Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1875-09-23
(signedb EDWARDS PIrRREPoST,
Attorney-Geueral.

oI- W TtpllS on receipt
Of this and state explicitly what you need.
Very respectfully yours,
tsigned) EDWARDS PIrRREPoSr,
Attorney General.
Calais is to have two new school
houses, costing $4,000.
Mr.. b. l.. Murphy. a Chicago pork
packer, has failed. Liabilities over Si00.-
600.
In some caves in Greenwood. ice was
found few days ago-a cheap ice-house.
A boy was arrested in New York
Thursday with a valise full OF brewery in
ternal revenue stamps amounting to over
st0o, 900.
Jordan. Marsh & Co.'S wholesale
house In Central court was badly damaged
by fire Friday loss estimated AT $50 900.
The helmsinan of the propeller Equi-
nox. the only survivor of the wreck makes
an explanation generating all the officers
and employees from blame.
Two men. Trask and Wyman. passing
a house on the neck In Benton. Monday
were fired at by the inmates Trask re-
ceived several shots in the shou lder and
Wyman one through the windpipe. Cause
unknown.
Commodore Perry's flagship, the Law.
ren,e. sunk in Erie harbor sixty-two yeays
ago. was raised Monday, and the bottom
found 10 be in good state Of preservation.
She Is To be exhibited at the centennial
An Illinois judge has decided thar
neither teachers nor directors can expel a
child from public school tor absence.
The officers OF the propeller Depoe
report the laundering OF Point Betsy,
Lake Michigan. Thursday night. OF the
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passengers and crew were drowned and
seven saved. n e Mendoza was upward
bound laden with corn. She was original
ly New York Central propeller, and
mate 10 the Dakota, lost on Lake Erie sew
eral years ago.
The steamer Zodiac, which lef Nassau
the afternoon OF the 9Th, took fire the next
morning. and with the cargo vas totally
destroyed. All the passengers, officers
aud the crew were saved; every thing else
was lost. Inc disaster occurred twenty
nine miles from Ahaco. All hands took To
tie boats, In which they were one dag be-
fore being rescued, with no provisions. I'M
der broiling sun. The fire was probably
caused by the spontaneous combustion OF
some old oaAum.
The oldest tree In the world i said to
be bo-tree At Anuradhapura. ia Ceylon,
which was planted b. c. 2sS. Il is so de-
crepid with age that it would have blown
down long age were ii not for a strong wall
encircling the trunk and pillars supporting
all the main branches. Every leaf that
falls from the tree /. picked up with pious
care by the Buddhist priests aud preserved
in holy part OF their temple The leaves
are thence sold to the people A. a .over-
eisn pauacca Tor their sins
astonish the natives by their skill in catch
ing flies in >hop window. where they are
allowed 10 pursue their useful sport with
out molcststion. The, gnaN ed th,ir way
into the place and al once. began the Won
of fly-catching. To The qualification OF the
shopAeeper.
In the town of Venice. New York.
Monday Harrison Andrews. aged so wears.
went 10 his sons bedroom and crushed his
skull with Ratchet, lie then aroused his
two daughters and shot Mary through the
body with II revolver, inilicting severe
wound. The girls escaped and aroused the
neighbors. Andrews then set fire TO the
house and ended by shooting himself Tie
neighbors extnguished the fire aud pro-
cured medical attendance for the " ounded.
The son will hardly recover. Andrews
had an ungovernable temper.
A shocking accident occurred in New
York. Tuesday. by which three men were
killed. aud several others injured The
Aerial Ladder Co had been ordered out
for practice at the junction Of East Broad
way and Canal streets. The ladder was
raised l2J ieet in the air, aud eight men
mounted 1t, William ii. Nash. chef OF the
battalion, being at the top. While the fire
men were going through the evoiutions,
l.,l. t..rs III
moments warning. broke at the second
sect al, aud those on il were precipitated
To the ground. Nash was in stantly killed.
and Phillip Morse and VIM. Hughes so ter
iibly mangled that they died while being
conveyed TO the station no Use. Several
other persons were more or less Injured
but are cared tor by their (, lends.
WASHINGTON, Sept. l7.-Secretary Brls-
tow calls in the folio wing numbered bonds
of 1874, the principal and accrued interest
payable At the Treasury In Washington,
on aud after December IL: Coupon bonds,
$50. Nos. 25Ol to 1900 both inclusive;
500, Nos. 70Ol to 10, 600 inclusive; $500.
Nos. 10, l0l to 1890 inclusive; $1,000, Nos.
39.SOl to $500 both inclusive Total
e4oO, 900.
NEW YORK, Sept. IA special from
Houston, Texas. dated yesterday, says
there has been fearful gale at Galveston
since yesterday morning. The city i. par
TALLY under Watar, which is several feet
deep in the principal streets. Several
wreaks are reported. The Ocean House on
Gulf Beach is entirely surrounded with
water, aud the out houses gone. The City
Hospital is filled with water. and much
damage is already sustained by citizens.
who are terribly frightened. The storm is
pronounced the heaviest since 1857
Thirty workDen on the breakwater being
built by the government, were cut off and
are lost. The Santa Fee railroad bridge
acrost the bay was swept away, aud the
Houston railroad bridge is under water,
twenty feet OF this end being washed away.