Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1867-05-03
LOCAL NEWS, &C.


Last Sunday morning was fearfully cold
To-day is May-day, and it is the storm
lest day for some time.
-Spalding's glue mcnds 'stumps." See
Gu. on advertising page.
Tho nobest work of God is man but the
prcttiest is little girl.
senator Wilson is delighted with his
reception in Virginia.
The evidence against the Bowloinham
Bank robbers is said to be conclusive.
-MeSsrs. Geo. Cunningham SEQ. have re-
moved to their new store on Franklin st.
MIR. Adams of Ca>tine advcrtiscs Salt
just from Liverpool. This so unds like old
times for Castine.
The long letter which we publish from
.Jaffa, Syria, Was written by DIR. Higgins for
merly of Surry.
The Watervic MoH says that railroad
from that village to Carratunk Falls, Scion, is
II sure thing.
Any one " ho has found our empty pocket
book is invited to ill it with greenbacks and
| return it.
| -Whiskcv is sold in some sections of the
country for less than $500 per gallon the gov
eminent tax.
! Wendell Phillips scold> every body. Is
+ there a man or a woman in the land that en-.
| tirely suits him.
| 1t is said that the report that Secretary
Seward is endeavoring to purchase British
North America is false. 1t will come some
time.
a-JThe Court is in session this, Thursday
morning, but viii adjourn during the day. The
term has been Il short one; nevertheless. con
siderable business ha, been disposed Of Many
Of the cases that were marked for trial were
settled by the parties.
The Jefersonsan gives notice of man
that drove hog through the streets of Bangor
Just the way that any other animal would be
driven, and as easily. The man is a philo so.
pher, and 1t was not windy day.
A fellow has been sentenced to State
Prison during his natural life for setting fire to
Il building wherein there were a score of hui
man beings. Served him light
The only May-day flower we saw was
a little fellow that had just emerged from frocks
to pants and boots, and who was paradng his
little self Oh the sidewalk, like newly blown
flower.
Mr. HIN. II. Stanley of Brooklin Maine,
ID officer of schooner Nettie Currier of Bath,
was knocked overheard on the night of the 18th
of January by the fore boom and lost.
THE Washington correspondent of the
Boston -idreuiser says that Justice Grcr slept
for half an hour during Mr.. Charles o'Conor's
argument in the injunction case before full
bench Of the L. $. Supreme court.
REV. Henry W. Beecher received the
smallest number of votes on the Republican
ticket i'll Brooklyn, for delegates to the eonsti-
tutional convention. The Republican ticket
! for Brooklyn Was defeated
| -Messrs. Moran Geo. have Just put in
new stock of cloths and clothing in new store
Jordan's Block, Main Street, where they will be
!
line Clothes made to order. Particulars next
week.
a gentleman from PENNSYLVANIA saws
that the wheat crop III that State i, to be a very
large one, this year. judging from the Stalks,
which are about ten inches in height. and very
stout. Peaches are i'll full bloom, and the crop
is expected TO be very abundant this season.
a special order of Gen. Griffin, COM
manding in Texas. forbids all further elections
therein by civil authority. and directs the Gov
ernor Of the State to report his appointments
to Military head quarteys Fcxas, like the rest
Of the South, must now accept the fact of Re-
construction, face to face.-[ Tribune.
! The number OF executions in the Unit ed
States for 1866 is put down as follows: Massa-
chusets l Conn. l !; New York 4; New Jersey
8; Pa. 6; ohio 1 Indiana /; I'll. .; Va. 6; Ken.
tuckcy 8; Tennessee 4; Georgia 5; Mississippi
!; La. and Cal 3, total IS.
a writer gives a highly eulogis tic account
OF school at South Maiden Mass, under the
care of Prof Isaac n. Carlton. Girls too frag.
lie to study under the old regime under the
care and improved system of this school. able
to attend the regular recitations, and will also
improve in health. right along. The body,
brain, and social faculties are developed, and
the scholars are so educated as to make them
self-reant and prompt. A young lady of Els
worth is . me mber of this school.
-~slt Is stated that John II. Surratt is not I'M
der the control of the National Government
%hen he arrived here he was Transferred from
the custody of the officers of the National
Govt. to that of the Marshal of the District, and
therefore under the control of the Supreme
Court ofthe District Of Columbia, and il only
can determine when tho trial shall tax, place.