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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-12-12

Hinckley is an earnest advocate OF tenn
perance. His lecture was finely illustrated
by stereopticon. Besides the regular lec-
ture. Mr.. HinckIey gave several fine views
Of Cuban scenes, the destruction Of the
"Maine", etc.
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.GRTcAN has Subscribers at 100

&RIcAS has subscrtbers at 100
- post oAsces in Hancock county;
cd I,.e other papers IN the county com
osWed do not reach so many. THE AMER
rs~ 80 ""t fhe only paper printed IN
Hancock county. and has nerey claimed to
-, but IL IS the only paper that CON prop
sviy be called COUNTY paper; all the
rest are merely local papers. The ctrcuto-
Non OF The AMERICAN, barring the Ba'
6arbor Records summer list. Is larger
thar that of all the other papers printed
IN Hancock county.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-12-12

DeWittis Little Early Risers are dainty
little pills, bat they never fail TO cleanse
the liver, remove distractions and invig
crate the system. WIGGIN d MOORE.
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Committee on resolutions

West Brooksvilie.
Miss Nina Lord is at home from Farm
ington.
Edward X. Tapley, lightkeeper at Sand
island, is visiting his parents, Dea. and
Mrs S. P. Tapley.
Mrs. Mary Curran, librarian of the pub
lie library in Bangor, who has been the
guest for few days Of her sister, Miss S.
E Ellison, returned to her home last
Monday.
Harry Tapley, who has been firing on
board the yacht "Aria' the past season,
will remain on board as shipkeeper this
winter. The yacht is now hauled out On
Stetson's railway in Brewer. Engineer
Charles P. Tapley is now at home.
Deer and foxes are plenty in this neigh
borhood Late Saturday afternoon in
Irving Cousins pasture near Jones mar
rows Fred Halves shot and killed three
year old buck which after being dressed
by Jerome Tapley, jr., weighed $50 pounds.
The deer was minus one horn which from
appearance had been lost some months.
Capt. George Blodgett and Capt. John
Tapley have each shot and killed fox.
Dec 10. ToMsoN.
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sehgwick.
Roiand E. Carter came home from
Rock laird last week.
Curtis Carter and A. E. Parker are at
home. They have been employed ON
the "Ciiy OF Bangor.
Lowell Grindie, OF Sedgwick, and Miss
Edna Sawyer, OF HampdeD, " no were mar
RE recently, will reside in Bar Harbor.
Schooner laurel, Capt. Churchill, is
still in port. He is awaiting The result of
the investigation incident to the taking
OF two men from his vessel as noted in
THE AMERICAN last week. He was very
fortunate TO be here during the gales of
the past week.
Roland E. Carter has commenced to
reDovate the house formerly owned by the
late Hosea Carter. He will give it quar-
ter turn so that it will sit end to the
street. 1t will also be raised half story.
1t will be a very pretty modern cottage
when the work is completed.
Dec. 10. C.
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SOmesvfIle.
Nj. l.. Allen made short visit to New
York last week.
The children are rehearsing for a
Christmas concert.
Walter Grant, after an attack OF pneu-
monia, is convalescent.
Miss lawson has closed her cottage and
gone 10 Boston for the winter.
There is to be a mask ball in Masonic
hail Dec. %. Music by Ober's orchestra.
Schooner "John B. Norris" arrived
Saturday with freight for merchants here.
Schools reopen to-day, after two
weeks vacation. Mr.. DeMeyer teaches
the upper grade and Mis- Squirting the
lower
A. Jacobson, &. s. Parker, Howard
| Norwood aud Charles Trip are emp.o, ed
ct Mort h asst Haroor, where "a great den
OF building is being done this winter.
Dec. 9 Ii.
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south Gouidsboro.
Miss Alice Havey is visiting her mother
at Sullivan Highlands.
A daughter vas born to Mr.. and Mrs.
c. II. Hammond Dec 3.
Miss RilIa Sargent is attending high
school at Winter Harbor.
Mrs. J. c. Hammond has been spending
a few days at Winter Harbor.
Mrs. Louise Hooper, OF West Sullivan.
recently visited relatives and friends here.
A. B. Bunker Is building an addition on
his store. L. q. Bunker is doing he " ork
James Bunker has moved his family
from Birch Harbor to this place for the
winter.
Dudley Sargent has returned from Bar
Harbor, where he has been employed
during the summer.
Mrs X. II. Bunker and two children,
Fritz and Carlyn, have been visiting Mrs.
W. X Hanna. at East Sullivan.
Mrs. Sarah Hooper, who has been spend
ing few weeks with her son, has gone to
West Sullivan TO spend the winter with
her daughter, Mrs. Ida Gordon.
Dec 10. ). NJ. $
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Miss Bertha Sprsgue, teacher OF the
grammar school, has recovered from her
illness, and resumed teaching Monday.
Ice formed at the head of the bay last
week. A few smelt tents were set Friday
and Saturday, and a few smelts caught
This is the first catch of the season.
The revival meetings at the Baptist
church were somewhat interrupted by
bad weather and poor roads last week,
but will be continued during the present
week.
w. A. Meader and Mrs. Mary Gott. of
West Eden, arrived at the home Of Mrs.
Colts son, j. E. Colt, Saturday night.
Mr.. Meader returned Sunday but Mrs.
Gott will remain during the winter.
Rev. A. F. Hinckley, of Burnham, the
temperance evangelist, lectured at the
Baptist church Saturday night. Mr..
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Bronkiin-
Mary Cole returned from Boston Thurs
day.
Myra Freethy, of Naskeag, has gone to
West Brooksville.
Newell Powers has gone to Beverly,
Mass, for the winter.
The work on Mrs. Idella Hills new
house is being pushed.
There seems to be plenty OF deer in this
vicinity but only one has been shot
The many friends of A. J. Anterior end
wife gave them housewarming Friday
evening.
Rev. d c. York, wife and daughter,
" no have been visiting in Boston, returned
home Thursday.
r r Babson and A H Mayo are doing
the carpentering work on Miss Z. A.
Mayo's new store
Schools in precincts 3, and 9 will begin
Monday, Dec 10, with Owen L Flye,
Edith Lufkin and normal student from
Castine as teachers.
Samuel Candage, of South Bluehill, " no
was experimenting the moving OF Mrs.
Atherton's house, was taken seriously ill
Tuesday, and had to be taken to his home
Dec. TO- UNE FEMME.
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) sutb Deer isi..
Mrs. V. Goss spent part OF Thursday
and Friday with friends here.
Roland Small has gone to Bostou here
he expects To get employment.
There Was no service In the church here
Dec. 2, as the quarantine had not been
removed. No more cases OF diphtheria
have been reported, and it Is hoped that
services will now be resumed.
J. p. Robbins, who left here last week,
IS employed in Boston ana will probs bly,
spend the winter there. Carl Robbins
gave himself quite a severe wound in the
thumb with gouge, as he was fas hioning
toy boat this week. 1t Is hoped that no
serious results will follow.
Dec. Z. ECO
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stonington.
J c. Harmon has purchased horse OF
c. B, small.
S 3. Thurlow has hauled out his steam
boat for the winter.
The founder fishermen are getting good
hauis and fair prices.
Mrs. Elizabeth Haskell, OF Sunset, is
living at Fred Webb's.
Capt F, P. Weed has purchased small
yacht of Boston parties.
Fred E. Webb and D. J. Noyes con-
template going into the acetylene gas
lighting business.
r Dunnipg, who has been at work
erecting the new wind mill, left for home
Saturday Of last week.
tuesdays storm was the most severe for
the season here. Two or three of the lob
ster boats went ashore, but were hauled
OF with little damage.
During the severe storm last Tuesday a
Stonington man was seen riding towards
Deer Isle dressed in oil skins and with a
straw hat on his head. In the "hurry" of
getting ready he had forgotten that he
wore a straw hat round the store.
George Colby's house caue hit fire through
defective chimney on Monday of last
week. But for the prompt arrival OF men
vii h pals, it would have burned fat As
it was the inside was burned out so that
it will have to be nearly all rebuilt. The
house was insured through F. A. Torrey
for $500
Dec. TO- EUGENE,
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Isaac P. Gay is reported comfortable,
ana improving slowly.
Miss Clara Lesvitt and Miss Lottie M.
rs rr, OF Bangor, are spending a short
uiue at Mrs. Addie Dunn's.
Mrs. s. A. Biaisdell, of Providence,
r |, who has visited friends here the
pass week, leaves for her home Tuesday.
Mrs. Albert Allen, of Columbia. came
by train Friday night to visit her mother.
no has been critically i'll for some time.
Mrs. J. E. Dunn returned from Milli-
nocKet last week. Miss Florence, the
eldest daughter, is not 80 well as usual
this season.
Ray Dwelley and Russell Blaisdell re-
turn to Kent's Hill Monday. Harry
w Wooster goes to Maine Central institute
for The winter.
z L. Wilbur and wife, with their
grandson, Francis PettingilI, will go to
Worcester, Mass, to visit their daughter
Tor n few weeks. They leave here Tues
day.
Rev. B. W. Russell, of Sullivan,
preached Sunday in exchange with Rev.
W II. Powlesland. The two sermons for
the day were replete with flood for
thought.
Mrs. jamie Stevens, wife OF Capt.
Ephraim Dyer, died Sunday morning,
after years OF invalidism from bronchial
trouble. Mrs. Dyer was thorough
fsmi y, in which she will be very sadly
III s>ed. The bereaved husband, son and
daughte have the heartfelt symps,hy
of sli.
Dec. TO- B.
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Eco.

Deer isie.
Mrs. George l.. Beck left town Friday
for Boston.
Capt. James Staples returned home from
Searsmont Friday.
F. Herbert Gross left Monday ON a bust
ness trip to Boston.
Miss Alice w. Haskell returned to
Bucksport Monday.
$. s. Scott and wife returned home
from Boston Saturday.
Percy A. Haskell arrived home Friday
for visit to his family.
Mrs. f. P. Spofford returned home
from Rockiand Saturday
Mrs. Edward Y. HASKELL returned home
from Southport saturday.
Dec. 10. Els.
Hiuehiu Falls.
The school in this distrc, is depleted
by measles
Irving Candage purchased fine pair
OF oxen his week.
Rev. Ozro Roys left Friday to attend
the Free Baptist quarterly meeting at
Otter Creek.
Allie B. Friend has gone to Sargent
vile to stay with his uncle. w. W. Blake,
and attend school.
Dc 10. SuB.
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COUNTY NEWS.
g. additional County Nescs ser other pages

Mrs. A. T. McRae come by team Satur-
day evening to stay with her daughter
NJ II F. Day, a few days. Mr.. and Mrs
bruI her, Rev. II. F. Day, returned to their
uor in Bangor Monday. Pastor Day is
ga ing strength slowly. His brother,
Is. Day, of Bangor, is with him now
asst ling Mr.. Donneil, no is acting as
uuHe.
DE. 10. NJ.
The age-herald., 1900-01-13

foresee. will stand as the uncontroverted history Of the case. This report became the basis of the action of the trustees of the university in steps taken to annul the land sale. In the absence of refutation or even explanation this report stands as the truth of the case.
 Can Governor Johnston successfully ap- peal for support to the honest voters of crenshaw with such an indictment hanging over him? The Age-Herald refuses to be- lieve that he can. He should first of all address himself to the task of refuting the damaging facts brought out in the report made by the alumni committee. Demagog- ical replies will not answer. He must clear his skirts of the charges if he expects to gain the support of men who would scorn a breach of trust. He should explain his action in the land sale before he appears before the people of Crenshaw.
The age-herald., 1900-01-13
WINTER LOVE

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
 White mists have hid the gloomy street, Kind mists have clothed the leafless trees; For souls afraid, white mists are sweet. White mists have hid the gloomy street. My soul desires white retreat;
 My soul that signs to see how these White mists have hid the gloomy street. Kind mists have clothed the leaf1ess trees Friend. you must weave for me shroud, Out of your flawess charity,
 To veil the faults you 6asavowed. Friend, you must weave for me a shroud And love me through its silver cloud, Ev'n as a barren, winter tree;
 Friend, you must weave for me shroud, Out of your fiawless charity; So, you shall clothe my bitter need, And so, perchance, your faith may stay. Oh you who trust nse, trust-but heed! So you shall clothe my bitter need; Till love hath brought the Spring indeed, Touch not the shroud but let me say -So you shall clothe my bitter need, And sa. perchance. your faith may stay"
The age-herald., 1900-01-13

of the states. but in every suoh instance there were frequent clashes between the races. and in all such clashes the negro got the worst of it. Negro suffrage is re-. sponsible for the most of the friction that has occurred between the races since the war. The relationship between the whites and blacks would be much more friendly and cordial than it is if the ballot had never been put into the hands of the ne- gro We assert without hesitation, there fore, that negro suffrage has been a blight rather than benefit to the black man.
 No one would be rash enough to assert that negro suffrage has been a benefit to the southern states at large It has cer- tainly not helped to promote good govern ment, but has beef the direct or indirect occasion of election frauds and election riots. Such a thing as election triekery was never known in the southern states before the war. All this sort of business came with the introduction of negro suf- frage.
 The rank republicans of the north had two objects in view when they conferred upon the emancipated slaves the right to vote. One of these to punish the whites of the south and the other was to help the republican party. As for the first, the republicans saw their desire full filled, although we have said the negro got the worst of it. But the republicans have long since realized that their party has been weakened rather than strengthened by their negro allies. So far from whip ping the south into the republican column, negro suffrage made the south solid against republieanasm, and that will be the case so long as the negro is a factor in southern politics. Even the republicans of the north, who have come t5wn here and cast their lot with the southern people have, in almost every instance. except in the case of offceseekers, voted with the whites and helped to keep the south solid.
 It requires great courage for individuals, nations tor political parties to own up to an error. But many of the best and most influential republicans of the north have hesltatingly confessed not snly that negro suffrage was a blunder, but that it was a great public outrage. There is but one honest thing to do with blunder, or with outrage, and that is as far as possible, to correct it. The northern republicans committed this outrage, they own up to it, and the consistent and honest thing for them to do is to wipe it out.
The age-herald., 1900-01-13
UNrHRIFTY MIR. GILMORE

From the New York Evening Post.
 Lieutenant Gilmore's rescue, after eight months captivity and moving accidents by flood and field, closes chapter of romance as thrilling as any recorded in our annals of Indian warfare. It is one proof more of what the human organism can endure in the way of hardship and hope deferred But what does the unthrifty lieutenant mean by dictating a long account of his experience and freely giving it away to the press? Did he not know that his copy was worth the highest space rates? We fear that his eye for the main chance has been impaired by his sufferngs Or per- haps he spoke before the telegrams from anxious editors reached him. No man with such a tale as-his to unfold can afford to let it leak from him uncopyrigated The old answer to inquisitve reporters, 'I can not speak without consulting my coun- sel," now needs the supplement- in all such cases as Lieutenant Gilmores, "I cannot lisp syllable about my hairbreadth es- capes until I have colbated the offers from the ma gaZines'
The age-herald., 1900-01-13
THE oalY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Ten Irregular Counties.

] There are ten early-bird counties, and. this lot of irregulars may now be consid- cred complete. Marshall, Limestone. Cof- fee, Jackson and Colbert have acted. Nor gan and Macon have selected candidates for representatives, but those candidates are to be instructed on April II as to their votes for senator and they are not therefore early-bird counties. Other primaries are to Se held as follows: Clark, January 20: Ma rengo and Crenshaw, January 27; Russell, last-named county is as irregular the rest, for it selects the day named legis- 7atiye candidates, voting for a state sena- tor as well as for representative.
 1t is a significant feature of political progress that not a county has thus far adopted the worn-out methods of the past. All are to hold primaries Not one of the sixty-six counties of the state clings to clique rule. Public sentiment is so strong in that respect that no county committee has had the temer1ty to say that the peo- ple shall not have a right to select by secret ballot their own representa- tives.
 The irregular action of the ten counties could have been headed off by the call of state primary on the South Carolina plan. In that state every beat directly votes for all offices to be filled, including an United States senator and the returns from the beats are consolidated and an- nounced very much as the ballotting of election day is handled. The next step in political progress will bring this state up to the South Carolina level. Reforms come as rule gradually, step by step, and in the will attain to the perfected state of South Carolina democrats
The age-herald., 1900-01-13
nne-Savanin of All.

Jefferson is one of slxty-six counties geo. tax-paying it is one-seventh of the state. It is equivalent to nearly ten counties, as counties go. when taxes are due. Jeffer- son's state tax bill of the present year is $2S2s40. Those people and those papers that are in the habit of throwing sheer this way now and then when Jefferson wants an office or two, should remember that this county's ambition never outruns. its tax bill
 Jefferson not only pays for it's own schools, bat it Is taxed to pay for rural schools in every part of the state Under the Bulger bill alone fit pays ss5 TOO. It pays a soldier tax of like amount, and it pays general state tax that reaches the handsome aggregate of s1965Oo.
 Those who are given to decrying this busy county of mines, furnaces and facto- ries should not overlook the fact that the people thereof are at least pretty stiff tax payers. When Jefferson has to fill the place of ten average counties at the coun- ter, it is certainly entitled to the privilege of blowing its own horn. It may not get its moneys worth, but 1t should be per mitted the pleasure at least of telling the truth about itself, when no one else will tell it.
The age-herald., 1900-01-13

From the Richmond Times.
 Senator Morgan, of Alabama, has ex- pressed himself as being confident that a vast majority of the white people in the United States would vote to give tine southern states the right to control their own affairs without negro interference.
 We have on several occasions expressed much the same opinion, and have time and again advocated the repeal of the fifteenth amendment to the federal constitution.
 It would be blessed thing for this coun- try if the northern people would rise up en masse and right this outrageous wrong which they inflicted upon the southern people soon after the war. Negro suffrage has been the curse of the south, and what affects the south indirectly affects the north In all candor, we ask, what good thing has come out of negro suffrage? 1t has done the negro no good, but has been, on the contrary, source of endless trouble to him. A very few negroes have from time to time held office, and occasionally the negro party has been in power in sornA
The age-herald., 1900-01-13
Gov. Johnston in Crenshaw.

Governor Johnston has left his duties be- hind him and gone into Crenshaw county. where he is to speak repeatedly until the day set for the holding of primaries He has not only left his official duties behind him, but he has also left behind him charges of unfaithfuness as trustee of school and university lands. He has left these charges behind him. but they will as- suredly follow him into Crenshaw, demand ing there as well as elsewhere in the state full proper and adequate explanation.
 So far as the university lands are con- cerned these charges are not mere rumors, mere flying speculations of the hour. These charges are embraced in a report that is at once temperate and conservative, although plain and unmistakeable at all points. Not point or inference is made fin it that is not well sustained by proof-so. well sus- tained that no man has attempted to com bat any portion of it. The entire report stands today, and so far as any one can
The age-herald., 1900-01-13
MOLINEUX TRIAL DULL
Very Little Evidence of Interest Was
 Adduced Yesterday

New York, January 12.-The proceedings today in the trial of Roland B. Molineux for fine murder of Mrs. Kate J. Adams was comparatively unnteresting
 Henry Cornish and Mrs. Florence E. Rogers were recalled for the purpose of identifying the glass from which Mrs. Adams drank the poisoned promo seltzer. and for the purpose of testifying in great CT detail regarding the incidents which caused the death of the victim
 Hermann J. Wftte, a Cincinnati lawyer was called to identify letter which he ob- tained from the Won Mohl company in Cin- cinnati. The letter is what is known as the bogus Cornish letter, and contained a re- quest for five day trial remedy" The witness said the remedy asked for was "calthos."
 The witness also identified other bogus letters obtained from the von Mohl com pany, also for the five day trial remedy" and signed HI. c. Barnett"
 Professor Wittehaus again made his ap- pearance on the witness stand and testified in great detail concerning the amount of poison which he found in the body of Mrs. Adams Being asked the cause of the death of Mrs Adams, he replied: "Poison, hydro cyanic poison."
 Professor Witthaus also said that the cause of Barnett's death was poison. When asked if he would place his judgment against the judgment of the attending phy- sician if the latter testified that the pa tient died of diphtheria, he replied in the affirmative.
The age-herald., 1900-01-13
PEN PIC1UnE OF BnyERIDGE

From the New York Sun.
 This enthusiastic champion of the admin istration's expansion policy was S7 years old in October last, and may be truthfully described as a good-looking young man. He is about 5 feet inches high, weighs tary figure. His face is thin and some what pale and is untouched by whiskers, and his head is covered by thick brown hair, which is parted in the middle. The ends in front are carefully arranged in two crescents on his forehead, which quickly lost their shape and became bedra ggled as exertion made them moist During his speech MT. BeverIdge was constantly push ing these refractory ringlets back into place with the back of his hand, but as constantly they fell again. The senator's s eyes are blue and his nose sharp and of good size. He was carefully dressed, wearing a long, lightly -buttoned black frock coat, standing collar, a four-in-hand neckt:e and gray trousers. His shoes were highly polished, and in the lapel of his coat was bunch of pink carnations. Alto gether he made an attractive picture, and his colleagues on both sides Of the cham Der seemed pleasd to look at 1t, and they did the orator the honor of giving him the closest attention from the opening to the closing sentence.