The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1867-06-06
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The murder indictment against
Surratt is to be abandoned.

Surratt is to be abandoned
Tho Miantonomah iron clad has
not been sold to Russia, as reported.
Virginia has $4,000 more white
than colored voters.
There were 100000 marriages in
the United States last year.
1t is difficult to decide which is the
greater infiction, Nasby or the weather.
General Frank Blair was at Omaha
last Friday, on business connected with
the United States.
"A deaf and dumb man has been
rested in an Ohio town for using bad
language. So says local paper.
"A Tennessee paper says that Par
son Brownlow will not die until the
school fund Of that State is exhausted.
AT Erie, Pa, the gas is so bad that
the boy who puts out the lights in the
streets carries lantern to find the posts.
Pho Mono gets fifty. eight thousand
dollars from the private contributions of
the Roman Catholics Of Philadelphia
Joel Lindsay, who whipped his boy to
death, has been released on bail at Au-
burn to stand new trial.
Owing to the late frosts the peach
orchards in Delaware. along the bay
shore, are not expected to yield more
than quarter crop.
"A Chicago clerk fell in the dummy
of dry goods house from the fifth story
to the cellar, and strange to say, was
picked up alive.
One dry goods house in Chicago
last year did a business of 100000,
and fifty eight firms did a business of
over 81, 100000 each.
"A widow in Erie, Penna., adver-
tises grand hop to procure funds
with which to defray the expenses of
burying her husband.
The railroad spectators and land
thieves are industriously engaged in
cooking up an immense war of extermi.
nation with the Indians.
"A Count de Angeles, once on Free
mont's staff, has been before the Court
Of General Sessions on a charge Of lar
ceny committed at the Metropolitan
Hotel in the city of New York.
The Montreal papers say that Mr..
Davis keeps pretty much within doors,
and that ne went on from New York
alone, his family not leaving until the
day after. '
The Government receipts for the
quarter ending March 81, 1867, were
S2S9, ,242,S24, and the expenditures,
$780, ,05l. The statement for the
current quarter will not prove SO salts.
factory bv 100000.
-Forney dates his letters at sea "
to my two papers, both daily" This
is perfectly natural to Forney, who is
always at sea-" and seldom writes
anything unless he is half seas over"
j. NJ. Brinkley, lately law clerk in
the office of the Attorney General, and
formerly an editorial writer on the Ma
tional Htelligcncer, has been appointed
Assistant Attorney.General, vice Aston,
resigned.
Eggs with iron shells, it has alrea-
dy been announced, have been laid by
the highly educated hens of Prussia.
A Berlin chemist, who caused his hens
to lay them, did SO by teaching the
hens to eat preparation in which iron
was used and compelling them to abb
stain from lime.
"A few weeks since, six carloads of
oil took ere on train which was com.
ing down the mountain near Kittaning
Point, on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
and about two hundred barrels burned
up. The flame illumined the whole
valley between the Allegheny and
Brush Mountains.
Mary O'Gorman hanged herself in
Jersey City one day last week. She
was driven to commit the act by the
cruelty and abuse of her sons, who were
in the habit of beating her to compel
her to give them money. After the
deed one of the wretches stole S45 from
the person of his dead mother and
escaped.
"A gentleman writes to the London
Times in reference to hydrophobia,
which is now agitating England as we'll
as this country, that the late Sir Benja
min Brodie recommends caustic potash
to cauterize the part bitten by mad
dog. Sir Benjamin's reason for this, as
given in his works, is, that dissolved
potash penetrates further than nitrate Of
silver, and is, therefore, preferable to
the latter, as more likely to follow the
course of the poison and neutrallze
its effects.
Not long since a kind. hearted and
generous man died, leaving behind a
fearful, jealous, somber. minded wife
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