Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1879-11-06
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State News.

Parties IN Gardiner are making a busi
mess oI catching eels for the Boston marx
II.
-Slnc" whittier has stated that Maud
nn'Ier va. Maine girl. the Belfast Jour
mas wants him To- name the Judge
ihe Methodist church at Norway Is
nearly completed Th- Society bids fair Ia
tap'hiy Increase IN that locality
1t IL stated III there are fifteen hmm.
ured tons OF sugar !, cts In the towns near
Damsriscotta Tor shipment to the Portland
factory.
y Grove o. sheep nu,nh"riny abrnt on,
hundred passed through Belfast recently
3 lh"y were purchased on Deer Isle and
theIr destination was rhorudk-
The Chronicle SAYS that En- ,lsh sua,.
rows have come 10 Farminglr rhrs.
blfds are spreading all around .-nu. the
few Imported ones.
| GRANVILLE T.. Jor,lau's cooper .t,.,n T.,
| Portland was burned. Thursday night
Loss about $1,000; insurance 81 900 1,
$500. y
). T.. Fowler. nf Gray, the MISSING
member Of the Portland Mechanic Blues.
turns up all right. lie had been visiting
At his sisters In Falmouth.
The rails are being rapidly laid on the
new railroad from Paris to Norway. A
week more will bring the locomotive IN.
/ Der tuil head OF steam Into Norway village.
On Friday. a little girl. daughter Of
VIM. Day. of Bryan,'s Pond. fell from the
great beams OF the barn. aud struck on her
head. She was taken up for dead. but /,
! now doing nicely.
John Welsh. the little boy who h,s
been missing from his home In Portland.
was found Ia the Saco slmshouse by Mr.
Baker. aud Information sent To his parent.
VINO al once went after the Young run
away.
Fred Kennedy Of Tower Hin. \. b.,
about twenty years old. was arrested In
Calais, Thursday. for forging and attempt
ing IA get csshcd a check on the Calais
National Bank for $50 and purporting to
be signed by +. shaw & Bros
fri The Portland Pres, says that ID. ".
Hull. recently connected with the New
IRA OF Portland. was arrested by Marshal
Bridges. at the request OF Marshal Patten,
81 Concord \. II, on a charge of utter
Ing forged note Tor s3pO.
Fire A. Wesleyan Grove catnpground.
Northport. Thursday afternoon. DESTROYED
eleven cottages on North Avenue, north o,
the preachers stand. aud injured many
shade trees. The ether buildings were
saved with difiicnl,y. Loss O. 900.
The Belfast journal says that Albert
,. Matthews OF Liberty. last week ground
Into Hour 5000 bushels Of wheat A 4
larger quantity has been raised this year
he expects to grind at least II 900 bushels.
which Is equivalent TO } tDD barrels of
-four
Mr.. Josiah W. Davis OF Denmark. has
pair OF grade Durham steers. three years
old, that measure seven Tee, and one inch
IN giuh and seven feet and three niche :
along their back. These steers have been
worked from calves.
Il; j. generally admitted that much
larger force will be put into The woods
from Calais this winter than for a number
OF past winters. Wages ~;il. j, i also
aid on good authority. be advanced from
four 10 ak dollars per month
The dredging machinery &. Al work on
the Luhec channel In the nArrows. The
bottom - clay mixed with sA~h- 80 r-'..
hle- IA, ,uSIncer thinks that suitab}.
shiP channel VIII ba made The contrac-
tor hope. To continue wurA all wiu,er
The Belfast Journal say. Tint the
Stockton Savings ban. has closed up bu.i-
ness. the liabilities 10 dcpo.ltors having
49, 80 a. paul HA'lAE > w. HNttH " t4E ~ -
h~ soon cancelled Nr. Partridge. thu
treasurer. assumed AT liabilities. AMI pad
them W 81 personal loss Ia himself Of
over $500.
-lienrwei Efforts are made 70 obtsin
gravc-tones for soldiers III the Calai, CEN
ctcry. The committee have breu working
on the matter for the past six months aud
their labors are nearly crowned With sue
/ cess, and the names for the stones are To
be forwarded 10 the proper department at
Washington by the tenth OF this month
Died 10 Cornyile on the 9lh inst Mrs
| Eliza kiusnan Ia the ninetlrth yesr of her
age. widow 81 the lat, Gen Joseph X ms
I man. The deceased va. most truly a de.
/ scendant Of revolutionary ancestry being
/ the daughter OF Capt. EHoch Paige and
I niece Of Col. Joseph Galley. both officers
| OF the revolutionary wa. She leaves three
| children. two sons and one daughter, Gen.
j. 4, kinsmsn aud Hannah + J kin.Tan.
| OF Cornyille. Gen J Burnhsm kin-nan.
| OF Washington. District % Columbia
The Journal SAYS that Scrbner. the
! Augusta Murderer. l. said not Ia appear
overcome at all by the verdict which has
been rendered against him. bur TO be ar the
| same stolid demeanor that has character
lied him all through his long iInprlson-
| tncuL anu Ilal Inc night The trial was
! concluded, as he was passing from the
court house 10 the Jail, the sun MAS jus,
setting, AMI he remarked to the officer
| who accompanied him, that the scene In
the west looked very pleasant.
| The Boston Herald says tina, only five
officers are employed TO watch the border
! for hundreds OF miles along the northern
| and eastern sections OF Maine and the
facilities for smuggling are, OF course,
very great there. The treasury agents
| have been looking into the business for
some time past, and are convinced that
| there Is COLLISION somewhere among the
government employees with the smusglers.
| IL Is probable that a number OF customs
| officers 10 Maine will be removed at an
early day, but the department is proceed
Ing with great secrecy in the matter. and
the names Of the doomed officers are with
| held.
The Lewiston Journal says: One OF
| the farmers who went into the sugar beet
! business quite extensively this season in
this city was Mr.. Fred Jeffries. He plant
| ed two acres aud raised a crop OF twenty
| three tons OF beets. As he put forty cart
loads Of manure and $40 worth of super
phosphate on the land, he thinks that il
was not very profitable. Mr.. Lee Randall
planted an acre and halt, Mr. Nelson
Ham half al acre. and numerous other
| farmers planted more or less extensively
| The shipments Of sugar beets from the
| Lewiston stations have been quite heavy.