Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-04-15
I T E M S, &c C.
-Gco. NJ. Weston is about to start
Fremont paper at Washington.

tor OF the first L Hltarlan church in Portland
is about to leave for San Francisco. where h.
will take the place of the late II. Star King
He states that he had agreed with Mr.. King
to take his place whenever it should be vaca-
ted
Some wag nominated the 80. p T."
for constable of Lancaster Township, at the
recent election. But the ex-president OH
tanned only small vote from his neishbors
for that responsible office. The ballot re-
suited as follows: Herney, Republican,
81 buchanan, Anti Coercionist, 10 Me
anclic, Moderate Coppcrhcad, 8.
THE real character of woman cam
not be half so we'll learned by dancing with
her. as by conversing with her at home in
all the varied circumstances of domestic
/ life. All women may be good when pleased,
but she is most likely to be a really good
woman who wants not the fiddle TO sWeetcn
| her.
Yankee ingenuity is equal to any
/ thing. An ice-mcrchant inW altman. Mass,
the other day devised novel method of get
/ ting his ice to his warehouse in an inexpcn-
Sivc fashion He sent down the river an ice
raft one acre in extent, eighteen inches
thick, and weighing sixteen hundred tons ;
with two horses upon it busiy at work
- growing a horse and buggy, and the ma
tiona) flag thrown to the breeze.
HINTS FOR FARMERs.-A good farmer
will never keep more than ten dogs to every
1 five sheep. He will clean out his stable at
least once every month. He will keep five
or six sticks of wood cut up ahead, more
| than what is necessary for immediate use.
He will not 20 to town and get on spree
oftener than three times week, at least in
harvest time. He will be very careful not to
put up rail on Il line-feuce unless his
nri%hhor is there to help him. He will
not iHiure his health by lying in bed after
: O'Clock \. NJ; but will have his cows
MIXED and breakfast over aud his men at
work Us early as ten clock Otio Farmer.
- The Bangor Jt9etSoniaa has the
palm" on bear stories Hear them:
',A few weeks ago Young Lad of Prem
tiss. master Beniah Neal, discovered Il
bears nest in large hollow cedar Just
across the town line in the Gore. He re.
turned home aud taking another lad with
liltii 1t ilt't ~ ii' 'Fil NilbI pug
hole in the cedar, a she bear thrust her
axe IN her forehead. When they drew her
body ont, three fat aud sleek cubs followed
and were killed III succession. This bruin
falnil : was alternating in this den, the en-
trance to which was through the ground
under the roots OF the cedar. The mouth
was COY cred with snow and lee
GIVE deny the truth of the following
item now on its travels
Red tape is an institution on the
Grani Trunk. y car load of hay caught
fire the other day, and now the story is
current that they telegraphed to Mon
tread for leave to pitch 1t of the car -
PAINTING Horsrs. = Experience Las
shown us that spring or autumn is the
best time to paint surfaces which are
very much exposed to the sun. la cold
weather it dries slowly, and in hot wealth
er the oil soaks into the wood aud the
body" of the paint is easily washed Off
by rain.
A REAL GENTLEMAN lie never dresses
in the extreme of fashion. but avoids sing
ularity in person or habits F.; is ailable with
his equals, and pleasant and attentive to
his interiors; in conversation he avoids
hasty, ill.tempered or insulting Words
never prizes into other copies affairs de-
tests eayes-dropping rs one Of the most dis
graceful Of crimes never ISLANDERS an ac-
quaintance +; does never, under any circum-
stances, speak i'll Of woman.
" Washington is now cncircled by
Gordon Of forts and batteries, connected
by rifle pits, some forty miles around its
outer circumference. About nine hun
dred cannon are mounted, and military
authorities estimate that with twenty five
thousand men an attack of one hundred
thousand mon could be successfully resistd,
while with fifty thousand men the works
would be impregnabe.
u On his late raid, passing through
Fredericksburg, General Fitzpatrick was
an unexpected bidder at Il slave auction,
to which his attention was drawn by the
auctionee:'s bell. When the sale COM
menced, with the auctionesr,s call, "Who
bids % the General stepped up and "tooll
the lot" and five able-bodied recruits were
added to the forces Of Uncle Sam.
GA West Indian, who had a romarka-
bly, fiery nose, having fallen asleep in his
chair, a negro boy who was in waiting OBJ
served a mosquito lowering round his face.
Quashy eyed the insect very attentiveIy;
at last he saw it alight on his masters nose,
and instantly fy off again. "Yah, yah" he
exclaimed with great glce, I" my berry
glad to see you burn your tut,"
Nor DEAp.-A poor son of the Emerald
Isle applied for employment to an avario-
Gus hunk, who told him that he should
employ no more Irishmen "ior the last one
died on my hands, and | was forced to bu-
ry him at my own charge ~ All, yer
honor" said pat, brig tenng up, land is
that ali Then you'll give me the place,
for sure | can get Ia certificate that | nevor
died in the employ Of any master | ever
served. "
" The Masonic Fraternity sustained
serious and irreparable losses in the late
Wiuthrop House Fire. Vail ,,e and high