The Portland daily press., 1867-03-11
State Items.

The Democrat says loupcervier was killed
in Buekfeld week before last
The Masonic fraternity dedicated new |
hall at South Paris on the 28th ult.
-Rockland manufactured one million casks |
of lime last yea. 81 saa.
~ "A little girl named Emily Shepherd |
Brown, aged s years. daughter of Mr.. Nathan
iel Brown of Benton, was killed on Thursday |
18th ult, while reforming from school, With
other scholars she was riding upon log drawn
upon bob-sled, and fell off in such nos;t;op
as to be drawn under the log. She was SO bad
& y crushed acro $ the stomach and lungs that
she died in few hours-Mail.
MIR. Nathaniel Stedman of Waterville was
knocked down few days since by fast div
Ell horse, IN that village, and very seriously
though not fatally injured.
Amos Pickard of this State, who has for
some years been Clerk of the Senate Commit
tee on Finance, has been appointed Clerk of
the new Committee on Appropriations, of
which Senator Morrill, is chairman. ..a.
Col. T. D. Robinson, one of the oldest and
most highly esteemed citizens of Rath, has for
a number of weeks been quite i'll, but the
Times says he had solar improved as to be able
meeting on Friday last. h'9N't A'
| The ladies' of the Unitarian Society Of
| Augusta received over $1,000 at their levee last
week. pfe., f'n '.o,gqlf- -s3.a T.l ta .aia.4
WIN. II. Hemmenway of Machias, has 40
oxen and 20 horses employed in numbering
this winter . ..-.-..- .-- tr..t. .... E
The Belfast Journal says Col. Philo Her.
sey has sold the paper mill recently purchased
of the Messrs. White, to the Messrs. Russell,
who now control the three mills in Belfast.
% Capt. Samuel Hill, of bark Neversink, of
Calais died recently of small pox at Matanzas.
The Biddeford Journal says the Webhan-
net House at Wells Beach, owned by George
Bowden, Esq, of York, was totally destroyed
by fire on Sunday morning, March 9Th, togeth-
| or with all the furniture and other household
apparatus Loss about $1,000; partially insur-
/ ed. gu
The Bath Times dominates Jonathan Nye
of Waterville, for State Constable, and the
Mail seconds the motion. 1t Gov Chamber
lain can only be brought into the ring Mr..
Nye's chances VIII be first rate. $3.50
The Watervlle Mail says Jediah Nor
rill, Esq, our venerable and highly respected
fellow citizen, with his friends, celebrated the
ninetieth anniversary of his birthday on
Thursday evening. He is still hale and vigor-
GUS, apparently in the enjoyment of perfect
health, and performing strong mans labor
every day
Il The Calais Advertiser has entered upon its
18th year. 1t publishes an interesting bistori-
cal sketch of the newspaper business in that
pace. The st. Croix Courier was the first pa
per ever printed there, established in January,
1884. -Four other papers have since been start
cd, by the Advertiser alone survives. boss
The Belfast journal says Jonathan Elwell,
who resides in Eorthport, was robbed a short
time since Of $1,000 in o.. 8. bonds. They
were kept in trunk concealed in the ash
hole in the cellar; the trunk WAS discovered by
some boys who appropriated its contents but
one of the bonds being offered for sale in Bel
fast, led to the detection of the rogues and the
recovery of the property. ~
The valley of the Sandy river at and above
Pennington is one of the most delightful Sec
lions of Maine, and an intelligent, industrious
and enterprising people have made it one of
the most productive As an apple-growing
and maple-sugar-mai section it has no equal
in the State. One farmer has sold $500 worth
of dried apples--a part of the products of his
orchard for single year. Another has made
two tons of maple sugar in one season. There
is now heavy body of snow upon the ground
and the prospect Of the coming season is I'M
commonly good. r---'.,,... "a,