The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-05-15

The Rockland Gazette learns that Geo. B.
Lewis & Co., of Belfast, have purchased outer
Long Island, Hancock County, and are doing a
large business in trading with fishermen. They
are making extensive improvements in the
stores and wharves which they now own and
occupy.
The Bath Times states that Daniel Webs
ter and Thomas Sprague, both of that city,
were seriously injured on Saturday by the pre-
mature explosion of powder with which they
were charging a hole in the Arrowsic Mine
Each of them had a leg broken, and the knee
shattered; Mr.. Webster also had his collar
bone broken, and both are in precarious situa-
ton. ...-l sl-,
The inhabitants of Lisbon Falls propose to
erect school house the present season at a
cost of $4,000.
Mr.. Alden Potter of Bowdoin furnishes the
Brunswick Telegraph with some statistics in
relation to sugar-making. He has the sugar
maple growing ON common pasture land, 1.-The
soil hardly up to an average richness. This
spring he tapped 100 trees and sold the produce
of the same for $126 81. reply to aquestion,
he states that the sap is richer, though not so
large in quantity. frcm trees grown on open
ground, than from those grown in the forest, a
fact readily suggested if we consider the effect
of sunlight and shade.
The Brunswc ok Telegraph is informed that
Mr.. T. NJ. Sterer of that town, set his nets the
other day in the river for shad and hauled mp
nearly cart load of pickerel. e
The Houlton Times says the weather in
that section has thus far been very unfavora-
for
locks uncommonly well.
The Lewiston Journal says "a gentle
man from Washington informs us that he
learned from Gen. Grant, on Wednesday, that
orders had gone forward for the immediate
muster out of the 29th Maine Regiment. He
thought they would be discharged next week."
= Mrs. Tabor, an elderly lady of Greene,
while riding with her husband on Thursday
was thrown from the carriage, owing to some
arrangement of the seat, breaking her collar
bone and otherwise injuring her person. a
The Fenians of Lewiston announce a sec
ond Grand Fenian Assembly at Lisbon Hail.
next Wednesday evening. The Circle appeals
to the friends of Ireland for their support
- -Incendiarism is becoming alarmingly COM
mon in Bangor. On Saturday evening barn
near the Arsenal grounds, owned by John Wy
man, Esq. and containing forty tons of pressed
hay some farming tools, &C., was entirely de-
stroyed by fire, doubtless the work of an in
cendiary Loss about $500; insured for $500.
Later in the same evening fire was discovered
in shed adjoining E. H. Tebbet's Coffin m nu-
factory, in East Market Square, but was
checked before much damage was done. Still
later. about 2 o'clock Sunday morning, fire
broke out in the furniture mandatory of Mr.
George w. Merrill, Broad st. The Whig says
it was first discovered in the planning room, over
the engine, and owing to the combustible ma
ture of the materials scattered about, spread
with great rapidity. Before it was subdued
1our brick stores were destroyed, the fire ex
tending both ways. The stores were occupied
for manufacturing purposes by George w.
Merrill, o. P. Merryman, @. T. Holland and
Mr.. Peavy. The loss is estimated at S25,00O to
$4,000. r.ig1f -..s. -s.t.