The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-10-17


length, were exhibited alta recent Fair in San
Francisco. - a. = - v TX
The colored people Of Chicago have pub
lisheda protest against the exclusion Of their
children from the public schools of that city
: - Butter is selling at twenty-sik cents
pound along railroad lines in western New
York - 80, ma ~ ~
y BThs woods md brush on the lines of the
Manassas railroad, which have afforded protec-
ton for guerfillas, are to be cleared away. ~
R-A Mr.. Crosby is building a new opera
house in. Chicago, four stories high, with mar
BILE front, and capable of seating $500 persons.
IVA movement is on footin BathSto obtain
the consent Of all the traders to close their stores
at o'clock in the evening isstead Of 9.a
% The Chatfelds Mimi Democrat says that
thecorn crop of Minnesota is the largest and best
leyerraised linsthat State DEE sszA1
81 Mr.. Mott from New York, appointed by
Gov. Seymour Commissioner to collect Soldiers
yetesy died suddenly at the Avsads House in
Washington. on Tuesday night s,es3
Several heavy failures have taken place in
San Francisco, recently ,among which is that of
John W Tucker, the wen known jeweller. His
liabilities are $400, 900.
RA writer in the Sacramento Union. who
has lived near Kearsarge Mountains, says the
name is corruption Of ''Ukiah Sarge the
former owner of aportion Of it.gS a. sh
- FIT is stated that about three INCHES of snow
fell at Strasburg, Va, and vicinity, last Satur-
day, rendering; wagoning difficult in the valley
of the Shenandoah
9 81 Mr.. Christopher Gray, 1902 years of age,
recently addressed religious meeting in Brooks
vile, Hancock county, giving . con else history
of his life .,. 80 $50 ,ssl.
III - 1t was Dr. Sawyer who was thrown from
his carriage in Denmark, and SO severely injured
thath died in an hour afterwards, instead Of DR..
SeaYey.E Il ~ IN " "a = " slaF
RThe colt seen. Grant, owned by VIM. r.
Fields, of BrunsWick, trotted in AL on the Wa
terville track, and was subsequently sold for
" 400. 400, 81 .EEafs HOB
ERrThe Committee on Pardons have reported
against committing the sentence of Green, the
Maiden murderer, and recommend that day be
appointed for his execution.
n ggTDpdley KaTanagh, the billiard champion
Of the United States, was badly beaten on Tues
day. in Philadelphia, BY Victor Estephe, in a
grand match Of one thousand points.
90 Edward R. Thorndike, Dixmont, and Benz
S. Grant, Bangor, were, at late term Of the S.
J. Court in Bangor, admitted to practice as att
tornies in the Courts Of this State.
81 Geo. A. Pierce, the, eloquent Canadian
temperance lecturer, will address the people of
Wateryille and vicinity, at the Town Hall, Tues
dayleyening, 18th inst. u 2 slAfflS
ga party of counterfeiters of the national
fractional currency was arrested at Port Jarvis,
N, Y, on Tuesday, and another party in New
OK Guy on "eo mes sna zof aAao0
80 a convention. of the surgeon dentists was
held in Boston on Thursday ito organize pro-
lection union association. for the purpose OF pro
tecting dentists against the unlawful claim on
patents, and to promote mutual fellowship.
RCapt Reed of the Tacony, who made such
raid among the fishermen last year, and stole
the Caleb. Cushing revenue cutter from this
.harbor, has been exchanged, and is now in
Dixie, ~ EE
] B-JOhhMcCaw. ESQ. ? Of Montreal, who is
extensively connected with the mining operations
in Ascat, died in the cars, while on his way from
Boston to Montreal ON Thursday, when within
three miles of his home.
g One of the largest wholesale clothing
houses in New York has this week thrown open
its stock, yaluedat half a million, to the retail
trade atwholesale prices, and New Yorkiscloth-
ing itself at allow figure. saI4l a aaosa zao .
The Sanitary Commission area making
preparations for the fifteen thousand sick and
wounded soldiers about to be exchanged at sa-
vannah. Agents are to be sent down with the
expedition N QNh LAhlA
81 Among the sayings of Walter Savage
Landor, whose death. atan advSncedSage, j just
recorded, is this 81 do not believe the world be-
sides, contains 50 many men, who reason rightly,
as New England -
:. % Onlysixty five in q hundred marry says
DR.. Hubbard, and out Of this number three are
divorces, eight run away, fourteen live in open
warfare, about thirty are Indifferent, and only
ten are regarded as happy
, ErThs Oxford 1smocrassays a dwelling
house in Roxbury, owned by, Paschall NJ. Ed
munds, was destroyed by hre on Thursday Of
last week, under such circumstances as to leave
no doubt that twas thework of an incendiary
Geo. W. Oakes has been arrested on suspicion.
The Biddeford Journal says Mr.. Marx
Watson, IS years Of age, q carpenter on the
neWshipnow building in that city, on We'd
nesday afternoon fell from theDhupper deck
staging to the ground killing him almost, in
stantly. tra ssias1a8s en- ROW uoisu9 mo
eH-The Lewiston Journal publishes the pledge
of two young men of that city who have been
addicted to habits Of intemperance, that they
will abstain entirelyfrom thease.of Intoxicating
liquors. A. noble resolution, which, if kept,
will be Of incalculable valueto them.
gy-The Lewiston Journal says that on i last
Sabbath as Mrs. John Richards of Strong, was
preparing for church, she suddenly became un-
conscious, fell uponthe foorand died in an hour.
She was on a visit to Durham at the time of her
death. ;.
EA hack driver in Waterville scaught a
Tartar ~ when he attempted to Iexercise his
sponging propensities upon the editor of the
Lewiston Jouf,sa. Y The dollars he didn't get
will be found invested in first rate notice. in
the Journal. ,.,,..f s-s ,.,,,ss -
80 The New York Herald finds by a review
of the returns that the party which at the Octo-
berelection carries two ofthe three States, Penn
sylvania, Ohio and Indiana, carries hePresiden-
ial election; and # all thres 60 the same way in
October, the Presidency is carried with general
sweep.
gThe New Orleans Times says that several,
men, living inside and near our lines, who have
been for many years prominent in Louisiana,
and are well informed as to the real desire Of the
citizens, assert it as their firm belief that were
the people allowed vote they would gladly de-
clare for the old Union, s-''4 ~ANa 's1'9 a'ss
RThe -aduertiser makes a malignant on
saughupon Westbrook Seminary because Mr..
Dillingham; Of Wateryille and the editor Of the
Daily Press are in favor of emancipation lo2 1t
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