The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-03-10
OafgIvAL AND gKEECTFD.


gA farmer in Somerset county has recently
sold So. 900 worth of wool.
R-In some portions of the state hay is selling
at $40 ton.
The City Council of Augusta has author
lied the purchase of steam fire engine.
The Boston Post complains of the lack of
hotel accommodations in that city How sadly
deficient is Portland in this respect
B Mr. PARROT, inventor of the famous Par
rott gun, is understood to be dangerously sick at
West Point.
~ There have been no shipments of guns
from the Springfield arsenal for six weeks.
B'Parson Browlow has been elected Gov
ernor of Tennessee under the new free State
Constitution.
- The disbursements at the Kittery Navy
Yard, for wages and salaries alone, have amour
ted to over $s,6 900 during the past year.
% The Transcript this week is printed on
paper from the new mill at Yarmouth. We are
glad to hear of the success Of that enterprise.
q The Cape Breton .Nsws states that the ex-.
port of coal from that place during the year
1894 exceeds $4,000 tons,
~ Butter is declining in New York There
10 said to be more butter stored there than at
any previous time for the last twenty years.
- The toll bridge across the ~Androscoggin
at Lewiston, is to be free on and after the first
day Of April,
n Seventy-one rebel deserters arrived at
Washington on Tuesday, from City Point, and
one hundred and twenty more on Wednes-
day,
% The Fayetteville IN. CO. Telegraph has
IN account Of the burning Of the upper part of
building, in WHICH it deeply regrets to learn
that several barrels of -four were stored.
80 Its estimated that the oil product of We
mango county, Pa, is 49, 900 barrels daily, The
number of wells down and going down is between
three and four thousand
RThe Charleston Courier says that within a
few days anumbsr of the families who removed
beyond the city limits during the ''shelling sea-
son. are returning with their household goods
to town.
~ Brigham Young, in a recent speech at
Salt Lake City, alluded to the probability ofdf6-
Guilty with the United States authorities, and in
timated that in such a case the Mormons would
have assistance from the South.
| a Work on the California end of the Pacific
Railroad is progressing favorably. The recent
| action of Congress authorized no new loans.
but allows the issue of $1,000 900 of bonds in
ADVANCE of the construction of the road.
RA young man named Albert NJ. Ballou, q
salesman, eommitted suicide Ivy shooting him.
self with pistol, in Boston, on Wednesday,
while laboring under an attack of insanity
Deceased was between 81 and % years of age.
BA special dispatch to the Boston .Adver.
tissr says the report that Ex-Yice President
Hamlin will be made Minister at Rome is I'M
founded. He has. repeatedly declared within
the last month, that he will not accept any for
eign appointment
EVA gentleman of Hartford, who was some
yeaFs ago engaged in qqarrying on the upper
Delaware River, remembers that while drilling q
rock dsagreeable fluid flowed from the hole
and they had to plug it up. He is now of thu
opinion that he then ''struck lie" and he hal
gone out with party to ''pull out the plug"
BsThe Charleston Courier Of March says
"The recruiting officers in Charleston are head
over heels in business. The colored men are
focking to the support of the United States flag
by the dozen and the score. Companies arr
formed in single day and full regiment Gomez
out In weeks
- Says the Pennington Chronicle, eve
know an appletree in neghboring town from
which "a bushels of Baldwins have been picked
in single year. A common sized house loi
covered with such trees would produce more in
come than the rent of the best house in the
county. And what of thatf Why, fill a part o.
your garden with appletFees,'
Major James Haggerty of New York, who
| is to lecture in this city next week, giving the
18th Of the Independent Course, is gentleman
of rare abilities as public speaker. and has beer
put into the list of lectures with Tilton, Curtis
Chaplin and Beecher. He is of Irish birth, anG
few years since worked at his trade in THU
city, on the tailor's bench. He may expect to b
greeted by full and appreciative audience.
We have before us copy of the Charles
ton Courier eff Feb. 28th. 1t looks queer enough
to find in that original heart of treason, of Sc
cession and of despotism james Redpath, tn
aboltionist, issuing his orders as Snperinten
dent of Public Instruction. Where it was
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of God, the colored people are now instructed
without let or hindrance, and the Li6erator ma!
be read in safety.
The Army and Mary Journal, in an ar
ticle upon the military future, speculates as fol
lows: "Should Johnston be encountered and de
fea,ed by Sherman, the cue is given to Lee fo
the evacuation of Richmond and concentra
ton at Lynchburg. Should fortune favor John
stoD, Richmond may still be held. The two
ablest Generals of the Confederacy COMMAND
their respective armies But, while our owl
commanders, we believe, surpass them in skill
our troops are far more numerous, and ar,
brave, vigorous, and flushed with victory
We need not, therefore, tremble Tor the issue"
-The Argus has s'no heart to comment or
the disgraceful scene exhibited in the .. s
Senate on the occasion of the induction TO ofic'
of Vice President Johnson" Our neighbol
tries to make it out that Mr.. johnson exhibited
something of President Pierce's weakness al
Togus and in Mexico,-in other words, that hi
| had taken too much stimulus,-and pretends hi
has s'no heart" to comment upon it, when his
whole article shows that he laps up the scinda-
lous rumor with as much gusto as hungry dog
laps up stale milk. 1t is one of the juicy joints
| that he delights to discuss.
The order of the q. g. Senate directing
the removal forthwith from so much of the
Capitol as is under its care, all Intoxicating
LIQUORS, and hereafter to exclude liquors in every
form from the Senate portion of the Capitol, is
one of the signs of the times, and shows that the
plantation "style" no longer prevails in that
branch of the national legislature. 1t was ban
ished from SC much of the Capitol as is under
the control of the Speaker Of the House when
Mr.. Colfax was elected to that Office. 1t is
hoped the rule will extend to the next con-
gress- Ar, 81 Nr
R-A copperhead editor in New Hampshire,
referring to Mr.. Garrison's reported purpose to