Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-11-21
Home and Foreign News.

The yellow fever contribution, amount
ed altogether to 1889, 900.
A Toronto special says small box
threatens TO become epidemic there.
Davis J kiog, nominated BY the work
insmen Of Boston Tor mayor, has declined
The last aud short session Of the pres
ent Congress will begin one week from
next Monday.
The republicans will have seven ma
iority on joint ballot in the New Jersey
Legislature. Ia the lsst legislature the
democrats had nine majority.
The mushroom season has opened
You can tell them easily. PICK aud eat
them. IL YOU survive they are mushroom. /:
II they Iii you then they are toad,tuuls
The grave oil Commodore Vanderbilt
IN the Moravian cemetery, has now "A strict
watch kept over II lest Il should -niicr the
outrage that Stewart's met with
1t is confidently believed that the no.
lice have succeeded IA unrayrliiu. The
mystery OF the Manhattan Saving, Bank
robbery and that one oi the chief operators,
Henry Nreeland. is IN custody.
1t IS reported that further outbreak
by kaiiirs is immineat. The rebel tribes
are nassed under the King Of Zulu, The
British force on the frontier * in danger
OF being overwhelmed unless promptly re-
inforced
The democratic Returning Board OF
North Carolina has counted out O'lIara,
colored republican candidate for Congress,
who had a ma iorty OF 1000. aud will award
the certificate to ketchen, democrat.
The police OF Berlin report that al
least onc-ttnth OF the inhabitants OF that
city live Ia cellars. The mortality among
them is great. Half The houses OF the city
are excessively crowded.
The solid democracy OF Georgia is far
from harmonious. Gov. Colquitt is to be
Investigated at his own request, aud is
threatened with impeachment There is
bitter opposition to the reelection of Sena-
tor Gordon.
-Fifty-three private soldiers of Japan
were shot to death for mutiny last month,
and one hundred and sixty-six others con-
demned TO serve from ten to one years.
Imprisonment each for like crime.
The monument 10 General Custer has
arrived at West Point. IL is OF Vermont
marble, and OF most artistic design and
of large size, requiring an entire car for its
transportation.
-Ex-Secretary Chandler of Michigan is
reported as giving his opinion that the
republicans can elect either Gen. Grant or
Senator Blaine in 1880 He thinks Senator
Bayard the strongest democratic candi-
date. but does not believe that he will get
the nomination.
The Andover Theological Seminary
has recently received gift of $50 900 az
the foundation of u chair called the Rela-
tons OF Christianity and Science, the first
chair OF the kind that has been established
in this country.
The experiment of lighting the Assem-
bly, chamber In the new Capitol at Albany
by means OF electricity was tried on We'd
nesday evening, and proved very satis.ac-
tory. The light was soft, clear ard equal
ly diffused, and the smallest print could
be read easily.
The three republican Congressman
elected 10 North Carolina have probably
been counted out under law passed by
the last democratic Legislature OF that
state. BY that law both precinct and coun-
ty officers OF elections have opportunities
TO revise and correct the returns These
have been widely and uDscrupuousy used
by democratic officers in the exact way in
tended by the trainers of the law.
MIR Moody is opposed to church fairs.
AT Baltimore he said a few days ago
Aud there are your grab-bags-your
grab-bags. | tell you there is too much
OF this. Your fairs and your bazaars won't
do, and your voting, your casting Of ballots
for the most popular man or the most pop
ular woman, just helping along their van
ity. l tell you it grieves the spirit. it
offends God. They've got so far now that
for twenty-five cents young men can come
in and kiss the handsomest woman in the
room. Think of thi,l look at the church
lotteries going on IN New York. Before |
God ! would rather preach in any barn.
the most miserable hOyel on earth, than |
within the walls OF a church. paid for in |
such way"