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Geors. Eliot. Ron,ola.

timely interest is given, by the death
OF the author, to the new edition of her
masterpiece, "Romola," just issued BY the
American Book Exchange, New York. 1t
shows her work at its best and strongest,
and at the same time gives the reader the
opportunity to acquire a lasting familiarity
with the scenes and society of medieval
Italy. 1t is one of the few really great
historical novels Of the world. 1t is issued
in handy and beautiful form, extra cloth
binding, simple but rare elegance and taste
in design, and like the other issues of the
Literary Revolution" its cost is almost
nominal, viz. 80 cents. Ii is one of a
series intended to form a library of classic
fiction, which will include one representative
and characteristic work OF each Of the great
authors who have won lasting fame in the
realm of fiction. Life is too short and too
full of work to permit the reading of all
that is beautiful and valuable in these crea-
tons of the Imagination, but even very busy
people can find time to read one book BY
each of the score of authors who have won
immortal fame and place in the affections of
the people. Not to be acquainted with them
is to be Ignorant Of much that is most I'M
pOrtant and most interesting in the history
otnations and Of men. No..o possess them
is to be deprived Of most fruitful and profit
able sources of enjoyment. Among those
issued or nearly ready are SCOTS "Iyanhoe. "
bulwer's "fompeii" Irvings "Kncker-
booker" Cooper's "Mohcans." Tom Brown
at Rugby" adventures of Don Quixote'
and IT arda, Romance of Ancient Egypt"
Full catalogue Of standard publications will
be sent on request, by the American Book
Exchange, Tribune Building, New York.
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BIuehill.

BIuehill.
Our winter schools are nearly all closed,
and have proved to be very successful.
Those under the instruction of Miss Ella A.
Slower, Miss Mary f. Johnson, Miss Alice
A. Holt, Miss Lena Bowden and Mr.. W. s.
Greene deserve special report. Mr. Chas
E. Dwelley taught in Dist. No. - with
marked success,
The scholars exhibited strong friendship
for him and his presence seemed to inspire
them with willingness to work which is
seldom excelled in district schools.
Their progress and attendance shows them
to have been courageous and persevering
Apginette Chatto, Cora Anderson, Clara
Grindle, Charlie Grindle, Frank Bridges.
Clarence Chatto and Medbury Grlndle lost
no time and others were absent but half or
whole day for the term. This close attend
anee seems quito remarkable when We take
into consideration that many Of them we're
obliged to walk mile or more to and from
school, Mr., Dwelley is thorough disci-
plinarian and instructor. Samuel Blaisdell
who taught in Dist. No. 7, though young in
his profession, did good work and with ex-
perence will rank with the best Of teachers.
SUPERVISOR.
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Afternoon Session.
The Report Declares Plaisted Gov
ernOF.

The committee on Gubernatorial votes
reassembled this afternoon and promptly
received the corrected returns from Vassal-
boro and Morrill,.
The committee then took up their report
Representative Dickey, FUSION of Fort
Kent, moved that the committee now report
that Harris NJ. Plaisted, having plurality
Of all the votes returned, is duly elected
Governor for the years eighteen hundred
and eighty-one and eighty-two. The mo
tion was seconded by Representative Nerrill
(republican) of Portland, and carried, thir-
teen to three. The committee then voted
to make the following report. The Joint
Select Committee on Gubernatorial votes
having attended to their duty ask leave to
report. Whole number of votes Ia ,S02.
Harris NJ. Plaisted had 1918; Daniel F.
Davis, 73,544; Joshua Nye, 300; William
p. JOY, l24 Harrison NJ. Plaisted, 81 !;
Scattering, 55; and Harris VI. Plaisted hav-
ing received plurality of all the votes cast
is duly elected Governor of the State of
Name for the wears 1881 and 1882.
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Sullivan.
The last snow storm has made excellent
sleighing throughout this town. This is
state of things that so rarely happens here
as to be deserving of mention in our items;
for if there is anything for which this town
is justly celebrated, it is its poor sleighing.
We have nothing new to report in rela-
ton to mining, except that arrangements
are being made to commence work on the
new mine known as Cooper Harbor." We
shall have to wait patiently few months
perhaps few years-before we shall knoio
that this is a profitable mining section. In
the mean time ought we to throw any cold
water when the mercury is below Zero on
those who are trying, legitimately, to de-
velop this new enterprise?
-Frost-fsh are found in all our brooks
in abundance. Men and boys may be seen
at all hours of the day, with gafts in hand,
cautiously watching at the holes in the ice,
and woe unto any unfortunate fish that may
chance to show his tail. A gentleman of
this town more celebrated for his knowledge
of mineralogy than "tomcodology" thought
he had discovered a new species of "tom-
cod" hitherto unknown to naturalists, when
he had fastened his gait into a large mink.
The mink was soon dispatched, notwith-
standing his piercing squeals, and deposited
in the fsherman's basket. The gentleman
was quite happily disappointed when he
learned that the one fish" was worth two
dollars.
Speaking of frost fishing reminds me of
a peculiar perhaps Proyidentiall kind of
fishing that is yearly carried on in East
Sullivan, of which never heard elsewhere.
1t is this. When the ice is first forming in
the fall, and again when breaking up in the
spring. lsrge quantities of frost-fsh and
smelts are occasionally kept under the ice
by large focks of sea gulls, until the tide
leaves them bare on the flats and under the
ice. Then it is of course not very difficult
to pick up the fish by hand or in any other
way. Sometimes boat loads are thus taken.
We read of ravens providing for Elijah, but
have never before known that gulls were
helpers Of the poor or feeders Of the hungry.
Is there any similarity between the condi-
ton of this people and that Of Elijah that
Providence should thus provide for them?
ZERO.
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NOn-Resident Taxes

fTHE following list of taxes on real estate or nal,
! resident owners. In the town of Deer Isle Sor
e years 1878 and ls79,n bills itsed TO josenh
y: Judkins collector of said iowa on the 2etb tsx
OF september 1873, has peeu returned hyy
miin W me rs remaining unpaid septemher
Z9th, 1850 by ais certificate OF that dat. and
now regain unpaid; AMI notice is herehv Gu.
!h3t he said taxes interest and charges a. n,
PAID to the Treasurer OF said town within eeh,.e cen
months from the date OF Commitment ~ ~
bills SO much OF the real estate taxed as viii ns
sumo tent TO pay the amount due th.rafa"
including interest and charges will, ie,
further notice be sold at public Auc,,on On mtnont
day of March, 1881. at the Post Oice At St me Sstn
Isle at O'Clock 7, NJ. 'ou'h Deer
Name and Description of Real
Estate or unknown Acres y.,,o
Barnard, or unknown part of N
Green's IT WOr hy's Island. soo
Peter Eaton. or unknown. ~ VI "a
house In school dist, No
~, lear T. b. Gross place.
c. G.. Saunders,Or nnknown " 80
land from Timothy sam
ders Est Est. joining land d
j.. Z. Lomba.d,6r unknown. % 3.
Il q house at Green's 4
landing. occupied by
Paul Thurlo,
Deer Isle. December 20, 1850. A''ssus
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AmeS v. IL. Ii. Jordan +.

Our readers will recollect the drowning
of pair of horses in Union River, which
resulted in the above suit.
The case was tried IN Belfast, and verdict
rendered for Plf., for several hundred dol
lars. Exceptions were filed and the case
carried to and argued at the Law Term last
June. 4 new trial has been granted, and
the following resclipt sent TO the Clerk at
Belfast.
When the Pltf., agreed to furnish the
Deft. with team and suitable driver, if he
failed to furnish such driver, he must bear
the consequences specially arising from the
incapacity and negligence of the. driver
furnished"
II. D. Hadlock. VIM II. Mcclellan
Counsel for Plti.
g. s. Peters. W. II. Fogler
Counsel for Def.
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W. II. PILsBURY.

-Rechab Lodge of Good Templars hai
just passed its fifteenth anniversary. New
members, mostly from the ranks of tn,
young, are weekly being added to its mem
bership. This community has sustained
some form of temperance organization con
tinualiy for quarter Of &C fury or more
The Winter term in District No. II
under the tuition of Miss Ella Slower Of
Bluehill, a teacher of large experience anC
excellent reputation. Miss Emma Babsor
of Brooksville has taught five successive
terms in this District with excellent success
Such teachers deserve commentator, and il
is With pleasure that We commend her tc
the public as lady Of fine character, an in.
dustrious, faithful, practical teacher, and a
good disciplinarian.
After repeated efforts the powers tina,
be" have at last succeeded in lodging suffici-
ent snow in our highways fer good sleighing
Our roads are for the most part so exposed
to the raking northwest winds, that the fas.
tldious travelling public are seldom favored
with just the right quantity of snow. A
real enjoyable sleigh-ride in which the blend.
ed sensations of delightful ease, and pleas
urable excitement overspreads one to his
very fngertips has so many conditions es-
sential to it, that it is seldom enjoyed in this
latitude and locality.
One of the smartest old men in this
town 10 Deacon John Condor who is 81
years of age. He is as brisk and spry ap-
parently as boy of Is. He chops and
hauls wood and does, without assistance, all
the chores around his house and barn. He
was never known to be idle and has proba,
bly, passed as few hours in bed as any man
of his age in this State. His wife says "He
m9kes it point to rise at 4 o'clock in the
morning, b.. We seldom hits the right hour,
for he may be found up at any time after u
o'clock" He is in good health and bids fai,
10 see a hundred winters sweep over his
head.
i noticed in the last issue Of the AMER
IcAN the following item among the editorial
notes: "a petition is in circulation in this
city to remove the liquor question as far as
possible from the arena Of party politics and
to submit the question to direct vote Of
the people on proposition to amend the
Constitution of the State" should be glad
to receive more light in regard to the ques.
ton. Is the movement local or general ?
What is the precise object sought? Is it to
engraft the principle of prohibition, or the
prohibitory law upon the Constitution, or to
SO amend the Constitution that all questions
affecting prohibition shall be hereafter sub
mitted to a direct vots Of the penplep Is
the end sought to place the liquor question
beyond the reach of legislation fail to
comprehend the gist of the movement from
your published notice thereof, and should be
glad if you would publish the text of the
petition referred to with explanation if nee
essary. H.
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The appointment Of Hon. ]. ID. Hop
kins as Collector of the Frenchman's Bay
District gives universal satisfaction and
coming as it did, unsought, is deserved
compliment to meritorious officer.
There will be public installation of
the officers of Lygonia Lodge F. and A. NJ,
at Masonic Hall, Wednesday evening Jan.
18th, to which all Masons in regular stand
ing are invited, accompanied by their lady
friends.
CHAPTER INsTALLATIoN.-The following
persons were installed by p. H. P. John b.
Redman, on Tuesday evening, Jan. II, as
officers of Acadia r. A. c., for the ensuing
year: H. p, A. w. Greedy; R., N. J..
Moor; s., c. c. Burrill c. H., A. w. Cush-
man; T., Lewis Friend; Sec, ]. A. Nc
Gown p. s., W. F. Emerson; r. A. C., J.
f. Parsons; NJ. T. ", I. E. Hale NJ. S. ",
H. l.. Moor NJ. F. ", c. McGown; Tyler,
G. F. Haskell.
-Messrs Smith and Frost of the State
Y. NJ. c. A., are holding meetings every day
in the week at . l-2 and p. NJ. These
will be held in the Methodist house until
further notice. On Sunday next instead of
the usual services there will be held three
Union Gospel Meetings. AT 10 l-2 A. NJ,
in the Congregational church; at 2 IA p.
NJ, in the Methodist Church; at p. NJ,
in the Baptist Church. Messrs. Smith and
Frost expect to be reinforced by the coming
of Mr.. Bailey of Winthrop before the close
of this week.
Nothing illustrates SO clearly the thor
oughness of the civilization of this nine
teenth century as the fact of the scientific
development and minutie of detail exhibited
| in all branches of trade and commerce. We
have been led to these remarks by an exam
nation of the Seed Annual for lSSl-pub-
lished BY ID. NJ. Ferry & Co., the great
Seedsmen of Detroit, Mich.-a copy of
which is before us. Here is a work, as large
| if not larger than any of the first-class mag
azines-issued free to all who apply for it,
elegantly illustrated, and containing an
amount of information-such as the names,
common and botanical, classification, char
acter, height and color of plant, mode of
culture and what to avoid, the numerous va
rieties and their distinctive marks, with gem
! eral directions for the cultivation and man
agement Of garden, such as could not be
obtained from perhaps fifty volumes, few if
any of which are within the reach of the or
binary reader, and SO condensed and ar
ranged as to be easily understood by all.
Surely such enterprise deserves the success
which we are happy to know this extensive
and liberal house is meeting with. Send to
them for Catalogue before you buy your
/ Seeds.
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Home and Foreign News.

Mr. Vennor, you can call of your
weather We have had enough.-Burling-
ton HaTkeye.
Captain Eads has occurred important
concessions from the Mexican government,
it is said. in favor of his ship railway
scheme.
The Nevada democrats have nominated
Fair, the great millionaire, for the I. ).
Senate, and will Of course elect him.
The Irish societies of Boston are to
celebrate ST. Patrick's day by attending a
lecture, the proceeds of which will be sent
to the Land League in Ireland.
Nantucket South Shoal light vessel
blown off her moorings Dec. 27. was spoken
Friday in Vineyard Sound. She had been
east as far as Georges bank.
The total amount of this years crop Of
cotton handled at New Orleans for the past
year was 3,736,5l7 bales, an increase of
255.9l7 bales over last year.
Alexander H. Stephens is decidedly OPP
posed to the reception of the Electoral re-
turns from Georgia, on account of the non
conformity to Law.
The President Thursday nominated
Nathaniel Golf, Jr., of West Virginia, secre-
tsry Of the Navy, and the Senate confirmed
it.
in the Senatorial caucus of the Michi-
gan Legislature, Mr. Conger on the seventh
ballot had So votes te 81 for Bagley. Con-
ger was then made tie nominee unani-
mously.
1t il daily growing more evident that
Senator-elect Malone of Virginia viii act
with the republicans as to the organization
of the Senate. In bis private conversation
Malone does not hesitate TO say that he
prefers the leaders of the republican party
to those of the democratic party.
The Boston Memorial Society has voted
to erect a statue to the memory Of Theodore
Parker, accepting the 5000 bequeathed for
that purpose by the late Nathaniel Cushing,
and to which will probably be added $4,000
by private subscriptions.
Mrs. Harriet n. Cooper, colored, died
in St. Louis New Years day, aged lis
years. She weighed 400 pounds. Mrs.
Cooper was mother of Is children, the
Youngest of whom is SO years old. Her
husband is l0l years old and is still living.
The Southeastern railway completed
track across the ice on the St. Lawrence,
near Montreal, Wednesday, and commenced
running freight cars with complete success
ustil the evening, when the locomotive on
one Of the trains jumped the track, broke
the eoupling and plunged through the ice,
disappearing to the bottom of the river.
The engineer and fireman had miraculous
escape.
The STAFFORD county, New Hampshire,
poor house was burned, Friday, and thir-
teen paupers and lunsties persisted in the
James. The excitement was intense, and
the scene sgonizing. The waterworks were
rendered useless by the extreme drouth and
no water could be obtained. Many of the
inmates we're locked In their rooms and
there was no one to let them out, All the
sick were saved and of others feseged
nearly all were able to 60 about. There
~as no Waterman on the premises, and the
FIRE had made great Roadway before it was
discovered.
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PATENTS.
r H.EDDY.

No. TO State St, opposite KiIby, Rssto.
Secures Patents In the United States also I'm
Great Britain France and other foreign countries
Copies OF the claims of any Patent furnisbrd nv
RENTING one dallar. Assignments recorded =,
Washington No Agency in the United states
possesses superior facilities ter obtaining Patents
K. H. EDDY, solicitor of Patents.
TESTIMONIALS,
II regard Mr.. Eddy as one of the most capsb,e
and successful practitioners with whom I W.
had official intercourse. "'e
CHAs. MASON, Commission of Patents
inventors cannot employ person more trust
worthy or more capable of securing tor them an
SmS. anu ia'oraole consideration at the Patent
omce' EDMUND BURKE
late Commissioner OF Patents I,
~ BOSTON, October 10, 1870.
K. II: EDDY ESQ. Dear Sir: you procured f.,
me- IN 1870 my first pstept. Since then Won hav.
acted Tor and advised me in hundreds Of ca ses
ana procured many patents, reissues and exten-
sons. ! Raye occasionally employed the best
aSehpies IN New York, Philailepha and Washing
ton, but still give you almost the whole of M,
business, n your line, and advise others to en-
by Sou; Tours truly GEORGE DRAPER.
'op' . an :. 1901. lyrl
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LOCAL NOTICES.

&C. c. Burrill is Agent and Attorney for
the oldest, largest and best Insurance Com
panies of this Country and England, and his
rates are as low as at any other Agency. A
partial list of Companies represented are
the .Etna and Phpnix, of Hartford, Home
and Hanover of New York, Liverpool and
London and Globe, Imperial and Northern
Of England and Springfield Fire and Ma
rine of Mass, which Companies are admit
led to be the most reliable, by all who have
examined the standing of the various Com
panies Give him call and see for your
self before insuring elsewhere. His office is
on State street, with Hancock Co., Savings
Bank, and over "Aiken's store" 44tf.
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Senatorial Caucuses in Ohio, lndi-
ana and Connecticut.

Dispatches received at a late hour from
the respective capitals announce that the re-
publican legislative caucuses held Tuesday
evening in Ohio, Indiana and Connecticut, in
each case unanimously nominated John Sher-
man, Benjamin Harrison and Joseph X
Hawley for United States Senator. \ bal
lot taken in the California Senate Tuesday
STOOD Gen. Miller p, Judge Wallace 10
Henry George ,. Both houses voted fol
United States Senator in Nevada Tuesday
Senate, Wren II, Fair 10; Daggett As
sembly Fair 40; Wren Il.
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Mr.. W. Horn. while fishing for FROST
fish in breathing hole in the ice, had the
good luck to catch fine mink. Mr.. H.
thinks he has developed new industry, and
has given up the idea of sgoing to Tunk, =
he will sell his mining stock and, as another
mink has been seen in the vicinity, will
stand by this hole, hook in hand, all winter.
But we hope Mr.. H. will remember that a
seal skin suit is necessary in such business.
Jan. 8. 7. ALDIN.
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Some people have a fashion of confusing
excellent remedies with the large mass Of
''patent medicines" and in this they are
guilty of wrong. There are some adver-
tised remedies fully worth all that is asked
for them, and one at least we know of-Hop
Bitters. The writer has had occasion to use
the Bitters in just such climate as We
have most of the year in Bay City, and has
always found them to be first-cass and reli-
able, doing all that is claimed for the
Tribune,
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M A Il RI ED

Ellsworth-Jan. 7. by Rev. T. F. White.
Capt; Roland e. Bonsey and Miss Lille F +,
daughter of Capt. c. f. Bellatty.
=, East Sullvan-Jan. l, by Rev. J. johnson,
Mr.. Willis c. Crabtree and Miss Mary F.. Mer,
chant, both of Hancock.
Union-Dec. u, by Rev. F. V. Norcross.
Mr.. All Martz and Miss Annie Z. Davis.
both of Camden.
Boston Mass. 3, by Rev. James Reed,
Col. Byron w. Darling of Bluehl, and Mrs .
Carolina A. Guptil, of Boston.
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The Weather.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Il ~ ~ n IT

YAK UEPAkINENI.
Office of the Chief Signal Officer. ;
WASHINGTON. d. c., Jan. FL A. NJ.
Indications
For New England, northerly to westerly
winds, partly cloudy weather. and occasional
light snow, no decided change in tempera-
ture, and stationary or slowly falling baron
eter.
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Business Notices.
Just Look !!

Tickets for all points Yves tyia, Pennsylvania
Central and 30 ton and Albany Railroads from
Boston, or Grand Trunk Railway from Portland,
can be had OF G. c, Bufril at the lowest rates
Also tickets to Portland by inside line of STEAMERS
Call and see him before purchasing elsewhere.
lstf
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Fire al Bloomfield. VI.

Clark Stevens steam saw mill and ma
chinery at Bloomfield, Vermont, were totally
destroyed by fire Monday night. Loss
$4,000. Insurance $4,000. The FIRE was
evidently the work of an incendiary.
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New Adverss.~m~.ts THE Week

Probate Notices-C. L. Dorr.
Boots and Shoes-C. b. Partridge.
FOreclosure-Frank II. Harden.
Co. COm'r's Accts.-H. Il. Saunders.
Statement Bluehill Bay Mining Col. Taylor
Statement Carter Silver Mining Col. Taylor
State Assayer-W. W. Fisk.
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g. 5. Peters. W. II. Fogler
Counsel for Def.

BaeksPors.
Mr.. Editor-By authority of an Ex., you
give Mrs J. Z. Moore credit for the author
ship of Rock of Ages, cleft for me-, a
grand poem written many years before Mrs
Moore was born, by Toplady, who was born
in l740 and died l77s.
W. II. PILsBURY.
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Report of Committee on Guberna-
torial Vote.

AUGUSTA, Jan. H.
The committee on Gubernatorial votes
met IN the Senate Chamber this morning.
Hon Arson P. Morrill,, presiding. Several
corrected returns were received from towns
IN which errors had been made The re-
turns from the town of Vassalboro was
taken up.
Senator Mortland spoke in opposition to
receiving the vote of Vassalboro and Dickey
and Nerrill in favor. The return was &C
cepted and the record ordered corrected
accordingly by vote of Is to l. The vote
was afterward rescinded and the matter laid
on the table till afternoon.
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Incendiary Fire at Woburn, Mass.

An incendary fire at Woburn, Mass, yes
terday morning damaged H. F. Fletcher's
carriage shop $1,000. Insured.
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An Old Man Killed on a Railroad
Track

Mr. McMahone of Waterbury, Vermont
aged 81, while walking on the track yester-
day morning was killed by an engine.