The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-10-18
State Items.

On Monday Mr. Doe from Manchester,
while at work on the barn of Mr.. Springer on
the east side of the river in Augusta, fell from
the roof and was so severely injured that he
died on Tuesday a "a .aA
Mrs. Mary Kimball of Linneus, was one
hundred years old last May, and is now quite
active and retains her mental faculties WELL
She is the Oldest person in Aroostook
ID. T. Morse, Esq, of Bath has an eleven
hundred ton ship on the stocks so far advanced
that she will be launched in about month
She is to be in every respect superior ship. :
Friends Eli and Sybil Jones his wife, of
Vassalboro' in this State, sailed from London
on the 18th of September last, to pursue their
missionary labors in Syria and Egypt They
were in good health. h sr
The Belfast correspondent of the Bangor
Wing says: sat its annual meeting last week
the Bank of Commerce elected their officers
and instructed them to close up the affairs as
soon as it could be done, and report on the first
of December. The other bank here-the Bel
fast-changed to National bank some two
years ago. The only other State bank in the
county-Searsport of Searsport-still contin-
ues." -
-On Tuesday 15lb. can, of glycerine ex-
ploded at the mine in Guiliord, as we learn
from the Wing. It seems that they kept it on
| the forge where they sharpened the tools. The
explosion tore everything to shreds, breaking
the steel tools to bits, and stunning men 12O
feet distant Four men had just left the shan
| ty, and thus escaped humiliation.
MIR. b. +. Higgins and family, comprising
eight members, passed through Bangor, en-
route for Linneus Aroostook County, having
removed from Lisbon, in Androscoggin Coun-
ty. They were well fitted out with covered
wagons containing themselves and furniture
one OF the wagons being drawn by the odd
team of a yoke each OF steers and heifers. They
worked very llandily together, and in addition
to the ease of getting them to their. new home
and helping draw the load, they furnish the
family with their milk for their repasts, so saws
the Bangor Wing.
The Pennington Chronicle is informed
that trout, weighing pounds, in attempting
to go over the Rangiey dam, thrust his head
| into an old mortise in one of the timbers But
though it was enough to get into the serape, il
was quite another mattersto get ont. The
| eAosAo ASihathCu HAUL III Ills mover Ufap, until
gentleman observing his excited movements
extrieated him from his unpleasant dilemma
and took him home to dinner
Mr. Page, of New York city, left Farming
ton on Tuesday morning in the cars, with a
pair OF live trout, the male weighing g pounds
and the female z IL pounds They were TAX
en- at the outlet of the Rangeley Lake, with a
| hy-hook, about fortnight ago. They are con.
veyed in tight box, lined with sponge, the
top perforated with holes, through which the
a'i :, N.Y. 1hair- final destination is a pond
IN New Jersey at the country seat of Mr.
Page, says the Chronicle
-George e. Whitney, formerly of Farming.
ton, but for the past six years., resident Of
San Francisco, has recently beenj appointed
clerk OF all the United States Courts in the
State of California A