The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-12-02
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ers in Lake Huron have been received
at Detroit
The New York canals will be closed
on December 10.
The navigation of the Red River oi
the North is closed for the season.
There is great rejoicing IN Alabama
over the victory for the constitution.
John Clark, the murderer of John
Trevor, was hanged at Rochester on the
18th instant.
The Hazard and the Excelsior trans.
fer elevators &C Buffalo we're burned on
the 10Th.
Massachusetts, population as f,ally
corrected at the Census Bureau is L.
651 .902.
NJ. B. Ryan, produce merchant. of
Montreal has suspended. with liabilities
said to be over 100000.
Well-iuformed cotton men say the
present crop, if it can be gathered, will
be the largest sluce the war.
I.aac Welsh, Chic State Treasurer,
died Monday last at St. C!airsville, Of
dropsy.
The Arkansas Senate on the 18th
passed the House bill appropriaing
$4,000 for the Centennial. 1t now
goes to the Governor.
AT the Womeu's National Temper
ance Convention on the 18th, Mrs.
Annie Wittemyer, OF Philadelphia, was
unanimously reacted president.
Cutter, Tower & Cos [ BostoD1 liabili-
ties are S173 900 and their assets $780,
2S5 Their creditors have agreed to &C.
,ept 30 per cent.
Robert Payne. seriously wounded BY
the powder explosion at Locustdale,
Schuykill county, several days ago, died
Tuesday, being the fourth victim of the
accident.
An unprecedented religious revival is
now in progress at Port Jervis. Over
600 persons have been converted dur.
ing the past few weeks, aud the work
still continues.
The r. ". Grand Council Mystic
Bard of Brothers of the United Stat, S
assembled Tuesday at Easton NJ. W.
Great Chief, Frederick Coppes, ol
Washington, d. c., presiding.
A resident of Pike county, this State,
has organized colony of the natives OF
Alsace and Lorraine, which he expects
to locate in the county early in the
spring.
The settlers in the west Of Manitoba
are complaining OF the Sioux, and sa,
tha; unless they are protected from In.
dian outiages it will be impossible for
them TO remain on their claims.
Col. Joyce, of st Louis the con
victed ex. Revenue A gent has just bee
sentenced to tIiee years aud six mouths
in the peuitentiary, aod to pay ine Of
three thousand dollars.
National Banks, since their organiza.
tiou aud up to the end Of the last fsca
year, have paid into the I nited States
T,essury s64.9S9,374 as taxes. Dur
ing the last year they have paid 1920.
75S.
A match-game of billiards for 81 0OO
and the champion lodge 600 points,
three balls was played on the 23d al
Tammsny Hail, between Maurice DAILY
aud Cyrille Dion, and was won by Dion
in the torfy.eighth inning. Daily h1v.
ing scored 357
Three men we're arrested at Ironton
Ohio, on the 18th charged with coup.
,erfeiting These are a portion Of a
gang who have been operating in
Southern Ohio for sometime. Theil
business consisted in manufacturing
nickels
1t is believed that two Italians girls
who were arrested at Patterson N j
for passing counterfeit SlO bills on the
National Bank and Farmers and Manu-,
tacrnrers Bank of Poughkeepsie-
which, by the way, are we'll executed
are the agents Of New York gang.
There are $50 inmates of the Berks
County Almshouse' These eat in a
week three steers, each weighing 800
or 800 pounds, and twenty barrels OF
-four baked into bread. On an average
ll2 loaves. each weighing seven OF
eight pounds; are baked every dav.
Murray and Myres, the Perrysville
murderers, found guilty i'll the Court Of
Oyer and Terminer, Of Allegheny
county, will be hanged on the 9th Of
January, Governor Hartrantt having
issued their death warrants on the 9th
inst The new Sheriff will have this
unpleasant duty to perform very shortly
after being inducted into Office.
The guard has been removed from
GuibOrd's grave as the cement is sufi-
ciently hardened to defy removal OF
the body. The reply of the cure OF
Sotre Dame to the counsel for the
Institute Canadian, who demanded &c
ceslastical rites over the remains OF
Guibord under path Of damages, has
been published The letter refuses the
demands.
The remains of human body were
found on the mountains near Mount
Carton Sehuylkil! county, this State on
Monday. Near by was found revol
yer with an empty chamber, and q
slouch hat, coat and a Hebrew book
The body, which has not yet been idsn.
tilted appears to have been lying in the
uoo1. for eayarSl n,1nths