The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-10-29
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

EA Mcclellan club at Hartford has taken
rooms over a coffin warehouse.
ga wit remarks that the defence of Atlanta
wss an act of Hardee-H Hood (hardihood).s -
EThe U. 8. Steamer San Jacinto sailed from
Portsmouth on Wednesday for Key West.
wA patent has been granted Samuel G.
Rnndlett O. this city for improvement inrevoiv-
ing hand rakes.
R5FThere is talk of forming company in
Anousta for the erection of tenement houses in
that city ON neat and economical plan.
U-A shooting affray occurred in the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. New York, Tuesday evening, be-
tween two brothers from Kentucky.
n~Phil Sheridan is evidently no believer in
oonDerhead tactics. There wasn't much ola
sscessation of hostilities" after his arrival at
Cedar Creek the other day.
rFThe Oxford Democrat says little daugh
ter of Hon. Ira c. Kimball of Bethel, was seri-
ously burned by her clothes taking fire on Sun
day last while the family were at church.
~The Bddeford Journal says large num-
her of thefts have been perperated in that place
this last week. In one instance the garden Of a
gentleman was stripped entirely.
rxHon. David H. Mason of Newton, well
known lawyer and one of the prominent Demo-
Gratis of Massachusetts,, has come out publicly
for Lincoln and johnson.
eTThe grand Union Mass Meeting held in
Claremont, N. H., on the 26th inst, is reported
to have been most magnificent success. There
were ten thousand people present
EYrThomas Winans is expected from Eng
land this fall, in his cigar-shaped steamer. He
bn;lt it at cost of one hundred and fifty thous-
and dollars. eN
EA wag says that the reason why Mcclellan
took refuge on board the GalenG was that he
preferred lead in the ore rather than in the man
ufactured form of bullets.
EThe Franklin County Bank at st. Adams,
is winding up its afflirs, but all honest holders
of the bills are paid in full. The other banks
are going on with their business as usual.
G-The yellow fever has entirely disappeared
from Key West. Persons from the North can
now take passage for that port without the
slightest fear of infection.
ETA young man named Howard Dame Sc
verely jammed his foot on Tuesday at the Kit
terry Navy Yard, by a drag-load of iron plating
passing over it,
EA company has been formed in New York,
with capital of million and a half, to manu-
fscture sugar from beets and sorghum. They
have bought lands in Illinois to grow the mate
rial.
EPendleton voted in Congress against the
resolution Of thanks to General Mcclellan for
his promise of victory in Virginia Yet now
these men are linked together. and each is
ashamed of his company. rl
RA dispatch from the Secretary of War to
the family of the late Col. Lowell, announces
that he should be buried with the honors of a
Brigadier-G General, hiscommission having been
issued before his death.
RAt Worcester, Thursday morning, Lewis
Claiin, machinist, was instantly killed by the
falling upon him of an engine bed, weighing
1000 pounds, which he was raising from the
ground by an elevator.
The county of Adams, Pa, whose people
sold water to our soldiers and would not lend
them shovels to dig graves for the dead after the
battle of Gettysburg, went for the democrats by
an increased majority. This is in accordance
with the fitness of things
RAt Townsend, VT, recently, while JUS
tice trial was going on in q bar-room of the
jury, lawyers, witnesses and spectators all into
the cellar beneath in one miscellaneous mass
No one was seriously hurt
The Dover Observer says the potatoecroE
in that county has turned out exceedingly well
beyond the expectation of farmers. One
farmer alone in that town has raised / ,l5C
bushels. They are now retailing there at forty
cents per bushel.
EY-The Pennington Chronicle says in tho
village the price of apples is from sixty cents t.
dollar; potatoes 40 cents; corn 50; butter 81
to 40 cents. We have heard of dried apple
being sold for 10 cents. but presume little car
be purchased at that price.
BMr. Phi1brick, Superintendent of Publi
Schools in Boston, says in his report, ''that h
could produce evidence enough to satisfy an.
candid mind that everlasting is very grea
evil in our schools-that it is an evil which al
Intelligent community ought not to permit
81 The Maine Farmer says negotiations ar
in progress for the purchase of the entire prop
erty at Togus Springs, including the furniture
with view of making it more attractive thar
ever as place Of popular resort for invalids
and others. nT +
EA comparison CT our taxes with those o
most Of the European nations shows that they
are even in time of war, much less than il
France, Austria. England, &C., in time of peace
When peace is restored and industry assumes it
regular channels the revenue now provided fol
will rapidly reduce our debt
- The Richmond Examiner says apple
brandy and not ''little Sherry was mainly in.
strumental in their overthrow in the valley o.
the Shenandoah, and hopes when the last of the
distilleries shall be heap Of smoqldering ashes
they may hope that fortunewill again smile upoI
their arms.
e. The passengers of the captured steamer
Roanoke arrived at Halifax on Monday night
from Bermuda. They report that after the
Roanoke left Havana the engines were stopped
to receive number of passengers approaching
in boats, who afteTward proved to be the pirates
under Braine. Lieut. Parr of Chesapeake noto.
riety, was among them.
R The Oxford Democrat says Mr.. Durham,
who lost both legs by being run over by the cars
on Wednesday, has been connected with The
road for many years, and assiduous attention
to his dnties, together with kind, obliging
disposition have won many friends who deeply
sympatbize with him in this sad accident.
~ DR.. william Young of Deerfeld, indicted
for the murder of Sarah NJ. Atwel, otherwise
called Fannie Morgan at Deerfeld, on the 9Th Of
August last, by procuring an abortion, cams
into Court in Portsmouth on Wednesday, and
recognized ip the sum of $4,000 for his appear
ance at the January Eerm of the s. J. Court.
ETA fabric is now manufactured ct Law
renee. Mass, from refuse scraps of leather,
which are reduced to pulp by grinding and
maceratioa, and reconverted into solid "sides'
of leather by pressure, The article thus pro-
duced is used mainly for inner soles, but to an
unprofessional eye it seems as suitable for
all the purposes of leather as the original az.