The Portland daily press., 1865-07-29
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.

% The Piscataquis Observer advertises to
take hay in payment of subscriptions, also
butter and cheese. Al4
BThe report of the proceedings of the
late ecclesiastical council will appear, substan-
tally in our weekly of next week
Vs. Says a correspondent at Washington 81
trust the various claim agents of our state will
take it in good part when it is announced that
the Sanitary Commission is devoting itself
grdtuitously to the settlement of soldiers claims
against the Government. These claims consist
of applications for back-pay, bounties and pen
sions. 1t is to be hoped that our soldiers will
avail themselves of the services of the Com
mission, and thus save out of their hard-earned
pay and bounty the fees Of the claim agents.
BA correspondent at Washington writes
to us II am informed that the amount of
money during the past four years. discussed
here on account of the State, for the wants of
our sick and wounded soldiers, has been about
$5OOO."
BB Gunboat Tioga arrived at Bangor Thurs
day afternoon.
20 Robberies and store breaking seem to be
rife in Bangor. The stores of w. s. Heller &
Co., and George w. Gorham were broken into
Wednesday night, and Thursday night sol
der at the Franklin House was robbed of $500.
The captain of a vessel was robbed of $50 on
Harlow street, Wednesday night,
B-The Biddeford Union, in speaking of the
arrest Of Harding and Kenniston, the Counter
feiters, says, another young man, who refuses
to give any account of himself has been ares
ted with counterfeit scrip about his person,
who has been operating in the northern part of
York county, and in bingham, Freedom and
Eaton, N. H., and that vicinity. His case is
being worked up. si
There is a family in Detroit of quite
unusual composition. The father and mother
have each been married three times, and have
had children by each marriage, and all are now
living happily together under one roof-six sets
of children. ssF Is s
"a Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
were born in the same congressional district of
Kentucky, and within the same year.
The proclamation of Gov. Bramlette. of
Kentucky on the franchise law, issued on the
10th inst, requires rigid enforcement of the
legal enactment whichsd DISTINGUISHES and expa-
triates every citizen of Kentucky, who refuses to
take the oath of allegiance.
BB- The London Osos has ceased to be. 1t
has closed its eyes and suspended its wise iudq-
ments
BB The New York Times urges meat fastin
that city, to coerce the butchers into reduced
rates. August 9Th is the time proposed for the
fast to commence.
B There is a project on foot at Niagara
Falls to make new communication between
the American and Canadian side of the Niagara
river, in the shape of suspension bridge fer
carriages and foot passengers. The COMPANY
owning the bridge two miles below had the
exclusive privilege to build one at the Falls for
fifteen years That limit has expired.
ER-f those anxious patriots who SO strong
ly oppose the admission of the negro to the
franchise on the ground that his ignorance and
degradation would make him dangerous, would
drop the color test and substitute that of intel
ligence or education, they would certainly gain
something in consistency if nothing else. A
more ignorant stupid, and hopelessly degraded
set of people than the Southern poor whites.
it would be hard to find, but we hear nothing
of the dangers of the franchise in such hands
as theirs.