Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-10-24

Fernando Wood va, a cigar maker BY
trade.
Fifteen hundred women and girls
work in printing Offices 10 New York city.
Stanley has contracted t" deliver one
hundred lectures In England upon Africa
-Marston, who was tried At Denver.
Colorado. for the murder Of young Higgins
by poisoning. has been acquitted.
JED Davis, aged twenty-one wears,
only son OF Jefferson Davis. died at Mem
phis, "wednesday. OF yellow fever.
The Duke OF Edinburg has started for
Canada to welcome the Marquis OF Lorne
and Princess Louise on their arrival there.
An Electric Light Company. with q
capital OF $500 900, to produce light, hest
aud power BY electricity, has been incor-
porsted In New York.
Any slave who enters any portion Of
Spain or any Of the colonies outside the
Island OF Cuba shall be declared free, &C
cording To recent decree.
-Besssrabia was surrendered TO Russia
Monday. All the Roumanian authorities
have quilted the Province.
There have been runs on some building
Associations 10 London, and an uneasy feel
Ing still prevails which may develop into a
panic at any time.
A hurricane accompanied with heavy
rain, swept over Cuba on Sunday last.
Trees were blown down. buildings dam
aged, and several vessels sunk.
The Vienna Free Pres complains that
the export OF Hungarian wheat Is almost at
. standstilI, partly in consequence OF
Americans undertaking Hungarian mark
cts.
"A steamer 10 expected to sail from
New Haven, Thursday, with munitions Of
war for Turkey, including 81, 600 rifles.
$4,000 sabres. and 81 ,00O, 600 balls and val
Ged at e9l7 900.
Admiral PauIdinx, Senior Flag ofYlcer
on the retired list OF the Navy. and son OF
the csptor OF Major Andre, and the last
surviving oficer OF the battle of Lake
Champlain, died Sunday.
-Garibaldi will perhaps be . man Of
comfortable fortune sfter all. He has sold
to company the privilege OF quarrl ng
granite on the island Of Caprera, to = We
the streets OF Rome.
Mr.. Tilden's card 10 generally treated
by the independent press as simply plea
OF not guilty. 1t Is regarded As confirm
ing rather than weakening the damaging
evidence OF the cipher dispatches.
Mrs. Ida Greeley Smiths son Is to be
named aud known - Horace Greeley. jr,"
II. when Of age. the junior wants 10 add
the word Smith" to his great, good grand
fathers name. he will be st liberty tn do so.
An exchange says: Think Of wha, an
agricultural iair must be 10 California.
with csbbsges Ave fee, In circumference,
pumpkins weighing . hundred pounds. Gu
cumbers = yard long. and peaches and
pears ~ large as your head.
Lieut.. Bsnner Of the United States
army. who coursgeOUsly volunteered to
take command OF the expedition down the
Mississippi river to furnish relief for the
lever stricken districts, has fallen . victim
to the plague. Ne died 1t Vicksburx.
Three Of the great Minneapolis flour
mills. which suffered from the disastrous
explosion last May. have been rebuilt. the
great Washburu mill being on = much
larger scale than before. 1t will be huge
structure, the largest and finest in the
world.
An Ottawa. Canada, dispatch says =
Robert McAUlsey. Ward Chaplain Ut the
Orange Young BritOns, has been missing
since the LIST Inst. His body was found in
the river Friday. Shot In the back of the
heed. The murder Is attributed to the
late relt0i0us disturbance. An inquest is
pendiug.
-Gsmbetta, the French Republican lead.
er. must be- queer compound. according
To Col. Porney's description OF him. For
ney SAYS he II Large, short and square.
with = One head, . Hebrew nose, Rus.
sien jaw. an Italian forehead. q Swiss
.oate. bad eye and bright, inQuiring