Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1883-09-13
Home and Foreign News.

--President Arthur returned to Washing
ton Friday morning.
Judge Hoadly is better. hut is still un-
able to see visitors.
The New York World is opposed to a
further reduction Of the national debt.
Oscar Wilde is said to be packing up
for a return to Europe.
An excursion will leave Massachusetts
for visit to the old battlefield Of Gett,s-
burg, Oct. %.
Frank Works double team trotted a
mile a, the Charter Oak Park Friday, in 2:ls
One man lost an arm in sham fgh, a,
the Vermont muster at ST. Johnsbury. Thurs
day.
Carrier pigeons belonging TO Waiter Y.
Weber, Of Lynn. made the high, from
Portland TO that city in III. 4Om.
The number Of natives killed in Batavia,
Bantam. and Lamping. Java. by the earth
quake is estimated Al 10000.
Wyoming stockmen believe that grave
trouble will grow out Of Indian depreciation.
this fall.
The statue Of e1 -Presiden, Zachary Tay-
lor, at Louisville, Kentucky. will be IN
yelled on Sept. 20.
The inques, upon the death Of Mar
wood. the English hangman, resulted in the
verde; he died from pneumonia.
--Stsckmen in Northern Wyoming talk
Of organizing for common defence against
the Indian raids.
Senator Don Cameron has caught the
sheep fever in England. and proposes TO
49,, 49,, - b., a s.,s L.
ness on large scale.
Mrs. Alexander Campbell, the aged
widow Of the cminen, divine who founded
the Church Of the Disciples. or Campbelh,e
Church. is seriously i'll at Wheeling. West
Virginia
1t is no, expected tina, President Arthur
will remain at Washington more than q
week, after which it is probable that he will
make short trip 70 New York and New
port.
-Rc,. Henry Ward Beecher, who i. on
lecturing tour in California, ha. added TO
his unpopulari,y there and his popularity
otherwhere BY denouncing the Treatment, Of
the Chinese in that State.
Reports from all part, Of Russia state
the cattle plague continues It's ravagss with
undated fury. Over a million cattle have
fallen victim. Of the plague within the past
four years in European Russia alone.
-Rober, r. lee, youngest son Of the
ate Confederate General, has declined
! democratic nomination for the legislature Of
. Virginia. saving tina, he ha, no tast. for
politics.
Information is received at the war de-
! partment that l.t. 1t. John NJ Parker.
Of the third cavalry. stationed az For, rhom-
as. Arizona. i, short in his accounts abou,
q 800, and has ned into Mexico. Been
PLAYING poker
Orders have been sent 10 loulon aud
other French naval station. to have trans
ports ready for embarkation b. the latter
part Of September Of 10000 men for China
A negro entered house at Dorayille.
Georgia, compelled Mrs. Sprewel 10 give
him food aud money and insulted Ler Her
screams brought help. when the negro stab
bed her son TO the heart and was shot down
By Sprewelrs companions.
The Chicago city official, are making
vigorous crusade against shat is asserted to
be the smoke nuisance. The North West
ern Railroad company has been fined $3.50
on evidence that five OF its ,wi,ching engines
were seen emitting dense clouds Of smoke.
Mrs. Julie L. Smith. the well known
novelist. was killed at her summer residence
a, New Hartford. FRIDAY morning Sne va,
driving with her husband when the horse
took fright and ran away.
A few nights ago Mr.. Samuel Is. Hill. Of
North Andover, Mass. dreamed that he
would soon die. He spoke lsughingly about
the matter, having no faith in dreams On
Tuesday morning at O'Clock. Mrs. Hill was
awakened BY the heavy breathing Of her
husband by her side, and addressed him to
learn the cause Of his apparent distress, but
received no answer. A doctor was q, once
called but Mr.. Hill died before he arrived.
He was 90 years old.
Milton Hay. who was a warm personal
friend Of Abraham Lincoln. among other
things says Of him: 81 never saw a man
with less instinct of commerce. for gain by
barter. or any Of the usual methods Of get
ting rich. lie knew nothing about them
That is, perhaps, why he had such a happy
temperament. He trusted Providence and
did what came along
An epidemic Of witchcraft is prevailing
in Reading. Penn. Numerous persons are
affected, and two witch doctors, Folk and
lux ny utc uOiHk q ldTkt business
in treating bewitched individua The doc
tors have chalk marks in the shape of cross
Is over each door and win low in their Of !
Aces. Suits against witches" have been
brought before justices, and the city is in a
state Of great excitement.
The United States consul at Iced. re.
ports that the new United States tariff has
had the effect TO prove very disastrous 10 |
the Leeds wooden trade, the chief industry |
Of that district The tariff has had the ef !
feet to cause the demands for orders for
wooden goods to greatly fall off and the man
ufacturers have not yet been able to dscov.
er any loophole in the law by which they
can evade it. The fax and linen trade Of |
the same district is also very adversely af- |
fected by our tariff.
An article printed in the Paris Intran-
sigeant by Henri Rochefort, abusing King
Humbert, has aroused great Indignation
throughout Italy. The article accused the
King Of pocketing money subscribed by the |
French people for the Ischia sufferers, while |
he was at the same time urging Germany TO |
snnihilste France. An Italian officer waited
upon VI. Rochefort and demanded sstisfac. |
ton for the insult to his King, but Roche
fort refused to grant him hostile meeting
-Four homing pigeons belonging in
Bridgeport, c., were received in Washing
ton Thursday. and were liberated at $50 |
o'clock Friday morning, from the roof Of
the signal Office. Amer flying several hun
dred yards in a northwesterly direction, they |
made five ascending circles, reaching height
Of about 1000 feet. Without any .igns of |
doubt they then tooka northessterly course to |
their destination, 22j miles distant, and in |
40 seconds disappeared from sight. The
first pigeon arrived at Bridgeport at 1916
Friday, New York time.
A dispatch, Friday from Laredon, Tex.
as. says rains for the past two days have
caused an Unprecedented rise in the Rio |
Grande. At noon, to-day, it had risen eight
cen feet. Heavy rains have been falling
to-day, and . still greater rise is expected |
tomorrow. Sheep owners apprshend great |
loss among their focks by drowning. Last
night just after the Monterey train on the