The Portland daily press., 1865-11-23
ITnMs or STATE MEMS.

Rev. 2. G. Bolles of this div, delivered
alecture In Central Hall, Lewiston. on Monday
evening" his subjectbeing Less and Gain. The
Jonrnal suggests that Mr. B. win not snffsr by
comparison with the best popular -leeturers of
the day.
GB-The Skowhegan Clarion SAYS the Som
erset and Kennebec road has been nut in ex-
cellent condition.
Gafr In Consequence of press of, business and
the severe storm, we were unable to attend the
exhibition at Westbrook Seminary TUESDAY
afternoon We understand the exercises were
unusually interesting. Among the visitors
present were Ex-Gov Washburn, Hon. N. G.
Hitchborn, and Hon. A. D. Manson.
EY-A movement is ON foot in Ratb to seeure
the establishment of a steamboat line bet cen
that city and Boston q
BB-A local correspondent of Bath paper
complains that there is no vane within unob-
structed sight of the business portion of the
city, by which to tell which way the wind blows.
30 The Lewiston Journal says a private
dispatch dated Montreal 18th, to A. L. Dresser
of that city. states that Detective O'Leary, the
principal witness against the Messrs. Blossom,
waskil ed accidentally on SATURDAY.. ~ - 8
BJ-We are in receipt of the Quarterly
Journal of the Grand Division of the Sons of
Temperance of the State, containing the pro-
ceedings of the annual session at Rockland on
the oath ult. Our correspondent at the time
furnished the readers of the Press with a re-
port of the most important business transacted
by the Division. We learn from the report be-
fore as that for the quarter ending Sept. 3Oth
| there were admitted into the several subordi-
nate divisions of the state, $40 members, 9 were
| reinstated, 20 withdrew, 101 were suspended,
115 were expelled, and II died. Whole. num-
| Der in the State 53l1; members in the army
and navy $50.
| BB" When "That Comical Brown" was hold
ing forth at Deering Hall the other night, he re-
ferred to the progress of our nation during the
last fifty years, and illustrated this progress by
/ our developement in railroads, steamboats,, tel
egraphs and women. "Why," said he, "look at
our womep., No other nation has such an ar
j ray. we hadn't fifty years ago. Look at illus
trions examples. Look at Lucy Stone; look at
Miss Dickinson; look at Mrs, Partington look
| at James Buchanan !'
,ER-NOt content with q steamboat, the Ma
chias folks are determined to have a bank.
1 Comptroller Clark has informed them that no
propOsitontfor new bank in Maine can be en-
tertained at present. as the state has already its
proportion Of bank capital This does not dis
courage the friends of the project, who are ex-
pecting, we do not know on what grounds,
that the charters of some ,existing national
banks are to be surrendered or revoked for vio-
lation of law and thus room be made for them.
| EB.rThe Machias Union hears that one gent
leman at East Machias returns an income of
| $4,000, and that two at Machias return $1,000
each.
EBT The Rockland Free Press records the
death of Mrs. Catherine Cunningham of Wald-
4 oboro, who died Oct. 14th, aged 90 years,
I months. In her 93d year she spun, 50 knots of
linen of a superior quality, and in the last year
Of her life she knit and footed several pairs of
stockings. She retained her mental faculties
to the last.
4 GB The Calais Advertiser has published a
list of the Incomes in that city,. Hon. f. A.
Pike leads of, with an income Of 1922. Six
teen individuals only return an income of 81 900
and upwards, six of the number being 5000
andpupwards. gTlsH 2Tnug NAW4H
EB The Lewiston Journal says the order OF
Good Templars in this State are making an
effort to raise fund, for the purpose Of employ
ing an able State Lecturer, to rouse the people
j in behalf of the Temperance cause
w On Monday afternoon, Mr.. Jefferson
Higgins, who has a blacksmith shop at Mors e's
Mills, while coming down from the upper part
of the building, accidentally stepped from an
outer door on the third story which should have
been fastened, and was preeipitated to the
ground, breaking several of his ribs and the
sternum, or "breast BONE" He wes severely
injured internally.-[ Bangor Wing.
! Va Referring to the steamboat enterprise be.
tween thar town and this city, the Machias
U,ioy, says "Our friends at Portland may
rest assured that the work is progressing favo-
rably, and during the present week the Com
mittee here will no doubt report progress to
the Portland Committee" ,I5 .7ss.a at.e SKI