Ellsworth American., 1874-07-16

he went behind ana began TO push the
boat ashore; one OF the boys let 20 and
sank. The Babcock boy dove down and
brought him up making him again take
hold Of the boat. After going, a short dis
tance the boy again let 20 and sank. Bab-
cock dove again, brought him up once
more, after which he went to the stern OF
the boat again and began pushing IL
ashore, but was taken with q crzMp and
sank before reaching the shore. His
body WAS recovered some two hours AZ
terwards.
Five ladies will enter the next class at
Colby University.
The receipts OF the Maine Missionary
Society Congregational last year were
s2s9275.
Premiums to the amount Of o6, 900, at
least, will be offered at the coming State
Fair at Lewiston.
The City Council OF Bangor voted
Tuesday MI ht to- have all unlicensed dogs
sho, at sigh, by the police.
The Maine State Fair Is 10 be holden
at Lewiston, TO commence on the 22d, and
close the 25th of September next.
The Whig says tha, several OF the
young lady graduates of the Bangor high
school intend TO enter college.
Joseph whitcomb, OF Waldo, who al
tempted suicide last week by drowning,
but was prevented by his dog, has since
died.
Timothy Traf,on. the alleged Old:own
incendiary, who shot himself. Is dead He
protested his innocence OF incendiari SIN
iii the last.
A new cornet band with iif,een mem
ha hee In
under the lead of VIM. ". Lawrence of
Cas,ine. New instruments have been pur-
chased Mt cost OF $500.
-Lcnt's New York Circus got away
from Fredericton on Wednesday afternoon.
but three OF the men connected with 1t are
still In custody. aud they Will be held TO
answer before the courts for firing Into
the crowd Monday night
-Biddeford boasts OF a school girl who
has not been absent but three aud half
days for over six years and a half. Her
Gov. Dingley and sis competitor Hon
Joseph Tltcomb, are the Law delegate
from the Maine Congregational Conferenc,
10 the National Council to be held at New
Haven in September.
-Asel wyman Of Auburn, markets aho,t
so boxes Of Strawberries this season In
th.s Misunderstanding now at about twenty
hve cents per box. And yet farming Ia
MAINE don't pay, some say Lewiston
Journal.
-Gen. Berry Engine Co, No. 3. OF
Rock land, has challenged Johu Bird Co,
No. .. OF The same city aud Eureka Co.,
40. =, OF Ihomaston. to trial of their
respective machines for $500 a side in
each case.
A lad named Russell Howard. abou.
ten years old, son OF Aron How ard OF Bel
fast, was drowned Ia the harbor near Ne.
Giivery shipyard. Thursday. by the cap
sizing OF punt 10 which he aud another
boy were seated.
The Lewiston journal learns that the
so-eailed black grassbopper. which is such
a pest To farmers, has made its appearance
Ia Lisbon. Mr.. John Goody has lost his
entire crop OF winter rye. Even In hi,
grass fields the depredMions OF the insect
have been SO thorough that he does no,
now expect to Gu; single swsth of hay.
Jacob Abbott, the veteran author.
upon whom Amherst College las.
week conferred the honorary degree Of
Doctor Of Divinity, Is now living in leisure
retirement y. Pennington, Me-. not
Gorham. as stated In the dispatches. From
1873 TO ls2s he was Professor OF Mathe-
mates and Natural Philosophy at Am
herst, when the college was in its infancy
The Calais Advertiser thinks that II
Dio Lewis had been in Calais at a Fourth
OF July celebration before the passage Of |
the Maine Law, and had been there again |
on The last Fourth, he would hardly saw |
the law Is failure. We think the same |
progress Of temperance will be observed
In every place In Maine.
A gentleman named Higgins. Of Brook. |
lyn. n. T., visiting Maine with his wife for |
the oenent OF his health, was taken yio- |
lently insane at the Preble House. Port |
land, on Thursday, and had to be sent To !
the insane Asylum xr Augusta. His in |
sanity Is supposed to be the result of
heavy losses sustained during the late
panic.
Tuesday afternoon q number OF little
children were playing GU St. John street
Portland, when suddenly COW which had
young calf with her, ran tor the children,
ana knocked down and trampled on = lit
tie siri six years OF age, daughter OF Mr..
uofe chapman. The little one was quite
seriously bruised, but fortunately no bones
were broken.
BY command Of Major General Cham.
p Ieria,n: the next annual encampment of
Ihe Maine Volunteer Militia will commence
on Tuesday, August 25th, holding four
lays at some place not yet designated.
Bangor. Two prizes are to De
awarded for excellence in COMPANY drill
and two for individual drill.
The station agent at Houlton has n
lock OF hens, and they have cons slant COM
'anion In cat that has never yet been
een away from their company. 1t travels
hrolgh the fields with them, lies down
md quietly watches when a hen is layinv.
.oes up and roOsts with them at night, etc.
{ has never been known to touch an erv
n chicken.
The Press has published an oriy;na,
etter from DR.. Livingstone TO his brother
n Listanwall, Ontario, In which he com.
,lains bitterly Of DIR. Kirk, the British
lice Consul at Zanzibar as having caused
lis misfOtunes. LivingstOne's brother I
vas moved to publish this BY Indignation Z
the prominent place assumed by Kirk
I the obseqpies. =
Teachers Institutes, during Aupust }
iill be held as follows; KennebunE All:
'ortlaDd, 10th; Augusta, 18th; Rocklsnd'
9Th. A special feature of those institufss
'ill be instruction iu Prof. Water f.
mith's system Of free hand drawing. An
Examination will be held aud Certificates =
sued to all teachers presenting them
elves.
New STEAM YACHT.-Saturdav after.
oon the new steam yacht, built hv =.
Dung man named Howard Knowlton.
'ok party Of invited guests on a trip =
own the harbor. She Is 4 very pretty y
Dat, handsomely fitted up, and il cabs. :
e Of carrying some twenty-five passeu-
ers. She Is propeller, and her engine
0ve horse power. She II des,~ned for |