The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-08-05
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State Items.

i4f The Skowhegan Clarion says the drive of
logs have all passed that place. The last was
turned over the falls on Tuesday last The
amount of logs has been larger this season than
! Tor a long time. s.teV e.tot.a7ts
-Four prisoners escaped from the Jail in
Ellsworth, on Thursday night, by passing
down the vault of the privy and digging out
under the Jail walls. Posters have been sent
over the country offering reward for the ap-
prebension ofthe escaped prisoners, the names
ofwhom are, Thomas johnson, Rufus f. Page,
Leander Gushing, Jr., CALVIN j. Sargent
We learn from the Belfast Age that severe
tornado has visited Center Montvile causing
considerable destruction 1t blew down a
part nf the harm of Nathan Pierce, uproeted
16 appetrees and Frustrated the crops and
fences. 1t swept the chimncys from the house
of Amos Frye and took off part of the roof of
Franklin Gray's house. Much damage was
done to woodlands. 1t revolved in a circle
with hail breaking glass, sc.
The Cutter "Dobbin" is now cruising down
east and smugglers will do well to hang up
for time.
The Belfast Journal manifests great ago.
ny, because the Universalists at their conve.,-
ton in Stockton few weeks ago, passed the
following resolution -" Resolved, That we re-
peat our declaration of last year. and assert
our belief that there is no hope of a restor,-
ti"H OF our country to state of permanent
peace, but by full acknowledgment of the
equal rights of all the peoples and therefore
we express our cordial assent to the reconstruc-
ton measures recently passed by Congress !,
which ~, on1o
SOnth, all the rights of citizenship"
The Belfast Journal, speakir of the Porey
fishery, says, Fifteen barrels of fish make
one oil. The oil is shipped to Boston where
the refiners work wonders with it. Probably
some OF it comes back as pure lnseed to paint
our houses; some as Macassor for ladies' hair
or perhaps as pure olive oil to dress our sal
ads. The achievements of chemistry are very
wonderful and we can't be very certain what
we eat drink or wear, was in its original
FORM What is left of the fish, after thb oil
is pressed out, is called chum," and sells for
$l5 per ton. One firm in Baltimore last wear
boughtsix thousand tons of chum on the coast
of Maine.
The Belfast Age states that in that CITY
alone 1t is estimated by competent Judges that
last year $4,000 worth of liquor was sold. This
year thus far, comparatively none has been
sold.
The Waterville Mail says that young
man named Fowler was killed in Clinton last
Thursday, while at work on moving ma
chine
George L. Crummett, late of Augusta.
has been sentenced to four years in the State
prison, one day to be solitary confinement, for
highway robbery in Massachusetts,.
This laying of the corner stone of the
Methodist church at Rockland will take place
ON the 18th of August. The Masonic Frater.
ternity will perform the services.
The Belfast Journal learns that one day
last week Joshua Chase of Swanville was in
stahtly Killed by falling from a load of hay
He was building the load when the horses sud-
denly started, throwing him off and breaking
his neck in the fall causing instant death. He
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