The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-23
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oiiuio u III Lewiston, was laid yesterday
%, Inc eontiagration caused by the firing OF
lne ? oetnern neart seems to be going out, for
want OF fuel Boston Adv. 60
% me bangor Democrat predicts success to
sumIder campaign.
-, i ~, reorganizng the reyelted
States has been laid upon the table in the House
the usual way Of killing off measure.
81 ufant has been extending his lines We
want to see the rebel chiefs extending their lines
about six feet each ~ T w z
% II is reported as the impression of Gen.
Grant that the rebels are preparing to give up
Richmond at an early day
- a Paris letter of the Sd inst saws that the
family Of Minister Adams had just arrived from
London, on the way to Italy.
% An effort will be made to induce the Senate
to act upon the bankrupt bill before adjourn
ment, but its fate is doubtful. M
% The Paris Monde announces that ssOueen
Victoria has resolved to confer the title Of Baro
net on the Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson.
% A genius down east has invented a new
kind OF dwelling. They are made of India
rubber, and are so portable that you can carry
row OF three story houses in your hat. ia
90 Some one remarked to Mrs. Siddo;,s that
applause was necessary to actors as it gave them
confidence. "More," replied the actre SIS; cit
gives BREATH
80 Greenhorn desires to know why crock
ery-ware dealers are unlike all other storekeep-
ers ? And adds, very innocently, because it
won't do for them to crack up their goods p
ga man being asked, as he lay summing
himself on the grass, what was the height of his
mbtion, replied, 'To marry a rich widow with
bad cough.'' wsf .s5r 7,df
BA Norwich paper speaks of the steamer
City of New London blowing through the ice on
the sound, when it was q foot thick That is q
pretty tough story
HrIf the spirit of Washington was around
yesterday, and had good ear for music, 1t must
have been terribly annoyed by the fsh-horn ser
enade kept up during the live-long day.
u Mr.. George N Weymouth of Skowhegan,
attempted to commit suicide one day last week
by taking poison. Prompt application of the
proper remedies However saved him.
- Senator Sprague of Rhode Island has
made speech in the U, 5. Senate in which he
favors theright of suffrage to the negroes of the
| South. aa
~ The little town ofBenson in Vermont,
has furnished five pastors over the Congrega-
tional churches in Maine within the last hall
century.
To cure ssfelon. AS soon as the part
begins to swell, get the tincture of lobelia, and
wrap the part affected with cloth, saturate il
thoroughly with the tincture, and the felon will
soon ''die.''
HThe editor of the Portsmouth Chronicle
carries his antipathy to tobacco to a very great
length He don't want tobacco using custo-
mers; prefers they should not defile his Office by
coming in to buy papers! ~
B Admiral Buchanan of the rebel navy, who
was captured at Mobile, has passed through
New York on his way to Washington in charge
of an officer. Nothing is known of the object
of his trip to the capital.
Those persons who are anxious that the
buildings of Charleston should be destroyed
and the streets uptorn, remind one of little
blrefooted boys who will turn to and kick and
pound the stone against which they stub their
unprotected toes. ~. ,.s.,
/. gR-It is stated that the. President in con-
versation with friend, while going down the
Bay to meet the rebel commissioners, remarked
$50 long as l am President, no peace shall be
4ndue WHICH uOeS NOT save the Union anu keep
our promise to the slaye.'' eaqsst
RA little girl employed in a paper mill al
Westville, Conn, lately found 800 in greenbacks
in e pamphlet brought from Washington, which
the proprietor generously allowed her to keep,
and with it her mother completed the payment
on house in which she lives. lse
THE editor of the Oxford Democrat says,
GIVE hava oevor known tha rofe 90 rIan+x, =, +h;s
vicinity as now, especially in the ladies' head
dresses. They are full of them, and in spite Of
the cold weather, aUaterfalls are to be seen ev-
erywhere.' .
e The rebel papers print the letter of a pro-
slavery democrat in Minnesota, named T. W
Sherman, which was written in 1860, supposine
him to be Gen, Sherman, The general is W. T.
Sherman, and, if heever went for hanging abo-
litionists. it does not follow that he cannot nov
consistently shoot traitors, as the rebs seem to
suppose.-[Springfeld Republican.
% According to present indications Port.
land will have TO pay only about 1880 900 OF
the State tax for the present year. Bangor
with half our population will pay 800, 900 and
Bath with little more than half of Bangor,
will pay Ss8,000. So figures the Lewiston
Journals Augusta correspondent.
TA friend at our elbow inquiries if the cap.
euhOO VI OAoiAOolOu huu JIG I0llStdluutuL VI b1k
flag on Sumter are not events of an unpleasant
nature to the Argus. He asks, because that paper
yesterday morning had nothing to say about
thosesmall matters over which nation is re-
oicing. k8 A&A M I'D
ROur Canadian friends are doing nobly to
vindicate themselves from charge of completely
with the rebel despoilers of American commerce
and American towns. No matter what individ-
no WI f1,sn
ment and the more intelligent class of people
are doing all that seems possible for them to do
to preserve peace and neutrality as well.-[0s-
wego Adv. esv9 Fsda
10 Mrs H. c. Conant, lady who has gained
a wide reputation as a writer of great ability,
and whose contributions to literature have been
numerous and valuable, died in Brooklyn on
Saturday last, Mrs, Conant was the wife of the
Rev, Dr. Thomas J. Conant, an eminent Orient
/ alist and Biblical Scholar, end was the daughter
of the late Rev. DR.. Jeremiah Chaplin for many
! years President of the Waterville College
ID The construction Of the projected railway
from Jaffa to Jerusalem and the Jordan, has
been conceded to an American named DR.. Zm-
pie, who has been for several months seeking
permission from the Porte of Turkey to build it,
with special reference to the return of the Jews to
Palestine, which he believes is to take place in
few years. The estimated cost of the road is
So, 100000.
81 The tone Of the rebel press and of Mr.
Davis's speech at Richmond now is as fierce and
incorporating as it ever was; and there is a
renewal of the old VOWS as to dying q thousand
deaths rather than give up the independence of
the oonfederacy. Hence, if the views of Mr..
Davis be the judgment of the South, there can
be no peace. The North would be united in &C
cepting twenty years war rather than give up
the unity Of this great country and thus sinking
down to the level of the little Mexican republic.
and then toaccept, perhaps, a like ate.-[ Boston
Post. ~ ~
80 The Senate has had the good sense to kick
the dog tax bill out door How supremely YER
dant to tax dogs for the purpose of protecting