Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-11-10
Home and Foreign News.

New York has received large impor-
ta,ion ofpo,atoes from ireland
The United State, Trca,ur, viii redeem
two millions Of ; IL per cent. cycr> Wed
nesday
r. About President Garfrlds grave are to
be planted. weeping beech, pyramidal
oak, buckeye and 4 SILVER fir.
Three hundred and sixty seven Nor
mon n'erts came to New York from ,arl-
Gus part, Of Europe on "wednesday
Young Jane, Garfield is slowly rcco,-
cring from his severe Illness, but !, sill IN
able TO study.
The Commissioner Of Pensions think,
be Sill require 500 OOO, OO0 To meet pen
sson claims during the next year.
Mrs Garfield has written a letter 10
the chairman Of the committee uf the Ma.
tiona! Garfield Memorial Hospital, in which
she says It Will be her pleasure to contri-
butte to the object.
The resignation Of Hon. John " Eos
ter. minister to Russia, was FRIDAY accepted
Mr.. Fosters successor Is not vet decided on
1t is reported that the King Of Italy
contemplates sending the Young Prince Of
Naples To this country, 10 study it, ins,ltu-
lions and people.
Friday foot Of snow fell in Northern
New York. There vas quite 4 heavy fall
Of snow in New Hampshire, and at Toronto
five inches fell.
Gen. Schenck, after suffering long from
BTighl's disease, began, six months since, a
milk diet and Is greatly improved IN health.
If not wholly cured.
The total receipt, of mackerel for the
SIX fishing months up To Nov. L. at all New
England ports, including Boston, vas 32l :
1876 barrels against 2iO. y6l last year.
The railroad through ST Gothard, in
Switzerland, has been finished, and the first
passenger tram went through on TUESDAY
the lst instant. The tunnel is nine and
quarter miles long.
In School District No. 1 of Pomfret. ~
u, all the school officers this year are Wom-
en-. They are persons Of character and in
tiuence in TIE district, and are known 10
take great interest in educational matters.
Mrs. Garfield has taken out letters Of
administration on the late Presidents estate
The bulk Of the property to be cared for, is
the house at Washington and the farm at
Mentor There is very little personal prop
erty, and the life Insurance of $50 900 is
equally divided between the wife and fam
ily.
1T is estimated that the recent overflow
of the Mississippi has caused damages be-
tween keokuk, la, and Louisiana. Mo,
amounting To about $4,000 900, and il will
take several days before the business in the
river towns will be fully resumed.
i am a thief, perjurer, forger. and
liar is the comprehensive and graphic
confession Of Cashier Baldwin Of Newark,
land am ready to 90 behind the bars of
prison and end my days there" This is
melancholy ending of career of high char
acter hitherto. Baldwin is man of 10, a
prominent Episcopalian, and of no vices !;
he has a wife and two children, one a son of
IS
Bishop Harris, Of the Methodist Church
will sail for South America on the 10th of
November. After looking into the cond-
ton Of such Methodist missions as he can
there visit. he will go to Africa, and preside
at the meeting of the Liberia Conference.
After this he will make an official tour
among the Methodists of Sweden and other
European countries. The Bishop expects
to be absent about year
Nine .Adelina Patti, who is the ac-
knowledged head of the operate stage, ar
rived at New York, Friday, after an alb
sence of twenty-five years, and took up
quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. She
is accompanied BY her agent. Sgnor Franchi,
and Signor Nieolini, tenor, who hes been
terribly treated by the European press
Nine. Patti will give series Of concerts in
this country, the price of tickets being
placed at ten dollars.
The cattle trade Of this country is as
suming gigantic proportions. Already
there are IN our new States and Territories
$1,000 men engaged in this industry, deal
ing with capital Of upwards of 5000, 900.
English as well as American capitalists, con-
vinced of the security and profit of the bust
ness, are forming corporations for controll-
ing pasturage aud keeping enormous herds
Of beef cattle. No other nation on the
giO0e has the facilities possessed by the
United States fer furnishing cheap beef of
good quality to the teeniips millions of the
old world.
Mrs. Shaw, the daughter of Professor
Agassiz and wife of the Boston millionaire,
hes established over thirty free kindergar-
ten schools in Boston and the nsighboring
suburbs. She ia. agsied herself so ener-
geticaIlv in the work OF founding the schools
and collecting in them the poor little waits
of the city, that her health has given way
and she is suffering from a nervous pros
tration brought on by her exertions.