Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-11-28
City and County.
E1osWogeA.
Hon. Eugene Hale LEFT this city. n
Thursday last, for Washington.

Hon. Eugene Hale LEFT this city, n
Thursday last, for Washington.
Services appropriate to Thanksgivj9
will be held In the Unitarian Church net
Sunday afternoon.
Several mills on the river have sit
down for the season, and others are hum
Ing OF al the work they can, to finiship
before navigation closes. o
N. X. Sawyer, Esq, wife and friens,
let on Wednesday last, for Jaeksonvie.
Pa, where he Is to pass the winter. Is
health IL much impaired and we trust TIT
\ warm climate and cessation from labe.
will soon restore him to his wanted vig..
The Primary and Grammar Schocs
closed last week and the teachers desere
honorable mention for their results. Nj.
Backus and Miss Joy at the brick. Ms
True on School Street, Miss Hopkins u
State Street, Miss Adams At the 'Strar-
Vile" school. are all doing most valuate
service which parents may well be graf
fnl for. say the committee.
"A Dramatic Entertainment will p
given at 1t Hancock Hall on Tuesday ad
Wednesday evenings Of next week by ~
members Of the Ellsworth High Scho.
Their object is to obtain funds to procue
reference books, apparatus &c. Tho
have spared neither time. money nor 4
fort TO make their entertainment successfs
and It is hoped that our citizens will q.
operate with them In their landable endes.
or and give them an overlooking house.
FiRE.-On Saturday last, at Reefs
Brook. the House. Ell and Stable beiou-
ing TO Lemuel Moore were destroyed y
fire. All the furniture, bedding. clothug
Of the family aud farming tools were alo
burned. There Was no insurance. Tas
loss falls heavily on Mr.. Moore, who is
poor man. and at this season of the yar
must suffer, unless the generous and r.
nevolens citizens Of Ellsworth shall ren,lr
him relief Loss about o.. 900.
The Lecture Of Mrs. Margaret y.
Campbell Thursday evening last, on SIC
subject shall Women votey" was we'll
attended.
Mrs {. Is an interesting. earnest andat
times. eloquent speaker. using well ,hos.n
aud forcible language. and always con
mandng the attention OF her audience.
Thoroughly familiar With every branchof
the ~ oman's Suffrage Question aid
we'll fortified with statistics, dAscs and fac.s.
and always ready with an answer TO sie
many objections urged against It. ne
carries conviction TO the minds OF masy.
All through her address she LEFT the IN
preston on her audience. tina, Whatever
they might think on this subject. she. at
least Was terribly In earnest. She was ak
Ing for nothing but her rleA,, and that die
would have, aud men who were barring the
progress OF this movement, must clear the
track or they would be ground to pow,s.r
We understand thai Mrs. Campbell is TO
lecture during the winter In this State
that she Is an agent of the WOman's Suf-
nagc Association OF Boston, and that
their and her object Is TO turn public at
tention to this subject and form n public
sentiment.
The public will lind themselves amply
repaid In giving 70 Ay. c. a respectful
hearing, worthy the Importance Of the
great question she discusses. However
much men aud women may sheer 4, or
great questions Of the times, and must be
answered one way or the other and within
the next Ave years.
A GREAT Rk1oRM NEEDED IN Ills
woRrH.-If called on to specify the Re-
form most inperssively demanded by our
citizens. We should unhesitatingly say that
II was in the conduct Of certain young per-
sons who are accustomed to attend public
meetings and who regardless Of the rights
Of others and the propsieaies Of the place.
carelessly or wantonlv disturb and annoy
the audience and the speakers. Not a
Lecture has been held In Hancock Hall for
months, that the speaker has not been OBJ
liged to stop. until some unu,sanerIy youth
has tramped over the door. down tbs stairs
and left the Hall. To leave the Hall, dur
Ing the exercises. under the most savorA-
bic circumstances. is bad enough. for 1t is
al"ays unpleasant to the speaker, but when
the exit is accompanied with no effort to
render it As quiet As possible. 1t is simply
boorishness and rowdyism, which should
forever shut out the needless clowns from
oil decest society. II these ill-brsd per
sons did but know the contempt and ioath
ing which their brazen exhibitions inspired
among respectable men and women. they
would never enter public Hall or they
would sit quietly so As not to draw the at
teption Of others. The same may be said
Of those wbisperers, sixglers aud all who
disregard the feelings Of others by their
rude behavior. II the Law l. pseded to
produce this Reform let It he Invoked, but
at any rate, let not the reputation OF our
city longer suffer. FROM these disgraceful