The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-06-25
state Items.

( a-Infantiside is becoming fearfully common
in the spindle city. The Lewiston Journal re-
ports the finding of three dead bodies of in
fants within the month. All were found float
ing in the river. ia I8n1a gvs-.=k sr~E
Col. #. S. Hesseltine, formerly of the Sd
Maine, now a resident of Savannah has been
appointed Register of Bankruptcy for the
Southern District of Georgia, by Chief Justice
Chase.
e 1.-The Waterville Mail says the "Ticonic
Water Power and Manufacturing Company"
is at length an organized body with q capital
of seventy-fve thousand dollars. The new
stockholders met ON Monday evening, and
brought it to this climax. -i
On Tuesday last a woman named Magee,
at Eastport, assaulted Deputy Constable John
Campbell with an adze, Will he was making
seizure of her husbands liqu.r, and inflicted
very severe but perhaps nottangerous wound.
1t is feared that brig Capline CULVER, of
Bangor, from New York for Savannah is lost,
with all ON board. She left New York two
weeks SINCE and is suppOsedto have taken the
severe gale of Barnegat sooi after leaving. A
seen off Barnegat. She was owned mostly in
this city, and valued at abou $4,000. No in
surance.h Capt. CULVER hat his wife and two
CHI ldren ON board.-Whig. '1ol i''i. ,.'s2olg
y" --On the 18th instant the louise of Mr., Al
bert G. Lermond, in Applebn, was burned At
noon, together with shed, ban and other build
ing~ The floor wa. partly nvsd in a damag-
ed condition. agsr Z, 81
fi-The Machias Republican says the jones'
pert Peat company will be prepared in fivo or
six weeks to commence the manufacture Of
peat. They are now building heir shops and
sheds, and win RIM one machine this year,
which will consume fifty tons the raw mate
rial, daily, making fifteen toni Of dried peat.
They are hoping to apply it to the burning of
lime, and if successful, they viii put on cor
responding number of machine next year, for
Tie consumption will be unlimited u0ifl9
in Bangor on Saturday last, as q Mrs.
Lowe accompanied by young girlwas driv-
ing into town with horse which sic had har-
messed herself, the head-stall not having been
properly adjusted became loose nd frighten-
ened the horse. He ran furiousl! Mrs. Lowe
and the girl chung to the chaise the former
succeeding by her presence of mad in keep
ing the frightened animal in tie road. He
dashed through several streets, nd finally the
chaise struck with great violere against
jigger loaded with granite, preipitating Mrs.
Lowe and the girl to the grOuM, the former
being thrown, az was subsequently ascertained
by actual measurement, some hirty-three feet,
and the latter about half that listancc,s while
the chaise top went whirling Ger for several
rods.-Incredible as it may seen neither of the
women was seriously injured. The frightened
horse kept frantically on till b came in con-
tact with the wheel of a cart which threw him
with tremendous force to the eound, his head
striking first and dashing his rains all about
He never moved thereafter, being instantly
killed. ~ ef..,f-..+.I
Tho Calais Advertiser avs Lodges of
Good Templars have been istituted at Red
Beech. Barring, Midtown, an Princeton, and
are all in good working erdAf'