Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1883-06-21
Home and Foreign News.

Secretary Teller Thursday. paid over to
the Cherokee Indians tbs 5000 for lands
ceded BY them to the Government
Vanderbilt drove Maud s and Aldne.
Friday. TO heavy road wagon mile in .
ID ,, eclipsing all previous double-team re-
cords.
When Sarah Bernhardt passed through
Hamburg recently on her way to Copenhag-
en- and Stockholm, she had forty trunks
full of baggage, and waxed furious when the
custom officers insisted upon examining the
contents of every one to the very bottom.
That the republicans can carry Ohio if
they bring out their full strength. is not a
matter for doubt, SAYS the Nc,c YORK Irib-
une There are probably 100000 voters at
tached TO the republican party in the State
to-day. 1t is doubtful i: the democrats can
muster more than 800, 900 voters
-llidesabro Sac, Cornell graduate Of
last year, who. before entering the universe
~, studied at the OswegU Normal School.
has returned to Japan. his native country,
after marrying Young lady Of indianapolis,
and is employed at a salary Of thirteen thous-
and dollars year by the japanese govern
ment in It's agricultural department.
The Bosfon Hermit holds that It is
proved from testimony already given that
pauper At the Tewkshury almshouse. sick or
well, has better housing. bedding. care and
food than are within the reach of man, Of
the poorly paid operatives in the mil, of
Lowell in which Governor Butler il large
stakeholder. and from which he receives fat
dividends.
One Of our American niis,ionarir, in
Armenia had tot of Mood, ana 'Sankcy
hymn books come through the mails, but tn,
eagIe-eyed inspector OF the Turkish post
office decided that Hold the Fort" was IN
tended TO encourage rebellion. and cNpurgat-
ed that offensive lyric from every copy.
The Washington correspondent Of the
PhHddeiphia Tunes states that Mrs Mary
Clemmer. the known Washington COR
respondent. i, soon To be married to Mr..
Edmund Hudson. formerly a Boston Jour
nalist and fer the past ten wear, ur more
correspondent a, Washington The, WILL
sail tyr England on the 10Th, returning in
the autumn When they Nil occup, lie
brides house on Capitol Hill.
The legatees Of the late Amasa Stone.
the millionaire suicide Of Cleveland. last
week, performed an uncommon, but most
graceful act Finding that some Of Mr.
stone relatives, including some to whom
be had been most partial. had been most
strangely overlooked in his viii, the, unan-
lmouslA agreed to Set apart each d certain
proportion OF his or her bcques, and thus
make up an tlua! amount for each one not
provided for.
-Rcv. W. II. II. Murray il nou III New
York, and lives IN purely democratic st,le. I
Iit il. rbIttr.l
4 loose sack coat when shows the sl-n~ of
use. liz say, he Is happ. in the enjoyment
Of good health, and will soon devote himself
70 practice At the bar He studied IAN ID
Texas, and he picked up information in his
wAnde:ngs which Ne viii utilize III 4 ,erie,
OF lectures iii, nair ha, turned gray. abe
it he is but forty three. ana hc wears 4 Smile
upon ms bruuzrd face.
The atrocIous crime Of being Young
man has been alleged against Judge Fora
ker, OF ONO, almost since his infancy HI,
father grumb!ed good deal about his sons
enlistment in the army When he vas only
sixteen years Of age, but as he said plain
lively after"ard, Joe would 20. aud 20 he
did 1T ha> always been urged against
me-" says Judge Foraker. NV father de-
cIared vas too Nonng' when a, thirteen
zen III loNe win a td-nailtd girl and he
stopped my counting her. lie objected when
enlisted, and now other people Say am
too Young for Governor"
The final interment Of the remains Of
John Howard Payne. author Of Home.
Sweet Home, took place in Oak Hill CEN.
etery, Washington, last SATURDAY. June q.
at the expense Of Mr.. W W. Corcoran,
"ashIngton's phIlanthropic millionaire, who
brought them from Europe to thi, country.
Friday, the remains were taken from the r.
celving vault. where they were laid on the
2ith OF last March, and placed in the Cor
coran art gallery, whence they were escorted
to the grave in hearse built for he occa-
SION, by an imposing procession. on Satur-
day. An Grafton was delivered by Leigh
Robinson and poem by Robert $ Chiffon,
"Home, Sweet Home" was PLAYED b, band
aud sung by a chorus. President Arthur.
X-Secretary Blaine, Gen. Sherman, Gen
Hancock and many other distinguished men
were present.
A great celebration in honor of the pub
nc services for twenty-five Years of Hon
John Bright, the English statesman, was
held at his home in Birmingham England.
last week.