The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-03-26
NEWS ITEMS.

Ihe Arkansas Senate passed the Constltu-
tional Amendment by 10 to 3.
The barque, Harvest Queen, from Humboldt
Bay for San Francisco Feb, 10 is supposed
to have foundered at sea and all on board
lost Nothing has been heard of her since
sailing.
-Four and a half miles of track on the
Central Pacific Railroad were laid on the
18th of February. 1t was anticipated that
five miles were to be laid the next doy.
DR.. Gilmer, Chairman of the State Cen
trol Committee of Vginia, is out in card
boiling the nomination of Gov. Wells al d
others in the Petersburgh Convention.
The ice on the Hudson river has again
broken up.
Rev. VIM. Milburn, the celebrated Ameri-
can blind preacher, has had an operation per-
formed on his eyes at Berlin. Though much
Frustrated thereby, he was so far recovered
that second operation, which it is expect
ed will be successful, wilt be made.
Petitions are TO be circulated in Missouri,
asking the Legislature to submit all amend
ment to the constitution striking out the
word ''male.'
A meeting of citizens Of Nashville irres-
pectiYe of party or color, was held on the 18th
inst, to lndorse President Grants inaugural.
Henry s. Foote made a speech expressing
confidence in the new administration.
The peach buds in Somerset county, Now
Jersey, were killed by the cold snap last
week. and the crop is likely to prove fail
ure.
Hon. James Guthrie, late United States
Senator from Kentucky, died at his resi-
dence in Louisville, on the 18th inst
Dr. q. w. Darden, who killed Chas.
Wallace, editor of the CLlrPER, was taken
from Jail at Warrenton, Georgia, on the
18th inst, by party of disguised men, who
took him some distance from town, where
they shot aud killed him.
Potatoes were selling at thirty-fve cents
per bushel, in Madison, Lake county, o.,
last week.
The Sullivan county DEMOCRAT says that
the continuous discovery of coal has caused
the price or land to go up in that county.
The Democrats of Bedford county have
adopted the Crawford county sytem for the
selection of candidates for Office.
F. A. Crandall has retired from the Scran-
ton REPUBLICAN, leaving j. \. Scranton as
sole proprietor and manager.
WestMoreland county rejoices in probably
the oldest married couple in the State-Pat-
rick Murphy and wife, aged respectfully ITO
and so years.
4 Welshman, named Thomas Davis. a re-
turned soldier, residing in Wilkesbarre, COM
United suicide on the Sd inst. by shooting
himself whilst labUring under Il temporary
fit of insanity.
There is now the report that the solitary
ringlets which young ladies sport are noti-
fcaton on the part of those who wear them,
that they, the girls, are not engaged.
The Ellershausen process OF refining iron,
at cost of Sl5, 600, is about to be tried at
the Juniata lrcn Companys Furnace in
Blair county. The necessary machinery is
being put in.
A young colored woman named Elizabeth
w. Basfeld, recently employed as a teacher
in Washington borough, died in the railway
depot at Toledo, from disease of the heart.
She was on her way home with her brother
at the time.
ScraD ;on had velocipede contest the other
day. -Four young fellows rode for a silver
cup. One named Edwards got it. His time
was one quarter mile in one minute and
twenty-five and half seconds.
The Mercer county Democratic Convention
met on the 9th inst, and elected Messrs. NJ
G. Trout and Seth T. Kennedy, delegates to
the State Convention, with instructions to
vote for Gen. Cass for Governor
Mr.. Braggins has disposed Of the Green
vile ARGUS to Mr.. Miller, formerly Superin-
tendent Of the Common Schools in Mercer
county, who will Immediately enlarge and
otherwise improve the appearance of the
paper.
Francis Moxley, Esq, living near Near
Milford, Susquehannah county, had flock
of thirty-six sheep which one morning last
week was found with thirty-two dead and
four badly worried. Two suspected dogs
were killed, and the sheep became mutton.
Mr.. n. w. Pierce, of Bedford Co., kept
four cows during the summer Of 1868, max
ing. and selling 500 pounds of butter at 40
cents per pound, and from buttcrmilk realised
in calves and pork $40. Total $39O-$97 SO
to each cow
Union comfy has no debt, aud has 4, 900
in the Treasury. Its taxes are only two
mills and half on the dollar; one of its
townships is ahead on the next draft: its
goal is nearly always empty; it has univer-
sity, high school and two academies, and
which may account for the rest-has not a
single Democrat in Office.