Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-02-15
State Items.
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Inc steamer Lewiston is expected to
make her first trip as early as the 18th of
March.
-Bearce Hall. at the kent's Hill Semi
nary. will be dedicated the coming season.
The lower halls of this elegant editicc are
now used for recitations. The $500 bell i
gin OF Speaker Blaine. and the cost of
the completed edhce will be over so. 900.
David Barker. esq. of Exeter. is 10
read from his poems before the Rockland
Lyccnm next Tuesday evening. by invita-
ton of the Mayor and other members of
the committee.
They have had grand calico bali in
Portiad. the proceeds OF hich some $500
the irgtn says was devoted to the ministry
at large
ten. f. Nose, c. f.. recently appoint
ed to the engineering department OF Bow
dom College has removed from Paris TO
Brunswick
The Camden HerIii says that on Fri
day DIR. Simon VI. Thompson fell from the
seaffold in his stable. and Is reported to be-
very seriously Injured
Capt. James Magoun and wife Of Rock
port. celebrated the ffticih anniversary Of
their marriage ny a reception at their resi-
dencc on Thursday evening
The Bangor Commercial SAYS about T.
o'clock FRIDAY night. fire broke out In
the enSine-rsoin of the spool-factorv Of
stone. Mayo. snow Is Go. The fire depart
incut was promptly on hand and 4, there
was plenty % water Ia the river. il wa.
put ont quite easily. II there hal been
high Wind the Webster Mills would proba
bly have gone. Damage, yariou,ly c,ti-
mated from $500 to 81 900.
Hay is selling IN Bangor a, SO and s33
per ton; egg at y aud - cents per dox
butter at ~ and 30 cents per pound.
The Lewiston JoHrn "a hears that Hon.
J. 7. Morse Of Bath. Is very low Of CON
sumption, aud il /, feared he will live but A
short time
A chap In Bangor paid 1868. for start
Ing false alarm Of FIRE in thAt city last
Friday night.
The Giibrcth Knox horse belonging 10
She estate Of the late J. II. Gilbrcth OF
Kendall, Mills. has been appraised nj Sia-
90, and ii j. said the administrator has
been offered $1,000
- + ght kendalrs Mills lumber firms
hive sent into the wood, nearly 800 men
aud 100 horses and 80 oxen. and expcc, TO
get out abou. eleven millions OF lumber.
Mr.. LLOYD G. Palmer. young man
who went from Palmyra. this State. to
Fort Scott, Kansas. but a few year, since
aud engaged in the agricultural ware bust
ness. has been elected Representative To-
the Legislature OF that State
In alluding TO the bill of Mr. Peters to
attach certain towns and township. in
Washington county 10 the Bangor custom
district, the Calais AIrer.Is>r saws the fact
that these towns are nearer to Calais than
TO Bangor and that their people prefer To
transact their business In the future as
they are now doing. at Calais. ought TO en-
able any sensible Congressman to see the
absurdity Of Peters proposition. The pluck
Of the Bangor people is only excelled by
their lack ofmodesty in their efforts to out
strip other cities. Petitions from the parties
most concerned will be forwarded 70 Mr.
Hale. and Peters will probably drop the
subject as intended only for a sarcasm on
/ the acquisitiveuess Of Bangor.
| The Journal says that some ice has
made i'll Belfast Harbor. in consequence of
the still nights and extremely cold weather.
The steamers, however, have made regu-
lar landings at their wharf. and vessels
have arrived md departed without much
trouble.
Saturday night, the Sd inst. several
men walked from Sears Island TO Castine.
on the ice, using boat 10 cross the canal cut
by the katahdin. There has been some
| floating ice in Eastern Bay and Castine
harbor. but vessels have been able to come
and go nearly "a readily las in July"
ArGUsTA.-The Journal saws the loss 10
Augusta parties by the robberies recently
discovered in the Boston Post Office. are
about ss 900. Z. c. Allen & Co. being the
principal losers. The discovery was made
from Information furnished at the Augusta
office The kennebec Land & Lumber
Co., has seven camps crews. consisting of
nearly 200 men in all, and sixty horses at
work, at Moose River. Six camps are
hauling spruce. pine and cedar. and one
camp of ten horses hauling pine.
TIMBER LANDs.-Timber land was very
low in Maine in 1866. Mr.. Clark, then
Land Agent. sold four half townships do
mated to the Normal schools for Sl2, 600. or
! at the rate of tribe over twenty-six cents
an acre. In communication to the Leg
islature. Mr.. Burleigh says that OF this
amount Mr.. Clark credited on the books
S52l.2l las having been received by him,
which sum does not appear to have been
paid into the State Treasury"
A correspondent of the Rockland Ga
zette who attended the lecture of Horace
Greeley in that city, thinks that Mr.. G. is
much better adapted to the work of editing
the Tribune, than to the lecture platform
His style is awkward, and his ideas of elo-
cution and oratory seem to be in their milk
teeth period. His voice is pitched in a
mediums between monotone and falsetto,
and he drawls through one sentence and
rushes through the next.
The North Star says that as Phillip
Longley, Of Caribou was telling spruce
tree last Thursday it lodged near the
ground in another tree. He climbed to
dislodge it, when it slipped, coming upon
and crushing one Of his legs, and holding