The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-03-21
ORf4fN.tG AND swEEcrgD.
gThe quota of Bangor is full.

B Inc number of deaths in Bangor for the
year ending March /, 1865, was ssi.
20 There are over thirty thousand de!ormed
children in Great Britrin.
B-A canter will give you rudy cheeks; a de-
-canter will give you ruddy nose
- The Pennington Chronicle says son of
Andrew Dinsmore, years of age, was drowned
in Nonesuch brook on Saturday last
GY-A Division of the Sons of Temperance was
organized at Wilton, Friday evening. One is to
be organized at Castine fa
R-Sx corporations in Lawrence, Mass,
have combined capital of seven million dol
lars
81 The American Medical Association will
hold its annual session this year in Boston,
commencing on the 9th of June
B-The miners in California ''strike vein;''
in Colorado they ''strike a pocket" in Penn
sylyauia they ''strike ile.'' am
B-A little boy was run over by horse
railroad car in Boston, Sunday afternoon, and
instantly killed. nN T
R-The Lewiston Journal is Informed that
fire at Sabbattisvile, Saturday morning, burnta
tenement in a new brick block, owned by Mr..
Hirst.
HThe Bath Times learns that brevet Joseph
s. Smith of that city, has been promoted to be
Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the James.
Col. Smith is a son of Judge Smith of Bath.
90 The number of deaths in Bath, during
hepast municipal year, according to the report
of the Superintendent of Burial Grounds, was
173. eN
GS The single mill belonging to Cyrus Brock
way, P. M, at Brockway's Mill, Sangeryille,
was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning,
18th inst. Loss $500, no insurance.
80 They have somnambulic young lady in
Brunswick who has awaked once or twice lately
and found herself in the street, some ways from
home; 30 says the Telegraph. ,,
BAn oil company in PENN, is said to have
struck layer of butter, of the strongest kind,
and it has been introduced to all the hotel tables
in the oil regions. 9
| HA daughter of John Brown, whose ''soul
is marching on,'' is now keeping school for
negro children in the old mansion of Henry A.
Wise of Virginia. no EYe
B-It is said that one manufacturing estab-
lishment in Paterson, N. j., has received orders
| tOE RoVo,Oov WOAtH Vi OlA VIGIL UOtluS mdCuuce
1t could not fill all the orders.
RThe State Of Michigan has passed joint
resolution to submit to the people, at the fall
election of 1866, an amendment to the const:-
tuition to allow negroes to vote. Isl ASH
| R-In two Philadelphia wards the drafted
men have concluded to give grand fancy dress
ball in honor of the country calling them to
battle.
@A relic hunter in the abandoned house of
r. Barnwell Rhett, editor of the Charleston
Mercury, found package very characteristic
of the chivalry = fifty unpaid tradesmen' s
bills.
% What queer tastes the ladies have! During six
months they muffie their necks and breasts with
SKINS Of the sable, and when they are thrown
of, in the warm season, they sport little else
than bare skin.
e The Brunswick Telegraph is down on the
depot loafers of the village, who, it says, "haye
gaped regularly at every train for the last
fifteen years until their mouths are the capacity
of a mill hopper" sA4sFl e
V-The present is the proper time to divest
fruit and shade trees Of the mass of caterpillars
eggs which encircle the limbs, and which will
certainly prove scourge unless they are re-
""nved before the approaching summer.
~ large and orderly lass.s-ss Of oolored
people was held in Savannah on the 9Th inst, to
listen to the reading of one of Henry Ward
Beecher's sermons hy Lieut.. A. P. Ketchum, of
Gen. Saxton's staff.
W Rev. Lyman Abbott, formerly Of Far
mington, has resigned thepastorate of the Con-
gregational church at Terre Haute, Ind, to
accept the position of Secretary of theAmerican
Union Commission.
4 % storekeeper the other day stuck upon
his door the laconic advertisement, ga Boy
Wanted =" The next morning, on opening the
store, he found little urchin in basket labeled
sHere he isl
Capt. c. s. Brown of Eastport, is to COM
mand one of the new companies recruited for
the Fifteenth Regiment. Capt. Brown is GAL
liant soldier and gentleman He is a gradu-
ate ofDartmouth College, N. H., class of 1862.
| ST Il. Il. Smith of Fryeburg, being charged
with being o copperhead, denies the charge and
adds that he is Republican but not in favor of
the abolition of slavery. Such an explanation
only puts more polish on the Copper. II Lewis
ton Journal
.GB MISS AmAnua ". hlmDall OF humfOrd,
who for year and half has been engaged in
taking care of the sick and wounded in the hos
pital at Annapolis, Md, died lately of typhoid
lever Her remains were taken home where
funeral services were held on the 9th ult She
was the daughter of David Kimball, ESQ.,, and
was 80 years of age.-[Oxford Democrat.
% The value of tract of land on Oil Creek,
Venango county, Penn, two miles in width and
twenty miles long, is estimated at two hundred
and fifty millions Of dollars. Four years ago
this land was hardly worth FIVE dollars per
acre. ~ 20 ala
~ At a family gathering in Danbury, not
long since, great-great- grandmother, Mrs.
Irene Taylor, held in herlap, a child, grand
child. a great-grand-child, and great great
grand-child. in all, FIVE generations That is
not often beat
HA project is on foot to establish a new
college at Topeka, the capital of Kansas. 1t is
to be called Lincoln College, and is to be en-
dowed with thousand dollar scholarships, each
in the name of some distinguished commander
% Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Capt
FOX, and Admiral Porter, have left Washington
for Fortress Monroe and visit to Gen. Grant.
On his return to Washington Admiral Porter
will assume the command of the North Atlantic
Squadron. i5A
ETA subscriber" writes that the Union town
officers were elected in Gouldsboro', on the 18th
inst, by from go to 10 majority. They are as
follows; Clerk, II. NJ. Soule; Selectmen, B.. NJ
Sargent, r. K. Hill and Joel Moore; Treasurer,
H. M. Soule; S. S. Committee. E. G. Guptill;
Collector, s. s. Sargent mesN@
@N None of the hotels in Charleston have yet
been opened, although parties from the North
have already made application to open the
Pavilion Hotel, and their request will probably
be granted 1t is understood that the Mills
House and the Charleston Hotel will be CONVEX
| ted into hospitals