The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1868-12-18
NEWS ITEMS.

o'ee"po". uisas'er on tne ODlo Kiver Is O
' least one hundred.
, The Artestian we'll at the st. Loui
County Insane Asylum is nearly 3 800 fee
deep: 1t is already the deepest 10 tn
6orld, but it is to go 500 feet deeper.
Some Cincinnati brewers are import
ing barley direct from Germany, aud re
port that it weighs eight pounds more o,
the bushel than the American grain. D
A man named Jacques, from New
York, and Thomas NJ iner, from Baltimore
we're drowned at Norfork, Va, by the up
setting of yawlboat in gale, Sunday.
The Acting Bishop of the Episcopa
Diocese OF Central New York has called
9. .,ecial Convention, to be held in st. Paul.
Church, Syracuse, on Wednesday, Jan. l3
tor the purpose. of .electing Bishop.
George Francis Train has been liberia
ted from his dungeon, aud is now On his way
to New York. On his arrival here. he
will Immediately declare war against
England.
Tho poor Of Boston are suffering more
than usual this season, owing to the scarcity
OF work for men and women. Unfortu.
nately, Boston is not peculiarly in this re.
spect.
"A Canadian, who wished to marry
young girl, promised her that his wife and
two children should not be an obstacle to
their Union. He soon after killed them all,
and thegirl is now the chief witness against
him.
Mrs. Isabella G. Farrar has been ar.
rested at Laconia, n. H., aud held to bail
in $1,000, charged with having attempted
to poison her husband. A young lady
named Ann Moulton, of Lowell, is charged
with being an accomplice.
"A physician in Florida just saved the
life OF lady patient, to whose assistance
lie was called forty minutes after she had.
oy mistake, taken two grains of strychnine
He says the cure was the result of an ex
pertinent made by him when be considered
the case hopeless.
Deacon Andrews, the murderer of
Cornelius Holmes, was committed to the
State Prison at Charlestown, Mass, on
Saturday night, to serve out his term OF
twenty years Imprisonment. His first
twenty-four boars were passed in solitary
confinement.
The steamship Crescent of the Calves.
ton line, was burned at her dock in New
Orleans OH Friday night, together with
large amount o! freight. An explosion
occurred during the fire, which injured ten
men scverel y-one of them fatally. The
loss is estimated. at 100000, on which
there was no insurance.
The detectives who have been In pur.
suit OF Jeremiah Smith, the Ulster County
have returned 10 Troy, and have
left the case in the hands of Western Ge-
Iect;ves, who, stimulated BY the two re.
wards Of 81 900 each, will make every ef
fort to capture him. The children were
brought home by the detectives. They
did not know. until their return, that their |
mother was dead, but thought they were !
On the way to Olive to join her.
A Boston young lady has sued man
recently married, for alleged breach Of
promise, after thirteen years engagement,
her damages being stated at SS,00O. The
iefendent pleads that they were not suited
% each other, that he is poor, and that the
plaintiff has not lost either muney, virtue.
rends or reputation. Also that she
hought it wicked to 60 to the theatre that
The had TOO extravagant idea, of living.
md that they mutually agreed to separate.
Influential citizens in Havana have re-
'eived kilograms from prominent Liberals
md Cubians in Spain asserting that Gen.
)ulce, the DeSly appointed Governor Gen,
raj of Cuba, goes to the island fully au.
horized to modify the duties, and to govern
on liberal basis and also to issue a
,eneral amnesty to all insurgents upon
heir laying down their arms
The season just closed has been more
isas'rous to the shipping on the Western
'aters than any previous one, and the ag.
regate accidents to aud losses of vessels
his year exceed those Of any other by 3l4.
)uring this season 255 vessels went ashore
t various points, lot On Lake Michigan,
o on Lake Hudson, 65 on Lake Erie, 27 {
n Lake Ontario and six on Lake Superior
here was altogether, during the same
eriod, SO vessels wrecked and wholly lost. t
n unusually large number of accidents oc-
ured in the Straights of Mackinaw.
An important decision was rendered
! .he Supreme Court at Richmond, Va,
y Judge Underwood, on Saturday. A J
oman named Sally Anderson was brought
efore the Court on ha6cas Corpus, she
aving received the death sentence for the
rime of Arson. It was con,ended 10 her Z
ehalf that one of the Magistrates before .
hom she was tried was disqualified from :
ol1ing Office by the Fourteenth Amend .
ent of the Constitution, he having been
the rebel service, and that consequently
ie Court which sentenced her was illegally Il
instituted. The Judge sustained the i.
lea, and released the prisoner. Ore hun Y
red and ffty>uine convicts, now in prison.