Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-11-15
kITTERY TO CARIBOU.
One Weeks Winnowings of News
Novelty and Nonsense.

apoplexy.
Fire last Wednesday in the electric
light works at Portland caused damage
of 81 900 to the building and $4,000 to the
plant.
Fire last Thursday in the Fairbrother
block, Skowhegan, occupied by Went
worth & Oak, furniture dealers, caused
$1,000 damage.
A real estate trust is being organized in
Rockland. The object of the organiza
ton is the buying and improvement Of real
estate in the business portion of the city.
George Healey, in digging up a sewer
pipe in Waterville, Saturday, found two
tomahawks of odd shape. Each had a
hole made about two-thirds to the back
for the insertion of the handle.
1t is now reported that David E. Thomp-
son, the missing Hartland lawyer, is alive
and well. 1t is alleged that his wife has
received letter from him stating that he
left home because he was afraid to face
financial difficulties.
Three assessment insurance companies
ton OF Biddeford, Kennebec Mutual of
Augusta, and Orient of York-have
been consolidated under the name Maine
Mutual life insurance company.
unkhunting stories are a feature of
game chronicles this fall. A Hebron man,
who has been losing his bees of late,
watched his hives the other night and
was rewarded by seeing a skunk go to the
hives and scratch to disturb the bees.
When they came out the skunk ate them.
b. c. Calderwood, of Rockland, leads
the Citizens League in movement to en-
force prohibition in that city. He has
addressed several pointed communities
lions to the city government, but Mayor
Knight is reported as saying it is not
the duty of the municipal officers to
investigate charges without further
evidence.
A unique club is the Volunteer Athletic
club just organized in lewiston. 1t
prohibits liquor from the premises, and
proposes to devote its time to making
athletics attractive that young men
will keep out of evil resorts. 1t started
with thirty charter members. The club
encourages matrimony by giving 500 to
each member who marries.
There is an abundance of game in the
woods about Machias. One day recently
partridge flew into the courthouse and
was captured, it is now held in solitary
confinement as q punishment for its con
tempt of court. \ short time ago a stately
moose walked into the town, up one
of the principal streets and climbed the
steps of the town hall
The most interesting case of real, all
wool Yankee that has recently come to
our notice, is that of the hunter in
mort hern Maine, who, hearing that the
wardens We're on his track, went before
the justice, complained OF himself for
poaching, and pocketed half the fine, in
accordance with the statute for poaching
cases made and provided.
The extension of Bangor and Aroo5took
railroad is being rapidly pushed. The
rail is laid within the seven miles of
Pressure Isle village. The rail is to be laid
to all three of the principal villages in
Northern Aroostook this fall-Presque
Isle, Fort Fairfield and Caribou. The
grading will be completed by November
10. The bridge across the Aroostook
river will be ready by November 30.
A studio cat in lewiston, which has
once before jumped from three-story
window, had been watching an English
fat ~.
fifteen feet from the front window oil
the third story. Someone opened the
window the cat sprang out, seized the
bird in its mouth, and fell. 1t landed
right side up and ran off with the bird.
A Biddeford farmer prides himself
upon fine crop of cabbages. His cab
bage garden is near a highway, and fol
several years past, at Halloween, he has
lost about a CARLOAD of this vegetable
This Halloween, however, he decided tC
outwit the thieves. He rolled up several
horse blankets into large bundle that
looked like mans body, and this he laid
down among the cabbages, with Zig ted
lantern near it. 1t looked as if a man
were here guarding the .scahbege. Not a
ca bbage was taken that night.
''Aunt Polly" Dickey, OF Stockton, died
there recently, at the good old age
of 1903 years, 10 months and. 10 days. Aunt
Polly Was born at Frankfort, Dee. Is,
1880. She never rode in a stage or boat
and never saw a train of cars. She never
visited but three places away from her
immediate neighborhood, these being
Bangor, Bluehill and Belfast. When the
British sailed up the Penobscot in ISL
Aunt Polly was a young lady of twenty
two or three years, and she and her
mother fled to the woods to escape tn
bullets from the ships of the. British.
Whew. Listen to this from Waterville
j. y. Weber, of Waterville, recently
purchased COW and has remarkable
story to tell of the cows good qualities
The first day after she came into Mr.
Webber's possession she gave thirty
seven quarts of milk, and the cream from