The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-05-03
state Items.

First page-Petroleum as Steam Fuel
Castles in the Air; Luxembourg; Fall of not
ed Tree; Item. Last page-An Appeal to
Rome. poetry-Robert Bruce; A Dandy, Trap.
"A correspondent sends us an article head
!. ed John Neal on Temperance thirty eight
years ago" which contains extracts and sem
fences from an address by Mr.. Neal at that
time. We have shown it to a friend-On OF
the active prohibitionists and radical friends OF
temperance, and says there is not word in
it that Mr.. Neal would not endorse now; we do
not deem its publication called for
We shall publish the able dissenting opin-
ion of Judge Dickinson, on the taxation OF
National Bank stocks, tomorrow. 1t did not
come into our hands till Wednesday; hence
the delay. 1t is an able document and We be-
speak for it in advance careful reading. i.a
The leader ON the first page to-day is long
very long-tediously SO perhaps, and as
greasy as tits long-more greasy than ordina-
ry oil wells, yet we think it will repay perusal.
At least we bespeak for it a reading by those
likely to have relapse of that fatal disease
"ol on the BRAIN"
Seven salmon, weighing in the aggregate
125 IL pounds, were caught near Bangor ono
day last week, and were sold for $115
The Belfast Age states that on Thursday
last, as Mr.. David Patterson of that city was
driving horse and rack along Bridge street,
his horse suddenly SHE'D at some burning
brush by the roadside and he was violently
thrown from the railing of the rack, where he
was sitting, upon the road, and killed.
The Pennington Chronicle says there is
some excitement in regard to the late incer-
diary fires in that town and Wilton, caused by
the arrest and confession of q young man by
the name ofAlfred Billings. His confession
duplicates others as the abettors and instiga-
tors of the fires in the town, says he got out of
his chamber window. went to the Mills Viii
lage and set fire to Mr.. Eatons barn, thenre-
turned and set fire to Mr.. Stewards barn, and
got back into his chamber window again. He
had hearing before Justice Walker of Will
ton On Monday, and was lodged in jail in this
place the same day by Deputy Sheriff Miller.
During tho past year ten porgy oil factor
les have been erected in Damariscotta. The
business is extensively followed ALI along the
coast. 81 eAih1i a'asi'"'
The medical school at brunswick, is in .
most f1ourishing condition., rsstf
John Marshall, stage driver from Bath to
Rockland. has driven stage 40 years. He has
| driven on the Bath route for % years.
According to the result of our late vote on
the railroad loan, tho Bangor Wing says "there
| is little hesitation about anything that will
benefit the business of that city. They are pill
ing upa big city debt for all sorts of enterprises
and imprOvements-bu the citizens will grow
all the richef' NJ it. 1t is good Investment OF
money" ,s4ssss aanE.54ss as az
| "A Kennebec paper has changed the name
of Augusta to Spragueville.
| The Bath 7ymesis unwilling, and indeed
refuses, to believe that there were found ladies
in that city-ladies oflhighl responsibility
who could stoop to visit, out of mere curiosity
the Bowdoinham bank robbers in their jails
deliberately seek ont those felons il their pris-
on, to have the honor of an introduction and a
Misunderstanding through the narrow wicket and
to bestow upon them bouquets and delicacies
Fer the honor of womankind, We certainly
trust the Times has good ground for its disbe-
let. ,x.ctz E.a.t4.Oeak iEAER
| The Maine Normal for this month das an
elaborate article defending the course of the
Cambridge school-teacher who not long since
tied up young woman of sixteen and flogged
her with a strap! The writer deserves the
strap himself We wonder if it would have
modified his opinion at all had the rebellious
girl thus brutally dealt with been sister OF
daugnter OF MS own.Ab a Il