Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-11-16
KlTTEKY TO CARIBOU.
One Weeks Winnowings Of News,
Novelty and Nonsense.

Novelty and Nonsense.
The Maine Central is to build new
thirty-six- stall round house at Bangor.
Richard Lord, Of Orono, died Thursday
morning, aged eighty-seven years and
nine months.
Sidney Thaxter, for the last quarter of
a century resident of Portland, and for
many years one of the leading wholesale
merchants of he city, died Monday.
The two-year old daughter of Mrs.
Alice Abbott, Of North Arson, obtained
package OF morphine, Friday morning,
and ate ten or fifteen grains. The child
died.
Patents have recently been granted to
Maine inventors as follows: G.. II.
Hathorn, Bangor, die for forging articles
circular in section; p. II. Holmes,
Gardiner, sashploco.
William Black, Of Rox bury, Mass, aged
forty eight, committed suicide Thursday
in the Queen City hotel, Bangor. No
cause for the suicide is known there.
Black stabbed himself to death with a
jackknife.
Thomas Boulex, OF Brunswick, aged
twenty, employed on Maine Central
gravel train, was buried alive under a
carload OF rocks and sand at Portland
Thursday. He was dead when reached
by his fellow workmen.
Phillips lake has been screened at the
outlet to prevent landlocked salmon and
trout escaping down the stream. No
better lake for landlocked sslmoc and
trout exists in Maine, but the fishing has
not been good there OF late because the
fish with which these waters were stocked
escaped. Commissioner Carleton has
promised to stock the lake freely.
Among the divorces granted by the
Oxford county court at the February
term, 1897, were two. Call them Jones"
and smith. On the first day OF March,
1897, ten days after the adjournment of
the court, Mr.. Jones married Mrs. Smith.
On the fourteenth of October, 1898, a
divorce was granted Mrs. Jones from Mr..
Jones. Two days after court adjourned,
Mr.. Jones entered upon a third matri
monal experiment, and ten days later
Mrs. Jones followed his example. Each
is now seeking connubial bliss with the
third legal spouse within a space of
twenty -one months, and all parties to the
several experiments are living.
The four masted schooner &C. s. Gid
den was launched from the yard of Dunn
x Elliott at Thomaston Monday morning,
III the presence of fully 5000 people. The
dimensions of the vessel are as follows:
tonnage 100; keel 1S7 feet; beam IL feet
hold 10 feet, There are two full decks
and poop deck extending from the stern
forward to the main mast. There are
three houses The forward one, 26X21 feet
contains the engine room and forecastle
Amidships is one 10 feet square in which
are cook and store rooms. The after
house, 36x25 feet, has two cabins, four
The masts are Of Oregon pine, and mod
ern feature Of the rigging are the turn
buckles, by means of which the heavy
ropes OF wire are frightened. A fifteen
horse power engine furnishes the power.
The Maine Sportsman says "Reports
made to this paper, both through per-
sonal interviews with its representatives,
and through correspondence, emphasize
the fact that there is great scarcity Of
cartridges in the State generally,
although in some localities they have
been reported as very plenty. In the
later days OF the month, with more
leaves off he trees, better success Is mad
among the birds, and yet it would seem
that the supply is growing steadily less
The Sportsman suggests that those who
have the making of the laws in their
hands should look carefully into the
matter, and If no better reports are to be
had, place absolute protection on these
birds for two years, to allow them to