The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-03-04
EDITORIAL NOTES.

'uat Dclluuaher Ue eApeiteu IrDm MS
seat in Congress aud that King be
prosecuted for perjury. All present
Congressman will be exooersted, with
the exception of Schumaker SIS noted.
The reimposition of the Income tax
will be most unpopular measure The
fact that it will pecessitate the re.crea-
ton of an army of otIioo holders, who
will consume most OF its receipts, will
not recommend it to the people, land its
iquisitorial character. .,m,kes il olious
to Americans. \ good stiff tariff is
the best form Of taxation.
Wells, Fargo Il Co., give the pro-
duction Of bullion for 1874 on the
Pacific slope" At s74, AGO. 600, Of
Which S26,350, coo is gold, and the rest
silver. California produced about s17.
100000 Of gold. and Montana 81 800
GOO; Nevada over $35 100000 of sill
yer, aud Utah about $600O,000. d.
This is the largest production ever
reached in this country, exceeding that
Of the previous year By 81 100000.
The senatorial contest in West Vir-
ginia has hsally been ssttled BY the ell
ection of Allen I. Csperton, a Dem ocrat
of whom few people ever heard uutil
the Legislature began to vote for him.
One of the singular features of tie eena.
torial elections this winter has been the
great humber Of parativcly unknown
men that have been chosen to the SEN
ate. Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri
West Virginia, Florida and Nebraska
have chosen such.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
appreciates very clearly the Importance
Ct the Centennial. Col. Scott recently
informed reporter tnat capacious de.
pot, and fac hotel would be built by
the company near the grounds, and large
aud powerful locomotives are being built
to convey trains with great rapidity be-
tween Philadelphia and New York.
This great road, under its present
management, is ready for every great
demand upon it.
Secretary Bris'ow quietly informs
Congress that if it adjourns before pro-
vding sufficient funds to meet the gov
ernment dehct, he will use what money
he has (1) to pay the interest on the
public debt: ,(2lto provide for 49, -
lbg iund; % to pay the pensions to
soldiers and sailors. Then, after attend
iug to other matters, if there is any thing
left for the salaries Of Congressman, all
right. If not, all right. The probabil-
ity is that Congress will look out for
that deficit.
A big railroad war" is now being
wGged between the Pennsylvania Cen.
tral aud tie Baltimore and Ohio. The
roads are now selling tickets tlom New
York to Chicago for S15,25; Cincinnati,
Sl725; St. Louis, s2l ,25; Louisville,
9lS,25. Between Chicago and Balti-
more and Washington the fare has been
reduced from SO to 10; between St
Louis and Baltimore aud Washington,
from s23 tc SIS between Louisville
aud Baltimore and Washington, from
$40 to Sl2; between Pttsbure and
Baltimore and Washington, from IS, 80
to S6.
The Plttsburg Telegraph, noticing
the execution of Ortwein's execution, in
Pittsburgh, on the 23d ult., heads the
article, Lease surrendered! Ortwein's
Tenament Of Clay Vacant. The soul of
the Former Occupant Gone to Its Crca-
tor. Without doubt the murder of the
Hamuett family, by Ern est Ortwein, Oh
the Both OF April last, was one of the
most unprovoked and cold-blooded |
deeds that the annals OF crime contain.
And although the majesty of the law
has been vindicated, the strangIing OF
enc person for the murder Of five is not
enough.
The rare spectacle Of pronouncing
the death sentence upon juvenile mur-
derer was witnessed in the Supreme
Court in Boston, on the 20th ult,'
The unfortunate offender was lessee
Pomeroy, the boy iend, who Was re cent
Iy convicted of the murder of a little
boy named MILAN, and who has also
confessed to the numbering and the
cruely butcheiiug Of little girl named
Katie Curran. lie is also the same
youthful fend who tortured SO many
10 the suburbs Of Boston a year
or two since, accounts Of which were
published at the time, The boy Was
brought into the court and Judge Gray,
with tears in his eyes, pronounced the
sentence Of death upon him. lie pre-
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