The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-04-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

During the months of January and February
3O,774 persons were lodged in the station
houses of New York, of which number % $50
were habituals, leaving S,2l4 casuals John
II. Mclean, one of the proprietors of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, was sent to Jail by Judge
Marchant, for persisting in refusing TO answer
questions asked him in libel suit. m The
appearance of the face of Senator Sumner as
the body lay in the coffin was natural. The
body was attred in an ordinary black coat,
vest and pants. Tho right hand lay across
the breast, partly concealed beneath tho vost,
in the position in which he usually held it
when addressing the Senate. 80. Tho tosti-
mony at the coronor's inquest concerning the
Bnghamton boiler explosion goes to show that
it was caused by imperfect connection between
the two boilers, both of them being well made
OF good IRON. ... Swiss travellers in France
can now dispense with passports The new
Atlantic cable will not leave London before
June. ~ In the life salvage case of the
steamship Atlantic there was awarded 81, 500
to the fishermen of Prospect, who secured the
passengers salvage, to be distributed in sums
varying from $3.50 to $50 each among sixteen
persons.
The lower houses of the Legislature of Iowa
and Michigan have declared in favor of amend
ing the constitutions of these States so as to
extend the suffrage to women. . The Irish
societies of New York and Brooklyn had a
grand procession in honor of st. Patrick
The Legislatures of Iowa, Minnesota, and
| Wisconsin have now passed laws, similar to
that of Illinois, for the regulation of railroad
| freight rates and passenger fares .... The
outstanding national bank circulation in the
| United States is $34S 1884, ,359. The following
| are the balances in the Treasury of the United
| States: Currency, $3002. .629; special deposits
of legal tenders for the redemption of certif-
Gates of deposit, $51, $40, GOO; coin $50, ,240,-
743 including coin certificates $40, ,627, 800 !;
outstanding legal tenders 1882, 200, 0OO......
When Gov. Davis, of Minnesota, heard that
the Senate had passed bill increasing his
salary from SO 900 to $1,000 he sent a message
to that body asking that this action be recCn-
sidered as the increase was inserted in the
| General Appropriation bill which it would be
| impossible for him to veto at so late a day of
the session, The Senate did it..... Great de-
preston continues to mark the iron manufac-
| lures of the United States. and leading
journal is told there are but faint prospects of
| speedy improvement.
Wages with the girls in some of the New
| England mills vary from Sc to SIG per week.
Fair weavers can earn about $3.50 per week
| ... The Zion'S Herald states the entire num-
| ber of pupils in all the Methodist Sunday
| schools in the world to be 3.O000 900. -. AT
the commencement of the Woman's Medical
| College of Philadelphia sixteen females gradu-
ated as Doctors of Medicine. 900. GARNER won
| the first prize at the Boston billiard tourna-
ment .... There is a prospect of an immense
fruit crop in the central portion of Illinois.
Mormons are making converts in Michigan,
and will take many families to Utah this sea-
son. Some of the converts are wealthy ....
| The emigration from Great Britain was greater
last year than in any year since 1854. . Il, ,0OC
people day have eaten at the New York sour
houses. .....A passenger train going West or
the Central Pacific T. R., between Toano anG
Wells, was thrown from the track by broker
rail and went over an embankment. falling
distance of thirty feet. many passengers be-
ing killed or injured.