Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1879-03-20
Gen. Grant and party left Calcuti .
Monday for Rangoon and Singapore.

ten. Grant and party LETT Caicutt .
Monday for Rangoon and Singapore.
AT the city election In Sacramento,
Cal, the Republicans made a clean sweep.
beating the Democrats and working men.
The S,-- judge, Of virsi"'- "-,v 800. ..
By not allowing negroes 10 jurics
The Indianapolis Journal say. that
from present indications the hard morey
wing Of the Democratic party in Indiana
-. u be fairly on the top 10 lsso."
Al meeting OF the Philadelphia Iron
Merchants Association. last week, the
pnce OF all descriptions OF merchant iron
were advanced fully i've per cent.
-Oryille Grant, brother OF Gen Gran,
Is al Washington. lie Is practically insane
and Is In pitliul condition.
Matt Carpenter Is credited with the
assertion that IL the extra session OF Con-
gress lasts thirty days, the Democratic
party will ruin Itself.
DIR. John NJ. Woodwork, supervising
surgeon general OF the marine hospital ser
vice. died at Washington Friday morning
vi pneumonia.
-Ex.Congres.man Smslls Of South Car
olina, has not only cared for the " dowed
daughter OF his former master, bot has pro-
cured her son an appointment as a cadet
10 the United States Naval Academy.
The trial OF Hull OF Florida. on his in
dictment for procuring fraud to secure his
election 10 Congress, has been postponed
until May. He can. therefore. occupy his
stolen seat aud aid Ia the organization OF
the House the 18th inst.
Governor Prescott OF New Hampshire
has appointed Charles IL Bell OF Exeter,
Senator for the extra session TO I'LL the va
cancy occasioned by the expiration OF the
Term OF Senator wssleigh. Bell has &C
copied.
MIR. Russell recently elected AS Green
hacker To Congress from North CArolins,
was . rebel captain at IL years OF age. and
was a member OF the State Legislature al
10. He is now SO years old.
A Chicago exchange strikes The nail
fairly on the head: Never 20 where you
are not wanted, IL man wants you to
come TO mis- place OF business he will invite
you through an advertisement. 1t is wrong
to intrude on privacy"
Queen Victoria, II Is rumored, has ex-
pressed q strong wish TO see CaDada, and
the Prince OF Wales is encouraging her to
visit both that country and the United
States.
IL the fight which the Democrats are
about TO make Is not for the right TO stuff
ballot-boxes, will some person interested
tell US why they propose To clog the wheels
OF the governmentG- Boston Journal.
Mrs. Lockwood, the first woman ad-
mitted to practice in the Supreme Court, is
fifry years old, tall. erect, gray-hsired, and
the possessor Of fine eyes. She made her
first appearance 10 the court dressed In q
sem-mannish blse cloth sacque. with brass
buttons and plain velveteen skirt
A San Francisco dispatch says much
damage is reported in a storm In the vicin-
ity OF HUMBOLDT Bay. Rivers are over
flowed, bridges carried away, stage and
telegraph connection suspended, farming
lands flooded, dwellings swept away. two
lives lost and several persons injured.
The loss Of stock Is very heavy.
"A skeleton OF man was found recently
Ia An abandoned lead mine Ct Elleuville,
Ulster county, n. Y, which was being re-
opened, and has been Identified as the re-
mains Of David Smith, telegraph Oper ator,
who disappeared mysteriously from that
village la 1866. Smith was then aged p
aud was supposed to have ieft on account
Of a love affair. His mother has identified
his clothing. Medical examination OF the
skeleton disclosed . stin hip joint which
was the case with Smith. Neither watch
nor money Was found with the remains,
though Smith carried both. The general
belief is that Smith was murdered. Rumor
charges the crime to . dead man. whose
home was near the mine where the body
vas found. Just before his disappearance
Smith had trouble with this man. whose
name was Flicker and who was Of violent
temper and cruel to his family. Three
years ago Flicker became insane and fire.
oueptly visited the old mine. Pointing
Into il he world cry. There he goes;
there he goes" seeming to see some one
filling down the SHAFT. He was taken to
an asylum, where he died. Remorse il
supposed to have caused insanity.