The Portland daily press., 1864-10-22

81 The Pioneer says the store of D. E. Lucy
in Houlton village, was broken into ON Thurs
day night, and goods to the value of $1,000,
stolen therefrom. =
R VIM. Collins, Francis Jones and VIM.
Phillips, Calais Bank raiders, were committed to
Thomaston State Prison, on Thursday, to serve
three years.
% Major General George H Stoneman, one
hundred officers and four hundred soldiers, re-
Gently exchanged, arrived in Atlanta last
week.
lady companion out to drive in Washington the
other day, was met on his return by his wife,
who cowhided the female severely.
BIn the list of patents issued for the week
ending Oct. 18th is one to Erastus Boothby of
Saco, assignor to himself and Charles A. Shaw
of Boston, Mass. apparatus for trimming paper
hangings.
9S s. J Moore of Parkman, raised this year
on one and one-sxteenth of an acre of land,
three hundred and forty bushels of ,Orono
potatoes. The largest one weighed three
pounds. go - r
80 The greatest failure that has happened in
England is that of the Leeds Banking Company.
the liabilities of which are equal to almost 40 :
900. 900, counting in gold. The institution has
existed since 1882. 'A's 5'71ssa9 % tam roY -
= R Henry Fogg, son of Capt. Fogg of Bath.
who has been in six rebel prisons, has arrived at
Annapolis. He was masters mate of steamer
Satellite of the Potomac fotilla, which was cap
tured by the rebels in August 1858.
s % Little Mac has received another wound
on the field of battle between the forces Of Sber-
idan and Longstreet. His friends begin to feel
anxious for him. His constitution can't endure
many such wounds. Llsssda baa sao1sss ssssr
BJames McKenney who caused the death of
VIM. Ramsdell at Frankfort, on the I'd of Sen
TENDER, has been convicted of manslaughter.
and sentenced to one years confinement in the
State Prison.
80 Two young ladies have disappeared yery
mysteriously from New Haven, Ct, within a
week past body supposed to be the remains
OF one of them was found in coal yard last
Saturday. m - ~, 1890
81 When Algernon Sidney was told that he
might save his life by denying his handwriting
he said: "When God has brought me into a d.
lemna in which must assert lie or lose NV
life, He gives me clear indication of duty.,
which is to prefer death to falsehood. .
B-The Skowhegan Clarion says DIR. VIM.
Snow of that village, while crossing the Plains a
few days since, was run into by some fast bucks
from Arson, and had his carriage badly broken.
himself thrown out, badly bruising his face and
spraining one of his wrists. e+
There are two Irishmen In Bangor who re-
ceiye, annually, between twenty and thirty
thousand dollars each, in gold, as dividends of
the product of mine in which they are inter-
ested in California, and in which, for time, they
wrought with their own hands.
H The Gardiner Journal says that on Satur-
day last, johnson Frost, while trying to mount
horse that he had caught in his pasture, in
East Winthrop, fell over backwards lowing to
the rearing of the horse) and disiocated his
spine near his shoulders. He died on Monday
81 The horses burned to death on Wednesday
at the time of the destruction, by fire, of the
stables of IS. Wright 6 Co., Brighton, were
valued at from 1000 to $4,000. Mr.. Beck
worth of Hartford, Ct, lost, in horses and har-
nesses, from $40, 900 to $25,ooo ,H1TTUs
RA house occupied by Mr., Abel Richardson,
Esq, Bddeford, as we learn from the Journal.
was thrown over by oneof the posts giving way,
SCATTERING the house, ,capsizing the chimney and
prostrating the inmates upon the floor. For
tunately no one wap seriously injured.