Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1873-08-07
REPUBLICAN COUNTY coNvNTloN.
Gossip About Frenchman's Bay and
Hancock County.

Gossip About Frenchman's Bay and
Hancock County.
From the columns of the Portland Press
we notice that sundry chiefs have been
among us taking notes and printing them.
As our readers will be pleased TO know
their views and how Hancock County apd
its residents strike stranger, We give be-
low the fattering letters of Vance" and
"Hen-ree.''
HANCOCK NEck, Aug. !, 1873.
The close, hot air of dog days" has
sent almost everybody reeking to the sea
shore. The city Is q dollhouse which can
not be cooled by beverages lawful or un-
lawful, nor even by the big. new fans that
ladies carry dangling from their belts. But
We can escape all this discomfort and wea-
riness to the flesh. The coast of Maine.
the beautiful. historic coast, offers plenty
OF avenues, by which We may get out of
the din aud dust of the city streets to en-
joy the cool comforts of the most delight
full shores in the land.
Most of our people have not time nor
money for 4 three months campaign Of
summer junketine ; and so the glsries of 4
trip 10 Labrador or to the st. Lawrence
are out of the question; and the mad whirl
of gaiety at Saratoga and Newport is a
sealed book to almost everybody. But II
We do not see the coast of Maine we are
without excuse. We can pass BY the wa
terng places and the N orthern Newports'
and spend quiet. inexpensive summer, or
make a hasty week s trip on the shores OF
this beautiful Frenchmans Bay. and drink
in new health and vigor every hour. l do
not know whether this Bay is like the Bay
of Naples As is said by tourists; but know
that from Gouldsboro and sullivan, round
through Franklin and Hancock to McFar-
lands Iiill. the views are changing az every
mile, but each view Ills and rests and "a :
isles the eve.
These three towns that have mentioned
Were a terra iaoog''iGd TO the tourist ten
wears ago, but now dozens of families an d
hundreds al people take their summer
quarters here. Many hire house aud thus
live with their families a summer at home :
and many others live at the quiet hotels
and boardng-houses along the coast where
the men who look out for your comfort
haven't learnt 10 charge exorbitaut prices
and give poor fare. Iou have not space
IN your columns for detailed dissertations,
and could not do justice 10 the wonderful
views that hold YOU enchanted a. you drive
along the shore In Gouldsboro and Sulli-
van When | think OF Mcfarland Hill and
Hancock Point. | cannot TO be sure. quite
adopt the extravaganza of the Italian tray-
eIer, and say that these varied views are
capable 'of putting heart under the ribs
OF death. but they certainly would put q
pencil into coarser hand than even old
asa IS s5 enc nefis i sarn r-i !. - an aJ
man OF more than ninety, straight and
1.-THE as boy, with face which II IL a
blessing 10 look upon. a face much like
that of Andrew Jack son. but with all the
asperities softened and relieved. Old Mr.
Hlil has always had deep interest in the
ponies OF the nation, and has been and Is
power In eastern Maine. From his house
you can see the whole bar. from Bar Hair
Dor to Hancock Here at Hancock Point
tle view Is not less striking. This Point Is
me extreme OF Hancock Neck, a wedge al
land less than mile wide. driven down
SIX miles INTO the sea. II is only twelve
miles from Ellsworth, by level road. mos,
Oh the way a. hard as If it had been expos
ed 10 the devices OF the late Mr.. Mcadam
FROM this place il is only five or six miles
across the bay TO Bar Harbor. The Por.
cnpines are right IN front of US. the Mar
rows and Trenton Point at the right. and
sullivan 10 the left, whose harbor is being
perfected by busy crew Of dredgers act.
ing under orders from General Thorn our
distinguished fellow citizen.
In sounding the praises OF French,nan,s
Bay and the country which it pierces and
Ihdehls al SO many points, far be il from
me 70 neglect the city and shire town.
ELLSWORTH is known TO everybody who has
ever set foot east OF the Penobscot River.
IL Is ceie osated as the place which has
grown rich and prosperous without the aid
OF railroads hUt p. In. al.
strength, Ii calls loudly for q connection
by rail- With the other portions of the STATE
IL has not yet accomplished its desire in
TINS respect, but II has a Larger number of
iuily developed railroad schemes than any
other ourgh 10 the State. II has COCO as
busy and lively inhabitants as can be fonnd
anywhere outside Of Chicago. IL has five
churches. 1t formerly had some minis
ters bIt Il now has Democratic mayor.
The city government is Democratic OWING
20 certain local disturbances last spring
These law-abiding, Illuminating functiona
rles enforce the liquor law in a way which
the bummsrs despise. The rum shops are
smut up lor season, under this Democra-
tic squirt OF virtue, and the monrners
good Democrats, most of 'em-go about
the streets.
The Inequalities and genial good fellow
ship OF Ellsworth citizens are THINGS Ia no
ever re membered. They have the art of
entertaining TO perfection, because with
them it Is no art but the natural life of msn
who are full OF good feeling and bon hon.
ME.
There is more fun and humor and moro
appreciation Of ga good thing" in the Els
worth gentleman than in any other class
OF men / have found IN our State. One of
the detshts OF weeks visit was trip up
nver TO Days Landing, TO Perch try: a
half OF our party started early In the af,er-
noon and caught the Perch at Brimmer's
Bridge; from Brimmer's they pursued their
way laden with fish TO q small shaded ,s,at
al bend OF Union river in No. q. Fhev
cali the spot Bill Days Landing. Al agree
tDal TINS same illiam Day is or was a very
estimable person. but whether he is a real
living presence AZ this date or is iono since
deceased, / do not know out tho + sn1;nr
Is good place, and the fry was a prest
success; il was prepared by skilful hands
and received ample justice from a bnngrr
company. We attacked the food-soms
'oiks would call it ''yiaads," but il was
rood fry and won't abuse it that way-at
precisely the right hour of the day, after
ne sun was down, and the meadows Iool.
q greener than ever. and the river looked (
Ieeper and more grateful than an hour be. l
ore, ana even the logs that choked the {
tream looked benignant. After the frv t
ad been eaten and the tea drank and the J
ersonaI "reminiscences finished. we start
Tor Ellsworth with brown faces and 9
carts made stronger and truer nv . half '
ay of good hearty enjoyment in the on e b
VANCE. y
Baf HaFbor.
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