The Portland daily press., 1867-03-06
State Items .


| "A Waterville correspondent informs u
that the sleighing in that and in all the nppe
| Kennebee towns, is better than at any previ
GUS time this season. "-4 q
| The Democrat says that on Friday last
young child of Owen Smith, Biddeford, pule,
tea urn full of hot tea from the table over OF
TO its bead and shoulder, scalding /. in
| shocking manner
| "A correspondent of the Saco Democrat in
| forms that paper that Mrs. Israel Pierce, o
| Wells, an invalid lady of II years, was suffo
Gated on the morning of the 2Sth ult. under
| the following circumstances: Her daughter
| with whom she resided, built fire in hel
mothers SOON and placed some clothes upoI
chairs before the fire to dry Mrs. p. being still
in bed. The daughter then retired to attend to
| her morning household duties. Shortly after
she returned to her mothers room and found il
| filed with suffocating smoke, Oecasioned by
| the burning of the clothes left to dry. Hel
first care was to remove her mother from the
bed to the open air. but it was too late, she liv
ed but few moments. y Her daughter is al
most frantic with grief. 1e1 F4laiis
up to Saturday last Bangor had gone a
whole week without single arrest for drunk
enness. i+'i t3SAiiitI ,aIc +! :
The Bangor Wing says work on the railroad
bridge across the Kenduskeag is progressing
rapidly. The conductors expect to have the
piers completed in few days. % s. -
The Hallowell Gazette reports small pox at
South Gardiner.
4 "A fair to aid the erection of soldiers mon
ument at Kendalls Mills, a few days since, net
ted $500. M -
The Machias Republican learns that Mr..
Philbrook, the driver of the stage to Wesley,
met with a serious accident on Saturday week,
while returning from East Machias in wagon.
He was thrown from the carriage and struck
on the forehead, badly tearing the skin, and
bruising his head severely.
: IT f a-. - --- a'----aaxs Hon T. j. Southland
has on the stocks at Richmond a ship Of about
a thousand tons, to be launched some time in
April. i4 1fl
Tee Republican says a new wharf and store
house, to be finished in June, are being built at
East Machias for the accommodation of the
steamer City of Richmond. -
The Bath Times proposes to supply Port
land with houses, not because they have sur
plus, but because they can make better and
cheaper houses than we can here. Let our
neighbors bring on their wares, we can find
occupants for them all. Il,
The Augusta Journal says the house, store
and hall of Mr.. Philip HOudlette in Dresden.
were entirely destroyed by fire on Tuesday last.
Loss about $4,000 which was mostly covered by
insurance. A-A
Jan 18th, in heavy gale, John G. Morse
of Ellsworth, chief officer of ship Alice Thorn
dike,- from Shields to New York, was washed
overheard from the aft house and lost.
"A correspondent of the Maine Farmer saws
it is found, from care full estimates, that there
are fourteen millions of acres still covered with
forests in the State of Maine, and of this forest
five millions are supposed to be covered with
hemlock timber. The area will yield at least
one million cords of hemlock bark, the tanning
properties of which, reduced to an imperisha-
BILE extract for the manufacture of leather will
command ready sale at price equal to SIG
per cord, making in the aggregate sixteen
hundred millions! Z.
The Dover Observer says p. M. Jefford shot
a carbon in front of his house in Foxcroft, on
Tuesday week, with pistol, and on the same
day Mr.. L. Mayhem killed loupcervier. H ~
The Hallowell Gazette says the whole num-
Der OF deaths in that city during the year end
ing March LIST, was forty-one. elf es55