Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1884-03-06
Home and Foreign News.

The New Haven schooner, Sarah W.
Hunt, and seven of the crew, are lost.
A negro 10 Ohio has been sentenced TO
three months Imprisonment, and to pay a
fine of 800 for marrying white woman.
A library building to cost $4,000 is to
be erected a, Dartmouth College.
The electric lights we're not in use in
Boston. Thursday night. many lnemen
being al work on telegraph and telephone
wires. it was feared they might b Injured BY
electric currents.
The bill for the constI action OF steel
cruisers. on FRIDAY, passed the Senate by a
vote of ;,s to Is. In the House the shipping
bill was made the special order for March
10
There is much excitement in London
over the discovery Of explosives and a rumor
that an attempt will be made 10 blow up the
law courts.
Limited States Marshal Henry has arrest
ed John keenan and Frank Foster. Of
Swan,ile. W.. for attempting 10 secure a
pension hy means OF bogus athdavts.
A party Of American Iynchers in dis
curse. took the Indian murderer, LOU
sam. from British officer at Victoria. b.
G.. Friday. and hanged ann At point this
side q the in'ercolonial boundary.
-Nearl, all the river plantations for a
distance Of 100 miles above New Orleans,
are under water. Below the cit, the flooded
district extends ninety miles and on the
west side all except a few ele, ated places
are covered In. loss to planters is enormous.
There j. much suffering among colored
people.
The Governor. Of Texas. FRIDAY. issued
proclamation establishing quarantine on
the coast of leNas. begiEnin. May | Il
applies To vessels from an, port south oi
the 18th degree Of north latitude. Vessels
with clean bills Of health and no sickness
on board will be detained outside for 20
da,s and other craft fnr the entire season.
~ Galveston. however. the cargucs 81
vessels with clean bills Of health and no
sickness on board may be Immediate, dis
charged a. The dj,irtcctei warehouse AZ the
quarantine station FIR 20 lay>' detention
The Great Eastern Ia. been purchl>r'l
b, the British Government; for use coal
huik :, Gibraltar lIer on, useful period
waS when >he wa, rmpIoyrd Nv lawn. ,uh-
lliiiAf4f "a ~ - - ~ t'' hi'''
steamer shr was a dismal failure She was
too his FIR any puit IN Great Britain bat
Milford Haven. Her career h4, been
ruuc:uatcd p, dt,,>trr, >br Hill. ntrn irtr.l
III 4 dozen capacities and. na> failed III ,l.
aud now ,hr drgra .c.l to the hum.uatsn,
function Of / Goa nu~ Nnr !, ;nrre Yet
An> ntohIn..tt thn; tur drmAnd, NJ cam.
mere, ur transportation wiii r,-r iu,tlN thr
building II Vessels al her >il,.
Au,Ns h,u.r SAYS Il he storm which
b-.un Ihpr,dn lni continued during Fiji
dn, va, thr >-,rr->, ~ thc winter. Raj.
road 'fa,,.I IN Nca Eag!iud, n" Ccn'rl.
STATE, auI t,unia Wa ~rrtbu>iN lmpr,!rl las
huge dr,n, IN, wires vrrr ~ the worst
condition e,rr Anoau. in- tirr aarm tr.r-
graph wires III Il ,,'on anl New York we're
out u order and extra hrr patrols Acre
put ca The Western Mon. n4J ui
cighi' -ii,r usr,, between Boston anI
Nr~ YORK pn,, hll ONE n Wprk.n. order
\ h.lz1ttd N unprecedented ,cNcr.v riErI
n Wl,con. n. Minnesota and D4ko'h Iht
heaviest snow fall ui III" season accompanied
VI. In Chicago ihr thermometer f'll ~
degrees N twelve hours. anil AZ rnau FU.!al
registered ; degrees below zero. With III,
Wind blown. q gal-. In Maine. o,eg foot
~ snow fell. thr wind blew ~ allies an nnYi
am rhr dritl, arrr immense"