The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.
items of Interest from Home and
Abroad

The authorities of Tuscumbia, Ala. tele-
graphed to President Grant asking for aid to
the sufferers by the storm. The President re-
piled that he is unable to comply with
the request. m The Governor Of Arkansas
has offered 81 600 reward for the capture of
ex-Lieutenant- Governor V. V. Smith. Four
masked men broke in the door of James
Breed a farmer, living five miles from Titus
vile, Pa, and demanded his money. He re-
piled that he had none and they then tied him
to a lounge, and afterwards put his feet in the
fire to compel him to dsgorge. They ran
sacked the house, secured about forty dollars,
and made their escape. go. The new Legisla-
ture of Illinois stands Senate, "a Republicans,
% Democrats, and Reformers; House, 60
Republicans, 81 Democrats and 81 Reformers.
..... Austin +. Pike declines denomination
for Congress from the Manchester, N H.,
district ... Michael Martin, OF Poughkeepsie,
N. Y, killei his wife by beating her to death.
shock of earthquake was felt in Essex
county, Mass. Houses were shaken, stoves
moved, and in one instance safe overthrown,
Reports like the firing of heavy cannon were
heard. 80. Corrections in returns having boen
made the official vote of New York State at
the late election is declared as follows: Total
vote on Governor, 794, ,2O4; Samuel j. Tilden,
416 ,40i; John A. Dix, 3G6,002; Myron II.
Clark, II, 79S; Tilden over Dix, so, ,i02 Tilden
over all, 3s,6Oi. Total vote on Lieutenant
Governor, 791 ,212; William Dorshemer, 49,
SOY; John G. Robinson, S63, ,32S Bagg,
Temperance, II ,377; Dorsheimer over Robin
son, So 179; Dorsheimer over both, Al, S02...
The new horse disease, called pink eye, has
made its appearance in sections of Connecti-
cut. When the disease drst appears the
horses refuse their food. Swelling OF the
limbs and swelling and running of the eyes,
accompanied with cough in some instances,
Immediately follow. The disease generally
lasts from three to four weeks before the
horses are fit to work .....T The Supreme
Court of Indiana has decided that colored
children have no rights i'll the school provided
for willie children. 1t is held that the consti-
tutional system Of common schools was or
ganized for the benefit Of tho citizens, and at
the time of the adoption Of the Constitution
only white people wera citizens. The four
teenth amendment does not delegate to the
general government the right to interfere
with the regulation OF domestic affairs, and
the late Legislature having passed law for
separate schools in districts having fifteen or
more colored children, the colored children
have no right in the schools provided for
white children so long as that act making
separate provisions remains in force. The
official returns Of Alabama for Governor show
the total vote thisyear as POI, ,046. This vote is
29,Sl7 greater than the total for Governor i'll
1872, and IL, 147 greater than the total Con-
gressional vote in 1872. The total Presidential
vote was 81 $50 less than the Gubernatoral
vote this year. George S. Houston, Dem, has
a majority of 13, 100 for Governor this year
over David P. Lewis, Rep, whose majority in
1872 was S507.
A train on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
rau into a drove of horses billing eight of
them. A frightful mountain disaster is
reported on the great st. Bernard. Eleven
persons we're buried III the snow and perished
......A number OF American newspaper cor
Respondents have been imprisoned in Spain.
...... England makes objections to the pro-
posed Canadian reciprocity treaty with the
United States, asserting that under it her
manifestations are placed at disadvantage, and
the treaty would injure them. Statstics
SHOW that there arc in round numbers 5000 600
Nethodists in the United States and Canada
Some idea may be formed OF the growth Of
American Methodism by comparing these
figures with the beginning msdo 103 years ago
in New York, with five members, by Philip
Embury; 100000 added to the above figures
will give the number of Methodist COMMUNE
cants throughout the worlds, 100000
During a fight with the Indians, two white
girls were recaptured. These sisters, Adelaide
and Julia Germans, aged three and seven
years were captured in Kansas. They say
that their father, mother, brother, aud one
sister were murdered, and that they and two
other sisters were kept prisoners. They have
no positive knowledge of their Whereabouts.
Their story ofwoe and suffering is too horri-
bic to relate. They were almost naked and
nearly starved. "A fiy-wheel weighing twenty
tons, in Newark, n. j., factory, exploded
doing over $4,000 damage. The wooler
manufacturers of the United States, through
committee, ask Congress to equalize the duty
on all grades, by making it twenty-five pei
cent. allowance. They complain that grea
injustice ie done the manufacturing interest:
! by the present tariff The Attorney-G Genera
OF the United States has decided that tht
goods of foreign exhibitors at the Interuationa
Exhibition, to be held at Philadelphia. in 1876
will be entirely free from liability to seizure
from any debts, claims or demands whateye
against the centennial commission or an,
other corporate body, person or association o
persons having to do with said exhibition.
Lieutenant-Geuera Sheridan denies the re
ported invasion OF the Black Hills by miners
aud thinks the report may have originate
from the discovery Of gold forty miles north O
Laramie City, where miners have gone. 80.
Mrs. Jenisch an Irishwoman in New Yorl
has been committed to the Tombs for roastin
to death her daughter, aged four years. .....I
letter from Mexico says that by the late earth
quake there quite number of lives were lost
and the destruction of property was muc
more severe than at first reported. -. T.
Brooks, convicted in the United States Circu
Court of embezzlement and making false ell
tries while president of the Merchant
National Bank of Petersburg, was sentence
to five years imprisonment in the Alban
penitentiary.
The Comptroller of Currency OF the Unite
States, in his annual report, Gays twenty-tN
hundred national banks have been organize
since the establishment Of the system. Thirt,
five have failed and 1877 have gone into volul
tary liquidation, leaving 2,028 banks in exs
ence. The total circulation of these banks