The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-03-05
NEWS ITEMS.

Grants Cabinet
Boston has two potatoes on exhibition,
for which is asked $50 EACH
Gen. Grant, il is said, will rc-instate Gen.
Sherman in command ut New Orleans.
At New Haven, recently, poor family
we're discovered making dinner on boiled
dog
Grants salary for President will he nine
thousand dollars more pr annum than his
present pay.
1t is considered cool to take u mans hat
with his name written in 1t, simply because
you want his autograph.
The telegraph is a failure in Mexico. -
The people steal the wires as fast US they
are put up.
A one legged soldier and one armed
sailor have gone into partnership in the hand
organ business in New York.
Quite a number Of counterfeit fifty dollar
rTrcnhacks were thrown into circulation at
New Y ork last week.
From 1904 to 1928 North Carolina fur
rished all the gold produced in the United
States The aggregate of all her gold yield
up to 1866 is about 50, 5000
George S. Twitchell, under sentence Of
death for the murder of bis moth-r-n-law at
Philadelphia has been denied Il new trial
Senator DooI,tle is going to locate in
New York city. where he will fnd his uf
fnity in politics No wonder he does not,
! like to 90 back to Wisconsin Cowan
should locate IN New Yo'k, too.
The worst feature on mans face is his
nose-whcn stuck in other peoples business.
| Dip paper into strong alum water aud it
/ will resist the action of fire.
New Orleans markets are supplied with
strawberries.
We in the United SIa'cs are said to use
365, 600, OG0 postage stamps yearly.
Rev Charles II. Platt. rector of Christ
| Episcopal Church in Bnghamtoa, AMI Chap
lain of the Hoyal Arch Masons of New
York State, died few days smcr.
The Fourth National Bank of Phila-
delphia has probably "gone up
Sugar making has. commenced in Wyom
ing County.
The remains Of Anirrsonyille Wirz have
been delivered to his iiends
The Maine Senate has passed hill allow
ing physicians to obtain subjects for dissec-
iiUu.
The Chinese in San Francisco attempt, 4
to seize a newly arrived cargo of their cOun-
trywomen.
Martial law has been declared in Giles
county, tennessee and 400 militia have sent
! thither.
Complaints are male that the American
| fishermen are SO thick in the Bay OF Fun!y
that the Canadian, fad no room to cast their
nets.
General RaasloiF, the King of Denmark 5
Minister of War, urges the sale OF the
| Danish West India Islands to The United
States.
The woods in the ncighborhool OF Camp
bell Court House, Virginia, are bsn. rvvaT-
ed by very ext-n.iy, fire, wlch is also
doing great damage TO the !.rciug
John Dclyin, the revenue swniler par
doucd by rr, siGsrt Johnson, i, 30 III with
small. pUx that h. caruot leave the Albany
Pcnitentiary ut present.
large numbers of converts to the Catholic
Church are reported a,nohg the negroes Of
the South.
New Workers uOS talk of a tubular iror
tunnel under east river 10 Councct them with
Broohlyn.
The Newport police arrested blind and
decr.pid b"ggAr the othr day, and found
Sli3 in gold oa his ler.On
a Jealous wife in san Francisco dressed
herself in male clothes, the better to follow
and watch a gay husband, aud brought up in
the station honse.
The average earnings Of the hoys who
sweep tie crossings of the London streets
are from two to torr shiliings day, but Oh
holidays they c:.Tn IarCh more.
A negro girl. in Louisville, in revenge for
,itu az l.lr l.,pi. n 4 i,urs.
day, poured iye down the throat OF the lady's
son, child oi two years OF age, and caused
his death.
hccn proposed declaring that whenever the
Presidential election occurs, the State olec
tiou shall be held upon that day.
1t is said in Washington that Daniel Pratt,
the big Indiana senator, has decided tha,
none of the senate chars are strong enough
to hold him. so that he contemp'ates having
one made on purpose, of immense strength,
with ''amp!e room and verge enough II
is also hiuled that Mr.. Sumner will oppose
this as establishing an inequality, aud Il,
dangerous precedent He will Introduce t
joint resolution regulating the size and color
Of all Senators.
Gen Reynolds has been for rtwo DAYS before
the Reconstruction Committee giving eyi
drnce in relation to affairs in Texas From
his statemantit it appears that the lawlessnes;
and violence which prevail there have beer
Lgreaily untcrrated. lie says that hundreds
Of murders have been committed and nobody
punished. In answer to the Committee in
quires lie suggested the proper remedies It
be applied, among which were the removal o
scme officers Of rank who have been station
ed there.
TIE speech ma ie by Marshall SerranC
at the opening of the Spanish Cortes on
Thursday, is such az has rarely beer
heard in that country, and holds out