The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-11-08
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EB- Mrs. Lucinda Hall, of Springfield, b
Mass, died at the breakfast stable Sunday
morning week. She was the last of eight
children, seven of whom died suddenly in their
chats, the eighth being found dead in bed.
BB- Charles G. johnson, public school
teacher in Buffalo, has been fined $50 for out
rageously fogging boy.
BH A two thousand dollar horse ran against
a tree at Nashville and dashed his expensive
brains out. >,
BB- A whaling schooner arrived at Nan
tucket on the Both nit, from six months
cruise in the Atlantic, with cargo worth $16,-
0O0 Who says Nantucket cannot carry on the
whale-fishery !? ff.,t
30 An excellent landiady said she should
be pleased to have boarders like the Apostle
Paul, who said. "Eat what is set before you,
asking no questions for conscience sake
-ER- The Nashville Bonner in appealing for
charity to some portions of the South, speaks
as follows of the rebel private soldier "Well,
he fought the fight to the end, and he lost yes,
in addition to his suferings he lost. He came
home, not as he expected to come, crowned
with laurels, but ragged, careworn and ruined,
his means gone, his hopes crushed, his circle of
friends decimated, and his sweetheart, perhaps,
if he had one, married to a Quartermaster's
clerk IN the aiming service. Rather tough,
this, but true"
p BA- Much is said about the want of charity
at hotels. A pleasant refutation of such state
ments has just occurred at the Quincy House
in Boston, in the shape of a present by the
boarders, Of purse of S115 to an unfortunate
porter who, by a severe accident, has lost the
use of both his legs.
BBrAnother order has just been issued from
the War Department, mastering out seventeen
numbering altogether about 10000 men, and in
Guiding several regiments of colored troops
now serving in the Southern States.
EY- 1t is related as an instance of sharp
practice, that when one wing of the dominant
party in one of the Boston wards was about to
hold ratification meeting" somebody on the
other side got the janitor Of the ward room so
drunk that he could not find his key. The
meeting was postponed. "All is fair in poll
tics r. ( sz S4sE sAEE EzS Ok p
Us An article in New York paper favor
ing free trade, urges that if it is proper to send
to England for operatives when labor is scarce,
ufactures to send to England for manufactures
when they are scarce.
BB- Newspaper men have splendid oppor-
tunities to getrich. Those who are wiling to
advertise the Mexican, loan can pocket $50
Mexican bondsin payment Perhaps as an in
ducement for an extra notice, Fenian bonds
and Confederate notes might be thrown in.--
Who wouldn't be an editor
BJ- Wendell Phillips says in the same
breath that we owe our success to negro bavo-
nets, and that the South isvictorious. Does he
mean to say that the negro bayonets gave sue
cess to the South ?-[Springfeld Republican
| Vs. Two turrets for iron-clads recently sent
from the Atlantic works, East Boston, to Ports
mouth N. H, weighed 40 tons each, and each
contained about $40 pieces Of iron. ~ =
| EH- The Pittsfe1d Eagle learns that a COM
pany is soon to be formed in North Adams, for
the manufacture of waterfalls out of hogs bris-
ties and rat-tails.
Ii Ia Why is the Merrimac river like John
G. Whittier Because it is contributor to
the Atlantic.
Va THE Springfield Republican says: "Rev
Henry Ward Beecher, besides satisfying him
self while in Washington, by personal scruti-
ny, that the President is all right procured q
breyet lieutenant coionelcy for his son, Lieut.
Beecher, and pardon for Judge Grey, of Tex
as, in whom he is interested M 5s
B A party of young men, while digging
for roots some miles north of Vincennes Indi-
ana, discovered an old leather sack containing
| $1,000 in gold and $500 in silver. 1t is suppos-
ed that it had been concealed there by an old
man named Jones, who was sentenced to the
Penitentiary forty-two years ago for robbery.
ER Sydney Smith said of Lord Breugham
that he prepared himself for his Parliamentary
campaign "by living on raw beef drinking oil
of vitriol, and spending his spare time in play
ing with the tigers in the Geological Gardens"
GaF- The modest Barnum is in Washington
with petition, asking the President to issue a
circular letter to our foreign ministers and con-
suls requiring them to forward curiosities and
objects of natural history to his new museum,
on the ground that portion of it to be free
to the public. TTT USkfA
Eg- During the month of October the field
of Gett Tsburg was visited by thirteen Union
Generals who took part in the memorable bat
tie there.
EY- It has been stated that Robert E. Lee
the late commander of the rebel armies. had
made arrangements with New York publish
er to ring out his history Of the war.
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