Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-02-12
Home and Foreign News.

The village Of Battle Lake. MINI. va.
nearly destroyed by FIRE. Thur,!ly.
-Genyral ilaxrn has been Authorized 10
MAKE public the Gfecly reports.
A railroad train IF twenty cars VA.
blow from the track Rs NJ Georgetown. C,I..
Wednesday. md eighteen peF,,.rs Injured
President Arthur la, put hi. carriage
and horses At the service Of Mr. Cleveland
till he can establish his own stable
Investigations of the state accounts Of
Kentucky reveal the monsrnn, rnishar, ~
the state, of about >2.0oo,npo ia the past Is
years
Professor Aga>siz's gifts l. Hn,ard
College during the last thirteen N,is, amount
to more than 500, 900
The Evangelist u. l.. Moody. Thursday,
celebrated his 18th birthday, and ti> mother
her hoth birthday q; their homestead IN
Mort hfirid Mass.
DR.. John Rouig. vino established the
first homeopathic school in America. at Al
lentown. Pa, died Thursia,, aged S Years
The Grand Trunk Railway, since the
ures 10 guard Victoria bridge.
The Old South Parish in Boston. has
voted unanimously 10 add $1,000 10 the sal
AIRY Of Rev. q. A. Gordon, making it now
$1,000 and the parsonage.
1t is said that Congressman Eaton Of
Connecticut is going into the garden truck
business. He Is old and poor, but p!ucky.
The Will of Esther Clarke Mack of Salem
Mass. leaves $4,000 in trust WITH her
brother, DR.. Mack, for the American Unita-
rIan Association DIR. Mack will make the
bequest $4,000 on his death
Examination Of the bodies Of John Sui
Ivan and wife. found dead a, Ansonia, CT,
shows arsenic IN the somlchs of both 1t
IS believed that the wife poisoned her hus-
band and then herself
1t is said that Montreal detective re-
Gently gained admission 10 a secret conc!ave
of dynsmlters in New York, and overheard
plots TO carry On their work in Canada
st. Louis papers are asserting that there
existed ring TO secure parions IN Missouri |
at prices ranging from few hundreds to d |
few thousand dollars, and that the late Gov |
CrIttenden was concerned in the business.
A negro Of AsheyiIie. n c., stole |
Goa, the other day. He was sent 10 the pen |
itentiary for seven years. On the same day
a white man was sent to the county iail for |
one year, for trying To kill man
Hon. Frank Jones Of Portsmouth. now |
one Of the wrallhirst men in New England, |
began life as a peddler His cart wss COR
geo'ss,y painted and bore on one side the
words, "G1ot weight, marin
Eighteen hundred dollars worth of
Strawberries have been raised on two and |
half acres of ground, bv a farmer OF Deia- |
ware township, Camden county. n j., and |
he accordingly received premium from the |
State Board of Agriculture.
The riches, Chinanan in America is All |
Ii Of La Porte, California, who is worth
S2,O00.000. He made money mining, and
will repair to the Flowery Kingdom To eno,
it as soon as his business can he settled up
--Klotz, the lumber man of Shasta. Cali
fornia. has big slab pile he has been ac-
cumuiating for years, which is to be fired on
the night of the Sd Of March. in honor of the
inauguration of President Cleveland. He
thinks the blaze will be seen 100 miles awav
-Glenmore Todd of Burlington, NJ,
was arrested in Philadelphia, Thursday, on
charge OF embezzling 100000 from Phil
adelphia Life Trust COMPANY. He was a
leading society man in Burlington and was
Just starting for Florida when arrested.
MIR. David Dudley Field SAYS, "My rec
ipe for self preservation is exercise walk |
every day from my house to my office, dis !
lance of about three miles and half, and |
feel - well to-day as ever did in my life. |
have taken care Of myself"
"A Georgia inventor has invented a fire. |
proof cotton bagging, the use Of which will |
veIy much reduce the insurance rates on |
cotton. II is called .'anti phloyan," and is |
said to be cheaper than the ju'e or gunnv-
bagging now used.
Gen. Henry NJ. Strong, who command
ed . brigade ct the hattie of Gainesville. has
been found BY charitable ASSOCIATION n |
Milwaukee, living in great poverty, bu, too
proud 70 call on government II relieve his
necessities, although he Is partially disabled I
BY his war wounds. An effort viii be made
to procure permanent relief for him.