Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1870-12-22

Calais has erected forty-five buildings
and eleven wharves since the fire. which
is doing remarkably well in three months
The Courier says that most of the new
buildings are of better class and more
modern appearance than those that were
consumed. and when the work is completed
Calais will have reason to be proud of her
long array of elegant and tasteful
private residences.
The frames of two ships are up in
Crawford & Wards yard at kennebunk-
port. and one is being finished.
-Ansel l.. Boothby's house in Kenne-
bunk. was entered on Sunday night and
small desk. containing $50 was stolen.
Senator Morrill, is now able to leave
hi, room and everything indicates that his
health will soon be completely restored.
-Messrs. Bennett & Plaisted's starch
factory. at Rumford Fails. has grated a
little rising eight thousand bushels of
potatoes. and from them rising thirty-two
tons OF starch. As we learn from the Lewis
ton Journal.
A heap of trouble with the deep cut
opposite Bath on the Knox 4 Lincoln rail-
road. Another slide has occurred mnch
worse than the first. The track is covered
tor a long distance. in some places seven
feet deep.
The Oxford Democrat says in the in
dictment. rs. Lyman Rawson. of Rumford.
who was tried at the last term of the SUI
preme Judicial Court. for fraudulent
alteration of deed by order of the presid-
Ing Judge. (Barrows) Mr.. Rawson's name
was stricken from the roll of Attorneys
and Counsellors Of the Oxford bar. The
criminal action has been mol pressed by the
County Attorney, on the above conditions.
The Democrd, says a son OF Mr.. Frances
r. stevens. Of South Woodstock. aged six
ycar-. while hi> father was absent in the
woods las Thursday, made a gun and got
hi fathers powder. and managed to blow
of a portion Of his face. seriously injuring
himself.
"a inst. Pcnnell Plummer Of Bowdoin.
was at work in the woods clearing up lot
badly damaged by the gale of September
ls69. In working round an old stump
blown up. it capsized and nearly buried
him beneath the earth and roots. lie was
extricated with the left leg broken above
the knee, the right shoulder out of joint.
left side jammed and one rib broken.
Physicians were at once called. his injuries
attended to and on saturday last he was
getting along comfortably.
Two little girls in Harrison came near
drowning few day. since while playing
upon the ice on pond. The ice broke
and the girls went under. but were foriu-
naiely rescued by some persons who were
near. A. we learn from the Brighton Neirs.
Samuel Fe--endcn son of Hon. ;. &.
Fcssenden formerly of Rockland. has
recently graduated at the Cambridge.
Mass, Law school. and enters into prac-
iice OF law in Connecticut. with an establish
ed firm.
The Y. VI. {. Association of Bruins
wick propose 10 have an opening dcdica-
tory service of the new, Lemont Hall when
it is completed Portland Glce Club
will furnish the music and social leyec
will be held amer the concert Is over. -ay~
the r-i-sragh.
The Mrs says Mr.. A IIamlin of
Eridty-,u tn.., with a -.rinus accident xhilp
,hopping in the wood, the other day. bury
Ing hi axe into the in-tep of hi> foot and
>cveriug the arteries. On hi way home
the blood flowed profu-ely, making hi
tracks nearly the whole distance from the
woods to the village.
We learn from the kenncbec Joarndi
that a saw mill situated at Perkins Planta-
ton. owned by liildreth 4 May. was de-
-troyed by fire on Friday last. Los s.
900. Insured for $4,000 in the Union In
surance Co.. Bangor. and Home Of New
Haven.
Mr.. Sidney Cook of Presque Isle. has
just slaughtered "a hogs. which weigh in
the aggregate l2.626 lbs. The largest
weighs GO lbs. and the average 81 lb..
Three Of them are pigs thirteen months
old. one weighing i3. lbs. and two All lbs.
each.
Pea vines several inches tall. and
green. were picked on the land Of Capt.
Stevens OF Bristol December sth. They
seemed to be in blossomng state. This is
the first instance Of the kind ever known in
| Maine in December.
AS the six o'clock train from Bath. on
| Tuesday evening. was coming up to
| Brunswick, when a mile out Of Bath. the
! engine threw rail out of the track-com-
| pletely clear. The whole train passed
| over the gap on the sleepers. and when
stopped every wheel was on the track.
The Lewiston Journal says that the
widow of solomon Briggs Of Hartford died
at the house of Melvander Forbes Of East
Buckfield. Dec. 9th. aged ninety years five
months. being the Oldest resident OF Hart
ford. She had lived on the same farm
where her father. Dea. John Briggs. felled
the first tree more than eighty years ago.
The Lewiston Journal Of last evening
learns that young man named Brooks
Coffin. of Gorham. n. H.. fell down be-
| tween the cars Of a freight train. on which
he was brakeman. as it was approaching
D2nville Junction at lao yesterday morn
ing. The whole train ran over him cutting
of both legs and one arm, and bruising his
head badly. One leg was torn completely
out of his body at the hip. He lived till
AS A. n.
Mr. T. c. FarringtOn An eminent