The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-07-08

~ In Mississippi they are making cloth of
cattle hair with wool for filing.
TA Great National Sailors Fair is to be
held in Boston in November next.
. THE famous FOCUS House has been opened
for the season by Capt. Michel Brynes.
% Marseiles has recently become a great
cotton market. 1t seems destined to supersede
Havre and to become second Liverpool.
% The price of gas has been raised in Bath
to $500 per 1000 feet Heretofore it has been
$50 In Boston the increased price is SAYS
% The demi-ajuste OF half fitting Jackets are
at present the fashionable outdoor garments of
ladies abroad.
% The large stable of the Horse Railroad
Company at Worcester, Mass, was entirely
destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning last
Fg-Fhe Oxford County Court House is un-
dergong important and very much needed re-
pairs.
70 Rev. b. A. Chase, chaplain of the 4th
Me-, went out with the regiment and was with
it until it was mustered out of service.
% The new tax bill went into effect on the
FIRST OF July, having been signed by the Presi-
dent on the evening of the 3Oth ult
% The President has failed to sign the Davis
reconstruction bill. All other bills presented to
him have received his signature.
y The diptheria has again made its ap-
pearance in Mt Vernon. Several persons have
died
= Lieut.. c. A. Alvord, who has been for
two years aid-de-camp TO Gen. Caldwell, is re-
ported honorably discharged by resignation.
20 The rule that he who draws pay from the
government must hold himself in readiness to
do government service, is being enforced at the
Charlestown Navy Yard o
q Gentlemen who have visited Rangely Lake
speak in the highest terms of the beauty of the
scenery, and the large and handsome trout
caught there.
% After nearly two years experiments, mil
itary ballooning has been declared failure,
and all the apparatus has been sold at auc-
ton.
y Mr.. Loring Parcher of Auburn, who has
been at the Insane Hospital at Augusta for sew
eral months, committed suicide on Sunday last.
by leaping from the roof of the building.
- The personal income tax is now five per
cent. for over $500 and under $4,000, 10 per
cent. for over $4,000 and under $40 600, and 10
per cent. for all over 900.
e of the church property taken by the
Spanish government and sold between 1885 and
1868, the value was e3o, 1855, 700, and the value
af that rema;o.no uroo1l &. OF q rar aoo
- The Kearsage, which will be remembered
BY the historian of this rebellion, was built at
the kittery Navy Yard, and was named after a
mountain near North Conway, ~ H.
Eg-An alarm of fire in Pennington, on Tues
day morning, the Chronicle says, caused quite
commotion. few buckets of water put out
the fire, but it was a terrible scare
. The Roman Catholics of Bangor opened
a splendid Fair at Norombega Hall on the
Fourth to continue during the week. The best
decorative skill in Boston was secured for the
ornamentation of the hall
r. The Gardiner Journal says Mrs. Geo.
Hanly, of Ea. Pittston, was thrown from
wagon on Monday evening, dislocatng her
right ankle and fracturing one of the bones of
her leg.
r The Massachusetts,, New Hampshire aud
Connecticut Soldiers sent to Augusta in the
Steamer Ashland, through mistake, will be sent
to their own States as soon as they are able 10
travel
% The Portsmouth Chronicle says there
have been no more cases of fever, and no more
deaths in that city, and but one in the vicinity.
The excitement is dying out and it is hoped the
disease is staid
g-our Bath friend viii excuse us for with
holding his peppery article. The parties re-
ferred TO are already sore, and should we pub
fish it, it would be regarded on our part by
them rs the sin that hath no forgiveness.
The Bath Times says party of ladies and
gentlemen from that city started on Wednesday
evening for Bethel, whence they take horses
for an equestrian excursion around the White
mountains; they purpose ITO be absent two
weeks.
y Mr. Flint, Secretary of State, is prepar-
ing the necessary blanks in reference to soldiers
in the field voting for Presidential electors.
There can be no doubt but the people will vote
in favor of the change in the Constitution, in
September.
y Maj. Jonathan P. Cilley, of the LIST Maine
Cavalry, who was severely wounded at the bat
tie of Antietam, has been again wounded by
minnie ball in his foot. Maj. c. is son of Hon.
Jonathan Cilley, who was killed in q duel at
Washington, about n years ago.
% The intercontinental telegraph bill. as it
passed Congress, simply grants heright of way,
the assistance of the navy TO certain extent,
and the protection of the army to the company
while building the line, with the use of forty
acres Of land for each station.
70 The flames spread so rapidly at the time
of the burning of the Water Cure Establishment
at Saratoga, that it was with the greatest diff
Guilty many of the patients were saved A par
ty of ten men from New York rushed through
the smoke and flames and saved all the help
less.
20 Lit. Calvin Boston, of Augusta, Co. I,
3lst Maine, was severely wounded in a recent
assault upon the rebel works at Petersburg.
He was struck by the fragment of a she'll in the
lower portion of the spine, and the injury is of
so critical nature that little hope is entertained
of his recovery.
D Mrs. A. L. Crafts, of South Deerfeld, re-
Gently found in her garden, a silver dollar Of
l776 aad of American coinage. 1t had on one
side the inscription: Declaration of Indepen-
dence-for the support of this we pledge to each
other our Lives, our Fortunes and our Slcred
Honor
q The Kennebec Journal says that on
Sunday last a lady was seen in the wards of the
sick and wounded soldiers at the hospitals, dis
tributing at their bed-sides fragrant roses,
pinks. and other flowers. The gifts were thank
fully received and appreciated, and seemed
filled with the memory Of home and incense of
other days.