Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1873-10-30

Work on the Bangor and Bucksport
Railroad has been suspended. in conse.
quence Of the default of the contractors.
This will probably delay the completion
OF the road some months, and our saupuine
-Bucksport friends will hardly 60 by rail
to Bangor, Jan. lst 1874.
There can be no doubt however of the
ultimate completion Of the road. and
probably by May or June next.
A fleet Of eighty fishing schooner.,
which have been fishing of Sidney The
past four weeks. are nearly loaded. Forty
Of them have sailed for home.
Col. Thorn has submitted to tn. s.cre.
tary of War estimates for rivers and bar-
bors In Maine and New Hampshire as
follows; kennebec river. Maine. s15. 900:
Portland. $4,000; Penobscot river. $50.
900; Machias river. $50 900; st. Croix
river, 81, 900; Camden harbor, s23. 900:
Saco river, $4,000; New Hampshire,
Merrinac river. s5OO.O0O.
The best proof that can be given of
the wisdom Of the financial policy of the
Government under Republican admins
tratioh. is found in the fact that while the
best stock in the country were seriously
affected by the recent panic, United States
bonds were worth their fac. in gold
The grand jnrv Of the Supreme Court
has reported an Indictment against John
True Gordon Of Thorndike. charging him
with the murder of Almon NJ. Gor,lon and
~ If IOr AND 0PEN bLuuls.
a 4 fW,S Emma A. and infant daughter
Mile, On the night of June Is, at their
home la Thorndike. Gordons trial will
come of about the first week in November.
A blast on the Portland & Oglensburg
road near Crawford'-. last week. disclosed
a vein of something near akin to soap,tonc.
deeply imbedded for many feet In the
native granite. Ii can be easily cut with
peukniie. and has about the color aud
consistency of sun-baked blue clay.
The Board Of Underwriters in Bangor
have decided to take no more heavy risks
on buildings in which more than ten bar
tee has been appointed on the park of the
oil dealers TO confer with the City Council
in regard 10 the erection by the city OF a
building for the storage of oil in large
quantities, the owner, to pay reasonable
rent for storage.
The North Star says on the 18th inst,
little girl. ten years old. daughter of
Joseph ST. Pierre OF iIamlin Plantation on
the St. John, fell down stairs, having
pocket springknfe In her hand. During
the fall the knife pierced her body To the
heart. killing her almost instantly.
The other day as Portland blacksmith
was pairing a horses hoof, preparatory to
shociug him. he found a cent imbedded In
the hoof and covered by the frog. How
the cent could have got there. and how
long IT had been Ia its peculiar position,
must be len to the Imagination.
The Lewiston Journal correspondent
writes We have just had quite a freshet
at Phillips and on the Sandy River and its
branches. Sad havoc has been made
among the bridges and dams. Eight
bridges are gone, that will cost 500 each
to replace SO much Tor Phillips. In Ma
drid. part of the dam at Perham stream,
belonging to Messrs. Josiah f. Prescott
and Sewall Kelley. A dam across the riy-
er at Madrid has all gone, and a part OF the
Hume at the mill at Madrid Village, prop
erty of Isaiah CLARK, Esq. Roads badly
washed in Avon. which comes in for
share, especially on the stage road.