Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1883-07-26
Home and Foreign News.

Johnson" the pacing horse. made a
mile IN ,. -, in Chicago. Thursday.
Tom Thumbs body will be enclosed in
solid masonry to prevent Its theft by grave.
robbers.
Great Britain is taking precautionary
measures against the cholera. The panic in
Egypt is increasing.
Seventeen more bodies have been re-
covered from the sunken steamer Daphne,
making ninety seven SO far.
MIR. Wong Chin Foo. Of New York, ed
itor OF the Chinese Americaa, has sent
challenge 10 Denis kearney, the agitaior, to
fight duel. nenis declines to accept
Chief Justice Waite, on his wa, TO the
Yellowstone Park, WAS thrown from a horse
and so badly shaken up tina, he will return
home.
John l.. Hosmer. late supreme treasur-
er of the Catholic Knights of America. is
defaulter for S6OO,OO0, and his bonds are
worthless.
-Harbeck dock, Brooklyn, and three yes
sells were burned Thursday. Twelve fire.
men we're badly injured, but only one fatal
ly. The loss is placed at 81 100000.
The youngest brigadier general in the
United States army is Gen. Mackenzie. He
Is only forty-two, and il is said that neither
in England nor on the continen, is there an
officer OF his age, outside Of royal blood,
who has attained his rank.
Angela Cordelia, a Nevada miner,
claims TO be the strongest man in the world.
He can lift two hundred pounds with one fin
ger.
The Davenport Brothers were once not
ed as Spiritualist mediums. One died a few
years ago, and the other retired from the
business; but now the survivor has started
out again. He will travel in a gorgeously
painted car.
An improvsed school Of teiegraphy is
in full blast in New York, where many OPP
orators who had been anxiously waiting for
positions in The Western Union company $
employ have been surprised within day or
two At receiving notice to call and be test
ed,
Charles ". Park, the pastor lately re-
lected by the ecclesiastical council Of the
Howard Avenue church at New Haven BY a
vote Of Is to 8. was, last week, employed by
| the congregation of the same church TO
preach until next June, by vote Of 80 to
Denis Kearney, says New York des-
patch, is naturalization. The n. Y. park de-
| partment refused to give him permission to
| speak to Union square without the concur
renee Of the police. He appealed to the
Mayor, but the latter threatened to arrest
Denis if he attempted to speak in the
square.
Two thousand copies of Buffers argu-
ment before the Tewksbury investigating
| committee are to be distributed at once BY
the democratic state committee. This is, no
doubt distinct notice that Butler is to he
the next democratic candidate and Of the is
sue upon which he will make the canvass
The republicans express no misgivings a,
this early beginning of the fight.
Or. Oliver S. Taylor, Of Auburn, n. Y,
the one surviving member Of dartmouth
Colleges class of 1903, is now in his Tooth
year of life, and enjoys perfect health of
mind and body He has never been sick
but day and half, and he never had a
! headache. The one slight attack Of sick I.
ness occurred some seventy-three years ago.
Gen. Sheridan, who is nov az years
o'q, " eccoIolHk " ohe o! thr Engage
papers, one Of the best dressed men on the
streets Of that city. His tailor says he has
the best figure Of any customer he has. His
fits are Of the glove pattern, and IS he walks
down the street with . cigar. switch cane
in his hand, white hat. and his apparel
without . wrinkle, be is as graceful figure
as appears in the passing show" He is
most respectful in his pew at St. Mary's,
yhere he can Be found nearly every Sunday
His nearest approach 70 aristocratlc bearing
is bis crest. The Chicago people will give
him farewell reception prior to bis going
to Washington to take Gen. Shsrmsn's
plses.