Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-04-01

the city yesterday twenty-six-inch SAL
mon, weighing five and a half pounds,
caught by Henry Smith the night before
out Of his mill-pond. The fish must have
come from Floods pond, as no salmon
had ever been caught in the mill pond
before.
Among visitors to the city during the
Ipast week were S. P. Cousins, Lamoine !;
Charles Hartman, Cherryield; c. D. JOY,
Northeast Harb Dor; o. K. Stevens, West
fGouldsboro; Curtis Durgain, sedgwick ;
George A. Martin, Frank H. Hinckley,
Bluehill; A. B. Fernald, franklin; A. H..
Lyman, B. E. Clark, Bar Harbor.
1 A second test by DR.. w. L. West, OF the
l cows OF E. E. Mcfarland at Lamoine,
proved the correctness Of the test several
weeks ago. The two COWS which DR..
West declared at that time to be diseased,
again showed unmistakable symptoms Of
tuberculosis, and will be killed. DR..
West went to Mt. Desert island Wednes-
day to make several tests.
All the graded schools except room
two in the School street grammar school,
will open Monday; also schools in dis
tricts Nos. 7, 8 and 9. 8. Everett Marks,
who has been employed to teach the
School street grammar, has been victim
OF the measles, from which he is just re-
covering, and the opening OF his room
will therefore be delayed until April II.
| Two Ellsworth captains have made
quick trips during the past week. Capt.
| Co 1,,tv,
w. Haynes, has just made trip from
! Hayti to New York in eleven days. On
the same day the schooner 81. B.
Holden, Capt. Horace Lord, arrived in
| New York, ten days from Jacksonville.
These are remarkably good trips for this
season.
Jesse Meader, who lives on the Surry
road near the town line, took cold
plunge INTO Union river from the Main
street bridge Monday morning. The
| planking had been taken up from the
bridge, and Mr.. Meader was walking
across the girders when misstep sent
him into the waters below. He was
hauled out witt some difficulty, wet, but
uninjured.
\ horse owned by F. II. Osgood, left
standing near the house of II. NJ. Hall,
ran away Tuesday morning, taking a
| short cut across lots to State street. The
| buggy to which the horse was harnessed
was overturned and badly damaged In
! front OF the court house the runaway
struck buggy in which Mrs. o. w.
fpley was seated, but only slightly
damaged one wheel. 1t was, however, u
narrow escape from a more serious acct
dent. The runaway was stopped in front
OF the jail house.
Some anxiety is felt for the bark 'sMary
{. Hale, Capt. a. j, Higgins, of this city.
/ The vessel is bound from England to
/ Philadelphia with clay. She put in at
the Western islands in Decem Der leak
I ing, and awaited tsere the arrival of a
steam pump from New York. She sailed
/ from the Western islands the first of
/ February. 1t is not the length of passage
that causes anxiety, but the knowledge of
the condition OF the bark, coupled with
the fact that vessels crossing the At
lantic during the past two months have
encountered severe gales.
Peter Kane, who calls Ellsworth his
home, but who has recently been an in
mate Of the soldiers home Mt Togus, is in
trouble at Bangor. Peter has been in
trouble before. Peter was little un-
steady when he was arrested in Bangor
last Wednesday. Soon after he was ar
rested it was learned that Peter had very
ungraciously walked off with watch be-
longing to a man who had entertained
him the night before. The watch was
found at pawn-shop, where Peter had
pawned it. In the municipal court Thurs
day morning Peter was sentenced to four
months IN Jail.
Capt. John A. Lord was a victim of the
grip several days last week, and his
clerk, Miss Lucy Adams, also being i'll,
II was necessary to close the store several
days. An irrepressible local wag started
the story that Capt. Lord had "gone up".
The story travelled to Bangor, and Mon
day morning found two Bangor fruit
dealers, one with a bill for So another
with bill for 20, in Ellsworth LOOKING
for Capt. Lord. They found him, much
to their surprise, doing business at the
old stand, and paying 100 cents on
Il .H... They kicked themselves all the
Wa. 'ck to Bangor.
Superintendent nt-ofSchools Wharf calls
attention to vote taken by the
school board last July, before schools
opened for the fall term, that children
shall be allowed to enter the first grade
of the graded schools only on condition
that they are fitted to enter some exist
ing class. The object OF this action by the
board was to preserve the grading OF the
schools. 1t frequently happens that chill
dren entering the school are not prepared
TO take up the work OF the first grade, the
result being that the entire class must be
delayed, or special grade formed, which
throws the Whole school machinery out OF