Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1863-11-06
LOCAL AND OTHER ITEMS,

II litsle girl belonging to enc Of our
schools. va, run over by a lumber team
few days since the wheel passing over her
neck. Strange to say, she jumped up am
ran INTO the school house, saying ~, did no;
hurt her much
Nkw Go1ps.-J. w. Wood has just re.
ccigei a large stock Of New G od., purchas-
Cd bw, winch he will sill at reasonable
prices. Call on hirn and examine his larse
and now stock, and you VIII be salts
fed that he will deal fairly with yoa, and
that be can and will sell as low as ANYBODY
-ffeicrics Hale E.q., Wa, admitted to
the Hancock Bar on Tuesday last Mr..
Hal, has been c,use student. and will his
perseverance, and laudablc ambition 10 sue.
coed in whatever he engages in, We nntici.
pate that he viii rsc in ms chosen rr fees
ion, and at once take an honorable. position
in It.
FIaE.-rbe dwelling house of Alexander
Weaver Of this town was consumed by fire
Thursday m5rning. The ERE caught in the
chimney, Most of the furniture in the
lower story was saved. Do not learn a.
there WAS any insurance.
small bailding of not much consequences
was burned on Water Street. on Saturday
morning.
II Ellsworth's quota, under the new call
Of the President. is 50 men. The opinion
prevails that Names full quota will b. OBJ
tanned by volunteering. To do thi.,we mus.
all set about the work Of obtaining volun.
tecrs at once. No time must be lost, bat
the good work should be commenced in
earnest all over the county. The men must
be had in some way, and # they are not oh
tanned by volunteering. then the draft will
have to be rcsorted TO.
LIGHT Ac.rS.-No one can more heartily
rejoice than We, at the supply of gas which
has lighted our darkened homes for a few
evenings past. The Gas Company was I'M
fortunate at the first in building works t.
make gas from rosin instead of coal, seeing
that the rebellion still persists in living and
the price Of rosin still rues high. But now
having changed their works 90 as to use
coal, and having against many discourage.
ments again resumed operations, fully de-
termined to supply the public with light let
this new evidence of public spiri. be met IN
a corresponding spirit by ell who ''lo'e light
rather than darkness.
We are informed that the freight on
fifteen inch columbiad from Pittsburg to
Portland, 4. six hundred dollars.
Seventy tons of iron metal was melted
at one heat at the Fcrt Pitt Works, Pitts
burg, on Saturday last.
REV. Thomas Weston has closed his
lab1rs with the Unitarian Society at Farm
ington.
-Ex-Governor Thomas of Maryland
advises the Shareholders OF that STATE, to
take the $500 for each colcred man and let
them 20 to the war.
Miss Kate Chase, will, it is said, be
married to Governor Sprsguc of Rhode Is
land on November 18th. Well, what of
it?
The N. Y. Posi- says that Lewis Bar
ker OF Maine, now stamping New York
State, is one Of the most brilliant political
speakers in the country.
The Arson Advocate says that at the
late exhibition of the West Somerset Socle-
ty, there were entered six hundred animals
for premiums.
when Mrs. Vallaudigham left nome
just befo,e election to visit her husband she
told her friends that she never expected to
return until she did 50 as the wife of the
Governor Of Ohio. she will nave to marry
again or remain away long time.