Ellsworth American., 1874-07-16


mitted. The armed guard was then with
drawn and 3 citizen guard stationed near.
watching the Office aud State House.
The militia guard is very irregular. The
old supreme Court Judges claim that they
are the court and can sit, not being ad.
Journed before the meeting of Baxter's
legislature.
There is rumor around the State
House that the Brooks men have 5000
armed negroes organized in the country
near Little Rock. The guards were cub
led Saturday night, aud will be further in
creased.
san Francisco contributes sl2, 900 IN
gold to the Louisiana relief fund
Minister Schcnck. Thursday, laid in
London the corner stone Of the Lincoln
tower.
The French republican papers conclude
by MacMahon's message, that he recogni-
zes the republics
The Boston and Athletic base ball
clubs will leave Philadelphia next Thurs
day for England, where they are to play
with English clubs.
A man at Elkhart. Ind. Gu, open
little bunch on his horses shoulder a few
days ago and found 1t to contain a silver
dime. dated lS21. Rather an old horse.
1t is thought that the coming State
election IN lndiaha Will turn on the liquor
question. the temperance party supporting
the Republican, and the liquor men the
Democratic ticket.
Jules Janin wrote such a bad hand
that only two compostors on the Journal
d>s Debdfs could decipher his manuscript,
aud when he wrote for other papers he
dictated 10 his wife.
A London special says a man who at
tempted 10 ny on new fying machine
from balloon at a high altitude to the
earth fell To the earth aud was horribly
mangled the machine proving failure.
The reef in New York harbor upon
which the steamship Greece struck some
time since, proves upon official examina-
ton to have been formed entirely of ashes
thrown into the harbor by steamers and
tug boats.
A little boy named Davis. residing on
Lon: Island went with his father TO the
bayfield, Monday and Law down In the
not notce MIN and his head was cut com
pletely OF with the cutter.
According to the Boston Journal rec
ord OF fires during the month OF June.
l>ai, the loss by fre in New England
amounts TO sl62 loo being a reduction OF
s3s2,6J0 from the previous month. The
losses in Maine were So 800.
A lineal descendant in the seventh
generation OF John Alden. who married
Priscilla, the Puritan maiden. "fairest OF
all who came In the Mayflower," died re-
Gently a. Lebanon, y. II. His name was
Ezra Alden, and he was aged 81 years.
A New York bricklayer who had been
In the strike recently remarked that he had
lost great deal OF valuable time and
spent many hard earned dollar in sup
porting strikes which have only resulted
In enabling fr" lah, l,-,d,-r- OF lhe trades
unions To live without work
The -. John Telegraph says tha, more
t'an one-balf OF the BEST timber lands in
New Brunswick have been utterly DESTROY
ed by fire, wind and axe. while nlne-tenths
of the remaining have been worked on so
much that they have been largely deprived
OF their most valuable son woods.
The switchman upon whom the cor
oner's jury place the responsibility for the
disaster at stony Creek, was also postmas-
ter. station agent. express agent. baggage
master, freight clerk, AID occasionally did
some telegraphing for the Company, as in
this emergency. No wonder there was an
accident.
i he very smartest woman has at last
been discovered. She lives In New Hamp-
shire, Is ninety-three years old. on recent
saturday evening vigorously spanked an
assortment OF her descendants, as follows:
ohe own child, seventeen grandchildren,
twenty-five great grandchildren and one
great great child.
"A boy found gold dollar on an an,
in ftt... old I.
Fort Fillmore. New Mexico, a short time
since. The following day three dollars
were fonnd in the same place. They had
evidently been brought up by the ants.
Search was made asl a small wooden box
badly decayed. containing $50 gold dollars
was fo.ud about foot below the surface.
THE GREAT ST. LOUIS BRrDGE-A final
and very severe test OF the 81. Louis and
Illinois bridge was made Thursday. Four
teen locomotives averaging forty tons each
were placed seven on each track of each
arch, which produced 4 detection of two
ana hall inches on the centre arch, which
Is I'VE hundred and twenty feet long sew
era! other tests were made. all oe which |
We're considered highly satisfactory.
-Ex-Governor Miller Of Minnesota. who |
has been on tour of observation in that |
State. reports that there is stretch OF |
country fifty miles In width and extending
from the Iowa line northwesterly to Lake
Shetek. from which the grasshOppers have
removed every vestige of the wheat crop
and about every other kind of vegetation.
Gov. Miller's report is confirmed by the
statements Of local papers.
The dignity of labor is well exempli.
led at the White Mountains. A Dartmouth
College stndent, who Is to enter the Divin.
ty school at Cambridge, next autumn, is
now head waiter at one hotel. and Others
rom the same college are porters and
servants in the AminOnusuc Valley.
who do not think il unia.
iylike to work, stand behind the tables of
he Twin Mountain House. none of whom
'ut could grace its parlOrs at the conclu-
ion OF their toll. Vermont and New Hamp-
hire people believe in the ennoDiipy quail
ties Of honorable and independent labor.
POSTAL MATTERS. amount of post.
ge stamps aud stamped envelopes issued
uring the fiscal year ending June 30 was.
xclusive Of those used for Official com
e2l ,l57, ,434 7s. an increase
yer the previous year Of @63I ,SO4 80, or
yer three per cent. The issues Of postal
ards amount to 500, 100, and of odlciaI
lamps to el,769. .3Ol SO. The Increased ;
sues over the previous year Is fourteen
nd four-tenths per cent. while for the I've
ears from July !, 1858, to June 30, 1873. &,
10 annual increase was but eight per
ent. The sales Of postage stamps and i;
amped envelopes In the United States
nly and amounted to more than hall !
million dollars. ,
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