cripples until he needs the salye and rags
more than the owner.
u Letters from Madrid state that the Span
ish government has decided on sending out an
expedtionary corps of large amount, some say
as many as 20, 900, to quel the instruction in
~ boiAAcS- y tNf " uAhs vi <u.opN. oue
half as many men as Maine has furnished for
our army-nearly.
% Massachusetts, paper gives all account
of the total destruction by fire, caused by being
struck by lightning, of 1.-THE orthodox meeting
house, in Portland, Me-" To say nothing OF
the mistake of sixty miles in locality ofthe cees-
tial conhagation, the above calls to mind the
case of the green Vermont boy who, on arriving
in the modern Athens, inquired for his uncle
Joshua, and said he lived near the Boston meet
ing house,
q The Mayor of Augusta, will, we under
stand, pay a reward of five bushels of stale
potatoes for the discovery of the brilliant genius
who has recently labored through the columns
of a Portland paper, to make out the citizens of
that place set of mere fools and shallow-pates;
so shallow as to withhold their sympathy and