Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1870-02-03
LOCAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

sE-Rev. David A. WATSON, will deliver
the next lecture in the Library course on
Monday evening, the l4th. Professor Bar
Der. will deliver his after Mr.. Wasson's.
Particulars next week
We are without our usual Washing
ton letter.
We have plenty ofsnow at this time,
Aha the weather is sufficiently cold for all
practical purposes.
-Somcbody undertook TO enter the
store Of Messrs J. x. & T.. Redman on
Monday night and failed TO get In. The
lock was so badly injured. that the owners
could not get in the next morning without
assistance.
rS-We have received the act to incor
porate the Penobseot and Union river rail-
road company. from Hon. j. A. Buck, as
reported by Mr.. Kinks.
BURGLARY. Six stores in Belfast were
broken open Friday night and quite an
amount Of property stolen. The police say
tic work wa, done by professional burglars
The Machias Republican says East Ma
chia> has recently been mulcted TO the tune
IN $500. in favor of 5. H. whittemore for
damages caused by falling from plank
Sidewalk some two years since.
The Augusta Journal says that the In
dian Representatives have arrived and now
~ a
lion F. A. Pike. lectures before the
Calais Lyceum this week. The subject
-Talks about Europe"
We are indebted to Hon. Eugene
Hale. for valuable Pub Docs"
We are glad 10 learn that the editor
or the Belfast Journal has had something
That obliged him TO stand up-if was
-Jef-trsonidn.
The Northern lights were on ram
page Oh sunday night
An alleged burglar was arrested and
placed in jail in Belfast on Monday
They have snow plows, or triangles
in Bangor. with horses attached TO clear
THE side walks OF snow. In Ellsworth the
city compel> each person 10 clear the side
walk ofsnow in front If his own premises.
- Little Folks concert was held at
the school house near Strawville on Mon
DAY evenin. under the direction Of Mr. Al
Icy \ stage was erected, curtains hung.
and all the paraphenala of larger and more
prrtrnupus exhibitions were improvised.
THE concert consisted of singing songs.
playing on the melodion, Rotations and
readings The audience was in the best
ID lumor. throughout. and all OF the per-
formances were creditable. Little Master
Hodgkin>. boy of some six years, with
fac, fun Of good humor and fun. assisted
ON lAc choruses, with such spirit and
rest that every body laughed.
"A Minnesota juror addressed note
- the Judge in which he STYLED him ''on-
.rable jug"
The Mt Desert Mail Stage will leave
Ellsworth after this week at s O'Clock in
tao forenoon instead ofat 10, As now
1h> i an Improvement.
capt. L. Pratt OF Bucksport. has q
pair OF mules. which it Is said. cannot be
beaten at hard pull, by anything of their
weight, on the road.
Mr.. W. p. White Of orland, has in
vented and secured patent for a machine
for greasing wheels.
That veteran school teacher, John
Carter Of Orland. has just finished his
ninety fourth school. Mr.. Carter is fifty
years Of age, and has taught school for
thirty four consecutive winters.
One OF your typos last week with
rare mechanical tact, constructed churn
from ''chum." Did the high price Of but.
ter have any thing TO do with it. Com.
4 party Of nine persons started from
Bucksport few weeks since for Califor-
mia. one of whom was Mrs. Small aged
So years
Mr. William Hartman. Of Bucks
port has thirty one head of horned cattle,
two horses and thirty sheep. He owns
two adjoining farms, and cuts annually,
from sixty TO seventy five tons of hay.
He has had a family of fifteen children.
thirteen OF whom are living
THE Methodist Church in Orrington
Centre has been repaired. and was dedica-
ted anew, Jan. 27th.
Pour men by the name of Bartlett
were weighed in the store off. Hamor 4
Co. at Somesville, few days since whose
united weight was eight hundred and elev.
en- pounds. and there was no obesity Of
form or waddle in their gait as at Lewis.
ton, but they were well formed noble
looking men, and there are some six or
eight more of the same sort on Bartletts
Island, where these four men belong.
There are four men in the Machias
Jail for liquor selling.
Admiral Farragut and wife were il
Portland last week.
The Legislature was on wheels las
week. and bound for Portland.
Mrs. Luella Gross Of Orland, is pro
badly the Oldest person in the County o.
Hancock fnot in the state of Maine. She
is LOG years old. Her maiden name wa,
Luella Lanpher.
The lecture ofProfessor Barbour
which was to have been delivered on Mon.
day evening had to be postponed, on &C.
count Of previous engagement Of the
Professor to deliver the Peabody rcnera
sermon.
The Portland Advertiser talks abou
the sublime cheek" Of . reporter. Tha
isa new kind Of 4 cheek VIZ rather stich