Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1873-12-11
State Ne VS..

A petition for steam ferry between
Bangor and Brewer is to be presented 10
the next Legislature.
The Argus learns that the loss by the
burning of the carriage shop, at Maine
State Prison. will reach SIS 900.
The Rockland police court under its
present management paying institution
Judge Hall has collected and paid over 10
TO the City Treasurer during his term, thus
far, for fines and costs, s32Go.94.
The practical result of the State teach
er's convention at waterville was the
unanimous passage of resolutions declar-
ing that an effective and symmetrical
school system must rest upon basis of
definite principles, including: First, au-
neutrality-suspicious. in the State and inferior
and cooperative in the town; second,
revenue-sufiicient In amount and derived
from an eQuitably adjusted system of State
and local taxation; third, Instruction
thorough and practical in character, and
SO graded as to give the widest practical
bic general culture, as special preparations
for teaching; fourth. nspection-State and
local, SO connected as TO render it sym
metrical and in the highest degree effect
i've; firth, compusion-in SO far as 10 make
it certain that no child will be deprived OF
his right to education, through wilful neg
lect Of parents or guardians. Also that an
efficient system of county or district super
vision is indispensable to the successful
working OF Of the schools Of the State.
The cook OF schooner Sarah Quimby,
at Rockland, got drunk Friday, and pulled
the plug out of the vessels bottom, caus-
ing the vessel TO sink. The entire cargo
was ruined. The cabin had been broken
open and a dog butchered. Nothing was
stolen. The cook is missing.
AS proof Of the scarcity OF green
backs, one firm in Augusta, in paying off
their workmen at the end of the week.
paid one, so. in ten cent scrip, and all
the others were paid in scrip-quarters and
halves.
There is SO much travel over the Maine
Central railroad that the directors of the
Z. & N. A. railroad are talking of putting
on through night trains again.
Rev. S. r. Herric, frmerly of Sedge-
wick, was ordained pastor OF the church at
East Dixfield last week. The ordnrtion
sermon was preached by Rev. c. Y. Swan
ofthe Bowdoin-square church, Boston
The lime kilns in Thomaston are all
closed for the winter.
Capt. Henry E. Brown proposes TO run
the steamer Charles HOughtOn from Belfast
to lslebOro. Castine. Brookville, Deer Isle
and Vinalhaven next season. if u sufficient
amount of stock is taken along the route.
Mr.. John A. Cleveland. son of the late
Prot. Cleveland, of Bowdoin College, died
at Newton. Mass, Thursday, at the age of
81 years. Mr. Cleveland was a graduate of
Bowdoin. OF the class Of 1910, and for the
past ten years has been employed in the
United States Treasury in Boston. Mr.
Cleveland was gentleman much respected
by his friends and aquaintances, and was
noted for his gentlemanly bearing and
OoHgihg ulspOsltlOn.
Monday evening, Dec. LIST, about s
O'Clock, while Mrs. Rose Ann Wentworth
was riding from Gardiner to her home on
the road leading from Winthrop to Kents
Hill, three men stopped her. One of them
caught the horse by the head; at the same
time one of the others threw blanket over
her head, while the other held it over her
head, with his hand over her mouth. At
the same time the other one robbed her of
her wallet containing three hundred dol
lars, that had just been paid her at Garlin-
er.
Last Wednesday, about 10 A. NJ, small
schooner was seen to strike on rock be-
tween Crabtree's point and Fiddle's ledge,
near the entrance TO the North Haven
throughfare. when she slid of and went
down in about five fathoms of water. the
crew, two in number, having just time to
launch dory and save themselves before
she sunk. They were last seen pulling
through the thoroughfare. 1t is presumed
they belong to the eastward. The names
Of the vessel and crew eoaldn OF be obtain
ed.