The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A total estimate for the damage inflicted by
grasshoppers that appears to be approximately
correct is, for value Of crops destroyed in
Minnesota, $4,000 900; in Iowa, $2,o0o,o0o
About 1000 persons in both States will require
help to the total extent of about $4,000 ....
The London Times dispatches from India say
the prospects Of the crops are most favorable,
notwithstanding the recent floods. Many
deaths from cholera are reported in Burdwan
..... German journals say that war between
Russia and China is inevitable in consequences
of designs of the latter upon Kaehgar. 80.
A special dispatch to the London Daily Netos
reports that the destruction of property by the
floods in Moravia is immense. At least 200
houses have been swept away. .....A dispatch
from Vienna announces the DEATH in the
Austrian capital of Anselm Rothchd, the
eminent financier and banker His life history
was about the same as that of the other men,
bers of the family. He was industrious, honest
and frugal, and became, in consequence, a man
of mark on Change The quarantine physician
at Pensacola has reported that majority Of
the cases Of supposed yellow fever which have
occurred at that port we're in reality attacks of
of a calamity moro distressing than that which
occurred in Pittsburgh, Pa. 1t WAS one OF
those events which cannot be forseen, and
which no human caro- can guard against. A
sudden fall Of rain in such quantities as to
flood the streets burst the sewers, and fill the
ncighboring streams until they become de-
structve torrents, sweeping through thickly
N ,tv nd r,,;,, -,
their path, is something the like of which,
happily does not often fall to tbs journals of
our country to record.
A terrible thunder storm passed over Sarnia,
Ont from to o'clock in the morning. A
number Of houses and barns were struck by
lightning. The Presbyterian Church was also
struck and badly damaged. The streets were
flooded with water and many sidewalks carried
away Reports from various places in this
section indicate that the storm was of a most
severe character, and the loss Of property very
heavy. go. An incendiary plot was discovered
at 2l9 North Clark street, Chicago. A lighted
candle was found in the midst OF a pile OF
kndling wood, which was saturated with kero-
sene. Forty-one Carlists, most Of them
| been arrested at Barcelona, by way Of reprisa
against the inhuman conduct OF the Carlists
The Carlists have again been beaten by the
Republican troops, and have sustained very
heavy losses. Two companies Of Carlists who
refused to surrender wero cut to pieces. ....
| The Committee of the Agricultural Laborers
| Union in England, have adopted resolution
| declaring THAT as we are not justified il
appealing to the public for support for the
| locked-out laborers, in the eastern counties
during the harvest, therefore we offer then
the alternative Of emigrating or depending OIL
their own resources" The committee il
negotiating for easier terms Of emigration t
Canada. ...A special dispatch from Vienna
giving an account Of storm in Moravia, say
that the town of Azagra was overwhelmed by
terrent; sixty-four houses were demolished
and few of the inhabitants escaped will
their lives. The railways were badly DAMAGE
in every direction. Moravia is province o
the Austrian empire, bounded by Galicia
Hungary, Austria, Bohemia, and Silesia. 1t i
almost surrounded by mountains, and, lying a
it does in the basin of the Danube its storm
are very destructive.