Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-03-21
Local and Other Items.


will attend the Cincinnati Convention.
The riot on Union River reported by
the Commercial As a riot did not amount Ia
much.
Mr.. Il. ". Armor is building a house
on Water street. just above 'Ayery's store
There is TO be a Masquerade Bail aud
supper at Buckspor. on Thursday this
week.
The schooner Frank Pierce will com
mence het trips for the season between
Ellsworth and Portland as soon as the ice
In the bay Will permit.
The Julia 4. Rich owne d BY c. X L.
J. Peters OF New York WAS out In the gale
OF Friday night and had salt, split, but
succeeded in getting In TO Machia.port.
The ciosiu: Lecture la the Unitarian
church, on the origin of christianity. Will
DC given next Sunday evening. Subject
The Great Temple and the Jewish priests
1t will be seen by reference to our al :
vertising columns, that Mr.. Wheeler. II
a competent Piano timer. will be in town to
attend 10 repairs and tuning. Orders ma Y
be len with Geo. \. Dyer.
In noiicin. an item In late issue OF
the AmeriodH, ii is evident that the iit-raii
OF Milbridsr have been TT, in. on the coat
oithe Hancock C"uuty> poet and nnd il to
prove to be an excellent lit. H. C.
One Of our Ellsworth young ladic, on
Monday last. handled runaway horse Ia
a manner satisfactory to all bcholders.-
iier skill and the steepness Of Bridge hill
proved 10 be entirely too much fog him.
Dir. Thomas denton Pulsiier. Of thi,
city, ha, Inst graduated from iIahnemanu
Medical College, rhila. DArin. the live
weeks before his graduation lac MA, en-
ployed in attending small pox patieaIs IN 4
minis: district in Virginia.
The two or three weeks past our par e.
has not presented it, usual good appear
ace. There are good aud substantial rra-
so.i> for this. but We d" not rise 10 explain
now, but DULY 10 say that it troubled US
more than ii did our readers. we feel i.
s.ycd. We don't mean that it shall OF, n
occur.
we learn the prospec, for raisin. the
stock of the Hancock Fire & Marine In
surance Co is very laiterin-. At meet
ing held Yesterday TO accept the Charter.
John ID. Hopkins. Era>tu, Rcdlnan. Isaac
II. Grant and Geo. \. Dyer were appointed
a committee 10 raise subscriptions. More
than $4,000 wa, raised at the meeting.
Harry in May Mr.. Jacob Coombs pro-
poses 10 erect in the rear OF his store in
Peters block, 4 wooden block eighty six
BY forty feet and TWO stories in height;
The building viii contain four stores. Mr.
Henry Moore has contracted TO put I, u
According to tie Bangor Wig The
"BucAsport Farmers aud Mechanics
Socia. Club" have under discuss ion the fol-
lowing question - ResVlred that the State
Of Maine is the best State in the Union TO
sinisraie from. aud BucAsport the be-,
town in the State for the same purpose"
A. w. Greeley & Co., advertise = fresh
SerothhiShs VI al shN SHt iS~ VI
| cry. watches, clocks and genera! line OF
fancy goods. L. a. Lyon asserts that al.
| stock is -'out Of the dr,hs- Of high Pr ices
| and can be purchased very low.
The Kztzhdin made such a road ihro'
the ice At Buckspon in getting TO Winter
port that our Belfast mail was delayed
severai hours In crossing he river aud did
| not reach here until nine O'Clock in the
evening.
Hon. +. A. Pike was IN town on Mon
| day en-rouie for Calais. Tie railroad il
no, cleared Of snow from NcAdam juno
tiun TO Calais, so therefore he has to take
| the Shore line" home. This fact proves
that IL a railroad was built where we pro-
pose, through travel would Come thus way
often to get clear Of the snow banks, or the
snow blockade.
Haacock. March II 1872.
Town Officers OF Hancock. Nodsrator
Il. ii. Il. Moor; Torn CLERK. Z. l. Strait on
>eieotmen assessors and Orerseers Of Pour
Samue. Siratton. L. l.. Strar,on. and War
ren Strattnn; s.. S. Coamitter. Z. G.
Wooster; Collector and Constable. Levi,
Springer: Cash tax sixteen hundred dol
lars,
All signs fail in dry weather. and VIII,
may not al. ''wimerports" freeze up in
cold weather. like that which visited US las
week? The steamer katahdin got into tn
ice below Buckspor Oh Tuesday last week
and with ali her efforts aud that of a pow
erful tugboat. she could not get clear. Tn
last that was heard from the Captain an,
crew. on Saturday. they were re-pcrus
ing Capt. kanc's Aric Explorations. =
| Sunday night ,hc steamer go, up to Win
terpOrt,
High School Exhibition; For the sec
ond time during its existence have tn
scholars of this school given our citizens
ulltwo hours Of enjoyment with nobod
tired A storm on Friday evening prevente
! full attendance and made necessary IN
repetition on Monday evening when froi
various causes not more than three or fOu
hundred were present. The exercise
were opened with PRAYER by Rev. DR.. Ter
new which was followed by some excelle,
music on the part Of our new Cornet Ran'
who are treading IL q very lively mann'
ON the heels of their predecessors. RI
programme Of twenty one parts, pahiishe
last week. was faithfully carried out in
manner creditabie to the school and saii
factory to all concerned In its welfar
Three of the parts, = song by Miss Ial
: Jarvis, a solo for the piano by Miss i
Joy. and plano Duet by Misses Hall al
Palsifer were heartily encored. while 4
, the declsm ,fious and themes received q
served applause. The prizes-siven
Mr.. Tisdale-for the best decismatio
/ theme. and rsadiax wsrs respectively
z iudged BY the committees to Newell Jt