Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1870-12-08

the woods from Wesley.
Henry Reavle, brakeman on the f. &
y. A. Railway. had his arm badly jammed
while Stacking cars. says the Wing.
The Swedenborgian temple in Bath, is
undergoing complete metamorphosis in
ternally. and will be newly furnished says
the Times.
The new toll bridge between Water
| Vile and Winslow was opened TO travel
Wednesday. The loss Of the bridge was
one Of the most serious consequences Of the
fr-.het last spring and has been serious
damage to the business Of Waterville.
| An old tenement house in Calais. at
| Union Mills. owned by Mr.. J. 5. Hall. was
burned down on Monday last and five or
six families were rendered houseless.
| between forty-fve and fifty thousand
barrels of calcined and ground plaster
were manufactured at the Red Beach plas-
ter mills. Calais. last winter.
AT the meeting Of the Calais Common
Council on Monday evening. this body.
with but one dissenting vote. adhered 10
its position on the Whidden case. The
! Board of Aldermen sustains Mr.. Whidden.
! sh.. C.,......s... Co"a~ii si..s.s "as-
The Eastport Sentinel says the herring
fishing in our waters has been profitable
for the past week. Large quantities have
| been taken in the weirs, aud the fish are
large and fat. Some have been sold AT the
rate Of forty-fve. cents per hundred.
The Bangor Wig says Henry +. stu
pell Of Brewer. was master. james Fran
els Gushing. of the same place. first off
Ger. and Henry Lloyd. Of Portland. see
ond officer of the missing barque 4. W.
Stevens, supposed TO have been lost at sea
| Of February last.
The bridge across the kennebec at
Norridgwock is completed. Its cost will
not exceed twelve thousand dollars. The
bridge was open for travel the first Of Dc
tober, and its earnings have been six hun
died dollars, as We learn from the Angus
Ia journal.
Attorney General Reed conducts the
Hoswell murder trial in behalf of the
state. VIM. Penn whitehouse. County
Attorney. is associated with him. The de
fence il by f. F. Pillsbury and A,temu-
Libby. Esq. Judge Walton presides.
The Augusta Journal contains two
items, one next the other. which are rath-
er suggestive that the cyesight Of Miss
, Justice down that way is not totally oblit-
Grated. 4 desperate fellow for an assault
with weapon which inflicted two severe
wounds was let off with $40 and costs. and
a chicken thief was bound over in the sum
Of $500.
The Maehias Union says that the
Washington County Agricultural Society
| Hall. Pembroke. on the 18th ult. Levi
| Fisher was chosen President. with the
usual number of Vice Presidents.
Hon. Sidney Perham. Governor elect,
will not follow the example Of previous
! Governors By boarding AT a hotel in Au-
gusta. after he L. inaugurated. but will
either board with his family at private
house. or. if he can get it. hire furnished
house for the winter. SAYS the Lewiston
Journal
SMUGGLING TRANsACrIoN.-David Up
| ton. master Of schooner Citizen. was be-
[ fore Commi ssioner Halle;t in Boston. Sat
urday morning, charged with receiving a
quantity of gin. wooden socks and mittens
81 Portland in March. 1869. knowing them
to have been struggled. After a prelimi-
| nary examination Upton was ordered 10
recognize in the sum Of $500 to await the
action of the District Court. which sits
this week.
A sad scandal comes TO light concern
ing Prince Arthur and his equerry Lieut..
Picard. Two beautiful young Canadian
ladies. cousins. with whom they were in
innate disappeared shortly after His Roy al
Highness left for England. and gentle
man just from the old country reports
seeing them in England. promenading
with officers OF the Rifle Brigade. Their
relatives are known TO have gone in search
of them.
We learn from the Bath Times that
Charles Dunn and Rachel Greenleaf have
been arrested at Westport for bigamy. and
bound over to the April term Of the 5. j..
Court At Wiscasset. The parties we're
married 1t Brunswick on the sth Of No
vember, after obtaining certificate from
the city clerk Of Bath. II is alleged that
Mrs. Greenleaf Cor Mrs. Dunn has q hus-
band living, who is, or was, in the Insane
Asylum at Augusta: and that Mr.. Dunn
has a wife and two children living at Glou-
cester. Mass.
List Of Patents issued to Maine In
ventors for the week ending Nov. 22d, 1870,
and each bearing that date. Reported for
the Ellsworth American. by VIM. +. Sea-
vey, Solicitor of Patents, Schwartz Block,
Bangor. Me.
No. lO9. sol. Pesley ID. Cummings. Port
land Machine for making Keyboards for
Wooden Pavements; No. 100. 75s. VIM. s.
Rice. Biddeford. Window Shade.
Whole number of Patents issued. 223 !;
Reissues. 7:Extensions. none: Designs. s ::
Trademarks. 5.
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