Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1860-03-02
NEWS ITEMS.

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give second entertainment. at the Town
Hall in that village, on Wednesday evening,
March It'll. o. thi, occasion they offer the
following programme, which we doubt not,
will be fulfilled to the satisfaction Of all who
NAV favor them with Il cir presence.
Part | "'fhe Dccciyer Deceived, com
edy in two acts Fart II, The Hole in the
Wall :" Part III, "Ici on PArie Francois, .
French play Part ", No. Round the
Corner
We l.arn that the young men Of IRE.
mont have formed themselves into a debating
club and ctosen the following otBcsFs -
james Crockett, President W IL. Benson,
Vice President; b. Brown, Sec, Wm.
Guptil, Treasurer.
The MAchas Ea,0a reports three
hundred cases Of rash and fever, in Addison
within three or four months Seventeen
cases proved fatal.
-JosErH y. II.tL. E,q.. has retired
Pioneer, which he has held from the establish.
men, Of the paper. over two years. Mr.. Gil
man continues as publisher Of the Pioneer.
Tile Democratic State Convention of
Rhode Island vas held in Providence on the
18th inst William Sprague was nominated
for Governor. j. Russell Bullock for Lieut..
Governor, aud Walter 5. Burgess for Attor-
ney General.
The Members of Tiger Engine Co. No.
& Of Bangor, give a grand Firemans' Militia
~ and Civic Ball, at Norombega Hall. on
Monday, March 9Th.
The Bangor JeFsrson,an reports big
Moose at Lows market, in that city. 1t
weighed 100 pounds.
An old negro woman, named Milly
Lamar, said 70 be l35 years Old, died at Ma
con, Ga last week.
--Nne,cen towns in Onondasa County
New York last week elected seventeen Re
publican aud Two Democratic Supervisors.
The Victoria Gazette estimates the
number Of persons working in the Frazier 5
river mines to be HIS.
-rhe population Of Kansas, aoeorling to the
osieial returns is 6? $50.
The John Brown asAif is creating great
excitement in Hay,i.
n correspondent of the Temperance
Journal speaking Of the Division OF Sons of
Temperar ce in Pembroke Says
"Our Division is the only one which sur
vived the dark age Of the Order in Wash
ington County. 1t is thirteen years old and
has sustained its regular weekly meetings
during the entire time. and we are now IN u
Furnishing condition"
Tho Congregational Society at North
Waterford have made arrangements 10 erect
neat church edifce, at that place, during
the ensuing summer.
-Adsices have been received here of the
arrival of the brig Executive, Capt Lee, at
Sierra Leone, after n passage OF forty five
days, with the Missionaries, whose departure
from this port in November will be. remem-
bered. Bangor Tunes.
An antique chair, brought from Hol-
land to New Haven in l677 has lately been
placed in the chancel Of St. Marks Church,
New Britain, CT.
The Springfield Republican cautions
the public against eating partrdges at this
season, as they ar obliged to feed on Laurel
leaf. the extract of which is a virulent poi
ron to the human system. This extract I'M
pregnates the flesh OF the bird and numbers
Of persons have been poisoned from eating it,
-They used to do thing. wltiaut
much fuss in the good old times, as witnsss
the following
DIR. Franklin's mother went to church
and received the communion in the morn
ing. gave birth to her son at noon, and
in the afternoon the child was christened. -
All on Sunday. Jan, l7th, 1900.
SMEL1s.-The Bath Times says that
one firm has shrpepd over fifty tons of smelts
from that port this winter, lille many parties
within fifteen miles OF Bath have shipped
from i've to ten tons each The ship
ment of smells from Bath and vicinity this
year is little, if any, short of one hundred tons
and the season is not yet over. The average
price paid for them oy the shippers is Ave