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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1889-12-26
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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1889-12-26

Behold my rotund wealth Of meat,
With all its Juices, rich and sweet
How Arm, how solid, are my parts,
And how 90 straight 70 the hearts
OF children. with distended jaws,
In wait to hide me in their maws
All how love to lie In state
Upon the table. while you wait
With eager eyes and teeth that burn.
Until it comes to b your turn
How crisp my skin. and, oh how brown.
And how tickle going down:
And. then, my bone. oh what delight.
To pick 1t till It's clean and white.
How would you like. on Christmas Day,
To tramp till noon and then, we'll say,
To come back home, well almost starved
And find mo waiting, nicely carved!
Between your finger and your thumb
You hold me up, thus yum, yum, yum ,
tickle every nerve, thrill
Your stomachs, and fill the bill,
And with all men nothing lack
In fact. have the inside track.
ToM MASON.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1889-12-26
W. II. ROBERTSON.
Respectful

When a rumseller enters the list with
Judge Foster of the Maine Supreme Court
he Is reasonably sure of coming out of the
contest III rather sorry plight. The
Judge told of one such encounter at "A re-
cent temperance meeting at Bethel. 1t oc-
Cured at the dinner table at the Bethel
House stranger took occasion to de-
clare that mole liquor is sold in Maine
now than at any time in the past, that this
State is more cursed with intemperance
than is New York. and that he would rath-
er bring up his children under the laws of
New York than of Maine. At last Judge
Foster could stand it no longer and re-
marked: Stranger. do you not know
YOU are insulting the guests of this house
and our State" The judge then asked
him several questions, none of which he
could answer. On investigation it was
found that the stranger had been fifteen
years wholesale and retail liquor dealer
in New York city. This kind of men sell
dom approve of the Maine laws.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1889-12-26
Letter from Boston.
BosTuN, Dec. 10, |

BosToN, Dec. 10, 1859.
To ht Editor EUStrorh .imeric1n
DEAR SIR i see by late issue that
Mr. c. L. Morang in his last Bosto letter,
referred to visions of turkey and clanber-
ry sauces disappearing when the fire
alarm was sounded in Boston at late fire.
He did not state that he returned with
regular down-ea>t appetite, and, if am
any judge, he carried away the best part
of a twenty pound turkey and quart Of
cranberry sauce. Now if he did not have
visions that night he must have digestive
organs that would do credit to an ostrich.
With all due respect to the young man
and hoping he will come again, | remain
his brother-in-law.
Respectfully,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1889-12-26

WORDS OF WISDOM. David Swing
in a letter said .'As we advance in this
humane work toward animals, their world
grows under our study, and the horse, the
OK and the dog seem TO come nearer to
man and not to be the low brutcs they
once were. We who are little better in
language and power than the dumb ami
mails, must come between them and all
needless pain"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1889-12-26

For the New Year. PetersOR's Magnzine
promises brilliantly. The January number is
a success in every particular. 1t presents Il
most attractive appearance and rich tableoJ
contents. 1t opens with several very fly tba
and other engrayings, and gives aty.wo,le
handsomest coored designs foEvery LJ,,
ever published in this couramfly Magazine
who desires thoroughly Peterson. tLs
for 1890 should sub, FERNS: Two nar
best and eheapes,ss se'y reduced rates VA
,assp a,s per n ,,s up clubs address persons
interi'a. Street, Pbil,.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1889-12-26
(From our regular Correspondent
Washington Letter.
WAsnrNGToN, d. c., Dec. Is, 1889

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. Is. 1889.
Speaker Reed has lost no time since his
election. He expects to announce the re-
maindcr Of the standing committees of the
House this week Mr. Reed has been
called lazy man, and perhaps he Is but
if SO it's great pity lazy mau hasn't been
elected Speaker of the House before this,
for in this matter OF appointing the com
mittees he is ahead of all his recent prede
cessors.
A joint resolution has already been n
troduced in the Senate providing for a
Congressional recess from next Thursday ,
to January 6, and there is not the slight
est doubt about its passing both Houses. +
The recess will not however be spent in /
idleness The important committees will ,
be in session almost every day getting
business In shape Mr.. Mckinley, chair J
man Of the new Ways and Means commit /
tee, proposes to 20 to work at once upon
the tariff bill which is to be passed at this /
session 1t is probable that what was
known a. the Senate tariff bill at the last /
session Of Congress Will be used as the ha- /
ii, of the new bill. Trusts too are to be /
looked after by the same committee. The /
election committee will take up the con
tested election cases and push them through
a rapidly as may bc consistent with JUS
tjce ID all parties concerned
The more that il known about the de- |
falcaion in the office Of the Sergeant-at
Arms of the House the worse things look /
for AT concerned \ committee of the
House made hurried investigation of the
business methods Of that Office and in its
report to the House said enough about its
lpo,tnc>> to justify almost any kind Of
rumurs. Sergeant alarms Leedom's per
sona account was discovered to be $3.50
short, and tie books show that he has |
used the Government fund, right along to
discount notes FOR member, Of the House
and put thr pruhtS IN his own pockets |
The amount stolen by Sncott the ab~cond- .
ing cashier H. within fraction Of So 900,
aud Whp Nv to lo~t Ii IL stli drbatablt
question Either thc Government or the
members f.r whose pay the money was In
tended ~ have to be- responsible a> it
seems ~ hc generally conceded that OWING
to the peculiar circumstances surrounding
the case nothing can he made out Of the
S5u.oun bond Of Lccdum. What makes
the thing look worse for all concerned is
that no serious effort has been made to
h, j,riu /, i'm taFL
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1889-12-26

A little fellow, whose fifth birthday :
at hand, heard the question of new-com-
er, How old Is that infant His reply
was She amt old at all. She has just
begun" After he had seen the infant lie
said to his mother: Mamma, that baby
had her hair cut in heaven. | suppose
they thought she would not be strong
enough 10 walk to the barber's
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1889-12-26

"A merry Christmas" far and wide
Rings out this wish on every hand,
A greeting glad this Christmastide
Reechoing through IN the land.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1889-12-26

The deepest self-communings are
necessary to one who would know human
nature, because self is the only human
creature that can be known with per
feet intimacy y Christopher Carr.
Make the world happier, because you
have lived In it,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1889-12-26
Do Nots' for the Driver.

Lord Hampden, who presided at re-
cent dinner of the London Cab Drivers
Benev olent Association, commended to the
members the following lines, relating to
the proper care of the horse, which, he
SAID. he lad hung up in his own stables:
Up hill-whip me not
Down hill-hurry me not
Loose in stable-forget me not.
OF hay and corn-rob me not.
Of clean water-stiht me not.
With sponge and brush-neglect me not.
OF soft, dry bed-deprive me not
Tired or hot-leave me not.
Sick or cold-chill me not.
With bit and reins-Oh. jerk me not.
When you are angrv-strike me not.
With tight check-reln torture me not.
The Passamaquoddy Indians have pre-
ferred charges against the agent, ii. C.
Munson, for unjustly discriminating in the
matter of giving pensions.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1889-12-26
THE MERRITT MATTER.
CHRISTMAS RECONCILIATION.
-Copyr.sht, is-l ty American Prs. Association

WONDER what You'll 10
ike at my age, All Will
ilm Merritt an-riiy 70 his
>,u Alb-rt, one day meinor-
able IN tho lives 4 both
William Merritt was u IA,
the people called "a hard
man 10 get along with He
Wa hard. Just, sincere and
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1889-12-26
GEO. w. DAVIS,

at II. E. Davis carriage factory
Franklin St, Ellsworth
tfSl
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1889-12-26

ING ioilly, o
my soul.
A IaAtn to the
Lord
His goo q nrA
gr aC : aD1
love extol.
An q for his
IN er c es
poured
cprn;h asths
a1aW~aA -xf.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1889-12-26

II. II GRAY, Esq has been absent Two
weeks IN Portland for the purpose Of m,J-
zeal treatment. lie returned home Na,ur-
day much improved
The evening world., 1889-06-01
IT WAS A VALLEY DEATH-TRAP.
Description by an Old Resident OF the Sec
tiOu Where the Flood Ragged.

prescription ny au ~ hesIueut OF tho Sec
tiOu Where the Flood Ragged.
George r. Elder. who is engineer of the
Cyclone Pulverizing Company, in this city, has
his home at Johnstown. He gives this descrip-
ton of the scene of the flood:
"CoucmauGh Lake. or reservoir. il about
three hundred feet higher than the valley of the
Conemaugh River. 1t is at the head OF South
Fork River, two miles above South Fork village,
This village IL on tho flats, only n few feet
above ~low-water mark. The river ConemAugh
passes through a gorge to a point below Gone:
Creek, below Johnstown, where the stone
bridge of the Pennsylvania Railroad forms a
buttress, which probably acted az a dam to the
Hood, keeping il back in the valley.
""Gonemaugh stands only Ave feet above low
water mark, and Mineral Point il literally on a
level with low-w9ter mark. while Johnstown and
has only a very few brick houses and nuildings.
There could be no surer dcatb-trap for a
flood than this, and all Of these towns must
!: have .rowed and hshed on Copemaugh Lake
all my life and know it has always been a menace
to the valley.
Bolivar is about eighteen miles below Johns
town, and the food.gates once opened the water
must surely go rushing on cleAr to and beyond
Bolivar. for there il no other way of escape for
Il: There were about forty thousand people
beads Of Precipitation stood out upon his brow,
S SSspVssst to m nov sHS9 im that 81 e. TIE t cbsnU. was %ot Tat rs FL;
loveS ones we're AMONG those who found safety
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad this after
noon. =
and the Baiti%orssy and a OHIO hon roads snS fenh''i'aniA
" was SsVenty-etGh miles east BY south Of
The evening world., 1889-06-01
Clear the WAY

without loss Of time when the Intestinal canal ia blocked
up by reason Of constipation, chronic or temporary 1t
should be borne N mind that this Ailment Is promo to
become lasting and ohstinste. and breed other and
worse complaints, HosrETTER's STOMACH BITTERs
IN the precise remedy TO remove the obstruction effect
uAlly. bat without d~renchinE or weakening the block
AIDED bowels, consequence always TO be Apprshendsd
from the use OF violent lAKGtiyes, which are among the
most pernieious of the cheap nostrums swallowed by
the credulous and misinfoTmed. The hat Of experience,
and Of the medical fraternity, sanction the claims Of
this standard Aperient. Not only as a source Of relief
and permanent regularity to the bowels. liver and stom-
Ach, but as a means of remedyinE and preventing kidney
and bladder troubles, and fever and AEus. it is without
a peer.
The evening world., 1889-06-01
TRIED TO KILL HIS WIFE
BRADFORD WILLIAMS, THE ELOCUTIONIST,
SLABS HER TWICE.

Bradford williams, the elocutionist, stabbed
his wife to-day and severely injured her.
She was at her mothers house. corner of One
Hundred and Seventy street and Audubon
avenue.
They quarreled and Williams became infu-
rated.
He secured a knife and made a vicious blow at
the defenseless woman.
She threw up her arms, but only partially
succeeded in warding of the blow.
The knife cut her arm and slashed her face.
She turned to tiee and he plunged the knife
into her back.
Then he fed and up to a late hour had not
been heard from.
The woman, weak and faint from loss Of
blood, was taken in an ambulance to the Man
haitian Hospital.
The police of the thirty-second Precinct were
notified and are looking for tho would-be
murderer.
The evening world., 1889-06-01
CAUSED BY HIS STEPSONS.
A DESPERATE MANS EXPLANATION FOR
HIS DOUBLE CRIME.
ESPECIAL 70 THE EVENING woRIp.1

PHILADELPHIA. June l.-Robert NJ. Roseberry,
shot his wife and then killed himself last night
by putting three pistol balls in his head on the
doorstep of the house Of William p. Davis.
2o44 Amber street. aBon of Mrs. Roseberry by
a former husband The woman is lying at the
Episcopal Hospital in a very critical condition.
Roseberry died instantly.
On the following pages of 4 memorandum
book found in his pocket he narrates the cause
of his trouble as follows:
"Crqzed with trouble through the stepsons,
which / raised up from babes. They have never
gave me anything. William. as soon az he was
old enough, went away from home and did not
send me anything. and got married to al Irish
girl. 1t most set his mother crazy. Mother had
to take care of them part Of the time. Louis al
ways went to school and college, is still going
yet. Got married last Summer. Home on vaca-
ton, snmked over to Jersey and got married.
Kept it a secret for some time, but was found ont.
married by Mr.. Harrison, Of St Johns 'Episcoe
pal Church, 70 his I(arriage could be published.
Az soon az he got married they came to my
house and boarded, but never gave Inc one cent.
4 he sl S9s H With tong y pa aGy.ntRt ' %h enc YS %Guid i sss
anything to them my wife would say, after
s%n5Is ESp g si mo Ss a 4 lo %ishi a sSm sve sT@% ., t4 Sjys
near the, school. They took all that was i'll the
room GrS with t then tnon 5eTides what Rre SEPT they got;
sickly. My wife had to 20 and take care Of her
and A., her mp. Leave me to do for myself: II
Soft has been going on ever since. My wife she
always wanted to break up housekeeping to
break up my home and she would go there; 80,
Friday, May 10. she was going over to LOUIS;
wanted to take them a few things she had been
making. She never come back until Tuesday.
May, IA, Her and Louis, while l was ont, broke
in the house and got most everything worth
much consequence and left. Now, my wife says
she won't live with me any more. j was going
to have them arrested. but took another notion.
II they have no more sympathy for me in my old
days / would settle the whole affair. So l did.
X. NJ. RosEBERRY, 2l33 East Dauphin.'
On another page was this {:
''Some will condemn me. but God will have
mercy, could not live and soc my wife made q
slave for them. This and has been brought on
BY them the stepsons; The stain will always be
ing; 30 publish this.
The evening world., 1889-06-01
PERlSHING IN FLAMES.
seventy-Ave Lives Reported Lost in the
Fire at YOUNGSTOWN Bridge.
ESPECIAL TO THE EVENING WORLD

Fire at Johnstown Bridge.
ESPECIAL TO THE EVENING woRLD.1
BOLIVAR, June 1.-The strange picture
of flames rising above the food is presented
at the J%ohnstown bridge of the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
Houses carried away by the waters are
stacked up against the bridge, making a mass
three-quarters of a mile long md forty feet
high.
This mass has caught fire in some way and
is burning fiercely.
The flames are spreading to the bridge.
Seventy-6ve people are reported as burned
with this wreckage, besides the bodies of
some who met death In other ways.
The whole lower part of Johnstown is I'M
der water, the big Cambria Iron Works being
totally submerged.
The number of the dead by the flood is
still estimated at 1,5OO, but may exceed that.
Telegraphic communication being cut off
from the flooded city, news is brought here
by mounted couriers.
The evening world., 1889-06-01
5000 DEAD.
tContfnned rom arst paoe.l

and Allegheny have called q public meeting
in the old city hall, Pittsburg, at 1 O'Clock
his afternoon.
Guskey, the leading clothier of Pittsburg,
will send s2,O 900 worth Of clothing to Johns
town, and his W relief corps will dis
tribute it.
Mayor McCalleu, Of PittsburR, has tele-
graphed Gov. Beaver, at Harrisburg, to send
militia tents to Johnstown.
People from every town within 100 miles of
Pittsburg, particularly iron communities,
are crowding the telegraph Offices, weeping
and wailing and waiting for news.
The Allegheny River at this point is rising
at Q frightful rate and Is black with debris.
The police and fire departments are out
looking for bodies.
A later telegram from Johnstown says the
financial loss is about 80 900, 900. and that
s, 900 houses were swept into the stream yes
terday,
The evening world., 1889-06-01
A HORSE Detective.
The Test Made With the Gray Mare
That Woodruff Drove.
Ungulded by Rein She Trotted Straight
to the Carlson Cottage.
Important Movements Going on In che
Cronin Murder Case.
lsrncIAn TO rnr EvExrxo ronrn.l

lbFENiAL TV I'M hNEFiNo WOHbD.
CHICAGO, June IA very peculiar test was
made by a Pinkerton detective last night to
disprove the truth of the horse-thief, Wood
ruff's, story.
He has all along denied that he went near
the Carlson cottage, in which DIR. Cronin
was murdered, or that he hauled the doctors
body way.
He lies, or at least the sagaclous old gray
mare over which he handled the reins that
night says SO.
The animal was taken out by the detective
at about the same time Woodruff drove her
out on the night of May 4.
The detective allowed the reina to hang
loosely over her back and allowed her to fol-
low her own sweet will as to direction.
The old. mare started of at a brisk walk
and then fell into a trot.
She scooted up Lincoln avenue, turned
down Ashland avenue, and in less than half
an hour stood at the door of 1872 Ashland
avenue. where DIR. Cronin was assassinated.
The detective swears that he did not touch
the lines during the whole trip which. by the
way, was not by q particularly circuitous
one.
Woodruff. when told of the circumstance
to-day, smiled grilnly but said nothing.
The talk about the connection of Alexander
Sullivan with the conspiracy Is increasing,
but the police have done nothing in the
direction of arresting him further than in
dicated in the previous despaches to Tn
EVENING WORLD.
1t is evident that something important in
police circles 10 up to-day, though what it Is
Chief Hubbard will not say.
Early this morning Lieutenant Of Detec-
tives Elliot telephoned excitedly to the
Armory station asking that everv available
detective be sen at once to the Central sta
ton.
A small army of extra men was despatched
to Elliott. who sent them out on a mysterious
mission.
Chief Hubbard admitted this morning
that he had overwhelming evidence
against william Starkey, the Jury briber now
in Canada.
The police will take steps TO arrest him at
once.
The oldest Museum inthe counery-Read
The evening world., 1889-06-01
NO REMOVALS TO-DAY.
Collector ErhRrdt Olives the CuNtom-H House
Employees Another Breathing spell.

COLLECTOR ErhnTdI IFINeH the CuhIOnl-II House
Employ ees Another breathing Spell.
There is a feeling Of extreme nervousness
among the employees Of the Custom-House who
are not Amenable to the Civil-Seryice laws. and
changes are expected every day.
Col. Erhardt arrived at the Custom-House
shortly before 10 o'clock this morning and
went directly to his office, where he remained in
conversation with his private secretary for
nearly a half hour.
When asked whether there would be any
changes to-day the Collector said:
There will be none 70 day. No removals will be
ordered and there will he no appointments made.
The investigation into the affairs OF the Civil
Service Board was set for II o'clock to-day.
AT Wednesdays session was decided TO. hold
Roosevelt holding that it would not be fair to
have a public investigation because, several men
were under suspicion, and the testimony might
not confirm the suspicious.
The evening world., 1889-06-01
ALARM ALONG THE v M
Ten Feet OF Water Running in the streets
Of Harper's Ferry.

WASHINGTON. D. c., June IA freshet IL
feared in the Potomac as the result of the great
food. 1t was stated at the Signal Oficc that
there was every possibility that the Potomac
would overflow its banks before the storm is
over.
II is regarded as almost certain that there will
be an overflow OF the James and Susquehanna
rivers and that considerable damage will be
doue.
For q period OF twenty days prior to the storm
tnere mad been no rainfall IN many OF the south
rain only coming in time to prevent their being
completely ruined
The signal Office received the following from
the signal Office at Harper's Ferry:
" 3 oclock-I am making preparations to
leave my office, which IL rocking like a cradle.
The water in Shenandoah street is 8 to o feet
deep. The rivers are now within two feet of
rapidly"