The Portland daily press., 1867-03-14
State Items.

sumo little too much when he intimates that
the Governor, to keep his oath of office inviol-
ate, is restricted to single individual in MAX
ing selection of State Constable? We dare
say Mr.. Nye may be admirably qualified for the
place. but if Governor Chamberlain should
think some other man equaelly well qualified,
we hardly think our Bath neighbor would
charge him with disregard of his official oath.
Patents were granted last week to John A.
Hooper of South Berwick, for improved nut
meg CRATER; N. w Bonney of Lewiston, as
signor to self and o. Davis of same place, for
improved BARRIERS chair; L. F. Rollins of Ban
gor, assignor to self and James Nealy, Jr, of
same place, for improved mop wringer; F. B.
Shaw of Boston, Mass, assignor to Silas S.
Shaw of Bath for Improvement in carriage
guard; Ezra Staples and VIM. w, Gould of
Skowhegan, for improved car coupling.
The Price Current says that noticeable
feature of the habits of Damariscotta is the al
most universal custom of leaving all their
store keys in their doors, attached to which is
a red wooden braid about six inches in length
indicating that "the store is open"
Preparations are rapidly going forward for
commencing the building of Memorial Hall at
Colby University, Watervlle, in the Spring.
The Houlton Times tells the following sto-
ry of a horse in this city: "a certain NJ D. OF
Portland, owns a horse worth having He re-
sides nearly half mile from where the horse
is stabbed. The doctor drives up to his own
door, drops the reins over the dasher, and goes
into the house, and the horse, if told to, starts
for the stable, to do which he must pass
through several streets, among which is Con-
gress street, the principal thoroughfare of the
city; when he meets a crowd of teams he waits
paitedtly until they have passed. and then
moves on. If he meets team he give it hall
the street. After winding his way through the
streets, he arrives at the stable and waits to be
unhitched from the sleigh. After he has fin
ished his meal, he is again harnessed, hitched
to the sleigh, and commences his journey back
to his owners house, where he started from
He is very handsome and spirited animal y
The Augusta Farmer says the buildings
and grounds of the South KenneDec Society at
Gardiner, have recently been sold, and the An
droscoggin Society has forfeited its grounds.
The Somerset Central sold theirs some years
ago. FE-FrFsFF ~.FEs 81
The Arson AdyOcate SAYS Mr.. Asher
Cleveland of Embden was killed while at
work for Mr.. Hartly Green in the logging
swamp on Dead River, on Thursday last, by a
falling limb while chopping or barking tree on
the ground. A limb of the tree which had Just
been cut down became detached and lodged in
the branches of another tree, and while Mr..
cleveland was at work on the tree below, the
detached limb came down and struck him on
the head. He lived about two hours. Mr..
cleveland leaves a wife and family to mourn
his loss. ..... .
The Argus learns that the house, barn and
out buildings of Mr.. John c. Stewart of Farm
ington were entirely consumed by fire on Tues
day morning, together with quantity of hay
and IL head of cattle The buildings were sit
uated about two miles from Pennington vii
lage, and were the best farm buildings in town.
The lire was undoubtedly the work of an in
cendlary Loss estimated at $4,000 Partially
insured AT the same time Mr.. Stewards
buildings were burning the barn of Mr.. Hora-
ito G. Eaton, about half mile distant, was
burned, together with quantity of hay, two
horses, two cows and some other stock. Loss
from 81 900 to 81 800 Partially insured. This
IRE was also the work ofan incendiary
,e We do not know who Beaumont" is, and
we cannot publish anonymous articles without
some responsible authority for them.
Says the Anson ADVOCATE, the lumbermen
are having nice winter for their operations,
and the teams are all said to be doing well.
Mr.. M. Steward, Esq, of this place, is operat-
ing on the upper Dead river waters, and has
employed in the woods some 16O, men 40 OF so
horses and as many oxen, engaged in hauling
pine and spruce from the stump. Add to this
the number of men and teams necessary to
haul the supplies and drive the logs to market,
expense of feeding men and teams, outfits of
sleds, chains harnesses, camp filings, Sc, sc.
and it looms up a big business There are sew
eral other smaller operations going on in the
same region-doing good business -..