The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-03-03
rrEMs OF STATE NEWS.

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A correspondent of the Ellsworth
American says Mr.. Leonard Carlton of Blue
bill, aged 70 years, one day this week, ground
hisaxsfn the morning, Travelled two miles tothe
woods, and chopped feet of cord wood, then
travelled home again.
% The ice which was unusually thick in
the ,Androscoggin river, broke up on Saturday
night Feb. %, and formed jam in the mar
rows below Bethel village, and caused the in
tervales to overflow and land large quantities
of ice upon them. r, Nothing similar has oc-
Cured since 1888 says the Oxford Democrat,
and prior to that in 1900 The ice was fire.
ouently three feet thick. b'E' -
Ey-The Eastport Sentinel says that the low
est of the proposals made for the erecnon 81
hotel on the Dana lst in that town. exceedea
the sum which the party intending to build
proposed to invest by $17, 900. "A plan of less
costly building will soon be ready for proposals,
and we have no doubt that the hotel will be
built during the present year Mr.. Rumery,
we learn, is willing ito invest $4,000 and the
International Steamship Company $1,000, and
in our opinion $4,000 will build hotel sufi-
lciently extensive for the town. :,
lsllEBrThe Methodist Church in Brunswick
has been sold to the Catholics. The former,
says the Telegraph, will occupy it until May.
The Piscataquis Observer says Mrs. Deb
orah Russell of Sebec, being u years OF age on
the 2Sth, of October, has, for the pastyear spun
go skefhs Of yarn, and knit 10 pairs of Stock
fngs, 9 pairs of mittens, 5 pair drawers and
wove Is yards cloth. II l.
liaEly- Hon. J. s. Monroe of Abbott, has been
appointed Judge of Probate for Piscataquis, to
! ill the vacancy occurred by the resignation of
Hon. CA. Everett
EvThe Observer says Capt. P. I'M. Jefferds
of Foxcroft, sold his three year old Mcclellan"
colt one day last week, to o. M. Shaw of Ban
gor, for the snug little sum of $1,000.
EVThe Gardiner Journal says there is an
effort on foot to raise corporation to buy the
Gardiner water power, and the heirs of the
Gardiner estate have made the parties the offer
Of the six dams, including the grist and -four
min for $15OOOO.
According to writer in the Maine Far
nser, the population of Augusta (then Cush-
nec) in 1862 did not exceed thirty persons; and
the eutre village consisted of seven huts.
Elias TAYLOR, born Feb. 21st, 1865. was the first
| white child born within the limits of Augusta.
Dea. Pease Clark who arrived in May, 1852, in
4 the Province vessel which came with supplies
for Fort Western, is regarded as the first set
/ tier within the present limits Of Hallowell.
| Ey The Machias Union says, sinceF Feb. 10th,
| the, lumber teams have had poor'chance for op-
erations. Frequent rains, streams and swamps
| overlooked, roads bare--a poorwinter for bust
ness. But little lumber will be cut in. The
Bangor Wing thinks the mildIweather has not
yet greatly affected operations on the upper
| Penobscot and Aroostook.a IA Ud dNiuadD
BB- The Belfast Age says there was quite an
extensive fire at Stockton village on Saturday
evening last consuming three stores. 1t origi-
mated in the store Of Enoch Staples and the
| flames were discovered coming out of the roof
about o'clock in the evening, shortly after the
store had been closed for the night. d It soon
communicated to E. ID. Libbey's store, and
thence to Colcord & Mudgetts store, all of
which were burned with more or less of the
| goods which they contained. : Loss not stated
partially insured
The time for the reception of bills Oh
the American Bank, Hallowell, by the Re-
cciVerS expires Oh ,IHe 1Atn u MdrcH.~ rlHty
should be sent in forthwith, or they will be
worthless. "a
EBT Capt. Isaac Carver, master Of bark Tro-
.vatore of Searsport, has been presented by the
British Government witha beautiful telescope
in acknowledgement of his humanity and kind
ness to the master and crew of the Schooner
eJosefasy of Kingston, Jamaica, whom he res-
cued from their sinking vessel in September,
1866. iIT'Slo ffA8Tglt5ss .aalG ,sfMGOU
81 BB- John Hayden, Esq, has been nominated
by the Republicans Of Bath as their candidate
for Mayor. The meeting atwhich he. was nom
mated fully endorsed the action Of the New
England Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress. ,r,,..,.Y.v -4s.i..., x-ss-
vs. The Gardiner Journal says that Wash
ineton's birthday was noticed in that city by a
sort of impromptu celebration, by sending q
| barrel of -four to each of the several widows.
The Journal thinks tia good way, and hopes
the plan will be continued.
Es- Warden Rice of the State Prison, has
secured one of the prisoners whoescaped from
that Institution last fall. We understand,
says the Bath Times, he was found in Brook
lyn, Ny. b. II 4 u Nj 4 +