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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01
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Alrirultural.
A Step in the Right Direction.

We were for innate enough. to haple IN |
to Messrs. Deane and Otis Office. few
days since. while party of influential
farmers were discussing the present
status of the Hancock Agricultural Soc ;ety
We were very much surprised at learniag
that proposition had been entertained Ia
dis-organize the Society-that. while al
most every county in the State has two. and
some of them, four societies. it had been
found uphill work TO sustain even one IN
the old county of Hancock. Why this was
so. seemed to be predicated upon an asser-
ton, that the management of the Society
had fallen into unskilled hands. and more.
that its present financial condition was
due in part to extravasanccs and uRfSr
doings OF its officers. This. am happy to
say, is not founded in truth. The records,
aitcf most rigid investigation. show. that
its Off GERS have labored year in and year
out, and that too. without reward. TO build
up an efficient. energetic, and influential
Society. and That all that was needed TO ac-
complish SO desirable purpose. was the
active cooper alton Of the farmers within
the county.
One OF III. gentlemen 1--WE have no au-
tho -ity 10 give his name TO the p"blic) pro-
-, -
thoughts. new vim and yigor. into the
IN engagement Of its affarrs. lie said. the
old OH ,ers have becom. di.heartened and
DISCOURAGED and no, without cause. let MS
tike hold, for the Society must be sustain
ell" The prono,itinn was carried bv :,
unanimous voice. Measures wer. taken
70 reyise the Constitution, TO secure board
OF fresh Off. anl To perfect "A premium
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IN .nh,rLs
In ENGLAND whore arricul,.r. has re,,h
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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01

TAXES On CANADA rHIsrLEs.-A cor-
respondent vi the Rural Ncw-Yorker Pr
poses thai a tax he laid upon Canada This
ties. A 20 ,didca. Dogs ar tax, i : some
OF the states because Ofth- injury done by
them to sheep but We doubt whether they
have caused half the damage resulting
from the spread ngof Canada rhistle.. A
tax well laid on would wake up some
Kip Van winkle -" farmers. who can be
reached only BY direct application to the
pocket.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01

An exchange says tina. hen has the
capacity OF laying six hundred eggs, and
no more. Usually they lay y few the first
year; from three hudred and twenty TO
three huL dred and seventy in the next
three years; and the rest from the fifth to
the ninth year inclusive. The true econo-
my. therefore. is not to keep hens after
their fourth year.
They manufacture pencil cases In Eng
land from human bones gathered at Sc
bastopOl.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01

WATER FOR SwINE.-Swne should al
ways have free access to pure water. or at
any rate Il should be furnished to them
daily. whatever may be the feed: nc thing
can supply its place for quenching TIE
thirst Of animals.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01
The Practical and Scientific Farmer

What constitutes 'od practical Farm
err In the fullest and hiyrest sense: The .
must be not only phvHcal strength. ard
manual skill. ia the use o: implements but
also the intellectual qualities OF soand
Judgment. providence. discretion. aud good
sense. l. Il not absurd to suppose . man
can he a good practical farmer. who can
10 no more aud who knows no more. than
to work like a slave day AFTER day. with
out bringing the light of intelligence to-
bear OH the tolls OF the hand without TRY :
Ing to shorten labor. 10 Increase his crop,
and al the same time diminish hi, expen-
sc~?
No! there 10 no business under the sun
thai reQuif~s such varied and accurate
kno ledge. snch close anil careful obset-
walton Of the la~s Of Nature. and such con-
slant study of the IMPROVEMENTS Ia the
mechanical arts, As farming. and there l.
business that calls so constantly for the
exercise Of plain. practical common &c i.e.
Without this no man III be good practi-
cal farmer. no matter how much science.
or how much knowledge Of other thing :
he may have. One thing j. certain. that
under the Influence OF practical farming.
20 callcd. the land Of New England has
VIGOROUSLY deteriorI'el. to such an extent
that IL has been estimate that AT least a
thousand aiii.oas Of dollars wound be re-
QuireL 10 repair the effects of a was:eful
and exhausiiny system of cultivation.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01
COMMISSIONERS, >ort

We the subscribers. having i-rn appointed
Lv the Hos. P.HRLE TUCk. Judge OF Probate
tor the County OF Hancock. 70 receive and eNt"ur
the 81 im- OF creditor, 10 ihn c.,aic 'ohn u jar
4 IN iate Il Drand Gersn-en. rsi.rs --ut,t lnspiv
cut, d. hereby give notice that siN months afr Hl-
lJwcI &" stit creditors 30 bring a PROV. their
claim and that shall sttcnI that .ytYlr- at
thr Euc. sport National BsnA IA Eurk, sport on the
hrst MonaAy.o, Mar,h. MAY ADD Jul, next
Esiwarti sSaxcy
Hrcksport Jan. SSH lisp Jos II Brallcv
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01

The toba,an anlilDie' 50 extern sively sold
now. is simply geutian root. coarsely
ground. II cl,ewed. aud the juice swal-
lowed. it will cure the appetite OF tobacco.
Belfast Journal.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01

ACCURACY IN WEIGHTS Is u matter of
the first Importance. The DAY Is not far
distant we hope, when all solid articles, As
well ~ many Of the liquids, will be sold
BY weight, instead Of measure.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01

rihh an extensive practice OF uryards N,
4 twenty years. continue. To secure Patrntx ",
tie I hiie' states also IN great Britain M. 20
anu other i'reign countries. Caveats speritit,
ios' bouts, Assignments, and ali papers or r,,r
- ~ a., atehts, executed on reasonable terms
. Foreign works, to determine legal and nther
1Niee ,endered IN all matters touching the am.
1opes ot the claims OF any patent furnished H.
renting one doll.-. Assignments r.enraed y y
Washington. '''o'ueu ~
,ige"eg a. ne United state Possesses s,t,,e,,y
prieiicsdtRhy Of iareaftoas ''y "e
onfing eight months The subscriber in The cor,so
u MS itf se practice, made tacice rei.cred 49,
cations SIXTEEN APPEAIs; ererg one 81 .appii'
decided L"hisf,iror by the Com M ,ioner, ot
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01

Horsenesh Is regularly quoted In the
market prices current Of several towns Ia
Germany. not on the bOof, but cut up for
food.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01
PEABODY MEDICAL. INSTI
IITTE

I'M trustees 81 this Institution take plea-nre
IN announcing that th"y haze secured tht. rryt-..
OF the eminent and we'll known Dk \ H. HAYES
late sur E"On Army. Ntge t'r,-,,i, -, n,
columbia College OF Physicians ANT surgeon.
Re.
Ihi@ Institution now Publishes the popular
medical h"oA cntfueti e Tue SCIENCE AZ / WIT.
OK >kLY PRESERVATION" written by Dr iIa,s
1t treats upon the Errors 81 Youth Pr.rttnr..
Decline OF N tnhopd, seminal Nel kue-. anI LIN
Disease and Abuses Of tine t5-nrratlv,. prg,ns
ihifts Thousand copies SOFA the ll-l wear In i.
ln1tch a hooN Tor every man. -youur tn,r III
particular Price onIy 81 a.. "
ihi- Ihstitui1 has Just published the mast n,r.
feet treatise 81 The Kind even offered trc uut,l,r
ehilu d">tNtAi fHr SfoLoGf OF WoMtN. AM
IkE DISEASES" proiu.ely illustrated :, h ,bc
very best engraving. TINS book Il also f.nn NJ.
pen oi IF. HAYES Among the .trtor. ,i,,,,,..r-
IN " bt mentioned, The nv -tcrv of Iif., I..,,,,,
ili Offspring beauty, il. value ID wnn,s -
Marriage .-trcnrgl H. GENE Of Norman -t.,,t,crt
-thhnEe OF LIT .-tNcrs-s OF the Married Pc.
vent on 10 Conception, &c. IA beautiful l.r,-nrb
tlotn' 500 Turkey Morocco. iun mi al I'D
Either OF these books are cent BIZ mail ....,,,,I.
sealed postage paid. on receipt II urir. '
lhe PEABODY JOUtNAL OF HE,Iru , A.,
class paper in every respects page, n rniurrr
published on this 1T Of February an,t NIL,
month during the year. subs ption prr,. III,
year only d Ct. specimen cupIr. sent free II,
any address, on application to Tie Peabody Mel
cal Institute. n S'ii-
ALBEIT II. HAYES. ". D., Resident and ,,,,,.
sultlng Physician ~ I'm
= b-Dr. Il. may BE- consulted in strir,r.t ,.o,.
udencc on all di-eI-c- requiring rki .,..-y ,,,'I
experience, lnviOlabie secrecy ana C.rt,,, h.,
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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01

l,RRING BUT NOBLE-selfhelp for Young
Zen. no having erred, desire Il better man
hood. sent in seated letter envelopes. free OF
dress PHILANTHROS, Box r. Philadelphia, Pa
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01
Claim Ager cy,
ELLSWORTH. NE

HAVING been engaged for several years In The
Claim Agency IN prosecuting claims At Washing
ton ID. e., In the various departmt nts and having
become familiar with the most eNpiditious meth
od Of establishing claims now solicit the pat
ronage oi all WIN my ned my services in present
ing claims upon the Government
Invalid soldiers IA Idle such by wounds or dis
ease, contracted IN the u. >. Service.
Widows during W dow-hoo.i.
Der endent Mothers, whose husband hav wing e
serted them, and abandoned their support or who
are physically ncapacta,ed to support them, hav-
ing no other source OF income
Dependent Fathers where the Mother is dead
Orphans Children, Orphans Brothers and Sisters
under sixteen years. are cnfitled 70 pensions.
Original and additional bounties, back pay mile.
age, ration money, wkilc prisoners OF war or
their hers collected in the sh priest pos sbc man
her, no charge Tor services rendered unless rue
cessiul.
A, r. bURNHAM.
Ellsworth July Goth. 1868 2sit
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01

OYSTER Eaters.

Man mas madeusa of the oyster from the
most remote antiquity. Among the debris
of festivals which proceed by ages the
epoch of written history. oyster-shells are
tonnd.
II is said that in Denmark carriage
horse, are taught 10 step highly by the
substitution OF magnifying glasses for
blinkcrs. They mistake every pebble for
a boulder. and lift their legs accordingly.
a 10. OF Jersey cows wa-' a part OF the
freight ofa Liverpool steamer 1t Portland
last wrel.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01

The Home is second to none in this
Country in regard to soundness and
reliability. The undersigned has been
appointed Agent for all the turns in
Hancock County, excepting Bucksport
and Orland and is prepared to issue
Policies either at his office or through
Sub Agents accordingly.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01
STANDING.

Below give a li~t 81 some of the Leading In.
surance Companies dong cuisines ~ tins state,
shusing the amount Of ASSETS held by saii CON-
paf.ics Tor each $50 nj ri-h : reported bv the
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01
TESTIAiD\I.Is

.cr.s.1 r1hiy rs one oi the most cara6ie ami
s;Iyyu4 practitioners with whom | have h.d
tHA>. MASON
al h.,., 80 commissioners of Patents
). "a'e NJ ncs'alion In assuring inventor. * =,
they cannot employ a man more conne,s.s, that
"usttcortay, ana more capable II nnit,n,, ,, .t
aPpnca'ons IN form to secure for them a., 1911
ahdia'erabie consideration mt the Pafnn, ,; eafN
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01
Er,De I aTent nflicc.
EDMUND RITpI.

.. !, =, =, Int commissioner OF Patepts
Mr., u H. EDDY has made for me ri ipT. l1,
Applications, in all but ONE of Iybicn Ten
nav Deen granted. and that one il nowpen,i,na
suun uiin,istakaoie proof of great talent g.,
aoiiit, VI MS part ieais me to recommen,I mn ~
ventors to Apply to him to procure their na .a m
as thcy may DC sure Of having the mos, r r;.nis
reasonable charges, JOHN r a anu at very
Jan. !. iS6o-ly6o A0oAhD."
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-04-01
TIE UNION
$3.50 for each 800!
.lT RISK 't
STATEMENT

showing the increase nf it, business,
Premiums received Tor II months
ending April i~t. l-i-4 S-Nrt'''''
Frruinns rr-eiN c,l fpr l. months.
rultnE April 1T. f~S. t''N' up
O. .cfltutu- received f.r ~ months
ending March LIT. iS .d t>'''lr'-
Prvutnms received Tor /. months
ending March 1T. la i1'' '-'N
ro,ii"s Narrh i'll Is.s ''''''' l'r.;7a
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-18
A Trip Around the World.

The Pacific Mail Steamship Com,
pany's steamer America will sail be-
tween the 10th May and lst June.
on trip round the world. and will
return 10 New York by the middle
OF November. The America will
touch first at Cape Town, remaining
ihree days TO coal, and thence to
FONT de GALES, in the Island of Cey,
lon which has, of late years, risen
INTO Importance, through being the
stopp'ngplace for English and French
steamers running to Bombay, Cal
cutta, China and Japan. From Point
dc GALES she will depart for Hong
Kong, aud remain three weeks, Civ,
ING passengers an opportunity to
Canton, Macao and other points
Seventy days will be required to
reach Hong Kong, and further trip
10 Yokohama will require six days.
The transit to San Francisco will
consume twenty one days, and after
remaining there a couple of weeks,
the steamer will land her passengers
at Panama, whence they can cross
the lsthmus by rail, and take anoth~
er OF the company's steamers at
Asplnwall for this city. The charge
for the entire passage will be 81, $50,
including the privilege of living on
board while in port.-Tribune
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-18
The Valley of the Mississippi.

The Mississippi is the King OF
Rivers. Taking rise almost on the
northern limit of the temperate zone,
it pursues it majestic course nearly
due south to the verge of the tropic,
with its tributaries washing the AL
leghanies on tho one hand and the
Rocky Mountains on the other,
throughout the entire length OF those
great mountain. chains. The ANA
zon, or La Plata, may possibly bear
to the sea an equal volume of waters !;
the Nile flows through moro uni>
formly genial climates, and ripples
over grander and more ancient relics
OF the infancy of mankind; the
Gauges, or the Hoang~ho, may be in
timately blended with the joys and
griefs, and fears and hopes, of more
millions of human beings; while the
Euphrates, the Danube, or the Rhine,
Is far richer in historic associations
and bloody, yet glorious, memories
but the Mississippi still justifes its
proud appellation of "The Father of
Waters" Its valley includes more
than one million square miles of the
richest soil on earth, and is capable
OF sustaining in plenty half the popu-
lation of the globe its headsprings
are frozen half the year, while cane
ripens and frost is rarely seen at its
mouth and larger and richer area
OF its surface is we'll adapted at once
to Indian corn, to wheat, and to grass
to the apple, the peach, and the
grape-than Of any other com,
mensurate region of earth. Its inn.
mense prairies are gigantic natural
gardens, which need but the pillow to
adapt them to tho growth of TIE
most exacting and exhausting plants.
1t is the congenial and loved home
of the choicest animals | Judge
that more game is now rowing at will
over its Unreasonable Willis and
pastures than is found on an equal
area all the world besides. 1t is the
geographic heart of North America,
and probably contains fully half tho
arabic land in the New World north
Of the Isthmus Of Darien. Horace
Greeley, In Hdrper's Magazine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-18
General George H. Thomas as aLeeturer.

The Scientific Association of Was
hington-l belive that is the name
pressed upon General Thomas an in-
vitation to give the members bis story
of the battle Of Nashville. Genera
Thomas, with reluctance consented
With a map hung upon the wall
and armed with a light rattan. the
staiwart form of the soldier stood
before the little company as much
embarrassed as girl. The man who
had marshaled great armies, and IN,
hesitatingly took the responsibility in
huge fights, when the fate of the Re-
public hung trembling on the issue,
blusned like boy, while ,perspiration
gathered in drops upon his forehead.
1t was with the greatest effort that
he forced himself 10 proceed. He
did so, however. with clearness and
graphic power He sketched in a
few brief words the campaign that
eliminated in the battle before Nash
Wills He then gave the position Of
the troops under both Hood and
himself He told, with the power of
words when uncolored by any imag-
ination, the situation of the enemy
as the two armies lay facing each
other, until the hour came when they
were forced to try conclusions, and
of the victory that followed.
His voice never was raised above a
conversonal tone, nor did he for q
second betray any feeling. 1t was
the great Captain changed to his
torian, and retaining the traits in the
one that had made him famous in
the other ln conclusion, he sal d ,
calmy, that, looking over all the
ground, and lracing back the train Of
events. hr could tind but one error
with which to charge himself. But
that, lie said, was grave error. At
the close of the first days fighting,
he thought Of detachlng Steadman
with force enough to possess himself
of the forde Of the Tennessee, so as
70 Intercept Tho rotreatiog enemy
Ovor cautious, and fearing to weak
en- his Own forces, be hesitated and
delayed until the second days fight,
and then ir poe go I.~.~. TIsao vas
the one error, but he said it was q
grave one.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-18
Mud Volcanoes.

4 Utah explorer gives the follows
ing sketch of the remarkable mud
springs in Utah. "The renowned
mud volcanoes, are located below
the level of the sea in the Colorado
desert; and if the waters of the ocean
could break the intervening moun>
tain barriers, they would be lost to
sight. They are situated in q most
desolate country, covering 9 space a
quarter of mile long and an eighth
wide this area is one mass Of soft
Maud, through which steam and wa
ter are constantly escaping. making
u noise that can be hearel ten miles,
and raising vapor clouds that are
visible at greater distance. In
some places the steam rises steadily
with q Kissing, roaring noise ; in 9TH
err spots it bursts out with an explo-
sion, throwing the mud hundred
feet into the air.
There are places where the mud
rises in hugh bubbles and bursts as
if boiling with intense heat while In
other portions regular cones varying
in shape from sharp points to little
mounds have been formed. There
are boiling springs which eject their
water fifty feet high; others are
merely large basins several hundred
feet across in which lead colored
paste is continually boiling. Their
margins are encircled by incrusta-
tions and arboresent concretions OF
lime and deposits of sulphur. They
arc we'll worth visit, though an ex-
cursion to them is attended by .serl-
GUS hardships.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-18
Prosperity of the Wicked Short Lived

Wicked men do prosper for O little
While but as sure as God lives, ia the
end they shall have their lust reward
If you consider the whole of life from
end to end, then truth, and honor
and purity, and justice and fidelity
pay. If you want TO grow quickly,
you can grow quickly by wickedness,
but you will not last. If you want
to grow SO as to last, you must adj
here to integrity, and you must be
contented to grow slowly, if God or
dams it. You can grow a mushroom
or toadstool in one night, if you
have a dunghill large enough but to
grow an oak~tree that shall las for
generations requires vastly more
time. And if you want men that
shall last, you must wait till they
can be built up solidly by good con>
duct by confidence inspired by good
conduct in other words, by being
tried. One ship is as good as another
in the harbor. 1t is outside of the
harbor that the comparative merits
of different vessels are made to ap-
pear. There the qualities, whether
superior or inferior, show themselves.
Ii is what ships do on tie sea that
determines that one is better or
worse than another. And as with
ships so with men. Two men start
about alike on the ocean of life
They go along, at first, about togetho
er. But follow them five or ten
years, and about the fifth, the sixth
or the seventh year, the one-a man
of pleasure, Goddess man, that does
not believe in divine supervision OF
the affairs of this world-begins to
while the other--a sober
Christian man, who believes that God
controls the world and all that are in
tin the beginning lays his founda-
ton, going down SO deep that he
seems for time to burrow like u
marmot; but then, little by little, he
begins to build upward, and then he
builds SO that every hour men see
that he is building strongly and sure>
ly.-Hs W. Beecher.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-18
A Veteran Clerk.

Washington Correspondence Cincinnati Times
Among the discoveries in the Poet
Office Department since Postmaster
General CresweIl took charge, is a
very curious one. He has ascer tain>
ed that brother of Amos Kendall
has been holding minor clerkship
in the Department for more than
forty years, having been appointed
by his brother Amos, when he was
Postmaster General under President
Andrew Jackson. This venerable
old clerk is over seventy-sx years of
age and still holds the same rank as
whom he entered the Department,
more than q generation ago His
brother Amos is millionaire, and
lives in princely style Short distance
outside OF the city, ut p country seat
called Kendall Green" and is re.
ported TO be one of the most liberal
and charitable citizens Of Washing.
ton city, yet straDgc 10 say he has
lef, his brother TO drag out The best
years ut his life in poverty and the
drndgcry OF cltrk,hip at 81 200 per
aaE"m just barely eatti~cnt - keep
'im ~ u hca --ari.- u life, ans
ao's' - III ora.3 np.a i para
'A.,t A"0a ~ c7",rlu8t.l mere
~,ta luF III ar r 3ss:rnv.
a'esE reoevI ~ hi
IF. THIS pv ion
az =" ~ P<,m >t@r General