Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1871-07-13
LOCAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

over one hundred persons landed a
Bar Hsrbor one day last week
All three OF the Portland Packets AR
At the whsrves to-day, wednesday
The Steamer Argo is making her trip,
regularly to Belfast. See advertisement.
Two Circuses and a Fourth Of Jul,
within about a week makes surfeit o.
holidays.
A Yacht Club from Massachusetts. to-
scther with part OF the Portland Club,
~erc at Bar Harbor yesterday.
The Editors and Publishers are of
this week on a bender" We stay a,
home to Keep guard.
A horse which ran away last week
brought up ia the hall of the Post Office.
lie was probably AFTER his mail (meal).
Rev. Or Hosmer. President Of Antioch
College Ohio, is expected to preach In the
nitarian church next Sunday forenoon.
and evening.
A house on Bonzeys Wharf was
CH'HtiN btHtiOHc GU " Hfc On " wednesday
n ght Of last week No one was living In
tn" house at the time and il was probably
ne work Of All incendiary.
Pour Young men-two from this CITY
sIt sailing in Frenchman's Bav on the
Fourth, were upset BY a squat. but amer
clnging to the boat for half an hour were
rescued
Andrew Newman's house. on Bon
IeS'> Wharf. was burned this (wednes day
morning. making two fires on that Wharf
within week.
The 3" Little Round Top will make
an Excursion to Bar Harbor and around
Mt, Desert Island, taking the Packe,
Frank Pierce In tow. Excursion will
come Of July goth See Advertisement.
The Steamer Lewiston landed so pas.
seugers at Bar Harbor last Saturday. II
is quite lively there and the public houses
and private residences are fast filling up.
The house. barn, shop. Of Albion
Jellison. at waltham. were burned last
week \ yoke of steers persisted in the
Darn One thousand dollars insurance.
Mr. Yeazie, OF Bangor. has jus; com
pleted splendid mansion At Bar Hareor.
which VIC understand is to De occupied bv
himself and family.
A lire took place on Monday AFTER
noon in a "cut down near Halls Mil.
about a mile and half above this village.
which burned hundred cords Of wood.
and did some other damage. Set by boy.
-Rev. Or. II. Y. Dexter has supplied
The pulpit of the Baptist Church here for
The past three Sabbaths, 10 good accep-
lance, and measures are being taken to
extend to him an invitation TO assume the
psstorate Of the Church
About ave feet has been blasted from
the surface OF the ledge ., sullivan Falls.
- that il Is now several feet under water
a. su tide.
We have received from II. Hume Esq.
An account Of the Railroad Meeting held
Al Cherry field. but a. We have given an ac-
count of il already. We only give the names
81 the Committee.
We learn with regret that Mr.. Geo. l..
Farnum, the successful teacher of our
High School, contemplates leaving the
work at the end OF this term. TO become a
Law Student. Is not this stepping down I:
The Teachers's Brigade will lose a valu-
able member. will the Brigade of lawyers
need this recruit.
On Saturday, July sth. Mr.. WIN. H.
Cards Mil. al Franklin. WAS burned while
the millmen were at dinner About q
thousend dollars worth OF his best lumber
was also burned. The FIRE caught from a
heap OF refuse, edgings, &C., burning near
the mill. No Insurance Total loss sbou,
four thousand dollars. Mr.. Card will
probably build another mill.
A postmaster by the name of Goodale
when in hurry signs 1t Xxx.
A Western gentleman advertises Tor q
self supporting wife"
A gentleman caught cold BY kissing a
lady's snowy brow.
-ViRnie's prospective spirit OF the
Carnival is keg Of whisky-bust-ed.
Newark manufactured s5 500 900 worth
OF patent leather" last year.
=" No honeymoon is the last marriage
announcement following mo cards" of III,
nobodies.
An Arkansas dressmaker CONSTRUCTED
Democratic bridal rousseau recently
which contained 800 yards Of calico.
"A Down East editor says that sine.
the recent rains the farmers are smiling
IKE new shingles on patched roof"
The Jefferson Radical Texas. hai
an article by William E. Pabor. who il
doubtless well known to many Of GU
citizens
The last dying expression reported il
that of Shocks, who as he went of tn
hooks, smilingly observed, "By-by. In
going to see the ancients."
A druggist in New Hampshire threat
ems the local paper with a suit for putin;
an Il in the place of an IA in his adver
tisement of grape pills.
The money matters in New York 70
Monday isreported. gold steady at IL
10 ia IA. stocks dull. and money easy q
3per cent.
Freeman Harmon, ESQ.,, of Thorndike
the former Collector of Customs at Belfas,
and one of the best politicians in Easter
Maine. has purchased a home in Deerin
and has removed there.
Gen. Howard, lighting his first BATH
at Manassas in le6l, and delivering
Fourth Of July GRAFTON on the same spe
in 1871. shows some of the changes te
years have wrought.
The Shoe Manufactures Of the Unite
States have issaed = prosest aealnH Ii
present tariff. They cay, that whatsve
measure Of prosperity they have atta,ne
has been in piee Of an adverse and a.
pressing system u tsxaftoa, and u due {
H. II ia.