The Portland daily press., 1867-03-04
State Items.

The Fertilization bill just passed by Con-
gress, appropriates for the defences of our har-
Dor, $4,000 for Fort Scanned, the same
amount for Fort Georges, and the same for
Fort Preble. A similar appropriation is made
for Fort McCleary at Portsmouth, N. H. The
three forts in Boston harbor have each a like
sum.
The Bangor Wing congratulates Hon. VIM
III. McCrillis of that city on having found rest
in the bosom of the Democratic party" This
gentleman recently Joined in festive political
fellowship with such well-known patriots as
Gen. Boynton, Abraham Sanborn, Marcellus
Emery etc. Mr.. McC is disappointed man,
the Republican party having failed to appre-
ciate his worth by returning him for Congress,
and hence his sourness and new party affilia-
tons.
Says the Belfast Age, "Mr. Brown of Port
land, of the new Maine Telegraph Company
InternationaD, is in this city soliciting sub
scription to the stock and making arrange
ments for the erection of the line. The stock,
we learn, has all been taken, except the
amount reserved for Belfast and Rockland.--
The new company will commence erecting the
line as soon as spring opens"
The Times represents the steamers between
business. The line is made up of two large,
fast and substantial boats
The Bath shipyards have seldom been
known so quiet as at the present time. If re-
lief is not afforded in some way to shipbuild-
ers, our commercial marine will soon become
beautifully less than it is at present, while
the "Bluenoses" will grow rich on our decline
The Patten Voice speaks in fattering
terms of the numbering business on the upper
Penobscot, and says, "within radius of about
twenty-five miles of this place there are some
two hundred teams and twelve hundred men
engaged in the logging business. To haul sup
plies for all these men and teams, it requires
more than two hundred horses and a hundred
men, who have to face the wind, buffet the
storm, and wallow through drifts of snow"
The my Policy" appointees in Brunswick,
Bangor and other places, who found it so
convenient to swing around the "cirkle" with
GA j." have suddenly come to grief in the U
s. Senate. Their rations have been unexpect-
eddy cut off.
The Kennebec Reporter, published at Gar
diner by G. 0. Bailey & Co., has entered upon
its second volume under the most hattering
auspices. The Reporter is a neat, lively local
paper, worthy of extensive patronage.
The Reporter says the dwelling house of
Mr. Oliver, on North street, Gardiner, was de-
stroyed by fire ON Friday morning Loss 800
no insurance
"A public library has been established in
Calais.
The dwelling house of Mr.. Hic key of Cal
ais, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday, the 18th
ult. -.~.-r- r..y
The Presque Isle Sunrise exclaims: "God
save us from respectable rumsellersp'
The Argus styles the Reconstruction bill
"The Military Despotism Bill" tGajI
The cable reports Artemus Ward, of this
State, as lying very dangerously ill at South
ampton. Artemus has no more immunity
against the ordinary ills of life than other
men, and yet we have not forgotten his danger.
Gus illness at Salt Lake and his capture by the
Indians, sent by telegraph to the Atlantic
press and all for advertising effect The same
person who sent those dispatches is his agent
now in England nro1 Pee
Bath is to vote on the 9th inst, on the
question of loaning Its credit to the Knox and
Lincoln Railroad, to connect that city with
Roekland. e~4 -a d e -r-~
The steamer Katahdin commences her
trips between Boston and the Penobscot River
next week. f-.- II
The Lewiston Journal contains full reports
of the trial of incendaries now in progress at
Paris. At latest accounts the case for the de-
Tense was just opened. 10. et-
The Machias Union says few persons real
ize the danger men are exposed to who work in
the woods. Last week five men were taken
from camps near together, having been injured
by cuts and falling limbs