Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1879-08-14
Home and Foreign News.

-tety~ayo. the Zulu King. Is not So
thoroughly conquered A. was Supposed. bat
threatens 70 give further trouble.
There yer. twenty-five deaths from
yellow fever Ia Memphis FRIDAY The |
board Of health has decided TO pronounce
the disease epidemic.
A tract OF wild West Virginia land,
thought tn be worthless. for which Horace |
Crc"lcy paid $40 900. has recently become
worth o.o"o 10 his estate.
TIL. Republican state committee OF
Ohio have decided ~ open the campaign (
August aDSh. Secretary ScLurx speaks AZ /
Cincinnati Aug. a0gh. COLUMBIA. 2i.,, TOT /
3D. I'd
-Sscr-i>ry Sherman took hand al set F.
iliag the fishery question on hi. way 10 I
Sespori the other dsy. when he caught
.so1d a.h weighing so pounds.
capt. Esds, who has jG.i completed
The Mississippi iettics, IL described a. =
short AMI slender man. ~ith a pale. but
thoug hifui and determined face. and very
quiet manner.
The monument ~ memory ~ General
Custer will srou br unveiled a. We,
Post The arrangements fOr the occasion
arr EeArly complete.
The Executor. Of the late Brigham
fnarg are In bal state They have
sqasndcrcd he property aud been sent 10
thu rrulIebliary for coaiempi.
-- The financial articles Of the Sew ors
.Ssa aud som, other paper. have begun TO
sdsi.e tho national hanss To tsru their
gr-esbacks into goId While they can. and
maze ready Tor the silver sgorn
Rev. SrsmAn Hall, the boted CONG
49, .H..Ns ~ \
b-.n divorced from bis Sife on account ~
the latter. lnsiciHy. She made counter
charge OF IN. s.nn. kia.i sgatn-i HIN.
Rev ". II II Marray /. 10 san rrau.
cisco. uis alleged hnsnciai failurs reach
ed him by telegraph lie utterly repaid.
stcs tho iusinuatton that b. has .'di.Ap-
pared. OF ). 10 Any way seeking ID csadr
b.. llsbsntie.
-Iacrriia Mott has been elected PIcsi-
dent Of tho Fcnn.yIsania Peace Society.
She Il ~ gear. old. Aai |. the most re.rA
able woman OF her year. IN the coaGlry
She ha. been sps.kln. In p1blle since she
was :J years old.
Albert Victor and George &C alcs
son. OF the fI.nce u WAKES. have b.,
graduated a. midshlpm.n from the train
Ing ship Britannia. The Engii.h news
pagers say thai the hnAl examIna.ioa gas
very satisfactory.
The Toledo tOhioJ Biaa> remark.
with wheat al 3o ba.hels tn the acre. srd
seliiag at about 81. and thar dollar being
gold. or a. good a. gold. IL Is up-hill bus
mes. Ia talk Of ruin. What begin. Ia a
gruan generally ends In a grin"
II Alexander H. stephen. could have
bis way he would Invite silver from all The
nine. 10 all the earth until h- had 81 90.
If N t,.-
upon Ii. That j. the sini - silver msn
be is. India seem. 70 b. stephens Ideal.
The collision between the bark Alice.
Dyer. OF Llneolnriilc. aud the Spanish
brig, recently reported NJ New York, has
been settled. The Spznlari being wholly
NJ fault pays all damages TO both yessels.
The Alice Vas Injured TO the exient of 500.
While the damages 10 The brig are greater.
The San Antonio E1press publishes Al
account OF the discovery OF . silver bon
| aura In Mexico. about four hundred miles
south vest Of San Antonio. The ore as
says my per cent pure silver. The vein
10 my feet thick. A town Of GOO iuhabl-
tanis has sprung up In the last lev weeks.
1T tber. be no practical remedy for
these Manifestations At the South OF Mexi-
| canism. In the forms OF Law and judicial
procedure. then Q remedy will be found In
Southern barbarism. OF this, Southern
men can be very aure.-.Chicago Times,
Democrat.
An explosion occurred Friday In the
drying room Of q candy factory In New
| York caused by super-heafed starch fal-
| ling upon red hot stove. Three men were
severely burned. This recalls and doubtless
explains the hitherto my sterious explosion
in the candy factory on Barclay street in
| 1877. BY which Is persons were killed or
MANNED for life.
The hair Of James Gordon Bennett,
/ Ike that OF Stokes and others who have
| formed the habit Of drinking champagne
| Instead Of wafer, has turned compar atlvely
white. Mr.. Bennett's eyes. also, are very
singular. He has what q horsemaa calls
tina, is. the Iris Of the eye
Is a light gray. while the popil or central
dot Is white.
The ST. Louis Journal Of Commerce on
| Saturday contained extracts from all sec
tons Of the West, particularly from coun-
try merchants. all OF which note large
increase Of business. the rapid restor alton
| OF confidence among all classes, abundant
| crops, general prosperity and bright pros
| poets for The future In all departments OF
trade.
| Colonel r. W. Higglnson comes gal
lsntly to the defence OF women's work.
declaring that the CRITICISMS that men
make upon it grow out OF the impression
that oil work Is easy which one does not
understand. Just as hay-making." he
SAYS sis the lightest ard most graceful OF
| labors to those who have never personally
handled . hay-fork; so Is the greater part
Of . woman's days work easy TO = man
| until he has tried IL.
james w. Brown, formerly OF Belfast
| with oth9s. has been granted . charter by
| the legislature OF Massachusetts,, TO organ
| ixe the Subterranesn Cable company OF
Boston. with q capital Of el5O,00O. The
object Is to lay pipes under the streets Of
| Boston and Cambridge. through which te,e-
graphic wires will be run. instead Of going
| overhead - now.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher stated
| In public lecture upon amusements, re-
, Gently delivered, that In his estimation
1.-THE game Of games was billiards." Under
proper restrictions he heartily endorsed it,
aud WAS himself the owner OF two tables, ]
one 1t his house 10 Peekskill and one ~ |
his home Ia Brooklyn; these were pur-
chased with the intention Of keeping his |
boys from the Questionable surroundings |
Of public halls, and the result had shown |
hat q hi1kiAR6 fahla wifh = chs ulniu 4 L |