Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1868-12-24

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After one number more ths .1nericas
will be enlarged aud improved. The next
number will be 1 eo. 81.
szs5- There will I've Memorial Chris lmss
Service in the Unitarian Church Thursday Eve.
AT l-a o'clock.
Our logging teams are well into the
woods and some of them doing nicely
For gathering up the bemlock logs there is
Just snow enough
AIR. j. ID. Rhodes is about 10 CONNIE nee
a new term OF his writing school. We take
pleasure in saying that Mr.. Rhodes is u very
superior teacher of the art Of Penmanship, and
hope he will devote his whole attention to this
important branch Of learning.
We call attention to the advert isement
tf George A. Dyer General ms. Agent. Mr..
Dyer has newly fitted up his rooms and Is doing
good business in the Insurance line.
We have had little snow the last day or
two, three or four inches, SO that at this time,
Tuesday, it is either good wheeling or sleigh,
ing. A small distance of the r!yeris f.ozen
over, but the Bay is free from ice.
Capt. Jesse Dutton of this place. slsugh.
tered three hogs, recently, which will be hard
TO beat.-One weighed 800 lbs, one SIS and the
last one slaughtered yesterday, the king of pol
ers, weighed 10 lbs. The three weighed
| l.S5 lbs.
! tH-rhe barn of Messrr, Shaw, Tyler 4 Co.,
OF the Bangor House was destroyed by fire on
Thursday might, together with = quantity Of
hay stored there. Loss $l500.
.EEwe hear that Vim. Caldwell, Esq, CHIEF
clerk In the Trcasurcr's ONCE. Augusta, is ,
who else 10, NOR that there u another candi
date, bat think no better selection could b
made In the State, than that Of Mr.. Caldwell
To him, more than any one else, 1t seems to US
are we indebted FOR successful administra
ton of the State finances for the past years
We hope he viii be elected Treasurer,
! HORACE GRkELEY purposes to write, dur
ing the year 1853, an elementary work on Pc
liticsI economy, wherein the policy Of Protec
ton TO Home Industry will be explained ant
vindicated. This work will first be given to
the public through successive Issues Of Tn
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, and will appear in al
its editioLs-DAILY, $40; SEMI-WEEKLY, d
WEEKLY, 81 per annun, .bHIJ&l .a~
The citizens Of South Surry have erecte,
the past season, near Morgsn's Bay, u publ,
Hall for lectures &c.. Sc
STOVE REST. For little while we have
been using G.. l.. Swifls Patent Shelf Rest, and
find il answers admirably the purpose fol-
| which ii is intended. We think this invention
must be one: that will be universally used, fo
ID supplies long felt want. The reader is re
ferrcd to the advertisement in our columns for
particulars.
fE'rhe Post Office Department has ordered
the Bucksp lrt and sedgwick Mail stage to con
meet at orland with Ellsworth and Bucks
/ port Mail stage. BY this arrangement, Mai
matter put into the Ellsworth Post Office W ed
nesday night, or early Thursday morning vii
reach Bluehill, sedgwick and Brookiin, Thurs
day night. The Asericds should reach al
these Post Offices ON Thursday. s.t
4 Mr.. Martin L. Slower, Of Bluehill killed a
] pig the 18th, which weighed 335 lbs. The pig
was fed for six months, only, IL was five weeks
I'D when he was taken away from It's mother
and weighed Is lbs,
IN The Augusta journal says that vt thu
dedication of the First Baptist Society IN that
city the services were Of marked merit AMI
the sermon by Rev. A. X. r. Small Of Port
land, was especially noteworthy for its elo
quence appyOpi ataness and The happy manner
of its delivery. The entrs cost ofrebuildiug
has been $4,000. leaving debt OF ~ 900 upon
the society, After some remarks ny the pas
j. tor. Rev. MIR small and others, voluntary sub
soriptions to the amount OF something ove
81 500 towards the liquidation ofthis debt were
pledged. an