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Lgnatius Donne!ly, Of hinncsota,
seems to be the first c.loiye Of The
Peoples party for president and l..
L. Polk for vice president.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1891-05-28

\ meeting will be held in Fair
ield, Iowa, to organize the i5t con
gressional alliance Oh Thursday, Jane
All,
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1891-05-28

Remember that tie harder Tie
times are ir' tlc farmers. the !nar-
chants, and !a',DrcrS. the better they
are for tn Goulls. VanAcrbi!ts. Sagas.
Astors. Rockefeliers, Ct al Their
prosperity is car atiye.a;Es - Al !l>:s
Advocate.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1891-05-28

Lancaster IS making preparations
to celebrate the fourth Of July in
grand style.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1891-05-28

The Independent publishes the e.
nanciai statement Of Knox county
Cor $40
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-01-01
Congressional.

Monday, Dec. 22,-The Senate: The
Election bill was discussed by Mr.. Higgins
and Mr.. Voorhees,; Mr.. Hoar's attempt to
have night session failed, because a
quorum was lacking.
The House: No business of general
interest was transacted.
Tuesday,-The Senate: The President
nominated Henry b. Brown, of Michigan,
to be a Supreme Court Justice, and Colo
mel Charles Sutherland to be Surgeon
General of the Army; the debate on the
Election bill was continued, Messrs Call
aid Mcpherson speaking against the
measure the Committee on Finance re-
ported the new financial bill with an
amendment striking out the provision for
the issue of the Treasury notes to replace
the deficiency caused by the withdrawal of
National bank notes, and restoring the
provision for the issue of per cent.
bonds to the amount of 5000, 900 900.
The House: The Speaker announced
some committee appointments, and an adj
journment was taken until Friday.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY President has issued
the Worlds Fair Proclamation.
The Senate only in session Mr.. Nc
Pherson spoke on the Election bill; the
Senate adjourned till Saturday, and on
meeting then, will again adjourn to Mon
day.
Friday,-Thc House met and adjou rned
until Tuesday.
The House Committee on Commerce
gave hearing to the subcommittee of the
Interstate Deep IIarbor Committee on a
plan for Pan-American transportation
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-01-01
Letter from Kentucky.

LEXINGTON, ny, Dec. PC, $500,
ELLSWORTH -imcrjcdn
Although we are too late to wish our
good friends in Ellsworth "A Merry Christ
mas for this wear, we hope they enjoyed
one all the same and may continue to do
so in the years yet 10 come. We also wish
to send our thanks to those whose Kind
ness filed the barrel with 81 many and 50
useful articles to assist Us in our work.
and help Us TO distribute little sunshine
and good cheer amol many who do not
enjoy large share of those things. We
got the barrel Just in season to open 1t on
Christmas, but have reserved it, contents
to help Us I'LL "A tree al a holiday festival
a few days hence and to supply wants
that will become known to Us a the win
ter progresses. II was gioTious barrel
and contained the very things we need
We could not have filled it better our
selves.
The gifts sent by the Pan>y Band will
help Us much in our distribution to our
little mission scholars, aud viii bring
pleasure to a good many little folks.
especially wish to mention the scrap
books.
While we have been hearing of cold
weather and storms IN Maine we have
been ENJOYING the plcasante>t ui winter
weather thermometer from 20 deg. to
81 deg, and for the greater part bright,
beautiful, sunny days But Christmas
morning brought "A change Of program.
We walked to fluid in progress northeast
snow-storm that would not have dsgrsced
our State of Maine. Thi. changed into
sleet and later into cold drizzle, so that
BY night the trees wer" loaded with ice
and branches were falling from shade
trees all over the town. wires were down
and the electric ears and lights totally use
less. Santa Claus has left a beard OF
icicles on everything out of doors.
Oar schools closed on Friday last for a
holiday vacation of two weeks. We think
our fall term was fairly successful and
profitable; our number reaching three hun
dred and twenty. We closed with a Christ
mas cantata and other similar exercises :
the last goodnight song by number of
little girls in white caps and night-dresses
and with lighted taper>. 1t would have
done your heart and body good TO have
seen their brown and black faces and
shining eyes set off by their white gar
ments, As they pointed to the row of
Christmas stockings and told of the good
things expected from Santa Claus
Yours,
FRED w. FOSTER.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-01-01
Georgia Pulsifer Porter on Women.


Deu Mr.. Editor:
1t is to be hoped that your readers have
had the privilege of readin. the essay by
Miss Alice Fletcher of Colby University.
The essay was entitled what u College
Education should do for Young Women"
and was read at the Baptist Social Union
in Portland. There is much well written
truth in the article that every one Should
accept, but what many, if knowing, do
not acknowledge. As Miss +. says: 1T
ought not to be expected that every young
woman who is a college graduate or has
literary desires should he an ideal woman
any more than that the men who have had
such advantage or such desires should be
ideal men," BY many, to be good house
keeper is considered no accomplishment,
and to successfully manage a house is not
thought to require much ability Still if
a Young woman. who has college edu
cation or is book lover, is remiss in
domestic duties it is attributed to her
book learning" or her desire for it.
There are many of my sex whose lives
are worse than wasted and these should
be a warning, showing the advantage of
keeping the mind on that which is ele-
waiting, whether it be In school and col
lege or by the home tireside How forci-
bly, this was brought to mind in reading
the words from your pen III writing of the
life and death of that noble woman, Mrs.
James 7. Whitmore of your city. True
the lives of the vain, the thoughtless
seem poor and purposeless beside lives
such as this noble woman lived. When
nearly crushed by the weight of grief for
the loss of her only daughters, instead of
thinking only of self and her own trouble
She continued to minister TO the sinful and
suffering She was active ever in the tenn
perance cause, perhaps in quiet way, but
Of her it can be truly said she has done
what she could"
Society has its charms. amusements are
not only right, but essential; but how
to pleasure, The young women who have
college education or a taste for good
reading are, it must be, less likely to be
neglectful of home and family for the
frivollties of life. They may be just as
good wives and mothers and are likely TO
be better than if they were not book
lovers: and if they are not, it is not the
fault of books or college; and ideas to the
contrary are obsolete and should have gone
with the stage coach and the many things
that those who enjoy the blessings of to-
day could not endure.
1t is encouraging to see that able pens
are now telling the blessings of being a
woman. true womanly woman, content
with living useful home lives if need be,
and prepared TO do more public service if
necessary 1t has seemed the fashion 10
think that all the blessings were bestowed
upon the men. and We rejoice that it may
be considered blessing to be a woman.
Rose Terry Cooke recently closed an art
Gle with these words and they are appli-
cable. Let Us thank Him with humble
alteration that we are as we ever have
been, last nj the cross and earliest at the
grave. GEORGIA =. PORTER.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-01-01
National News.

A band of Sitting Bulls warriors
under Big Foot have surrendered to the
troops near Standing Rock Agency.
An attempt to wreck the New-York
express on the Delaware and Hudson
Railroad near Ballston Spa nearly result
ed in serious disaster.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Cotton Mule Spiuner.' Association
has voted to indorse the spinners' strikes
at Newark, n. j., and NewBedford, Mass
Senator Farwell has returned to
Illinois TO take charge of his canvass for
reelection.
Several United States Senators were
swindled by confidence trick.
Edward Murphy, Jr. is actively oppos-
ing the election of Smith NJ. Weed to the
United States Senate.
One man was killed and six injured in
a tornado in Ohio.
-Ex-treasurer Spinner is slowly diving
IN Florida of cancer in the face.
The new cruiser Newark on her trial
trip showed 500 more horsepower than
was required by the contract.
The prosecution rested its case against
Isaac Sawtele, on trial at Dover, N. H..
for killing his brother.
"A crank from Iowa, masqueradng as
a" Messiah" was arrested in Red Clouds
camp, Pine Ridge Agency;a band of Sit
ting Bulls warriors have surrendered to
the troops.
The President issued the Worlds Fair
Proclamation.
An important decision was made In
Connecticut by which many Democratic
ballots cast in the recent election may be
declared illegal.
Orders were expected that troops
should close in on Indian renegades along
the Cheyenne River.
-Oklahoma's Legislature adjourned; it
has passed q complete code of laws
Lasts twice as long as cheap soap for laun-
dry use-Brussels.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-01-01

her mite" and Mary who wiped the feet
of her Lord
We may never know the magnificent,
though remote, results of which our life
may be the insignificant cause. The tiny
seed sown upon the "mountain wild and
bare" is often blown by gentle winds I'M
til it is lodged in some fertile soil bed
whence it rises to new and multiplied life,
and becomes food for hundreds of inhabl-
tants of earth and air. So our influence
may seem to take no root in this life; our
inner life may seem to produce no substan-
tial impressions upon the age in which we
live; yet our lives, If true to some exalted
purpose and our characters, if they con-
tain but the tiny seed germs of pure living,
may be caught up and remembered in af-
ter years, and stir thousand hearts with
noble impulses, and brighten thousand
lives with divinest blessing.
We must not forget that in one sense
life is more valuable for what it receives
than for what it imparts; and that human
life in tie depths Of its stiffness, in the
profoundness of its meditations, Is the
storehouse of the worlds riches.
The rushing, roaring stream may set
mills and factories in motion. and multi
ply the results of human skill and energy !;
but the still and beautiful lake catches the
impress of verdant woods, or flying bird,
or starry sky. Mirrored on its calm face
are the beauties of earth. the delights Of
creation.
Some are permitted IN this life to enter
into the promised land Of their youthful
ambition, and even attain wider sphere
of usefulness and higher honor than their
brightest hopes forecast; more are only
permitted at their final exit to stand on
Mt. Psgah's height and catch a glimpse of
the glory to which they hoped to attain ;
while by far the greater bulk of manhood
must perish in the wilderness far short of
to which the sanguine hopes of youth ever
point.
Life is too short for human development.
too uncertain for human plans. Earth is
merely a way station at which we pause
for a moment on the eternal route from
nothing to infinite greatness. We rest
refresh ourselves, see that our baggage is
all right and pass on. 1t gives us brief
time to guess what we might do, a brief
time TO survey the products Of past ages
OF genius and industry. to walk around the
vast pile which centuries of civilization
or simple touch Of beauty TO the incom-
pleted structure II.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-01-01
Dr.. A, s. Condor Honored.

The >qn Lake 7riLuns of Dec. ~ has
the following TO say OF valued occasional
correspondent OF the AMERICAN and
former resident of this county:
Dr. Condor has been honored for his
management of the census in Utah. On
December 10. 1890, Superintendent Porter
wrote to the Hon. Eugene Hale as fol.
lows:
IL have the pleasure OF informing YOU that
the official duties Of Or. A. :. Condor, OF Ogden
CITY. Utah. Supervisor Of Census for the dis
trict of [ tab. have been practically terminated
by the satisfactory completion OF his work.
He has been careful. con- Irntous official.
snd. ina.much YOU Were among those who
recommended him for the position. think ii
is due TO him that should say hi. TO you.
Very respectfully.
ROBERT +. PORTER.
A month earlier. Nov. IL, 1890, Superin-
tendent Porter wrote DIR. Condor as fol-
lows:
DEAR SIR In view OF the magnitude OF
the census aud OF the fact that out OF 900
enumerators there have been some whose
work has been far from shtisfdc-
tory Ms to render 1t necessary TO be com
pleted. corrected and IN some cases supple
mented either by the enumerator- themselves
or through other agencies, il has been deemed
important that Supervisors shall continue 10
cations conducted through the agency OF the
enumerator> are concerned, the work OF the
censtI, in their respective districts shall be
considered as fairly completed. This WAS con-
sidered especially necessary for the reason
that Supervisor cannot sign himself a. such,
or exercise any authority over his enumsra-
tors, when once his work has been declared
completed, preparatory to the pay ment OF his
compensation. In consideration. however. OF
the most satisfactory manner In which all your
work a. Supervisor was performed. and con-
fdently believing that YOU will still assist the
officers to stratghten out any little difficulty
that may arise out OF the enumeration OF your
district. it has been determined TO make YOUR
compensation account special and you will re-
ceive the amount to which you are entitled
within few DAYS. Very respectfully,
ROBERT 7. PORTER.
Superintendent of ensus.
All of which goes to show that DIR. CONDOR
has performed his work In such a manner as
entirely satisfies his superior in Washington,
though his district was larger than all New
England, which DR.. CoNDoN's friends through
this Territory expected would be the case 1t
is matter of congratulation that while there
has been much heart-burning over the re-
suits Of the taking of the census throughout
the country, the work has been done IN Utah by
Utah man with the help of Utah appointees
in a!manner to give substantial satisfaction all
around.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-01-01
A number Of Dcs Mones officials were

A number Of Des Moines Official were
indicted.
The taking Of testimony in the Saw
telle murder trial ut Dover n. H., was
ended.
The captured Indians of Sitting Bulls
band under Big Foot have escaped from
Colonel Sumner going to the Bad Lands.
Contests against five Democratic mem
bers of the Illinois Legislature will be in
stituted on the ground of bribery at the
polls and non residence.
President Polk will call a meeting of
presidents of State Farmers Alliances to
be held in Washington in February to dis
cuss the formation Of third party
The Masonic Temple in Baltimore was
destroyed by fire; loss about $3.50 600
Railroad traffic il slowly being improv-
ed after the biocades caused by the storm );
more snow fell in the Northwest.
1t was reported that Sittn. Bulls
followers were on their way to Pine Ridge
and Cherry Greek Agencies.
A further shrinkase in the assets Of
S. A. Kean & Co, Of Chicago, was dis
covered, $50. 900 being in protested notes
a building in Auburn Prison was de-
stroyed 10y fire; loss about $4,000.
Evidence unfavorable to the contes-
tant was given in the Dunlap-Dwyer
Assembly case at Amsterdam. \. Y.
Secretary Ensk made an order closing
all ports in the collection district Of Yer
mont. except st Adams. against The i'm
portsilon 81 cattle.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-01-01

With this number we commence volume
p of the Ellsworth AMERICAN. We are
n re than pleased with the success that
has attended the paper during the five
y ars and more that the present editor has
p sided over its fortunes While he has
Il he has never attempted to Use any
e. raneous inducements, such a. premiums
a. prize votes to increase its subscription
Ii 8, but has left the AMERICAN, where
every newspaper should be left, to rise
o fall on its own merits. Notwithstand-
II these facts and the sharp competition
tn which we have had to contend its
s pscription list has been increased since
4 2 70, 1855 (the date of the present
tors advent to the office more than
.: per cent. and the measure of the papers
p 1sperity was never so full as it is to-day
all of this we have to thank our cores
? adents, friends, subscribers and adver-
L ing patrons. That We have made
n stakes We are only too well
a are; such is the inevitable; ito err i,
man; but partial compensation, at
lest, is found in the warm words and
Il tiers of appreciation and commentator
ich come to Us from all parts of the
c lntry. Readers, friends, patrons cores
7 ndents hoping for your aid in the future
YOU have kindly given it to US in the
p st, we wish you all happy New Year
a. j continued prosperity.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-01-01
Maine Central Railroad,

That there is nothing so successful as
success is apparent from perusal of the
twenty ninth annual report of the Maine
c ntral Railroad Company, for the year
ending Sept 80, 1890, a copy of which we
h We received from the company. Money
AID good management will accomplish
onderful results, and such have been ac-
cpmplished by this well-managed corpora
ton.
The following from the report of J. A.
Iinscott, Treasurer shows the receipts and
expenditures OF the Company for the year ::
Total Gross Earnings, s4,27O 230.l7
lass Operating Expenses. e.soS,666.'1
Net Earnings, &I4l, 5ss 40
ss Rent of Leased Lines, 2Ss5. %
Less Interest, S2l 100 90
Less Dividends on Stock per cent 2l56I6.0O
Total payments from Net
Earnings, Sl,32l .i36 10
surplus. ss1l26.65
The report of the General Manager
Slows many interesting facts. and of them
We reproduce the following:
Total number of passengers transported
FIR the year was 1,933,377; an increase
yer the previous year of ia ,2s9, or 500
pr centum
The total amount of freight transport
{ over the main line and branches for the
ar was l.720, l07 tons; an increase over
{ previous year of 800, Isl tons, or 294
centum
The earnings for passengers were ST.
: 1,9s9G2. The earnings for the trans
y rtation of freight were 81 23l, 457.27.
l he earnings for transportation of mails,
b ggage. express, etc, were S2l1 OILS 81.
I re total gross transportation earnings
{ the twelve months were S4,226, 4G5. 43.
The amount of coal and wood used is
; own below
Bitumnous coal, l0l,77S 90-2240 tons.
this amount IS. 100 450-224O tons were
u.ed for locomotives, and the remainder
f engines in shops, water stations and
h ating stations. Anthracite coal, 4 1863
, O0-2240 tons . l45 tons of this coal were
ed in heating passenger and freight sta
'i'ns; l,4l4 s00224O tons for stesm ferry
tween Mt. Desert Ferry and Bar Harbor;
! i60-2240 tons for warming passenger
c rs; the rest for engine houses. Wood,
! ~ cords, distributed as follows: To
Il 'omotives 523.2 cords; to shop. 1914
c rds; to passenger cars "a 3 cords, and
TIE remainder to engine houses, water sta
I ms and freight trains.
The following is a statement of the num-
b of passengers from each of the stations
med below and the revenue derived
t.erefrom. for the year
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-01-01

The annual meeting of the Maine Press
A ssociation will be held in Augusta on
Thursday and Friday, January 22d and 2sd.
1s3l. The first session will be held in the
S nate Chamber on Thursday evening at 100
o'clock. There will be business meeting
iday forenoon, and literary exercises FRIDAY
afternoon. Friday evening the Association
will be entertained at the residence of Mrs.
ard Hon. P. o. Vickery on Winthrop street.
Passes over the Maine Central Railroad for
members and their wives, will be forwarded
in due season. Board at the hotels, 100 per
dy. A discount will be made to members &C.
companed by their wives, at Hotel North.
s. T. PICKARD, President.
VIM. B. LAPHAM, Cor. Sec'y, pro tenn.
Augusta, Dec. 80, 1890.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-01-01

of murder in the first degree, is that you
be confined in the State Prison at Concord
until the first Tuesday of January, 1892,
and that you then be hanged by the neck
until you are dead"
Not q tremor of the muscles could be
noted as the convicted man faced the
Clerk for his death sentence. A deeper
pallor and a possible emphasizing of the
lines of thought in the forehead were the
only outward indications of appreciation
of the full meaning of what was being
said
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-01-01
Athwart the Washtub.

When the angry ocean heaves and the gales
of heaven send across it. then doth the hardy
life saving station crew put forth on the foam.
ing billow, intent TO save. As the housemaid
or wife losses the creamy suds and dashes the
weekly wash athwart the tub. she blesses the
B ussels soap she uses, for well she knoweth
it, mission is to cleanse and save Did YOU
ever try Brussels soap? It's economical
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-01-01

The exsoldiers feel that in this State.
a least, the dissertation of Memorial Day
81 ould be restricted, if it cannot be entire
y prevented, by the strong arm of the law
7 lie Legislature is about to convene; and
or legislators would do well, it seems to
u, to look this matter carefully over and
a certain whether or not this soldiers day
ould not be protected from Dissertation
b law. Something is due to the eternal
fl ness of things the memory of the heroic
d ad and the intensifei public sentiment,
hich demands that no sacrllegious acts
s all be allowed to interfere with suit
allie observance of this day of days
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-01-01
STATE OF MAINE.

HANCOCK, SS.-Court of Probate, EllsN orth
Dee. Term, A. u. 1880.
Accounts having been filed for settlement in ea-
tItes of
>ewall Tenney, late of Ellsworth, deceased,
Annie &. Emery, Executor.
Elmcna H. II0dgkins, late of LamoiuC, deceased,
Newell q. Coolidge. Executor.
George Hodghins late of Lamoiue, deceased.
Newell b. Coolidge. Administrator.
sarah f.. Turner, late of ucksport, deceased,
Charles II. Rice, Administrator.
Ordered-That the said accountants give no.
tice to all persons interested by causing copy of
this order 10 be published three weeks success
tvelv in the Ellsworth American, newspaper
printed in Ellsworth, in said county, that thew
may appear at Probate Court to C holden Mt
Ellsworth, on the End Wednesday of Jan next
al ten OF the clock in the forenoon and show cause
If any they have, why the same should not bc
allowed
O. p. CUNNINGHAM, Judge.
Attest CIIAS. =. HORR Register.
true copy, attest :-CHAs. i. DoRR Register.
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