The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-22
NEWS HENS.

arrest warrants rave been issued have cis
appeared from the neighborhoo], and that
no further arrests have been made.
Henry Clays SOP, Theodore, is an in
mate Of the lunatic asylum at Lexington,
Ky. He is email in stature, aud thin, with
\ bald head, and gray hair and whskcrs.
lie seldom speaks, but recognizes those
who address him by returning the salute
politely aud with dignity.
The members of the " Morning Star 4"
Sunday School, who for some time past
have met in one Of the halls of Pixies
Opera House, yesterday found the doors
OF the hall closed against them, by order
Of the proprietor of the building.
Cotton was less active and cheaper on
Saturday. Breadstuffs were moderately
dealt in; Corn was stronger in price. Pro>
visions quiet Lard and Hogs lower.
Groceries in less demand. Moderate
freight engagements were reported, with
54l vessels of all classes in port.
"A citizen of Portland, Maine, thinks
the world is to be visited by second
deluge. He is accordingly converting his
entire property-s6, ,O00-into an ark. The
boat will be fifty feet long, fifteen feet wide,
flat bottomed, square sterned, round bows,
with house just aft of midships The
proprietor is planning and building the affair
himself. He does not intend to launch it
but will simply store it with provisions and
proceed to keep house in it-preparcd at
any time, for the rising Of the waters.
The Militia bill just passed by the
Legislature of Tennessee. gives the G ov-
ernor arbitrary power to call out any force
of the militia at his will, and to declare
martial law wherever he pleases in the
State. A dispatch says that the Governor
will certainly act at once, and many days
will not elapse before black and white
militia will be placed iu the field. The
Kuklux outrages still continue in various
portions of the State. ..
Many OF the tax payer of Columbia
and Charleston, S. g., have taken
measures to test the legality of the assump.
ton By the State Of the payment of the
bills of the bank of the State, aud to pre-.
vent the issue of bonds for their redemp.
tion. They dispute the. validity of the act
authorizing Gov Scott to issue bonds of the
State upon the surrender of the bills.
Several members of the Maine Legis.
lature, who supported Mr.. Morrill,, in the
late caucus FOR United States Senator, have
published card, in which they say that,
according to all precedent, Mr.. Hamlin
was nominated, and that they will support
him at the coming election There was J
seventy five votes cast for Mr.. Hamlin,
.eventyfour for. Mr.. Morrill,, and one was
blank.
The Republican legislative caucus at
Albany N. Y, to nominate United States
Senator, held Saturday evening, was at
tended by large crowd, including the Re-
publican members of both Houses. On
the second ballot Reuben 4. Fenton was
declared the nominee, he receiving 52 and
K. ID. Morgan 40. The result of the first
ballot was not announced, but it is stated
that it stood Fer Fentou, 50 and for
Morgan, A. The nomination of Gov.
Feuton was made unanimous.
Several days ago, the Peoples Ma
1ional Bank, in Pitisburg, was robbed OF
$4,000 by some ad-oit and daring thief,
who abstractcd small tin box containing
the amount from the safe. The affair has
been kept quiet, in the hope that some clue
might be obtained to the perpetrstor but,
although the officers of the bank have been
making every exertion to ferret out the
thief, and have had the assistance of ex.
detectives, nothing satisfactory
has as yet been discovered.
TIE champion eater Of the United |
States is named Joshua Plumb. A few |
lays ago he entered restaurant in Hud.
ION, N. u. and offered to eat all that any
'ne would pay for. The challenge having
'een accepted. he disposed Of the following
articles Ten pieces of apple pie, six corn
,akes, quarter of pound of crackers, six
cups cf peanuts, thirty picked CLANS, four
emons, an ounce Of candy and two bowls
If clam soup. He then drank six tumblers
If water, and offered to eat hundred raw
'ysters. No one doubted bis ability to
ccomplish the feat but no
ne was willing to pay for the oysters, and
0 he went off grumbling that he wasn't
lalf full .a
DR. w. II. NJ. Howard, of West Fair
ee, VT, while on his way home from New
York, was robbed by pickpockets, in the
lew Haven depot, on Friday night, of
arge sums of money. He had with him
Vhen he started from New York nearly
80, 900 in bonds and greenbacks. These
e had slowed away in pocket books which
e carried in the breast pockets OF his
oats. The thieves jostled against him
'hile he was getting into the cars, and, as
Ias afterwards discovered, cut his pockets
artially out. They succeeded in getting
wo pocket looks, one containing $4,000
4 Government bonds, and the other S., 500
D greenbacks. The book which they did
ot manage to get hold of contained sl0,-
90 in grecnbacks.
Gen. Sherman telegraphed to head.
aarters at Washington, on Saturday, the
taet nano,I 1.o,,, noa II |