Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1893-10-12
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Items Of Interest from all over the Pine
Tree state.
he loUth anniversary of the founding
o1 he Baptist church at Liyermore was
crl brated last Thursday.
Mrs. Mary Lewis. aged about ninety.
oJw Of The late William Lewis. commit
s. suicide by hanging last Friday at
B Killed..
Efforts are still being made to induce
q .l, Hyde Of Bath, ~ move his shipbuiid-
lng plant to New London, Conn. 1t is not
liN-ly thai they Will succeed.
Samuel Dlllaway, s. veteran clothing
manufacturer Of Bath, died last WeGnes-
4 aged seveutyseyeu years. He had
been in business a. Bath for more than
twenty years.
DC steamer "kennsbec" from Boston.
I, he'd on Popham beach last Saturday
q nlng and smashed her rudder She
VA towed to Bath for repairs and left
aday afternoon for Boston.
he Maine Central j. the title of new
siS cen page paper published in Portland
B. Bosworth Manley. 1t is issued by
authority Of the Maine Central railroad
aiu Is full Of the news of that extensive
:, : EN-. The first number is embellished
" n 4 fine portrait Of President Arthur
all.
atents have been granted to the follow
il Z Maine inventors F. Hanson Bar
\ IL, Portland Me, danger signal; 5
Eapgood, Deering, Me, snow-roller; q.
D. Hartman, South Tnomaston. Me, saw
frame; A. Y Pearl, West Lebanon, Me,
a. er; f w. Smith. Portland, Me, can
fling machine.
a the fall term of the Knox county SUI
? enc judicial court the grand jury re-
ported tfty eight indictments for infrac,
tiDa of the liquor law, and from this source
4 ere was paid in an aggregate Of 81, 100,
tie largest amount ever paid into the
treasury from this source at single term
o. court One liquor seller paid fines on
several separate indictments aggregating
$1,000. Twenty-three divorce cases were
d-creed.
The insurance commissioner has sus-
pended the right of the Peoples fire insur-
ance company of Manchester, n. H., to do
business in Maine, and notified the com
psny and all agents thereof of such
acton. The penalty to the company or
any of it, agents for issuing new policies
after the suspension is forfeiture not ex-
ceeding $500. 1t is expected that this
company will have sufficient funds to pay
all accrued losses and reinsure all risks
now upon its books.
Rev. Elijah Kellogg. the author of
s'Spartacus" and ''Regulus TO the Carthage
Mans" and scores of stories. for boys. is
still preaching every Sunday. although he
is past eighty, in the little church at
Harpswell, over which he presided when a
young man. The people of his coDgrega-
tioa will not let him retire. why" ex-
claimed one of his admirers the other day,
cit does more good to hear him say amen
than it does to hear these young fellows
preach a whole sermon"
A Bangor man who, according to the
Neirs of that city, doesn't know how to
p-evaricate, or even to stretch the most
elastic kind of truth, tells startling yarn
ABOUT tough old tom-cst which has for
many moons blighted the peace of his
lusehold. He decided. the other night,
to drown the cat. and accordingly threw
the dissipated old serenader into tub OF
water, with a stone fastened to bis neck
bv stout cord. Next morning the cat
was found sitting upon the stone in an
empty tub, having drank the water up, and
be was as gay as if the world were all |
back fences, new milk and beefsteaks.