The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-03-17
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sO6f0iN<1I .AND oAaA1SS@NS
EThe wild geese and Sherman's army are
working their way Northward.
E Tventy-six new petroleum companies
we're organized in Philadelphia last week.
g-x- Enoch Arden has been translated into
French and German.
Ewednesday, the 18th, was the anniversary
of the birthday of President Jackson.
gxButter is falling in Vermont. Lots which
were held at fifty cents are now gladly sold at
twenty-five.
EA United States transport steamer lately
made the trip from City Point to New York IN
tWenty-foar hours.
GTGen. Shields was recently arrested by the
French authorities at Mazaltan, on suspicion OF
being spy, but was soon released.
R-A house has just been sold on Fifth Ave-
nue., New York, for s225, 600. ''Ile'' is the key
to this fabulous price.
EMr. Towle, who was injured, on Saturday
last, in the railroad station at Brunswick, died
Tuesday night.
TThe funeral of the late Mayor Bodfsh of
Bath. took place in that city yesterday alter
noon.
EAnumber of breakdowns are reported in
New York, the result of being hit by falling
| gold.
~ Joseph W. Patterson, Esq, has bsen elec-
| ted Mayor of Augusta, by the Union voters.
Mayor Caldwell declined are-election.
| EThe house carpenters of New York, l5OO
strong, are on strike We wish they would
strike here, and putt up about Ave hundred new
| tenements.
give are indebted to our Washington colr
respondent Duke for map of the seat Of
war, on large scale. from the United States
Engineers Office, designed for field USE
RThe Boston papers having exhausted the
third rail question, are deyoting their columns
largely to accounts of the great Massachusetts
Billiard Tournament" @
~There are cracking and smashing times
among spectators in New. York The de-
cline in gold makes fearful work with fancy
stocks.
ECharles H. Doake Of Bangor, was lost
Dec. 22d, from the brig Robin, Capt. Killman,
three days out from Winterport, in gale OF
wind. He was 20 years of age,
EVA controversy has been started in relation
to the author of the word ''contraband." We
think it will be hard plucking that feather from
Buffers cap. M a
EThere remains bpt thirty-fye million of
the seven and .three-tenths loan qnsold, and
present indications are that it will all DO taken
before the close of the next week.
EWe understand that deep and wide
spread religious interest is awakened in Gray
and vicinity, and that the work is still progress
sing.
EThe boot and shoe store of c. &. Pilson ~
waterville, was destroyed by fire about one
O'Clock on Tuesday morning Of this week
building not insured. Stock insured for $500,
VThe news from oil quarters is glorious.
The notes of victory come from Sherman, from
scho6eld, from Grant and from the old Granite
State as well as from the old Purpentine State.
The horizon is lighting up in all directions.
j EA letter received last evening from the LIST
Me. Heavy Artillery, dated March 10th, says
that Major Mute of Lincoln, died very suddenly
on the 9th inst, in camp, of congestion of the
lungs He was out at dress parade on the 9th
inst-[Bangor Wing, 17th
EThe Augusta Journal says Mr.. Alexander
Kincaid, the attentive Toll Gatherer at the Ken
nsbec Bridge in that city. has occupied his pres
emit position for o few days over forty years.
During all this time he has not been of duty
and he has not lost day Of time.
R-The Boston Advertiser says Madame Vir-
GINA Whiting Lorini, the prima donna, who
died recently at Santiago de Cuba, was the
daughter of Mr.. Whiting, formerly of the IRE
mont Theatre in that city. She was educated at
the Boston public schools. H.
E We are disposed to be accommodating,
and wish that we could find room for all the
good things sent us, but to do SO We should re-
ouire sheet of bed-blanket size. AS it is we
must select, and in doing SO we can use only our
own Judgment, rejecting what is of least public
interest within the sphere of our circulation.
ESays the Rockland Free Press 'Mr. A.
P. " aterman, good citizen of this place, who
has for some time been suffering with disease Of
the lungs, was suddenly taken with bleeding on
Tuesday, 18th, when few rods from his house,
which he had just strength to reach, and ex-
| pired in few moments"
EEssIle has been struck" so report has it, on
/ the west coast of Mexico, near Mazatlan A
friend recently from that region, informs US that
| quite a shipment Of petroleum had been sent
there from San Francisco; that it is profusely
scattered among the rocks SO as to make the
whole region odorous; that the brooks. springs
and swamps are covered with it. and that it drips
from seams in the rocks. A s'big thing"
| EThe Skowhegan Clarion records fatal
accident to Mr.. VIM. Thompson of Industry,
short time since. He was in the woods telling
timber. A tree lodged from which branch
branch broke off, falling and striking him near
the knee. He was conveyed home, the wound
which bled profusely-was dressed, but it did
not do well, and council of surgeons decided
on amputation of theleg, an operation which
he survived but q few minutes.
ETThe Rockland Free Press says that Mr..
Robert Jameson, a young, healthy, man, whose
promise of life was so good that he had recently
put substitute into the army, died on Tues
day, from the effects of blow which hereceived
by being thrown from sleigh in crossing one of
the pitches with which the roads abound. He
was on his way to Camden, and in falling struck
on his head. He was not aware at the time that
| he was injured much, but the accident proved
fatal.
RGen Grant has issued an order, which,
says the correspondent of the Boston .Adver-
tiser, 'sstrikes down at one swoop the whole
brood of cotton, tobacco, tar and turpentine
spectators, setting aside alike the permits to
specialagents, Cabinet ministers and even fthe
President himself. 1t is no exaggeration to say
that it is the most important order ever issued
by General Grant. Official records show that it
will affect jobs covering over half amllion bales
of cotton, sixteen thousand barrels of turpen-
tine, FIVE thousand barrels of rosin, and one hum
dred thousand boxes of tobacco