Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1871-04-27

a Kansas hotel door bears the follow
ing placard: This hotel is closed on
account Of Il difference between the pro-
pi ieior and cook, which was settled with
pistols. and sent the proprietor to the
grave aud the cooS 10 the Jail
A young lady in Indiana was frozen
to death while out sleigh-riding with
young man. \ man who cant Keep
woman from freezing, on a -Ieigh-ridc,
should be punished to the full extent oil
the law.
Mrs. Howe, the learned Boston iect-
urer, pronounced her words ina strik-
ingly Bostonian fashion. In recent
lecture in New York for example, she
said: "Rawscals fiutter here ike the
moaths about caundle.'
Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS
FOR Four OUNCES OF Doc A white l.
Italian pup, six months old and weighing
only four ounces, was sold at auction
last Tuesday for $3.50. S.FLothrop
was the purchaser.-BoStoR Herald.
Notwithstanding the effort. of the city
authorities of Lowell to prevent the
spread of small-p the disease is very
prevalent, and up to Saturday night
over one hundred and forty cases were
reported by the various physicians.
The people of Massachusetts, are to
whether malt liquor shall be sold in their
several towns or not, Only BY major
ity vote at special election held on
that DAY can any town forbid the sale oi
ale, porter aud lager beer
The residence OF Mortimer Cook ut
Topeka, Kansas, was burned ON Tues
day morning Mr.. Cook, who was a.
sleep with three children when the
house took fire, was awakened by the
noise and passed two oil his children out
of the window, when he was sutfocated
by the smoke and tainted, and was
| pulled out vi the house by the neig ghbors,
leaving little girl, three years old, who
was burned to death.
A high toned southern gentleman"
who could moi bear the Yanks," went
to Brazil after the war, in which the
high toned got 50 badly whipped out,
after all their lofty Dragging. He took
his two daughters OF ten andtwelN g, got
uatura lizsd, went into business and
failed. Bv the law. of that country, the
children of bankrupt may be sold a-
slaves. His daughters are now held rs
such, until he can pay 81 200.
Two BOYS were publicly whipped by
the sheriff OF Hamilton, Ontario, last
week, under new law. The whipping
was done with eight or nine thongs
fastened to handle several inches III
length. For the correction oil minor
breaches OF the law, il is believed fha
whipping is more efficacious for the cui
prit and a better security than imprison
ment, the hardship OF which often fall
mainly upon the innocent wife and chill
dren Of the offender.
The boot and shoe manufacturers .
Baltimore having asccrtained that tin
female operatives employed by them ha'
organized y secret order to preveAt man
ufacturers from employing girls and wo
men not members OF their order, dis
charged all the female operatives belong
ing to the organization, at the same tim
J Offering to continue them at work upo
! their withdrawal from the society. Tn
proposition was declined by then
The action Of the women was immediat,
, ly made known to the journey men men
bers OF the st. Crispiin Association
who 1t once struck, and there was a
immediate suspension Of work in tn
. shOs-factSries throughout the city.