The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-05-28
GENERAL NOTES.

United States Senator Ferry, of Con-
necticut, is very ill of a spinal disease
and he will probably never be able to
resume his place in the Senate.
At New Castle, Del, on Saturday,
seven men were publicly fogged and
pillored for burglary and larceny. One
Of the men punished received his third
whipping, for as many different offences
Fires have been raging in the woods
in Long Island since Friday. 1t is esti.
mated that 10000, to $4,000 acres tc
timber land have been burned over
The loss thus far is roughly estimated
at $200,060.
Some idea may be formed of the pow,
er of the water rushing through the
crevasses on the Mississippi, by its tear.
ing up huge cottonwood trees two and
hall feet in diameter and scattering
rnem uNer neiShuuiiug plantations.
The estate of the late Oakes Ames
was represented iusolvent by the execu-
tors, in the Probate Court at Taunton
Mass, on Friday. Depreciation in the
assets Of the deceased is the alleged
cause for the action taken.
Among the passengers on the steam
ship Hermann, of the Brennan line,
which arrived at Baltimore on the 18th
were 1S5 Mennonites, from the vicinity
Of Odessa, Southern Russia, who propose
to settle in Dakota or Nebraska
Luke Eagan, the notorious burglar.
who escaped from State prison at AL
Ioghany City,pa, about eighteen months
since, after tunneling under the walls
for six months, was arrested in Buffalo
last week and sent to Allcghany.
Suit has been commenced by the
United States against the official bond
of ex-Postmaster Patrick Henry Jones,
of New York, for S500,000, to cover a
deficiency Of accounts amounting to
$4,000, arising, as alleged, from en-
bezzlement by John W. Norton and
others.
There is great excitement at Lois An
gclcs, California, in consequence of the
arrest of Vasquez, the bandit. The jail IS
guarded by a strong force OF men to pre-
vent the escape or lynching OF the p9is-
oner. The total appropriat ion for the
capture of Vasquez and his men was
$4,000; IS, 900 Tor the chief.
A new bureau is proposed at Wash
ington. 1t is to be presided over by
a Commissioner OF Internal Commerce,
whose duties are to be to gather, collect,
and annually report to Congess statistics
and facts relating to commerce among
the States, especially as to railroads
and their charges, management, &c.
From several hundreds of reliable dis
patches it appears that the prospects for
an abundant yield of wheat this year are
unusually favorable in the States of
Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, min
nesota, and Michigan. The average
seeded is fully up to that of 1873.
Most of the Indian corn has been plan
ed under favorable auspices.
The President on May Is issued a
proclamation recognizing Baxter's gov
ernment in Arkansas, directing that the
Legislature and Governor be reinstated
in the State House, and ordering all
who may have combined to resist the
authority OF Raxter to return to their
homes within ten days or be subject to
punishment.
Two members of the Yellowstone ex-
pedition have returned to Bozman, Mon-
tana, and report the whole party return
ing. The command penetrated the coun-
try to near the vicinity Of the Tongue
river. From the 1st to the Goth OF |
April the force was harassed the whole
time by the Indians. Four pitched |
battles were fought, in which 100 Iudi-
ans were killed. The skirmishing was
continuous and bands of from 100 to L.
600 Indians were lowering around.
The whole outfit is in battered and ex-
hausted condition. The party lost one
BILLED named u. Yates, and two wound.
ed; twenty horses were also killed.
The members of the expedition assert
that rich mines exist in the Big Horn
but the vigilance of the
Sioux rendered prospecting out of the
question.