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pennbscot.

Pen"bsc"t
The hay crop il nearly all gathered and
we hear more complaint for want OF barn
room than ever before. Some are at
loss to know where they will store their
grain.
Mrs. Dolly Leach. one OF our aged citi-
zens. was buried Sunday. She has nu-
,neraus relatives here. She was one OF
the mot hers whose motherly love seemed
to he almost universal. She was loved
and respected not only by her family and
relatives but by all who came within the
circle Of her influence.
Silas leach, one OF the most prominent
citizens of this place, passed away quite
suddenly on Thursday, Aug. /, from
heart failure. Mr.. Leach had for some
time been confined to the house from
heart trouble. and his death was not I'M
expected. Mr.. Leach was an energetic
man. n strong republican, deeply inter-
ested in political affairs, and took an ac-
tive and intelligent interestin town mat
tiers. In his family he WAS kind father
and devoted husband. He leaves a widow
and two daughters grown To womanhood.
Quite number from North Penohscot
attended the spiritual camp meeting at
Verona Sunday. The sky in the morning
was overcast with threatening Clouds
which prevented larger attendance.
Those who attended had a most enjoya-
BILE time Verona Park, so-called. j.
most quiet. retired and coy little wooded
retreat on he western shore OF Verona
Island, where the peaceful waves OF the
Penobscot bent their love tunes. The
place is amply shaded by small, hard
wood grove. aud the whole atmosphere is
most restfu and refreshing. No more
desirable spot could be selected Tor the
union OF the earthly with the spiritual.
Two sermons or lectures We're given by
a MIR Tisdale. n blind speaker OF fine
physique. He claimed to speak by
inspirat ion. He talked with great readi-
ness ani iluency on human salvat ion, and
his IDEAS We're PHILOSOPHICAL and elevated.
The trend Of his talk was toward the de-
velopment OF love in life here and the
eeyat ion of mnn morally and spiritually.
He spent no TIM in abusing other rreeds,
or attacking denominational barracks.
but vert -tfa sht for the higher Iife.
such sermons ean but benefit all y ho hcnr
them. and Viii do much to disarm preju
dice against -o-caled spiritualism. The
songs h" sang Were most beautifully and
impre sSiyvly rendered.
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Sedgwick.

Sedgwick.
The Baptist pulpit at this village was
filled yesterday by Miss Hyer, Of Roch=
ester, n. Y, who spoke in the interests of
the Woman's foreign mission.
John L. Brookman and wife of New
York are at the Carlton homestead, visit
ing d. A. Carlton, who is Mrs. Brook
mans brother. Charles Conary has come
up from Sunrise and is engaged by Mr..
Brookman to supply his party with all
the yachting they desire.
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Sidney Bridges is visiting relatives at
Penobscot.
Robert Miliken, OF Winter Harbor,
was in town recently.
Miss Minnie Milliken has gone to Bar
Harbor for the season.
Thomas Miles, OF Woburn, Mass, is the
guest of his brother, William Miles.
Miss Anna Tracy, of Ellsworth, spent a
few days with friends here recently.
Mrs. Mary Butler has been visiting
Miss SUSIE Mcfarland has been visiting
friends at Winter fIarbor the past few
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ferran, of Gouldsboro,
are visiting Mrs. Feran's mother, Mrs. A.
+. Tracy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kicker, of Boston, and
Mrs. Elmira Packard, are guests at II. c.
Milliken's.
Misses Lena Smith and Mildred Young
have been in Sullivan for a few days, the
guests OF Miss Lena Hooper.
The lawn party given by j, NJ. Mill
ken and wife on the evening of Aug. 2,
was much enjoyed by all present
Misses Evelyn Butler and Ada Mitchell,
OF Philadelphia and Freeport, are at w.
X. Buffers to spend the summer months.
Miss Anna Louise Norris, accompanied
by her friend, Miss Groves, are spending
a week at Bar IIsrbor and Schooner
Head.
George Burt Heath, OF New York city,
VAS Il OF his aunt, Mrs. Mildred
A. NJ i, a few days last week. lie
WAS ii panied by his friend, Joseph
Brunng.
Aug. Y. SUMAC.
En.t HIuehilI.
Last Monday Mrs. William B. Ridley
scaded one OF her feet badly.
The schooner Baltimore" Z. MacFar-
land, master, sailed for Rockland last
Wednesday.
quite a-large. party went on a sail and
picnic to Long Island yesterday in Henry
iork's sloop.
he W lIiinB w brkerS haQ an Ice Great
party last evening, for the benefit OF the
village library.
A. II. WeDber has sold his store to w.
{. Conary and |. ". Dow. The new firm
will be known AS Conary Il Dow.
George 1. Long and Ethelyn NJ. Long
have gone to Sandy Point to attend a
Reunion OF the Castine normal school
graduates
Alex Love left here last Monday morn
ing for Bangor, where he has secured
employment as granite cutter on monu-
mental work.
The schooner "kentucky," l.. b. Grin
die, master. arrived yesterday from Rock
land " hen at the mouth OF the harbor
on the last trip the wheel-repe broke
and the vessel struck, knocking off the
forcfoot and DONG other damages. She
will be hauled up "a few days for repairs
Yesterday afternoo Amos K. Carter :
house caught fire on account of a
defective chimney. y large hole was
burned through the roof, and the fire
dropping down into the chamber, con
-umed or badly damaged quite a large
quantity Of wearing apparel. The
damage to she house j. slight.
Aug. 10. G..
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COUNTY NEWS.
r.. additional County Ne,rs see other pages

THE AMERICAN has subscribers at fo6
If the no post-oGices in Hancock county;
I'll The other papers in the county com
b;ned do not reach so many THE AMER
1cAS is not the only paper printed in
Hancock county, and has nerer claimed to
be. but II is the only paper that can prop
erin be called COUNTY paper all the
rest are merely local papers. The eircu'd-
finn of THE AMERICAN, barring the Bar
Uorbor Records summer list, is larger
than that of all the other papers printed
in Hancock county
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'I'm afraid" said the bicycle girl
"that we are getting altogether too
original in our ideas of costume" ITS
worse than that" replied her mother.
awe are getting positively aboriginal"
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lp.,llIiiIIi.

Dedham
Charles Pearl and family and George
Parker and family, OF Bangor, are at
their cottage at Phillips Lake.
\. p. Kenney gave stereopticon enter
lament here last Thursday evening, sho"
ing battle scenes and miscellaneous views.
Misses Patten, of North Ellsworth, and
Guy and Harold Burrill, are taking
music lessons OF Miss Eiyie Burrill
Among visitors in town recently We're
Miss Emma Blood, of Chicago; Mrs.
Louisa King, Mrs. Maria Bartlett,
daughter Marion and sons Boyd and
Percy, OF Ellsworth, at George p. Good
wins; Mrs. A. +. Perkins, OF Orono,
at +. w. Burrill's; DR.. c. d. Morrill, and
wife, OF Madison, and A. l.. Smith and
wife, OF Bucksport, at j. f. Turner's; JOS
eph Lyman and family at l.. r. Black s :
Mrs.Andrew Mcfarland and daughter, OF
Ellswo rth, at Edwin Estes Mrs. Sarah
Waning, OF Bangor, at w. w. Blacks;
Mrs. Grace Raymond, at S. p. Webber's.
Aug 2. Is.
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ELLSWORTH MARKETS.
WEDNESDAY. August IA, Is

WEDNESDAY, August IA, 1895.
A bushe Of Liverpool salt shall weigh 60 pounds and
bushe of Turks Island salt shall weigh 10 pounds.
The standard weight OF bushe of potatoes, in good
order and ht for shipping is Gu pounds
The standard weight of bushe of beans in good or
der and III for shipping is 81 pounds OF wheat beets
pounds of onions So pounds OF carrots, English tur
nips, rye, and Indian meal, so pounds of barley and
buckwheat 4s pounds of oats ~ pounds even meas
by agreement.
Country Produce.
Beans.
Improved Yellow Eye per bush......2.50 1900
Pea, hand picked, per bu.... 80 $500
Peas:
Improved, per bu (seed). ...................2.50
Butter.
There Is slight advance In butter.
Creamery per OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
DAlry 70 a.
Cheese.
Best factory (new) per b.....................15
Best dairy new. =. Observation-Disclosures
Dutch lmportedl...-. ....................ll0
Eggs.
Fresh laid per ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Hay.
Best loose, per ton............-...... d10
BaIed ........... IL al
Straw.
Loose ............. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. az
baled. ................. 10 az
The price on different green vegetables falls
as the supply becomes better. Green corn is in
ms ri pt ia
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Tho school committee recently adopted
Frye'- Biographies, published hy Ginn
4 -. Frye = native Of NinRl Haven,
aud tdm in CHM "A native OF orland, 20
tn. popular text book j. purely he re-
suit II Maine energy and enterprise.
Monday forenoon a heavy thunder
shower passed over thi. place, striking
Freeman tiray', house ut North Peuotscot
and the barn OF Henry Leach a Penobscot
center. which, with is contents, was
entirely consumed by fire. At the former
place j, struck the chimney entirely de-
moii-hing il and doing considerable
damage ot otherwise, iaiuring Mrs. tiray's
arm -omew hat, and tearing he toe from
the girl, stocking.
The bad weather has fingered 80 long
upon the skirts OF nature that many have
not yet finished haying. We locked al
most with pity upon crew yesterday at
work in large field not more than half
cut. The hay crop matured II week or ten
days earlier than last year, and on up
lands 1t is rapidly deteriorating IN value.
The grain crop bids fair To be quite heavy
where it i, not badly lodged. We saw
the finest acre OF corn on the farm OF W.
II. Norton that We have seen FOR many
day Il probably cannot be beaten m the
county We should say that il would
average eight feet IN height from center
OF rows to top Of stalk. Mr.. Norton has
taken considerable interest in agriculture,
and his well-managed farm shows the re-
suit of his intelligent care and toll.
Aug. Q. II.
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The telegraph lines of the world aggre-
gate 1,oo9,123 miles. America has more
than half Sis, So mites.
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Cape En-l.r.
Mark Blake is visiting relatives in Fair
yIeW.
X. :. Murch, OF Hampden, has been
visiting {. II. Blake.
Capt. W. Coombs has returned TO
Uuderclin from Bluehill.
The Waterman family have returned to
Maiden from Underclff.
Fireworks at Fairyiew on the evening
of Aug. l, We're much enjoyed,
Capt. l.. {. Blake is expected soon from
Bangor, " here his bark now is
capt. Parker is here from Buek-port in
the yacht annie NJ. Spencer.
We are beginning to hear, good bye !;
come again next year ott-repeated.
Benjamin Coombs and wife are visiting
{. II. Blake, coming from Ninal Haven.
Capt. l.. {. Blake spent three days with
relatives here, and returned to Bangor
Aug.6
William Phillip, OF Iryngton, y. y, is
expected sunday, Aug. II, to board two
weeks at Fairview.
Robt. Redman will return to Lynn,
Mass, soon, and his partner, Mr.. Baird,
with his family, is expected at The
Cedars," l.. f. Sawyer's.
Mrs. Phillip. Mrs. Brown, Georgia
Phillip and Mrs. w. F. Blake rode TO
Bucks Harbo and spent the day visiting
the new hotel and other places OF note
last Wednesday.
Aug.9. ID.
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officers and members of the society is
equal to carrying out the work. The
names OF the principal officers are: Mrs.
Sarah Hayey, president; Mrs. Gertrude
Gordon, vice-president Mrs. Medora
Bunker, treasurer; Miss Matte Moore
and Miss Nancy Abbott, financial sec
retaries.
Aug g. u.
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Great Pond.
Mrs. John Williams and Mrs. j. r.
Haynes are quite Ill.
Ralph Blades of Boston, is visiting his
uncle, William Williams.
The bicycle craze has reached us, and
the wheel Is gaining new deyotees each
day.
Mrs. A. +. Mace and children, OF Au-
rora, were in town to-day to attend
church.
Matthew Laughlin and Leon Dunn
have gone to Lowell. Mass, where both
have relatives.
Mrs. Mcdonald, Lorenzo Foster and +.
w. Lord, of Ellsworth, We're in town the
first of the week.
Miss Bessie Williams, who has been
with her sister, Mrs. Mace, of Aurora,
since the close OF her school in Amherst,
is now at home.
The new lamp which has just been
placed at the outer door OF the church
will be much appreciated. 1t was the
gift OF the little girls society.
J. c. Dunn, formerly OF this place, but
now OF Lowell, Mass, spent few days in
town recently. He went to Rowland to
visit his daughter, Mrs. w. Lord, before
returning to Lowell.
G. II. Garland and J. Mills arrived
from Boston Monday. Mr.. and Mrs.
Garland are stopping at the Garry camp
at Great Pond, where they frequently en-
terrain parties OF their friends who find
the outing very enjoyable.
Mrs. Emery gave tea party Thursday
in honor OF her daughters birthday.
The souvenirs were hand painted shell
pm trays. To the donors of the dainty
gifts and beautiful flowers most sincere
thanks are given.
Auy FLossIE.
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Lacea In English Palaces.

Lacea In English Palaces.
4he princess of Wales has just maa..
her daughter-in-law a very handso,r.
present, namely, three iounces C.
magnificent old English poinS
lace, said to be worth something IN fo,..,
figures. Some lace, of course, is en-
valuable as precious stones-old Ven.
etian point, point d'Alencon, the best
English point and others. Now, it ia
very well known to the intimates of
Marlborough house that the princess
of Wales, who has always been II
of the best dressed women in Europe.
always keeping within the fashion.
though never countenancing eccen-
tricity, has one cherished hobby in the
direction of dress; a great fondness
for collecting lace, of which her royal
highness has q great number of spec
linens of extreme beauty, value and
rarity, only equaled by the collection
possessed by the queen, who is also a
great cOnnOisseur of the same expen.
sive and beautiful fabrics.
1t is said that the princess of Wales
collection of lace is worth in actual
money over 10000 (only this l think
Is below the real figure), while, if
associations are also taken into con.
sideration, some of the more historic
pieces are, Of course, priceless. But
In historical laces, Of course, the queen
beats the princess, for her majesty
possesses some magnificent laces, the
prODerty of former sOvereigns. some
Of the most beautiful having belonged
to katherine Of Aragon.-London Let
ter.
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OLDEST MAN IN THE WORLD.

Noah Raby believed to ID One Hun.
dred and Tsventy-thrce Yenrs Old.
ls Noah Eaby OF the Piscataway
l'.Ior Farm, New Jersey, the oldest
man in tile world? If the story Of his
life which he tells he true he has pass
ed his l23d borthday. 1t vas about
e%ishty-threc years ago, according to
his recollection. that Noah Raby, Or
binary seaman, received his discharge
papers from the stancll frigate Brandy
wine, which had just finished a cruise
of inspection Of tile various ports OF
the Omitted States, and was then dock
ed at tile BROOKLYN Navy Yard. The
day after he left the naval service lie
betook himself to New Jersey, where
he Joined himself to a farmer and for
money agreed to serve as a hired man.
Since that time he has never stepped
outside the houndarie: Of New Jersey.
more or less steadlness, he followed
the occupation he had chosen. and
then. twenty-eight years ago, being
full Of years and decidedly averse to
earning his own living any longer, he
settled down at the poor farm in the
township Of Piscataway, not far fro.e
New Brunswick, and there he has
since remained. To-day he is totally
blind, but his eyes, though sunken,
have the sparkle of one who can e
perfectly. His body is bent and his
shoulders are contracted, but the mus
cles Of his arms and legs IRE firnler
than those of many a man not yet
thirty. His jaws are toothless, and his
words are uttered with a whistling
accompaniment but his voice is strong
and full, and his laugh is as hearty as
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and so it was in this case. Crosby
pere and mere made a tremendous
row. They had other plans for Ma
rian. She was of those young
ONE whom every one expects to
marry we'll and who consequently
never do, and her sisters and cousins
and aunts' chimcd i'll ard made them
selves ~disagreeable; that is the adj
vantage of being a rclative-one can
say such hateful things.
"Pour Jerome was horribly broken
up. Mrs. Crosby told me after ward
that he pleaded with Marian an entire
afternoon to see the mistake she was
making in marrying a man so entirely
out of the sphere in which she exist
ed-a man Of another nationality, be-
longing to Il different class, and with
ideas Of life totally unlike her own.
But Marian seldom changed her mind
after it was firmly made up, and in
spite of Jerome and the protests of her
family she and Welhausen became
engaged.
ut would have been n blessing to
Jerome in those days if his father had
eve left him a cent and he had been
obliged to dig for a living. AS it vas,
he tried to write q novel, and when it
was finished sent it to twenty-five
publishers. one after another, each of
whom returned it marked 'Unavail-
able or without comment. The TWEEN
ty-third returned it with a note more
forcible than courteous, saying that
the manuscript was utterly unavail-
able, without q redeeming feature
w%hereupon Jerome decided that litera-
ture was not his forte, and, calmly
putting the packet in the fire. tried to
think Of something else to occupy his
time and attention.
Late in the spring Marian and We'll
hausen were married. BY that time
the family had Gained down and con-
cluded that the young Germn was
rather a nice fellow after all, al
though, perhaps, not exactly the man
they would have chosen for Marian.
lie was not welcomed into the family
as jerome would have been, but both
he and Marian seemed fairly well
satisfied with his reception.
After the wedding Jerome decided
to go abroad. 1t was rather q humili-
ating position for him, as every one
knew Of his attentions to Marian, but
ne did not seem to consider it so, and
never referred to the subject, even in
the remotest manner. His going away
was by no means an idea to escape
observation. 1t was merely taken up
as something to absorb his time and
attention. He had been to Europe
half a dozen times, and wanted some
thing new and exciting, so he decided
on central Asia. If he had been the
hero of a novel the author would have
killed him Off in a conflict with the na-
tives, but being a man in real life,
and especially Jerome, he came back
without a scratch, but with a con-
foundedly blase air."
Martin took out a fresh cigar and
lighted it.
And of course her marriage to Wei
hansen turned out happily?" he said.
NO." said Ford, that was the un-
fortunate part, it didn't; but that has
nothing to do with Jerome"
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II Didn't Work.

It isn't always safe for a small boy
to take his fathers jokes and games
too seriously. This was shown very
plainly at one time by the experience
of an Englislman and his o upon a
railway journey which they took to-
gethtr. While the little fellow was
gazing out of the open window his
father slipped the hat off the boys
head in such n way as to make his son
believe that it had fallen out Of the
window. The boy was very much up
set by his supposed loss, when the
father consoled him by saying that he
would "whistle it back" A little
later he whistled and the hat reap
peared. Not long after the little fel-
low seized upon his fathers hat, and
flinging it out of the window, shouted,
Snow, papa. whistle your hat back
again."-Harper's Round Table.
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THE CLIFF DWELLERs.

Rims of Their Homes Which Were
Six Stories High and Had 500
Rooms.
In New Mexico and Arizona there
are hundreds Of ruins of huge houses
among the cliffs from four to six
stories in height and some of them
have over 500 rooms. They were built
by the Pueblo Indians, who, before
the new world was discovered, were
living in their strange houses that
were forts, almost secure from at
tack from their :nveterate foes. the
fierce Apaches. While hundreds of
them are crumbling with the dust of
centuries, some have been occupied by
.Pueblos within historic times. They
were invariably of stone. and laid
with remarkable skill. They arc all
terraced and the front of the buildings
look like flights of gigantic steps.
There r no doors or windows in
the outer walls. and nc stairs, all en-
trance being by ladders. They built
their houses where nature had ar
ranged for their security, in the cliffs
or on the tops of mesas or rock isl
ands. Modern research has proved
that the "cl.tf jewellers" are not an ex-
tinct race, but have moved from the
deserted ruins as the centuries went
OH, and that the descendants are the
present Pueblo Indians, a peculiar and
interesting people, living comfortably,
peaceably and MISUNDERSTANDING
delphia Press.
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as the men-of-war of all civilized ma
lions were continually on the watch
for the slavers, and the laws Of the
United States had long forbade the
importation of any more Philippians.
But Watson was a man of many re-
sources, and he, in company with his
wife, q beautiful Creole, devised a
scheme by which it was possible to
hoodwink the authorities.
They modelled n bark Of some three
hundreds tons burden, which was
practically one vessel within another.
To look down the main hatch she ap-
peared to be a shallow craft, having
no 'between decks"; the keelson was
about fifteen feet below the "deck
carlines," and no one but the builders
knew that beneath this, and between
it and the true keelson, was q dark
hold about five feet deep, to reach
which a small hatchway was cut we'll
aft in the "..i."
The bark was loaded and despatched
to the west coast of Africa, ostensibly
as a legitimate trader, bu. upon reach
ing the slave country, the captain
bartered for 500 negroes, all stalwart,
healthy fellows, who We're at once con-
fined within the dark, damp sub-hold
of the novel and nefariOus vessel.
Then the captain went in search OF
camels, which lie claimed were wanted
in America as beasts of burden, but In
reality these creatures were to be used
as a blind, to disguise the true errand
Of the craft. Fifteen of the animals
were procured, which, with their feed
and water, comfortably filled the hold
of the bark.
The passage across the Atlantic was
made without special incident, and the
SLAYER entered Galveston with her
valuable human cargo undisturbed.
The camels were publicly landed, and
for several days remained tethered
upon the wharf, but the poor blacks
were stealthily struggled ashore and
at once sent to northern Texas, where
they were disposed of at great profit
by Mrs. Watson, who was now q
widow.
This was in the winter of '57-5S.
The charming Creole, whose husband
had been q United States senator, pre-
vailed upon the government to pur-
chase the camels, but not until the AMI
mails had been taken to several differ
ent places.
At one time they were in Algiers,
opposite the city Of New Orleans.
From there they were taken back to
Galveston by the side-wheel steamer
Fashion.
When they became the property Of
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n.ther Drowned.

Atlantic City, N. j., June 4.-The
first drowning accident on the beau
tiful grounds for over a year occurred
today at the foot of Illinois avenue.
Charles Il. Thompson of Cleveland.
Ohio. and Miss Jennie Grogle, aged
tw~enty-one years, of Ninth anu DICK
inson streets, Philadelphia, were in
the water. Thompson took the young
woman a dangerous distance out from
the shore to give her swimming les
soDs: They were caught in q whirl-
pool and the girl was drowned.
The Dickinson press., 1895-06-08

borate installation-a commercial de-
vice before which the most determined
people recoil. There is a new, very
portable press, made simply from two
metallic plate. thin and flexible. One
inserts between them the letter to be
copied and IL damp sheet of copying
paper, and bends them so as to give
them a semi-cylindrical form, by rest
ing one of their edges on a table.
The pressure of the flexure is sufficient
to make the Impressions, and when it
Is relaxed the two plates become fiat
again, and are ready to serve for a
new operation.