Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-10-08
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One Weeks Winnowings of News,
Novelty and Nonsense.

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Novelty and Nonsense.
Patents have been granted to Maine in
ventors as follows: l.. F. Jordan, Port
land, cash register and indicator; F. w.
Taylor, Madison, crane.
The twenty-eighth annual convention
of the Maine State Sunday school associa
ton, inter denominational, will be held
at SacO October 10. IA and Is.
The Ialest dodge for violating the lob
ster law is to ship the understood ones
disguised rs CLANS. Three barrels which
had every appearance of being filled with
Holsters were seized i'll Portland Tuesday,
and in each under peck or so Of clans
several dozen short Holsters were found.
All game shipped from points on the
line of the b. & A. road this year, is
tagged with card, on which is printed:
"SAot on the line of the Bangor and
Aroostook railroad, the Sportsmen' Para
disc of the East" There are spaces in
which to record the name of the guide,
place where the game was killed, from
what point it was shipped and its desti
nation.
The sensation of eastern Maine last
week was he eIopement Of Rev. G. l.. Kirk
land, Baptist minister, aged sixty-tive
years, and Jennie White, girl of fifteen,
at Dauforth. MIR. Kirkland is a Whoever
of some four or five months. His repu-
tation has not been the best. Before he
went there he was settled at different times
at MattaWamkeag, Kingman, Springfield
and Parkmail.
The secretary OF state on Monday began
sending out the balIots for the November
elect ION to the ,030 cities, towns and
plantat ions in the State. On each ballot
will be placed the name of the electors of
each party, and the candidates for pres
dent and vice president. There are five
parties represented as follows: Republic
can, Mckinley and Hobart; democratic,
Bryan and Sewall; peoples, Bryan and
Watson; national democratic, Palmer and
Buckner; prohibition, lowering and
johnson.
The last old wood burning locomotive
on he Moosehead branch OF the Bangor
Il Aroostook blew out her whistle valve
in climbing the grade at Lows bridge one
day last week. The valve was replaced
and 1t started on again, but had not gone
far when the accident was repeated.
Another engine was sent for and the old
one hauled off to Old Town for old junk
| The company has two more machines
on katahdn Iron Works branch, " here
the trains are light and the time of run
ming slow, and where they probably Will
do service for some time yet.
| A dispatch from Decatur, Indiana, tells
of he arrival there of a Maine man who
| had taken a novel and somewhat grue-
some way to deadhead his way on the
! railroad. When the train reached Deca-
| tur the conductor q discovered man fast
| asleep on the inside Of hearse " which
! was being shipped as fr, light. He had h
good supply of food neatly packed i'll the
| front end. He claimed to have started
wit h the hearse at WaterviIl-, Maine and
WAS endeavoring to join his family at
Hannibal, Mo. His friends, ht 5 id, assist
ed him in preparing for the journey, and
when the hearse was ready to shi p he was
carefully concealed on the inside. He en-
dured many hardships during his journey
not being able to supply himself with
water.