Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-04-21
State News.

Nj Alder, ". I'LL. heal Keeper o.;
Thatcher Island light, ha, resigned hi.
position.
-rn, Age ,ls, the trc .nguc,, jar, :
verde; !, TIA, the late fire in the engine
house At Belfast. vas .noendiary.
Tn, Union SAY, tina, Mr. /. F. Longlcy
Of N4eha,. recently lost a stock horse
Worth from $3.50 TO 500 which died with
out any apparent disease.
MIR William Eaton. who has been con
nected With the Name Farmer thirty seven
wears, and j, a!mo>, IS Year, old, ha, re
tired fiom the position he has held long
Mrs. Alfred Staples. Of Belfast. com
mIited suicide in that CITY last week She
first cut her throat and then hanged herself
Mr.. Staples vas about seventy wears OF
aye, and slightly insane.
The PortiaHi Pres SAYS on April 2sth
at the First Parish church. Brunswick, Ms,
Grace Dupee. daughter Of President Cham
berlain Of BoWloin College. and Mr. Horace
G~ynne Allen will he united in marriage
inspector Martin states that within the
past month s20,OtO worth Of Maine manu-.
lectures have been entered at his office Al
DanyIlle junction for transportation on The
Grand Trunk Railway 10 Western points.
The Advertiser says, that MARY, a little
four years daughter Of Michael Welsh
of Calais. badly burned BY her cloth
ing catch ire where some youngsteT'
had been burning. brush tina; she died aftei
great suffering.
The Sentinel says that barn owned
Z 1 & u.
/ destroyed by fire, Monday afternoon Of las
week. Farming tools, wagon etc, wer,
/ burned. The owner was away from HON,
at the time of the fire, and his loss will b
large.
Frank \. Sturgis, former resident 0
/ Augusta, died at Knoxville, Tenn, last week
/ Tuesday. He was "a year Of age, and leave
one child. He married the second daughte
l of ex Governor Cohy. who died in August.
just after arriving home from Philadelphia
year ago last MAY.
The Wa,erville Mail saws that in tn
absence Of the contractor, work has beef
Temporarily suspended at the Winslow til
mine, and ttachments have been laid upoi
property supposed to belong to him. Yer,
naturally the workmen and boarding hous
keeper. who have not been paid, are il
/ trouble.
The Eastern Telegraph Co. met Thurs
day, in Augusta, organized and fixed tn
capital stock at SjO0000. The followin.
officers were elected President, +. Robbie
Vice President Lewis Barker; Secretar,
and Treasurer, F. f. Richards; Directors
+. Robe. l.. Barker, 4. f. Crockett, Levi
Pierce, J. X. Bodwell, 6. 5. c. Dow. J. II
l.. Cobb.
Collector Smith, of Bangor, nominate,
for appointment by the Secretary of tn
Treasury the following officers John II
Stevens as Deputy Collector at Vaneeboro
George VI B. Sprague as Inspector a
Vanceboro c. V. Crossman, Thomas Ma
son, Richard b. Stone as Inspectors Of Gus
toms at Bangor. The increase of bushes
created BY the addition of Vanoeboro TO tn
district makes the appointment Of new Of
! fcers necessary.
| The Trustees Of the State Insane Hos
pital have elected Horace b. Hill of Lewis
ton. graduate of Bowdoin College and G
the Long Island Medical College Hospital
Second Assistant Superintendent. The
have also instructed the Superintendent, a
soon as practicable, to cause all insane con
viets from the State Prison and from tn
county jails, convicted of high crimes, com
mitted To the hospital, TO be confined in
ball or In lodges by themselves separat
from other inmates of the hospital.