Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-08-26
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report at headquartcrs.-Hone Jo"rndt.
UThe wheat crop of New Jersey
will be larger this year than ever before
u Nevada has contributed about q
ton of silver to different Sanitary Fairs.
UThe Dover Observer says that S.
p. Brown Esq, is building new woolen
factory in that village.
UA feeling against England. on the
part of the Germans, is showing itself in
various forms.
The people in this State will vote
in September on the proposed change OF
the Constitution, so as to allow our soldiers
to vote in the field.
U-"You want foggin, that's what
you de-" said parent to his unrniy son,
Il know it, dad, but Iii try to get along
without it," was hi, reply.
a victim of sea sickness described
the sensation thus !: The first hour was
afraid should die; and the second hour
was afraid | shouldn't
The Washington Republic imag-
ines that if the rebels had come within
the Notifications of the city they could
not have stood against the charges ct the
hotel keepers.
Hon. Salmon p. Chase has been de-
fcatcd in his own district as candidate
for nomination rs a representative to Con
yress. His successful competitor was Ben
iamin Egglcston, and the vote wa. 81 10
~.
Tho United States Attorney Gener-
al has decided that tax collectors have no
right to share OF the fines imposed under
the internal revenue law, although the
wording of the law has led them to claim
a moiety of such fines.
The 18th Maine regiment has ar
rived in Maine. The rc-c!ilistcd men
number 354, but only 2;2 men and .,
officers came home on a furlou"ll of 30
days. Two companies hail from Wash
ington County.
y. \. lIanscom. recently editor
and proprietor of the Saco (Nr.) Demo-
e.at, has purchased Mr.. e. lamson's in
terest in the Manchester Daily Ent2n, and
will be associated with Mr.. Canrhcll III
the Editorial management Of that paper.
AN English married lady has con-
suited her lawyer on the question wheta-
er having married her husband for his
snoney, and that money being all sfent,
she is not Il widow and at liberty TO mar
~ again Decision reserved.
1t is understood at the Treasury
that ,iy twenty loan is about 10 be l.sacd.
the interest to be paid in gold, This can
not fail to he Il iarori;c source Of invest
mcnt for all persons who have money III Il
large or a small way to pa. at interest
Chronicle.
There have been taken in open
boats, between Eastport and the north end
of the Island of CamPebcllo, distance OF
about six miles, at least fifteen thousand
quintals of pollock fish, the present sea-
son, being much larger catch than for
many years previous.
Some Of the girls in the cotton fac
tories at Biddrford have been ovrrhaulcd
for appropriating cloth too freely Two
hundred yards have been recovered at the
boarding houses, and eight girls We're light
ly fined. At present prices cotton cloth i
u great temptation.
q when | was young | was poor !;
when was old | became rich, but il
each condition found disappointment.-
When the faculties Of enjoyment were,
l had not the means (; when the MEALS
came the iaculiles were gone
ALL the Maine regiments lately III
the Department of the Gulf, with the eI-
ception of the I'd cavalry, are now in Nir-
ginia, having been Incorporated with the
Army of the Potomac. These include the
I2th, 18th, lith 18th, 29th and 30th.-
Letters to these regiments should be ad-
dress to Washington Ne. Farmer.
"A country girl, coming from the
6eld, being told by her poetic cousin she
looked as fresh as a daisy kissed with
dew, said, "well, it wasn't any fellow by
that name, but 1t was Steve Jones that
kissed me. Itold him that every one in
Gown would find it out -
A fellow contemplated in utter
wondermcnt the magnitudinous dimens-
ions of bystandcr's feet and in tone of
astOnishment said, as he surveyed the
mans proportions, You'd have been a
tall man ii they hadn't bent you so far
up"
The returns of the national banks
have been promptly made to the Treasury
and it is gratifying to hear that nearly all
Sf them have an amount of lawfol curren-
~ on hand in excess of the per centage
required by law. This is something prac-
teal, and it argues we'll for the success of
the system instituted by Mr. Chase.
The Biddeford Journal learns from
. gentleman who passed through several
towns in the upper portion of York
County last week, that the crops have
stood the drouth remarkably, and, now the
rain has come, promise a full harvest
with the exception of grain which i'll many
places is an entire failure.
-" When a superior race like ours"
said one of the chiyalry to a modest look
ing federal soldier, " comes in contact with
an inferior race like negroes, what do you
think will be the result 7" II guess the
esRtaet must result in big crop of mu-
lattOes in your state, Judging from the
complexion Of good many of your peo-
Il - A-A 4 II