The Portland daily press., 1865-03-30
ORIGINAL AM, SELECTED.

- sister OF Gen. Grant died, few days
ago, at her residence in Covington, KY.
% An average of $3.50 day is paid to rebel
deserters for the muskets they bring in.
~ What kindof nonsense is sometimes indis-
pensablei Sine qua nonsense.
- Springfield. Mass, ladies are organizing
"Home for Friendless Women.''
EMO faithful workman finds his task pas
time We must all toll or steal-no matter how
we name cur stealing. -.zs ll.l.z
B Advices from st. Jago speak of the
funeral of Virginia Whiting Lorini, which had
taken place in the cathedral there.
. The next session of the East Maine Con-
ference of the M. E. Church will commence at
Hampden, May II, Bishop Baker presiding
BThe Whig says that owing to the dis
placement of rail an engine and smoking car
were thrown from the track of the Oldtown road
on Monday. No person was injured. -
R-The merchants of Nassau are selling army
blankets for eight dollars bale, or about sixty
cents pair. The blockade business is gone
under ~ laagl sass8fsttat hr "a
BThe Italian Chamber Of Deputies has de-
clared by $50 against 81 votes in favor of abol-
ishing the penalty of death for crimes committed
under the common law.
9The Courier des Etats Unss states that
the Queen of England has conferred the title of
Knight Of the Order of the Bath on Mr.. Archi-
bald, the British Consul-General in New York.
3 Ex-senator c. Clay returned lately from
his mission to England, with Intelligence that
his efforts were complete failure. Eng
land would have nothing to do with the confed-
eracy. VIZ ltIaA ,if +.,-s
- Bishop E. S. james of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, has been appointed by the Ameri-
can Bible Society delegate to attend the ami
versary of the British and Foreign Bible Society
in May next. "a 6fe 5ssds i87is a.s1s. {
EThe Freewil Baptist Sabbath School in
Bangor, says the Wing, has furnished since the
war commenced, torty-ive men for the army,
seven of the number to fill the last quota of that
city.
- Hon Fernando Wood and family will leave
for Europe in the steamer City of London on
the FIRST of April. Mr.. Wood purposes to make
the tour of the continent, and will be absent
about six months. m ig5.
HA sister of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is
teaching school in Charleston. Mr.. Beecher
has been invited to deliver an address at Fort
Sumter on the 14th of April, at the re-erection
of the old flag that was struck four years ago.
% The magnificent sword presented to Gen.
Fooker by the citizens of California, costing
over five thousand dollars, was delivered to him
at New York, few days since, by Senator Con-
ness of that State.
u
u Kennedy, the hotel-burner, who was exc
cuted in New York on Saturday, was brutal,
hardened wretch, and betrayed the depth of his
depravity by singing flash song while stand
ing upon the gallows with the rope around his
| neck.
II Rev. Evan NJ. johnson, rector of St.
Michaefs Church, Brooklyn, N. Y, died on
Sunday, March 10, aged seventy-three He was
the Oldest settled minister of the Protestant Eps
copal Church in the state. During his ministry
he had married nearly four thousand couples,
and baptized nearly ten thousand children. ~ &
- By reference to our Augusta letter it will
be seen that Gov Cony has appointed Fast Day
for Thursday. April Doth. We wish our loyal
Governors would have little respect for tele-
graphic night operators, and make Fast Day
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neous respite from waiting and watching. e-
~ There is man out West who claims to
cure disease by laying ON hands. That is moth
ing marvellous. We have ourself says the
editor of the Bangor Wing, when young, beer
cured of moral oblquities by the laying on Of
the parental hand severely. Is our Bangor
friend quite sure he was cured ss
HThe Lewiston Journal says Mrs. Martha
Hussey, Mrs. Susan Cotton, and John Craw
ford, all of Lisbon, have been committed to Au-
FAINT last SPRING the offspring 81 nj au al ssj jn
and the said Crawford, Mrs. Cotton being priv,
to the crime, and having recently divulged it t.
wreak her vengeance upon the other parties
The story has about it an air of improbability
which remains to be cleared away or confirmed
by legal investigation.
90 Do the Portland aholsale merchants do
justice to themselves and their city in the way
advertisingf They advertise in the country
papers thinking thus to reach the country mer
chants. This is all well SO far as it goes, but W,
can assure them, after an experience in dali,
paper of nearly tea years, that the surest way t.
reach the country merchants is through the dali,
city papers The Daily Press, for example
calculates in all the counties of the state amons
this class, who take it on purpose to keep postet
in relation to prices, stocks and facilities fo
trade in this city. ga word to the wise," Sc.
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