The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1867-06-13
NEWS ITEMS,

Governor Morton, Of Indiana, is at
the Arkansas Hot Springs for his health.
Pope Plus TX was IS years old on
the 18th of May.
The Chinese rebels are depredatine
in the vicinity of Hong Kong.
There is considerable emigration
from New England to Florida.
One of the State constables in Massa-
chusetts is worth 100000.
Indiana incomes exhibit the larges
decrease of any yet made,
VIM. II. Langley, -four merchant, Of
Gallipolis, Ohio, has failed for 100000.
Fourteen barrels of copper mined in
Tennessee are coming east.
Forty four postoffices in South Caro-
lima are conducted by women.
A man of war to be called "Algonia."
is about to be built at the Philadelphia
Nary Yard.
Bishop Stevens, of Pennsylvania, ar,
rived at New York from France op
Tuesday.
In Baltimore man was fined $40 for
9 acki ng and eating peanuts in church,
during divine service.
Governor Burnside, Of Rhode Island,
was inaugurated for his second term on
Tuesday. b. a....-. ...t .....
There are seven grounds for divorce
in China-one of them being talka.
tiveness in women" ..i.,....
Secretary Stanton is said to be aston
lshed and indignant at the stories pubs
lished in detective Bakers book.
Mosquera has dissolved the new Gra-
madam Congress and proclaimed himself
Dictator.
Peru and Brazil have rejected Secre-
tary Stewards proposition for peace
congress Of the South American States.
The Wyoming extension of the LIE.
high Valley Railroad was formally ops
ened TOR travel last Wednesday.
There is great distress in the eastern
townships of Canada West, owing to the
inundations. -..... ......
The coal trade is reported dull. Many
boatmen in the canal trade in the region
OF the lIuzerne mines are idle, refusing
to work unless they receive higher wages
The iron-clad Stonewall, formerly a
rebel cruiser of English build, has been
sold to the Japanese government for
half a million dollars. .-.r
Archbishop McCloskey has made up
his mind not to go to Rome, but to send
a Bishop to represent him on st. Peters
Day in the Holy City.
Two students of the National Deaf
Mute College, at Washington, were
drowned while winning in the Poto.
mac last week
The Sandwich Islanders are about to
erect monument in honor of Captain
Cook, as slight atonement for the con-
duct of their forefathers in eating him.
Rev. Julius Degmere has been arres-
ted in Erie, Penna., for stealing $4,000
worth of stamps while a clerk in the in.
ternal revenue Office at that place.
A majority Of the managers of the st.
Louis street railroads have decided to
admit colored people to all their cars on
IN equality with the whites.
The revival Of the Forrest Divorce,
,ase in the courts of New York, inciden.
ally eicits the fact that Mrs. Forrest
las ventured for the second time into.
Vedlock, and is now residing on Staten
sland. r. . r..u.. .. r.-..r n ..
There was mutiuy on the ship Par
ee, on her voyage from San Francisco
Hong Kong. The mutinneers, how
yer, were put down an placed in irons.
hey were al negroes. .. Nh.
The United States Burial Corps, at
)anville, Va, had disturbance on
tuesday, with some negroes, and two of
aeh party were wounded. The Burial
oiPs were driven out of town.