The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.
interesting Items from Home and
Abroad.


Abroad.
The suicide mania appears to have run wild
in New York. No less than six or eight at
tempts at self-destructon were mede in one
day, four Of which ended fatally .. General
George A. Forsyth, commandant of the right
wing of the Black Hills expedition, thinks the
Black Hills deserve every adjective that has
been applied to them. The adjacent country
is rich and fertile, the climate mild and
healthy, and all advantages are presented
which would be appreciated by farmers stock
raisers, or gold-mners. Gold was found, he
said, whenever sought for in the hills. The
country consists in series of little valleys
with plenty of springs, and for grazing is un-
surpassed. The gulch dggings, go far as
examined, would yield about $40 per day per
man, and almost every time the miners accom-
panying the expedition experimental they
found paying dirt. The territory in which
gold can be found is $50 miles in extent north
and south and 200 miles east and west and the
distance by the best route is 160 miles north Of
the Union Pacific Railroad. The best road
is through the Red Cloud Agency; but it
would be impossible for any other than a
strong military force to get through, as the
Sioux claim the reservation and are determined
to keep people at distance. Even If a passage
were possible no communication could be kept
up, and there would be no means Of obtaining
| provisions or assistance in case of need. The
General stated further that no bands Of emf
grants as they are usually armed had or could
get through, particularly since the command
ing general has issued his prohibition 1t is
believed, however, that in his report General
Sheridan will recommend the opening up Of
this country, since it is entirely too valuable
to be given up to the exclusive use of the
savages. .... William Geary, an engineer in
the Office of the Philadelphia Democrat, has
had his right hand crushed, 30 as to require
amputation, by the same printing press from
which the inventor Bullock received fatal
injury. .... The London Times says that the
Marquis Of Ripon has become a Roman Catho-
| lie. The announcement few days ago that
he had resigned the Grand Mastership of the
| Freemasons, and that the Prince Of Wales
would temporarily succeed him, caused much
| excitement, which is heightened by the in
formation that the Marquis has embraced
| Catholicism. ... With the assent Of the Presi-
dent and at the request of tho General, the
headquarters of the armies of the United
States are established in St. Louis, Mo. The
regulations and orders now governing the
functions of the General of the Army and
| those in the relation to the transaction Of
business with the War Department and its
bureaus will continue in force.
1t is estimated that three million dollars
worth of grain has been destroyed by locusts
in Southwestern Minnesota. . The Supreme
Court of California in the habeas corpus case
of the twenty-three Chinese women brought
over on the steamer Japan, decided that the
State law which regulates such immigration is
Constitutional, and remanded the women to
the master of the steamer Japan to be re-
| turned to China. A special from Bismarck
says party Of fifty men will leave Bis
marck in about thirty days for the Black Hills
The party will be composed of experienced
miners and hunters, who not only know the
color Of gold and the habits of the Indians, but
are sharp enough to evade the military, and
who once in the hills can live as Indians live,
and consequently will not bother themselves
with supplies to any great extent. .... E. L.
Acker was nominated for Congress by acclama-
ton by the Democrats Of the Seventh Penn
sylvania District .... Half Of the town of
Meiningen Germany, has been burned. The
loss on buildings alone is estimated at So, ,O0O,-
900 thalers. Upward Of seven hundred fami.
lies have been made homeless, and there is
great distress among the unfortunate people.
......A barn owned by Frederick Tegtmier, in
New Haven, was burned, and his two SONS,
aged respectively six and three years. who
were playing in the hay loft, were burned to
death go. In the Cornwall election case Nc
Donald, the sitting member and brother of the
Postmaster General of Canada was unseated
for bribery. This is the third case tried under
the new law and in each instance the Govern
ment has lost supporter ..... Gov. Taylor,
of Wisconsin, is spoken of as candidate for
United States Senator, to succeed Carpenter.
500. 1t is now asserted that Colorado air does
not cure consumptives, but kills them.
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