The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-03-11
NEWS OF THE DAY,
Items Of Interest from Home md Abro

Office .... The captain and thirteen Of the
crew of the abandoned ship Sydney Dacres,
from San Francisco for Liverpool, who were
missing, have arrived at Valentia. All the
ships company are now safe. w. H. Green,
an old citizen Of Hampton, and one of the
directors of the Fair Haven Bank, died after
five days illness. Ills wife was so overcome
that she died the next day. and her brother,
who had been living with her, died the day
following. The first two died of pneumonia,
and the last Of heart disease see. The city of
Albany, n. Y, has distributed thousand tons
of coal to its poor during the winter. "A man
worth 100000 committed suicide in Jersey
City through fear of poverty . The United
States Senate passed bill granting site to
the Peabody School in Florida. James Nc
Mahon leaped from the dome of the capitol at
Washington falling distance of 150 feet and
being dashed to pieces.
After a continuous session of nearly twenty
nine hours the United States Senate. by a
vote of 80 yeas to % nays, tabled Mr.. Morton Is
resolution to admit p. B. S. Pinchback of
Louisiana. Mr.. Disraelis resolution de-
claring John Mitchell ineligible to a seat in the
English Parliament was passed by the House
of Commons without division. The motion
for new writ OF election in Tipperary county
was also carried without division. =. The
Southern members of Congress have published
an address to the people of the South urging
them 20 be patient and to trust to the sense of
justice of the country for redress of any
grievances they may have .... Twenty more
sugar plantations have been destroyed by the
insurgents i'll Cuba. The war there seems to
be one Of destruction to property. 1t has
just come to light that woman partly insane,
has been confined all winter in room in her
husbands house in West Buxton, Nc, part of
the time being chained. When found she had
hardly any clothes on her body, and her legs
and feet were lady frost bitten The New
Jersey Legislature appropriated $4,000, 900
more for the Morris Plains Luna ic Asylum.
Bya coasting accident in Worcester, Mass, one
man was killed and two girls seriously injured
......Iwo hundred thousand dollars have been
appropriated by the japanese government for
expenditure i'll connection with the Philadel-
phia Centennial. ... The bill presented by the
United States government for improving rivers
and harbors appropriates 5000, 200 for this
object.
An express train on the Pittsburgh, Cincin-
natl and St. Louis railroad was thrown from
the track and two cars were burned. Several
passengers were injured, and the Strakosch
Opera Troupe lost all their baggage. IS. j.
r. McMillen, Republican, was elected United
States Senator from Minnesota by vote of SO
to 16, in the place of Alexander Ramsey. The
new Senator is fifty years of age. ... The
United States House of Representatives passed
the Army Appropriation bill, which appropriate
$4,000, GOO .....A match factory at Gotten
burg, Sweden, took fire, and the flames spread
with such rapidity that fifty employees were
cut off from escape and perished i'll the flames.
......The Paris workingmens associations are
discussing the question of sending delegates tc
tie Philadelphia Centennial exhibition
The report of the United States Ways and
Means committee on the Pacific Mail investiga-
ton will charge William S. King with perjury
and report that no money has been proven tc
have been paid to Congressman. ..... Robena
Grese, girl sixteen years of age, was com
mitted i'll Boston for raising certificate OF
stock of the Michigan Central railroad from
one share to sixty, the original value of the
same being SGS, and the pretended value s4
0s0. Upon this well executed certificate $4,000
was obtained when the fraud was discovered
LEO b. Kent committed suicide in Charles
ton, Mass, by cutting his throat . Gen
Alexis Nord, who was recently arrested on hi
arrival in Hayti, from st. Thomas, has beer
condemned to five years imprisonment.
The Lehigh and Easton Railway Company
OF Pennsylvania petition the Massachusett,
Legislature to guarantee S5,0000 600 Of its frs
mortgage bonds on condition that it will carry
all coal destined for Massachusetts at rate O
not over l = cents per ton per mile Advice
/ from Zanzibar report that fleet of British
men-of-war have bombarded and captured For
! MOmbaZique off the east coast of Africa. Th
engagement lasted five hours. Seventeen o
| the garrison were killed, and fifty wounded
Two slave ships were captured, with thre
hundred slaves on board. In a New Yor
shanty two men drank quart Of whisky, an
then one of them murdered the other in mos
brutal manner, by beating his brains out with
chair. ....J John Mitchell has issued an addres
to the electors of Tipperary county, Ireland
presenting himself again as a candidate 70
Parliament. -. Phelps dwell laborer i
New York, surrendered himself to the polio
and confessed to having killed, as he claimed
in sclf-defense, stranger supposed to be fror
LondoA, Canada. ..... An explosion in tn
Safety Fuse Works, at Redruth, Cornwall
England, caused the death of five girls
Four hundred and five Indians were killed an
1873. -. The heirs of the American citizen
captured in the Virginius and killed are t
receive $4,000 for each man killed. .Edwar
Spangler, who was one of the persons sci
tcnced to the Dry Tortugas for participating i
the assassination conspiracy which resulted i
the death of Pre-ident Lincoln in 1865 died
the residence of Dr.. Samuel A. Mudd, nes
Bryantown, in Charles county, Md
The religious excitement in Mexico cor
tinues Intense, and an outbreak will 10 doul
take place. .... George Debaptiste, coloret
famous in the aute-bellum days as conductc
on the underground railroad, died in Detroi
aged sixty-four years. He was steward in tn
White House in 1S4l, and President Harriso
died in his arms .... The revolution in Ver
ezuela has ended, the rebels giving up the
arms and the leaders being allowed to leave tn
country mmolested. ..... William j. Sharke,
the escaped murderer, was arrested in Havan
on charge of threatening to kill the captai
and the purser of the steamship Crescent Cit,
..... A fire at Emporium, Pa, destroye
property valued at $40, 200. The steame
Cora Belle, with 15O bales of cotton Oh boart