The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-06-11
NEWS IN BRIEF
Spain is still in an unsettled condition.

in less than lU hours.
The Franking Privilege abolition bill
is postponed
The Indians near Fort Buford have de-
clared war against the whites.
Illinois State prisoners make 10000 ci.
gars week.
London is exporting its vagabond street
boys to Canada.
The Union Pacific Railroad has sold
150 900 acres of land.
There is journal in Paris published in
the Japanese language.
Too much cotton and too little corn is
the cry Of the Alabama papers
Rhode Island still demands a property
qualification iiom its naturalized citizens.
A statue of Jasmin, the barbar poet, has
been erected at Agen, France, his native
place,
The Canadian volunteers were presented
with colors on Wednesday by Prince. Ar
thur.
The Pacific railways run through nine
teen tunnels between Omaha and San Fran
cisco.
The Sultan's family consists of nine hun
dred wives, with fouteen hundred other
persons.
1t is said that the revenue of the Gov
ernment this month will be over S2O, ,000,.
000
President Grant has put a stop to the
mining expedition to Big Horn Mountain
in Colorado.
Since Boutwell, took hold of the Treasury
the public debt has been decreased nearly
s115,000,000.
Potatoes are offered for sale in Perry
county for fifteen cents bushel, and pur
. chasers scarce at that.
D Samuel Bard, Governor of Idaho, ha
resigned to 60 back to Georgia and edit ;
newspaper. Misguided man!
Mrs. Owen Franks, of Pekin, ILL.,, sho
herself through the heart on Tuesday, be
2 cause domestic matter had gone wrong.
o A very extensive fire is raging in tn
Metapedia district, New Brunswick. Mile
. of telegraph poles have been burned.
1 q --u,tna, uduguter OF Lola Mon
u tez, has been declared insane at New York
She is affected with her mothers weakness
The passenger trains over the Peunsyl
vania railroad are crowded, both east an
west.
The average daily supply of water (
the population of London amounts to "a
87S, l64 gallons.
t Admiral Turner, of the Pacific squadron
S has been ordered to the East, as the succes
sor Of Commodore Glisson.
The marriage of the Prince of Orang
with Princess Louise, of England, Is fxe
a for the month of August.
The yield of strawberries this season pre-
misses to be large. The plants are lookin
g remarkably we'll
The international Typographical Unio
& has elected lady printer-Miss Angus,
Lewis, of New York-Corresponding Seer
e tary.
N Garibaldi received from his publishe
10000 lire, about $4,000 for his move
- which is quite handsome fortune
-, ~ Caprera.
The trustees of the Drew Theologic
~ Seminary were unable on Tuesday to sele
president to succeed the late DR.. McCli
OF took.
to The one thousand million funding b
k at four per ceat,, free of tax, interest pa
able in gold, meets with much favor in Co
gress, but Boutwell, opposes it
Fears have been entertained that Il
is grain would suffer from the recent rain. v
are assured that no harm has been done
it in this latitude, it not being in blosso
tie yet.
- A trader who has been annoyed by t
m- congregation loafers in front of his store
the evening, has adopted an effectual rel
I'm edy for the nuisance. He sprinkles red pc
per on the walk near the windows, a
when the "audience" assemblies and begi
tes to "shufe around" the fine dust of the pc
,.0 per arises, and the crowd soon sneeze the
selves around the corner.