The Portland daily press., 1867-03-20
State Items.

The new hotel at Skowhegan, says the
Clarion, will require in its construction 1C0,c
feet of timber for the frame, 100000 feet Of
boards, 259OOO laths, 100000 bricks and sec
casks of lime. t.t.
AN ash tree was cut in Skowhegan few
days since, the trunk of which measured Is
feet in length, and scaled 1905 feet board mea.
sure. t
w. D. Peters has been confirmed by the
Senate, as Collector of Customs at French
mans Bay. f'1d e 9g aa
"A Boston business man, who was in Cali
fornia all through the war, remarked to us the
other day that he had never, in any place OF
on any occasion, heard so much rank, treason
able talk as he recently heard in Biddeford, at
hotel, in single evening. And yet this is
the city that its new Mayor grandiloquently
styles the 'Star in the East" and says she "still
remains true to her me-honored Democratic
principles, and still keeps step to the music
of the Union.'" - 81 IL
= The Saco Democrat of this week contains
the inaugural addresses of both Mayor Hobson
of Saco and Mayor Haines of Biddeford. The
former confines himself entirely to municipal
matters; the latter winds up with spread
eagle glorifcation of Democracy and limping
kick at the Radical Congress-. Hope our ma
tional legislature will survive the shock.
The "Star in the East" mayor, in address
ing words of cheer to his Democratic brethren
says, sour friends at the South have been fore
ed to submit to the arbitrary and despotic power
ola Radical Congress" Yes, and his friends at
the South got up the rebellion, and were forced
to submit to the arbitrary and despotic power
of the radical Union army. Mayor Haines is
right; there is not a doubt of it. ,........ .
The Skowhegan Clarion has been present
ed with specimens of copper and lead ores,
highly impregnated with silver, which have
been discovered in Guilford. A specimen of
the ore taken from the surface of the ground
was sent to Boston to be assayed and proved
to contain about SO per cent. copper and $239
worth Of silver to the tom. The lead ore con-
tains from 20 to rs per cent pure lead, and is
also strongly impregnated with silver. There
is also small quantity of gold combined with
the copper. j75mu NeHs set
AT convention oflthe Mill Spinners Of New
England, held at Biddeford from the 18th to
the 10Th inst. inclusive, it was unanimously re-
oVA'Ou bA1O nun tAO 4Sp VI ApAh plOA. tucy Will
not work more than ten hours a day, or sixty
hours week.
Lyman Lowell and Elvin Lowell have been
committed to Jail in Paris, in default of $500
bail each, to await the action of the September
term of the S. ]. Court, on charge of break
ing into the store of j. P. Hubbard & Bro. at
Hiram, last Nov, and stealing therefrom 500
in money. .e.f fi6
The Lewiston Journal says that last Friday
night store at North Anson, occupied by S.
G. & s. H. Dawes, recently of that city, was
burned with its contents, consisting of a stock
of dry goods valued at $1,000. Insured for So
OOO.:
The inhabitants ofthe town of Oxford have
voted to exempt from taxation for ten years
the property Of any manufacturing company,
provided the capital is from other places and
exceeds ten thousand dollars in amount.
The Oxford Democrat says the dwelling
house occupied by Jonas L. Shackley, of North
Waterford, took fire on the night of the Goth
ult., and was a total loss Also that the dwell
ing-house of Robert Smith, of Stoneham, was
totally consumed, with all its contents, on
Wednesday, 9th ult, the family being absent
when the fire broke out Both were insured.