The Portland daily press., 1865-12-18
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.
w- See Poetry and Story on last page.


Ey- See Poetry and Story on last page.
By- Report says George Francis Train is to
come to this city to crate for the Fenian cause,
A fast train, often On the wrong track.
gB- The Argus having made mean and
characteristic attack upon the Custom House
in this district, because Of the larger number
Of employees than in 1860, under Buchanan's
Howell Cobb dynasty, Mr.. Bird, Deputy Col
lector, and lifelong Democrat has replied to
it, showing that the business of the office is
more than three-fold what it was then. But
this does not silence the ground tier of the ar
gus, but it throws dirt as iercely as ever
Ea5- The article signed rs. CT, on the COM
merce of Portland, was intended for Saturdays
issue, and was left out by mere inadvertence in
making up the form. We find that precisely
the same thing, as original, was communicated
to all the other dailies in the city. This is not
exactly according to established usage, but we
suppose the writer did not intend to make the
columns OF the papers appear to disadvantage
by their sameness.
BY- The Biddeford Journal has done the
honorable thing by Sergt. Amber, and set him
right before its readers
NsA
throp Manufacturing Co., P. G. Bradford,
Agent, have purchased the wooden mill in Win
throp, which is being remodeled and furnished
with new machinery, for the purpose of man
ufacturing cotton warps, batting and wadding.
bR- Livermore Falls sent to the Boston
market for Thanksgiving, fifteen tons of poul-
try. ..,....
~ The Hallowell Gazette, an excellent To-
cal paper, reminds the people of that city that
a newspaper cannot be printed in Hallowell
unless the citizens manifest due interest in re-
gard to its support MIR. Nash spares no pains
to make an interesting paper, and is deserving
Of liberal support.
Us The Pennington Chronicle says that the
Winter term of the Normal School opened
with goodly number of students.
BB- 1t is said there is uncommon activity in
the preparations for ship-building in the towns
on the coast of Maine. -
The Gardner Journal complains of lack
OF railroad accommodations, and says that it
seems rather hard that with a railroad bet cen
the capital and the metropolis of our State, and
the distance only go miles, two day must be
consumed in the journey from one to the other
and back.
GR- The Chronicle says a fire occurred at
Beams Corner, Jay, on Friday evening of last
week, consuming the blaeksmith,'s shop owned
by Capt A. S. Butterfeld, and a store adioin-
ing it which was being built by E. ]. Harvell.-
No insurance.
gBf- The Bath Times says that the house of
capt. Isaac Orr, OF that city, having been clos
ed, the family being absent, was found, on WIS.,
iting it, to have been forcibly entered and thor
oughly ransacked; closets, drawers, &c., hay
ing been oyerhauled. Not room but what
had been examined. Some few articles of fe-
male wearing apparel were taken, but not of
great value. The object of the rogues evident
ly appears to have been money or valuable
ware, but neither were in the house, the silver
ware having been removed with the family
EB- The Machias Union thinks that the
lumber business of the Machias valley exceeds
an aggregate of $S5OO0O yearly.
DB~ Steamer Katahdin will make her last
trip for the season, from the Penobscot, ON
Tuesday, Dec. 26th-leaving Winterport at 70
NJ --t 1 l+l
gB- The Bangor Times says the alarm of
fire in that city Friday morning, was OCCASION
cd by the burning of a two-story double tene-
ment house on Ohio street, owned and occupi-
cd respectively by Mrs Garnsey, a widow lady,
and by Mrs. Pitman. A defect in the chimney.
tits supposed, communicated the fire to the
roof, as it was first discovered there.
%" A little boy five years old, son of Mr..
e. M. Patterson, of Winslow, had his arm bro
ken both above and below the elbow, on We'd
nesday, by having his mitten caught in the
crank of grindstone. He attempted to seize
the crank while in motion.-[Mail
Ey- The Rockland Gazette says that Dec.
1st Mr.. Daniel Holbroolr of Vinalhaven, en-
ployed at the granite quarry of Bodwell &
Webster at that place, fell from the top of
high derrick upon which he was at work. strik-
ing first upon the railway thirty feet beneath.
and thence falling eight feet to the rocks below.
His skull was fractured, several ribs broken
and one arm badly crushed and torn. His re-
covery was considered impossible, and at the
time the doctor left him, there was scarcely any
pulse perceptible and it was thought he would
not live more than an hour. He was a married
man, with five children.
GB The Waterville Mail says that Mr.. Cal
vim z. Bodfsh, youngest son of the late Can't,
VIM. Bodfish of Kendall's Mills, died at Boise
CITY, Idaho Territory, on the 7th of November
last.