The Portland daily press., 1864-04-01
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


~ On fourth page,-Battle Hymn, poe
Try; 10 the Daughters of the United States:
horror Struck Divine; Big and Little.
SyThe Richmond Wing advises the burn
ing oil northern cities by hired incendiaries.
There seems to be a hitch in the
movement to build City Hall in Calais.
VApples are sold in the army of the Po-
tomac by the suffers, at $40 barrel.
90 Mr.. Samuel York, of Pennington, died
suddenly on Tuesday, as we learn from the
Chronicle
sg The York Baptist Association will
mold Its next session at Wells. commencing
the 18th inst, at 10 o'clock A. NJ.
GA movement has been started in New
York in behalf of the East Tennessee suffer
ers. Better late than never.
sg-Hon. Noah Wood, has been chosen
Treasurer and Clerk of the European and
North American Railway Company.
Somebody complains bitterly of the
want of depot accommodations at Brunswick,
says the Lewiston journal.
sB~Governor Coney will leave Augusta on
Monday for visit to the army of the Poto-
mac. lie will be accompanied by Col earn
sey, OF Bangor, one of his Aids.
aH-It is stated that George NJ. Weston is
soon to start Fremont paper in Washington.
The Republican, his former paper. goes for
Lincoln.
GBN Miss Emma Webb thinks it won't paw
TO attempt to refute the arguments OF Miss
Anna Dickinson, and has returned to her
more appropriate sphere, stage-acting.
sy-Ten ladies have died in Phillips Village
and immediate vicinity within the past three
months, their respective ages ranging from
so to 90 years.
gE-Attention is called to the advertise
ment of Messrs. Feuchtwanger & Zunder. Who'll
have just received fine assortment of dryl
goods.
sH-The house of John Hopkins, ESQ, of,
Ellsworth, situated on Main street. was conf
sumed by fire on Saturday afternoon last with
nearly all the furniture. Loss about $1,000.
Insured.
eE-The Gardiner journal says the dwell
ing house, shed and barn, of Thomas Gray, of
Whitefeld, was consumed by fire at about
O'Clock, A. NJ, on the 9th inst Entire loss
probably abous $1,000. Insured for sl1OO.
sB-Rey. A.G. Gaines, who has been preach
ing in Augusta during the winter, has accept
ed an invitation to settle over the Universal
ist Society, at Mechanic Falls, and will enter
upon his labors Immediately.
ay-The Arson Advocate says Jacob S.
Healey, eldest son of Nathan and Parthenia
Healey, of Concord, was instantly killed by
the falling of tree, on Indian Stream, on
Friday, the 1lth inst His age was 2G.
To- writer in the New York Evening
Post, predicts the following result next No
vember: Union electoral votes, 23s;. opposi-
ton, Is; Doubtful Missouri, II: not voting
(eight rebel Statesl, IS.
LEA movement is on foot among the New
York spectators to bug up all the tea and
cohee. Our fathers and mothers abstained
from tea rather than submit to wrong aud
we can do the same
sE@Once more we give our monthly state
ment of the progress of the Press During
the month Of March the net increase OF daily
subscribers, was 81; of ,ceekly subscribers.
125.
Mr.. Gilman Smith, Of Sanbornton. a
highly respectable farmer, CT years of age,
who lived about mile from the village of
Sanbornton Bridge, committed suicide by cut
ting his throat with razor, early on Sunday
morning.
% IL is now stated that Hon. Leonard
SWEET cannot be Mr.. Loyejoy's successor, be-
cause he does not live in the same district
Mr.. E. c. Ingersoll, candidate at large at the
last Congressional election, is mentioned as
the probable man for the place.
syGen. Dow received a dispatch from the
War Department, on Wednesday, extending
his Through thirty days. At the expiration
of that time he expects to re-enter the Depart
ment of the Gulf, unless ordered to some 9TH
er point.
IL The New York Independent saws.
that arough estimate from tabular statistics
in their possession makes the average wages
of the 10000 working women of New York
less than fifty cents day. Not enough to
buy pound of butter.
sg- We are under obligations to Geo. w.
Woodman, Esq, for copy OF the Rules and
Orders Of the last House of Representatives.
book convenient for the large amount of
statistical and other information which it con-
tains.
sE- Mr.. w. f. Abbott, OF Saco, one OF
whose horses recently died at Lewiston, de-
MES the statement which has been published
that he thought the horse had been poisoned
or overdryen. He says veterinary surgeon
pronounced the death of the horse to be the
effect of violent and sudden cold. The
horse was carefully driven, and he attaches
blame TO no one.