The Portland daily press., 1866-11-15

The Farmer says quite extensive repairs
are now being made in the Council Chamber,
Governors private room, and Council Ante
room at the State House. An elegant new
marble chimney piece has been placed in the
Governors room, both that and the Council
Chamber are being painted in fresco by Mr..
Schumacher of this city, water has been intro
duced into the ante-rcom, both rooms are to re-
ceive elegant new carpets and other adorn-
ments, the furniture is being newly upholster-
ed, and other improvements added, the whole
costing some two thousand dollars. The new
doors to the rooms will form one of the most
noticeable features of the improvements. They
are to be of solid mahogany, of new and ele-
CANT design with stained glass panels, and
made in the most thorough manner.
The Loyal Sunrise rejoices to hear that
its neigbbors of Fort Fairfield have made ar
rangements to have daily mail from Houl-
ten, from and after the first of this month.
The Sunrise mentions the sad case of Mr..
Geo. w. Nightingale of Maysville, who six
weeks ago had a family consisting of himself
wife, and four sons and two daughters. Ty-
phoid fever entered the house, and now the
wife and three sons are gone, while the two
daughters and the remaining son are prostrat-
ed with the disease and not expected to SUI
vive.
Some children in Mapleton being at play
with a revolver which was loaded, it went off
in the hands of little girl, and the ball enter
ed the corner of the mouth of a little boy,
slightly grazing the jaw bone, and lodged in
the back of the neck where it remains. Load
ed revolvers are singular playthings for chill
dren.
The Whig states that valuable mare hav-
ing been stolen from the stable of Ebenezer
Taylor about three miles from Bangor, officer
Walker was engaged to pursue the thieves
A little farther ON, the rascals had stolen car
riage and harness from David Gordon. The
officer tracked the fellows to Etna, where one
| of them was arrested. The other was taken
near by and the property secured.
A writer in the Bath Gimes of yesterday
says: "An immediate connection by rail
through to Rockland, in time perhaps further,
| is an imperative necessity to our future pros
perity. The subject is one that should claim
the attention and earnest support of all Bath
men,"
The Maine State Library deposited at the
manly and skillful keeping of Geo. G. Stacy,
| ESQ.,, has this fall received most important ad-
| ditions of works in nearly all departments of
| human knowledge. About eight hundred dol
lars have been expended for ney books, and
| among them have been important additions to
| the law department, which is now more COM
| plete than any law library in the State. Of
| American and foreign reports, digests, and
| and special treatises the shelves are well filled.
In the Departments of history, biography, phi
losophy, science, natural history, fiction, &c.,
| the latest additions comprise the latest issues
| of the European and American presses, and
| give good facilities for any one investigating
branch of knowledge to further his researches.
| 1t is a credit to the State and is under most
| excellent Management Maine Farmer.
The Lewiston Jonrnal records the death of
| Col Warren L. Lothrop, late of Auburn,
which occurred few days since at the post of
duty, in Missouri. Col Lothrop was native
of Leeds. He entered the service as private
| in the engineer corps and was instructed at
| West Point for several months. His soldieriy
| conduct won for him rapid promotion in the
! Mexican war in which he participated, being
| engaged in every battle of the war. For nine
teen years he has led the life of a soldier, rls-
| ing from the ranks to n position of Colonel in
| the regular army His death was caused by
| apoplexy.
DIR. j. X. Robinson, who was lately mur-
dered by Mormons in Utah, was native of
| Calais in this State. He had resided in Salt
Lake City two years, and was Superintendent
| of the only Christian Sunday-school there. 1t
was probably for this that he was assassnated,
as the Mormon leaders feared his influence and
hated him. He was called out of his boarding
houselin the evening, and murdered when but
few rods off, by six or eight men, who went
oil making noeffort to plunder the body, thus
showing that plunder was not their OBJECT
The DECEASED was married few months ago