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* ELLISTON. < ing it himself as Rover in Wild Oats, and later presenting Kean, Macready, and other great ae-
 * his time., but retired a bankrupt in 1826.

quently he played at the Surrey Theatre, but his dissipated habits of long standing pre- vented him from regaining his old prestige, and he died of apoplexy two weeks after his last appearance as Sheva in The ■/< to. Elliston ranked among the great tragedians of his time, but was even more naturally remarkable as a eomedian. For his life, consult': G. Raymond (London. 1S4S and ls:>7i ; Oxberry, Dramatic Biography (Lon- don. 1826); and Actors »»</ ictresses of Great ■ •' the United States, edited by Mat- thews and Button, vol. ii. (New York, 1886). ELLO'RA. A ruined town in the dominions of the Nizam, not far from the eitv of Dowlata- bad. in latitude 20° 2' X. and longitude 75° 13' E. It is celebrated fur its wonderful rock-cut temples, of which there are nineteen large ones, partly of Hindu and partly of Buddhist origin. Some are cave temples proper, but others are uildings hewn out of the solid granite of the hills, having an exterior as well as an in- terior architecture, and being, in fact, magnificent monoliths. In executing the latter, the process was first to sink a quadrangular pit. leaving the central mass standing, and then to hew and excavate this mass into a temple. The most beautiful is the Hindu temple, Kailasa. At its entrance i- an antechamber 13S feet wide by 88 deep, with numerous rows of pillars. This is followed by a colonnaded bridge leading into a great rectangular court 247 feet in length and 150 broad, in the centre of which stands the temple itself, a vast mass of rock richly hewn and carved. It i> supported by four rows of is. with colossal elephants beneath, and seems suspended in the air. The interior is about t long, "ill broad, and 17 high, but the en- tire exterior forms a pyramid loo feet high and plaid with sculpture. In the great court are numerous pond-, obelisks, colonnades, sphinxes, and on the walls thousands of mythological fig- ure- of all kind-, from HI to 12 feet in height. of tl ther temples, those of Indra and Dumar- are little inferior to that of Kailasa. Re- garding their antiquity and religious significance, i hi hi i ii ie- .i i e not agreed ; but nt all e cut - i hoy must be subsequent to the epic poems Ramayana or Mahabhat lecause thej contain represen- tations taken from these poems, and also to the cave temples of Elephanta, because they exhibit r and more advanced Btyle of architecture. in an. I BurgeSS, '/'/,, ('„,, y, „,. pies o/ India | London, L880] . ELLS'WORTH. city, port of entry, and count I. ( lounty, .Maine. 30 miles southeast ol Ban i ine < lent ra) Rail , the lie. i, i of I ion on t he i nil i River, and hi -he trade in lumber and ice and ship building in- - > shoes, Ibundant h i- -panned this point. The pj public buildi irt-hi Kill, and - fish hatch- lled in rtered ol in a - rdinate ELLSWORTH. administrative officials. Population, in 1890, 4804; in 1900, 4297. ELLSWORTH, Ephraim Elmer (1837-61). An American soldier. He was born in Meehan- icsville, N. Y.. but early removed to Chicago. In April, 1861, he organized a Zouave regiment from among the volunteer firemen of New York, and became its colonel. He took part in the first general movement of the Federal forces into Virginia, but at Alexandria, on May 24th, was shot dead by a hotel-keeper from whose building he had just torn away a Confederate flag. In the North he was regarded as the first 'martyr' to the cause of the Union. He was buried, with imposing military ceremonies, from the White House, in Washington. ELLSWORTH, Oliver (1745-1807). An American statesman and jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1796 to 1800. He was born at Windsor, Conn., and studied at both Y'ale and Princeton, graduat- ing at the latter institution in 1760. He was admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1771. In 1775 he was chosen a member of the Connecticut Legislature, in which, in the early years of the Revolution, he served as a member of the impor- tant Committee of Military Accounts. Elected to the Continental Congress in 1778. he continued to serve as a delegate until 1784, when he became a member of the Governor's Council and a judge of the State Supreme Court. In 1787, with Roger Sherman and William Samuel Johnson, he was chosen to represent Connecticut in the Constitu- tional Convention. As a member of this conven- tion his most important achievement was secur- ing the adoption of the 'Connecticut Compromise,' which called for a combination whereby there should be two Houses, the Upper chosen on a basis of equality between the States, and the Lower on a representative basis proportioned according to population. This plan was finally adopted by the narrow majority of one vote. On the organi- zation of the National Government, in 1789, he was elected one of the first United States Senators from Connecticut. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary he drew up the bill which organized the judicial system of the coun- try on the basis upon which it has ever since been maintained. As the leader of the Federal- ist- in the Senate, he suggested to Washington the plan of sending John Jay to England in 1794 to negotiate a treaty with that country; and it was Ellsworth's influence, in the face of violent opposition, that secured the Senate's approval of the treaty after it had 1 n negotiated, In 1796 he was appointed by Washington Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving until 1700, in which year lie was sent, with Wil- liam R. Davie and Vans Murray, as commis- sioner to adjust the numerous disputes that had arisen between the United states and France. The negotiations, carried on almost entirely by Ellsworth, terminated by the signing of a treatj whereby Prance conceded a recognition of the rights of the neutral vessels and promised in- demnity for depredations on American commerce, iicr a year in England, during which time he resigned the Chief- Justiceship, Ellsworth returned to unerica. from lsnj until his death he "as a member ,,f the Governor's Council in Connect], hi On the reorganization of the Connecticut iar; early in 1807, he was appointed Chief Justice it the stale, but died before entering