Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1863-12-25
The Augusta House Mt A,,,..

The Augusta House at Augusta h..
on NJ bill of fare for Sunday at dime,
" Baked Indian" When the Legislature A..
'embIes Major Baker proposes to ser,. nm
-" stewed Copperhead' y "
for the first time in the history NJ
the country it may now be truly announced
that the great emigrant road through JT,,h
may be safely travcrsed ny single person.
without danger to life or property, or fen,
OF molesIation from the Indians.
BUSINESS IN CALlFoRSIA.-The Fall River
Nees reports, on the authority of a gentle.
man from California, that business in that
land OF gold IS dull. There is not less than
ten Thousand men there out of employment.
thousands oil them would be glad to return
hcme IL they had the means. Machini.ts
ana a.. some Kinds OF mechanice, however, arc
Hon. d. C. Magoun, a. the mse,;,.
on Tuesday evening, stated fact which
should silence oil croakcrs In citation 10 onf
financial operations, that Government had
during the present war, hired money for
four per cent, while in the war of 1919. j,
had 70 pay twenty-fuur PER cent-Bah
Times.
FIRE N WAtDo.-Two barns beloginy I,
John X. icvensellar Of Waldo. containing 81
tons Of hay. with all his grain and farming
tools were totally consumed by fire on Sunday
the 9th inst. The fire broke out about noon,
while Mr. LevcnsCller was absent, and il sun.
posed IN have originated by boys carclossly
playing with matches. Less $1,000; no in
surance.-f Prog. Ag-.
\ BIG PoRxER-Mr. Alvin Weston f.,
of thus town, killed hog a few DAYS sipcs
l. month"; old that weighed 535 Us. WHO
competcs?
Mr.. 5. W. liapgood of Anson. kNcd
hog Is months Did Tint weighed 31S lbs.
Sso,rhegaa Canon.
The above are only little pigs, Br. Little
FIELD. Who comretes? Why, Machia,
beats without trying Mr. Shaw killed ono
49, Mr.. Stratton one 752 and only Is
months and few days Old Somcr.et's two
pigs weighed ITO Machias' two porksrs
weighed 1889 Quite difference.
1yLieutcnant Nichols. who captured the
Chesapeake, is a Maine boy, and a native Of
S'afsa3rt. At tia commencement of the re-
boliipa. lieut. y was master of fine ship.
of which he was part owner. and upon hi.
first arrival in an American port, he lett his
vessel aud enlisted in the Navy. lie has
been i'll command Of the [ S ship Onward,
until very recently, when he was transferred
10 the steamer Cherokee, now in Boston and
nearl Y ready for sea. On hearing OF tho
capture Of the Chesapeake. no determined
- b. sent in search oil the pirates. Tho
Ella X Anna was placed at his Command,
and the Chesapeake was soon made his
prize.-U Wing.
THE Oxford Democrat tails tho follow
Ing, which is good shave, to say the iea.t
Since the last call. twen,y-seyen men have
enlisted from the town Of Stonehan. Last
MONDAY seventeen of her youn: men wcro
engaged IN shaving red oak slaves, for shocks.
rhsy held trisl consultation. in which i.
was GcciIsi that while II would he no hard
or u carry gun than 10 shave red oak
slaves, the bonner employment, would give
them mcuey .nvsgh - buy comfortable
tarnl, and the latter barely nil 'r'lrd living
Acear iirgly, the Who'll number threw down
then eA4yes and enrolled themselves ID tho
national service
ExrlrTNsNr Is EAsrT6Rr.-A lstterrcccivcd
IS MIR. Ionsfell9w OF lbs Provost Narshais
O!iec. tuesday, says,
you la p ts,ut.tc-S heard leforc this, Of
the capture and rec ptuFa uf the Chesapea
II rti~,g great excitement down this way
lAs' nigLi almost every man and hoy IN
EA-tpart won't armed. sid guard Of sixty
armel men was kept in Frontier tank all
night II seeins 4 large party Of roashs left
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