Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1866-03-16
I T e M S , & c.


-Alexander H. Stephens is on hisway
to Washington.
American Life Drors,-and Colds
no more
The reader is requested to notice
the new advertisement in this issue.
Ellsworth paid oue-third of its war
debt during the past municipal year.
Charles Shaw, Dem, was reelected
Mayor of Biddeford, on Monday.
-Forty Clerks were discharged in the
Treasury Department on Friday last.
A quarantine of ten days has been
established in New York for all resseis.
BRIG. Gen. Shepley was in Washing
ton on Friday Of last week.
1t is asserted that Secretary Harlan
will reign the first of next month.
step into the store of 5. W. Per-
kins and see the Rushers." All right
Hon. y. Abbott was reelected May
or of Belfast Monday without opposition.
-Svlvanus Caldwell. Union, was elect
cd Mayor of Augusta on Monday without
opposition.
The Governor of Massachusetts, has
appointed the 9TH OF April for the Annual
Fast.
We are under obligation to Messr,
Bgclow Il Sargent, Baltimore, for a
copy of the Price Current.
The Agent Mr.. Gibbs. is delivering
to subscribers in this c, MY, Hollands
Life Of Abraham Lincoln.
-English gunboas have been ordered
to the fishing grounds in view of the alb
ragation of the Reciprocity Treaty
Fred Douglas lectured at Alexandria
on Tuesday evening OF last week, on the
assassination of Mr.. Lincoln. No one in
terfered.-
The white troops still retained i'll the
service are dissatisfied, aad want to go
home.
General Lee says he never took the
oath to support the cunfederacy, aud that
he purposely avoided it.
The London Times bitterly dcuouu-
ces what it terms the bad taste OF Mr.. Ban
cruil's Grafton on Mr.. Lincoln.
John I. Monroe, Dem. was elected
Mayor of New Orleans, over Moor, Union,
ON Monday. by Bio majority.
The Einderpest Is pretty bad. but.
asks 4 New ork paper who that has To
listen To street organ, will compare it to
/ the Griuderrest:
THE Union Senators were to have Il
caucus on Tuesday evening 10 see if they
could agree upon any constitutional amend
ment.
y clergyman named Evens. in Bed
ford, Iowa, seduecda daughter of Dir. New
land. Tie doctor shot him dead. and then
cut him to pieces with dcs>cctug knife.
The Arlington Estate i, II he diyid-
msn, the rent to be paid at each harvest
n@. This estate was sold tor taxes and
purchased by the Government.
-Irichina and cholera are after us
! The first i hosg,h affair and the latter
Ia, no bowels Of ee:nPa--ion. 1t i, adj
mttcd that cholera i contagious and that
Trichina worm, itsclf into the best society
Bro. Morrill, Of the Home ,JopJRal wishes
there was law compelling every person
that takes party paper to take one also
on the other side. He thinks that it would
make people more enliglhcncd.and charita-
bic.
LOOK OFT For TIE ASliEs.-lt WAS
supposed 1T first that the house burned on
Wednesday evening last, was set on fir,
but We understand later Investigations
prove that the fire took from ashes which
had been deposited in 4 barrel in the
shed.
We understand that j. &. Bowen
Esq. of Bangor, formerly Of this county
his been appointed a Light Keeper at Fort
Island Light in this county for a while and
was one of the best officer, onthc coast.
Hon. George :. Wiggin, who ha,
Just been reelected Mayor of Rockland,
has held that office uninteriuptedly since
the spring of ISIS. The Eocklanders don't
believe in rotation when they have found
the right man for the place.
The New buryport Herald says that
the State of Maine promises to have flu
ture growth exceeding that of any other
New England State. 1t is improving the
present opportunity, as every community,
should, to lay the foundation for III. time
to come.
The reader i directed to the Pro-
SpectIs Of the EasterR Argus, in our adj
yerti~ing columns. The Argusis the old
est Democratic newspaper in Maine, is
conducted with ability and with fairness
Those wanting a journal of its political
character, can do no better than to sub
scribe for the -irgus.
PERsoNAL.-We received call this
) week from Col. j. Howard fitzpatrick of
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