The Portland daily press., 1865-10-13
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.

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B3 correspondent writing from Watts.
vile to the Gardiner Journal, says eve Ere
giving the rum sellers Hail Columb;a, M
here-three of them in Jail now, and two more
win be as soon as they can be foundk That
town win be really what its name indicates if
it keeps on.
MA dispatch to the Lewiston Journal saws
the race at Waterville, between the Gen. Knox
and the Geo, B. Mcclellan has been postponed !.
Reason, an accident to the driver of the Knox.
Nothing authentic has yet been discoy-
cred concerning the missing girl Briggs. who
mysteriously disappeared from Z ewiiston sew
eral weeks since
Is Colonel Littler denies that he is a de-
faulter, and asks suspension Of the -rnublic
judgment until the result Of the court martial
is made known.
~ Dr.. True of the Farmer, is quite enrab-
tured with his recent visit to the Aroostook.
He says the pastures would look like well Gull
tivated fields elsewhere in New England.
/ ~ The ship St. Joseph, Capt. Alexander,
sailed from Bath on Tuesday for St. John. and
.nade the passage intwenty- three hours. Il /
BB- Dea, Rufus Taylor of Beams Corner,
Jay, has a piazza floor made entirely Of one
piece of stone, Of the following dimensions
Length % feet, width 41-2 feet, thickness 21-2
inches This piece was taken from the Gould
ledge, so called. sru-g soas.s 81
| The Lewiston Journal says that Mr..
White of Leeds, has raised one hundred bushels
offine cranberriest season on small piece Of
hoo 10 nd +hot vuae y,lapfad nm; ~, AZ Ct. =
years ago.
Bg The Calais AdUertisey says that as many
as fifty young ladies have recently left that
vicinity to work in the factories of Massachu-
sets. e s4FkS45s ~ 49, s@s
The Augusta Journal says Hon. James
g. Blaine, who has been Frustrated by severe
sickness for nearly two months past, is SO far
recovered as to be able to ride and walk out
daily. 49,. ,,,.s,,,-,-s, ~. 49,.
lBS The Gardiner Journal says Mrs. Ran
dali Of St. George,N. B., while riding in that
city on Monday last, was thrown out of the
buggy and fractured her arm.
% The Belfast Age says the body of Thorn
as Burr, the young sailor who committed sui
eide by jumping overheard from the vessel
while returning from the clam bake, at Fort
Point was washed ashore on Isleboro, and was
picked up on Sunday, and has been decently
inferred.
10 Mrs. Geo. F. McDonald ,fayorably known
to the lovers If the drama in this city, has com
menced series of theatrical entertainments in
Belfast. .sgi1oa yoGa ia rot yI.ssa 0XtaIA4aa
The Gardiner Journal says E. d. Tas-
ker, of Chelsea, has raised twelve carloads Of
pumpkins, one hundred bushels Of cora and
seven bushels of white beans off one acre Of
ground How faroff !? EEgG r-NH
BB The Harrington Chronicle says VIM.
A. Niles shot three coons the other morning
before breakfast, near the Joseph Butterfeld
place One was "the same old coon" and tive
were of later origin.
The Rockland Free Press complains of
the lack of tenements in that city.
"a The Rockland Free Press says meeting
Of citizens was held last Saturday to initiate
measures for the Inauguration of the statue
Of Gen. Berry. A committee was appointed
to take the matter in hand composed Of Col
John S. Case, Col. E. R. Spear and Capt. o. J.
Conant. The City Council voted to join in
the occasion, appointed committee, and has
had meeting to make arrangements.
va A notice of DR.. Charles w. Stockman,
who has opened an Office in West Baldwin, APP
peared in the Press of Monday, in which he
was spoken Of as date Acting Surgeon in the
4th Maine" This was a mistake. In the spring
of 1868 DR.. Stockman was for short time con-
nected with the 4th Maine as a Vosussteer Sur
geon, but the Office. of Assistant Surgeon was
ably filed by DR.. Albion Cobb of Webb's
Mills