Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1863-12-25
LOCAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

will re enlist.
Tile snow is already forty feet deep
among the Rocky Mountains.
A mercantile firm in San Francisco
subscribed $4,000 to the Sanitary Fund.
The streets of Quebec, Canada, are
to be lighted by coal oil lamps.
Five thousand Arkansian. arc report
81 to have enlisted in the Federal army.
The amount Washington Irving re-
ccjyed during his lie, for his works, was
So05, 1888 "a.
"A family were recently poisoned in
Missouri. and came near death, by eating
hogs hca / cheese made in copper kstsl's,
We stand corrected by the Machias
linen on the potato story. OF course the
" devil " made that mistake.
--Col. Cyrus llamin, son of the Vice
President, commands the First Division Of
the Corps d Afriqnc, at Port HUDSON.
There is but very little snow on the
ground. bu, the slcshs and slcds are flying
mcrrily
1t is said that Russia has ordered a
coascrption Of twenty men on every ten
With neither war nor general distrcs,
to trouble them, England and France find
their financial situation 10 be exceedingly
sratencd.
"A Folly leland correspondent, says
that columns of the Charleston papers are
flied with obituaries of persops killed by the
late explosion in Sumter
-Goycrnor Coburn has nominated Jo-
seph Baker of Augusta, as an Associate jus
tcc Of the supreme Judicial Court, In place
Of Judge Rice resigned.
The papers, good authority, say that
more snow fell in the Western part q Maine
aud in Massachusetts,, than fell in Eastern
Maine Perhaps less rain came "tumbling
after" there, than here.
--Evcrybody is out buying Christina.
presents, o.day, Thursday, and there is not
the least doubt but Santa Claus will visit
Ellsworth thi, year, with senerJu. dona
ton OF gifts.
The news which a5s5rbs the most
public attention. and occupie, the moi: i'm
portant place IN the news column. OF this
mornings pap,rs, i, the Prize right between
two fools named lIeenan and King 1t i.
said that King had the moe: brute force and
therefore VIII.
Social AssEruGlt7 a c7urSe Of Assem-
hlics, unl Ter tie direction Of the Ellsworth
Quadril'c Band, was c5tnm,ncoi last rr-s-
day evening, at Lords IIsll, un4,r very ia
varab!e auspices. W. understand they are
to b. held weekly, during tn. dancing
season. TIE +. G Band furnish tie brs. af
music rsash gathering. All Law gained
an eas.4bla rypu'a.ipn. We wis., tue hoys
success in :sc,r n erttkias.
We learn by the Pr79rzsare -tge that
Mr.. Al Morrison oil that city died tie
18th inst. Mr.. Morrison WIS one oi ,he
most active business men oil that city and
his business was never = large as during tie
present season. |. will be reinembefe! y
our PEOPLE that Mr. Morrison established
branch Of hi. l,rs. Hard Ware store in our
village, some tour or five years since, whei
he saeey sslailg aui bonorably conducted uu
til he s,ll out to M,ssrs D4v, Lrl
Our people hear win resrst, the carly death
Of one, OF whom they hal such Il peasant
business acquaintance.
SAD AcctpESr.-W learn that Two young
ladies Of Br55kyile were drowned in Wax.
er's Pond, 50 called, in that town, one night
last week. The names Of the unfortunate
ladies were, Mss - Walker, daughter Of
John Walker E'q and Mis-. - Tibbct.
daughter Of Captain Noah Tbbc,s They
wer. on the pond skating. with others, and
struck of farther on the pond for more
room, and .katcl INTO hole in the ice -
They wers not found until the mex: day, NJ
one knowing certainly what had become Of
them
Under the present Act Of i" Enrjling
and calling out the national forces" by rec
ton 81, the national forces were dcvidcd in
to two classes, and the second class, or those
between the ages Of IS and Is. except the
unmarried, who were included in the first
class. were not to be called into service until
the whsle Of the FIRST class was exhausted -
BY the new bill peaiinS before Congress, it /
is proposed to merge the two class and draft t
from the whole. It is also proposed - re
pea! or leave out ths $500 exemption clause
4 correspondent of the Bangor Wing
in giving a list of casualties m the HI, f
- belmont nuts Lyman ~ Bragdon. I
OF Fran Kiln, down as w6GnTed slightly iai
foot. IL also copie. little from General
Gilmore, Of which the f flowing is an cx