Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1875-05-13
General News.

snow Tell AT Salt Lake saturday.
I. :. Internal Revenue Comm> ,ioner
Douglass ha, been removed. and Daniel
4 -. Pratt ex-senator from Indiana appoiut-
/ ed t. fill the vacancy
Judge Pierrcpont enters upon hi, du-
tie n attorney general this week.
A fire in san Francisco. SUNDAY night.
1 destroyed property to the amount ot 500
/ 900
Vice President wilson j, in Memphis.
lie was received 10y the city government.
The striking coal miner, OF Pcun>ylya-
MA are nov busy in attempts at buruin.
railway bridges aud wreckm. trains,
-Barnum's Roman hippo irome opens in
( Boston on the 18th.
-Nturteyant. the Halifax murderer. wa-
/ executed at Plymouth. y. II Friday
morning.
Dartmouth College has received a lib
/ cral gift OF $4,000 from Mrs. Bet>ey White
! house of Suucook. y. H.
The Lowell mill strikers have received
+ $500 from their friends in the Lewiston
mills, 10 assist them in their strike.
la the suit against the Springfield Re-
( publican Tor S2OO.OOO damages for libel. the
jury gave the plaintiff verdict OF 800.
The American Tract Society. up to
ls.j. has printed y 5000 volumes OF it,
/ various publications. besides over 4O0. OOO.-
900 copies OF tracts and periodicals.
baltimore city council has appropria-
ted $4,000 To defIay the expenses oi the
Filth Maryland Regiment at the Bunker
Z Hill centennial.
-lwenty-thousand alligat n skins are
tanned every year. and the business has
/ become an important branch of industry at
1 the South.
In the next University race the Harry
ard boys will sail under their original col.
I or-crimson. Magenta came in use about
ten years ago. when there was no crimson
| in the market.
: New York city pays forty per cent Of
all Il newspaper postage Of the country,
paying the last quarter $4,000, Chicago
coming next. with SIS, 900. Boston paid
| $4,000, and Philadelphia $4,000.
Reports from peach sections of New
Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania indicate
that the late severe weather has not ma
| terially damaged the crop.
The 10th anniversary of the National
! Temperance Society and publication house
! Hall, New York. in the presence of about
| 5000 people. Ex-senator John O'Donnell
| presided. The annual report of the Socie.
| ty was read The publications of the So
| ciety number about 400, and 2,170OQ0 pa
! pers have been Published and circulated
| during the past year.
The Fifth Maryland Regiment has ten.
dered its services to the President as es-
cort to the Bunker Hill Centennial. and
the President has accepted.
The New York and BROOKLYN Bridge
| Company bill has passed the New York
Legislature. 1t limits the amount of ex.
penditure to SIS 100000.
The shipments of treasure from San
Francisco to the East and to Europe dur
ing the first quarter of the present wear
were sl3, 622 200.
Last year there were 1924 breweries
in operation In the Union. New York hay.
ing 349. and Pennsylvania S47. In all New
England there were only "a. Vermont hay-
ing none.
During the second session Of the Forty
third Congress. 203 general laws and l64
private acts were enacted, ten Joint resolu-
tons passed. five new treaties negotiated
and five Executive prOclamations issued.