Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1875-09-23
State News.

Mrs. Moran was run over BY the cars
at Bangor, Monday, and killed.
The school house at Mt. Vernon VIII
lage, came near being destroyed by spon-
taneous combustion taking place in Reg
OF shavings saturated with oil.
Election day Mr.. Marcus Richardson.
Republican of North Bangor, whose age
is 81 years. was among the first to present
hi~ ballot at the polls In ward tour. after
riding some five miles aud walking mp
Hight of stairs aud reading ~ without
glasses.
The body Of an infant was found float
Ing IN the river at Augusta Friday. Ithad
evidently been starngled by It's thurman
mother or father. put into meal bag aud
tied up. n brick being used rs weight to
send 1t to the bottom OF the river; but the
weight was not sufficient to keep the body
down.
SNOW BOUND.--it commenced showing
at Mt. Washington Friday evening, the
10Th. the wind blowing eighty les an
hour. and the Thermometer fifteen degrees
above zero. The storm was SO severe that
no trains were run Saturday over the Mt.
Washington railway. and no stages to the
Glen House. \ party from this city. in
clndin. j. ID. Dexter, ). X Small, +. p.
Chase, NJ. l.. Stevins and others, are snow
bound AT the Summit House.
about five weeks ago, when Capt. J
II. Moulton, proprietor of the Bay View
House nj Ferry Beach, left Saro for the
West. he left his daughter. IA deaf and
dumb girl. aged ninteen years. in the care
of Capt. + = Wallace. where she has re-
manned until this week. when man, Ca.
lcb CLARK by name enticed her away and
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lace'> and Mrs. Moulton's Efforts to fiud
the airl. her whereabouts have not yet
been discovered
Arrangements are making for a grand
union temperance meeting IN Gardner. To
extend through two or three days. and 1t
has not vet teen decided whether it will
c"mnrusr on the 2ith or 18th of this
month. Edward taf>wrll will be present.
aud II /. expected that Gov Dnglry and
several other distinguished speakers will
be present, among them several reformed
men. IL is intended that this meeting
shall be an opportunity for temperance men
of all organizations to freely and earnestly
discuss matters bearing on the success Of
the temperance movement.
A, THIEVES CAMP CAPTURED The
people IN the town of Bowdo.n have been
| much troubled for some time past by
gang OF thieves which has been depredating
and stealing whatever they could get hold
of. The other day the robbers camp was
found in the woods. 1t was built OF birch
bark and small trees. Two of the men
were afterwsrd seen in a BURBERRY patch,
and the neighbors turned out TO catch
them, but they escaped. At last one man
discovered the smoke from their camp,
while they were getting breakfast, aud Civ
ing Information four men armed with Shot
guns captured the camp aud found all the
things that had been stolen. They then
lay in ambush, and soon one of the thieves
appeared. but the men In ambush were too
eager. They jumped at him. but he sue
crcded Ia escaping into the thick brush.
although pistol shot was fired after him.
wagon has been driven about through
the town nights. 1t is supposed hy the
thieves. \ watch is still Kept Tor them.
PLrKlFIED BODY. The men engaged In
the work Of removing the remains from
the old Levant Road burying ground to
the new cemetery on the Fiuson road, ex-
Eumcd the petrihed body of q woman in an
almost perfect state OF preservation. The
head body and llmbs except "a portion OF
the lower limbs, were transformed 10 "A
substance resembling chalk, and retained
their original form and appearance. The
hair. which vas in long curIs. combed
back, looked almost as when the body was
laid ourior iuterment. The grave-clothes
were entirely gone with the exception OF a
silk neck-tie, which was in "A perfect state
of preservation. The workmen state thar
they have taken up other bodies similarly
petrified. In particular one OF a child three
years of age was found perfect in form
with the exception OF the hands aud feet
which were decayed. The facts OF so many
T,n h,tn4 s.ttf Il IA IA.
such safe OF preservation indicates the
presence OF some peculiarly ia the soil
winch tends 10 preserve the body rather
than 10 hasten its decay The body taken
up yesterday seemed to change after ex-
posurc to the air, the substance appearing
To soften. IL has been inferred about
twenty years Bangor Wing.