Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-04-22
-TLcre is a dog in Boston named Quota, be-
,ause he never seems to be full

| a divine idea OF CLOTH"
in practical life Faith is having the heart
to try again. Faith never desrairs.
The sth Me. Veteran Volunteers left Au.
gusta on the 14th for tho Potomac Army.
Tho heart, like the watchman, should con
fine itself to its regular beats.
Tho Rothschids have arranged for the pur.
chase of all tho italian railroads.
In Philadelphia, one out of thirty five that
get married sue for a divorce.
"A general congress of Free Masons from
| all nations is shortly to be assembled a. Lep,ic.
"A gay youth Of Stafford, Ct, aged IS, re-
Gently led to the altar a bushing maid of rs.
Tho Pembroke Iron Works pay = tax Of
$3.50 for the month of March.
"A schoolmastcr in Ohio advertises that he
will keep Sunday School twice a woek-Tues-
days and Saturdays,
The Western Railroad Com pany, in Massa-
rhu ett. has paid $4,000 during the past ten
years for clearing the track Of its road Of snow.
--Rev. d. ". Mitchell, Of Calais lately com.
missioncd chaplain of the 10th regiment declines
to accept the appointment.
The puroed prisoners of Maine regiments
at Camp Parole, Alexandria, have been given 1T
tho request of tho Governor, furlough Of thirty
days.
Mrs. Lucretia Clay, widow of Henry Clay,
died on Wednesday nj ght, 9th inst at the resi-
donce Of her son, John N. Clay, near Lexington
Ky, aged So.
There is humane society in Portland
whose President is IL years Of age. 1t is called
The Little Acorns." Glad the acorns are worthy
the oak.
"A new balnoral shoe fac DRY at Hartford is
so arranged that a shoe goes through thirteen diff
ferent hands and comes out complete in ten
minutes.
-Farmers! The Sanitary Commission ma Ike.
loud appeals for vegetables, especially potatoes
Tho season Of desperate fighting is rapidly ap-
preaching. Our suffering soldiers must be remem
bered Vegetables can be sent free of expense.
Foer Pillow There have been two Fort Pr.
lows on the Mississippi, one but few miles abo,
Memphis, ard the other on tie first Chckasaw
Bluff, rs mile. Glow Cairo and so miles above
Memphis, the place wAich the rebels attempted
to 70 tify and holi after they di.lodged from
Island No. 10. The latter is the scene Of the last
sad and horribl. tragedy.
Tile Boston Daily Advertiser is most e1.
cellent paper. Its editorials ara sound its ship
news department unrivalel, aud its general news
department complete, In addition to the usual
teegraphic new. furnished in other mornin, pal =
ers. it has daily special dispatches, prepared
especially for its columns. To those who wish for
a arstclass daily, of character and influence, We
most heartily command tho Advertiser.
Damages BY the spring frsshct will crast
the town OF ksnnsbunk, at least $500.
The SANITARY" contributions to the war
The whole cost of e vcrning Boston is four
and a quarter million dollars year
In the city Of Nashville there is a floating
poi ulace of ten thousand persons, besides TIL
soldiers.
.--Thcre is whisky shop in Richmond, call.
ed the 'tBragg Saloon" which TIE Ensu
thinks ought to be an excellent retreat"
"A woman in Povana. Vt. declares she
won't have a telegraph pole put in her door yard
.and every time spank my h.ldren have it e.
all over the country"
Willis, in The Homo Journal. says Of the
New York Sanitary Fair It ia the FIST time
within our recall, elton that Fashion and Mercy
have, so entirely, CORN hand in hand
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a man Mt San Francisco has received n
l.gocv Of $50, 600 for saving an Euglishman from
drowning A few wears ago.
The Boston tIHscrlk says the first Pen
eb.clt river salmon, Weighing twenty pounds, wa
received in that city from Buckspprt, on Fri ay
last.
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'ne i"''''' '"''@ '''' 90 %, 49, =" ''''e"so
over inc P'e''A."s l''''e' u 0'o '"'AeAH
-Iord Nerbury riding in tho coach Of his
friend purs.ll ch auced to pas, yallows- Wh.r.
would YOU be PurseII if every ono had his due -
lone in nv carriage was the rsply
The Chioaso people are building an OBJ
se-vatory. L. is to have telescope twenty
mr. twice A, much a, the great equatorial a, Cam
b,idrr Mass Its cost Is estimated at SIS 600
MANY ne-f,rtner. or lcrturers who ranno,