The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-03-25
state Items.

The ArOostook traders have signed al
agreement not to purchase goods of agents
peddlers or drummers. 1t is done to discour
age the practice Of sending agents through tn
country to sell by sample. The people Q
Aroostook are no longer disposed to purchas
the out-of-style and shop-worn goods of tn
metropolitan merchants. -. 'ii 80
Another Democratic triumph--the invinc
ible metalics have carried the town of Jay-ar
unexpected triumph. We congratulate them
In about 1000 years, at this rate, they will re.
deem the State r m -ss %. -..f.+e
"A correspondent ofthe Wing says that Mr.
Benjamin. Thompson of Winterport, who died
short time since, was one of the Oldest Ma
sons, as well as citizen, in that vicinity. HI
was born in Massachusetts and moved tt
Frankfort when the country was wilderness
being one of the first settlers in that town. HI
lived and died in the house which he bull
when he first moved there. He was raised il
Hancock Lodge, nearly 20 years ago. .1
The Wing says John Graham, ESQ.,, Of
Bangor, died suddenly at Carmel, ON Thurs.
day afternoon, probably from dropsy of the
heart. He left home in the morning in his
usual health, and experienced no sensation of
sickness until afew minutes before his death.
He was sixty years of age. I.4 st. rnl
The buildings are being removed from the
lot at Augusta designed for the new Universal
list Church. Xxx
The Belfast Journal states that several cas-
es of diptheria have occurred in that vicinity
one of them terminating fatally. ,n.,.l
The Lewiston Journal learns that Mrs. Sa
rah Dwinal, widow of the late Isaac Dwinal
ESQ.,, of Mechanic Falls, was found dead in heI
bed on the morning of March Goth. She retir.
ed the night previous as well as usual. Sup.
posed cause of death, heart disease. She was 81
years of age. So. ill., -rsf,
"A mining company, owning eight square
miles of the celebrated Pictou coal bed in Nova
Scotia, has been organized in Brunswick. Sem
uel r. jackson is President, Charles Boutelle,
Treasurer, both of Brunswick, and John L
Hodsdon of Augusta, Secretary. @
The Lewiston Journal is informed by a
gentleman from the town of Milan that man
made an assault with intent to kill upon two
Frenchmen on the 10Th inst, in that town.
The assassin succeeded in wounding one of
them frightfully in the head with an axe. The
other proved too much for him, and succeeded
in making his escape, when the assailant, a
man known by the name of Jack Lerry, fled to
the woods. Money was his design, it is sup
posed, though both of the assaulted men had
but $50 about their persons. los .tlau. .
AIR. William Greene of Skowhegan, got his
hand caught in a circular saw few days since,
ana mad his fore, middle and third fingers, to-
gether with portion of his hand completely
severed, leaving the thumb and little finger.
Steamer Daniel Webster, from Bath for
Boston, in consequence of the storm. was
obliged to put into Portsmouth for a barbor on
Thursday night last. .. eltf
Rev George w. Field, d. D., of Bangor
has been invited to become associate pastor
with Rev. H. M. Dexter, D. D., of Berkley
street church in Boston.
-Fifty-two disabled soldiers were admitted
to the Q. S. Military Asylum, at Togus Springs
nelr Augusta, in one day. They were from out
of the State. Very few of the soldiers who
nave availcd themselves of the privileges of
this Asylum are from Maine.
The bill requiring advertisements of non
resident tax sales to be published in some pa
per In the county where the lands are situated
mas become law. This will distribute some
@.ooV among the different papers in the State,
winch mas formerly been confined to the Ken
nebec Journal
~-The Gardiner Reporter says the Portland
& Kennebec Railroad Co. have made a stock
dividend of % per cent, and promises a casb
dividend in Jnly next.
There is no State in the Union better
situated for manufacturing purposes than
Maine. She has the best waterpower in the
contry, some of it well occupied, but much of
it inviting occupancy
Now is the time for making maple sugar.
1t is the sweetest season Of the year in the ma.
pie orehaEdF,