The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-23

mouth disease have asked the privy council of
England, for an order to prevent the holding
of markets, sales, or fairs throughout War
wickshire. The disease also prevails con-
siderably in the County OF Norfolk, the last re-
turn showing that three Thousand cases have
been recorded there during the week.. Cattle,
sheep and pigs are all affected. .....A fire
broke out in the Middlebury Paper Company's
mill, at Middlebury, Vt, recently, destroying
the paper mill, the buildings of the Middle
bury Manufacturing Company, the Middlebury
Woolen Company, and the stores of twenty
nine business firms, two halls, six dwellings,
and part of highway bridge. The total lose
is estimated at $780, ,0OO Insurance. $1O1, 900,
go. The single scull race between Evan Nor
ris and Henry Coulter, distance of five miles,
for $500 and the championship Of America,
was won by Morris in thirty-fve minutes. He
came in ahead by about fifteen lengths. There
we're seventeen thousand people present.
France was visited with storms which again
flooded part of the country and caused great
damage. A water spout destroyed fifty houses
at st. Gilman. Nine corpses have been re-
covered, but sixty persons are still missing -.
The Maine Republicans carried the election in
that State by about five thousand majority
against ten thousand last year..... Eleven
persons perished in the bennington Wood
colliery, Shropshire, England, from poisonous
gas .... The Servian government has issued
circular ordering the chiefs to prevent volun-
| teers joining the insurgents, and also the ex-
portatlon of arms and ammunition. The Ser
vians have twenty-four thousand men on the
| frontier ...... There are six thousand cases Of
cattle disease in Devonshire, England. ....
Harrison Andrews, of Venice, N. Y, struck
his sleeping son two heavy blows on the head
with hatchet, and then calling up his two
daughters shot one of them seriously in the
abdomen. The girls escaped from the house
and aroused the neighbors, who visited the
house to find that Andrews had committed
suicide by shooting, after saturating the car
pets with oil and firing them. The son viii
not recover. No motive for the deed is known
..... Thirteen persons went down with the
steam barge Mendoza, in Lake Michigan, dur
ing the late gale. Seven Of the twenty OF
board succeeded in escaping in life-boat. :.
Nichol, teller Of the Canadian Bank OF Com
merce Of Montreal, absconded with over $40,
600 of the banks funds. .... Premier Jovel
lar, Of Spain, will turn all his efforts towar,
the internal peace of the country. -. Fiv
more Of the southwestern band of counter
feiters have been arrested ...... The boiler 0
Chatham Bros steam sawmill in Skaneateles
n. Y, exploded, killing A. P. Chatham an
his son, and son Of John Prince, and fatal
injuring person whose name is unknown.
The Brooklyn On. Y.) school board havin
refused to admit colored pupil to publ
school set apart for whites, on the ground tha
there were schools for colored scholars, til
child's father brought suit, and Judge Gilbel
rendered decision in favor Of the board.
The committee on finance has reported
the Alabama constitutional convention ths
, the Indebtedness of the State is s29 900, 90
and tue total value of taxable property abol
Sl59, 9,0O0,0 900 ..... District-Attorney Britton,
; Brooklyn, N Y, with the consent of Hem
l Ward Beecher, wishes to enter nOle proSeq
in the case against Frank Moulton, but III
q Moulton refuses to accept it, and deman,
q a speedy trial ..... Willie party Of the Ne
York fire department were drilling with
:, aerial ladder, composed of sections which TO
. to a height of ninety feet, it suddenly bro
= and the seven men upon it were thrown to Il
4 ground, the four near the base escaping wi
r. slight injuries, while those further up we
a hurled with terrific force, and all three we
a killed, among them Chief-of- Battalion Mas
~ who occupied the top of the ladder, nine
a feet from the ground. 80. The reports fro
+IoT yo1, +1,ofD
~ to.arrange conference with the object OF i
al fluencing the Porte regarding the future &C
"A ernment Of the Slavonic provinces. Monter
II gro has definitely informed the insul ge
II leaders that she cannot make war against t
j, Porte. Austrian surgeons are attending the
es insurgent wounded brought into Monteneg
,c and the governor of Dalmatia has been
~ structed to forward supplies of food for thil
O. thousand refugees now in Montenegro
o. great distress and destitution. THE numl
m of deaths caused at St. Gilman, France,
" the late inundation is lightweight. One hi
as dred and twenty houses were destroyed -.
,s. One man has been picked up floating on
ia pilot house OF the lost steamer Equinox.
". had been in the water thirty-one hours 8
i'm is supposed to be the only survivor ,..... I
he great stallion race at Mystic Park, Boston,
,is a purse of $4,000, was attended by an
mense throng. There were fourteen entri
he but only six started: Thomas Jefferson, W.
an Allen, Commonwealth, Ned Wallace, Defia
,is and Parks Abdallah. Commonwealth '
;er the first heat in 2.27 and Jefferson won
three succeeding heats and race in 2.26, 90
and 2.26 The Russian government
in 49, -'
men and 1853 women having been indicted.