The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-02-05
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NEWS ITEMS.

little favor in the San Francisco news
papers.
AT Ottawa, Canada, on SATURDAY.
Hon. Joseph Howe was swore in as Presi |
dent of the Pfivy Council.
--Forty-one of the Ogoechee, Georgia,
prisoners we're committed for trial, Satur
day, on the charge of instruction, and
thirty-on were discharged.
There was heavy rain aud thunder
storm at Richmond, Virginia, Saturday
morning. The lightning struck in two
or three places.
Governor Palmer, Of Illinois, has is
sued proclamation notifying the holders
of State bonds that they vii! be paid iu
New York April Isl.
1t is reported via San Francisco. thai
Senator Nye, of Nevada has resigned, for
the purpose of accepting an appointment in
General Grants Cabinet.
The motion for a new trial in the
Twitchell murder case, at Philadelphia,
was refused by the Judges of the Court of
Oyer and Terminer, and sentence of death
pronounced.
The blast furnace Of Algero & Co., at
Cold Springe, New York, was destroyed
by fire Saturday afternoon. Loss heavy
insurance unasoertaiued
A girl of Oak Hill, New York, two
months married, recently applied to a law.
yer in Kingston to know whether her
speculative husband had any right to
trade her off for an old scuff Of a cutter"
The ladies ofthe New York Sorosis are ar.
ranging preiminaries for ladies' ball and
invite their Boston friends who have cot
an yoive branches to bring them along,
a little Boston school girl, recently re.
quested to explain how Congress is divided,
announced in confident triumph, Civi
lized, half civilized and savage
Zebulou Waters, respectable citizen of
Baltimore, died there on February ! aged
95 years Deceased was in the service Of
the Bank of Baltimore 64 yerrs, having
entered it in 1905, and served in various
positions up to chief Clerk.
Governor Geary on Monday last issued
warrants for the execution on Friday the
26th OF February, of William Brooks and
Charles Orme, sentenced to be hung at
Stroudsburg, Monroe county, for the mur>
der of Theodore Brodhead
The shoemakers of Chicago are on
strike, caused by large firm requiring
more work done each day, for which the
shoemakers demanded, and were refused,
five dollars day. An effort is being made
to establish cooperative factory. with
capital Of 100000, in Sl00 shares.
The Delaware State Legislature has
adopted a joint resolution declaring the
authority of the State over the landing of
an ocean telegraph cable on its shores, and
alleging that the Atlantic coast of Della
ware is peculiarly favorable for the landing
of the French cable, and appointing j. P.
Comegys a commissioner to confer with
the company owning that enterprise.
Official dispatches have been received
by the English war Office from New
Zealand. They announce that a battle
had taken place between the British and |
the Maori rebels at poverty Bay, and the
latter were defeated with great loss in
killed wounded, and prisoners. The vic
tory had restored tranquility in that
quarter of the colony.
Amos Stone, Of Daubury, Connecticut
whose mind took an inquiring turn the
other day, determined to acquaint himself
with the anatomy of hogs jaw, and es
pecialIy the lower one, with view Of fnd~
ing out where the tusks took root He
boiled the jaw forty eight hours, when the
tusk yielded to his pulling and came our.
He found that just below the surface it
curved outward and extended under the
back teeth, taking root near the JOINT of
the jaws Those that be took out measured
81 inches in length.
A scarecrow has been invented down
East of so hideous a character that the
rous are hi noino hack the corn thev stole |