Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-07-23
State News.

A gentleman from Vermont will build,
at his own expense, a road from Phillips
| into the township of No eff he can secure
land from which fifty million feet can be
cut. This is the only obstacle and he Is
now looking at the land.
A wholesale dealer III apples from
| Liverpool is in Maine driving over the
| country roads and getting In some fine bar
| gaas while the fruit is yet on the trees.
/ He says that 1t is useless for Maine grow
| ers to deacon" their fruit in packing, that
| is. place layer of large fine apples on top
| and the small ones below. The English
! have learned by experience to buy fr I'm
lots Of seven barrels poured out in heaps
| upon the floor.
| Friday afternoon two ladies and a lit
tie child living in the vicinity of Togus
! Pond became lost in the woods while out
getting raspberries and it was not till
| two O'Clock Saturday morning that the
wanderers were found very much frighten-
ed and exhausted.
| Allen Mcdonald while at work black
| smithing at Madison was injured by piece
of steel breaking and flying of from cold
chisel he was using. The fragment OF
steel struck him in the wrist aud when re-
| dial artery The operation Of taking W
| aud tying The artery necess,tated a copsil-
cradle enlargement of the wound A
wound of this sort is of very rare occur.
| renee.
| Lightning killed three horses and one
| COW at East Knox. Wednesday afternoon.
| Two of the horses belonged to Jerry
| Webb. for one of which he had recently
was owned by Alton Kinney. The COW
was owned by Joseph Bradford. They
| were all in a pasture together.
| The second and last big drive of logs
| for the Biddeford saw mills has just arriv-
| ed The drive contains two million feet,
and came from Upper Bartlett.
E. F. Ingraha,m, one of Watervies
leading druggists, who had been sick Il
/ couple of weeks with Inflammation of the
! bowels, died Thursday morning. Mr., In
| graham had been in business for over
! twenty years; first rs prescription clerk
/ for J. ii. Pisisted 4 Co. then as a mem
/ Der Of the firm Of lngraham 4 Plaisted,
and since last spring proprietor of the
Thayer block drug store. He leaves a
{ widow.
The Edison Electric Light Co are
now at work fulfilling their contract to
/ put in plant for Wstervile By an in
| sestment of $50 900 the city will get Is
/ lights at oue-hsif the price which 1t is
now paying for 81.
Out of the party of thirty.one which
| left Portland recently on the so-called
! Maine Press excursion but four were
newspaper men and none Of the dailie-
| were represented.
/ Mr.. l.. A. Dow. Penob-cot River
4 salmon fisherman at his wers at Sears Is
lana has taken over 400 salmon this year
which sold for an average OF 81 each.
| There is an absolute potato famine IN
/ some parts of Maine and the people have
] eaten no potatoes for several weeks. the
| old crop having been exhausted and no
| new ones imported.
| a lady, living on one Of Portland's elm
! shaded streets, noticed couple Of young
1 orioles that had fallen from tn. nest into
| the street, where they were in mmincn,
/ Danger of being run over. or ueyoured by
| the numerous, cats and dogs in the yicin-
| lily. She asked the first man that came
7 along I" watch them for her while She
! rushed into the house for a basket. in
I which She carried them u the top Of a
/ shed and left them. In a short time the
( parent birds had found their lost babies
Z aud carried them aSav Each placed n
\ wIu- under on. Of the little fellow, and
7 then each tapped IL outside wing, two
+ wings serving for both. aud thus they
safely supported their precious burden.
1 How they found the little ones quickly
I j. wonderful, a. the top Of the shed was
I quite 4 distance from the street