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

now contemplated.
William A. Stone, a lawyer of Cana.
stota, N. Y, convicted of arson in the
third degree, for setting FIRE to that vii.
lage, has been sentenced to prison for
lite.
A Galveston, Texas, dispatch says the
census just completed shows that there
are 34,S5O people in that city. not in
cludiug the floating population, au in
crease of over 10000 in three years.
G. M. X. Pauliuson, ex-colleotor tf
internal revenue in New Jersey, has
been mulcted in nearly $4,000 by a
jury, money alleged to have RENAME d
iu his hands, with interest.
President Grants special message TO
Congress recommending further legisla.
ZION on the Centennial was accompanied
by the report of the commissioners de-
scribing the progress thus far made in
the work Of preparation.
st. Clair, the man arrested, charged
with setting fire to Portland, Oregon, at
the time of the great confagration, has
been auquitted, be having proved that
he was thirty-6ve miles away at the time
of the fire.
The celebrated divorce suit, in which
Col. W. W. Price, the milliopair brewer,
is defendent, ended last week iU Warren
county, New York, by decree dissolv-
ing the marriage and leaving the child
| rem tor further consideration
Jay Cooke having resigned as one of
the managers of the National Home for
disabled volunteer soldiers, General
Butler introduced bill naming General
James S. Negley, who represents the
Pittsburgh district. as Mr.. Cooks sue
cessor.
A summary Of the temperance move
ment in Ohio on Monday, from sixty
towns and villages, show that in eleven
towns liquor selling has been entirely
stopped, aud IN over forty from FIVE 10
twenty-six places in which liquors have
been sold are closed, and that the work
everywhere is going on vigorously.
The New York Assembly has rejected
a bill providing for refunding to cities,
towns, und individuals, the money they
paid for substitutes under the various
drafts during the war. During the dis
cussion Mr.. Alvord said the bill would
take at least S7,O00,O00 from the people
of State overburdened with taxation.
The case of Dickinson against Brown,
at jackson, Miss, involving the mar
riage between white man and colored
woman, has been decided in the Su-
preme Court in favor Of the colored
children, who were suing as heirs Of
their deceased father. A large amount
of property was involved. The case
has excited great interest.
All of the bank burglars recently
convicted and whipped at the post in
New Castle, Del, escaped last week,
together with man sentenced to prison
for life for murder. Big Frank, the
leader of the burglars, was recaptured
in Philadelphia.
A bill has been reported to the Vir-
ginia Legislature licensing faro banks.
With that fine sense of thrift peculiar
to the legislative intellect OF the South,
it is proposed in this way to raise S15,-
600 per aunum to replenish the exhauted
treasury OF the "mo'her Of Presidents" !"
Macon, Ca. March 4.-Y esterday
John Abel and John Cherry, while in
toxcated 10 a barroom. became involved
IN quarrel. Abel drew a pistol and
fred at Cherry, fatally wounding him
near the heart. Abel then pointed
the pistol towards his own bosom and
shot himself dead.
New York. March 4.-The will OF
late James W. Gerard was admitted to
probate yesterday. He bequeaths a
large amount of real estate and personal
property, besides large amount of cash
legacies. varying from 500 to $40, 1000
each The aggregate of the estate.
apart from cash legacies and bequests of
personal property, is valued at two mil
lions.
Robert White, a convict. was shot and
fatally wounded while attempting to
escape from Sing Sing prison yesterday
Senior Aldama. agent of the Cubal
Republic, says the patriot forces ia
more than hold their own. They mum
Der about 10000 armed men, and the,
:. could put three times that number il
the field if they could procure arms auc
ammunition. The native Cubans were
all on their side, and nearly half th'
area of the island in their possession
The Spanish troops in the field numbe
, 25 900 regulars and $4,000 volunteers
. They are asking for reinforcements, bu
3 are not likely to get them from Spain.
: An official communication has bee
|, , received at the Treasury Department
!. stating that the cholera was prevailin,
! extensively at Buenos Ayres. On De
!, comber 20 twenty-four cases were sen
i to the Lazaretto, and on December 80
the date of the last communication t
u the department, sixty.four cases wer
4 reported. The disease is considered
be the regular Asiatic cholera. TIL
: United States consul at Buenos Aye,
e had refused to give clean bills of heslt
8 to vessels leaving there for the Unite
IT States, aud several were in consequence
If leaving port without being provide
/, with such documents.
u A telegram from General Custer
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