The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-10-10
state Itenas.

lectures, this evening, before
the Young Mems Christian Associations of
Lewiston and Auburn 5lEP,sib 4aDnhis
Young Mems Christian Association
of Auburn is about to purchase about $500.
worth of books. ld1Ha YfgFtag i3aI.m 5dl
The Musical Convention in Bangor is well
attended and all are enjoying themselves. ias
AT the ffremen's Muster in Bath
to-day two silver trumpets worth s 100
each are to be contended for, and afdinner
will be given to the firemen. 81 qh l9d14gi b9
b. Boys at Maehias fill old rum bottles with
water. seal them up and sell them for pure
Red Eye IsdiIa faa $4,000 Ges diTow
1.-The French man-0f-war now at Bangor,
is screw propeller of $50 tons. carrying four
guns-one so pound, two % pounds and a how
itzer, all rifed. Crew, six officers and seventy
four men. This vessel came after lumber,
bricks &c.to be conveyed to st. Pierre Mquelon
to replace the buildings destroyed by the great
fire which destroyed $50 houses and stores
The Bangor Wing says Mr., Isaac D.
Snow, painter, while at work painting at
Mr.. Egery's foundry Tuesday afternoon, step
ped into a pool of melted iron, the residue of
the ladies' after casting (Which had been pour
ed into the sand to cool. The iron had Just
cooled sufficiently to give it the color of the
surrounding sand, and as he stepped upon it
the crust broke through and he sank into the
molten mass up to his ankle, burning him so
severely that the bone of the ankle was laid
bare. 100 .......tt. ...,....-t-s.. .I.,.l-.
The Bangor Wing says on Tuesday, fire
was discovered on the roof of the Dutton
house, occupied by Rev. Mr.. Eaton. 1t was ex-
tinguished before much damage was done.
Two officers of the French Corvette Bou-
vet now at Bangor, were riding in buggy the
top of which was taken off by collision with a
hay rack. The Frenchmen did not mind that,
but in true sailor style drove on and surveyed
the city. 5t aa IkA =Hiff9" i5ia'
A Portland correspondent of the Lewiston
Journal says of the building operations in this
city: "The buildings go up with untiring ac-
tivity. The City Hall is really gorgeous and
as much as our City Fathers have been abus-
ed really belle 7e that the income of such a
hall will more than repay the seeming extrav-
agance which has caused such ghosts and
nightmares to our tax payers and the fossil ell
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| 3l-i. 7lIIT 'ili,l las,fii--liad al alul aJI
Al a meeting OF the Auburn Y. M. G. As
| ISOLATION Rev. Mr.. Blake, who has been labor
ing in Auburn and who is about to leave for
New York, was presented with purse of
money. t+' '''th l- '-
The public schools in Lewiston are in
f1ourishing condition. The Lewiston Journal
says the whole number of scholars attending
n $50.
school during the spring term of 1866, was
1902; fall term 1744; winter term 1727; and the
spring and summer term of 1867 the whole
number was 1861, only about Copper cent of the
whole number of scholars reported in the city
| (359S) -' -af H. @he ass ai t'A
| The Maine Farmer says the well-known
mare ',zenobia," the property of Joseph p.
Maxwell ofCarthage in this State has been
sold to gentleman in Chicago, ILL.,, for the
sum of one thousand dollars. She is seven
years old, of a fine chestnut color and is pro-
nounced one ofthe best horses that ever went
J from this State al eaiigh su.1s l-t.n,a