The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-05-04
state Items.

Opinion on the Taxation of National Bank
Stocks. Last page-The Man who lived by
his Wits, a story ''
to be fitted up as tenement house, while the
Methodist chapel at Biddeford will be used for
police Office and engine house. 1893
Mr.. J. G. Irish, for the past year Principal
of the Paris Hill Academy, has accepted the
proposals of the Trustees of the Academy at
Lancaster N. H., to take charge of that insti-
tuition. si ''-'-@ H
The Lewiston Journal says that great
grandson of Thomas Jefferson, from Virginia
has recently entered as a student at Bates Col
lege. DO. lnn ''. fS.u'- 'li 90 E''-'l
The Bowdoinham Bank robbers have been
taken to Wiscasset Jail, there being onsidera-
BILE dissatisfaction expressed at their lenient
treatment while at Augusta. ''"
We do not see the wisdom ofthe complaints
that the State Constable is enforcing the liquor
law. The law is made to be enforced, and it's
enforcement can hurt no one except those who
violate it. If it will not bear enforcement it
should be repealed. This is more sensible than
for it to remain dead letter upon the statute
books. "if-e.3 ID 1891 VT h .l"i
The barn of Mr. Thomas Spear, Of Rock
land, was struck by tightening during thun-
der shower on Wednesday evening last. Dam.
age trifing. Sheep and cattle were in the barn.
but none of them were hurt. h' A"-
The Rockland Gazette says Judson Frye,
son of Enos Frye ofNorth Haven, was drowned
on Wednesday of last week. He was engaged
with another boy boating wood and accidently
fell out of the boat. a-a t'~e'-.' lal
The Biddeford Union has column leader
on "Ths June Election" the conclusion OF
which is expressed in these words: "For the
good of the Prohibitory Law as it now stands
We can arrive at no other conclusion than this,
chat the proposed amendment should be re-
jected."2 A' "- ia ''-- !-1
a The contract for the stone work on the i'm
provements at the mouth Of the saco river has
been awarded to J. g. JIM Deering Of Saco
The Biddeford Union says L. T. Mason
Esq, Of that city, in company with gentleman
from Saeo, "went trouting" one day last week,
and returned in few hours with seventy-one
ine specimens of the finny tribe. ara 7iie
The town of Kennebunk voted last week
to raise five thousand dollars toward erecting
public building in which to have a hail. and
Offices for town purposes, providing the citizens
will raise a like sum, the most of which il al
ready subscribed. -i s.1sds &
"A son Of D. Merrill, of South Paris, aged
about three years, was drowned on Thursday
last, May 2d,-supposed by falling from a boat
which was moored by the river bank near his
fathers house, as the body was found floating
on the surface of the river near the boat.
An exchange having said rat must eat
five bushels Of corn in order to gain pound of
flesh, the Paris Democrat asks the same astute
calculator to state how many gallons Of blood
mosquito would consume to lay on pound
of flesh. j. iII roiia Dol n-t -tlm1 Ira /
The Augusta Banner says Mr.. Timothy
Washburn, residing in the western part of
Kennebunk, who had been for a long time lame,
so as to be obliged to walk with crutch on one
side and q cane on the other, accidentally fell
into railroad oulvert in passing over the road
TO his home in the evening, and injured the
spinal column near the neck, 90 that since, for
nearly ten years, he has not been able to move
any portion of his body except his head. 7o..
The Bath Times, says that the friends of
Capt. William d. Anderson, of bark Aber-
o0oHj A~vo tcoott0u u uiSpatou duuOuuciuR ulo
death on board that vessel three days out from
Liverpool. 500 .3ssa. Eva lld. Z =d 3r,-
The Wig says Mr.. Orren Shaw, who has
been the landlord of the Bangor HouAe for sew
eral years past, has purchased that establish
ment including all the property owned by the
Bangor House corporation. The price paid
is $4,000. l5.l5.l. rna.s4s. ugt al..ir.i e..
I'VE understand the light, racy editorial
work of the Augusta Standard Is not done by
D. F. Pike, Esq, formerly of the Age, but by
his son Horace, real "chip of the Old block"
"A correspondent of the Biddeford Union,
writing from Kittery Navy Yard, says the
Minnesota is being rapidly put in readiness for
sea, and is to be commanded by Commodore
Alden, and is to sail about the first of June
Tor the Mediterranean with the graduating
class Of midshipmen. The U. s. S. Piscataqua
new is testing the efficiency of her machin-
cry. previous to its being accepted by the GOV
eminent
Capt. Edw. w. Thompson of Brunswick,
formerly of the LIST Maine Battery and after
wards of the 18th Maine Regiment, has receiv-
ed an appointment of Lieutenant in the 10Th
regulars.