The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-27
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BThe spotted fever-a malignant disease
has been prevailing in Palmer, Ma
% The late Rev. Cyril Pearl, we see it stated,
had an insurance on his life for $4,000.
% The rebel papers remark that the sIion'
Beauregard is in Sherman's path. The lion
seems so far to be as harmless as poodle
- Mr.. Daniel Fletcher, for several years a
policeman in Bath, but recently of the 9th Me-,
died short time since on his way home.
80 The eldest son Of Maior-General Meade
died in Philadelphia on Tuesday, alters long
illness. terminating in consumption
90 The Spring St. Baptist Society of Au-
burn, has raised 81 200 to found two scholar
ships in Watervile College.
- Wendell Phillips, in his lecture at Brook
Ign, New York, on Wednesday evening, eulo-
gized Gen. Sherman as the prince of democrats
and the modest of our generals.
- special dispatch to the Boston Herald
says tbs learned that the President has finally
rendered the appointment of Secretary of the
Treasury to Mr.. McCulloch.
RThe Brunswick Telegraph learns that the
Mansion House at Cundy's Harbor, Harpswell,
has been purchased by parties for the purpose
of converting it into +. w. Baptist meeting=
house.
- Some of our wide-awake citizens who
have been to the oil regions are SO completely
saturated with the atmosphere they have been in
that you can smell petroleum before you get near
enough to hear their voice.
| - They have on exhibition at Working
mems Association in London, an alarm clock
which on strikingthe hour appointed, lights a
lamp and boils pot.of coffee or tea while the
workman is dressing.
| "a Invitations have been issued for grand
soiree at Rossini's house. The great maestro has
allowed the secret of new opera to transpire,
of which, it is said in the musical world, he in
tends to allow his friends to judge on the evening
in question.
B-The Boston Uaiysrsalist states, in com
munication from Maine, that the organ for the
new church in Congress Square, in this city,
will contain $500 stops Isn't that rather ex-
travagant? The writer should have said pipes
instead of stops
| - The Richmond Enquirer gives a report
that Sherman has fianked Beauregard and got
to the northward of his army, 1t complains of
the croakers in Richmond, and says they are
going abroad saying there was the devil to pay
and that the oonfedsraoy had gone up
| 80 The new Congregationalist church at
| Rumford' IS Point will be dedicated on the Sth of
| March next. The house is a very neat and con-
! yenient edi6ce, containing a. news, and has been
erected at a cost of about $4,000. It will be
| provided with neat cabinet organ -[Demo-
| crat.
81 David 6. earle Of Auburn, has suddenly
decamped for California, without giving notice
| to his creditors who are rather numerous he
sailed in the steamer that left last Monday. He
owes about $4,000, as we are informed, in this
vicinity, chiefly in Auburn. One firm were his
endorsers for $780, Journal.
- George Thompson gave lecture in Mon
treal, the 22d inst, on the civil war in America,
its sources and its consequences. Although the
charge for admission was twenty-five cents,
Mechanics Hall was crowded. The lecture was
highly successful and received with much en-
thusiasm. Many ladies were present to grace
the occasion.
| % The st. Lawrence Hall bar-room, Mon
treal, was a scene of much excitement few
evenings since. The st. Adams raid case was
the subject in dispute, and a Canadian making
some remarks, the Southerners turned upon him
and bowie knives and revolvers were drawn, but
a stop was put to the ARRAY before any blood
was shed. Cur Canadian negAbors will have
more than they want of southern life, if they
don't send the Confederate rascals out of their
country under the alien act