The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-25
GENERAL NOTES.

| General CuSter is preparing 10 Giarcn
against the Sioux Indians, now on the
war path.
AN Y court recently decided that
Sister of Charity cannot be excused at
tending as witness because OF her re.
ligious VOWS.
1t has been estimated that the seven
furnaces 10 and about Harrisburg pro-
duce annually 10000 tons of iron, re-
quiring in the process 96,836 tons Of
iron ore and 75,34S tons of coal.
A smart young Granger in Lac Qui
Parle, Mimi, has this year set out 9,
900 forest trees, besides sitting up five
nights in every week with red.haired
young woman of great beauty.
Lieutenant Kings command have
captured eighty-four hostile Apache
warriors and three chiefs at Camp Yer
de, Arizona.
A. B. Knowiton & Co.'s Beverwick
hosiery mill, at Sand Lake, Ronsselao
county, N, Y, was burned June IA
Loss, $4,000; insured for $4,000.
The stables Of the Bristol County
(Mass.) Agricultural Society were bur
ned on Saturday night, with fourteen
horses, mostly trotting stock, there for
training. Loss, $4,000.
One of the female clerks in the Trea-
sury Department at Washington, recent
ly administered a horsewbpping to "a
lady whom the Treasury heroine ac-
cused Of circulating malicious reports
about her.
Edward Mullen, the pedestrian walk
ed l15 miles in 25 hours l2 minutes, in
New York, on Monday, beating Yves.
toms time by 5 minutes. He proposes
walking 5000 miles in six days.
Henry G. Henderson, postmaster at
Keene, New Hampshirc. committed
suicide by hanging on Friday night.
Deceased was laboring under alteration
of mind, caused by sunstroke two years
ago.
The entire Democratic State ticket is
elected in Oregon. The Legislature
stands: Senate, Republicans, H.; Demo
crat, 8; Independents, 10; House, Re
publicaus, 16; Democrats, %; Indepen-
dents, %.
There is sharp competition between
the various ocean steamship companies
plying between New York and Liverpool
Passenger fares are in consequence sixty.
six per cent lower than they were two
months ago.
The committee on the bursting Of the
dam at Williamsburg reported that they
had examined the remains Of the dam,
and fonnd defects of the grossest charac-
ter, indicating that the work had been
done by inexperienced persons.
H. A. Burrows, cashier Of the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad,
has mysterously disappeared from
Buffalo since the 1lth inst. 1t is sup
posed he was laboring under temporary
insanity, caused by bereavement in his
family. His accounts are correct.
The steamer Western has arrived at
Sioux City from Fort Benton, being the
first boat of the season from Upper Mis-
souri,. She reports that the Indians Gu
the upper river are very quiet, and very
few are showing themselves on the
banks Of the river at the landings.
The Levee Convention assembled on
Saturday in New Orleans, fourteen
parishes being represented. The object
Of the meeting was to devise means to
protect the State from ogerhows 10 the
future. a committee was appointed to
visit Washington to se,ure Government
tai aid
One thousand pounds OF nitro glycer-
inc in the Government magazine, four
miles above Shreveport, La, exploded
June 12th with terrific force. The con
cussion was so great that the whole
population rushed into the streets.
Houses were shaken and windows bro.
ken. No lives were lost.
From Reading comes the official an
nouncement that owing to the depressed
condition of the coal and iron trade, and
the general falling off in business, the
hours for labor in the shops of the Phila
delphia and Reading Railroad Company
will be reduced from nine TO eight hours
along the line on and after June 10Th
In Harrison county, Kentucky, or
June 5th, party of masked men tooS
Robert Beckett from the house of his
employer, riddled his body with bullets,
soaked his clothes with coal oil, and SCI
him on fire, burning the dead body.
Beckett was charged with the murder
of man named Ellis about year ago
but was out on bail.
The Troy Times says Van Vessler
the clerk in the Grand Central Depot a
New York, who recently stole $4,000
from the company's safe and fled with
an accomplice, sailed for E urope on the
10th inst. 1t had been suspected that
the robber was in Greenfield Saratoga
county, and one of the sharpest officers
in the employ of the railroad company
made very thorough search for him
but without success. 1t appears tha
Van Vessler went to Florida imme
diately after the robbery and Recently
came back.
A curious suit was recently brough
by female vocalist in San Francisco
1t appears that recently her goods ant
chattels were seized for rent, and among
them was a book 10 which she haC
pasted all the newspaper notice of he
vocal exploits. The lady valued thi
treasure at $500, and brought suit II