The Portland daily press., 1864-07-01
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IThe Fourth Regiment will be mustered
out at Rockland, Friday, July 9Th
y-The New York Common Council refused
to vote $40, 600 for celebrating the Fourth.
- speculators are buying up onions. ex-
pecting an army demand.
10 There is to be no celebration of the Fourth
OF July in Piscataquis county this year.
% Grasshoppers in Aspinwall are seven
inches in length and are considered fine eating.
% man was arrested, on Monday in Mont
real for trying to drown himself to spite his wife
The wife was complainant.
BrWhat is fame, The advantage of being
known by people of whom you yourself know
nothing, and for whom you care as little.
% The 18th Massachusetts Regiment, which
was captured last week, would have completed
its three years of service ON the 18th of Ju,y.
- The Mayor OF Boston has issued a proc
lamation, inviting citizens, who are not drafted
to send each a substitute to the army.
% Gov. Gilmore, of New Hampshire. has
issued proclamation offering $500 bounty to
recruits for cavalry regiment
- The Louisiana Constitutional Convention
have voted in favor of the appointment of
Judges BY the Governor.
H-An impatient woman in New Jersey heard
Of her husbands death one morning last week
and got married the same night.
% There is an immense emigration this year
to California, Idaho, and the mineral regions
west of the great plains.
% The mercury rose almost to 100 degrees in
New York on Sunday, and there were half
dozen cases of sun stroke
20 The usual June term of the United States
Court in Bangor is postponed on account of the
serious illness of Judge Ware
gSprague & Blanchard's Minstrels, of this
city, will give two concerts at Bath. on the 7th
and sth of July.
- The Albany Argus says the spectators in
beef have again come to grief, the supply being
much greater than the demand.
Ed-An "Army and Navy Button Company
has been organized at Waterbury, Connecticut,
with capital of $4,000.
- The copperhead papers are telling what a
large Republican vote Fremont will get in Wis
consin. The Union men "don't see it,"
r Chauncey Burr, of New York, is to ad-
dress the copperheads of Dexter on the Fourth
of July
Eg-A boy by the name of Long, eleven years
of age, was drowned in Rockland on Sunday
last.
EG-Dr. David Shepherd. well known and
highly respected physician, died at his residence
in Dover short time since, aged 60 years
n Advice to young men-in summer, rise
early; you will thus gain time to smoke an ad-
ditional cigar before dinner.
n Elisha S. Winter has been appointed Post
master at Kingfeld, i'm the place of Nathan b.
Saunders, resigned.
% The change of weather has had most
beneficial effect upon the wounded at the hos
pitfalls at Washington; deaths have diminished
sixty per cent.
70 A Richmond paper speaks of Benjamin,
the rebel Secretary of War, as "a man of fame +"
The Louisville Journal says he is man Of i'll
fame.
E-In New York saloon is posted the fol-
lowing important information: Brandy one
dollar drink" II two dolarsiand payable in
gold only, no one need suffer.
ET-Mrs. David Hood of Salem, Mass, a wo-
man IS years of age, with four children, and
much respected, drowned herself on Monday
morning.
EY-A large number of South Carolina priso-
ners, brought into our lines a few days since,
are boys between fourteen and sixteen years OF
age.
n The Quebec Gazette reached its centennial
anniversary June 81, and published on thatda
a fac-simile of itself as it appeared one hundred
years ago.
-g-The Anniversary exercises Of the West
brook Seminary viii take place on the 10Th inst
Address by Rev. W. A. Z. Dillingham;. of Wa
terville.
y Fears are entertained that Mr.. Plummer
NJ. Farmer, of Temple, was among the lost on
board the Pocahontas He has beun expected
home on a furlough for some time.
Y-During thunder shower at Camden, on
Monday morning, an umbrella was shivered to
atoms in the hands of boy named Perry, with
out injuring him.
EAn '0nion Fund.- has been started in
New York to procure fresh vegetables for the
army. Such fund must have a great deal Of
strength.
Charles II. Webb, formerly literary editor
of the New York Times, has started new paper,
1.-The Californian in San Francisco, about the
size and somewhat of the character of the Round
Table.
q The Gardiner Journal says, Everett An
drews, at work on Mr.. Bradstreet's ship, fell
from a staging on Monday, and was taken up
for dead, but finally came to. Though badly
cut and bruised, he received no serious injury.
Eg-The Fourth of July celebrations in this
State the present year. SO far as we have heard.
are to be conducted in the most economical man
ner. This is right in view of the heavy taxes
and the wants of our sick and wounded soldiers
1.-THE Bangor Wing saws Abner Guild