The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-03-16
State Items.

"A paragraph in relation to the girl in Low
ell, under arrest for killing her illegitimate in
| FAINT, should have been credited to the Lewiston
Journal. .T)AtI aHr aJHikaNsIa rs
An old gentleman of SO, Mr.. Asa Farms
worth of Jonesboro, endured favorably an am
putation of the foot last week, as we learn from
the Machias Union.
Robert Move, Esq, of Passport has q con-
signment of $500 barrels flour from San Fran
cisco, all of which is to come across the 18TH
mus.
The Ellsworth Aasericdn says the store OF
Joseph Uram of Sullivan was burned last
week win its contents. Goods insured for $4,000.
Building insured. g y AsgsAss ssQ#
"A correspondent informs the Whig that
silver and copper ores have been recently dis
covered in Piscataquis, which promise to prove
of great richness, both as regards quality and
quantity.
Col. Henry B. Humphrey of Rockland
has been appointed special Aid-de-camp to His
Excellency Governor Chamberlain He will
soon sail from Maine to the Paris Exposition.
b. The Paris Democrat records the death at
Rumford, on the 2Sth Feb, of Mrs. Mary
Moody, aged 81 the mother of IS children: of
Asa Bonney of Sumner, Feb. 22d, aged 81, the
father of % children by one wife; also of JOSH
ua Barrows of Hartford, on the Sth inst, aged
90 years.
Under the head of Another Railroad Ac-
cident,' the Belfast Journal facetiously gets
Off the following, referring, we suppose, to the
caucus which nominated Mr. Jewett for May
or: Several prominent citizens of Belfast,
N Of bnpa L.
osei VI" D"S,--1aS- NIGHT. near the Court House
They were imprudently CROSSING urr urucK,
when the locomotive A. G. Jewett, under a
cent apparatus for checking its speed, came
round curve and went over the whole party.
No lives were lost, but they were all badly
hurt-in their feelings" ar4
The Eastport Sentinel understands that no
intoxicating liquors are now sold at Pembroke,
all the liquor shops having been closed.
The wife of Mr.. John L. Clemens of Hi
ram, had her arm badly brokon on Sunday last,
by being thrown down violently when getting
into sleigh. fsi I'd. suii 3. 81
Judge Woodbury. of Sweden, informs the
Paris Democrat that he had not as yet decided
to accept the position of Superintendent Of the
Reform School. If he concludes TO- do so,t he
will not leave at present, so there will be no
vacancy in the office of Judge of Probate for
some months, at least. l 5.5,I-H d.f5s.Ey
The Bel fast Age says that Capt David
Howe of Lincolnville has been appointed Col
rector of Internal Revenue for the 9Th District,
vice Berry removed. The announcement in
the papers of the appointment of S. L. Cham
harlaiu Esd IF H. 90
incorrect.
Six applications for divorce were before
the Court at Houlton, last week, five of which
were granted.
The Bath Times says Mr.. Ebed Lincoln,
one of the most respectable citizens of that
city, died Thursday afternoon, in the cars of
the p s. X. Railroad at Yarmouth Junction.
Mr.. Lincoln has been in feeble health for more
than year; and went to New Orleans last
fall for the purpose of recruiting his health.
He arrived in Boston Wednesday evening on
the steamer from New Orleans. Taking the
cars, his friends hoped he might survive until
arrival home. He seemed in great distress, and
suffered much on the train, expiring few
minutes before the arrival Of the train at Var
mouth ,...it
iho aris De"Iocfot says Tile hiShiy eAcit-
ing sensational rumor flying about that coun-
ty, of the attempted robbery of soldiers wild
ow in Dixfeld or Mexico and the valiant de-
fence, whereby the robbers were both disabled
by the well-directed fire of pistol, is hoax.
The Lewiston Journal is informed that
colored man has been elected constable in
Waterville. Doubtless before the year is out.
he will lay his dusky paw upon some white
mans son, and then won't our Democratic
friends howl about the insolence of the free
"niggers?, y * q T. 4 fs - lao N