Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1879-07-10

A fatal case Of cholera is reported from
Fall River. Mass.
1t IL reported that boy answering the
description Of Charley Ross Is living near
Cowansville. Canada. with a French Cana
dian family.
MIR. Edison has been exhibiting to bis
frirn'ls new telephone. which is OF such
power that the receiver need not be placed
at the ear In order To catch the sounds.
The last slave sold In the Confederacy
was In 1895, near Richmond. a negro man.
who was bought for 900 heads OF cabbage.
Cabbage was worth a dollar head. com
seqnentlv the negro msu footed mp at $500.
After an apportionmrnt Of representa-
tives on the census Of lss0. surprising that
the House will contain 800. the Northern
States viii hsve 5l3 and the solid South
bot 81 Thus does the national section
gain strength.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that
the very moderate tone assumed by Gen.
Ewing on the financial question Ia his
speech st Columbus the other night Is con-
hrmatory II the report that the General
and Samuel J Ilden have formed an ALT
snce Of the basis of anything 10 carry
Ohio"
A school Of biackash were discovered
DAY party OF men took boats and. after
chasing the school sbuu, tvs hours sue
cc-d~- la driving them ashore on the beach
back Of the salt works. There we've about
! a dozen in the school, and eight Of them
were secured. The largest one measured
twenty feet in length
"A Washington despatch saws the Pres
| ident doe. not intend TO reconvene Com
| gress a. lac l. OF the opinion that Govern
| ment can get along until the regular scs-
-iou In December. IL having been de
cid.d that 4. :. Marshals can continue
| their duttrs as usual and there will be no
| interruption to the business of the courts
/ nor any brsnch OF the Government.
1T is fortunate that the grain crop OF
| this country promises so sbuudaHtlv the
| coming Fall. as the harvest in Europe,
/ generally. threatens To he very hight Ac-
| cordinQ 10 Odessa newspapers. the situa-
| ton Of southern Russia and the Caucasus
| was scarcely ever 50 bad a. al present.
What va. len BY drought and hail is now
/ being annihtlated by ftightiul swarms Of
| grasshuppers and corn beetles.
I State elections will be held thi. year In
| the following order; Kentucky. August
| {. State officers and Legislature; Califor-
+ mia, September 3. ~ate and judicial OIL
/ GERS four Cougrc-smen and Legislature {;
j Maine. September :, State officers and
| Legislature. Ohio and Iowa. October =,
I state officers 10 part aid Legislature; Mary
7 land, Massachusetts. Minnesota, Nississip-
/ pi. New Jersey. New lork. Pennsylvania.
/ Virginia and Wisconsin. November 3
/ Governors are elected tn all the States
named except Mississippi. New Jersey,
I Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
| -Cha.,ine Cox the murderer Of Mrs
! Hull Ia New York. sat for plaster cast OF
/ his head by NessTs. Fowler & Wells. the
I noted phrenologIs,s- some preparation
Z was strcwed over the short curly hair, and
/ then the plaster OF Paris vas laid on his
/ head In A thick mass lie submitted 10 the
( operation with great GOODNESS until the men
making the cast began 10 cover his face,
I when he became frightened. thinking thai
! he was going t. be smoihered. lie became
: quiet after a while. however. and was paid
I 81 for submitting - the operation. IL had
I been twenty years since cast Of the bead
Y o. any prisoner in the Toombs had been
I taken. the last one who submitted 10 the
/ operation having been Hicks. the pirate.
who VAS hanged nearly quarter OF a cen
/ fury ago.