The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-04-26
state Items.

| The trial ofthe Bowdoinham Bank robbers
at Bath excites a great deal Of interest. Th'
Times says the Court House is constantly fill
ed with spectators. The Times also says on,
| of the learned members of the bar suggested
soto voce, on the sly, that the various burglari
GUS implements shown in Court, were sufi
Gent for one to set up business with in tina
line.
The Journal says the West Auburn murdt
case will probably be brought up for trial the
last of next week or the first of the week af
| ter $500 -ae es~s' ~ '' e--' J1'sSAi'
Mo subscription books have yet been open.
ed for the Belfast and Moosehead Railroad.
The Belfast Age says that a brig command.
ed by Capt Payson of and from Camden, was
known to be out and in the track of the hurri.
cane of last October, and has not since beer
heard from. The vessel and all her crew were
undoubtedly destroyed. ,,5 = Et,. -.
The Aye says the farmers in Waldo coun.
ty are intending to experiment. quite exten.
sively this spring and summer, with the new
mica-slate plaster which is obtained in that re.
gion. Quite quantity of the stone has been
ground and one farmer has as many as twenty
barrels for use. 1t is ground in the same man
ner as the common plaster is made from gyp-
sum. qia47 ts-f ---ysTT ,5a
The Bangor Wing learns from the Treas
urer of State, Hon. N. G. Hichborn, that the
Soldiers Bounty Scrip of the State, issued two
years ago in 800 pieces, and now payable, has
been successfully counterfeited, and that sew
eral pieces have been received at the Treasur-
ers office, from Bangor, Portland, Belfast and
MISUNDERSTANDING that the spurious paper
is widely circulated. The signature OF the
treasurer is very closely initiated. The words
Soldiers Bounty Scrip" in the heading oceu-
Ply about quarter of an inch more than the
genuine. This, however, would not be observ-
ed except by actual comparison The only
safety is to refuse to purchase any of the scrip,
unless from parties who are we'll known and
responsible. e. uI-Fssf ~ e..I1I5 2aisse.
"A letter to the Farmer says the new Som
ierset Railroad is to go from Waterville to
Carratunk Falls ION the Kennebec river in the
town of Scion, )-not from West Waterville to
Arson as heretofore stated. Stock is taken in
Anson to the amount Of 900, Embden about
$4,000, Scion will take $4,000 and SO on.
The water power at Carratunk has been pur-
chased by a wealthy. capitalist in anticipa-
ton of the railroad 60
Says the Bangor Je6ersonian: aWe saw
a philosopher in our streets the other day.
He wore slouched hat, unkempt hair, seedy
clothes. and was very muddy from his dilapi-
dated boots up. We recognized him as
philosopher, because he drove hog through
crowded street as straight as you could drive
1amiy horse with the rein. The popular no.
tion, among illiterate and unskilled persons
49, that to drive hog you must take YOUR DO
sitlon dlfectiy between the animal and, the
point OF destination. That notion ia exnlod-
ed" '1 1.7~ o~p-o0-
The Aroostook Sunrise, In laudator, No
tice OF the late Mr.. Evans, says, "fro,n tbo
time he entered the Legislature of Maine in
1925 to his death, AZ years, he was more or less
familiar with the elder Adams, Jefferson, Mad
ison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson,
Van Buren,, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor,
Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln and
johnson, indeed with every President our ma
ton has ever had except Washington" When
it is remembered that "the elder Adams" and
Jefferson both died on the 4th of July, 1926 it
will be seen that Mr.. E.'s familiarity" with
them was probably great deal "less" than
more"
line hockland Free Press says Melwirk
freeman OF orington, while riding home last
week was attacked by three men, knocked in
'en'ipie oy slung shot or some other deadly
weapon robbed of small sum of money and
1neh severely beaten and left for dead Aftor
laying Tor time, he revived, got into his car
rage and rode about four miles toward. 49,
when he tainted from exhaustion. fell from his
carriage and Laid in the road until abont tbrao
o'clock the next morning, when he was found
by his friends who went in search of, and car
ried him home He is nowi in dangerous state
and unable to give many Of the particulars.