Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1875-07-08
State News.

land.
-Thcrc i a clock IN Portland which
has been running over y hundred wears
and it j. sill in good order aud Lcrps
excel. en-, tine. 30 SAYS the Press.
A monster sturgeon, eight fccl long
and weighing 257 pounds. was caught
IN The kcnncbec at Augusta. on Mon
daN.
A lady in Bangor has a carnivcrous
plant that chew~ up bcel>icak with
great gu,to and apparent relish. SItuc
Whg SAYS.
Tie ChrruicIc ,a> the North Au-
burn shoe tacioy. has resumed work az
reduced wages.
-Athcm, post office has been made a
money order office. The postmaster viii
he ready tc do business Monday, july
l2th.
The house # MIR. Jordan of Hart
land was struck by lightnin. and bnrn-
ed TO The ground last Thursday night.
Geo. Pollard of Skowhcgan was
surprised 10 find that the liehtnin. had
been cutting up antics in his parlor dur
imga shower Thursday night of last
week The fact was not discovered un
III SatuliIN.
The Wing learns that silver has
been discovered by several parties,
above Oldtown. on the land owned by
J. III. blanchard.
The Belfast Ace saws that nation
al bank j. soon 10 Ice start ed at Sears
port under the new banking law. The
stockholders are only waiting now for
gold 10 come down.
The annual reunion OF the 10Th
Maine Regiment Association will be
held in Belfast Aug. 18th. Gen. Scldcm
Conmor will deliver the Grafton.
The Gardiner bank, are having new
sales. The Gardiner Savings bank j. to
have chromometcr lock.
MIR. j. X. Mckclvey i lccturing on
temperance in Franklin county TO large
audiences.
An order has been passed by the
Bangor city council, directing the mar
shall ami police 10 enforce the liquor
law.
The Lewiston Journal SAYS that the
/ hrand Trunk Company have commence
ed work on the coal she'd in their yard
| II j. To be 800 feet long. Their lumber
| platform i completed and ready for use.
Rogers Chase of Skowhegan, was
badly injured hv being iainmed be-
( tween two logs Wednesday. His lower
( limbs are paralyzei.
-Bridgton j. sooI to be connected
with the busy world by telegraph line
! The work j. fast progressing, and will
/ be completed in few DAYS. An Office
4 will be established at Bridgton, aud one
/ al Denmark.
= The Nor;hpo:t Camp ground j be-
/ ginning to receive its quota OF summer
residents, several families from up river
having already arrived. Several nice
cottages are now being built; one of
which will cost 5000, and another
$500.
The Belfast Advertiser says that
Col. Ledlie the contractor for building
the Bay n River railroad, is actively ut
work in irving to dispose OF the bouls
OF the road. So a to commence opera
tions forthwith.
The Bahgor Wig say. that on Fri.
day evening DIR. +. +. Sanger exam
ined and passed. twenty-tiIre recruits to
the Jameson Guatd-, and the ron now
shows about .eventN-fiye names.
Al the camp ground at Old Orchard
few DAYS ago Mr. Arthur r. Went
worth unearihed an old copper coin On
| one side was a rose and the words"
Rosa Americana Title Dulci, l722," On
the reverse a head aud the word. ''Geor-
gius Del Gratia Rex The coin i, in an
excellent state OF preservation.
Miss Fannie Walker of Saco, was SO
severely burned al few weeks since in
Boston by her clothes taking tire from
lamp, that she died Saturday. Her Ie-
mains were brought TO Saco.
Simeon Walton, twenty year, al age,
whose parents reside in Mercer, was
drowned in the Merrimac, near Lowell,
! SATURDAY evening. He was lcthing
1 with companions " ho could not swim,
and go beyond III, depth.
\ ianncit j. 10 be stated in Calais
| for thc manufacture of picked and lace
I feather, buffalo robes, wool mats, boots
and mocc lsin,. The company will en-
p.ot quite number Of men, and by "a.
! new process tan "A hundred hides per
/ day. The establishment will 90 into
| operation In Jlly.
The Wing learns that on Wcdncs-
day, ~ "a man bv Tire nune neW iliam
Grant, OF Skow hcgan, workman in
Hebron Pond slate quarry, Monsom,
Wa >eliins fire TO hi, fuse in seam
! charge, the powder near tue fuse was ig-
nlied and exploded, throwing him to
| the bottom OF the pit, a distaAce OF fifty
feet. He died the Thursday following.
"A fire at Union Mills, Calais sun
day afternoon, destroyed large dwell
ing house and portion of lis contents,
owned b. G. l.. Wood. Loss $40, 900:
insured tor twenty-five hundred in the
Franklin Of Philadelphia and West
Chester OF New York. Origin of fire
not known.
1oRK.-The Times says that George
W. Patch, field hand at work upon
the farm of Mr. Jeremiah McIntire, in
York. was sunstruck while at work in
the field on Monday. Tuesday he was
conscious but unable to see or distin-
suish anything.