The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-09-07
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.

VB wv unuorStditu tndI bne FRESHMEN class
for 1865 at Bowdoin College, numbers between
forty and fifty.-
The Bangor Wing says the store at Up
per Saltwater, occupied by @. F. Hamblen, was
broken into Monday night, and $50 in cash and
lbout $500 worth of flannel sheetings and
Jther goods taken. The thieves burst in a side
loor without alarming. the neighbors. They
shen stole horse and wagon belonging to Mr..
9. Grant and decamped. The horse was found
jhe next morning, but the rascals are not vet
caught.
"a The Bangor Times says that DR.. Calvin
5eavy of that city, has been presented by the
amily of the late Prof cleveland with
he iyory-heaved cane which the Professor car
cied for half century.
GB Hon. Joseph Eaton, recently deceased
in Winslow, had policy of 5000 on his life in
ihe New York Life Insurance office. Mr.. Ea-
ton was aman Of abundant means.
@-The Augusta Farmer says that four
daughters of the late Samuel Babcock, born.
married and widowed in that city, are now
living within short distance of each other,
their united ages amounting to 800 years. as
follows: widow Asa Pierce, aged So; widow
Nahum Stackpole. aged SO; widow Joseph
Ham, aged 81; and widow Robert StackpoIe,
aged II.
"a Mr.. N. w. Farwell, the proprietor of
Che Lewiston Bleachery, is engaged in cutting
lnd drying peat for fuel, from an extensive bog
owned by him in that vicinity. The Journal
Jays Mr.. F. estimates that it will cost him three
dollars per cord to get the peat to his Bleach
cry; and he considers a cord of peat as valu-
lble as a cord of wood, which in that city is
worth eight dollars. Mr.. f. has from forty to
fifty acres in his peat bog, and the peat will
average three feet in depth, or fifty thousand
cords for the whole bog. Profits per cor I. S.:
profits on 10000 cords, $4,000
B The Journal urges the formation of a
mutual coal company in Lewiston.
Vs. The Journal says In Lewiston we
have the best cotton mills to be found in the
whole country They are new and supplied
/ with every modern Improvement What is
more, we have never falling water power.
While we now hear, as we have in past seasons,
chat the mills in Connecticut and Rhode Is
land are being wholly stopped or put on short
time, because of low water, all our mills are
nearly in full operation. Indeed they have
never gone below half speed, not even at the
time &hen cotton was nearly two dollars a
pound. s. b ~
1.-The Bangor Times says the time of the
Horse Fair has been changed to Oct. Sd, 4th
and 9Th.
1.-The 14th Maine regiment is now on its
way home from Savannah, for payment and
final discharge.
BB The Augusta correspondent Of the Bos-
ton AdUertiser says the American Bank at Hal
lowell is under cloud. 1t has ceased re-
deeming its bills at its own counter though it
is said the bank is sufficiently healthy to meet
its liabilities in the end.
EY- Of the thirty-one Union candidates for
the st, tie senate twelve were members of the
last senate and four of the last House. Two
others have served in former years in the
House. Among the candidates are Colonel
and Brev. Brig. Gen. G. H. Smith of the LIST
Me. Cav, from Washington County, Col Hen
ry Boynton of the 9Th Me. Beg't, and Col. VIM.
W. Virgin of the 23d Reg't.