The Portland daily press., 1864-06-27

Wished -FOUR million eggs Tor the market.
70 rhe Pic6, Msls hive declared SEMI
annual dvidenl of ; par cent, s.l2O share.
recently extended to HIM b. tho Centr..l Con-
gregatonal Church at Philadelphia.
VWe learn from the D 18th Times that a son
of Michael Duly Of that city, was drowned
while bathing ON Frd ~ afternoon.
gE-Dr. Franklin used to say that rich widows
are the only piece of second hand goods that
sell at prime cost.
ETA fine bust of Rev. T. Star X ng, sent
from San Francisco, has just been presented to
Tufts College.
II rhe Annual Meeting of the Mine Ger
trail .lro,l Company Will be holden at Water
vile. wejnerdiy next.
VWillism c. Carsley, of H,rrisan, seventy
one years Of age, on the 18th day of June, hoed
two thousand hills 4 corn.
ET-A house in D ,ngor occupied by a Mr.
Varuey, was destroyed by lire ON THURSDAY
night, says the Wing.
ga son of IL .skell Preb'c, about lively,
uri,y of last week.
CY-Ws lesra that a gentlemsa in Boston re
centiy deceased, bequsathsd to Tufts Cullest
property valued at ' 600 or 20 900 to enlv
scholarships.
fE- An abortion case is on trial in Bridgeport,
Coun., aud strange AS it may M the Cour
House is crowded with fem dies, though the de-
tails are Of the must sgusting character.
gMr. Thomas Burns, a son of the late H.
dreth Burns, Of R)ckland, WAS killed in Boston,
On Thursliy last, By f,ll from his " igou, as
We learn from the G .xette.
VDeputy Sheriff Smith, on Sturdy OF
last week. seized about hundred d,llars'
worth OF liquors belonging to Stephen Russell,
| in Whitneysiils.
" The navy agent at Charleston has sued
the boston Post for libel for connect ng his nam,
with the swindlng operations OF the Smith
Bio herr, Of Bison.
II The watersills Nail says there is an ia
menss jam vi legs opposite that village. |,
reaches far up the river from the foot VI Collese
Rapids and Is several acres extent.
H-W lllam IL. Allen. LII. D., Lately Presi
dent OF GIrard College, h Is been chosen Pres :
dent Of the Agricultural College of the State Of
| Penns, lvahia.
~ The Dover Observer saysthatS s. p. Brown,
Esq, is building neg wooden lac DRY in that
village, aud that Mcssrs. Mayo & Sou are build.
ing new canal for their fietors.
r5r rha n ,nunr " h., .,v. h.-r halon OH, q,
to AIR. Samu lIidley, Of jackson. was destro. :
o by FIRE On Thursday afternoon. Cause.-The
il the woods.
B-5.turday was $ terrible day, hot enough
10 roast eggs in the top of ones hu. Cros :
man Cox Cream Sois was found just tie
thing to prevent Follow from melting and d..-
appearing in the legs Of his Loots.
u fhe Bangor Wing. smaller than the Pre- 8
before the enlargement OF the later, aud contains
Ing not more than half as mu;h reading mi or
as is now put in the Press, has advanced its
\ price to IS, strictly in advance.
ga large number VI boyshlve been drown
ed the present season. while bathing ThUse
who cannot swim shout be cate ned against
going whcu the water is deep. aud ihose Nho
can SWIM should not venture too FAR f,on assn
lance ia case Of accident or cramp.
ES-fire, are ragilg in the woods in every
direction aud much damage is being done 10
property. A Mr.. Wallace, tf DiYmunt, ii e
Wing says. has lost ten acres " beans, and the
flames are still raging. saw mill sud othtr
buildings are in imminent danger
1 rl,. Al
and barn Of Mr. McWslter. Of whitneysille. was
en- irely destroyed by ire ON Tuesday last
| Several children made fire by the side of the
barn. for purposes OF play, AMI the result
| Was the loss OF house, bra, pig styc, al d
pig.
| ~ The Doctor" who does up the locals f r
the Advertiser refuses to bel eve in the mar,e.-
lous trout stories going the rounds OF the
papers, until be receives "a generous string Of
the shiners' to establish his f.ita. Before he
viii believe in trout he must become a stuff d
hiddock.
ENo EDITOR or publishers convention can
put down the price Of material or regulate the
wages OF labor, nor can such body fl uniform
prices for advertising to apply to different To-
calitss. II is quite well for each paper to Ia
Dor assiduousy to merit success. and If really
deserved success will surely come To il.
EFA New York subst tu;e broker, calling
himself James Clark. the Portsmouth, Chronicle
says. has been endeasoring to run oh'' sx
Ilarines he b I'd enlisted at the Portsmouth M.
rins Station, for the purpose Of re-enlstl &
them. lie was detected AMI put in double irons
AID delivered over to Pro. ct Marshall wisyI
| lie had an accomplish by the n ,me Of Dixon.
u The Paris Democrat wishes US TO inform
him whether bog trout" is ANY relation to a
scu!pin. We are neither an ichtay o,ogst nor,
As the doctor" of the AID ,ertiser would say,
zoologist. learned in ''ishy" history; but the
bog trout lately referred to in our columns vas
caught in Oxford AMI as the editor Of the Dem
ocrst ID OF the same county possibly the relation
he inqulres for may have some substantial bash.
II The New York Evening Post asserts tina,
Mr.. Henderson, the arrested Navy Agent at
that port, is prepared to chow that in no single
9TH; Al act has he deiraulei the Government,
or departed nom the most rigid rules of pro-
pris,y, honesty and honor. he only asks to
conIront his accusers. lie IN gentleman xho q
character has ever been above suspicion or re-
proach.
E-lt was recently asserted in the French
Chambers By government orator in reply to
VI. THE 3, that the value of the real property
OF France was -eighty-threo thousand millions
Of francs, or about sixteen Thousand six hun
dred millions of dollars; and of personal prop
erty one hundred and twenty thousand millions
OF francs, or twent! -four Thousand millions of
dollars. or these last, seven thousand mill .ons
Of francs we're in money ed securities
VWc have appended star ~ to the very
able IN candid article On Capital Punishment
in reply to writer in the courier-which ap.
pears in this Vumber. We should have done
the same by the article in Prid,y', Press had we
been at home. We say this by no means to dis
ntrape the articles referred In bnt s;n,,,I,, e.,