The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05

In WltneSS WnereOI, nave peI eu mo SET
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States 10 be affixed. Done at the city o.
Washington this the twenty seventh day OF
October, in the year 1874, and of the indie,
pendence of the United States the ninety
ninth. U. s. GRANT.
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
Physicians are specuating upon
probable paralysis occasioned by eating
fruit put up in lead cans coated with i'm
pure or insufficient tin.
The keeper of the college book store
at Brunswick, Me, has received SIS
conscience money for books pilfered
frcm his store years ago.
The colored farmers of Boone county,
Mo-, refused to alnagamate, out held a
private and exclusive agricultural fair
of their own.
A Vermont legislator, aged sixty,
made his first railroad journey q few
days ago, whilst on his way to take his
seat for the present session.
A man in England recently travelled
80 miles on a bicycle in three hours, l3
minuets and so seconds, fraction less
than Is miles an hour.
Albany, II. Y, October 20.-Judge
Westbrook to-day sentenced Phelps, the
defaulting State Treasury clerk, to ff-
teen years in the Albany Penitentiary
at hard labor. The prisoner received
his sentence with calm indifference.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
directed the Assistant Treasurer at New
York to sell one half million dollars Of
gold each Thursday during the month
Of November. The aggregate amount
will be two million dollars.
A butcher named Kiopp, drawn for
the jury in Judge Stocha's court, New
Orleans, declared that he was entirely
deaf. Judge Stocha remarked in a low
tone; "Klopp you may co." whereupon
Klopp's deafness suddenly left him, and
he e.a-tod out Of Io wee brought
back, however, and put on jury.
1t ia stated that Mr.. Sims Reeves, the
English tenor, who signed contracs tc
come to America next session for a
series of concerts, is to receive one hun.
dred and fifteen thousand dollars fol
one hundred nights or eleven hundred
and .ftty dollars per nigh. This sur,
passed the paid to the great operatic d.
yaS,
The police Of Washington have ar.
rested gang of book thieves, who have
been stealing from the committee rooms
of the capitol. Documents to the
weight of 1850 pounds have been re-
covered, but some of the volumes have
been so multlated as to be useless
Most of them are valuable document.
which cannot be replaced. The thieves
actually carted away their plunder from
the rooms.
Washington, October 2S.-Tht
October report ofthe Department of Ag
riculture says the condition of the to
Dacco crop is somewhat higher than las
report, though promising only two
thirds of crop. The average OF al
States is sixty-one, only Connecticut anc
Georgia being above. Georgia and the
Gulf States report considerable growth
OF sugar cane.
AT the regular Cabinet session yes
terday, after the usual business wa
transacted, Governor Dix's opinion OIL
the third term, expressed in his recen
speech in New YORK, was alluded to b,
the President, when he took occasion
to say he regarded the discussion of th'
third term question as having beel
raised by the newspapers soely to ere
ate sensation aud attract attention t.
themselves. He never thought Of max
ing public statement of his views Of
the subject, and certainly never talke'
to any one. 1t would not comport witt
his dignity as President to publish hi
views on the subject. The members Q
the Cabinet heartily endorsed thes
views.
There is chap in Staunton, Va
who eats glass II went out says tn
physician who describes it, IAN
secured piece, about one-third of
broken pane, and brought in severa
friends to witness the sight. He too
the glass and deliberately bit out piec
about the size of a silver half dollar, an
chewed it up with as much gusto as
it had been piece Of bread, swallowed
it, taking alterward swallow of waite
and bread, he said to get the particle
out of his death. He would have cate
the whole piece If l had requested, a
he has frequently eaten tumblers for
drink of whiskey. He said he woul
eat any kind of glass except the colore'
bottle glass, which had poison in it. H
was first induced to try the experimen
about three years ago at the Cape @
Good Hope, by surgeon in the BIRTHS
navy, who bet he could evt all th
glasses [eighteen in number at dir
ner party, which he did aud saw n
reasonswhy he could not do as much, S
he tried it by eating only three. Sine
that time he has eaten glass for tn
amusement of others over a tEousan
times with no disagreeable effect. Tn
only difference he sees is, it gives hir
an appetite"