The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-09-27
State Items.

The Kennebec Journal says: "the members
of family in New Gloucester have taken the
Eastern Argus for nearly sixty five years. The
wonder is that most of the family are alive and
well" Just so but then the town is very
healthy one, and the people there have tough
constitutions.
The oldest building in Gardiner, the old
post Office, is being stripped of its shingles
which have been on the building forty years.
The Gardiner Journal says on Sunday
| morning the money drawer in Smiths bakery
was robbed of some $14 by a man " no reached
| over the counter, while Mr.. Smith was in the
| back shop.
The fall session at Little Blue closed Tues
| day last. The school is highly spoken of
A Phillips correspondent of the Farming
| ton Chronicle says it is estimated that two
| hundred teams have been this season to the
| blue berry grounds near Bubiertown in that
county, and probably not less than 1900 bush
| els OF blueberries have been brought away from
there this fall. One night an old barn in the
vicinity was the lodging place of sixty per-
sons.
Mr. Thomas Wright says the Pennington
| Chronicle, raises splendid apple called "Cole's
| Ounce" He challenges any fruit grower in
| Maine or New Hampshire to show a better
| specimen of fruit, of native growth.
The town of Newcastle has voted three to
one, to loan the credit of the town for 100000
to the Knox & Lincoln Railroad Co.
The Kennebec Journal says the abundance
| and voracity of the green worms have made
this hard season for growing good cabbages,
| as the crop is almost entirely ruined in that
| vicinity.
Mr.. Remission, mail agent, informs us that
| three barns and large quantity of hay, be-
| longing to Hon. A. G.. Jewett of Belfast were
burnt last Tuesday night. This is the second
time. Mr.. Jewett has lost his buildings by fire.
| There was small insurance. 1t is supposed
| to be the work of an incendiary.
| We learn from the Journal that on Tues
| day morning States Prison bird named
Jones, in jaili that city, caused some disturb
ance by knocking down the turnkey, and in
hicting blows upon others who attempted to
secure him. He is hard customer and has
been the occasion of considerable trouble in
the State Prison. He has now been placed in
quarters where he will be likely to keep quiet
Twelve hundred men are at work in New
Brunswick on the European and North Amer
lean Railway.
The Winthrop Mill Co.'s wooden factory
took fire. which would have been serious, but
one charge from the patent Fire Annihilator
extinguished the flames and saved the build
ing.
The editor of the Lewiston Journal has
seen a cucumber nearly two feet long. That's
nothing remarkable. We have seen them
more than three feet long in Montreal where
vegetables of all kinds grow most luxuriantly
The seed of all these long cucumbers came
from that city. Some fifteen years ago we
brought some OF the seed from Montreal and
planted 1t. The cucumbers grew nearly two
feet long, but slender in the middle The soil
on the island of Montreal was needed to give
them their full length and plumpness. :.
The frost was very light in Belfast and vi
cinity.
The County Conference of the Washing
ton Congregational Churches will be held at
Machiasport Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct
LIST and I'd.
The dedication of the new Masonic Hall
at Eastport comes on Tuesday, Oct. Sd.
The Lewiston Journal ays-Tuesday a
girl, 16 years of age, several weeks since from
st. Johns, N. B., commenced work in tailors
shop. At noon she left the shop, but could not
lind her way to her boarding house as she had
visited it but once. A young fellow volun-
teered to show her, but instead of that the
young rascal p iloted her through several
streets, and tried to get her into house which
was not the one she sought. As she would
not enter he applied a handkerchief to her
FACE, and she remembers nothing until she
was found on Lincoln street by woman who
knew her. She had been rendered insensible
by chloroform and probably outraged The
officers are looking up the case, and we trust
the scamp will be found and punished.