The Portland daily press., 1864-03-19

oRIGsNAI AND SELECTED.
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of ears between Augusta and Gardiner.
B-Tea and coffee is being successfully
cultivated in California.
sB-Hon. A. G.Jewett was reelected Mayor
of Belfast, on Monday with no opposition.
sg-Laconia Mills No. Biddeford is about
to be started up.
gvThe ice went out Of the Penobscot
river last Sunday as far as the wharves in
Hampden.
aB-Hon. L. d. NJ. Sweat of this State,
voted in favor of making Colorado free
State.
lTThe boy, who, for some misdemeaner,
was ordered by his teacher to sit between two
girls, said it was "capital punishment"
I-The LIST District in New Hampshire
which sent Mcyar to Congress year ago,gave
this spring $500 Union majority.
g-The large government bounties to
volunteers will positively cease on the last
day Of March.
D%The cons umption of sugar in 1863 was
one third less than 1862, so that the increase
in price has not increased the aggregate cost.
sY- The city of Hallowell pays its City
Marshal and Chief Engineer of the Fire De-
partment twenty-five dollars each.
merchant of Bath, died at his residence in
that city, on Thursday last aged 62 years.
sRrThe Amherst Cabinet says-"at Enfield
there is a very interesting work of grace
Rumsellers hare poured their liquor upon
the ground de-"
nE-Company f, Second Maine Cavalry,
numbering l03 men, arrived here from Au-
gusta yesterday, and embarked on board ship
Tamerlane.
LEA vocal concert will be given in Au.
gusta on the 22d inst, in aid of the Sanitary
Commission, by several distinguished vocalists
of this city.
R-The decidedly readable communication
from our Boston correspondent, should have
appeared three days since, and was omitted
through sheer inadvertence.
V-Mr George Eaton, son of Thomas Ea-
ton Esq. of Bath, member of the 10Th Maine
regiment, died at Brandy Station on Wednes-
day last.
sVJohn Bryant has been arrested on Mon
treal, for violation Of the foreign enlistment
law. He had in charge twenty negroes at the
time of his arrest.
-Dr. II. G. Levensaler, of Thomaston,
has been appointed on the Medical Board, at
Beaufort, S. c., for the purpose of examining
applicants for leave of absence and discharge.
sg-It isrumored that Gen. Grant will as
sign Gen. Fremont TO active duty. Rumors
also assign Gen. Burnside to the Department
ofthe Sonth, and that Gen. Meads success
sor will be named in few days.
GY- Bishop Soue has issued an order, dat
ed at Nashville, calling a meeting of the ST.
Louis Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, at st. Louis, on Wednesday
March Esd.
Professionalism is said to be country
without reptile, and the Chattanooga Gazette
says, Vallandigham is a reptile without a
country; he ought to "move' to Newfound-
land.
-"Perley" says reliable advices from
Fortress Monroe, state that Gen. Butler is
proceeding with the exchange OF prisoners,
man for man and is confident that he will con-
tinue to do so successfully.
LEA building connected with Phillips
Acadamy, Andover, few days ssnce
was set on fire and destroyed. Sew
eral attempts have been made to set fire to
the buildings connected with that institu-
ton.
GA "children's aid society" has been
formed in Boston, to look after and reform if
possible criminals of a tender age, without
sending them to Jail. The object is worthy
one, and we hope success may attend the eff
forts of its projectors.
sEThe Bath Times says, Capt. Robert
Jack, of Bowdoinham, and brother, on Tues
day last, shot in Merrymeeting Bay and Sc
cured nineteen wild geese; two others were
lost under the ice. Eleven of these were at
one shot. This is a feat hard to beat.
gBrThe Bangor Wing says John Ryan, for
number of years porter at the Franklin
House, while sitting in his chair, on Wednes-
day, and apparently in good health, suddenly
lelliforward and died in short time. Heart
disease is said to have been the cause.
G-The Boston Advertiser is ahead of
facts in saying that the State OF Maine has
accepted from Hon. f. o. j. Smith the estate
given for the establishment of a primary agri-
cultural college. Not as yet. A resolve ac-
cepting the donation has been introduced but
not passed.
~ Rather unexpected was the reply of
the urchin, who on being arraigned for play
ing marbles on Sunday, and sternly asked,
"Do you know where those little boys go who
play marbles on Sundaym replied innocently,
"Yes, some of them goes down by the side of
the river"
sI-Prof. S. w. johnson of Yale College,
at the late organization of the New England
agricultural society at Worcester, gave some
very sensible advice on its management He
said substantially that cattle shows and fairs
were about played out, and were not the only
objects of an agricultural society.
gE-On Wednesday evening says the New
buryport Herald, the dead body of an unknown
man, apparently about so years of age, was
taken from the Merrimac river at Groveland.
The skull was stove in on the forehead, and
appearances indicate that the person came to