Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1874-11-05

Babylon and Nineveh are lighted with
American petroleum.
Captain Mayne Reid is lying danger
ously III in London.
-Rinehart, the Bait more sculptor. has
died in Rome.
The cheese made In Canada this year
will closely approach $500, 900 In value.
The Lieut.. Governor has fixed Thurs
day. Nov. 26th, as the annual thank sgiy-
ing In Mass.
The English revision of the Old Tesla
ment has got "a far as the seventh chapter
OF the Second Book Of Samuel.
MIR. James 4. Fields is said Ia have
been invited to three chairs as professor OF
English literature and rhetoric IN "a many
| colleges within short tine.
1t is thought that the Hoosac Tunnel
Will be completed about January lst. The
contract for archiug the tunnel has been
awarded to u. y. Parrcn. OF Greenfield.
and it will take about year 10 flush it.
The question who shall pay the bills
for entertaining Horace Greeley on his Wis
1t TO Cincinnati in the fall OF 1872 Is before
the Ohio courts.
The California foundries and other
manufactures are So crowded with work
that they are running night and day. says
the San Francisco Bulletil. CalifDrui, is a
hard money state.
A square fag-stone of some eighty
pounds weight was recently showed out
OF place In an English town by the united
efforts Of only three mushrooms growing
| under IT,.
John Lizard, the well known ship build.
cr, and member OF Parliament for Birkcn-
head, died in London, Oct. 18th. after a
protracted Illness.
An ingenious Frenchman IN the Balti-
more Jail has invented an Improvement
for sewing the heels gu shoes, for which
he has been offered 5000. This, says the
Louisville Commercial. Is the second time
In the worlds history that the inmate Of a
Jail has aided the Pilgrims Progress"
A correspondent otthe Boston Journal
says that on Mitchcll's map, edition oi
ls6i. a rock marked "Daracth's Rock. " i
I located In the same latitude and longitude
a. that ciyen by Capt. Pica>so.
"A North Carolina minister lost his life
n week or two ago Ia a singular manner
lie WAS amounting his body with Kerosene
a. a cure for rheumatism. when the oil
was iguited by the lire on the hearth near
which lie wa, standing. aud he was burn
ed Ia death.
1t i rare that 50 profitable farm
speculation j. recorded a, one told OF Ia
California papers. Two yeats age some
parties puFchascd the celebrated ranch 81
3U0 acres In Cniu,ia county for s2l go.
They have since raised $4,000 worth OF
wheat upon n. and have just sold the
ranch Tor sj0.po0.
The mechanical power of vegetables l.
\ squash experimental with at the Az
ricu!tural College in Amherst i no slrug-
CLING successfully against weight of
four Thousand pounds In Pelham l. "A
birch tee growing out uf a ledge OF rock
The tree j. two feet la diameter and nearly
80 feet 10 height. one Of IT, roots ha.
forced it, Way under "A huge mass OF rock.
weighing according 10 the estimate. fully
30 tons. and has detached II from the main
rock. 80 that about an inch intcrvcne..
Bret Hartc is one of the mos, domestic
OF men. and spend, all OF his tine with
hi, family at Mofri,town. y. J. His wife
i a woman OF more than ordinary intelli-
genCe, and he has three small childreu
all boys. The next to the oldest boy,
Frank, Inherit. his fathers talent, and al
though not more than ten years OF age.
has written some stories that are worthy
VI - tH'it pen.
In the ordinary course OF business tro
kilograms were recently sent from New
York To London. and answers received to
one IN thirty. aud In the other In thirty five
minutes actual time. Each message was
transmitted 5000 miles aud passed through
the hands Of eighteen persons. The mes
sage and reply in each case passed through
the hand, Of thirty six persons. aE'l travel
led over ZOO miles In thirty TO lhirty.tiye
minutes.
The water i so transparent in the
Merrimac river at the present time that the
smallest objects can be seen on the river
bed al depth OF twenty-five or thirty feet
Timber can be seen which perhaps has
lain on the bottom for many years, aud a
short way below the piers at Nrwburyport
AL anchor aud chain were found aud buoy
eel out 10 be removed. The pilots have
made Use 90 this occasion and have drscoy-
cred rock winch blip.'. "rf- ahhnown 10
them.
a sad story comes from western Ne
braSka, To the effect that AT least four thou
sand person. in that section are kccuiy suf-
fcriug for the very nccessaries of life, aud
many actually starving 10 death. crops hay-
ing been destroyed 5y the terrible grass
hopper The Information comes from
General Ord. commander OF that military
department. aud is not exaggerated
One element OF Bismarck success a
a strategl,t is indicated by an anecdote
concerning him which Is quite current Ia
Europe. On certain occasion. being ask
ed 10 explain his extraordinary luck AT
whist he replied. 'N hen get an oppor-
tuniiy Invariably look into the hand Of
my opponent"
A SCoUSDREL.-Privatea dyices received
in Portland Monday state that the ship
"Enos Soule,H OF Freeport. arrived out at
Albany. King Georges Sound. Australia,
after remarkably quick passage. That.
while living AZ anchor, one of the crew
who must have hrcn 4 black-hearted
scound rci-bccau,e nothing lad occurred
in anyway 10 excite his ire against cap
tain or crew-crept in between decks aud
set the vessel ON hre. Luckily he was
caught by Captain Drinkwater in the act,
who writes that the villain would proba-
bly, be hung by the time the letter reached
home containing the news.