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

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Bowdoin ,ollege-Examination for Admission.
R-Oyer 1000 tons of pressed hay have been
sent from Somerset county the past season.
20 The nation has reason to be thankful-that
Congress has adjourned
% Ex-Governor Reed died at Easton, Pa.
on the 5th inst
Eg-A gardiner near Chcsgo has succeeded in
raising strawberries of the size of apples.
80 Asia Minor produces $50 900 bales of cot
ton this year.
- Bob Toombs has Joined the Georgia mill
tia.
EB-A large quantity of wheat was destroyed
by fire, in Boston, on the 4th inst
y Many calumnies are injurious even after
refuted. Like the Spanishfies, they sting when
alive and blister when dead.
- In 1880 there but 70 persons in what was
then known as Chicago. 1t now numbers l70,
OOo 1t was incorporated city in 1885.
% Rain fell generally over the New England
States on Saturday last with the most enlivenng
effect upon vegetation.
Inv Ohect ptoeSo iAiSatc AstW IdLlpouhcs
Com. Thatcher, from Portsmouth, N. H., ar
rived at Port Royal, s. c., June 20.
~ Mr.. Hooper, of Massachusetts,, has invi-
ted Mr.. Fessenden to occupy his house at Wash
ington during the summer.
EE-It is said that an heiress in Brantford, c.
W, has eloped with one of Rumsey's Ethiopian
Mnstres.
e Fifty of the LIST Maine Artillery have been
taken prisoners since the disastrous charge of
the 18th ult.
20 Ten thousand volunteers to do garrison
duty in the forts around Washington, have been
called for from Massachusetts,
gvegetation of all kinds. since the late rain,
is looking finely and there is prospect of boun-
tiful crops.
20 The numerous friends of Gen. Chamber
lain will be pleased to learn that he is now doing
well and there is fair prospect of his recovery.
= MIR. Chase escorted Secretary Fessenden
to the Treasury Department on Tuesday morn
ing and installed him in Office.
90 The Portland and Oxford Central Railroad
will be opened to Canton as soon as sufficient
quantity Of iron can be obtained.
EJ-It is proposed to send to the army hospi-
tails an entire graduating class of the medical
college at Burlington. 4
ES-A thief stole the clothes of young mar
ried couple who were bathing near Gloucester,
on Saturday evening, leaving them in very
awkward condition.
EYThe income tax of 5 per cent on all in
comes over 5000, is to be assessed on the LIST of
October for the year preceding, and is additional
to the present income tax
T-The St. Louis Democrat gives a list of
twenty-one radical papers in Missouri which
have taken down the name of Fremont and sub
stituted that of Abraham Lincoln
RThe Dorsetshire papers, in England, re-
cord the death OF Mr.. Robert Gordon, the old
est magistrate in the comfy His commission
as magistrate was dated 1870
y Mr.. John s. Bremen, Assistant Controller
of Customs and Navigation Laws for the last 80
years. in p. Z. Island. died recently at the age of
81 years.
sB-0n the afternoon of the Fourth, !" son
of Mr.. Benjamin f Marble of woolwich, while
discharging gun was so seriously injured, that
he died Tuesday morning.
EY-The Providence Journal says there is good
reason to believe that DR.. VIM. H. Holme of
that city has been murdered in Missouri by
guerrlas.
- The following deaths of Maine soldiers oc-
CURED in Washington on Monday: Emery S.
Upham, 2d Me. Battery; Warren j. Beverly,
Nth
The Richmond Examiner says the number
Of Yankees wounded in the hospitals in Rich
mond is about twelve hundred, but they are dy-
ing at a pretty rapid rate per day.
y Business at the Kittery Navy Yard is
practically suspended on account of the ipreya
lence of contagious fever brought by u s.
Steamer DeSoto. There have been IA deaths
and several new cases are reported.
B-0n the first page to-morrox we shall give
the full particulars of the destruction of the
pirate Alabama, and the rescue of her crew
Our columns for to-day were full when the ma
terials for il came to hand.
VCapt. 7. J, Bailey, of the 18th U. S. In
fantry, for two years past mastering and dis
his own request, and ordered to active service
with his regiment.
% The small sailboat Vision, of only Ia
tons, which left New York for London on the
26-ult. with two men and a dog on board, put
into the creek at Cape Race on Friday last, hav-
ing started a leak.
-Y-The annual meeting of the New England
Association of Soldiers of the War of 1912, was
held in Boston the 4th inst Col Thomas As
pinwall was reelected President Eight of the
members of the Association have died during
the past year.
BAn appropriation for purchasing complete
sets of the back volumes of the Washington
Globe for all members " Congress who had not
been furnished with them, was made BY Con-
gress as a relief measure for the publishers of
that paper.
EHWe have inserted in our advertising coll
umns a silly matrimonial notice but we ad-
wise the simpletons hereafter to withhold such
transparencies and save their money. We would
not have inserted it but that it can do no harm,
as the girls of Maine are presumed to be too
smart to be caught with such chat. OF course
the names given are fictitious. and the girl who
responds would only make herself the laughing
stock of rowdies.
Bath the people are having to pay
pretty high rates for Boston papers of the news
agents. The Journal, Post, Advertiser and
Courier are sold at 20 cents per week, or five
cents single, which is at the rate of 5000 and
$3.50 per year ! The people of that city should
show proper resentment by either patronizing
their own daily more literally, or, if they must
go out of town, taking the Press.
% The New Orleans Era has a report from
Mexico that the Emperor Macmillan reached
the city of Mexico on the evening of June 8,
where an immense torchlight procession had
baa urOtu mn fnr his a. Il,