The Portland daily press., 1865-02-17

thirty years since.
50 The Journal says Mr.. L. Hackett of Dam
vile, has lost all his children within ten days of
diptheria. Now Mr.. Hackett and wife are both
sick with the same disease.
90 The amount of money to be paid to the
workmen at the Kittery Navy Yard to-day
(Friday) is $ll9,2l0 The Chronicle says the
pay roll numbers $500 men.
81 The Board of Aldermen of Lowell by a
vote of five to three have instructed the City
Marshal to impartially enforce the liquor law in
that city.
80 The Unitarian society of Boston, of which
DR.. Bartol is pastor, lately contributed at COLI
lection in the church, over $1,000 for the Georgia
freedmen.
~ Montgomery Blair and Henry Winter
Davis are the competing candidates for the Mary
land senatorship, made vacant by the death of
Mr.. Hicks.
~ The Nashville papers say that Andrew
Jackson Donelson, candidate for Vice President
on the Fillmore ticket in 1856, has returned to
that city from the South, and taken the oath.
John Quincy Adams disputed the critic
who said the moral of Othello was to beware of
jealousy, and insisted the moral is that white
woman must not marry colored man.
There has been abundance of knavery at
the Navy Yard in Philadelphia, and already
5000 900 Of the ill-gotten gains of the knaves
has been restored to the Government
% Senator Wilson said in the Senate, last
week, that if Gen. Grant had had fifty or sixty
thousand more men last fall, he could have cut
Lees lines of communication and have destroyed
that army.
% The Assembly of New York have passed
bill for taking the evidence of married wo-
men; it provides that the same rules shall apply
for taking such evidence as if the women were
single.
BA patient in lunatic hospital at SIAM
ford, Eng, fancied that every meal he ate cost
him thousand pounds, and he could scarcely
be prevailed upon to eat anything. Finally he
staangled himself to death.
81 The New York Anti-Slayery Standard
agrees with Mr.. Garrison in advising the dis
solution of the anti-slavery societies. because
slavery is virtually dead and must be legally so
in few months.
81 Lincoln Lodge of Odd Fellows in Bath,
has voted to wind up, and. contrary to the
s'rules of the Order,'' has further voted to d.
vide its funds, amounting to $500 for each
member.
60 The little steamer Panama, which was
built in New York several months ago, and
afterwards taken to pieces and shipped to Pana-
ma, has been put together there and successfully
launched.
RThe experience of the recent terrible con-
fagration in Philadelphia has given rise to the
suggestion that the celebrated Greek fire of an
cient warfare may have been nothing more than
petroleum.
EThe Russian authorities are building six
teen monitors. They are built exactly accor-
ding to the American monitors of the Passaic
class, with the addition of some of the latest
improvements tested in this country.
ETA bearer of dispatches has arrived who
left Gen. Sherman about twenty five miles be-
low Branchville. He says the soldiers, and even
officers as high as division commanders, are all
ignorant of sherman's plan of campaign.
81 The Pennington Chronicle says Mr..
Joshua T. Leeman of New Sharon, on the Sd
inst, submitted to the very severe and hazar-
dous operation of an amputatiop of the hip
joint, The operation was performed by Dr.
Kimball of Lowell, Mass
UWea are under obigationst to Adjutant Gen.
eral Hodsdon for official reports Of casualties in
the 10th and Goth Maine Regiments, but find on
examination that we have published within a
few days even fuller reports from the respective
surgeons of those Regiments.
% The Gardiner Journal says little daugh-
ter of Mrs. Hog of that city, was SO badly
burned last Friday. as to caase her death on
Tuesday night in great agony. Her mother left
her for few moments, and she went to playing
with the fire which caught her dress.
- The Bath Times thinks Miss Dickinson is
becoming common scold, and that she would
do well to abandon the rostrgm and take the
sewing machine. We wouldn't answer for the
Times ears if Miss D. should get within reach
of them
10 The Boston Post says there is hermit
named Samuel Choate, 70 years OF age, living
on Green Island, Boston harbor. He has been
there twenty years, spbsisting on fish, Holsters,
and muscles. and what he obtains by selling a
few Holsters in the warm season.
- Says the Machias Union, copperhead,
''step by step oppression and despotism are en-
shaving thepeople." Wasn't the last great "srep''
designed to knock the shackles from the limbs of
two or three millions of peoplel and is not this
what's the matter" with our down east
friend ?
RMr. A. K. Moore formerly of skowheean.
was shot and instantly killed Saturday week at
Bristol, Tenn, where he then resided. by Can't
bennett, Assistant Quatermaster. Moore had
a quarrel with bennett and struck him when the
latter shot him. Mr.. Moore lesyes wife and
child
H"A An affair took place at Conway Centre,
N. H., on Monday evening last, in which the
ladies took q prominent part. The rum shop of
Mr.. J. Snow was broken into, his liquor spilled,
and kegs, jugs and bottles smashed I'M, The
poor man feels to mourn, but all respectable
citizens will rejoice" So writes a corresnon-
dent.
"a According to the modest allegations
certain free trade papers, large majority of
the United States Senators have been bouobt up
by the paper manufacturers. The authors of
such aspersions upon our best men only show
that they face their own looking-glasses when
they virtually charge that every man has his
price
BThe board of inquiry as to the cause of
the explosion of the magazine in Fort Fisher,
on the morning after its capture, have made
their report They found that intoxicated SOL
ders, sailors and marines were running about
with lights, searching for plumber, but few
minutes before the explosion took place. and
are of the opinion that it was caused by their
carelessness.-T to Boston Adv.
EGen. Butler and his Congressional reyiler
-"Jim Brooks"-both graduated at Wateryills
College. The former is a native of New Hamp-
shire, and the latter is a native of this city.
Report has stated that Butler paid his way in
college by bottoming chairs, and the Mail
once stated that, whatever might be the fact in