The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-05-01
state Items

First page-National Bank Tax; Buck
field and Vicinity. Last page-May Day, po-
etry; Americans Abroad; Modern Oaths; A
Hard Hit at the Home G yards.
The Lewiston Journal says on Monday a
lad by the name of Brooks, about ten years of
age while playing around loaded team was
caught between the wheel and the body of the
cart and had his scalp taken off in a frightful
manner. The wound was dressed and the boy
is doing we'll. au5.f..s ts, i.., ,,.-l b
The Journal gives an amusing account of
frightened horse at Lewiston that started off
before the engine on the railroad track, demol-
ished the buggy attached to him, and attempt
ed to cross a bridge Oh the ties which were two
feet apart. But he failed at last to set his feet
Alright, and, arrived about midway OF the
bridge, he went through, all in a bunch. The
distance to the ground is from fifteen to TWEEN
ty feet Fortunately for our lively steed, the
soil was wet and soft, and he went down on
his launches some two feet into the mud. Be-
fore any one had arriving at the scene of the
catastrophe the quadruped had picked himself
out of the mud looking very much ashamed,
and walked back toward the place from which
he had started on his frolc. He was evidently
sadder, and we hope a wiser horse"
The town of Unity has voted to subscribe
$4,000 to the new preferred stock of the Bel
fast and Moosehead Lake Railroad Brooks
has voted $4,000 for the same purpose.
The Masonic bodies of Gardiner talk of
buying the old City Hall for the accommoda-
ton of the order, until they can build to suit
themselves. 87sa l 4s .ffb
During the past year ten porgy oil facto-
ries have been cree ted in Damariscotta, at a
cost of $4,000 each. 10 ssd+ "..i-
&C. M. Bailey, Esq, has purchased the Lew
iston oil cloth factory at Manchester, and is re-
moving it to Winthrop. 10 5s.4 s5
The Waterville MaiP undoubtedly speak
ing by authority of State Constable Nye,
says: "A paragraph is going the full circle Of
the newspapers, stating that good temper
ance man in Augusta has been fined for SELL
ing glass of cider. 1t ought to be known
for it is true-that it was a trick played off by
few men opposed to liquor law, for the
purpose ofraising an cutlery that may effect
the vote of farmers and others in June. 1t
was not done by the State constable or any
deputy, and we know that the former most en-
F>A'J eonociAs tne urlcK. IL ID generally
understood that SO far as the law against sell
ing cider goes, it was only intended to reach
dishonest men, who were accustomed to palm
of, under the name of cider, such compounds
of Intoxicating ingredients as they had no
right to sell by their true names This trick
at Augusta was invented and played off by
this class of men, and at once autographed far
and wide. Our wonder has been that Augusta
papers, which ought to know the facts have
not taken pains to expose the trick" .Dt
The Machias Republican says the Press
mistakes in giving Washington county as the
birthplace Ex-senator Nesmith of Oregon, and
further says he was born in Brooks. Waldo
county, where some ofhis relatives now res de.
Our authority is the Dictionary of the United
states Congress" by Charles Lanman, late Lii
orarian House of Representatives, and probab.
~ MI Lanman had his information from the
senator himself. He says Senator Nesmith
was born in Washington county, Maine. ,Julv
10 1870; when quite young removed to New
Hampshire, and in 1888 emigrated to Ohio: sub-
sequen'ly spent some years in Missouri and
in 1s4s emigrated to Oregon" ''N