The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-07-02
NEWS N RRIEE.
Gold in New York to-day, lii

Amount of gold in the treasury to-day,
Sl12,000,00 !
Paris, is to have new loan of nearly
S1l, 100000.
The canal through the Isthmus Corenth
will be begun next month.
Two hundred brigands will shorty be con-
demned to death at Pesth, Hungary, i
The white and colored troops in the re-
gular army are % be kept separate.
The crop prospects in the South and
West are excellent.
We are to have another submarine cable
to Cuba next year.
A ladies' croquot tournament is in pro-
gress at Wimbledon, England.
The cotton crop in the South is estimated,
for this year, at 100000 bales.
Cotton is dull but steady to-day at Liver
pool, Havre, New York and New Orleans.
Pope Pins has appointed bishops for
Springfield, Havre-d Grace, and Port-au-
Prince.
Another drought is now imminent all
over the Northern States Corn is the only
crop that will be injured by it.
Hoge, of South Carolina, will probably
be expelled from Congress for selling
cadetship.
President Grant has determined to re-
move Minister Motley Hamilton Fish and
E. D. Morgan are after the place.
Five lads appointed cadets at large to
West Point have failed to pass an examina-
ton.
New York gives the palm to Philadel-
phia for being the hottest city in the United
States.
Jersey City is to have City Hall built
in Park on Bergen Heights. Even there
the "city fathers" are airish.
Mr.. Childers, Of the British Cabinet,
First Lord of Admiralty, is very i'll, ard is
not expected to recover.
The Gar of Russia will meet the Shah
of Persia in August at Tihis, and make ar
rangements to add that empire to Russia.
There are in the United States nearly
four thousand stills for the distillaton OF
liquors from fruit, of which number Virgin
ia claims one-fourth.
No such hot weather as the present was
ever experienced at New York in June be-
fore, and Wall street is almost deserted in
consequence.
The destruction Of the new car works of
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company, located to the north of the upper
station, at Reading, has thrown out of en-
ploymeut some five hundred men, most Of
whom have large families.
Andrew Stafford, late mail agent between
Baltimore and Philadelphia, was, on june
2i, at Baltimore, sentenced by Judge Giles,
of the United States District Court, to three
years Imprisonment in Jail for embezzlng
letters from the mail.
A desperate conflict took place in Hollis,
Peoria county. Illinois, on Friday, in which
pistols, knives, pitchforks, clubs, etc., were
used, and nine persons were seriously and
perhaps fatally wounded The battle took
place in a harvest field, and had its origin
in an old grudge.
A mysterious relic has been ploughed up
at Hodgdou, Me. Roman Catholics call it
a stone baptismal font, with the remains Of
a cross in the bottom, and the representa-.
ton of the Trinity on the side of the font
Their supposition is that Jesuit missiona.
ries among the Indians lost it on their way
across from St. John to Penobscot river.
At the late session of the Legislature Of
Rhode Island an act was passed providing
for women inseectors for the penal institu
tions of the State, not to supersede either o.
the existing boards, but rather to render
auxiliary service In those department,
where female oversight and sympathy art
most likely to be agreeable and beneficial.
There is fast travelling on the Lebanon
Valley Railroad. On Thursday, June %
the fast line arrived in Harrisburg at TWEEN
ty minutes to five o'clock, having made tn
distance from Allentown, ninety miles, il
two hours and nine minutes, including si
. stops, which took off twenty-five minutes O
the time.
The lead mines in the vicinity of Locus
Mound, Missouri, are just now receivin
grea: attention. Many leads are yieldin
from three to four thousand pounds da
to the hand, and the young men of th
country are giving up farming for miuiu,
Two lead furnaces in this vicinity are j
: full blast.
A number of cases of Asiatic cholel