The Portland daily press., 1864-08-16
ORIGINAL and SELECTED.

will be held in Bangor on the 18th inst
g Hay sold in Lastport, during the mast
week, at S35 ton.
g Queen Victoria calls herselfinvariably the
'broken hearted widow"
. The Empress of Austria has abandoned
crinoline, and the viennoise ladies follow suit.
e 1t is said that if cucumber parings are
left in the haunts of cockroaches, they will
leave without delay
e The cotton crop has been bounteous in
Japan The farmers propose to increase it for
the next season.
n house in Brunswick, occupied by Mr..
Emery Hersey, was destroyed by fire on Friday
night
- The Reformatory Prison at st. Vincent
De Paul, L. c., was entirely destroyed by fire on
Saturday, 9th inst.
-Southboro', Mass, has filed its quota un-
der the last call of the President entirely from
among her own citizens.
81 The Hamilton Camp Meeting commenced
yesterday. Arrangements are made for the &C
commodaton of a large number of persons.
e weekly line of vessels has been put on
between San Francisco and the mouth of the Col
orado.
z Mr.. Cyrus Grant, of Acton, has pair of
oxen which weigh $500 pounds. He has been
offered 81 200 for them.
q The entering class at Watervillc College
numbers 10; a few more will probably come in
at the commencement of the term.
r The heavy taxes are greatly decreasing
the consumption of tobacco. A New York cal
culation is that half the smokers have stopped
II The Union voters of Washington County
will hold Convention at Dennysville on We'd
nesday, August oath.
- The North Aroostook Agricultural and
Horticultural Society will hold the annual Show
and Fair at Pressure Isle, Wednesday and Thurs
day. Sept. l4th and 18TH
y We hear that Mrs. Lally, of Tobique,
whose son was killed by bull about two weeks
since, died in her carriage whilst following the re-
mains of her son to his grave
y Judge Stephen Vail, of Morris, N. j.,
who built the engines of the Savannah, the first
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week aged 81.
e If Mobile falls. we have gunboats which
can steam up the Alabama and the Tombigbee,
and fatally interfere with Hoods retreat and
his supplies.
u The "Tecumseh,'' sunk in Mobile Bay,
was a third-rate iron-clad of about 1000 tons
burthen. She was one of the Ericsson batteries
huilt at ,,,G
p Several copperheads have left Sanford for
Canada. 1t will be said the draft is black re-
publican trick to drive off all the Democratic
voters until after election.
- The Mexican ladies, among other oddi-
ties, have way of slipping chocolate during d.
vine service. Max don't like it. He don't
think it either devout or ladylike.
81 The interior of the Cathedral of Cologne
has just been completed. The external work is
continued. The building was commenced in
l2fs.
81 John B. Girouard, an old brakeman on
the q. I. Railway, came to his death at Rich
mond Station, Canada, by being run over by the
cars
80 The Montreal Witness says Miss Howard.
daughter of +, II. Howard, Esq, of Toronto,
was drowned on Tuesday last, while bathing
near Portland.
% Awoman, with an eye to business, brought
on three substitutes from Baltimore to Ports
mouth, and sold them for $500 each. 1t isn't
the first time man has been sold by woman.
- The surgeons in New York have a way of
st h.
banks stamp counterfeit bills, SO that brokers
may not pass them off at some other Office.
81 The Northampton Gazette says dairy
man in Peru, Mass, has on hand thousand
pounds of butter, waiting for rise'' He
will probably keep it until it is strong enough to
rise without assistance.
81 family in Michigan actually named a
child Finis, supposing that it would be their
last; but they afterwards happened to have a
daughter and two sons, whom they called Ad-
denda, Appendix, and Supplement.
y Two mammoth children are on exhibition
at keokuk, Iowa. They are brother and sister,
and were born in Cass County, Illinois The
former is IL years of age, and weighs $50 lbs. !;
the latter is 6, and weighs $50.
- The establishments of the American and
English Missionary Societies, at Constantinople
were seized by an armed force on the 18th ult.,
AMI many of the Turkish Converts thrown into
prison.
y The New Hampshire Legislature, at its
extra session, has passed bill allowing the SOL
diers IN the field TO vote for electors for Presi-
dent and Vice President, and members of Con.
gress
- The embalmed body of VIM H. Went
W tn of Co. II, Goth Maine, of Auburn, who
d, sf days since at Armory Square Hospit-
a., ash Igton. arrived by express on Saturday
NOR ng
- recruiting officers from the western part
of the State ceiyed notice from the citizens Of
Calais, Monday night, that their presence in the
the city for sueha purpose was not agreeable to
all concerned.
81 A letter from Toronto says the rebel
agents and refugees in Canada are circulating a
petition for the English government to recog-
nizc the rebel confederacy at once, on the ground
that if the Union be restored Canada will soon
join it,
"
built BY c. S. Huston. Esq, of Eastport, the
Sentinel says, will be towed to ST. Andrews, n.
b.. where she will take in a cargo of cedar Sleep
ers, and will then be towed by Portland steam
tug TO New York.
z James Harrington, engineer on the Ver-
mont Central Railroad, was killed at St. Adams
on Saturday morning by being run over by
baggage car. The ire-box of the engine had
blown out, and it is supposed that be jumped
from the engine to escape from the steam
q 1t is proposedby the rebel authorities to
put theeolored soldiers belonging to the Federal
army, that were taken prisoners at Petersburg,
upon the plantation and apply to them the lash.
They will find that as dangerous an experiment
as to use he unexploded shells for back-logs.
81 Star gazers must be on the lookout In
a few weeks comet will be seen morning and