The Portland daily press., 1865-06-13

81 Milk in Meriden, Conn, is now no more
thar four cents quart.
EButter at st. Adams, VT, has fallen to rs
cents per pound. III
20 Dan Rice, the circus man, died out in
Michigan lately. He was accidentally poisoned.
~ One, two and threecent pieces are in album
dart supply at the Philadelphia mint now. u E
90 Michigan takes more white fish than al
the other States and Territories. oN
The wheat crop in Michigan is said to be
unccmmonly promising.
R-There are two thousand Sons of Temper
ancein New Hampshire. kk ssasJ
RThe National Convention of Congrega-
tionalists, meets in Boston this week.
gyTheA translation OF the Bible into Arabic
has been completed. The work has consumed
Is years of labor. ss@ ssNsss%
grThe soldiers in the grand review at WASH
ington, if marshaled thirty abreast in solid DOL
umn. would extend Az miles.
% The Chickering's of Boston have given
one Of their grand pianos to the Chicago Sani-
.tary Fair, .as 'Aos = Il. er, ~ sesl
s Ey Booth, 0rsini, and Charlotte Corday, all |
selected April l4th for their assassinations, COM
pleted or purposed. assas -.
~ 1t is proposed to enlarge the Music Hall at
Boston about thirty feet on the Bloomfield St.
end, at an estimated cost of $50, 000.--- Eo 4
EHon Mark H. Dunnell recently Of this
| city, is now settled in Winona, Mimi. where he
is praeticing law. a y swm
Wool for which the owner last winter re- 4
fused one dollar pound, has recently been sold |
in New Hampshire for sixty five cents -
gT Gen. Howard is authorized to grant free
transportation to such southern refugees as are
unable to pay their way home. s2asi .sls
| Y Hon. Charles Sumner isexpectedl to give
the address at the dedication Of the Mann Statue 4
- The sale of the sketches Of the late John
Leech has realized about $20, 900 for his family,
and the Queen has addeda modest pension. S
The State Department is advised that the
King Of the Netherlands has rescindedl the con-
csssion of belligerent rights granted four years
ago to the rebels. eAI1A flsas
E The Bangor Whig learns that Joseph
Treat, esq, formerly Of that city, but new Of
New York, has given thousand dollars to
Wateryille college. =gn
81 Queen Victoria has granted pension
OF sl4o yearto William Hewitt, for the long
and valuable literary 1abors Of himself and Mrs.
Hewitt. as...s. 81. .,.
RWm Buckminster, esq, formerly editor
of the Massachusetts, Ploughman, died at Franz
ingham,s on Friday, at the age Of eighty-one
years. ssaN sssfS .eess SIRE 70 -eess 4sai N
Hon. Horace Maynard is a candidate for
the Vacancy on the Supreme Bench occasioned
by the death of Judge Catron.
L HThe proprietors Of the stock yards, and
the stock dealers at Chicago have resolved to
abandon business on Sunday, and to prevent the
shipping Of lives on that day. sadt
sln ~ At shop window in London there lately
appeared the following notice: 'sWanted two
apprentices, who will be treated as one Of the
family 1ss Ali I'VE sA@fsa Az
4 E Eight citizens and three soldiers broke
into the medical purveyor's department. in Ches-
ter, S. c., and drank themselves to death Of
antimonial wine, mel susY seeI
20 There is a boy in an insane asylum ct
Hartford, hopelessly insane from knowledge
a Of the suffering and consequent death Of his
father in the rebel prison at Andersonville.
- The Sanitary Commission in Boston, has
established claim agency to secure soldiers
back pay, bounties, pensions. a 60, free Of
charge =
NSsa BTS9ks as las Seen s APPOINTED
Naval Agent at San Francisco. ae ,ee,
+ ~ Attorney Gen. Speed has received over
three hundred applications for pardon from
civilians who desire to profit by the amnesty
proclamation. "a aos "a +,
q B-Mrs. Fl. B. Stoves daughter was married
10 -
Episcopal clergyman Of Boston. The ceremony
occurred at church, crowded with fashion. iasap
GB- The Pope Of Rome was seventy-three
years old on the 18th Of May, and on the 10th
Of this month will reach the nineteenth year Of
his ponti6cate. bassssg q saz.S.1-es
l1ss B-The Georgia and Mississippi delegations
have both informed the President that they
4 shall do all in their power to restore the
authority of theaUnion in their respective
States SKg2B0 2A3AEHa
Ia 1.-THE 4th Of July Committee in Bangor
have secured mammoth tent in Boston, 200
feet long and 80 wide, in which the Grafton will
slsbe prononnced and the collation. served. Hon.,
Hannibal Hamlin delivers the Grafton.
,ls eve cannot insult our readers by following
/ a contemporary in his obscene illusions. He Is
welcome to the whole field in that department Of
controversy. We have no ambition to show the
sharpness Of our wit by any such display.
- 81 The enlisted men of the LIST Me. Heavy
Artillery, just sent home, were received in Ban
gor on Sunday morning, treated to q tne colla-
ton, and welcomed by speeches from Mayor
Dale, Hon. H. Hamln and others es W. +.
- Gen. Grant 10 positively expected to be
IN Saratoga, Philadelphia and Albany, and we
know not how many other places, on the 4th Of
July. 1t is hoped the Lieut.. General is not to be
divided into sections, yuw 80
Albert Pike, the Arkansas poet is said
to bewritlng the history Of the rebellion An
exchange remarks that it does not know where
be is at work, but fear sit will be done from!Pikes
pique. Z. -
| RThe combined Church Choirs of Sand 4
wich, Mass, recently gave a concert in the new
! Catholic Church, in that town, the proceeds of
| which were in aid Of the effort to furnish that
edifce. ~. iias, IN y, 4 ~ " sis s.l. as9g
!. EY Or. VIM. Whelan, Chief Of the Naval Blu \
reau Of Medicine and Surgery, ,.died Saturday
morning at Washington, aged S. he was q
son-in-law Of Hon. Albert Smith, formerly of
this city. y, ~ 80. sa 5s9sas s.slslqae3
UrThirty-fve rebel prisoners were released
from Fort Warren on Saturday last, ON taking
the oath ofsofice. They we're provided with
transportation, and Immediately left for their
homes.
81 RiAletter frum St. Johns, n. B. says there
were only FIVE days in May that were not rainy,
and the rise Of the river has swept away nearly
all the booms, carrying hundreds Of thousands
Of dollars, worth of timber quito, sea.
@The n, Y, Commercial ,-advertiser in |
quires for DeBow, the great; census man, and
says "a new volume of statistics from DeBow. |