The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-02-12
NEWS ITEMS.

Bloomsbury Railroad ran off the track at
Beechhaven Friday morning. Many persons
were injured but not fatally Hon. Galusha
A. Grow was severely burned.
| Some weeks since Edward II. King, Jr.,
agent of the Virginia Express Company, in
Norfolk, reported that he was robbed $10,.
900, collected by him as agent for q bank in
Petersburg He was arrested on suspicion,
and has now made full confession of the
robbery, restored part of the money, and
said that the balance of it was in the hands
of his father, e. II. King, ST., Of Richmond
The latter bas been arrested.
The failure of Hickey, Sharp & Co., one
of the largest dry-goods houses in Philadel-
phia is announced. The amount involved
in the failure is put down at about half o
million of dollars. A compromise with
creditors is talked Of at seventy-fve cents to
the dollar.
A locomotive ran into horse-car near
Cohoes, n. Y, on Thursday, and knocked
it off the track. There were ten passengers
in the car at the time, three of whom, ladies,
were seriously injured.
Solomon Fl. Sharp. of the town of Root,
n. Y, murdered his father-in-law John
Pulver, aged 73, last week, by breaking his
skull with q maui. Sharp had come home
late at night with companion, both drunk.
Sharp dragged his wife out of bed and COM
PEELED her to wait on them. Pulver objected
to this treatment Of his daughter, when
Sharp seized the maui and beat the old mans
brains out. He and his companion were
arrested.
The Memphis LEDGER OF the 1st inst. says:
acquisitions from Governor Clayton on
Brownlow, properly approved, for sixty
young men of this city, for the destruction
of arms from the steamer Hesper, have been
received. The. LEDGER warns the Governor
that an attempt to carry it out will result in
bloodshed
In Connersville, Giles county, Tennessee,
a few days ago, while young couple were
just on the point of getting married, the
brother of the lady who was opposed to the
match, fired pistol through the window,
fatally wounding the bridegroom. He died
in an hour, but before he expired the lady
insisted on having the marriage ceremony
completed.
The Pennsylvania Union Republican Con-
yention is to be held in Philadelphia on
Wednesday, Jan. %, to nominate candidates
for Governor and Judge of the Supreme
Court 1t seems to be generally admitted
that Gen. John w. Geary will be rcnomi-
mated for Governor.
The plasters of New Y ork are on the eve
of q strike They claim q dollar an hour
and that eight hours shall be q days work.
giving them the handsome income of S4S a
week tor very moderate and commonplace
kind of work.
A young girl named Mary G. Houghtaling
died suddenly at Medway, n. Y, last week,
and the Cornrer's jury rendered verdict
! setting forth that she died from rum and
2 violence administered to her by man named
l Jaumons.
A Church has been organized in the con.
: necton with the American Protestant
! Chapel in Paris. 1t has forty nine members.
, The palindrome is line that reads alike
l both ways. One of them is Adams first
$ observation to Eve: "Madam, I'm Adam!
e Another is the story that Napoleon when al
q st. Helena, being asked by an Englishmar
), if he could have sacked London, rephed:-
cable was ere l saw Elba." The latter
is the best palindrome, probably. IN the
: language The following, the third and the
e last, reads precisely the same backward al
c forward; " Snug & raw was ere saw wal
& guns"
T Great efforts are being made for the estab
e lishmeht of line of steamers between Phil
d adelphia and Bremen. The projectors ash
:. the Legislature for II subsidy of five Thousand
e dollars per trip, fifteen trips yearly. Th'
}, projectors banqueted the members of th'
Legislature at the Continental, Philadelphia
on Saturday evening. The Pennsylvania
n Railroad Company is interested, and promise
IS to contribute 50, per round trip, amount
= ing to $25, 600 per year. The Compan,
g signify their readiness to contribute ten time
d this amount TO Liverpool line, and th
e probabilities are that steps will soon b
1t taken in that direction also.
U A Nashville letter says Brownlow will re
y sign his Office as Governor of Tennessee a
II the end of February, his Senatorial terri
e commences fourth of March. His unexpire
term as Governor will be filled by Dewitt
G. Senter, Speaker of the Senate. Brown
a low is a confirmed invalid, and as Senate
% he will be no doubt carried about the Cap
y tol as was Thad. Stevens, a man he resemble
e in many respects.
3 In the wooden mill at Peoria, III on tn
], Both ult., girl had her scalp torn off b
n being drawn into carding mill, yet she
e likely to recover.
e A private dispatch by cable announce
.e the death of Miss Agnes Elizabeth, younges
ia daughter of Gov Claain of Massachusetts
is in Rome.
l. English papers Of the 18th ult., state tha
p Amerlcaus arriving at the South of Franc
rs have frequently suffered annoyance from nc
N being provided with passports The reite
If ated efforts of General Dix have at last oil
:; ~ tanned a regulation requiring that passport
!" shall be hereafter entirely without effect
', A circular from NJ Pinard, when Mnists
70 of the Interior, and bearing the date of De-
18th, 1868 declares that all citizens of I'll
American Union shall be hereafter permtte
to enter. travel and sojourn in France on til
'e simple declaration of their nationality.
~ Maior-Gen. Ayers, Inspector General
'e the Department of the Gulf, has made 0
;e official report of the condition of affairs
g the State of Arkansas. He corroborates Il
Il | -....-t %. -ia h., Con Hornca Pnrtar of Go,