Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1879-08-07
State News.

Potter Palmer, thr hotel hig< q! The
Wes'. u oloarnios at old Orchard.
-C.p, VIM. Co:hrcn. aged -. a veteran
% the war Of 1919 died ln FAFm.nsion
IhGr-jAy.
The ~~utiucl's correspondents SAY. that
farms IN Wesley havc advanced in price
twenty-five per cent. since spring open
ell
a fire broke out iu Hoalton SUNDAY
morning. dcstro'ius seventeen buiiiinsS
aud burning So 80 sor,h Of property
Thirty icclanIcrs arrived in Por,ianI
last thursday, on their Nay 10 settle
ucnl Of their country men twenty miles
below Halifax.
-Cougres,mAn March has appointed
Eserard l.. Hatch OF Liberty To the We.
Point military ca ietship Tor the am die
tflct
Mr. william v oodworth. who 81 ell re-
oently AZ Pembroke. Ne. was Town CLERK
for forty-,Ko years. During his life he mar
ried 80 couples.
The Ifc5s says that the sheriff, Thurs
DAY, attached the estate Of the bondsncn
OF John Goddard, Of Portland. iof $40. 90
a. Mr.. Goddard has len to~n.
The Ssedes Who passed through Bat.
Cor icw nights since purchased Ihc.f
tcAe.s la Their native Cnuutry clear through
- bort Fairfield in AfOo-G,JS cV,uly.
-Marshal VI. DAVIS. for many years pro
pr.ctoi OF the BrlisiOn House at Bndgtou.
Me. died suddenly Fnday eyeuisg Of liver
trouble. lie was about % yeas OF age.
The nag says that 4 O. Hunt eel
OF Houlton, has taken out OF Aroosioo>
county the present season between iifty aud
sixty horsr-. which he has sold la Bangor.
There Is man IN Saco who has beeu
married thirty years aud boasts that dur
lag that line he has not carried ten ceuis
worth Of confectionery home 10 his FAM
Iy.
y Hon. John Holmes Gsoienow, tor
many years L. ). Consul al ConsianIinopie.
and son OF the late Judge Goode now has
settled down AZ The Old Orchard House
for "the heated term"
Isaac Weber. Geo h Elmer. H. VI.
Wake. r. l.. Howard aud J. J. Lamont
have been arrested al Do yer for obtaining
n note from Rufus Hari6w OF Abbott, by
means OF tie pruning shears fraud.
-Cha-. c C1fnsforth u years OF age. l
son OF Seth & Corusiorth OF S.co aud fOr-
merly of West Wateryille. Mas drowned
Friday afternoon while learning to swim
10 Cascade brook. The body was recover
ed
The Commercial says that Joseph
MetcslF- house aud barn with the two al.
joining houses. were burned Thursday al
saltwater. The fire is supposed to be In
cendiary. as two fires occurred Wednesday
night ia the same place.
The Times says tina, Capt. jaime, An
dfews Of Biddeford. has received a 50. co.
contract from the Brooklyn Eleya Rail
way Co. This company will proceed forth.
with 10 build i've miles OF their road aud
Capt. Andrews contract Is to furnish the
granite foundation for the Iron piers.
News Is received that Benjamin +.
Lowell, native OF Saco, Me. widely
known as theatrical manager, died Thurs
day morning Ia New York from the effects
OF a snRstroke received Monday OF last
week.
MIR. Blanchard of Wilton. a bachelor
living on mis- farm was lbrottled by a burg
lar Thursday night. He would have been
robbed OF $500 but Tor timely assistance Of
the hired man. The burglar escaped.
The Knox County Republican conyeD-
ton In Rockland, Thursday vas very fully
attended aud made the following nomins-
lions:
Senator-George Roberts, Vinalhaven.
County Treasurer-John W. Turner,
Roekland.
County Commissioner-w. II. Titcomb.
Rocklsnd.
Resolutions were passed fully endorsing
the platform OF the State Convention.
The Citizen says that Mrs. Harriet
Ellis hung herself last Thursday Afternoon
at Fogg's Corner. New Gloucester. Her
body was lying on the floor, and her head
and shoulders suspended by q cord attach
ed to the bed-post. She was absent about
an hour. She had made several attempts
before, but had been detected in the act.
She had been sick long time and her left
side was paralyzed. She was iorty-eight
years old.
Captain John Arey. of the schooner d.
X. Arey. OF Belfast, who arrived at Ssien,
on Sunday week, leaving the vessel lying
at Derby wharf, was garroted by four
strangers on the wharf at l0.4s Wednes-
day evening. and robbed Of e4l5. the pro-
ceeds OF his cargo. which he drew Ia the
afternoon. Captain Arey had just LEFT the
vessel and gone up the wharf, when four
middle aged men jumped from shed upon
him, threw towel over his head aud rob-
bed him. The captain drew his knife sad
stabbed one. NJ wss shown by the fact that =
spots Of blood were len behind and on the
captains clothing.