The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-08-26
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


up by Sir Charles Adderley after Mr. Plmsolrs
demonstration, and passed by the House Of
Commons, has finally passed the House Of
Lords ... Intelligence from South America
is to the effect that the State Of Colombia was
on the brink Of revolution 80. The funeral
of Hans Christian Andersen, at Copenhagen,
Denmark, was attended by the king and royal
family, officers of tho government representa-
tives from all parts OF the country aud men,
bers of all kinds of societies, forming all i'm
mense crowd. All business in the town was
suspended. The army worm appeared in
immense numbers at Sussex, New Brunswick,
on the government railroad line east of st.
John, and their ravages have created wide
spread alarm. Fields of grain were attacked
and destroyed in short time. Horse rollers,
run over the road where they crossed, did not
perceptibly lessen their numbers. A telegram
from st. Andrews says army worms invaded
that town few days since, covering the
streets, fields and lanes in every direction,
and deyouring the grass and grain. In spite
OF every opposition they are still advancing.
.....Wm. 1obkirk, a banker OF Waupun,
Wis, has disappeared having S31, 800 on his
relatives think that he has been murdered,
but others do not hesitate to say he has de-
camped. The Ohio crops have not suffered
as much as the first accounts led us to believe.
..... As freight train was passing through
Big Bend tunnel on the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad, Virginia, thirty feet OF the roof fell
in, crushing the engine, killing the fireman
instantly and fatally wounding the engineer.
go Tho revenue authorities are determined
to make passengers arriving from foreign
countries pay the duty on their goods, I'll
efectualy put stop to fashionable SNUG
Cling.
In accordance with the notice given the
Spanish government has ordered a levy of
100000 men. The minister of finance is
to issue consolidated interior scrip for &c.,
600, 900. ..... The Herzegovnian rebellion is
assuming formidable proportions. The Dali
matians and NIontcnegrins are aiding the in
surgents with money and provisions. After a
stubborn fight near Billetehio, the Turkish
troops were routed ...... A passenger, said to
be a Spanish colonel, was taken from the
British mail steamer Elder, AT Porto Rico, by
the Spanish authorities and soon afterward
shot. All the foreign consuls protested. .....
A sailor recently arrived at Halifax, N. S., has
reported a terrible crime which was consum-
mated two years ago. The schooner Mary E.
Jones sailed from Clyde river for Boston, hav-
ing two sisters Oh board as passengers. Soon
after sailing the captain and crew, with the
exception Of the informer, outraged the
women. They wero then killed and their
bodies thrown overheard. The crew subse-
quently reported that the vessel was caught in
Il gale and thrown on her beam ends, the two
women being drowned in tho cabin. .... There
are thirty-slx cases of yellow fever in the town
of Pascagonla, Miss, the disease having been
brought from Havana. Duncan, Sherman
& Co.'S statement shows 81, ,S72, 12S G5 liabili-
ties and %, 112, .G1 assets. see. Tho Sears
vile Mass. reservoir dam was swept away by
the heavy rains and did much damage in the
low lands, creating intense excitement among
tho inhabitants, as the flood followed the
track Of the destructive deuge a few years
ago The streets of Williamsburg village were
badly washed, and one abutmcnt of II new iron
bridge was washed away. .... The rains of the
past few weeks raised the Delaware river so
that the lumbermen woro able to get their
RATS down to tidewater-bcng the first time
this year
The British Parliament has been proroged
till the 29th Of October. The Queens speech
congratulated the country ON the prospect of
the maintenance OF European peace and the
moro complete suppression OF the cast African
slave trade. The passage Of the Provisional
Shipping bill and the arrangement for the re-
duction of the national debt are referred to in
terms OF approval A call for SIC, ,000, 600
worth of bonds has been issued by the Treas
ury department, the syndicate having made
another subscription for that sum. This
leaves but $3S 537, $50 of the new five per cent
bonds in the hands of the secretary, and the
syndicate has until November Is to take this
amount. .... There were three executions on
Friday, August 18th. Thomas Withers, a
negro, was hanged at Lynchburg, Va, for
the murder OF young girl. Wright W.
Wheatley, ono OF the murderers Of France
Warl, was hanged at Helena, Montana. John
Webb was hanged at Knoxville, Tenn, in the
presence of fifteen thousand people. .... The
alleged murderer of Mrs. Jarratt WAS taken
from jail at Murfreesboro', Tenn, and lynched
..... Bishop Gnesen, in Germany, who has
been acting for Archbishop Ledochowski, has
been expelled from the province comprising
his diocese. .... The grange purchasing agents
will hold convention at Louisville Ky., on
Octoberllst ..... Geo. A. Rice and Loughlin &
Rice, have been declared defaulting bidders
for thirty post-office routes in the State Of
Texas, and the postmaster generalwill offer the
routes to other bidders and will prosecute the
defaulters 80. The Albany On. " Journal
published full official statement of the debt
of that State, showing that the balance of
debt unprovided for on JAN /, 1872, was $50, =
260, 755.9 that the balance now unprovided
for is only s6O5, SS7 1G, and that a tax Of a
quarter of a mill for the next year will wipe
out the entire Indebtedness. IL says the whole
State tax next year need not exceed three
or three and half mills. .... Superintendent
Chapman, of the Insurance department., has
Cancelled the certificate of authority Of the
Teutonic life insurance company OF Chicago,
to do business in the State of Now York. ....
L. S. Jafrray Il Co., the well-known importing
dry goods house in Now York, have been swim
died out of $4,000 by a man named Church,
who was at the head of the ribbon department.
At Rochester, N Y, Goldsmith Maid won
the first heat in 2.1515. Lulu won three straight
heats in 216l5, 2.1515 and 2.l7 the fastest
timo on record. .... The crew Of tho brig
Harry, charged with mutiny, after hearing
before United States Commissioner Rogers at
Baltimore, were committed to prison to await
the action OF the grand Jury. which meets in