Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-02-10
Home and Foreign News.

Red Leary, one of the Northampton
bank robbers, who escaped from Ludlow
street jail over year ago. was arrested in
Brooklyn. Friday.
The worst storm known for wears pre-
vailed throughout the northwest. Friday.
No trains came through FRIDAY on the
Northern Pacihc, St Paul. Duluth 4 Chicago
or Milwaukee \ st. Paul roads.
Capitol Hotel at Dover. Delaware. was
burned Friday morning. The guests includ-
ing several members Of the Legislature barely
escaped. Loss sl2, 900.
The interest to hear Mr. Moody in san
Francisco is a, great as il has been in other
cit cs. and at each service many who desire
10 hear him are unable to do 50 because OF
the crowd. The hoodlums have become IN
ierested in his preaching.
Mrs. Polk. the widow Of the ex Presi-
dent, i' nearly eighty wear. old, and still re-
iains something Of her early charms She
IA fond Of literature. and greatly interested
in the history of the day. She lives quietly
at Nashville with a fa,orite niece for com
panion.
The FIRST Baptist church in Cambridge
port, Key. W. I. Chase, pastor, vas totally
destroyed BY fire Thursday evening The
fire caught from the furnace Loss slO5.-
600 insured for So 900
George Jones Of the New York Tine,
has issued printed notice to subscriber. of
the General Grant fund. announcing thatthe
entire amount OF $3.50. 900 has b, en- raised.
Mcssrs. Mackey Of California. Jay Gould
and William H. Vanderbilt each subscribed
$4,000, and Sidney Dillon $4,000.
a Buford Montana dispatch saws that
dispatches from Poplar river state that Grow
Ming. Lone Dog and Good Bear. with thirty
~ lodges of about $50 Indians. are expected
there on the ith aud 5lh. escorted b, A
company Of the Second cavalry. Cow dog.
one 81 the worst Of Sitting Ball. warriors.
Will also surrender.
Colonel Jerome Bonapar,e and his wife
arc nov living in Washington. and enter
tanning gTea, dea! Mrs. Bonapartc-a
granddaughter Of Daniel Web,tcr-i, a
clever and charming woman. She dresses
magnlhcently. and often wears beautiful Jew
els, n large share b, which descended 10 Yer
from the late EliEabe Patterson Bouapartc
w !lllam Steel. second cousin Of PIE
nscr Gladstone OF England, and in anti
slavery day. a leading abolIiionl,t Of Ohio.
died at Portland. Oregon, a few DAY, ago.
he IS said 70 have been the original organ
iscr Of the Underground Railroad" in
Ohio, aud his house WAS the first hiding
place Of escaped slaves north q the Ohio
river.
Thomas CARLYLE died At $50 SATURDAY.
morning without struggle lie Vas 81
year OF age. From 5 FRIDAY evening until
his death Carlyle was unconsciou. aud hl~
hearts action was barely pcrceptible lie
suffered no pain for the las, forty-cisht
hours. lie ~as buried in the church yard #
bis birth place, IN Dumfrieshrr.
The magnificent ice mountain which
forms IN winter below Niagara Falls was the
scene Of an exciting incident aud narroa
escape from drowning a few days ago. An
English tours; climbed % the top, aud when
he turned 10 come down he slipped and slid
rapidly down towar. the rivcr In his
frantic endeayoEs 10 save himself. his nails
wcrc LITERAL, torn from his fingers, and he
onl, stopped in hi. terrible career within a
feW feet Of the stream.