The Portland daily press., 1867-08-02
State Items

All the prisoners who escaped from Wis
casset Jail have been taken except one e,ns, b;s
name is James Poland.
= Mr.. Jordan Potter, ain aged citize n of Wis
casset, supposed to be partially insane drove a
nan INTO his own head few days ago. He died
soon after. ai,fgo.' i3 sI35uHG ,'fil n
Cox Hiram Rollins of the "a N TT reo;.
ment, resident of this city, has been breyet-
TED Brigadier-General for gallant and merito-
lions conduct during the war. .Goq Hor y
IA, A little girl of four years, daupbter of Mr.
Arthur Libby, of Bangor, was SO badly burned
on Wednesday that her life il despaired of n
is supposed she caught the fire from nlavpp
with matches, as when f rst discovered her
clothes were all ablaze.
. The Machias Unc,n saws sbipbuildiao Il
quite lively in Cutler. The Mill Dam Comma
ny have vessel, 800 TOP s. on the stocks to be
on the hrst OF October The town gives evil
dencc of prosperity. nl5 TfiE-al Il
In Machlas there are more houses in
process OF erection than ever before in one sea-
son. -tr.-
p "A htt-e son of Mr.. Orlando Brown of Rock
land fel.in aboiler of hot water and died five
hours after.
we learn from the Rockland Press that
Mrs. Julia PiersOn, wife of w. j. Pierson of
st. George, Saturday morning last drowned
herself i'm a small cove near the steamboat
wharf at Tenants Barber. When found n
large stone was fastened to her neck by a cord.
No cause whatever is known for the deed. Her
husband at the time was in Boston. Her age
was twenty. She left two letters, one for her
husband and the other for female friend. but
they throw no light on the sad affair." E.5f
The Baptist society in Dover have $1,000
organ. ,...,,r. n,
The Piscataquis Observer says the crops
never looked better in that county than thew
| do now.
The sale of wool is lively in Franklin
county prices from 40 to As cents.
| "A correspondent of the Worcester Spy is
travelling in Aroostook County, and thinks he
has found the Terrestrial Paradise. Hear him !:
The artist would depict this as the enchanted
land hlvers and lakes, wayeland and forests
occupy his gaze, ANY one, however dull, can
be inspired ny The influences that pour in upon
him from every direction from nature and rod
1 am now looking out of my open window, and
the beautiful Presque Isle river flows about
fifty rods distant, large forest stretches be-
You'd, and ON through vale Of thirty miles, a
little hidden by a few hills, rests Portage lake
where the salmon trout from to 5 pounds
crowd each other and sigh for the angler
and this reminds me that for the past two OF
three days we have had at "The Pressure Isle
House" 1850 golden trout weighing % or 80 lbs.,
caught in a stream near, by, as our host said
sour boy" Field strawberries too, and cream
lavish and rich enough to satisfy the stomach
of Charles V. The hunting and eating of moose
and deer are deferred till winter.
The Pennington Chronicle says: "We
saw at Madrid the other day that handsome
speed horse for which the owner, Mr.. Samuel
Farmer. has just received an offer Of two thou
sand dollars. She Is a beauty, and will yet
tempt somebody to larger offer"
The editor of the Brunswick Telegraph
who has recently visited Portland, says with
out hesitation that the city will be rebuilt
long within the predicted period offifty years.