The Portland daily press., 1864-07-11
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

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/ ETSecretary Seward has accepted an invita-
ton to visit the coast of Maine in August
sESome towns in Massachusetts, are offering
volunteer substitutes seas each.
aBrA Lincoln campaign club has been formed
BY the Germans in the tenth ward, New York
1N. p Willis is said to be suffering from
partial paralysis Of the organs of speech.
| BSemmes declares that on the 18th of Au-
gust he viii embark on new Alabama
| NrWm. Abbot coWmitted suicide by jumping
into well at Wilton, Conn, few days since.
B-The Ohio Crisis reports the wool crop
enormous So is the price.
! 81 There were about thirty fires in New York
| on the "Fourth, - resulting from fireworks.
B-It is said that number of ladies of rank
in London meet weekly at an entertainment of
! spiritual fortune telling
IL What is the difference between ones
mouth and bandbox 7 Not much: either is
good place to put muffin.
| - Under which General do sick and woun-
ded soldiers like to rally best 2 General Hospi-
70 The first anniversary of the battle of Get
tysburg was celebrated by the people of that
place on the Fourth.
B-A New Jersey farmer who refused to pay
revenue tax of one dollar, has been compelled
to ply a fine of $780,
81 Mrs. Wheeler was fatally injured at
New London, last week, by falling from cherry
1rPeaches promise well in New Jersey. One
producer proposes to send to market 220, 900
baskets Of the luscious fruit.
- Barnum has machine for tanning his
audience which cost him 5000 and keeps them
as cool as cucumber. k 8 E
E0n Friday afternoon the house and stable
occupied by Mr.. Harsom of West Waterville,
were destroyed by FIRE. -....
% Thirty thousand working men of Paris
have signed petition to the Emperor for the
abolition of capital punishment
TWendell Phillips has written another let
ter on the Cleveland Convention, in which
he says he is not politician but an agitator
% The Lowell Courier says the Massachu-
sets Cotton Mills have declared dividend Of
forty per cent That's what's the NATTER no
less than the high prices of the raw material.
- The Montreal Witness says gentleman
just returned from a tour through England and
Scotland says the weather was unusually fine,
and the crops magnificent
II Jones is strong believer in guardian an
gels. "If il were not for them, . he asks, sswhat
would keep people from rolling out of bed when
they are asleep
- Some English operatives lately wept, and
sung the doIology over a few bales of cotton
which had been brought to their village. They
had been out Of work for months.
1Rev. Mr.. Beard, of the Central Church in
Bath, has returned from his labors in Virginia
in connection with the Christian Commission.
and has resumed his pastoral duties
STThe school committe of Worcester have
adopted regulation that no child under five
years of age shall be admitted to the public
schools of that city
% The suit against Gen. Dix and Others for
seizing the World and Journal of Commerce
newspapers, instituted by order of Gov Sey-
mour, is still in progress in New York
RThe newspapers say Mrs. Londerback, of
Hickory Township, Illinois, seyenty-eight years
Of age, has given birth. few weeks since, to
twin daughters.
Gardiner Colby, Esq, of Boston, formerly
resident Of Waterville, has recently contribu
ted thousand dollars in aid of the wateryille
College.
81 Ex-Licut Governor John Tracy died at
his residence in Oxford, N. Y, on Saturday
/ morning week. at the advanced age of so years.
/ lie was native of Connecticut
% Mr. Ezekiel Thompson, baggage master,
had one of his hands very badly jammed, on
Thursday morning, while Stacking one of the
cars to a train at the Brunswick sta ton.
= The authorities of waterville, made de-
scent on the liquor shops of that town on the
Fourth of July. They made no distinction be-
tween hotels and French shantes, but served all
alike
- The following wounded Maine soldiers
were in the field hospital near Petersburg, July
3D.; A. II. cleveland, H. 9th; ]. Stewart, C,
do "A. Viceney, H. sth; Charles Dean, d, do;
.. L. Burlington, ID, do.
~ While the Declaration Of Independence
was being read at Hartford, Conn, on Monday
the 4th, bystander said to another: "Pretty
good thing that, amt it Too much of the DID
niger about it, though
- "Spooking round, y is the name of new
crime which the Chicago police have invented.
A man who was arrested last week for spooking
around a"West End doorway, and refusing to
move off, was fined four dollars
Ex-Governor Andrew is engaged at Washing
ton in perfecting arrangements with the Secre
tary of War. for system of recruiting in the
rebel States for the quotas of the loyal States,
under the recent law of Congress.
II Three match manufactures in Boston.
owned by one man, consume twenty cords of
wood and FIVE hundreds pounds of brim-
stone per day. Under the new tax of one cent.
per box, the owner pays to the Government
si4oo day in taxes.
I Rour Waterylle correspondent, ssFuller,''
informs us that the loss by the burning of Lang's
4 Wooden Factory at vassa,boro' is about $50 600.
The building was not quite finished, and was
erected on the spot where the old factory was
burnt last winter.
q Nothing is more conducive to health this
sutry weather, than a trip to the Islands, where
| good, full, free, unrestrained Inspirations of
fresh air may be obtained. The little steamer
Casco makes her trips with the regularity of
clock-work, and the fares are merely nominal
- An Augusta correspondent of the Boston
Journal says the investigation in the case Of
Provost Marshal Bean of the Fifth District ha.
closed. and the Military Board, it is believed, in
their report will fully exculpate that officer.
and show that he has conducted his affairs with
| integrity and fidelity, M