The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-11-26
STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Another sign Of a cold winter: the demand
for outside windows is unprecedented In Ban
gOr.
The latest ocean race is between schooners
Taloofa and John X. Souther, which left
Bangor last Friday for Washington with ice.
The left Bangor In tow Of the same tug, thus
getting start together.
Appleton Webb OF Waterville, has pur-
chased OF Hon. Geo. ID. Bisbee Of Buekfeld,
the stallion Pickering, 3095, which Mr.. Bis
hee recently bought Of O. Ii. Nelson. Pick
erng has record OF 2.30, and Mr.. Nelson
tonian In New England. Mr.. Webb will
place Pickering on a mountain farm for
stock purposes. The price paid was large
one.
Lewiston's store Of Yankee blood Is get
ting pretty we'll reduced. OF the young
people between and q years Of age, 2344
are OF Yankee blood. and 1850 Of foreign
blood. OF the foreigners 134s are Irish and
299S French. But Lewiston Is doing gal
liant work In educating her mixed body of
future citizens. She has battalion OF 70
teachers who are not to be surpassed in the
State, and she pays them better than any
other teachers in the State ara paid.
A Bangor man tells the Commercial that
the beginning Of Mr.. Clergue's Persian
scheme was his selection by the Persian
minister In this country to help out English
railroads in Persia by putting them under
American management, the English being
too unpopular in the country to overcome
Russian influence. Mr.. Clergue went In,
and as the story goes, has interested Seereta-
ry Of State Blaine, Senator Hale, Hon.
Frank Jones, Manager Payson Tucker,
President Arthur SewalI Director VIM. G.
Davis, of Portland and some others. and now
this company are in q lair way TO secure
concessions from the Persians, which will
enable the combined English and American
capital TO carry out the original plans, the
understanding being that only Americans
shall appear TO have control.
Ex Secretary Whitney and the party Of
capitalists accompanying him, have visited
Rumf0rd, Otis Falls and Madison and are
now in Calais. They have been looking ov-
er the water power In these places with
view, as has been reported, Of building a
large fbrite pulp mill. The people IN each
OF the places visited, are naturally IN nope
that their town will be selected Tor the en-
terprise and the trip OF the distinguished
gedtlemen has awakened very general inter
est, The parties who form the company Of
| over million dollars capital, which Is to
build the mill. are Hon. Henry o. Payne Of
ex-Secretary Whitney, Capt. Hayes, Dan
Lamont, Pierpont Morgan Of New York, G.
5. Havens OF Boston, Geo. ". Fletcher OF
Detroit. Mich, Commanders Evans aud
Goodrich Of the United States Navy, Isaac
NJ. Weston and Don M. Dickinson OF Miehi-
gan and two others. They own patents in
this country Of the Mitscherlick process un-
der which the company work. Mr. Weston
being Maine man, has been employed for
several months by the company TO investi-
gate and they now are making careful ex-
animation Of tbls timber supply on the KEN
nebec, being In Augusta Monday on that er-
rand. He favors Madison as the location for
a 100 ton per day plant which it Is proposed
to establish.