The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-04
state Items.


-Spearing sturgeon in the Androscoggin
row appears to be a fayorite amusement at
Brunswick and Topshams according to the
Telegraph. La -,-7 OIL, ,st I'd, .-s,..,- ~.
The Houlton Times says the grass crop
will be the largest cut for many years and the
grain crops are doing well. ---' '-'-
The Maine Farmer says, ''the Fish Commits
sioners have returned from the upper waters of
the Kennebec, and ON Monday gave thorough
examination of the dam at this place The
Commissioners assure us that there is no rea-
son why the Kennebec may not be opened to
the fish, so that salmon, shad and alewives can
be as plenty as before the erection of the dams.
sAll that is necessary, is to construct fish ways
over the dams upon the, plan devised by Mr.
n. W. Foster one of the Commissioners,
which has been in successful operation ON the
rivers in the eastern part of the State for sew
eral years, and has recently been applied to
many OF the dams on the Merrirnack in Mas
sachusettsi Mr.. Foster-who has examined
all the dams on the Merrimack-says that in
sixteen miles on that river, he drew plans and
specifications for twelve fish ways, while on
the Kennebec not more than half that number
wllb needed to give the fish full possession Of
the river. Such difference being in our fa-
vor, the greater viii be our fault if we fail to
do in the matter what our mother State has
already performed" 49,.
q The Bath Times is informed that Mr. Ben
4jamin Green, very respectable citizen Of
Phipaburg, committed suicide Tuesday by
hanging himself, in his woodshed He was a
man about IS years OF age, in comfortable cir
acumstanees as to property, a professor Of reli-
gion, an upright citizen, and much respected
by all who knew him. For some two months
or more he had been subject to fits of despond-
ency, and in one of them he ended his mortal
career. 9GIt5 g loi hsrs jniEls tgi sTtf eli .
i The Anson Advocate says, There is an
immense jam of logs above the pier of the An
son and Madison bridge, blocking the river
from shore to shore. We hear it estimated at
from six to ten millions of feet. 1t has been
collecting and increasing over week, despite
the efforts of a large crew of men to set it
adrift." 1850 ''0 '1- am" .1lA
We understand the house of Mr.. Leigh
ton ON Windham Hill was burned last Sunday
night with all its contents. An attempt had
been previously made to set it on fire, but it
failed and the incendiary escaped. One Chas.
Dutton was suspected on account of some
trouble between him and the family. He was
arrested, but there was not proof enough to
hold him The family had a narrow escape
from the fire. 20 DaaAoA ssfia "a ''12i4l-
The two boys belonging one in Lowell and
the other in Boston, arrested the other day
Bangor for breaking into the Hermon depot
1ak,o1 no
bound over. The Bangor Wing says they will
have to remain in Jail till the August term OF
Couf'lJ Eq,s- l-1ts eff --Ee1 me so.-f.ss
The Bangor Wing says the Waldo County
Temperance Association recently held meet
in at Searsport Eight lodges were represent
ed They reported the Temperance cause in
that county in a hourishing condition. = 9
"A writer in siBlaekwood,'' on "Women
and Children in America" says the rocking
CHARTS one OF The greatest social curses in
the United States" There are SO many great
est social curses" that one experiences as much
difficulty in recognizing them at sight as Mr..
Samuel Weller did 'the best feelings Of our
nature" 80 u' A-----
1t is due to truth to say that the President
did not use the expression-"B But the other
day 1T would have been impossible Tor the
ohief Magistrate to have proceeded as tar
north as L did"-which the Associated Press
dispatch attributedto him. 1t was the south
of which he was speaking; and with that
amendment the statement loses its absurdity.
The City Marshal of Boston gives notice
that he will prosecute all persons firing crack.
ers or guns in the street to-day. y
Among the entries for the single sc,ll
race at the Boston regatta to-day, we notice
walter Brown Of Portland, she'll green color
A. P. Harris and "Angeline of Portland ma.
bogany shell, George w. leighton .-1- Ct
: A Richmond paper, referring to the retire.
ment of j. d. TO Canada, asks ''what name
Achilles went by when he was hid among the
women of Hhica"
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