Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11
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One Weeks WiunoWings of News, I
Novelty and NONSENSE.


Fire Friday destroyed the house of
Joscra Dutlac. at Fairfield, with con
tents. Loss 5000.
IT,, fasm buildings of Joseph Brown,
at NJ iuet. burned Thursday night. Nine
cows fg1,t two horses were burned.
L j. raported that the granite company
nov located in North Jay, is comtemplat =
IN fHa erection of works in Houlton,
pr54 .tltd favorable terms can be made for
obtaining the granite.
The joke intended to have been played
on newly edded couple at Cundy 5
Harbor. last week, by placing rock salt in
I'D, vas not appreciated by the official =
ing clergyman of Brunswick, who passed
the night among he pieces of salt.
\ Frenchman who reached Augusta
Friday morning had family consisting
of his wife and ten small children, aged
from few months up to about ten years.
He got hem all off the train in safety,
loaded them into an express wagon, and
started contentedly for his destination
with his little brood.
which will be sold to make way for new
and better buildings, is feature of the
rural news in Maine this spring. If the
price, twenty-six dollars, paid for one
such structure. week or two ago, is any
criterion of their value, it would seem to
have been time for the new era of building
that has come with town control of school
DISQUALIFICATION Journal.
Farmingdale has abandoned the dis
count plan of reward for prompt payment
of taxes and proposes instead, to mulct
delinquents a. the rate of twelve per cent.
per annum after certain date. Farm
ingdale is in such excellent financial con-
dition that it can afford to try expert
ment. Other Maine towns will watch
the scheme with much interest. There
seems TO be general impression that it
won't work
The Boston Journal compliments the
superior management of the Maine Cen
trail in this manner: at is the exception
that proves the rule, we are told, and so
this accident on the Maine Central
should call attention to the high stand
ard OF safety that has prevailed on that
road since Payson Tucker became its gem
eral manager. Few roads, have had the
same surprisingly small number OF fatal
accidents, especially to passengers, as the
Maine Central
People are beginning to speak of this as
backward spring; but April 2, 1887, gave
rs the worst snow storm Of the season,
with a temperature Of Is deg. below zero,
and heavy snow storm April and 8 of
last year blocked the roads in south
eastern Maine. On the other hand, in
1892, April 3d's record is a temperature OF
60 deg. above at $50 p. M, while April s,
1893, brought thunder shower that de-
stroyed one or two sets of buildings in
Maine.
The salmon trout which F. H. Francis
has in an aquarium in his Belfast shoe
store is q wonderful fish, il all the stories
told about him are true. He is estimated
to be five years old, and weighs four and
ene-half pounds. He is quite tame, will
eat out of your hand, and will permit you
to handle him, although if you attempt
to take him out of the water he objects
to it; he will come when he is called and
likes to be handled. He answers to the
name of scamp"
A Chicago drummer has been in Noble
boro trying to start butter factory and
sell them some improved apparatus for
5000. The Pemaquid Messenger remarks
very pertinently: 'W hen Nobleboro
farmers get ready to start a butter max
ing esta blishment they will not be likely
to send to Chicago for a man to tell them
how to do it, or to go out of the State to
buy machinery" Between the Messenger
aud Secretary McKeen, Of the State board
of agriculture, these Chicago drummers
seem to have a hard time.
A woodchuck, the pet Of an Auburn
family, has come out Of winter quarters,
and is amusing the family with the old
tricks in which he is as proficient as be-
fore alternating. Last fall the wood
chuck, which had been taught to beg
when he wanted anything, began to put
IN all Of his time sitting and begging,
and newspapers and pieces OF cloth
seemed to be:what he wanted. He would
take them and make off, and then come
back and beg for more. 1t was dis
covered that he was building and lining
a hole in the ground under the piazza.
When the first snow storm of the season
came on, Mr.. Woodchuck turned up miss
ing, and investigation showed that he had
gone into his hole and pulled the hole in
after him, so to speak. That was the last
seen of him until Friday, when the
woodchuck came into the house looking
little lank, but as tame as ever.