The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-03-24
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Senate, is very i'll, of bronchitis.
The increase of thepopulation OF Lonuon'
in the ten years, between 1881 ana iooi' was
45O 600.
E The endowments given to American
Colleges within two years amount to 81 ST.
900.
EAmericans eat great deal Of opium 1t
took $685., 1897 to pay the cost Of the importa-
ton in the year ending June 30, 1862.
RThe salary of Rev A. c. Adams, pastor of
High Street Church, Auburn, has been raised to
$780,
- The Cleveland Plaindealer, the only
democratic paper in Northern Ohio, is no more.
1t advocated the merits of Mr.. Vallandigham.
EA movement is on foot in Philadelphia to
raist fund in aid of the refugees now coming
into our lines from the rebel armies.
II The grist -four mill of Jesse Small at Far
mington Falls, was destroyed by fire on Tues
day evening. Loss $4,000. Insurance $780,
RThere was fine Buck Show in Farming
ton last week, bringing together large num-
Der of agriculturists and wool-growers.
VCharleston was deserted before its eyacua-
ton by the old white families. Some $4,000
people remained, two-thirds of them negroes
and the remainder foreigners.
Within short time three bona .fde Ger
man counts, one Irish baronet, two Greeks Of
high degree and one Turk have been enlisted in
New York.
EAll new dies made at the y. s. Mint for
ceining money are to bear as national motto,
s'In God we Trust" in accordance with special
act of the last Congress. M
ECalifornia has seventy three weekly, two
semi-monthly, six monthly, seven semi-weekly,
three tri-weekly and eighteen daily publica-
tons
EMessrs. Peabody and Rolf at Princeton.
have building nearly ready and the machinery
purchased for woollen factory in that place,
which they will have in operation in May
GFThe Chicago Tribune says that one of the
female teachers in the DEARBORN School in that
city is accustomed to punish her scholars for
slight offences by compelling them to eat black
pepper.
r The Pennington Chronicle says Mrs.
Staples, a lady "a years of age, residing at Flag
staff Plantation, during the last summer, spun
$50 skeins of yarn, wove $50 yards of cloth, got
in ~ webs for another person, besides sewing,
knitting, and housework.
EThe Union men of Charleston, Penobscot
county, have succeeded in shaking off the weight
of Secession which has been hanging upon them
since the breaking out of the rebellion. At the
last election they succeeded in electing a full
Union board of town officers.
9-It is announced that the Rev. John F.
Mines has been deposed from the Episcopal
ministry, by the Bishop of Maine, in accordance
with a canon Of the church, he having declared
in writing his renunciation of the ministry, and
his design not to oficiate in future.
BThe Whiq says petition is being ciroula-
ted in Bangor for the pardon Of Woodbine. the
colored man who was sentenced to the State
Prison from that city dozen or fifteen years
ago. We believe his sentence was for life. War
den Rice feels confident that Woodbine has re-
formed completely and viii never again relapse
into his old habits. sfe = A1f51oN y
EAmong the prisoners Of State removed
from Fort Lafayette to Fort Warren last week,
was George W. Lamb Buckley. M. D !, president
ef the K. G. c. His friends had made an attempt
70 have him released, On --~--as that his
u6dltu was lbuluS 1dot, uue hOe ouOOOOuAhE IN
this, they have caused writ of habeas corpus
to be served on Gen. Dix in New York.
RThe Calais advertiser states that a Com
pauy styled the &c Barring Woollen Manufac-
turing Company" has been chartered by the
Legislature the past winter. And preparations
| are being made for the erection of the Factory
and the commencement of active operations
early in the spring as soon as the ice is out
of the river. The Factory is to be located at
Barring.
RMoses Woolson, ESQ.,, formerly Principal
of the Girls High School in this city, and more
recently Principal of the Woodward High School
in Cincinnati, has accepted the position of Prin-
cipal of the High School at Concord, N. H.
The reason that induces Dir. W. to make the
change is the hope that the health of his family
may be improved by change of climate. He
is expected to enter upon his duties at Concord
next week. ..s
RItis stated that by the disobedience of a
| lad in 1909. garden gate in Rhode Island was
left open; a pig got in and destroyed few
plants; quarrel between the owners of the pig
and the garden grew out of it, which spread
among their friends, defeated the Federal candi-
dates to the Legislature, and gave the State a
Democratic Senator, by whose vote war was
declared in 1912, with Great Britain. This shows
what great resalts spring from small causes
| CT The Portland Advertiser" claims that
there is a gentleman" in Franklin Comfy 'swho
has voluntarily entered upon the work of ex-
tending the circulation of the advertiser"
| WE'LL if that is so, he is a more pitiable object
VIC would halavo tn nbaIs 1srrIta
county. He must be an imported specimen. If
that gentleman" should at any time conclude
| to quit his voluntary employment, and turn
his attention to robbing hen-roosts, we should
say he had begun gradual reformation, which,
if persevered in, would in time make him q re-
spectacle citizen Harrington Chronicle.
RThe commander of the rebel ram Stone
wall, before leaving Paris, where consultation
was held with the rebel agents, declared that his
vessel was perfectly competent to cross the
ocean, and that she was going to leave Ferrol at
once and fight the Federal vessels watching him
off that port The Spaniards have mounted
quite heavy battery on the border of the port
where the hostile vessels are lying, and they de-
clare the intention of having their neutrality
respected. n biss 4.ts4}s ilTs,4s4 Z.
ETA show of Japanese figures was opened
| 80 4 q r.f :
last week in New Haven. On Saturday night
there was on audienceof sixteen persons present
On Sunday the janitor of the hall heard an un-
usual disturbance but paid no attention to it,
until Monday. when, on opening the hall, the
images and boxes were found broken and
streved around thehall They had been exhibi-
ted in San Francisco with considerable success,
butt is supposed that the proprietor, disguised
with the prospect of q tour through New Eng
land, thus summarily disposed of his stock.
RA grocerhas just arrived in Washington
from Richmond. He accounted for his depart
ure by giving the following list of some of the
prices in the rebel capital at the time he left:
Flour, $500 per barrel; potatoes, SIS per bu. !;
fresh beef, $40 per pound; butter, $40; bacon,
$l5; eggs, $25 per dozen; molasses, $50 per
gallon: brandy S2Of. annles Gam nav h..,.I .