Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-02-19
Home and Foreign News.

Zen. Grant and party sailed from Cuba.
Friday, for Vera Cruz on the steamer City Of
Alexandria.
The President has issued another
proclamation warning off all invaders from
Indian Territory.
"A Judge at West Troy. y. Y, has
decided that a woman must support her
husband who is physically incapable of
working.
Hon. L. B. Washburne authorizes the
announcement that he is not. and under no
circumstances will be. candidate for the
Presidency
The WAYS and Means Committee has
agreed upon forty year refunding bond.
bearing interest at IL per cent, payable
quarterly.
The health of 5. Angler Chace. the de
faulting Fall River treasurer. is said to be
very poor He has lately had several at
tackS Of vertigo and his condition causes
much anxity to his family
An improved telephone has been ex-
hibted privately in New York. which is said
to be an Improvement on anything vet seen.
The inventor is confident that he will be
able to talk across the ocean The new
American Telegraph Company is behind it.
Southern states are irving to keep
emigration agents from enticing their coored
help away by requiring such agents to paw
big license fee. Georgia has recently en-
forced such a law on i,s statute books, and
Mississippi and Louisiana are preparing to
copy it. Louisiana will make this fee $500
for every parish visited
As to the unit rule adopted in Pennsyl-
kilhr;..b. IL. =
eight delegates, he knows twenty will not
respect it. but will vote for Blaine under the
Circumstances, and that there can be no qucS-
ton that the people of Pennsylvania are for
blame. Indignation meetings are now being
held. Albright saws. all over PENNSYLVANIA
protesting against the action of the Blaine
delegates who voted for the unit rule
The Cincinnati Gazcfte reports the as
Sa>sination of Sidney H. Lee, native of
Indiana. who. at the close of the war. went
to Leesbury. Morgan county. Alabama. and
invested his money. doing much to build up
a tlourishing community Mr. Lee was not
an active politician. but usually voted the
Republican ticket. The local hostility
against him and his family appears to have
been due to the fact that they we're from the
North. about thirty days before hie muir
DER VII Ice was warned Il he did not leave
the country before that time he would he
shot. The threat was carried out. lie was
shot in the presence Of his family. in his own
yard. The Governor of Alabama refused to
take any special means to bring the a>sa,-
~ to justice.
a NV SwINpLING DnpGE. An in
gcniou~ method Of sw.ndling uu>u,piciou,
farmers on pretenoe Of collecting statistics
for the census is thus described \ gentle
manly looking fellow drives up with blank :
for statistics Of the farm bushels of wheat,
ngmbcr Of cattle, acres under cultivation. etc.
Between the table and the foot Of the page
whore the farmer sign, hi, name attestjng
the statement. j. a blank space whose ex-
istaucr j. accounted for a. aiiording room
~. ais r"av> information In a month
or 80 the farmer receives notice from a
Hcighborlug bank that hi> note for $50 is
due. He know, nothing of the note. but
Investigation show, that the census tax err
ha> filled iu the blank with promise to pay,
which being .u the hand, Of an innocent
holder. must H. paid D, the uniucky dupe