Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-02-04
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One Weeks Winno"iugs of News,
Novelty and Nonsense.

Novelty and Nonsense.
The fve-year- son of Charles Clark,
of Portland, was burned to death Friday.
The child's clothing caught fire from
stove about which he was playing.
Machias reports an earthquake shock
on Tuesday of last week. There was a
heavy rumbIing sound that lasted half
minute. Stoves and windows were
shaken.
Houlton is to have canning factory.
This is one big step toward encouraging
diversified farming in Aroostook. The
factory will put up vegetables and fruits
of various kinds. The stock is being SUBJ
scribed to largely by farmers. The fac.
tory will employ many hands.
The annual winter meeting of the
Maine State Pathological society will be
held in Winthrop, Feb. IS and 10. The
programme will consist of papers, ad-
dresses and discussions by prominent
fruit growers and others. Tickets will be
sold at all stations of the M. c. r. R. for
one fare for the round trip.
According to the Machias Union, the
rick did not desert him on his death-bed.
His daughter, sitting by his bedside,
inquired if he hadn't better be changed
over to the other side. 81 am quite near
the other side now,' was the quick reply,
aud those words were his last.
The loss is reported of the Bath
schooner "Henry Milliken", Capt. Kim
hall
York Jan. II for Wilmington, N. c. On
Jan. 20 a gale caused the vessel to leak
and she WAS abandoned. The schooner
soon sank. After being in the small boat
ten hours The crew was picked up by the
schooner ''5usie IL. Davidson'' and
landed at jacksonville, Fla, last Thurs
day.
William III. Manson, of Rockland, a
veteran of the civil war, lied last Thurs
day, sed sIXty-fve years. Mr.. Manson's
life in he navy was interesting one,
and he figured in many remarkable eX-
ploits. lie was the sailor who carried
AGnil.a! Farragut ashore on his back at
New Orleans at The time the Union fleet
fought its way past the forts on the Miss
issippi. He was also on the ''Cum ber-
land" when she was sunk in Hampton
Roads.
Elisha Eesse, of Bird ewater, is one of
the few men That draws two pensions
from tie United States goverpment-one
for serving two years IN the Mexican
war, from nineteen to twenty-one years
of age, and one for serving one year and
ten months in the war of the rebellion.
He entered the Union army when thirty
six years old, and rendered important
service by being an old soldier in an army
with so many undrilled and inexperienced
troops. He is now seventy-tWo, and has
suffered nearly all his life from wound
received in the Mexican army.
An old Maine paper, of 1892, contains
notices of the following marriages, all of
which took place at Saco on the same
day: Theophilus Hutcheson to Miss
Martha Wells; Richard Hutceson to
Miss Eliza Wells; Thomas Hutcheson to
Miss Sarah Ann Wells; Titus Hutchinson
to Miss Mary Wells; Jonathan Hutche-
son to Miss Judith Wells Ebenezer
Hutchinson to Miss Virginia Wells; John
Hutchinson to Miss Peggy Wells. The
editor adds-"The god of love seems to
have made quite a family affair of it in
Saco. His bow instead of discharging
single darts must have been constructed
like Perkins's steam gun that fires fifty
balls in minute"
The annual report of the State railroad
commissioners just issued, shows that
there were constructed and put in opera
ton i'll Maine during the year 1896, about
ninety-two miles of steam railroad.
The two longest sections were the Ash
land branch of the Bangor & Aroostook,
forty-three miles, and the Rumford Falls
and Rangeley Lakes road, 81 miles. There
are now in operation in the State 1,719
miles of steam railways. The report
shows Il large increase in number of
passengers and amount of freight carried.
There was an increase of thirty-seven
miles of electric railways during the year.
There We're but nine fatal accidents on
the steam railroads of the State during
the year, and only three of those killed
were passengers. The electric roads have
Il clean record.