Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-01-28
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One Weeks Winnowings of News,
Novelty and Nonsense.


Novelty and Nonsense.
Rev. j. W. Baldwin, d. D., who was
elected to the new professorship of his
tory and economies at Bates college, has
resigned.
David Lancaster, one of the oldest busi-
ness men in Belfast, dropped dead last
Friday evening in his grocery store. His
age was eighty-three years.
A Gardiner minister, whose parish raised
his salary $50, contributed the raise for
the new shoe factory, and rather than
lose the factory said he would double the
amount. Here is a man who practices
what he breaches.
Mrs. Nancy Huntley, Of Machias, whose
mind was affected by the death of her
husband three years ago, was found dead
on the grave of her husband, to which
she had made daily pilgrimages since his
death. She had been frozen to death.
Cablegrams from Barbados report tne
barkentine "Payson Tucker, Of Portland,
Capt. Cakes, lost at that place Jan. 6.
She was bound from Demerara to New
York. The vessel was built in Port
land in 1883, and is owned by J. s. Wins
low & Co.
At the meeting of the State board of
agriculture in Augusta last Wednesday,
officers were elected as follows: Presi-
dent, J. w. Dudley, Castle Hill; vice
president, w. H. Moody, Liberty; mem
Der executive committee, w. G. Hunter,
Readfield; member experiment station
council, B. Walker McKeen.
Aroostook county has already Melted
twice as much from its 1896 potato crop
as it did from the entire crop Of 1895,
and has the remainder of the winter
and spring left for sales. The prospects
are good also for a steadily advancing
market, so that there is better feeling
among the farmers of the county.
The "Farmer's Almanac" has just been
issued by the "L.F." Atwood s Bitters peo-
pie in a special Maine edition. All the
calculations are figured out exclusively
for Maine, with correction tables for al
most every locality. Most of the medi
cine stores have them, but if not, postal
card to the agents, II. ii. Hay 4 Son,
Portland, Me-, will secure one free.
Frank II. Parshley, clerk in the Port
land post office, was arrested last Thurs
day, charged with stealing from the
mails. He was caught by means of
decoy letter. For several months past
there had been complaints of letters
stolen from the mail at Portland. PARISH
ley is held under 81 900 bail for the grand
jury of the U. S. district court.
Schooner Norman, Captain B. Gray,
of Castine, reports that when off San
Domingo, Jan. II, Mate j. j. Leighton,
with two men, was aloft. The lashings
I holding the topmast broke. letting it fall
to he deck The captains son, Walter,
aged eighteen, was killed. Leighton was
50 overcome that he attempted suicide.
He was put in irons until arriving in
port, when he was released.
Some idea of the extent of Names con-
tribution to other sections of the country
in the way of men and women may be
gained from the fact that in the town of
Watertown in Massachusetts, a compare
| lively small place, there has recently been
formed a Maine club of one hundred
members. All over the country it is
the same-Maine people everywhere, and
the most of them doing good work.
Reports from the Hudson last week
stated that the prospect of great ice har-
vest on the Hudson is now greatly i'm
proved. The recent thaw and rain are re-
placed by sudden cold snap. There be-
ing little or no snow on the ice, it gained
rapidly in thickness. Wages will be low,
and unless a heavy fall of snow inter-
venes The ice crop will be gathered and
housed for less money than it ever was
before. l4
| The Maine firemen's association was
organized in Portland last Wednesday.
| The object of t he association is the estab-
| lishment of a relief fund for fremen
disa bed in discharge of their duties, and
study of the best methods for su bduing
fires and for the promoting of social rela-
tons between the tiremen of various
cities of the State. Delegates were pres
ent from nearly all the important
cities of Maine.
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