Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-10-22
State News.

"A vigorous fIttston octugenArian was
at the station yesterday forenoon and took
the 10 O'Clock train for down river. He
said that he was 81 years of age. had walked
six miles from a point in Sidney, and was
on his way to meet his afianced, to whom
he was about to be married. The prospect
i've bridegroom talked quite freely about the
coming event. Kennebec Journal. 18th.
A black bear made vigorous and per-
sistent attempt to enter the house of Mr..
Russell in Cornish the other night, but Was
unsuccessful. The occupants had no gun
and were compelled TO wait and tremble uu-
III bruin gave 1t up and went away.
There have been made in Brewer this
season BY eight firms 4.2400O0 bricks, re-
quiring the consumption Of over 1000 cords
Of wood 100000 bricks were shipped 10
st. Johns. n. F., and 100000 to Port au
Prince, Hayti. A very large proportion Of
the seasons manufacture is still on hand
and will be carried over to next year.
Durham & Morrill, Of Portland pu, up
100000 cans of sweet corn at their Den
mark factory this season.
The inhabitants of Bridgewa,er are ask
ing the Post Office Department for an ad-
ditionaI post-ofhce. The distance between
the present Offices is ten miles.
The shoe factory at Richmond has been
shu, down for repairs. Work will be re-
sumed Friday.
- new boarding house has been built
and other improvements have been made at
the Richmond Camp Ground this fall
The amount Of lumber surveyed at
Bangor for the year ending October was
as follows dry pine, II i6j $50 feet; green
pine. 7,7l3,9is feet spruce. 70.090.S74 feet;
hemlock, etc. l3.s7i.572 feet-a total Of
1903 1884 feet an increase Of 3,5lS. PCS
feet over 1854.
1t is said that the pos, office at Dennv.-
vile has been in the hands of the Kiby
family for 80 years
The Company store at Jonesboro was
entered by burglars Thursday nigh, last
Nothing was missed. neither money nor
goods.
Launched Oct. 10. BY the Jonesboro
Lumber Co., three masted schooner named
Noile Rhodes Of about $50 tons Nm. l..
Tupper was master carpenter Capt. l.. J..
Watts, Of JoneSport, who is part owner, ex-
poets 10 sail the vessel.
To avoid con'agion from small pox now
prevalen, in Canada and some sections of
this State, the board Of trustees, the 18th,
ordered that all visitors except the municipal
officers of cities and towns or persons hav-
lng oihcIal business, be excluded from the
insane hospital.
An srmlstce has been agreed upon be-
tween the parties interested IN the appoint
m"nt Of special liquor constabIes IN Knox
county aud an agreement signed by John )
Case. MAYOR OF Rookland. and J. Il. Larine.
Tor The petitioners. has been drawn up. Il
states that the marshal and police nf Rock
land having promised 10 faithful, enforr.
The prohlhitory law, il is Understood he
tween the petitioners for the appointment
70 the ecustah.rs that the petition slall ,a,
upon the table in the meeting Of the GOV
ernor and Council. until it NAV appeal
whether the officers perform their promise /:
II they fail to do 30 the constahles 10 be ap-
pointed as prayed for.
The Governor and Council have re-
ported IN favor Of paving $1,000 State aid
$500 esob-to the Eastern Name and STATE
fairs to be appropriated for the payment of
special premiums al their recent exhibitions
hl HtIN pfpgutlt anu lat Caltic.
Nj J. H. Ham of Lewiston. commits.
s!onrr for Maine nj the North. Central and
South American Exposition at New ORLEANS.
which opens mex, month, was IN Augusta.
the 18th IN consultation with the Governor
on matters pertaining to the exhibition.
Mr. c. l. McCleery Of Portland, has
compiled statistics. industrial and o,herw i,c.
relative TO the State. which are to he printed
in a neat pamphlet and used ;cr distribution
al the exposition.
A fully attended meeting Of the Repub-
iioan State Committee was held at the Au-
gasia House, Augusta, the l4ih. for consul
t.u1n. Nearly every county was repre-
scented and several Congre.smen and PROM
nent gentlemen from dlferen, portions IL
The State. numbering some 10 in all. were
IN attendance. At the conclusion Of the
meeting at 10 O'Clock the gentlemen made a
pleasant cali on Mr.. Blaine at his resi-
dence.
The Governor and Councl! mas confirmed
the nomination Of Percisal Bonney OF Port
land. as judge Of the Cumberland County
Superior Court.
In the case Of Horace and Ellen Good
win. killed by railroad train al Clinton
village, October 10. the coroner's jury find
that the tram was running thirty To fort,
miles per hour that no tiagmen. gates or
ether signals were maintsned at the cross
ing that the box cars on the side track OBJ
structed the view OF the track and the COM
ing train and that Goodwin was under the
impression that the approaching train was a
mail train and would come 10 a stop at the
station before reaching the crossing where
he attempted 10 pass over Five small
children are left destitute and alone by this
accident.
United States Commissioner Frank
Strong and Howard Perry have visited the
Maine State prison and examined the United
States prisoners confined there, of which
there ale FIVE Miller and Smith, the Jeffer-
son Borden pirates. for life the other three
for minor offences. The commissioners in
terviewed each one and there was no COM
plant offered all were comfortable and con-
tented with their prison treatment.