The Portland daily press., 1865-06-03

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folk, Virginia. AAt k4sb9 $500 klS&t
.H-Rev. E. B. Webb of Boston, formerly of
Augusta, will deliver the grafton before the P.
K. Fraternity, at the Commencement at Bow
doin College. s 49, kae rF k
R Soda fountains have been introduced upon
some Of the western railroads. Whisky skins
and rum pauncheons are to be met with in the
oars of almost every railroad rnis#s
81 Mi. E. Whittlesey, formerly professor
in Bowdoin College, has been appointed by Gen.
Howard State Superintendent under his Bureau,
for the state of Mississippi.
RThe Pennington Chronicle says Messrs.
Ball & Richardson of Indian Rock, have just
captured the greatest specimen Of bear ever
seen on our northern borders. tssA
RAccording to the Democrat good many
improvements are going on in Bethel in the way
of building, especially upon the recently burnt
district
gThe body Of young White. recently drown
ed at Gardiner, has been found. II rose to the
surface of the water near the spot where he was
las seen.
81 An engine company in Bath, officers and
men, have Joined the Sons Of Temperance. If
this example should generally be followed,
"Mose' would soon find his occupation gone.
HA Washington dispatch s,ys it is under
stood that in the quarrel between Sherman aod
Stanton the President takes firm ground in de-
fence of Secretary Stanton
~ Bishop Potter, (Episcopal) Of New York,
has published pastoral address TO his clergy,
urging them to abstain from fraternizng with
ministers of other denominations, as it is con-
trary 10 the Laws Of the chu CHI. BEL
EThe National Division, Sons of Temper
ance, meets in New Haven, on Wednesday, June
18th. The Representatives Hall, in the State
House, has been rendered for holding the
session.
EE-The New York Hrorld which outdid it.
self in abuse of Andrew Johnson when he was
Vice President, now says that 1.-THE country has
reason to congratulate itself that this high
minded statesman is at the head OF AFFAIRS
R-Says the Farmington Chronicle, the aver
age price of land without buildings, within q
mile or two of that village, is one hundred dol
lars an acre. Intervale land anywhere in the
town is worth quite as high figure.
Br"Subscriber'' is respectfully informed that
before we advertise gratuitously the reduction
in price of metropolitan paper, such paper
must show "decent respect" for the ordinary
rules Of exchange among publishers.
RWhen Regain asked permission to accom-
pany Davisto Washington, and expressed his
obligations on receiving it, Gen. Wilson said to
him: s'Ycu are under no obligations, sir, for
should have sent you whether you wanted to
go or not"
- b. B. French, Esq, of Washington, con-
tradicts the report that the late President Lin
coin was Free Mason, but says thst he was
the most pure-minded. honest, upright man
he ever knew, and ought to have been o
Mason. $500
H"The Pioneer Boy" which describes the
early life of Abraham Lincoln, has been pub
lishel in modern Greek at Athens, as the first of
series designed to illustrate and explain our
Republican institutions to the inhabitants of
Greece
81 Judge Bond of the criminal court of
Maryland. has decided that the orphans courts
have no right to apprentice negro children,
on the ground that apprenticeship is moth
ing but slavery, which the constitution has abol-
ished.
e. The Hallowell Gazette says Major E.
Rowell of that city has rendered his resignation
as Paymaster in the Army, under the proyis on
of General Order for the reduction of num-
Der of officers rendered necessary in consequence
of the sudden collapse of the rebellion.
The Argus in almost every number has
some fling at the "ex-p arson of the Press, and
SO common has TINS lxaA .,as ;sp srsssio,
is becoming very prevalent that the argus itself
is edited by an ex-gentleman. We think that
editor sustains another sex" relation, not very
creditable to his domestic qualities.
- The editor of the Piscataquis Observer
has been presented with hens egg that meas
ures eight inches in circumference. The hens in
his region have evidently past the crisis of the
hard times, and are determined to set an eggs
ample of fair dealings in their business trans
actions.
H-It is said that Benz. F. Wade, Jas R.
Doolittle and Simon Cameron have Jointly pur-
chased one Of the great cotton plantations in
South Carolina. The Kennebec Journal sug-
gests that as matter of taste, if not of pro-
prety, the first two gentlemen had better be in
some other business.
B The WHO says that on Wednesday last
the Trustees of the Agricultural College male
an examination of the Nourse Farm in Orring-s
ton, one of the finest in the State, which it's
owner has generously rendered to the College
provided the sum of $4,000 can be raised
by subscription to erect permanent buildings.
81 We saw woman the other day moving
load Of wood from the street to the house. Yet
this same woman has son, hei1thy and strong,
some sixteen or seventeen years of age, who
dresses we'll, and is daily on the streets without
employment We suppose the mother thought
II would hurt the poor boy to do such hard work.
Perhaps she takes the right way to bring up the
boy Il Bath Times.
II dog recently died in Brunswick whose
biographer says: "Were mankind as good tenn
pered as Odd Rove has been all his life, there
would be less quarreling in this world.'' It is
very evident that poor sold R,ve's" example
has been lost upon bis master, and that another
has been added to the many instances ON record,
in which death has struck down the flower of the
family.
81 Caterpillars, says the Pennington Chron-
fcte, were never known to be as plenty on apple
trees as at present, since the present generation
were observers. They are most numerous in
orchards where they were not destroyed last
year. One of the quickest ways to dispose of
nest of these pests, is TO shoot them off, hold
ing the muzzle of the gun. containing powder
only, within foot of the nest. They may be
easily burnt off with rag wound around the
end of pole, saturated with kerosene.
EThe ST. John Courier complains that the
young men of that Province cannot be kept at
home; thatas soon as they are old enough to
understand business they all leave for the
Estates" Saws the Courier, ''shipbnilders,
miners. mechanics, tradesmen and farmers, the
bone and siuew of the land, are leaving us in
scores, apd The sane is true of the population
of all the PROVINCES. The number from Canada
is said to be much larger this spring than ever
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