Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1879-01-02

The Mississippi River is closed by ice
from st. Paul 10 Cairo.
A daughter Of Edwin ". Stanton is q
clerk in the War Department.
-Beecher announced Saturday night
that he shall not make any more featuring
tours.
1t is said that Bayard Taylor len his
family little. except his $4,000 life insur-
ance policy.
1t is announced that the Duke of Edin-
burgh is about 10 be promoted 10 the rank
OF rear admiral.
Admiral Henry X. Hofi died in Wash
ington Wednesday. of congestion OF the
brain. aged sixty-nine years.
"A Boston physician of very large prac-
tice, lays that ne has never known il To be
SO sickly in that city as now.
On the Pacific coast the average atten-
dance o: Chinese boys and girl. upon the
Protestant Sunday schools is 600
A child five months old, fell from its
nurses arms into an open gate. in New
Haven, on Thursday, and was fatally buru-
ed.
Gov. Mcclellan of New Jersey. has re-
fused 10 reprieve Benjamin Hunter, the
murderer, and he will be hanged the 10Th
OF January.
Col. Fred Grant sailed Saturday to join
his father AZ Paris. He says he expects to
return with his father in six months via
San Francisco.
-Iakcob Khan, son Of the Ameer. has
arrived at Jelalabad. which is supposed TO
indicate the complete submission OF the Az
CHARS TO England.
The supreme court of justice, At Mad
rid. Spain, has finally condemned to death
Juan Moncasi, who attempted to assassi-
nate the King, Oct. 25th.
"A colored man ITO years old, died in
South Carolina q week ago. He lett a wild
ow who is nearly 100 years old, an infant
| son OF so, and a wee bit Of a grandson Of so.
| Sir Edward Thornton and the subordi-
nate members OF the British Legation ut
Washington, wear Grape hatbaDds and
black suits in memory Of Princess Alice.
and their ladies wear no colOrs in their hats
| or dresses.
| "A telegram from Ceara in North Bra.
Zil. reports deaths In the capital from small
pox to the number OF 600 daily. The dis
tress In the interior of the Province 10 ap.
palling. and the people are devouring car.
rion and cOrpses.
BY the counting in OF the democratic
candidates for Congress in the second
North Carolina and second Florida dis.
tricts. the ded Ocrats figure up l49 mem.
bers Of the next House Of Representatives,
to $50 republicans and 10 greenbackers
California has four members yet to elect.
"A preacher in Kentucky the other Sun.
day, becoming exsspersted BY the con.
slant, turning OF heads to gaze at each new
conner, paused in his discourse TO say
Ladies and gentlemen, IL you will give me
your close attention / will keep lookout
on that door. and il anything worse than q
man enters l will warn you 10 time t. make
| your escape"
The cadets of the United States nava
academy at Annapolis, have been givet
permission Ia smoke by Commodore Par.
ker; but he tells them that il is an expen
sive habit, and they had better let 1t alone
Those who do smoke, however, are to .'ac
as gentlemen" and one characteristic o.
Annapolis gentlemen who smoke, accord
ing to Commodore Parker, is not to smoke
upon the streets.
When Miss Mary A. Phillips made ap
plication for admission into the chief Meth
odist Episcopal School OF Theology in tn,
northwest, ut Evanston. ILL.,. the PROBES
sOrs looked with disfavOr upon her, but sh,
has proved herself 40 much Of y stnden
and given SO much promise that they hxv,
decided 10 allow her to graduate. which
she is nearly resdy " do. She is said to b,
the FIRST OF her sex to take = degree Ia
Methodist Seminary.
"A lady living IN Cbenago county, New
York, met with . peculiar accident recent
~. Her provisions were all 10 the cellar
the bottom Of which was GOV cred viii
water 70 depth Of twenty inches. Sh,
could not live without eating, but wade Cd,