Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-11-05

Editor ot the imeyicGH:
There is nothing more worthy OF remark.
TO start with. than the number Of perfect
October days Nature has given Us this
month, but there are plenty Of signs to .ug-
gest that these days are only transitory
tasors, and that they are preparing the way
for drear November. The chilly nights and
cool morning, and the trees stripped of
their many -hued foliage are all so many n
dlcalions Of approaching winter and bid Us
enjoy these rare days with their clear atmos-
phere and bracing air. while they last.
Boston Is particularly famous for the
amount Of literary and intellectual work
done and the variety Of entertainments fur
nished within It's limits, and this wear i. no
exception 10 the rule already courses Of
lectures and concerts have begun, which,
with the theatres and the meetings Of III.
various educational. scientific and religious
societies which have their headquarters here,
give variety from which the most fastidi-
Gus may select something to his taste and
according to his means be he saint, cynic
or sinner
There seems 10 De general feeling that
the eulogy on Gen. Grant, delivered BY the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in fremont
Temple. on Thursday last, at the request of
the committee on behalf of the city, was
just what it should have been, neither too
fulsome, nor too critical. but just. able
and eloquent tribute 10 the memory of the
great general, extoIling his virtues and not
emitting his faults, saying with much truth,
linen without faults are apt to be men with
out force" About the only adverse criti-
cism came from the Springfield Republican,
but as that journal was never known 70 be
satisfied with anything but its own immacu-
late self, such criticism surprises no one.
Boston seems to be especially favored
with an influx Of eloquencs from New York
this fall, for beside, the eulogy just referred
to, the scholarly address of the Rev Dr.
Storrs at the meeting of the society with
the alphabetical name, has been pronounced
one of his most able efforts, and in addition
to these two, on Friday next the Rev DR..
Newman is to pronounce a eulogy on Gen.
Grant at the Peoples church. The we'll
known tendency Of the latter to indulge in
gorgeous and exaggerated eulogy led a
Herald reporter to say in critcsing one Of
his funeral discourses that he had added a
new terror to dying.
Preparations are already being made for
beginning work on the new ourt-house on
the Pemberton Square site, and three of the
five elms that have hitherto ornamented the
square have fallen to make room for a build
ing for the architect, Mr.. George A. Clough,
formerly city architect, and who, BY the
way. is from Hancock county, and is we'll
known to many of your readers.
There seems to be a growing recognition
of the student element which, during a
greater part Of the year makes its home in
Boston. A list of the different schools,
scientific, special and general, would be too
long, and list of the states and counties
from which these students are drawn would
be still longer. As mark of this recogni-
ton, a reception was held at the elegant
and commodious rooms of the Y. NJ. c. As
sociation, at the corner of Berkeley and
Boylston streets, on Thursday last, to which
were invited the students Of the Harvard
Medical school, Institute of Technology and
Boston University these three schools with
their fifteen hundred students, representing
all sections of the world. Music was fur
nished by the cadet band and the Harvard
quartette. Speeches were made by Presi-
dent Warren of Boston University, Rev.
Joseph Cook, Harvard boy" and at the
close, an exhibition of gymnastics was given
under the direction Of Supt. Roberts.
The approaching election seems to excite
but little interest. In spite Of the Globes
predictions, most people regard it as ga
foregone conclusion" that Governor who
has served as ably and acceptably as Gov