Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-05-16
Lay aside the graceful ulster.
Fold its arms with tender care;
Bring YOU out the linen buster,
Much the better thing TO wear"

Straw berre. In our market ct fifteen
cents per box.
| Some of the passengers Of the Cimbria
have been Russian around.
A census OF the scholars In District
No. 3. shows the whole number TO be SIS.
The street-sprinkler was brought into
r'quistion the first time for the season, on
Thursday last.
-Hunnemsn Co.. No. has voted to &C
cept the New York engine to which refer
ence Was made la our last issue.
B. II. Aiken Esq. we are informed,
has purchased q valuable farm At Vine
land. Nj
The man with his little ,rou, pole con-
cealed under his coat. can now be seen
quietly slipping out OF the back door OF his
dwelling Sunday mornings.
-woodbine Cemetery WAS opened in
1850. about eighteen years ago. Since that
time one man alone. Mr.. Nathaniel Jordan,
has buried there more than ]. 900 bodies.
The ladies of the Baptist society. con-
template holding their Strawb berry Festival
in short time. On account OF the for
wardness of the season, IL will be held
much earlier than usual.
On Thursday OF last week. Mr.. and
Mrs. Lemuel ID. Jordan.:arrived lone from
California. where they have been stopping
sfnc, Ia. ~ Fall II q. txft 81. -
their familiar faces are sgan seen tn our
streets aud elsewhere among US.
Miss Susie J. Adams has recently re-
turned home from the West, where she
has spent year or more. She assumes
her old business OF teaching-this Summer.
At Sullivan. We are glad that so valuable
= teacher has not been lost to Hancock
County.
The following are some OF the names
on the passenger lis; OF the Cmbris -
Vsnliarlarsky, Beklemischen. GrigorA-
vitsch, Andvejeff. Dvsnjesiarod. Blagovez
sky, Tchesnakoff &c, &C. Euphonlous.
are they nots
temperance meeting, afternoon and even
ing. AT Hancock Hall on Sunday, June ID.
on which occasion friends from Bangor,
Bucksport and other places will be present.
UNITARIAN CHURCH.-On aud after next
Sunday through the Summer. service will
be held al half past ten In the fcrcpoor'
Instead OF In the afternoon. Sunday Soho oil
At twelve. The evening service will be
resumed and will begin at half past seven
On Saturday evening. May 18th, at
Hancock Hall. the Trabean Dramatic Club
Martin. or the Murder in the Red Barn. -
also the laughable Irish farce entitled.
The Ould Mans Goa, Tails.
Hon. A. +. Drinkwater. late Editor Of
the AMERICAN, len home on Monday morn
ing last, accompanied by his wife. en- route
for the Paris Exhibition. They will spend
few days in Portland Boston and New
York, and leave the latter place about the
23d inst.
TAKEN BIZ SURPRIsE.-A company OF
ladies and gentlemen called At our house
10 a very pleasant way. representing the
different religious societies in the city. and
after spending an hour very pleasantly
together retired, leaving for our benefit
very liberal donation for which they have
our thanks. Z. HARDING.
We publish elsewhere q statement Of
the standing OF the Hancock Co. Savings
Bank. which makes an excellent showing.
The citizen. OF Hancock County have rea.
son to congratulate themselves that, II
this time, when SO many banks are insol-
vent, this one stands on SO sure founds-
ton. Its success Is doubtless due. In .
great measure, TO its trusty and efficient
officers and trustees.
Parents should not fail to notice ne Y
advertisement in another column, In rela-
ton to Children's Shoes. What the Metal
Tip has done for children's heavy shoes, it
is to be hoped this new Tip will accomplish
for the finer qualities. 1t II rather discour-
aging to buy nne costly shoes for children
with the feeling that they will almost Ger.
tainly be through At the toe with the arst
few days wear. Parents will do well to
look into this matter.
A despatch from the American Consul
1t st. Johns, Newfoundland. 70 D. n
Stuart, in this city, states the Sch. Ceres.
sank near newfoundland, and that the
crew barely escaped with their lives, In
the schooner's boat. and landed in safety
on the Island. The Ceres was about "a
tons. She sailed from this Port about the
Goth Of April, for st. Johns with . cargo
OF bricks belonging to d. n. Stuart, BY
whom the vessel was also owned In part.
The Ceres was commanded BY Capt. c. B.
Murch of this city.
VIII those who send In concentrations
for this paper, be little more careful In re-
gard to writing, punctuation, etc.f It 10
feared that some Of the would-be report
ers Of the AMERICAN will be obliged 70 pro-
cure the services Of an interpreter. hat their
ideas may be correctly recorded; or, per-
haps, like the late Horace Greeley, they
will have TO engage . compositor who can
decipher the hierogiyphics which 70 them
selves are almost unintellisible. But the
surest of all ways to prevent hard feelings
and csss. words by both correspondents and
compOsitors is 70 At once obtain one o'
those wonderful inveutions, Edsoo's Pho
nograph. and . swall boy 70 ters the
crank. then all trouble will cease. and the
average iasellioent compositor be q . dis
count. 1t Is with pleasure that the favoTs
Of correspondents and reporters are receiv'
ed 1t this ONCE, bot IL causes . great des
Of trouble TO be obliged to copy over. re-
spell. punctuste, strike out superb IOue
words and sentences. etc. Il sh0sld Be
borne in mind that IL copy Is given to the
compositor which is written In = sloveniy
way. with no regard for the rsles Of gram
mar. orthoRraphy " Dasctuasion. Il h nat
ural for the said co@Positor to BE- so0e.
what earaless ahoat Duteinl e In tgOe, Tor