The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-01-10
soRIGINAL AND SELECTED.

EThe late Mr.. Watkin Lees of Dukinfeld,
has left 81 600 by will to Mr. Golden, M. P.
- Eighty shipwrecks were reported last
week
BThe deaths in New York city last year are
reported at %, 654--an increase of 45S over the /
preceding year.
- We understand that the Old Oaken Buck
et,''-the new forthcoming Temperance paper,
will be issued in the course of a few weeks.
II 1t has been suggested that the reason for
theexplosion of Porter's Parrott guns was that
they were not kept properly cleansed.
gyrThe lobby interest begins to predict that
the bill abrogating the reciprocity treaty will
not pass Congress at this session.
% The President stated Saturday that he
had not appointed John c. Fremont nor any
one else to the French mission. 1883 =
20 Tne Boston Post says of Hon. VIM. Pitt
Fessenden, that ''both as Treasurer and polti-
clan his credit is excellent"
- A Yankee has invented a machine by
which topper can tell when he is sufficiently
drunk. 1t is called '.fuddleometer."
! 81 Rags are free of duty, and yet their i'm
portation is prohibited by the high rates Of ex-
change.
H0ne man pays for pew in Mr.. Beecher's
church, at Brooklyn, $500 year, or $40 Sab
bath.
~ The Boston Transcript speaks in high
praise of Miss Kate Reynolds. now playing at
the Museum in that city for the fourth season. y
RThe January thaw, which commenced ON
Saturday, came to an untimely end. It froze to
deoth before Sunday morning. %
BA Washington paper insists that the car
cass of q horse left for several days upon the
sidewalk in thatcity, is nuisance. 1s95
RGov. Cannon of Delaware, in his annual
message, urges upon that state the Importance
of emancipation. ge w e.a q i@ ~
B-Sir Morton Peto, the great railway con-
tractor, says he seldom has in his employment
less than 80, 900 men at one time.
81 The Richmond Sentinel says that the
Augusta Chronicle is manifestly working for
submission to the north.
~ Col Dennis of the Hallowell House. has
commenced running an hourly stage between
Gardiner and Augusta. wk .@
BGov. Andrews Message is SO intolerably
long that large number of the, papers in the
state decline to publish it. eosa % s7sA
in 1864 was eight and half million, in 1861
one hundred and seventy-eight and a half mill
lion. = ~ ~ q
90 The actual decrease in the currency dur
ing the month of December, is said to be. about
S4,e000OO, caused mainly by the absorption and
redemption of per cent notes.
Congressional and hotel gossip at Wash
ington believes that Ex-Governor Boutwell, has
| the inside track for succession in the Treasury
| Department. g-s pug 7"
9The Newburyport Herald says no more
competent man to succeed Mr.. Fessenden in the
Treasury Department, can be found in the loyal
states, than Ex-Gov. Boutwell,. m
~ The Prince of Wales, it is said, finds it
uphill work to live on his present annual State
allowance, 100000, about 100000. Poor
fellow TFrl.@a fTt gID
| ~ The friends of Vice President Hamlin, says
dispatch to the Boston Herald, are urging
him for the French Mission. He may receive
the compliment of being rendered it. 8 ser9
| 81 We receive only atrs-tveeFty pape. -r.s..
the Journal office at Augusta We will be
grateful to our friends in that office for regular
daily copy. Z 0
~ Mrs. Lincoln has discharged the old door,
keeper at the White House, who has occupied
the post ever since the time of President jack
| son. =. 81 LI u VI r. 81 ~
THE Tribune, in describing the city of
Savannah, informs its readers that sat every
circular or oDal shape.s' M aee es
H Hon. A. H. Bullock, who is to deliver one
of the lectures of the Independent Course in
this city, is said to be one of the most eloquent
men in Massachusetts,. ssi. e 6Bs ~
81 Rev. ]. G.. Fletcher was present at s'the
opening of a house at Pompeii, and is now lee
turing upon its appearance. A queer place for q
house-warming. 8
| e Petroleum companies that offer $25 in
stock for $5in bank notes, agreeing to make no
further calls or assessments, should be regarded
with a great deal of suspicion. r7
EThe New York Evening Post urges an
underground railroad in that city. There are
many things there that had better be under
| ground, and some of them move on two legs.
| RThe Augusta editors put on airs since the
Augusta House has been enlarged und improv-
ed. Wedon't blame them, for it is acredit to the
capital of the state.
| H A lawyer, who was remarkable for coming
into Court with dirty hands, observed that he
had been turning over Coke. "Coke!'' exclaim-
4 ed waggish brother, IT should have thought
1 it was coal.''
/ HThe Inaugural Address of the Mayor Of
Lawrence makes eight long newspaper columns
The Address of the Mayor of Baltimore makes
nine close columns. What on earth are we COM
ing toibas sga ls7 Hie esse ~
| RThe organ for the new Uniyersalist church
came within one of being on board the Potomac,
and suffering destruction with that steamer 1t
was to be shipped on board thenext steamer from
New York after the Potomac left q 'as 9qs .s
| An old actor, Louis Kramer, has Just died
| at Geneva, Switzerland, in a singular way. He
was playing King Lear, and in his excitement
swallowed portion of his artificial beard which
stuck in the windpipe and choked him. a.
| y The telegraph has informed us of the ar
rest for disloyalty, of 'sDraid, of the New York
World. We have a vague suspicion the "Dion'
| of paper nearer home, is in the same cell with
| ssDruid'' e-' ssT s-,4.-.a
20 Savannah is said to show more loyal feel
ing than any city vet conquered from rebeldom.
A brother of the rebel General Hardee is resi-
dent of Savannah, and is said to be warmly in
favor of restoration Of the Union.
j. - The Globe Bank. Boston, is good one to
retire from, and no doubt good one to serve
1t has presented to its retiring President, Mr.
Sargent. apiece Of silver plate, and to Charles
Sprague, the poetical cashier, $5000.-[Provi-
dence Journal.
B man, noted for his calmness and scold
ing wife, was one night stopped in the woods by
pretended ghost. IL can't stop, my friend,'
SAID he IF you are q man, must request you
to get out of theway, and let me pass If YOU
are the DEVIL come along and take supper, for l
married your sister,"
E19-Sala SAVE ain all seri c,rsness and OH;