Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1870-06-30
On Monday afternoon the lightning


struck the house Of John Cousins OF Brook
lin, near the chimney, passed down thro
and struck him just above the knee, strip
ping of his pants, drawers and boot, then
running along the floor tore of shoe sole
from his wife. Several of the children
were injured by the fallin. Of the bricks
where the lightning struck the chimney
j. W. II. Rogers, OF the Firm Of kog-
ers, Fuller & Co, Boston. Charles ,.
Holmes, residence not given and Timothy
Anglon of Portland were drowned Thurs
day last while on a sailing exclusion In
small sail boat in Portland Harbor. The
too much sail probably.
The Machias Republican saws during a
thunder storm at Millbridge last Monday
the Union meeting house was struck oy
lightning. doing considerable damage. II
struck also the mainmast Of schooner
Jesse. the barn OF Capt. ID. Brown. the
school house i'm district No. 6. and several
other places.
The Vesper Service for the month
of July will be held in the Unitarian
Church next Sunday eve. at l-2.
From all parts Of the State there are
reports Of the damage by lightning in the
storm of last Monday. A large number Of
barns were burned and many cattle killed.
Major Merriam OF the U. S. Army. ar
rived a, his home in waterville. Thursday
night. with the remains Of his wife and
child who were drowned In Texas some
two months since.
John c. Showers has been appointed
postmaster a; Sandy Point, vice Nathaniel
Showers. deceased; Nathan Bangs has been
appointed at West Durham, vice Charles
S. Burgess, resigned.
A fifteen year old boy in Augusta named
Andrew Bolton. quarreled with his brother
of l2 years and beat him until he WAS in
sensible. They were in boat and the
elder landed and pushed the cram into the
stream where it was subsequently discov-
cred and the insensble lad was restored to
consciousness. He was terribly beaten.
The inhuman brother fed and has not
been heard from.
Frank A., son OF Benjamin and Sabrna
4. Tenney. Machias. was drowned on the
18th inst. This lad. with several Others
of his age. were playing in the water be-
low the upper dam, when he fell, got be-
yoni his depth. and not being able TO swim.
sunk and was drowned. He was nearly
eleven years of age.
ALL THE LEADING JOURNALS of Paris. Lon
don. Vienna. II. Petersburg. Berlin, Ma ir vi
Lisbon. and other European Cities, atiested to
the marvellous talents Of MApLLE EMILE
HENRIETTA COOK. and the Great JOHN
HENRY COOKE. snd the annexed notices
will give the reader n description Of their
peculiar abilities.
MILE HESKIETTA Cook has achieved y
wide celebrity in Europe rs the create 81
Equestrieune of the age. Since her first APP
pesrance in America, her astonishing fesis OF
equitstion have excited universal praise in
New York. Brooklyn. Philadelphia and other
cities.
In Paris last season Mile HENRIETTA
Cook WAS the leading feature of Sen-a,ional
Amusemen,s; her startling Equestriani-m
creating furore that inside her the reignng
star in the CAV capital The we-known author
DUMAS. en- bodied the opinions OF all the chief
critics Of Paris when be said OF this gifted
Lady
''She is the Paragon Of Grace, and her
superb equistriAu.sm il realization Of the
-c,tacy OF delight. What she sccomplishes no
mortal ever attempted; what she performs no
one can initiate. To see her is 10 be encha nted ;
not u see her is regret. Her riding IL in
ten>ely thrilling TO witness. and indelible
the memory.
The Maine colt that made 2.27 on
Beacon Park was from a mare of Isaac
Downing, East Monmouth, and was sired
by the Winthrop Morrell-the Winthrop
Jackson horse. John ID. Packard sold this
colt at years old to John May, OF Angus
ia, Tor $1,000 May sold him to Boston
parties for s45OO-conditions, $1,000 extra.
if he could make 2.35. He made 227 l-2
on first trial without crowding. New York
parties offered SI5, 600, which W as refused
Mr.. Jackson refuses $1,000 for a two-year
old, from his justly celebrated horse
Maine horses wear the ribbon gracefully.
The City OF Richmond will 60 on
An excursion trip from Bangor 10 Mt.
Desert on saturday next.
HORACE GREELEY continues quite Ill.
The disease with which he returned nom
the Bahamas still clings to him, and his
physicians deny his friends permission to
see him.