Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1879-03-06


board At noon The crew OF Station 10
succeeded In boarding the vessel to-day
| AID brought the bodies OF Csptsin Sawyer
and wife and Ida Sawyer ashore The rest
hse supposed to b. aboard and .vh in the
bri,~a.s OF the buoy were wash. > away
during the night. Two bodies werc found
near the Station. One Is still mis- ding
| The names OF the drowned seamen are
Henry Johnson. Frank Jones and Richard
| Gordon. Saved, first mate Francis Peter
son. second mate Emanuel Ciarsen. cook
Edwin Partlock, seamen Alfred Cochran
! asd Louis Everett. and two years old child
Geneva Sawyer. The vessel broke In two
/ and nothing can be saved. The David A
Toick was built a, Millbridge and hailed
from New York. The captain aud some
OF the seamen are from Millbridge, Me. :,
and vicinity.
-Chase's wooden mills at York. idle
/ about six months. are TO Immediately
start with an Increased number Of hands.
Standish OF Flagstaff for Elias Milliken of
Augusta. on Alder Stream scaled 1870
feet
Miss Lizzie II. Ross. OF sanford Corner.
attempted suicide bv hanging Tuesday
her father before life was extinct. Prob
able cause, monomania.
-Ex-Gov. Conner has accepted the gen.
ersl agency OF the New York Life Insur-
ance Company for Maine and Vermont.
His headquarters will be in Augusta.
Mr.. George A. Frost OF Wells Beach.
died at the Eastman House. North Con
way. last week. expiring without a mo
mcnt's warning. Mr.. Frost was a member
OF the Masonic lodge at Wells.
An association was formed In Augusta
Wednesday, with Chas. A. White as presi-
dent. for the publication OF a Greenback
paper 10 that city. W. u. Chase. recently
of the Bangor Tribsac. !. TO be editor.
The Portland Press says: We under
stand the sum OF sll 800 Is to be raised Tor
a hospital fund. and ss 500 has already
been subscribed. Me.srs. ". ". Thomas.
| :. +. Spring, Il. Brown. aud |. +. Far
ring,on gave el01o each. The remainder
is divided up In sums OF $500 to 500.
Mrs. Anna Dixon OF Eas, Jay. seventy
eight years old. has spun. In the past year.
five hundred skeins OF yam, knit eleven
pairs Of stockings. three pairs OF mittens,
! beside doing her own washing, Ironing,
mending aud making Of clothes. All
WITHOUT glasses
-Soion Chase on the Democratic party
when one man swallows another the
swallowed mans legs must stick out some
The Democratic legs are out. and that IL
all. Whv. look at the Democratic party
where Is IL! Echo answers, where In
this State Democracy Is aimos, thing OF
the past, the hitherto stronL party u dis
orsan.Eed.
w ednesday morning the dwelling and
buildings OF Nathan Emmons, OF Lisbon.
was burned. Mr.. T.. saved his wife and
chill aud returned for his aged father. bu.
he was not in bed and had evidently al
tempted To escape. but sudocated and was
burned. Two horses, a COW, swine aud
all property were burned. Lose probably
$500; not insured.
The Bath high school has been noted
for the number OF graduates that she sends
TO college. THIS year her boys in ale
number i've, bow dom seven, Harvard one.
wsterville one, Wesleyan one. a Western
college one. with = young lady at welles-
ley; At the Boston Medical School tour.
Law school two. Harvard Medical School
one, School OF Technology Boston, one.
-Alpheus Fairfield, OF Durham. died
quite suddenly Wednesday morning. u little
after midnight. He was man quite large
ly known In various part, OF the State and
a near relative of old GOV. Fairfield. lie
vassm.n OF liberal education. consider
able talent and very positive Ia his way,
and was much trusted In political affairs.
The Lewiston Journal says a party
OF ten or twelve yoans mechanics oil this
vicinity. whose iunus are rather limited
are trying io charter a box ear on the
C-.,d p,n,L ~ tx. them tn C.liforoi,
81. Ch,c.gn All 0m.h. Their man /, 10
ha.,a ,haa,..Ix.s do their nwn cooking
s,c rhay ~. .i,ssdv .n,ll.d IN ,he
i'll. 80, 81 ~. C,anJ Trnnt P.iIroad
Cb.,l.s Si.,L 70 Tor ,.rms h,, p.yorI.
.,Ions a.. .,ii, n.nd,ny Thsv nrono.. IN
90 =. ,r.i.h, !. hsiI.J ..P.niJ Tr.osi,"
Gideon Cook = Calvin Baptist preacher.
well known 10 Biddeford quarter OF
century ago, was = man very eccentric Ia
! speech, even to his last earthly moments.
A few hours previous to his death, his
brother. also preacher, came TO his bed
side and inquired, do You think you are
and on,ot en-. ..nnn., knowFean,, rel,
Nns S lid xs,,,.
The towns which aided the Somerset
Railroad by the issue Of bonds appear TO
| be 10 trouble. The town Of Embden has
| already refused TO pay its coupons and has
been sued. The town will defend itself on
the ground of the illegality of the loan.
! The Arson Adrocdte says that the town
cannot carry the load and thinks that the
time may come when Arson and other
towns will be driven TO take the same
course If the suit OF Embden results favor
| ably TO the defendants.
-, tho s,,,;or Co,r, T., p..,., .r,,
Az ,norning Eaor,e W Einw.rs ,wsn,S
Son, rssrs n ses 40, Of Can, VIM Elow-
ars Of Baneor' was sentenced To three
ys.,s in the honse of CORRECTION for nerinrv
L, the Paige straw hail cssr m. f.fhsr
an old sea csntsin VA. n cour, and r.l,
vs,v h.dly the disorace Of his so, prior
20 ,hs sentence hIs connssi rod ,.,,srs
TN ssver.I nrnm;n.nt msn in auaus,a