Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1886-10-14
National News.

Captain Edward 2. Doherty, who com
manded the 20 soldiers who captured John
Wilkes Booth. is in New York. He is a
soidierly-looking man, tall. s,raigh, as sn
! arrow, with dark complexion. a brown
moustsche and goatee.
Daniel 6. Bush, of Bellefonte. Pennsyl-
ysnia, who died last week, was direc, de-
scendsnt, on his mothers side. of General
Israel Putnam. Of Revolutionary fame
Mrs. Folsom, the Presidents mother
in-laS, will reside in the White House, it is
said, as long as Mr.. Cleveland i. President.
She has no other home.
-Senstor Don Cameron puts dash he-
fore his name and another after il when he
registers at a hotel. He began by putting
only the first dash TO keep the hotel clerks
from writing Senator before his name, other
Senators generally leaving a blank for the
purpose OF enabling the clerks to do this.
The clerks then wrote "Sensior" after Mr.
Cameron's name. but he added the second
dash ard stopped that. too.
William Henry Fitx Lee. who hs. been
nominated Tor Congress in Virginia. il a son
Of General Robert T.. Lee He xas Con
federaie soldier. and heing taken prisoner
was selected with other prisoners. for exc
oution, Ia case the Confrderates carried ou,
their threat OF killing some oolore.l soldiers
whom the, I'D taken prisoners The negroes
we're not hanged
Thomas Smith. the last peusioner Of
the uar Of 1872. died the 3rd in Ipswich. Of
paralysis He was - years old, n Demo
cra', and had regularly voted at Is Pr,si.
dental elections
- George Bancroft. the historian. orle-
hrated quisil, at Newport, the Bird. h.- S6,h
b,rihd.s
Justin McCarth, Va, cn,husiauicall,
received m New YORK the 4,h. It Va, h.
tir>i speech in America.
A dcfalc.,iou in ,he BROOKLYN pos,
office j. alleged.
The pre.iden, resumed nt. aferoo5n
REQ options the An ard received 200 eaters
The distribution # the pa, dou.f aver
certificates began The An.
- ndreu Lucas. The latest bod, servant
q Andrrw Jackson. ha. just depsrlcd no.
life a. he patflaFcha' Hgr " l2j. tn Hfsl
ford lie was born slave in Feane.>re
Anatrw r. M,Gsl wto ;ir Repab.
mean ut nlnec f"r Governor IL Minnesota.
left Saegeriosn. Prnr.y .van-a. uhru Is
Years olA. WITH only - m hi' pocket.
Georg. " Cattle, ,hr no,cl,'. "a.
hnfu len nsu1-,.. bu' h., learned 70 use il,
night. aud =. Is smbldrx'r,u,
lie President Nj. ,.H, ,s- fa.r Of lie
Nfstnia Stale icucp'iara. ,.cior, AZ R.et-
mena ON she 2l.'. Nj. C.r,,laaI Mi
prof. shy scoompau, t,m
prc.;tco, Daisu'. TIE urp head Of
lsl-. - ALREADY cordial, uk.a D., 'olh The
faculty and ,iuirnt.
Aaofar, Gtrersl Garland passed
through Pif'sburs on SATURDAY. lbr 2nJ. au
~ va, 70 Washington ftom Houin, Hal.
A'haa,ss. liz ssiG that I'll Ihur,d4, be
hadn't read trs paper frr lao m5utb, and
MAS much sufpr,-ed sErn told there had
been earthquake At Charleston.
-Eiuar Spicct Cleveland. The Demo.
cratic rom,ner for Governor Of Connecticut,
lives comfort abh ou an income IL some
hing more Than 800 900 IA a PHEASANT res
Idsuee ia Hartford. He drive. good ,pan
81 horsrs, has trAatIiu, white hair ana
snowy brard, and cour,ly but genial man
ncr.
n The English cutter Stranger beat the
lhetis 81 Marh!ehcad the 9Th
The rresi4en; vi. maze trip through
the South tia. month
The American Board Of Foreign Ms
sions Sss IN session. the 9Th, q, Drs Mo.nr..
Iowa
Earthquake ,heeks we're fsl, IN South
Carolina the 9Th. one vas quite heavy.
The wreck Of the steamer La Masco,te
on the Mississippi resulted from a collapse
Of one Of the boiler fiue-. The explosion spent
It's force directly backward, into the engine
room aud the cres round about were scaldrd
BY the escaping steam. Over 80 persons IN
all we're killed
John b. Gordon was elected Governor
Of Georgia "Wednesday by the usual Demo
cratic majority.
Frederick Douglass and wife are at
Liverpool.
The Odd Fellows Of Indiana are raising
i4nds Tor monument 10 SCHUYLER tOIia1.
The executive committee al Indianapolis Jas
made contract accepting design which
gives a bronze statue OF Mr.. Colfax, set on a
granite pedestal.
MIR and Mrs.. s S. Cox snd Mr. and
Mrs Henry Wa,terson are passengers on
the steamer Champagne. which sailed from
Ha,re on Sunday.
Southern women take kindly 10 journal,
ism. Over fifty are connected With news
papers Of the South, and on the 80 Of next
month they propose organizing Southern
Woman's Press ASSOCIATION.
DIR. Gn,ling. the inventor Of the Calling
gun, lives in an unpretentIous way near
Hartford. Conn, and goes but little into So
ciety. His daughter is the wife Of Rev
Hugh Pen,ecost Of Brooklyn.
1t Is understood that Mr.. and Mrs
James &. Blaine. Jr., intend to make their
future home IN Chicago. Mr.. James, Jr., it
Is said, will 90 into railway office with his
brother Emmons.