The Portland daily press., 1866-02-15
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.

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ER- Our contemporary of the Machias Union
is mistaken in saying the Freedmen's 'Associa-
ton of this city is party affair. Were he IA
mliar with the political classification ofour cit
liens he. would recognize the names of several
influential members of his own party as Off
GERS of the Association, zealously engaged in
this noble work of philanthrophy.
The Bangor Wing notes a temperance
wedding in fashionable circles in that city-cof-
fee was served instead of wine. IT,. -
The Lewiston Journal says the transfer
of the Porter Mill to the newly organized Com
pany-the Continental-is now completed, and
since Monday, Feb. 18th, the mills have been
known as the Continental Mills. Ay
EB The Brunswick Telegraph tells of an
old white-neaded eagle that has been o regular
winter resident ON the banks of the Andro-
scoggin few miles above that town for thirty
years. The Lewiston Journal says he is one OF
the old conservative eagles that the Brunswick
conservatives" swear by, not knowing enough
to get out of the cold, whereas the genuine
American eagle is a migratory bird. -,
"A little boy recently died at West Beth
ell in consequence Of another boy piling stones
while at play, on his stomach, while lying
down, SO that he could not rise. He was in
jured internally, and died in two or three days
in great distress.
EB- The Bath Times says that course of
popular lectures is to be given at brunswick,
under the auspices of the Senior Glass of Bow
dom College. Among the lecturers will be DR..
j. G. Holland of Springfield, Mass, known
otherwise as Timothy Titcomb," J. K Gill
more, Esq, nom de plume Edmund Kirke, |"
Gen. Chamberlain, Rev. VIM. H. Milburn, the
eloquent blind preacher, Rev. e. II. Chaplin
and others. --------
BB "WOrkmen have been busily at work for
some weeks back cutting ice on the Kennebec
to be stored in the ice houses at Richmond and
Gardiner, for shipment next summer. il'.e'
20 The people of Richmond are to have a
course of home lectures, the proceeds Of which
are to be devoted to the benefit of the village
library A levee will be held in a few weeks,
the proceeds to be devoted to the same purpose.
,ai EB The Times says Frenchinan, engaged
loading avessel with ice, at Lambard's wharf,
4 Bath, Tuesday, received a severe wound on the
the head, cracking the skull, but breaking no
honestly the falling of an iron pulley block,
which he had himself arranged for hosting
the ice on board. 1t is a very doubtful case. +.
The Lewiston Journal says tlfere~is an
Immense supply of lumber now standing on
the Androscoggin river and it's tributaries,
which has rarely if ever been visited by the
explorer, much less by the woodnap's az. 1t
was but fifteen years ago that the numbering
business on the river began, and as yet hardly
clearing has been made Oh. the edge Of, the
wilderness Of lumber that envelops the upper
waters Of the river. As soon as the already
too nearly exhausted pine of the Penobscot Is
manufactured that great river win certainly
have no advantage over the Androscoggin as
reservoir of lumber. The chief, part Of the
growth on the Andrescogginis spruce of excel
lent quality. .sfisM ,bHei519't