The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-07-09
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

~ he "ho u"VSi ioNe saruen Will never
be in Paradise.
gHeaven gives US enough when it gives US
opportunity.
BWe regret to learn that Rev. J. Kelly, of
Saco, who went out as chaplain of the 18Th reg
iment, recently died of chronic diarrhea.
r The yellow fever excitement in Ports
mouth, n. H., the Chronicle says, has died
out.
r The Popham celebration will be at Bath
this year. Hon. Z. L. Bourne, of Kennebunk,
is to give the address.
gSecretary Seward was struck by rocket
stick Monday evening, just above the eye. 1t
was a narrow ESCAPE.
DrA gentleman who has made trip to the
White Mountains, says the charges at the prin-
cipal hotels are from SO to $3.50 day.
y There isa prospect that the Danish war
will be resumed, the Conference having closed
without any satisfactory results.
y The New York militia, except four regi-
ments, have offered their services to the Govern
ment for thirty days.
- The Biddeford Union has placed itself
right on the score of courtesy. We are salts
fed.
0-John T. Severy has been appointed Post
master at Dixfeld Village, in place of Chas. W.
Eustis, resigned.
B-lt is the Norway Light Infantry, Capt
Cobb, that is to be relieved at Fort McClary, by
the Bangor Company.
H-Gen. Lees personal property, condemned
by the U. S. District Court, is to be sold at Alex
andria on the 10Th inst
gr"Wake up and pay your lodging" said
the deacon as he nudged sleepy stranger with
the contribution-box last Sunday.
-Y-The Maolis House, at Nahant, with nearly
all the furniture, was destroyed by fire on Thurs
day last.
B-A little son of Mrs. Lally, in Skowhegan,
was run over on Monday last by carriage, and
seriously injured
q The following is sharp: = First party
"You'll come to the galows some day. Sec
ond, or addressed party-'Yes, the day you re
hanged"
% There is combination on thepart of spec
ulators to keep up the price of butter. 1t is
not an Indispensable article, and the people I'M
derstand the remedy.
B-A debate on the removal of the capital of
New Hampshire to Manchester, has occasioned
much excitement in the legislature of that
State,
H-The entire editorial fraternity of Presque
Isle dined at the Presque Isle Hotel, on salmon,
on Tuesday of last week. One of moderate size
was all the occasion required.
Gov. Curtin has issued a call for ~ 900
more men TO serve one hundred days in Penn
sylyania, Maryland or Washington, as may be
found necessary.
30 In Springfield, Mass, on Friday, a Mr.
Brown, substitute broker, and Hattie A. Lewis,
were riding out together, when the horse ran
away, and the girl was killed, and the man Sc
riously injured.
e The brig W. c. Clark of waldoboro',
from Machias for Matanzas, with a cargo on
Spanish account, burnt by the rebel pirate
Florida, was 33S tons burthen, and was built in
Waldoboro' in 1855,
81 The editor of the Maine Farmer thinks if
the hens of the country were pushed up to their
full egg-producing capacity the market value
thereof would exceed twenty million dollars per
alnum,
R-The st. Louis Republican says that al
though many parts of Missouri have suffered
from drouth in the last two months, still some
locations have been benefited by copious
showers, and there the crops have a good APP
pearance.
BSeth Woodbury. of Ioffstown, an old vet
his penslon--a visit he has not failed to make
semi-annually, for the last fifty years. The old
man is still hale and hearty and does not APP
pear to be more than rs years old.
% The Biddeford Union says, Sin our opin-
ion the letters from this county rejecting upon
the action of the committee in the time of cal
ling the convention, and also charging clique"
upon certain parties, were uncalled for and un-
deserved and untimely.'
rB-The Lewiston Journal gives list Of the
taxpayers of that city who are assessed $50
an over. The highes, tax paid by an individ-
ualis S57s.5 50, paid by N. W. Farwell. The An
droscoggin Mills are assessed Si3. 1882, and
the Bates Co. the same amount
E~The remains of Lieut.. Joseph E. Colby Of
the 32d Maine, and formerly Sheriff of Oxford
County, were brought to Rumford on Saturday
last and funeral services were held at that place
OH Monday. He was brave and efficient off,
Ger and died at his post
% The Somerset Farmer says the house Of
Capt. Moses French of Scion, was totally de-
stroyed by fire en- Monday last July T. The
furniture and nearly all other yaluables in the
house were saved. except aboutisaoo worth of
wool, which was slowed in the attic
R-The Argus has spoken in relation to the
alleged custom house defalcation with more than
usual frankness, and says: 'sWe can add moth
ing to what we have already said, further than
to state that VIC have heard nothing in any way
duplicating the present Collector or his Deputy
in the fraud
r Greenlief ]. Prescott, Esq, master ma
ehinist in the Kittery Navy Yard. died of yell
low fever on Sunday last. Mr., p. was a gentle
man of excellent character and sound Judgment.
During our political canvass last fall he took an
active part, and spoke with great power and
earnestaess in various parts Of the state,
R-Gen. Perry, of the Executive Council, who
has recently been investigating matters in the
State Prison. says, "the records of the Maine
State Prison show that at least seven-eighths
of the conyicts came there either directly or in
directly through the incorporate use of intoxi-
eating drink"
- The reporter of the Argus was present at
the Union Convention the other day. and staid
until the three captured rebel battle-fags were
brought into the hall, but he could stand it no
longer. When that exhibition was made, of
trophies wrested from " political friends down
south-his unfortunate democratic brethren now
slightly under the weather-it proved too much
for his sensitive nature, and he was obliged to