The Portland daily press., 1865-08-17
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.

BB The reporter for the Argus says L. d.
Clay, esq. of Gardiner, made speech at the
20 10 pIosUcstuo.4 aai- -s...-cs+ e,Ss,s
County Attorney for Kennebec, is high-min-
ded, honorable, loyal man, and as different
from the Confederate spawn whom the Argus
has mistaken for him, as newly-laid egg is
from one that has been set upon for eighteen
months. A
4 va Bath is a rich city-one of the richest in
the state. The Lewiston Journal publishes a
list of incomes in Bath, on which taxes are paid.
There are five individuals who pay on $4,000
and over. They are George F. Patten, $685.
$50; Jacob P. Morse, $3O,195; Freeman Clark,
$17,22O; Oliver Moses, $13,394; VIM. v. Moses
$1O,155.
30 The Bangor Jefersoniaa styles John A.
Poor the "indefatigable protector of the Grand
Trunk Railroad. Bosh |
go General Howard on one occasion. when
being entertained with dinner. taking a
glass of water in his hand, said Gentlemen. 1
am from the state of Maine. 1 don't go back on
my State. l give you, gentlemen, the Maine
Law, the true beverage of the soldier |"
% The 3Oth Maine Regiment, now at sa-
vannah, has been ordered to prepare its rolls
for immediate mastering out. 1t will soon re-
turn to this state to be paid off and discharged,
GB Tomorrow we propose to pass in review
the resolutions Of the Democratic State Con-
vention. The members evidently did not re-
alize the nature of the medicine administered
by the skilful Chairman of the Committee on
resolutions, and swallowed prescription no
more in accordance with the general spirit and
speeches Of the Convention than good. sweet
new country milk is like chalk and dock water
May the dose do them good.
BB-C COL Thomas d. Robinson. ono of tho
Oldest merchants and first citizens Of Ratb
proposes to leave the city, and adyertises to
sell his fine mansion, or to rent it, furnished or
UNFINISHED, for a term of five years.
10 Judge Barrows is holding term of tho
ST.. Court in Bath. fw
GB- sylvanus Cobb, jr., the novelist, gives in
the largest taxable income in Norway--S1 900
The largest in Richmond is Hon. To. Southland
$6,75O. 81 N8f
EB- Walter Hatch esq.,, one of the oldest
and most popular Conductors on the p q X
Railroad, has been made Master of Trains and
Transportation. He is succeeded as Conductor
on the regular train by Mr.. Levi L. Lincoln. a
very gentlemanly, obliging and popular man.
G3% We learn from the Farmer that ON SIM.
day night last three soldiers were robbod os
money in Augusta, while in their rooms as
follows Seth E Woodman $11O, David Rlon-
chard $500, Edmund Trip 1928. A man cal
ling himself Smith from New York, was arres-
ted on charge of committing the robbery He
had $1,000 on his person.
Ey James H. Williams is to he tr;aa g..
murder at Bangor, 21st inst Hon. Wm Ma
Crillis acts as his counsel.
BB- The Bangor Times almost goes into ao-
stacies over Helen Westerns impersonat;on &c
the French Spy-says she is superb tits ONO
of Miss WIS best parts.
BF-The Augusta people are to have ) ha,-
loon ascension on Thursday next, if thew can
raise the gas. A pipe from the late Democrat;o |
State Convention would have afforded . Ell
supply.
G5 The Lewiston Journal saws e., :.
that city has for sale "the Turkish slave Or the
Dumb Dwarf of Constantinople." wbora i
the Emancipation Proclamation
EsB-The Journal says the mills in Iaw;s+on
IRE still in want of operatives.
GB Alonzo P. Russell has been o,>o.,
Postmaster at Striclxland's Ferry. II 49,
coggin County, in the place of d. P. Hodoao,,
esigned.