The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-30
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items of Interest from Home and Abroad.
A revolutionary rnovanebt took nlace re-


A revolutionary movement took place re-
Gently at LIE Vega, Santo Domingo, headed by |
Gen. Juan Gomez. Owing to the energetic |
measures taken by the government the Kissing |
was queled, and Gen. Gomez took refuge in |
the woods. -. Theodore Tilton commenced |
his lecture season in Port Jervis, N. Y. His
subject was "The Problem Of Life. .....
There is every probability that the Herze-
govnian insurrection will soon be put down.
.. The fast mail service between New York
and the largo Western cities has been in
augurated. The time from New York to
Chicago is twenty-six hours =. The Direct
Cable Company has its wires in working order
now and the first day sent over two hundred
messages to England at the low rate of twenty
five cents per word. :. There were over thirty
cases of yellow fever at Milton, Fla, and
seventy cases and fifteen deaths at West Pas
cagoula. =. President Grant and Generals
Sherman and Hooker attended the meeting Of
the Army of the Cumberland at Utica
Extensive whisky frauds have been discovered
in San Francisco, and revenue officers are i'm
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pursued . The Episcopal council for the
diocese of Fond du Lac, Wis, met at Green
Bay. On the third formal ballot, the Rev.
John Henry Hobart Brown, Of Cohoes, N. Y,
was elected bishop. m The safe Of Francis
Sargent Il Co., Of Boston, was robbed during
the day of $17 235 in bills, checks and notes
by burglar while confederate occupied the
attention of the bookkeeper, who was alone.
.,... The assets of the Bank of California
will probably exceed its indebtedness by one
million dollars.
The cattle disease is increasing in England,
but there has been only small proportion of
deaths. ... "A Papal nuneio has been issued to
the Spanish bishops, which claims the fulfill
ment of the concordat which forbids the ex-
ercise Of any non-Catholic creed; claims the
transfer OF tho superintendent over education
to the clergy, and the cooperation Of the
secular power in suppref sing hertcal teaching
aud litel ature and says one of the causes Of
civil war is the way in which religious unity
has been misunderstood by previous govern
ments The Madrid papers sharply criticise
the nunco .... The amount of taxes paid on
real and personal estate at the Office of the tax
receiver in New York city during two days was
$500, 600 ...... Lee & Shepard's liabilities
amount to 35S7, ,206, and their assets figure up
$780, exclusive of stereotype plates which
cost S25O000. -. The thieves who robbed
the safe of Sargent & Co., of Boston, of $17,-
900 worth of notes and other valuables, re-
turned through the mail the next day all the
property but s73 in cash. . A fire in Pader-
born, Prussia, destroyed. one hundred build
ings, whereby three hundred families were
rendered homeless The Brazilian govern
ment has determined upon conciliatory
policy in relation to religion.
The convention of New York Democrats,
held at Syracuse, nominated John Bigelow for
Secretary Of State Lucius Robinson for Con-
troller, Charles s. Fairchild for Attorney
General, Charles n. Ross for Treasurer, John
D. Van Buren, for Engineer and Surveyor,
L. Warath for Canal Commissioner, Rod
ney r. Crowley for Prison Inspector. The
platform contained extracts from the ma
tional Democratic platform Of 1872 and the
State Democratic platform of last year, and
declared unqualifedly for hard money, an
early return to specie payments, and the main
tenance of the public credit. 1t also declared
for administrative economy and reform, and
against third Presidential term and sump-
tuary legislation.
, Owing to violent gale ON the Gulf coast,
the water has been forced upon Galveston,
and the principal streets are inundated tc
depth Of several feet, and much property
has been destroyed. Thirty workmen on the
breastwork in course of construction by the
government, have been cut off, and are proba.
bly, lost The Santa Fe railroad bridge acrosf
the bay has been swept away, and the Hous
ton railroad bridge is under water =. The
) Pope held consistory recently and conferred
upon Cardinal McCloskey the ring, and gave
, him titular charge OF the Church Of Santt
/ Maria Sopra- Minerva. The Pope after deliv
ering an allocution in the consistory, an
. nounced the creation Of six new cardinals anC
} several archbishops and bishops .. Iht
2 Greek government has determined to encour
age the citizens to participate in the Centen
nial exposition at Philadelphia. ..... Superin
I tendent Chapman, of the Insurance depart
. ment OF New York, has Cancelled the certificate
) of authority of the City Insurance Compan
. of Providence, r. l., to transact busines
Gently completed at Woolwich, England, TO
tho iron-clad Inflexible was tested with
charge of $50 pounds of powder and ], 800
: pound shot. The result was not quite salts
= factory -. The Nebraska State Democrat
S convention adopted resolution in favor O
sound currency, coin or it's equivalent; o
i steps toward specie payments, and no ste
+ backward. The two hundredth anniyerear
u Of the Indian massacre at Deerfeld, Mass
! was celebrated by appropriate exercises
:, . A dispatch from Commodore Cooper, of til
= Pensacola navy yard, states that the yello,
:, fever is epidemic at Howell's station on Pen
6 sscola bay twenty-five miles above the nav
h yard. The people have neither food, medicin
4 or attendance. They are crying for relief
!. The secretary of the treasury has called i
/, $5,000,000 of the coupon bonds OF June sc
n 1864, as follows Fifty dollars, No. 25Ol t
K No. $500, both inclusive 300, No. 1,OO1 t
e No. 10000, both inclusive $780, No. 10, 1O1 t
No. 1890, both inclusivei $1,000, No. 39,s
= to No. $1,000, both inclusive.
: -Four boys out sailing ON Sunday afternoo
recently were drowned by the upsetting G
their boat near the Humber a few miles wes
!, OF Toronto. The storm at Galveston, Texas
o swept away about one hundred houses an
e other buildings and destroyed much propert
!, otherwise. The water Nss several feet
!. depth in come of the s.seI. The railros