Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1874-10-08
WIN. Nj. Evarts is to defend Mr..
Beecher before the courts.

beecher before the courts.
Mrs. Livermore lectured at waterville
Friday night, Subject, Concerning Hus-
hands,
The fifth Cincinnati exposition closed
Saturday night. About 55l. 900 persons
visited it.
-Pecuniary aid Is asked for Garbaldi
who Is represented to be In very poor cir
cumstances, often without means to obtain
the necessaries of life.
A Potsdam. N. Y, lady turns the
scales at 342, and there are no young men
| In Potsdam bold enough to go skating with
her.
The. members of the Austrian polar
expedition declare that the explorations
In the direction ofthe North Pole are hope
less of satisfactory results. and that the
report of the existence OF an open Polar
sea are untrue.
-ilammerfert. Norway, il the most
northerly town In the world. IL has a
population OF 2.057. The sun sets No.
venber 18th. and rises January 2sth Civ
ing opportunity for nice, long nap before
twilight.
Another great railroad enterprise in
the far west is announced. A company
| has been organized at Portland, Oregon,
with capital of 81 sos. 200, for the con-
struction OF a railroad from Winne-Muc-
ca to the Columbia river, at the middle
fork of the Willamette.
Jerome Bonaparte, the second son OF
the deceased nephew of the great Napo-
leon, has been recently admitted to the
bar at Baltimore, and his first plea was
pronounced an admirable effort. full of
I afz.. 81
cribed as fine looking young man of
grave aspect, with an admirably formed
head, and a face full of intellectual express
sion.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union
OF America will hold its fourth annual con-
vention at Chicago. Oct. 7th. Ii comprises
five hundred societies, with a membership
OF one hundred thousand and for the past
seven months the membership has in-
creased at the rate OF three thousand per
month.
Charlie Ross has again been heard
from IN New Haven, Conn. man was
struck by the resemblance 10 the wide.
spread photograph ola little boy who en-
tered dining room Saturday night. in COM
panv with woman claiming to be his mo.
ther. tie made arrangements to have them
followed. but amer pursuing them some
time lost the trail He is confident that he
saw the kidnapped boy.
- The other day party of railroad ofiic-
ials ut Clinton, Iowa, started Tor Chicago
on special train. the conductor OF which
had positive orders to make the run IA
quickly as possible. The distance to be
travelled was 1873 miles, and the train
reached Chicago in just two hours and thir-
ty-three minutes-the most remarkable
time ever made on the railway had been
accomplished. Six stops were made, con-
Stunning not less. than fifteen minutes
which leaves the actual running time is
minutes or mile "A minute for the entire
distance.
Edna Dean Proctor the seeker OF \
fortune from Mouiton and the Graphic. l.
getting n good advertisement out of the
affair. She Il described a. a highly cult
waited woman, who has Travelled almost all
over Europe, and is about forty wears old.
She j. slightly above the medium size.
slim but well made, with luxutiant dark
hair, dark eyes of a soft and fascinating
expression, shaded by long. .nken lashe-,
with sallow complexion, bright and rosy
| lips. frequently curved in the most win
some of smiles, and the smallest OF feet
and hands
A few statistics now aud then, are
U
amount of bonds OF the United STATES
4 bearing Interest IN gold now outstanding
! i sl..2L213. 80, which Is made up OF
| SJ35,1ib, 100 in the six per cent bonds
| known as fiyc-twcntlcs; 31S3 6Sl $50 ia
six per cent bonds OF other classes 1922 :
| ~ 800 IN i've per cent bonds Of the new
! loan. representing the amount of nye-
/ twcuties funded. and Sl9t S17, $50 Of other
issues Of five per cent bonds. The amount
I,nF frsH.. s...s n
/ March, lsGa. was 81 ,9O1, -5S7 $50 and the
amount paid In gold and purchased for the
Sinking Fund is s619 90 $50.
\ Foolish MAS Loses Hts WIrE.-Dr
Barber OF Rutland, VT, several months
,inc" married Miss Bailey iof that place !;
/ Miss Bailey, a. she states In her card had
/ already given her heart TO one Tybalt. and
| gave her hand 10 Barber reluctantly and
| under protest, To please her father. Last
| week Iybalt appeared, interviewed Mrs
| Barber at the house OF lady friend, and
The result was prompt elopemcnt To Mon
trcal. Barber and his father-in-law fol-
| lowed, found the pair. but the woman re-
fused 10 return, saying that she was CON
tent where she was; that "a soon as she
could obtain divorce she proposed TO
marry Tyoalt. The correspondence OF all
parties In the Montreal papers was quite
I Interesting; but the moral seems to be that
man IS a fool TO marry any woman
/ against her will, or under duress from IA err
parents.