Ellsworth American., 1882-06-22
Home and Foreign News.

Mrs. Garfield has been e.ccird trustee
of Hiram College.
The Baptist Missionary A.,oc.a,ion Of
Ncs England too.oreli Ia, member .hip
OF 1900.
Las, week. Tuesday, Henry Il. Anthony,
vas reelected United Siatss senator from
Rhode Island Tbs. J., h., fifth election.
The British Liberals will. in a fcw
weeks. o"lrhraie John Brsh,'s twenty fifth
Year o! representing birmingham.
The four Brookhc.d, Mo, bank robbers
have each been sentenced 10 twenty-five
years imprisonment.
MI. Tcunyson, nov IN his seventy sec
ond year, Is able to rca4 very little. HI, eye
sigh, beiug sadly impaired.
-EAam.ning Surgeon Dr. Salomon vas
fined $1,000 IN Fort Wayne, Ind, Friday, for
issuing false eeruhcatrs Of disability.
1t Is reported ,ha, Mrs Scoyillc has ap-
Piled for divorce at Waukesha. Wi... from
her husband on account OF hi. failure 10
support heI properly.
A six-million bale crop Of cotton j. pre-
dlctcd by the New Orleans Times Democrat.
# The weather holds up to the average.
- he Alien steamer Canadian went ashore
near the mouth Of Halifax hArbor. y. :.
The passengers and cTcw we're safely landed
The steamer has been hoated.
John Mooring, Who vas present as cap
tam Of the maintop OF the IhundereT At the
battle of Trafalgar, has jus; died IN England.
at the age Of i02.
Bugadicr General W. B. Hazen-"Old
Probability is an erect, soldieriy man.
with well developed figure His promi-
nent nose, his mouslache aud imperial give
him resemblance to Napoleon III.
The largest sailing ship ever built will
soon leave Cardiff, England for san Fran
cisco. Her name Is Lord DoWnshire. and
she .s made OF Steel Is 2gO feet long, carrIcs
four masts, and has stoHage room for 3GOn
tons dead weight.
King Oscar and Queen sophia. Of
Sweden, respectively hfty-thrcc and iurJy-
seven years old, celebrated their silver we'd
ding, on Tuesday, June &. Among the
gifts received was magnificent silver clock
from the Grand Duke Of Baden, whose
daughter is the Princess Royal, Of Sweden.
Judge Garland, of Virginia, will have
been Free Mason seventy years if be lives
till August next He is said to have been
under old and obsolete Masonic law,
which permitted any one who was the son
and grandson of Mason To receive the de-
grees al eighteen years of age.
Rev. Samuel Longfellow has resigned
the pastorate Of the Unitarian Church Of
Germantown, Penn, which he has held for
five years past in order that he NAV, at the
request of the family write the biography Of
his brother, the late Henry W. Longfellow
The society has accepted the resignation
with regret.
General o. o. Howard, despite his
austere reputation heartily enjoys dancing,
and improved his opportunities during the
recent gayeties at West Point. An officer
who was with him in the Indian country
says that he has seen General Howard in an
Indian village join in a dance with the
squaws with all the zest of young man.
Since the Prince of Wales got tricycle
last year, the machines have come rapidly into
| fashion in England and now there are sixty
kinds in market and there are large sales.
Mail carriers in country districts are sup
| piled by government with machines Of the
| kind fitted TO carry a considerable weight,
and others are made to carry two, three and
even four persons.
The parade Thursday, at Detroit, Mich,
in honor of the veterans Of the Army of the
| Potomac was a mile and half long. In
/ the evening the exercises closet with grand
banquet at Music Hall.
The will of George Washington. which
/ is on file in the clerks office in Fairfax
county, Va, has received SO much wear and
tear" at the hands of strangers, who desired
to inspect it, that a glass case has been
made for it, and visitors will no longer be
alloN ed to handle it. The document is
written on heavy, unruled paper, about note
size. and every side is covered. There are
n pages, all Of which have Gen. Washing
toms name attached except the 23I The
entire will is in his own hand writing.
-Ex-Gov. Wm. Deunison, known as the
"war governor" of Ohio, died at Columbus,
| o., Thursday morning, aged 81. He was
governor from 1860 to 1862; Postmaster
General under Lincoln and johnson; Com
missioner of the District of Columbia under
Grant, and prominent in other public posi-
tions. He was president of the National
Convention, which nominated Lincoln and
Johnson a candidate for nomination for
vice President, against Wilson, in ~; for
Senator, when Garfield was chosen, in $780,
He has been sick nearly year.