The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-08-06
ORIGINAL And SELECTED.


E-Rev. Stephen Thurston has accepted the
Secretaryship of the Me. Missionary Society.
The Piscataquis County Union Conyen-
ton will be held at Dover, on the 18th inst
EF-The Oxford Democrat says Moses Patten,
Esq.,, of Bethel, was thrown from his wagon
last week, and dislocated his shoulder.
EE-The Louisville Journal says every man
who drinks glass of Richmond whiskey. has to
pay ten dollars and headache.
gY-On Monday, Aug LIST, the mercury in
the thermometer at Bethel stood at % degrees;
the highest ever recorded in that place.
sy-The long woodshed at Bethel depot took
fire ON Monday last and was saved from entire
destruction by the most active efforts.
~ An enemy of Thurlow Weed describes
him as good sample of wisdom gone to
seed
q The annual camp meeting at Northport
will commence on the 18th of August, instead
of ON the LIST of September as in former years.
Ey-It is said Gen. Hooker was relieved of his
| command at his own request, because Gen.
Howard was assigned to McPherson's place.
| 50 A patent has been granted A. ii. Monroe,
of Thomaston, for improvement in rotary har-
rows.
u Albion Kinnerson, of the 18th Me-, and
John Foster of the 3lst Me-, died in Washing
/ ton, Thursday.
- The Androscoggin Union County Con-
vention will be held at Auburn on Tuesday
next.
g-The number of dismissals by court-mar-
tal last week was us, of officers of every grade.
Only one is from this State, Lieut. Bassford, 9Th
Me-
~ Almon L. Brookings of Bath, private in
Co. G, 32d Me. regiment, died on his passage
from Hampton Hospital to New York, on the
10Th ult.
g Prentice hoped that full supply of
onions reached our soldiers by the Fourth of
July so that they could celebrate the day 'peal
upon peal
Papers are discussing the cause of drouths
So far as we are able to judge, it is caused in this
region by the lack of rain.-[Gardiner Jour-
nal.
lA letter from the army says our troops
have the utmost confidence in Gen. Grant, and
still cling to the hope of ultimate success.
[BostonPost.
BFew places, says the Gardiner Journal,
have better bakers than Gardiner, and we have
never seen lighter bread than they now make.
We hardly think that two loaves will weigh as
much as one used to.
g-The Copperhead of 1864 is the 'tory'' OF
the Revolution without his honesty; the "fed-
eralist'' of isi2-l5 without his responsibility
and candor. His memory will be preserved in
the disgraceful annals of history.
Notwithstanding the scarcity of laborers
and the high price of labor, the farmers in this
state say it has cost them but little more to ge,
their hay this year than in past years, the
weather having been unusually favorable.
- There is probably no one thing for which
the Copperheaps have so earnestly prayed as
for the defeat of our armies in the field, for the
effect such defeat would have in improving the
prospects of the Copperhead cause.
give learn that Lieut.. c. W. Reyes, Of
Wilton, who suffered two amputations of his
left leg, and whose life was for several days
dispaired of, is now doing well and will proba.
bly, recover.
Fires have been destructive to the timber
forests on Grand Manan. Large tracts of land
have been swept over. Cut timber for vessel.
and mill logs, camps and utensils have beer
lost.
The Belfast Age says that during the high
wind on Wednesday last week, spark of fir'
caught in the meadow of Mr. Greeley of Swan
vile, containing about ten acres, the grass o
which was quite stout, and burned over tin
whole extent
ETA correspondent OF the Oxford Democrat
says the body, of Mr.. Nathaniel H. Fuller o
Woodstock, was found dead in the road in tha
town on the 30th ult. He was member of til,
sd Ne. regiment, and was at home ON fur
Tough.
q Mr.. John S. Caldwell, of Belfast, tn,
Journal says. was seriously hurt on Saturday
3Oth ut., by being thrown from a truck wagon
the wheels of which passed over his chest. in.
fcting severe injury. He lies in a very critical
state.
GIVE are informed that the last and only
man connected with the Advertiser, who has a
lingering sympathy for the Union cause, and is
anxions TO see the rebellion subdued, has re-
ceived notice that his services are no longer de.
sired in that establishment
a Thirty organized companies are per.
mitted to be raised in this State for the present
call. The officers are to be taken from those
who have seen at least nine months service
unless very special reasons exist in particular
cases.
B-A Liverpool magistrate lately giving al
opinion about some matrimonial difficulty, said
at is always bad arrangement for married
people, high or low, rich or poor, to have q
wife's sister, or brother, or other relative, liy.
ing in the same house with them
EY-The Providence Press of Monday after.
noon says that dispatch had been received by
Mrs Burnside same day, from her husband
dated on Monday, stating that he was well
OF course the report that Gen. b. was wounded
was untrue.
~. II. Estabrook, Jr., of Camden, Ne.
committed suicide on Saturday by shooting
himself He had for number of years suffered
from i'll health, and had become hypoehon-
driac. He was thirty nine years Of age, but had
no family.
g-Rey. Daniel Waldo died at Syracuse, n.
Y, on Saturday last He was nearly 1902 years
old, having been born in September, 1862. lie
graduated at Yale College in 1876, and soon
after entered the ministry in the Congrega-
tional Church.
- Geo. Francis Train, c. yallandigham,
Sam. Medary, of the Columbus (0hio) Crisis,
and n. c. Claiborne, member of the rebel leg
islature, and now leader of the Fremont move
ment in Missouri, are all delegates TO the Chica-
go Convention.
q Are we to understand the man who
controls the Advertiser as inriting us to copy a
somewhat personal article from the New York