Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1883-09-13
State news.

years old.
Judge Virgin will preside at the term
Of court which opens soon 10 Houiton.
The Gaxete learns that Dexter firm 10
preparing to open q Wholesale store for the
sale Of imported liquors.
The reunion Of the Fifth Maine Bat
terry will be held in Lewiston. Sept. 10. The
battery was mustered in at Augusta.
Mr.. Horace Taylor Of Albion commit
ted suicide BY hanging last Wednesday eve
ming. Cause, temporary insanity. He was
. man OF means and was about IS years Of
age.
The trustees of the State College have
elected Mr.. J. Fred Webster Of Bangor,
Treasurer Of the college, to gil the vacancy
caused by the death Of his father. Hon.
Eben Webster.
One night = short time Aince . bear
entered the camp Of crew employed in
peeling bark at Letter A. and carried of .
firkin Of butter. He WAS tracked and the
butter was recovered.
The Adrertiser says Mr.. Silver Stone
Of Calais, had plate glass window costing
$50 TO 500 broken BY the rock throwing
idiot, the other day.
Samuel Libbey, Esq, of Orono has
been elected Presiden, Of the Orono Nat
ional Bank, and Albert White, Esq, Of the
same town. one Of the Directors to fill the
vacancy caused by the death Of the late Col.
Eben Webster.
Rev. Mr.. Goodenough, formerly Of
Belfast, is laboring earnestly, with good
prospect for success, to establish Cniver-
salist parishes at San Francisco aud Oak
land, Cal. There is now bu, one regu-
larry established Universalis, parish in Cali
fornia
Mrs. Judith Grant, so years old, took
her sons team during camp meeting week
and drove the horse from her home in
Jackson to Northport Camp Ground, dis
lance OF about twenty miles. She was alone
in the carriage the whole distance.
A department in the Name Farmer
on the breeding. development and training
Of horses will be edited by DIR. Geo. II.
Bailey Of Portland, Veterinary Surgeon. q
graduate Of the New York Veterinary
college.
The Gazette say j. B. Jordan o!
Dexter, while in the act Of putting . re-
volver together in George Putnam's shop,
Wednesday, had one Of the csrtridges-22
calibre explode. and the bal went through
Jordan's hand and within three inches OF
Putnam's head. The wound is no, serious
The Times says George David Woo.-
ter, who. under the name of George David
Weston, married Mrs. Mary Lee. Of Mil
town, some weeks ago, has left Calais TO e.-
IL, r H..
that Wooster had already wife living, and
six children.
AT the annual meeting Of the stock
held Friday. the following director. we're
chosen Chas. Shaw, ". H. Harris, o.
Portland Geo. Hamilton, A. +. bradbury
Nathaniel Dustin, Geo. A. Abbo, and Geo
A. Alden Of Wa,erville. The board ha.
not organized
The Wing SAYS the low state OF water
IN the Penobsoot is very unfavorable for
milling operations. and some Of the up-ri,er
mills are already shut down, while other,
are doing much less than II they had boun.
tiful water supply.
The Journal says Lucy Wyman Of Bel.
grade Was recently brough, 10 the Jail a,
Augusta. b. Deputy Sheriff ribbe,,. Of Mon.
mouth. She was arraigned before trial Jus.
uce Stuart and put under bonds 10 keep the
peace for one year, which she was unable 10
furnish.
-Thur,dsy, u. u. Flint, special constable
at Dexter. was arrested by officer Merrill or
writ of trover, for unlawfully spilling in.
toAicating liquors belonging 10 Noah
Chandler Of Houlton. He gave bonds for
his appearance at the next term of court 10
be holden at Houlton.
The Eastern State say. Mira. Henry W
/ Bean of Dexter, is now 10 Year, old. Sh.
has tins season manufactured from the flax
twenty yards Of cloth such a, our ancestor.
used 10 wear before everything Ma diluted
and coun,erteited. The IA, in question was
raised by Mr.. Bean thirty wear. ago. and
the old lady, concluding that none or her
children we're likely TO work il up, set abou,
the JOB herself.
The therTIneid Courier saws Levi Hall
aged 10 years, and an eleven-year old son o.
George Tabbutt, lel home at Addison in a
boat on the 18th Of last month. for the pur-
pose Of cunning among the neghboring
islands. Since then an oar and rudder be.
longing TO the boat have been picked up. and
the probability is that they were capsized by
a sudden gust Of wind.
The opinion says in the vicinity Of
Waldoboro, the drou,h is the most sever.
one that has occurred for the past thirty
years. and II is the frs, season during tina,
period that the corn crop has proved fail.
ure. Our farmers are now shocking their
corn for fodder The pastures have become
so dry tina, stock is now being fed from the
barn. while the scarcity Of water and danger
Of fires increase daily.
The Courier Gazette says the frie nds OF
Nathan +. Hart. in State prison for the
murder OF Mrs. Meservey, are about making
a strenuous effort TO secure for him a new
trial. Subscription papers are to be cir.
culaied for the purpose Of raising money TO
defray the expenses OF a trial, the amount
desired being from $500 TO $500. The
family Of Mr.. Hart has already raised 300
Of this amount.
The Maine Central yearly meeting of
the Free Bapiists closed after a successful
session at Auburn on Thursday night. The
following delegates to the Minneapolis Cen
eral Conference we're chosen: President O.
b. Cheney Of Bates College. J. ]. Hall Of
Auburn, Rev. L. +. Penney Of Augusta Rev.
II. J. White of Bath. Rev. l.. c. Graves Of
Vienna, Rev. f. H. Butts Of New Portland,
Rev. Lincoln Given Of Oakland. Re.olu-
tons of regret and disappointment were
passed relative to the decision Of the Su-
preme Court in the Bates will case against
Bates College.
The Wing says on Friday last. Mr.. Au-
gustus Chaplin, well known citizen Of Or
rington, met with severe accident. While
throwing up chisel to man on staging
the latter caught the handle, but the chisel
part coming out OF the socket fell on Mr..
Chaplin. 1t struck first one of his hands
making q bad cut and then struck him in
the abdomen INJECTING severe wound. l,
is feared the injuries will be Of very seri-
Gus nature.
The Leriston Journal says: A busy
place is the farm Of Mr.. George GRAY Of
North Arson, where crew Of forty FIVE
men, women and children are completing
the picking Of his thirteen acres Of hops.
Last year Mr.. Gray raised over four tons Of
hops, and this year he will raise nearly As
large q crop. Mr.. Gray's farm contains
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