The Portland daily press., 1864-07-27
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

~ The prospect OF crops III uiea' Dii'ian 70
considered favorable.
EYrAn English soldier has but four cents
day for spending money.
EgrThe crop of hay and potatoes in Washing
ton County, will be very light.
g-A French lad named Lewis Swan was
drowned in Calais ON Monday last.
ETA company of nine hundred Mormons,
most of whom had emigrated from England,
left New York on Wednesday for Utah.
B-The house of Mr.. William Abbott, st.
Stephens, was struck by lightning on wednes-
day of last week, damaging it to some extent
. Mr.. John Moor, of Perry, has had six sons
whom have been killed.
- The fire which the Press of yesterday
located in Falmouth was in Yarmouth A mis-
take of the printer.
ETA man in Saco named Richards moved
last week about five of grass in fifteen hours
with seythe.
p There are about 300 visitors at Old Or
chard. 1t is becoming quite fashionable place
of summer resort.
BCapt. Morse, who has been in command
of Co. A, State Guards, at Fort McClary, has
gone home to Bangor sick.
-YThe woman in Newport, r. l., who hung
odt the secesh flag should be Stunned the same
as house in the city with the red flag.
g-The survey of the ST. Stephens Branch
railway will be finished the first week in Au-
gust.
= Mr.. b. F. Goodwin, of the Mousam
House, Kennebunk, is now the owner of the
Saco and Kennebunk stage line and is running
on the stages.
H-"Burleigh" says Thurlow Weed has peck
eted half million greenbaeks as lobby opera
tor in staying of government tax on whiskey on
hand.
zB-0f the graduates of Dartmouth College
43 died last year. Heretofore it has seldom
exceeded 80, but war has increased the num-
Der.
- Nearly. 100 recruits were obtained in
cruiting officers. The price paid for colored re-
cruts is from $3.50 to $3.50.
EyThe king of Sweden, who is member of
society of engravers in Paris, has lately sent
them a very splendid line engraving which he
executed in his leisure moments.
gGranger's Block, in Syracuse, N. Y, was
burnt Sunday morning. The building contained
seven stores, two newspaper offices, and various
other Offices.
y The Calais Advertiser says Mr.. Ezra Scott
of Bog-Brook received a severe wound from
gun shot, in one of his hands Wednesday,
which win cripple it for life, and it may have to
be amputated
There is a gentleman in Augusta, the
Journal says, sixty-one years of age, who occu-
pies the house in which he was born, never hay-
ing occupied any other. rare case in these
moving times.
II The Hartford Press inquiries, "What has
become of the ten cent fund for Vallandig-
ham in charge of o. D. Seymour, of which the
Times published receipts till the amount reached
thirteen dollarsg
E1Twenty- lone miners lost their lives in the
Phenix colliery. near Schuylkill Haven. Pa,
Saturday evening. The chain of the slope car
broke, and the car ran back six hundred feet,
killing every man who was in it.
/ gE-Cardinal wiseman has issued pastoral,
in which he makes three distinct points of at
( tack: the bad tendency of modern science.
the writings of Colenso, and the principles of
I Garibaldi.
B-The Concord Monitor states that the New
Hampshire Legislature at its recent session did
+ not make any provision for the immediate
. 6pa csal ansa Of fha Sfasa ipeluItnp no
ment of bounties to recruits in the insurgent
States
The last steamer announces the death of
Thomas Colley Grattan, novelist of note, and
also remembered in this country as British Con-
sui at Boston from 1893 to ls4s, during which
time he wrote pamphlet on the boundary
question.
ETA Presque Isle correspondent of the Cou-
rier says the village Of Washburnei in Aroostook
County was nearly destroyed by fire on the 10th
inst. Isaac Wilder, Esq, lost mills, house and
barn and their contents; Mr.. b. Wilder his
barn. and many other buildings have been
burned.
R-The Detroit Tribune says that quite a
number of rebel emissaries are now recruiting
in Canada Toronto seems to be their head
quarters At Windsor, Major St. Lawrence,
chief in the business. obtained over fifty recruits
in a few days, chiefly from among rebel soldiers
I who have escaped from Union prisons.
4 E-A lady applied at the Office of the Proyi-
dence provost marshal and wished to have her
/ son sent to the front forthwith. She said he
/ was drafted last summer, but received an ex-
emption on the ground of being the only sup
I port of his widowed mother. That he had re-
! fused to support her for some time, and she
wished the exemption revoked at once.
/ R-The Concord Monitor says meeting of
/ the publishers and job printers of New Hamp-
1 shire was held in that city, Friday afternoon,
ut which il was decided that the constantly adj
vancing prices of all stock and materials used
| in the business render it absolutely necessary
that corresponding advance in the price
of newspapers and job printing should be
made.
ga compositor of the Bangor Times Office,
who is now soldering at Fort McClary, says
they have comfortable barracks, wholesome
food, not much duty to perform, and as for en-
joyment there is no end to it. But few rods
from the shore can catch HOLSTERS, and not far off
are cam-hats, affording fish sin the she'll" They
are well at present, and probably will continue
until their appetites and the natural resources
give out, of which there does not seem any i'm
mediate danger.