The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-11-17
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.

/ BIThe report that George N. Sanders or
John Mitchell is to become one of the editors
of the argus, is probably canard. One rebel
on the editorial staff of SO feeble concern is
all-sufficient. 1f
BThe copperhead party is as dead as Julius
Caesar. Only a few muscular contortions of
the tail are now visible, the tip end of which is
at 81 Exchange street. y trrs4
EB-The Waterville Mail states that the new
Unitarian church in that town is boarded and
shingled, and the spire partly erected. The
building will be good ornament to the vii
lage. M fata s nIFt
BB-The Advertiser-Mr. Smith himself-de-
mics the current report that Prof. Morse has re-
covered Judgment against Hon. F. o. j. Smith
in Geographic suit. The Advertiser says ::
mo such judgment has ever been rendered, and
what Is quite satisfactory, there is little proba-
bility that it ever will be. The story is hardly
worth contradiction, except to disappoint the
wish that is father to it, ,cifVJtB
Cd The funniest thing out is the complaint
of down east paper that its items are not duly
credited. When we find an item in it we al
ways credit, but confess the credits are very
much like angels visits-few and far between
Generally it is, like the little negro whose skin
only was before the coroners' jury, found
empty" zig 90 -ai " N
y-The Bangor Wig says "We have re-
ceived a specimen of what is called Mount
Kineo (Moosehead Lake) gold quartz There
is something yellow in it, but we can't see the
gold. Nevertheless it is alleged that an old
California miner has extracted at the rate of 50
to the tOn and that, deeper down, the led %
produces $50 to the ton, which will pay for
crushing. SIS $3.50 s-rHl lfr..si ai -G
EB-On Tuesday last an ARRAY occurred in
Peoples Hall in this cit between couple of
VIGOROUSLY disreputable fellows named Bray
and York. The two men were engaged in a
drunken scuffie, in the course of which pistol
was discharged by Bray, the bartender of the
establishment, wounding York in the neck, the
results OF which may prove fatal Bray was
arrested and is now in Jail. He was formerly a
member Of the LIST Maine Cavalry. : Augusta
| Farmer.
BY-A lad named Granger, about 70 wears
Of age, was drowned in the Coffee Mill Pond in
this city on Tuesday last We learn that in
attempting to navigate the pom ! in small boat
with companion, the boat careened and young
| Granger was thrown into the water, sinking so
| deeply in the soft mud at the bottom that he
| could not extricate himself, and before help
could reach him, life was extinct. - Augusta
| Farmer. Wwt
EB-In answer to the request of Joint com
mittee of the Divisions of the Sons of Tenn
perance in Bath, the thirteen clergynen of that
city have agreed to deliver discourses in their
respective churches on the subject of Temper
ance = the lectures to be given on Sabbath
evenings, and so arranged as to have one a
week during the course ~ -o0
Vs. The Lewiston Journal says in the Ma
chine Shop owned by the Franklin Company
there are now employed from thirty to forty
hands. The shop has all the work to do that it
is capable of doing.
Vs. Mr.. Stephen Osgood of this city died
very suddenly on Friday evening He was sit
ting with his wife talking as usual, and got up
and stepped to the shed door. His wife heard
him fall and went to him, and in two minutes
he was dead. Mr.. Osgood was father of the
landlord OF the Gardiner Hotel, of j. X. Os-
| good, auctioneer, and of other children. He
has lived with his wife 81 years, and death has
never entered that large family circle till last
July.-[Gardiner Journal '1s
EBThe Chronicle says the house and barn
of Mr.. VIM. Marvel of Pennington, with their
contents, were destroyed by fire on Saturday
18th inst Some items of the loss are as fol
lows Two hundred and twenty dollars in
money, six hundred pounds of wool, thirty tons
of hay, eighty bushels of oats, forty bushels of
corn and 125 bushels of potatoes. To these
heavy items may be added, clothing, bedding,
household utensils, amounting in the appre-
gate to twenty-five hundred dollars There
was small insurance of six hundred dollars
on the buildings. Z
BY The Belfast Age says Mr.. j. r. Walls Of
North Searsmont has yoke of oxen four wears
old last spring, that grit seven feet and five
inches each, weighing a075 lbs,