Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1875-03-18

The strike OF fail River weaver, stll
continues.
The President hA- nominated Daniel
W. G""Ch oi Boston, ~ pension agent at
that city.
The Pennsylvania miners no are on
.triAe declare that tn y can stand 1t for
TWO months aui even longer.
-IMrnty barrels 81 naptha burned on
III" be" at fon Jcryls, produced no i'm.
pIc->i"n.
Senator Andrew John-on's wife i, ~
ing 1t the point oil death, with no hope oi
recovery.
In The extra session Of the Seu4t. on
saturday the resolution admitting rtnch-
back Was discussed and opposed by S-ua-
tors Edmund, of Vermont Thurman of
Ohip and Whyte oi Maryland
The Massachusetts House has passed
TO Third reading li6 /" -. the license hlI
wiki the local option clause l-u out.
The Poiaesy York controversy. Ia
voly.ng charges Of bribery xgAin~t iome-
roy Of Kansas, Is over. aud the famous
5000 has been turned over to PomcGoy
after dednctus the cost incurred Ia prose
cutting, amounting 10 $1,000.
Silver mining has commenced In ~ u
earnest at Rocky Hi, Mass. Two >Aaus
are already sunk, one fifteen and the other
twenty feet, aul line specimens OF ore are
obtained from white quartz.
The emigration to this country. VIA
New York. for the month OF February
1875, was i.N76, against I ,22 for February
1874. Tins. looks a II the tide is a.alu
turned toward this country.
A negro was shot In saloon In Way.
erly. Missousi, because be iutrrf,ied to
prevent White men putin: out auoth-t
negro who 49, la ,,I bed.
a man and 4 woman Al Hartford have
just finished a str = of 1000 games OF crib
ha2e. h.guu in October. aud The woman
won JO2 of them.
The leaders Of the woman's ri.ht.
movement ia Mas aclIu>rtts who have
been c.amoring Tor jcar>. for the admits
zion ui thrlr sex into the educational In,li-
iutluu> es:ab .i>hed for young men. are now
a. earnestly crying Tor separate prison
TOT women.
Nearly ore hundred per>oss who we're
over one hundred years OF aye, died 10 the
United states i'll 1873 and lS7i-Seycrll
Of these persons were l2J year. old
Spelling matches are all the vogue IN
Providence. X. |. and men and women OF
All c;as>c- are studying the Spelling Book
On fhur-day the Brown University 10, ,
lad spelling match with the Normal
School glr.s. aud the former came OF VIC
tors.
Petitions for the passage OF prohib-
tory lqunr liw are poutldg into the Cana
da Domnl"n ParIiI,n-ut un1 IN Session al
OTTAWA There we're Is 90 >.uerS on PEE
- t..
mcur defeated the whOlc matter by taLling
The petitions.
according 10 Berlin despatch. Bis
matck iia> thrown on. pretty strong hint
tn France that the proposed experiment.
tai concentration OF Frcuch troops Oh the
rA.tern border better be- dispensed with
brigham Young having refused to
Eliza iouag. hi, divorced wife. the 81 900
annual aIimoIy decr-ed by the court.
Judge Walker on Thursday. adjl,dg-d
Brigham guilty OF contempt OF court, and
ordered him 10 pay 5000 aud 10 be i'm
pri-oned Tor oi.e day. Brigham paid his
fine. aud was lodged in the peni.efiary
tor t"ei.'y-four hours. Brigham says his
object il ~ lest the question ~ the Su-
preme Court Of the United States.
The Louisville lottery has made its
last drawing, and II is to be hoped it will
be the last operation of the kind attempt
ed in this country. The big $3.50. 600 parse
was whitfield down TO $3.50 600 because the
full number Of tickets had not been sold
according IL the original scheme which
leaves the opportunity for belief that the
managers made money out of the 'scaIng
down" OF course the man who got the
biz plum will take il and 90 10 speedy ru-
ia like all his lottery predecessors. and
the great multitude. who did not drav
pieayune, will curse their luck, as usual.
According to the New York cores
pondent Of the. Boston journal. himself
clergyman. the financial condition of minv
Of the New York churches is discouragng
in the extreme. They are hea,ily In DEBT
they cannot all pay the the salaTies they
have agreed TO give; the popular minister
does not always succeed in supplying HE
income which was expected from his do
qdence or other talents.
Senator SchurZ writes to a friend at
st. Losis that he shall return soon to bis
newspaper In that city, after spending a
short time In the Eastern States for DE
purpose OF collecting material for his p'o-
posed History OF American Politics. Ii is
understood that the Senator goes abroad
in the spring with his family to see bis
daughter, who is still at German school.
The programme has peen definitely A.
ranged for the centennial celebration If
the battle Of Lexington and Cone0xd. to be
held at the latter town on the nineteenth
Of April next. THE address at the dedics.
ton OF the monument will be delivered tg
Ralph Waldo Emerson; the poem Nv
amaS AnSsan nwall