The Portland daily press., 1867-04-02
state Items.

-Amasa NJ. Walker of this State is one of
the newly appointed members of the capitol
police organized at Washington under the
sergeants-at-arms of the two houses.
Those "howitzers" mounted on the deck of
that exhumed vessel, of Revolutionary men,
DRY, in yesterdays Argus, were little ahead
OF the time of that kind Of guns. When an
attempt is made to 'sel." the verdant by an
April Fool hoax, to make it successful little
regard should be had to dates and other ear
marks.
Ambrose III. Abbott, Esq, of South China,
will leave his home this week to take passage
for France, to enter upon his duties as Com
missioner from Maine to the Exposition at
Paris, to which position he has been appointed
by Gov. Chamberlain.
The Houlton Times learns that fatal &C.
cident occurred on the St. Andrews Railroad
on Friday last, near a place called Mountain
road The man, whose name was Gillespie,
was lying across the track, supposed to be un-
der the influence of liquor The down train
ran over him before the engineer could stop it,
cutting off both legs, one arm, and badly bruis-
ing his head. He soon bled to death.
The journal says there is ageneral demand
IN Lewiston and Auburn, for larger churches.
The attendance this season, at all the churches,
Is unusually large.
Gen. f. D. sewal, of Bath, INSPECTOR gem
eral of the Freedmen's Burean has coma ~
MAKE All inspection tour in Georgia and Ala
bama.
-On Saturday afternoon last orr conmnn;.
ty became quite excited with no"out .l.n.
Capt John Z. Lowell had been m;ss!,a u;th
out any known reason, since the evan;s, w. a
vious. The last that could be certainly learned
of him was, that he passed the Sagadahoa
House about o'clock Friday evening. Not
returning home that night, his family were of
course alarmed, but their search and enauir-
les Saturday forenoon were quietly made AS
they could discover no trace of him, the report
OF his disappearance became general before
night Still nothing could be learned till about
ten O'Clock yesterday morning, when the body
OF the missing man was found in the dock near
houghtons ship yard. He was q man about
lorty-hVe years of age, OF most respectable con-
heetlons, and We are told that there had been
no unusual manifestations on his part, of any
kihd'-Bah Times, LIST.
"A writer in the Bangor WHO has again
e&huhed the bones ofJohn Popham. and sheds
nearly column of ink over thar Aashl.s. no
mains 1t is dry subject
The Ellsworth American .au. A.,
.' Vi eho papers that ten rison-
ers broke Iall there, and escaped, has inst ,his
much of truth. Two persons escaped. one hos
been caught and the other will return n. soo.,
ashe gets dpdir Of new boots.
The Bangor Times says Mr. Stevens. from
Corinth, while grooming horse at the No
tional House stable, in that city, FRIDAY. re-
ceived kick in the face which laid him sense-
less and broke his nose.
Mrs. Folsom, widow of the late Israel Fol-
som of Madison, was found dead in her bed
about o'clock on Thursday morning 21st inst
she was about 20 years of age, and had been
SUBJECT to fits for some years. Her husband
uropped down dead just two years to day
Pi'or 10 her death-Ciarion.
Inc Machias Republican says Mr.. John M.
johnson and his sous, at Englishmen's River,
one Gay last week, lost tweutv-one sheen.
which were swept away by the tide while on
the beach after seaweed. This loss oonno. ho
less than hundred dollars.
The Pennington Chronicle .svs .,
old Starch mill at Chesterville 10 to he -
lifted up for the manufacture Of starch sns
the farmers in that vicinity are promising to
plant big patches" Of potatoes this spring