The Portland daily press., 1864-04-19
ORIGINAL AND sELECTED'

tolH year VII luOohaJ vi ioob wien.
w-Gen. Grant, it is said, will command
the Army of the Potomac in persona
nyMr. A. j. ellison has been appointed a
Lieut.. in the Coast Department, at Eastport.
sBrHarvard College was instituted two
hundred and six years ago.
y-Japan exports 5,79e, 1886 pounds of tea
per annum.
sy-The Delevan House, Albany, has been
sold to parties from New York at $4,000.
sg-The report of Adj. General Hodsdon,
for 1868, will contain about 1850 pages.
s1The machinery for Morse's new tug
boat, at Bath, was made by Messrs. Geo. NJ.
Patten d. Co., of that city.
ga gentleman named Hill, from Angus
ia, was relieved of his pocket book Thursday
on the cars between this city and Boston.
LEA new Post Office has been established
at Brockway's Mills, Piscstaquis County, and
Cyrus Brockway appointed Postmaster.
nvWarren Ransom has been appointed
Aid to the Revenue at Pembroke, in place of
Chas. II. Hayden, resigned.
nyRey. Mr.. Martin, Of the North Chris
tian Society of Eastport, has removed to Deer
Island, N. b.
nB- Rev. l.. d. Strout has resigned the
pastoral charge of the Freewill Baptist
church in Topsham.
~ Generals Meade, Hancock and Birney
,(r n ..sl
Hon. John NJ. Bolts, at his invitation.
% The Boston Five Cent Saving Insti-
tute has nearly five millions invested, mostly
the savings Of poor people.
~ Gen. ]. C. Caldwell of this State, has
been ordered from the front to sit ON a mil
itary commission at Washington.
GA little girl, three years of age, was in
stantly killed, at Williamantic, Conn.,, on Tues
day Of last week, by boy ten years of age,
who sportingly snapped loaded gun at her.
0Distilled liquors under the new revenue
law, will be taxed S1.2o per gallon, instead of
twenty cents, as under the old law. The tax
on cigars has been more than doubled.
ga new paper has been started in Wash
ington, called the New Era, a Fremont organ,
published by Geo. NJ. Weston, formerly of this
State.
sV-Thos. Blanchard, the greatest of Ameri-
can inventors, died suddenly at his residence
in Boston, on Friday, 18th lust. He was 70
years Of age.
sTThe style or firm name of the publish
ing house Of Ticknor & Fields, will not he
changed in consequence of the death of the
senior partner.
VWhen Mr.. Chase walked down Wall
street on Thursday, gold fell from 50 to 70.
The New York Times wishes he would per-
ambulate the street frequently.
~ A correspondent at Hartford, in Civ
ing the result of the recent town election,
says, all working Union men but the Clerk,
aud strong hopes of him."
~ The citizens of Bangor have organ
lied Historical Society, the principal object
Of which is TO collect and preserve the histo-
ry of the Penobscot Valley.
~ Notice Is given that the liability of
the Maine Bank, Brunswick, to redeem its
bills, will expire on the 18th day of January,
1896, its charter having expired.
u The Calais Advertiser says the Home
Guards Of that city have received notice from
headquarters to hold themselves in readiness
to march at moments notice.
~ The Times says the teachers of the
public schools Of Bath. presented Rev. Mr..
Dixie, who had been Experimenting School
Committee for II years, with neat gold
chain, on Wednesday evening last.
II A friend in Aroostook, In RENTING
two years. subscription, says the Press is
complimented by one OF his copperhead neigh
bors as "the biggest liar in the known world"
Our friend says: 4" Keep on telling such lies,
for they have the right ring"
~ A friend in the Northwestern part Of
the State writes, 4" Oxford will give a good
account of herself this fall. The spring cleo
tions-the index on the political dal-pont
to the absence Of many copperheads in the
town Offices"
eY-The Boston Journal on the 18th inst,
says, within the last forty eight hours upward
Of one hundred and thirty vessels have en-
tered that harbor, bringing valuable cargoes
from the East and West Indies, from Europe
and the Pacific Ocean, and various coastwise
ports.
sB-The Provost Marshal General OF this
State, has been informed by General Fry
that credits will be given for veterans and re-
cruits TO include the 10Th inst. He has been
instructed to be prepared to make the draft
Immediately thereafter in sub-districts then
deficient, but not to commence it until fur
ther orders.
eI-"The College Crescent is the name of
q neatly printed paper, published by the stu
dents of Bates College, Lewiston. The num-
Der before us contains the Board of Instruc-
tion," catalogue of students, list Of officers
and members Of the various literary societies
connected with the college, editorial, com
munications, poetry, DC.
sH- The Argus is too fast In saying we
have assailed" 1t for lack of consistency in
the case of Mr.. Long. Not so. We simply
looked after it with little fraternal regard,
expressing regret that such hopeful signs OF
repentln as it at first gave out, should so
soon be choked down by the pressure of par
ty spirit.
sy- The Machias Republican says, DIR.
Teln will accept the appointment by the For
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