Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-07-19
FROM KITTERY TO CARIBOU.
Items of Interest from all over the
Pine Tree State.


A whale thirty feet in length was seen
in the Penobscot near Islesboro last week.
"Dick" OBrien, pugilist of Lewiston,
was whipped in a twelve-round fight in
Boston last Friday evening.
Saturday was the last day of the salmon
fishing in the weirs in the Penobscot.
The close season began Sunday.
1t is stated that about 100000 feet of
lumber will be hung up this year, on the
kennebec and streams leading into it.
John F. Briggs, a member of the Seventh
Maine regiment, committed suicide in a
barn, near Togus, last Wednesday, by
hanging.
Patents have recently been issued to
the following Maine inventors: J. j..
Flanders, Portland, for pulp-screen; O.
Anderson, Deering, curtain holding de-
vice; E. l.. Cooling, Portland, shoe.
The Maine State building, which made
so imposing a show at the Worlds Fair,
has been taken down and transported to
Poland, in this State, where it will be set
up in its original form and used for Ii
brary and art building.
The biggest strawberry farm in this
vicinity is that of Ross and Charles
Miller in Holden. In one day recently
they harvested seventeen bushels of the
incest berries. John Higgins and family,
formerly of Brewer, are doing the har-
vesting.
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and Bert Emery, the Ninalhaven bug,
escaped from the Rockland Jail last Sat
urday night. By threatening to kill
fellow prisoner they terrified him into
answering for them when Turnkey
Rivers made his rounds.
The Oldest dentist in Maine lives in
Rockland, although he is not actively en-
gagged in pulling teeth now. He is so
years old, and he wears complete set of
teet h hat he grew himself when young
man. He may be seen out walking on the
streets almost any day.
Gen. Frederick d. Sewall of Maine, chief
of the internal revenue agents, has ten
dered his resignation to Commissioner
Miller, and will probably be succeeded as
the head OF the corps by Revenue Agent
Welborne w. Colquitt, brother of the late
senator from Georgia. Gen. Sewall has
occupied he position since 1876.
Among the Maine towns entitled to a
centennial celebration this year are Farm
ington, Alfred, Bridgton Prospect, Cor
nish, Hampton, New sharon, Dresden,
and Alma. And these towns might get
ready for centennial celebration in 1895
of the date of their Incorporation; Lew
iston, Litchfeld, Poland, Livermore, Fay
cite, Starks, Clinton, Steuben, Jay and
Canton.
The owners of a deer preserve at Petit
Menan Point have raised the question ::
"Do the game laws of the State regarding
! the shooting of deer apply to cases of
private ownership" The State game
commissioners dispute the right which
these owners claim, namely, that they
can kill these deer in close time. The
question will be argued at the term of the
supreme judicial court to be held in
/ Machias next October.
1T would be a paying investment for
The State says an Augusta city official,
to LeWiston Journal man, ito have a
macadamized road through Maine, say
from Portland, up t he Kennebec to Ban
gor, to Bar Harbor, perhaps through the
most prominent parts of the State. 1t
would bring tourists here, bicyclists
would flock in and Names beautiful
scenery would attract additional thou
sands every year And the journal is
inclined to think that the Augusta gen.
tleman S suggestion is not at all visionary.
The ROckland schooner Henry l.. Phil
lips" was seized by the collector of Gus
toms at Port Hawkesbury, n. s., last
week charged with a violation of the
treaty of 1918, by fishing inside the three
mile limit. Capt. George T. Crosse,
the schooner's commander, says the
charges are false. The vessel has fare of
$4,000 pounds of Goldfish, and, ifthe offence
is proven, both vessel and cargo are sub
iect to contiscation, and the captain is
liable to a fine of 81 900.
A Portland physician and Bath theo-
Logan were in the BoWdoin medical
school recently, examining microscopic
slides of peculiar glands. The physician
began a scientific discussion, and the
clergyman, becoming wearied of the
subject, exclaimed: you doctors know
so much about the uncertainties of this
world, that should think that you
would not want to live Whereupon
the physician retorted: "I GU theologians
tell us so much about the uncertainties
of the next world, that We don't want to
die'
The celebration given al Milbridge by
the ladies July was unique and a most
successful event. The day was ushered
in by the booming OF cannon and ringing
of bells Then followed the parade of
''horribles,n and en- Grafton by George Z.
Googins in the Union church The floral
parade in the afternoon was the finest
thing of the kind ever witnessed in east
ern Maine All the carriages We're most