The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-03

some time ago, and who was tried for the
offense and sentenced to State prison for life,
has been refused new trial.
In Maryland the majoriti es for members of
Congress are as follows--all Democrats
Thomas, 2,31S; Roberts, 2,444; O'Brien,
4,452; Swami, 3,424; Henkel, lao; Walsh,
49,. The complete vote for Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor in Pennsylvania is as follows: Latta
(Dem.), 277, 1876; Olmstead Rep.) 272 SIC.
Majority of Latta, 4,679 The temperance
vote was 462s. The following is the official
vote for Auditor General, Secretary of Internal
Affairs, and Judge of the Supreme Court
Auditor-G r-General-Temple, DEM, 276601
Allen Rep, 272 1861 Temples majority, 4,075.
Secretary Of Internal Affairs-NIcCa
Dem, 27G,925; Beath, Rep, 272, ,2OS; McCand-
loss majority Att. Supreme Judge-wood.
ward, Dem, 277, Paxon, Rep, 27O, $50
Woodward's majority, 1924. Corrected lists.
of the new Legislature of Pennsylvania show
the composition Of that body to be as follows.
Senate---Democrats, 81; Republicans, 90;
Repubhcan majority, g. House-Democrats,
Ill; Republicans, 90; Democratic majority.
q. Joint Ballot-Democratic majority, 10,
.... The official canvass for members OF Con-
gress in West Virginia is as follows: First
District-Wilson, Dem, 12,799; Goff, Rep,
1861. Second District-Faulkner, Dem,
| 1880; Boteler Rep, S,O64. Third District
Hereford, Dem, 10, ,52i Witcher, Rep. 7,745.
| The Democratic candidates are all elected.
President Grant has directed telegram
| to be sent to the Governor of Texas, request
Cr 10 oil ,Ft tln laa,
sentence on Satanta until it can be satiBfac-
torily ascertained whether or not he violated
his parole, the President believing the weight
of evidence thus far in Satanta's favor. ....
The earnings Of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road for the year ending September 80 were
Sl4,0i7OOO, and the expenses 80, ,41G, ,G50......
The Alabama Legislature organized by electing
| Mr.. Anderson, of Mobile, Speaker of tho
House. The Democrats have ca and the Rad-
calls 3G members M The civil war in the
Argentine republic has ended with a compro-
mise, by the terms of which Avellaneda resigns
the Presidency, and now elections arc to be
held shortly .... The Utica Observer publishes
a letter from Gov. Seymour, of New York,
thanking the press of both parties for the
| kindly mention of his name in connection with
the United States Senatorship, but declaring
that he prefers to do his duty as a citizen in
the walks of private life. .... An unusually
heavy earthquake was felt in Chill recently
about twelve minutes after midnight. Its
duration WAS about thirty seconds and the
direction from east to west m The amount
of the loss to the American Express Company
bv the robbery at Cincinnati is now put at
| Z A IL. II
up for Chicago in two safes instead of one for
greater security, and the thieves secured only
one. The official vote of New York State
gives Tilden 41G,343; Dix, 361 ,4OG, and Clark,
Temperance, 10214. Dix's majority in 1872,
53,45l; Tilden's majority, 54,937. Serious
loss Of life and property took place through
severe storms in Cuba. .... Tho estimates for
the postal service of the United States for the
ensuing fiscal year foot up $50, ,3G4, ,O34, an in
crease over the amount appropriated for the
current fiscal year of S2,S71. .634 The
government of Saxony has forbidden the prac-
tice of cremation. The ship-builders on
the Clyde have decided to reduce the wages Of
their employees. Late revisions of the
pension list in France show that there are still
living %, 900 men who served in the armies Of
the First Napoleon ...... By the recent report
OF the French Commission, organized for the
public distribution of charity during tho dread
full days of IT, it appears that s 100000 francs
(31,000, 0O0) were cent from that country.
Surveyors are at work locating and preparing
to build a tunnel under the Hudson river, to
connect New York and Jersey City. The tun-
, mel is to be 25 feet in diameter. 80. The late
lead discoveries in Newburyport, Mass, cause
much excitement and large amount Of land
and mining speculations The ore is found
abundant in quantity and rich in quality. One
vein opened is from three to six feet thick and
of unknown length. An Italian laborer
was killed on a Pennsylvania railroad, and his
companions, by way of revenging his death
fred into passing train with rifle. Fortu-
} nately nobody was injured ...... 1t is expected
that arrangements will be made satisfactorily to
the Philadelphia weavers and that they viii
} keep at work all wintel. .... United States
t Postmaster General Jewell ordered the discon.
0 tinuing of the pay and services of John T
r Callaghan, special agent Of the department
for loaning to his brother ali annual pass from
0 the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Com
4 pany, which had been granted to him solel,
4 upon the ground that he was an accredited
t special agent of the Post-Ofice department
..... An extensive cave occurred at the Seneci
/ mines owned by the Pitston and Elmira Rail
4 road Company, at Pittston, Penn. Five or ri,
: men were at work getting out coal when tn,
O roof gave way with terrible crash, killing
o Elias Davis and Henry jenkins, and dan
: gerously injuring John s. Williams. 49,. tn,
: regular lower coast packet Empire, Captain
t Jeanfreau, sunk to her upper deck at he
8 landing in New Orleans, and fourteen passen
+ gers aud many of the crow lost their lives
h They We're asleep at the time, and the boa
: sunk so rapidly that the unfortunate sufferer
. could not be awakened in time to escape.
It The only hope, says the Boston Adoertiser,
d new party in Massachusetts has of ever takln
a more substantial shape is in the Withdrawal
of one or both of the old parties from the field
=. 1t adds that they will not do that at present
.... 1t il estimated, says the COMMISSIONS
J., of Customs OF the United States, that tn
:, American tourists returning from Europe dun
\ ing the year ending June 80, 1873, numbere
n 3G, $50, and each person brought, on the aver
) age, seven trunks filled with dutiable goods
q claimed to be personal luggage, not dutiablo
W We have thus an aggregate of 2b7,SlO trunk
n filled with articles claimed as duty free, repre-
senting, on a valuation of $500 for each trunl
= the enormous sum Of 512S, 9O5, 900. ..... TIL
- wrestling match for $500 and the championshi
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