The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-20
GENERAL NOTES.

Prison.
Five bushels Of grapes upon single
vine make glad the heart Of its owner in
Indiana.
"Unmanued by tho loss of her hus-
band" is the new style Of indicating
widows griei
An Illinois newspaper makes its death |
reports more interesting by publishing
"a sick list several days in advance.
In politics, North Carolina and Mem.
phis, Tennessee, are claimed to have
gone Democratic.
Mayor Havomeyer, of Now York city,
enters plea Of not guilty to the charges
preferred against him by Tammany.
A lady in Princctown, Iowa, was re-
Gently stung on tho neck by honey bee,
aud diod from the effects in twenty
minutes.
Among the resolutions of the Kansas
Independent State Convention is one
calling for direct election OF President
by the people.
Messrs. Taylor & Son, brewers, Of
Albany, N. Y. have purchased the first
lot Of new hops offered this year, at fifty
cents per pound.
The American base ball players in
England are having a very successful !
time, gaining glory and gate money in
profusion. They have beaten two or
three crack English clevens at cricket.
The Spiritualists are going to hold a
national camp p-meeting at Lake Pleasant,
Mass, this week and next. The grounds
will be dedicated next Friday, with an
address by John Collier of England.
Appearances indicate that the Gran
gers and Republicans will league to-
gether in Missouri this autumn ,oust the
Democracy, which has carried corrup-
tion and misrule to such lengths in that
State as to be no longer tolerable.
Ernest Smith, colored, aged eighteen,
who was tried and convicted in May last
on the charge of having committed an
outrage on Miss Bartlett, aged sixteen,
was hung at Easton, Nd, August 9th.
He denied his guilt to the last.
Augusta, Ga, Agust 1.-THE excite
nent continues over the lynchDg of
Gabe Murrell, the murderer of Captain
Butler. 1t is thought the other negro
accomplice, now in Jail, will lynched to-
night. The military guarded the Jail
all night.
Revenue inspectors on Monday seized
Fl 900 cigars and AZ reels of cigarettes,
which had been smuggled and sccl eted
at No IL Rector street, New York and
LOCO cigars and 385 reels of cigarettes
which were in wagon at pier No, 2,
North river.
At Washington Secretary Bristow is
preparing a formal demand on the sew
eral Pacific Railroads embraced in the
act of last June requiring the payment
of five per cent. of the net earnings OF
the companies to the Government, i'm
posed by the act Of July l, 1862.
New York, August l4.--In a quarrel
last night Louis Messman, residing III
Canal street, discharged pistol at his
wife, the ball grazing her f,ce. but not
injurlng her He then evidently think
ing she was dead, placed the revolver
to his right temple and sent ball into
his brain, and died soon after midnight.
General Pope telegraphs to Lieuten-
ant General Sheridan that the Indians
who have been marauding in Southwest
ern Kansas have gone to the borders OF
Llano Estacado, a country filled with
game, and that they have abundance OF
ammunition. Three columns OF troops
now operating will converge ON the sec
ton named.
A great deal OF excitement on Change
r at St, Louis, last week, was caused by 1
} report that Alexander Dorman & Co.
, had forged cotton warehouse receipts to
s the amount of GOO to $3.50, 900, ant
: that two or three banks of that city hac
e been victimized to the extent of $40,
= 900 or $4,000. Doman and one o.
= two other members of the firm have
S been arrested. and an Investigation vii
: be made.
t Mary Williams domestic employed
+ at Cozens' Hotel, Newburgh, n. Y,
y while walking fell over precipice III
o feet high Sunday night. She struck
: sapling in her decent, which broke he
e fall, and she escaped instant death
;, She was terribly injured, and lay al
); night unable to help herself, and wa
II only discovered late on Monday morn
e ing. She probably will not recover.
8 Ex-Mayor Wrightman, of Boston
i" has been arrested Tor debt and is now j
, Jail. He was one of the directors c
- - the directors OF the Franklin Coal Con
. y pany of Lykens Valley, an insolvent OIL
~ ~ ganization. Ely Byers, of Harrisburg
y has recovered judgment against tn
!. J. company for 1866 Wrightman dc
! nies that he was director at the tim
y the execution was issued, and therefor
u L, he is not liable,
~ The Rochester Races attracted
"a large crowd last week about 90, 900 pc,
i pie being present on Wednesday whe
q Goldsmith Maid beat her time at Blu
d ialo by three quarters of a second, tro
). ing mile in the unprecedented time
y. two minutes and fourteen and thre
/ fourth seconds, thus winning the fir
=. purse 81, 500, and an additioal ,0(
= offered for the horse that would beat tt
n. Maids time at Buffalo, The heat vi
tIotted without a single break. and il