The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28
SUMMARY OF NEWS,
Items of Interest from Home and Abrcr

1t is announced in London that Mr.. Glad
stone has assured his family that he will never
resume the Liberal leadership. .. The steam
tug Miller exploded her boiler and sunk in
Thunder bay, near Detroit. Capt. Miller and
his clerk were killed, and the fireman was seri-
ously injured. ..... The sum of $4,000 was
found with Nichols the absconding bank mana
ger, and his son, from Montreal, who were
caught at St. Augustine, Fla. The detective
hopes to be able to recover most Of the stolen
property. New York merchants are petition
ing the Post-office department for direct
mail to Brazil, monthly there being none at
present. ......A report upon the new Boston
post office shows unmistakaby that there has
been fraud, and Secretary Bristow has taken
the matter in hand .... The Chicago Times
having charged editorially that Secretary Bris-
tows family had eighteen trunks passed by
the revenue officers on their arrival from
Europe recently, Attorney General Pierrepont
has issued card contradicting the statement,
and saying that his family accompanied the
secretary's from Europe, and that he is cogni-
zant Of the fact that the trunks were opened
and examined same as those of the other pas
sengers. The London papers sharply crti-
cise the admiralty minute generating the
admiral in command of the squadron at the
time Of tho collision of the two iron-cads. 49,.
Judge Boreman delivered a strong charge to
the grand jury at Salt Lake City, against
polygamy
At the county fair grounds near Greenfield,
Ohio, the seats around the race track fell pre-
cipitating fully ono thousand people to the
ground, severely injuripg large number Of
men, women and children. e. Rev. DIR. Henry
Forster archbishop of Breslsu, who has long
been in trouble with the Prussisn government,
growing out of his publication of the Pope's
encyclcal declaring the Falck laws to be null
and void, has severed his connection with the
Prussan portion Of his diocese. -. Under
the pressure Of the great powers Turkey is
diminishing her concentration Of troops on the
Servian frontier, and Servia is demobilizng
her forces ...... Lulu trotted three heats
against time in Rochester, N. Y, in 216H,
H. and ZIG, which are claimed as the fastest
three heats on record. 80. "A dispatch from
Vienna says Russia is preparing an expedition
against Bokhara out of revenge for the assist
ance rendered by the latter to the Khokand in
surgents. 80. DIR. J. w. Sanders was poisoned
by negress named Matthews at Clinton, La.
at the instigation Of a negro named Gair. A
deputy sheriff, while conveying Gair to jail,
was overpowered by masked mob, who shot
Gair and then took the woman from her custo-
dams and hung her. 1.-THE negro who killed
Samuel Garner, in Murray county, Ga, a few
days ago. was taken from the guard at Spring
Place. by party Of disguised men, and hanged.
..... China has granted the British demands.
..... The cotton crop of the entire South is
large, according to the report of the New Or
leans committee appointed to investigate 4; but
the picking is going on slowly, on account
Of sickness and political troubles. Senator
Edmunds, of Vermont, has declined the United
States circuit judgeship, which was tondered
by the government. .... Charles Courtney
made the best time on record at the boat race
on Cayuga lake, N. Y He rowed two-mile
turning race in thirteen minutes and fourteen
seconds.
i A giraffe belonging to Forepaugh's circus
, died at Syracuse from exposure. 1t was valued
at $1,000. While the rhinoceros, belonging to
the same establishment, was being carried
: from Philadelphia, the wagon broke through q
was valued at $40, 900. -. The percentages Of
the condition of the cotton crop, Oct. l, were
as follows: North Carolina, eighty-fve SOUTH
Carolina, seventy-seyen; Florida, soventy
Georgia, seventy -one ; Alabama, ninety-four
Mississippi, ninety-six; Louisiana, ninety
Texas, eighty-eight Arkansas, one hundred
/ and three; Tennessee, ninety. Two negroes
named Jackson and Thompson, were murdered
) by ruffians in Brooklyn, N. Y. There had beer
some trouble ON account Of the white men in
: terfering with the dancing at a negro picnic
and on the negroes starting for home the,
were attacked and killed with paving stones
: John Mcclure, Matthew Dowden, and Jane
Thornton were held for the crime. ... Their
, have been'heavy gales around the coasts O
Great Britain, and the telegraph announce
the wreck Of several coasters and the loss Of
: number of lives. .... Information has beef
\ received at the State department that Russi
: has decided to be represented at the Centen
Q nial exhibition. ..... The Spanish ministry wa
| unyielding to the claims OF the Vatican ....
f Postmaster Dunham, of Bridgeport, Conn.
n was dismissed for selling appointments .....
t The Times Of India says twenty thousan
/: people have been rendered homeless by tn
floods in the neiehborhood of Ahmedabsd, il
u the province of Guzerat -. :. Minnie Germans
= little girl, nine years of age, was outraged il
Binghamton, N. Y, by young man name
=, Lovert. The latter WAS captured and locke
a up. Minnie will probably die.
1t is said that Russia has comman led tn
It Polish proprietors in the provinces of Wins
r Grodna, Koona, Minsk and Vitepsk to Sc
l their farms to Russian tenants, the govern
5 ment fixing the price ...... The steamer Par
I dora, fitted out by Lady Jane Franklin, has re
turned from an Arctic voyage in fear of bein
y frozen in the ice. The graves of three Of s.
= Johns men were discovered on Beachey islant
= ...... Rev. Joshua Day, of Newark n j., wa
stricken with apoplexy while preaching to hi
\ College navy, held near New Haven, the la
school crew won three-mile shell race with
e crew of class n, in nineteen minutes an
}, twenty-seven seconds. A barge race Of tw
g miles between the freshmen crews of til
b academic and scientific departments, was wo
d by the academies in thirteen minutes an
Il thirty-three and one quarter seconds. A TIVE
S mile race between crews of the law departmeI
and the claLs of II and rs, resulted in VII
tory for II in thirteen minutes and eightee
and three-quarter seconds. . The revenue al
thorities Of st. Louis have instituted sui
d against five parties for nearly one million do
n lars on accouut of their remoyinp anirita n