The Portland daily press., 1867-05-13

-EUSt page-An 1nuuentIal Democrat;
Railway Competition; The Red River Settle
, ment; A Whale Story; The Railroad from the
Pacific; State College of Agriculture and Me-
chanic Arts. Last page-A Rainy Day, poet
ry; The Organ Grinder; In Hoops i-i
The Maine Farmer complains of the Board
of Trustees of the Agricultural College, 1st
that the members are gentlemen practically
unacquainted with agricultural matters, and
I'd, that of the seven two reside on the Kenne-
bee and five in or near Bangor, with no repre-
sentative in the western portion of the State
The Biddeford Union of the 10th instant
says, Dep. Sheriff Obadiah Durgin, of Saco,
and Mr.. Francis Wilson, of this city, have been
appointed Deputy State Constables for York
county. Yesterday notices were served upon
all places where liquor is sold in the two cit
les that the sale must be stopped. r.
The Union says there are only nine sepa-
rate millinery establishments on Factory Is
land, saco. no I)HiW4 ilj -
The editor of the Pressure Isle Sunrise was
assaulted in the street the other day, in conse-
quence of an epithet applied by him to one of
the citizens of that town. He pu. the law to
the offender, who was fined eight dollars and
costs. The "epithet," we understand, was the
word "copperhead," and this was applied to a
physician of the place. The remedial agent
seems to have had double operation-physi-
col and financial. -.------ =
The election that is to take place on the
Sd of June, on the question of the adoption OF
rejection of the proposed amendments to the
liquor law, is one of vast magnitude, for good
or for evil, to the temperance cause So all
temperance men insist, though they may differ
ON questions of expedieney and means by
which to secure desirable end We wish it
distinctly understood that the columns of the
Press are open to candid articles upon the
subject. We are gratified to learn that in the
course of day or two one of the longest-tried
and most faithful workers in the temperance
cause man who never speaks unless he has
something to say,-will contribute an article
showing the reasons why the amendments
should be adopted.-As we have not a particle
of doubt that such will be the result, we hope
the special friends of prohibition will make it
appear clear as the sun at MONDAY that what
tciU be should be-
The Clarion says Mr.. Jonas Jewett of
Madison, committed suicide by hanging him
self in his barn, between 9 and 10 o'clock on
Saturday morning last. No cause is assigned
for the act. He was in the 8Sth year of his
age. ,tstL .s..4g l-l4,-s- .l Ii
The Kennebec County Republican Con-
vention is called to meet at Augusta, June
26th. e
Cough is to deliver his aCuriosity" lecture
in Lewiston, May 49,
The State Teachers Association meets at
Pennington, June 4th, for organization. Gov
ernor Chant erlain is expected to be present.
The Clarion says q man who keeps public
house ten miles above the Forks, was at Show
hogan on the 9Th inst, and stated that it was
fair sleighing from his place to the lines.
The Skate Factory of c. A. Williams &
Co., at Skowhegan, is progressing rapidly to
and will be running IN the course
of next week.
The editor Of the Biddeford Union, j. E.
Butler, Esq, requests editors and publishes in
the State to inform him Immediately what 1
route they wish to take in attending the con-
vention in that city in August; alsothe number
ofpasses needed for their respective Offices. vi
"A few days since we were gratified to hear
the argus say: "We have never believed that
any good resulted from the personal abuse of
each other in which editors are too ant
to indulge" The readers of that paper must
be equally gratifed at the fidelity with which
this "belief" is put into practical shape. 1t is
10 free from all "venomous bIackguardism,"
that it is never "embroiled" with its contempt
'aries. .Chaste, scholarly, refined words alone
Ind countenance in its columns! ..
The Lewiston Journal reports case tried
1t the present term ofthe 81. Court at Au-
burn, which is of especial interest to livery
men. Mr.. Cobb of Mechanic Falls was ap-
Piled to by Miss Hathaway for team to rive
20 Lewiston, and the team was furnished. |
The horse ran away with the ladies' and Miss
was thrown from her carriage and sus-
aimed severe fracture of the leg She sued |
or damages and recovered $787 80, Judge |
Walton, in his charge to the Jury, said. sub
that it is the duty of livery men to |
leep safe horses, and it must be ked if q |
lorse to be driven by woman, should not be |
more dOcile than one to be driven by man.
The horse, carriage and harness most be suit |
'ble and safe, and if person let's horse he |
Knows to be unsafe the law holds him respon-
ible. The care to be exercised is the care |
which prudent men ordinarily USE