The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-05-14
SUMMARY OF NEWS,

The Roman Catholics OF New Brunswick are
moving strongly for separate schools, and have
prepared an address to tho Queen on the sub
ject In Australia as in California, gold
mines arc being discovered almost as rich as
those which tempted the pioneers a quarter Of
a century ago o...T Tho total yold OF the ice
crop in Maine for tho present season, including
old leo on hand, cannot bo rcckoacd short of
1 800 900 tous aud Il may possibly roach 2,O0O.-
600 tons. or this amount probably 800 900
have been sold or bargatncd Tor nj 80 por ton,
or a total OF nearly 81. .000, 900. A story of
brutality toward child was related In a Now
Orleans police court. Lucy Joseph was ar
raignod for ill-treatment Of her step-son, a boy
OF eleven, very small for his age. She had
tortured him cruelty among other expedients
compelling him to kneel upon hot bricks until
his knees became roasted. While amply feed
ing her own children, she gave the step-son
nothing, and he had to beg. The boy was
constantly asking for food when in court, and
quickly devoured loaf Of bread. Statistics of
marriages in Ohio, since 1866 show remark
able decline in matrimony. According to the
published figures of each year, since 1866, it is
shown in that year there was one marriage to
every eighty-two Of population. In 1873 the
proportion WAS one marriage to one hundred
and eighteen of the population. 80. In reply to
a resolution of the U. S. Committee on Bank
ing and Currency Comptroller Knox says that
the amount of the 1854, 900, 900 of bank circu-
lation remaining unissued on Nov. 1 was
| e5,o49, ,o51. Since then about one-fourth of the
amount has been issued to banks which had
perfected their organizations leaving at this
date about $4,000, 900 unissued. .... While
Christian Ehmann, and an employee, name
unknown, or Philadelphia, were crossing the
Delaware river at Kinkara, in a skiff, it upset
and both were drowned .....At a meeting of
the Permanent Committee of the French AS
sembly, the Minister Of the Marine announced
that rigid investigation in the case of the
steamship Amerique had been ordered.
In order to equalize the currency the United
States Controller says it will be necessary to
withdraw circulation from the Statss which are
in excess as follows Maine, about $729, 900
Vermont, about $755, 000 Massachusetts, about
$15, 1888, 900; Rhode Island, about So, sos, 900
Connecticut about So, ,025, ,000 New York, about
$780, 000 Pennsylvania, about 81 400, 900.
Total, $25 600, 900. "A Boston man who had
injured his heel, took it into his head the other
day that his wife had bewitched the wound and
it was necessary for him to shed some of her
blood before he could get well. So he attacked
her with razor and nearly killed her. 80. OF
1876 estimates of the cotton crop seventy three
were opened at the Cotton Exchange in Mem
phis. The highest was 4,267 900 bales and the
lowest 1891, 900, average 4,132, 900. .... There
are about three hundred and fifty churches in
New York, with sttings for nearly or quite
three hundred thousand people. 80. Business
is entirely prostrated in Hayt, and the rainy
season has thus far proved very unhealthy, the
mortality among the natives from fever being
very large. Added to this, a revolution with
threatened bloodshed is expected.