The Portland daily press., 1867-10-23
State ItcInS.-

stare Items.
---Ihe Saco Democrat says; Eve understand
tnat de teetiye officer Hunt, of Boston, arrests
cd man IN that city on suspicion of being en-
gagged IN the Norway Bank robbery and the
robbery Of D. W. O'Brions store in Cornish,
and took him for identification to Cornish
where he was taken for examination before the
triai Justice and bound over in the sum of$25,
W. FROM what we can learn of the affair we
think IT quite probable the perpetrator is in
custody"
we learn from the Saco Democrat that DR.
Dahiei w. Jones has been before Justice Neal
~ at South Berwick for shooting John W.
Stthsph OF kittery. Jones was ordered to find
Da'i IN the sum of one thousand dollars for his
appearance at the S. j. Court to be holden at
Saco next January. ass
AT the York County Agricultural Society,
the display of fruit was quite up to tho aver
age. The pears and apples were very fine. Mr..
Jonn \. Davis exhibited some excellent cram
berries which grew nhis farm. He has now,
Z or mad a few days ago, sixty bushels for SALE
Cranberries haveSgrown finely in our State
this year. There are thousands d localities in
Maine where this berry can be made to yield
to the cultivator very profitable crops. In al
most every town there are patches where they
grow wild without cultivation That shows
how easy it is to raise them. Let our farmers
take the hint.
The Wing says Companies A and b Maine
State Guards of that city, have been invited
by Gov. Chamberlain to do escort duty on the
occasion of Gen, Sheridans reception at Au-
gusta on the Goth inst. 1t is expected that
they will comply with the request.
The Bangor Wing says: eve learn from
Mr.. Allen that Sheriff Nye of KendalPs Mills.
arrested one George McDouga all for stealing a
horse from M Il. Rice of Stetson-as mention
ed yesterday in our Paper. While bringing
him to this city by the Maine Central yester-
day morning, McDougall sprung through the
car window and escaped, The cars were with
in a mile or two of Carmel, and were going
about fifteen miles an hour when he yamoosed
he had bracelets" ON his wrists, which will
probably somewhat interfere with his pros
poets. Search was Immediately made for him
but at last accounts he had not been retaken.'
The Bangor Wing says that on Friday last
4 as Mrs Adams, wife of the Methodist mimic
| OF Belfast, was riding out with another lady
/ the harness by some means became disarrang-
ed, trighte ming the horse, causing him to run
/ away, and throwing Mrs. Adams out upon a
! pile Of stones, breaking one of her legs and one
of her arms, and otherwise severely injurine
her. We do not learn that the other lady re
ceived any injury.
The centennial anniversary of Bangor oc-
ours in 1869.
At Bangor while the French Spy" was be
| ing played in the theatre, and the actors were
hauling down the French Flag, a sailor of til,
| French Corvette Buevet rushed down to tn,
stage and gave vent to his indignation. III,
| couldn't stand and see his flag thus used. III,
| muttered away in French and broken English
| but one of his comrades undeceived him and
he became quiet and cheered the play.
- AT a Democratic jubilee in East Sumner
says correspondent of the Lewiston journal
they couldn't fire off the big gun because they
had put the wad in before they did the powder
| They had to withdraw the charge which may
be significant of their future course The
speeckron the occasion was a speech from
Smarts Bond Taxer.. SAX
4 L q d. b.
! .7-Pittstield is growing fiat Work on the
Maine Central Institute building has already
! begun. Going Hawthorn, Esq, has given q
site of 20 acres and has contracted Tor the cree
| lion Of the building Which will cost about $25-
900. Twelve houses and stores are going up
and they are at work on a stone dam where
1 there is {. good water power. Success to this
village.
! The Boardman Hill , in the town of Indus
| try, says the Sunrise, is supposed from recent
discoveries, to contain large deposites of silver
and lead. poor man owing a farm there
has been offered, so says the Clarion, $4,000
for one halfof the farlis He should handle the
money at the earliest moment ~
Conductor Stowe, of the G. T.. r., was ar
rested at Mechanic Falls last Monday, and
taken from his train. This arrest was on an
action against him for eecting {; man and wo-
man from the. cars at New Gloucester last
week. These passengers had a return ticket,
aud were coming back upon il four days after
its purchase. We suppose the Conductor
acted in accordance with the rules established
on the road, but the question arises whether
they had or had not the legal right to return
|
probably turn ON the point whether they pro-
lenged their stay to an unreasonable length of
time. Are four days svch a time? That will
be the main question to be decided 3 :
IA young man by the name of Edridge,
from Canaan, says he WIS robbed Monday
night by two men, between Kendal's and Som
erset Mills, of 81 300. The highwaymen stopped
him and compelled him to Get out of his wac
on, and after the robbery they permitted him
to go along.
--One of the Norridgcwoek jail break ers has
been heard from in Canada.
One of Mr.. Newhall's horses, stolen few
days ago at Kendalls Mills has been found a
few miles from Augusta. aA 'a-.isr 40
Several vessels are on the stocks at Blue
Hill. Mt Desert. and Somerville. A schooner
was launched at the yard of Capt Jones, OF
West Brooksville. She is intended Tor the
South American trade.
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