The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-31
GENERAL NOTES.

dred" immortalized by Tennyson, is now
residing in Portland, Me.
The New York district attorney is
understood to have brought before the
grand jury the matter OF Sunday night
performances in the Dowery Theatre, to
test the right to have such performances.
Governor Osburp, of Kansos, esti'
mates that the number of people in the
western counties of his State who will
need aid during the coming winter at
2,00Q. A large proportion of these are
now in want
The Michigan State Fish Commits
sioucrS have placed torty-cieht thousand
California FISH, sixty days old, in the Au
Sable river.
The Chicago corn market is believed
to be in the hands o. a few operators,
who contemplate considerable squeeze
at the end Of the month.
A Minneapolis, Mnn., dispatch says
Spaford, the Treasurer Of the Victor
Sewing Machine Company, is defaul-
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disappeared.
A horrible abortion case has been
discovered at Hampton, Franklin county
! Iowa, the victim being a Mrs. Ices. She
died few days ago. Her husband and
drunken doctor were bound over to
the next term of the District Court.
Small bills should be promptly paid.
The men to whom they are due sener-
ally need The money. The little bills
are the ones that make numberless gaps
in the world cf business. How much
comfort to families, cheer to Responding
business men and encouragement gen
orally, would be given by the immedi-
ate discharge Of ali little, and preEaps
halt-forgotteu obligations.
The friends of Edward Stokes have
MADE application to Governor Dix for
his pardon, on the ground that he will
have served his term by January 9Th
counting in his imprisonment in the
Tombs before sentence, auo deducting
the commutation he is entitled to for
good behavior. Gov. Dix declines to
interfere, because he will not be in
office on Jsnuary 9th. Stokes counsel,
will take him from prison on writ OF
habeas corpus the first week in January.
Jersey City, December 23.-At one
o'clock this morning, Bernard Riley,
David Murphy, Martin Sullivan aud
James Burns, employed at the Lucka-
wanna and Western Railroad, were per-
cipitated down the shaft, sixty feet deep,
the bucket giving way, and were in
stautly killed. The men threatened to
lynch the engineer, who was blamecys,
and force OF police YVES detained to
protect him,
The janitor of an Indianapolis medi-
cal college was deeply affected on recog-
nizing his arother-in-law on the dissect-
ing-tabIe. His g,iet was the more
poignant from the fact that he had him
self carried the stolen corpse up three
flights Of stairs.
When it was said to a Nebraska man
that he didn't use good grammer, he put
on mouInful look and replied: "Well,
We lived morn Ten miles from the
nearest tavern"
The Dangerous classes" are too poor
to get whisky. There is notably less
crime in consequence, and State Prison
expenses are not reduced by the usual
qua0tlty Of State Prison labor.
Two thousand dollars in gold were
lately paid in London for cup Of coffee
"The Cup OF Coffee" was made by
Madra9o-on his easel. It was Won
deriul specimen OF the painters art.
The Minnesota State Grange has re-
solved that the present State law for the
regulations Of railroads is expensive and
useless to the people and vexatious to
the roads, and demands its repeal; and
in the name of 70, 600 voters the Gran
gers demand the passage Of law that
shall guarantee cheap transportation for
the productions Of the farm, especially
wheat.
Charles b. Hurehins, an Albany
lawyer, has just been sent to the peni-
tentiary for one year on charge of as
sault aud battery. He ruised a girl
thirteen years old, ard forged letter to
shield himself A poor lawyer evil
deutly, aud certainly very mean mas.
a Philadelphia horse car conductor
found pocket book containing one, hun
dred dollars, and after tSo days vigi-
laut search discovered the owner and
restored the property. At a private
meeting Of the other conductors he was
denounced for his reckless disre gard OF
the opportunities vouchatod him by a
mysterious Providence.
The Erie Dispatch notices the finding
OF woman named Mrs Catharine A q.
nes dead in the street last Saturday
night near the Franklin House, 10 Erie
j. A. Hautz, the proprietor OF the house
was arrested on suspicion Of being her
murderer. The Coroncrs Jury had
the case under consideration, but We
have not heard the verdict.
Omaha, Neb, December 6.-Geu-
eral Ord, commander If this department
has ordered a company Of cavalry from
Camp Sheridan to pursue and overhaul
party of miners who have started Tor
the gold region in the Black Hills, ana
expel them from the Indian territory.
California claims that the present