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


The weather Of late has been "a .orter
onsartin." from day TO day lingering sum-
mer and fall, with interludes Of comink win
ter storms.
Steamer Mouat Desert did not make her
last trip on Monday last, but made Us anoth-
er cali; she left Rocklsnd on Tuesday With
very heavy freight for oil landings on her
route and On Wednesday took As usual con-
siderable freight from here.
The steamer Rockland, with her old cap
tain, officers and crew. made her first win
ter trip on Thursday and on Saturday
brought heavy freight for the factory and
merchants.
The three mss,ed schooner F. D. Hcdg-
kins was to~ed down the river by steamer
Acadia and wen, out Of the bay on Saturday
with a good stiff breeze, bound to New York
with FISH.
They are carrying on full work in the
sardine factory. almos, night and day. They
are getting fish as plentiful as can be taken
care Of. and Of such size as enable them TO
utilize nearly oil of them, either as "oils or
mustards."
Our lobster men say that HOLSTERS are
fewer in number, but of larger size, and
they send to Portland and Boston full as
many barrels now as they did some weeks
ago. IL is laborious work in this ftful
weather. having constantly to change their
traps from shoai to deeper water. They
earn all the money they get.
We have bad quite snow storm, and .
heavy frost. succeeded by regular easterly
blow. Large flocks Of Wild geese began to
pak hatr So
day, and. up to our writing. they continue to
come. Now is the time for the sportsmen
10 try their hands.
The other day one of the old men Of our
neighborhood ssluted US with the inquiry.
you haven't seen a pair Of mittens any
where hereabouts, have YOU | lost mine the
other day ~hen over here to the boat knew
the voice. IS sound and as ringing as bell, to
be the voice Of Dudley Hodgki ..-Uncle
Dudley - nearly every me in two towns
calls him. In conversation he said. IL am IS
years Of age. and the horse | am driving |
raised 80 years ago, and neither of u. have
a bunch or gall In old militia muster
times he beat the tenor drum, and he has
preserved the shell in good shape to remind
him Of times more than half a century gone
by.
The other dav. while down a, the boat
wharf. noticed Halwar, looking man,
straight as Norwegian pine. with gray
locks but countenance q. ruddy >. Young
man. 1t was Capt William Anderson who
81 year. ago left Trenton to become a ci,i-
zen OF Portland he told me that he had
been 81 wears master Of a vessel, but few
years ago he quit going 10 sea. He was
a. u. ~
and among the scenes of his early DAYS.
Nearly all his old friends are gone to ''the
other shore his brother Capt. John And-r-
son. our neighhor. and two or three Others
are left. As he gazed on the waters Of the
bay over which ne had often sailed he said,
truly one generation cometh and another
go.lh"
Fred 4. Billings and Loring c. Eddy in
form me- that they commenced work with
their 'hre.nIag machine Sept. Is and reach
ed or district Oct. IS. In Eas,brook.
Franklin and Sullivan. they threshed 1915
bushels Of grain. mostly oats. Ia I.amoine
they ihreshed for ~ farmers. but had not
quite finished, having TO 20 10 di.tric, No.
}. Up to this date they had ihreshed. 2OOl
bushels Of oats. 81 II bushels Of barley
ana 81 hushei. Of buck wheat. Another ma.
chine had threshed some 200 bushels. and
some farmers having small quantities used
the hail go that ! shall be safe in setting
down the grain crop Of Lamoine a, 300
bushels. A soodis number Of our farmers
are members Of the grange.
As write Monday a severe storm is
raging the wind from the east IS blowing
gale the entire waters Of Frenchmans
IL, +
tide ledge called Googins' ledge, vas cover
Ell with foam apd spray at low water; locks
Of Wild geese instead Of lighting IN the bay
turned their flight 10 the lake. and ponds Of
Mount Desert. The steamer Rockland left
her wharf here IN the beginning Of the gale.
hound west and i IS hoped she has made
harbor somev here. The Brookin factory
steamer Pickett with fish passed our shore.
gong through the bridge when II sas hiou.
nE hard, ard the Acadia had great difficult
~ IN reaching her wharf In safety. The
.air a. midnight seemed 10 be subsidng
The old SAVING about man being ben
efactoT eho makes blade OF grass grow
where none grew before, i. being doubted
Ia, uciIhhor Of mine, who has raised more
blades VI Watch grass on hi. potato patch
nan lie has potatoes. He will have to nov
thc grass, pinw the patch 10 find here the
pn'fines nir, and he thinks Il earning
the title u being "a b-nefactor." on 80 large
a scale is honorable, i, is not profitable.
|, i 'aid that the mother Of marriage
alte daughter, after spending the season a,
Mount Desert. made III. remark that no
more sill, thing could be done. than to take
al Impr-s-ionahe girl to tina, place and
fas.rt h.aV %
male -ociet, At the hotels. to great extent,
coTpt.-d Of ''detrImen,als" while the
"tr-lrah.cs" had cottages Of their own or
sent to Newport. The ..detrimentas' she
.nid were ike swarm Of locusts and Gov
Erred the face Of the earth" The fact is tn.
'letrImenial" is dvi.gh,frl to flirt with. but
~lck.i 10 mary; he is Ink. some poor bird
in The air. gorgeous 10 look at. but not good
TO eat.
We NAV expect in some forthcoming mum.
Der Of Harpers magazine, perhap. before
next season. some fine pen and pencil il.
lustratons Of Bar Harbor in the illustrated
articles on Americas great watering places.
Il IS said in "art circles" that the letter
press will he from the pen Of the popular
writer William ID, HoveII-, and the Illus
trations from the pencil ofth not less Illus
trious artist, Charles s. Reinhar,.
On dit tha, We are likely soon to lose
fr-m our society, one Of our fair maidens
II IS an open secret that on Saturday next
one of EHsworth's intelligent and wide
awake merchants will he married 10 the
lovely, refined and affec,ionaie daughter of
an esteemed citizen of this district The
marriage will take place at the home OF the
bride, and | understand that in one hour
after the ceremony the, will start on bri-
dial tour to Boston, New York and other
places west of this state. but voice the
general expression of the people here when
| say, may they enjoy competency. health,
and a long life of never dying love in the
new sphere on which they enter.
And now, friend Chilcott, you may use the
scissors on the following item if YOU deem
it not worthy place in the columns of the
American. but in passing would say that
no personal or party application is sough, to
be made by the writer | understand that
President Noah Porter, Of Yale, with corps
OF assistants, is busy at work upon resi-
sion of Webster's dictionary. Ii would be
we'll for them to spend little time on
a word much used at the present, and give
US more extended definition than is given
in the Webster Unabridged. The word is
demagogue, defined IA leader" unqualified,
if | mistake not. As exempii6ed in politics