The Portland daily press., 1866-02-26
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.

Ey- Messrs Talbot, Bust & Co., of Rock
port, have put in store 5000 tons of ice, the few
past weeks. The prospect of the ice trade the
coming season, it is said, is not as good as our
dealers were anticipating, owing to large guam
titles having been secured in the Middle States.
belfast Age &
Essy--s The heaviest fall of snow which has oc-
Cured this season. in his vicinity as least, was
experienced here last week. Eighteen inches
on a level were added to our former stock, rem
dering travelling a very unpleasant business
[Aroostook Pioneer. ;55t8
EY- The Ellsworth Journal says that Rich
ard Higgins, of Trenton, has been appointed
Lighthouse keeper at Winter Hs rbor, by Col
lector Thomas. Mr.. Higgins served honorably
in the LIST Maine Heavy Artillery, and was Sc
verely wounded while facing the enemy at
Spottsylvania, Va. ,5 l-Ig -3sra,5
EB- That reasonable sheet, the Bangor
Democrat, which opposed the war from first to
last, and denounced Lincoln as tyrant, en-
dorses President Johnson's veto in o double
loaded leader. ta..e ..-..5 ...s. .,st,..t
EA- Hon. Sidney Perham and Hon. John
Lynch have both laid us under obligations for
valuable bound volumes of Public Documents
E- The argus, from motives apparent to
every one, attributes an article in the Press to
the new postmaster. The writer of that arti-
Gle feels highly comphmented to have his pro-
duction attributed to SO graceful a writer as
Judge Davis, but truth requires us to say that
not word has appeared in our columns from
that gentleman for months; not political word
for years. io ID. 4lia
Ca The men who are burning gunpowder
grain of that article over a Union victory
They are the men who always wore long faces
when the rebels got badly used.
Es- The Calais Advertiser says tho gang
sawMill in Princeton, belonging to Messrs.
Charles Waite s. Co, was destroyed by fire on
Sunday morning, 18th inst Also building
belonging to Mr.. B. Young, occupied as shin
gle mill by Mr.. VIM. Sargent, who owned the
machinery. The loss sustained by the Messrs.
Waite was about $4,000, ON which there was par
tial insurance.
EY~The Governor has nominated w. w.
Virgin of Norway, as Reporter OF Decisions,
The Lewiston Journal has an excellent
and well timed article headed "The Nation
Disgraced," from whish the following sentence
is copied: "The speech [of the PRESIDENT is
beneath criticism, beneath anything but con-
tempt 1t may be said that Thaddeus Stevens
has assaulted johnson. So he has-not mincing
his words, to be sure But must the President
of the United States descend to blackguardism
because he is sharply criticised Much worse,
must he impugn the motives of the loyal masses
must he disgrace his high Office, because Con-
gress chooses to exercise it's Constitutional
right to determine the time and conditions of
the restoration to poll teal power of States
lately in rebellion 2" f.A. 'h.l'' ra.
The Arson ADVOCATE learns that Robert
B. M. Bray, son of George Bray, formerly of
that town now Of Elgin, Minnesota, was frozen
to death on the night of Jan. 10Th last, in at
tempting to go from where he was teaching
school, home to his brothers, across the hills.
1t was terribly dark windy night, and very
cold. He was % years old.
EB-On Friday morning, says the Bangor
Times, while passing over a rough place in the
town of Aurora, some 10 miles distant from
Bangor, the coach belonging to the Air Line
stage route, upset while filed with passengers,
injuring several of the inside passengers,
though not dangerously SO.