The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-22

Kansas Pacific railroad, near Kit Carson, in
Colorado, and washed away two hundred feet
OF road 80. The foreign mail from New York
on one steamer day amounted to SO 1915 lettors
and seventy bags of papers . An order
has been issued from the Treasury department
forbidding the importation of breech-losdinp
rifles or ammunition therefor into the TERRITORY
of Alaska. .... The physician attendant upon
Robert Dale Owen says that that gentleman is
hopelessly insane and cannot live long,
man and woman were found drowned In
the lake at Waukegan, ILL.,, and as they had
been lettering about there for some days, it is
thought they committed suicide by deliberately
walking into the water together. .... Tho
Iowa crops arc generally good this year. go.
The Newfoundland fishers are having bad
luck this season. A dispatch from San
Francisco states that the Hoopa Indians, on
the Klamath river, surrounded the Florence
mine, shot one man and compelled the others
to quit work. A force OF soldiers was sent,
but they were unable to control the Indians.
The Indians declare the miners must leave....
Advices from Zara, the capital OF Dalmatia
represent that Panslavic emissaries spread re-
ports among the Herzegovinians that the
Turks intended to extirpste tho Christians.
These falsehoods caused the insurrectioD
which s taking great dimensions. Masses of
insurgents surround the town Of GaslSo, Neve-
sini, and Stolatz. Six hundred families have
h led into Croatia and Servia, and twelve hun
dred have arrived in Dalmatia at different
points along the frontier. .....A AS a party of
! Orangemen, about dozen in number, with
their wives were disembarking from steamboat
at Lawrence Mass, after celebrating the ami
vosary of the battle OF the Bosne, at picnic,
they were assaulted by crowd. The protec-
ton Of the police was sought, and under escort
of the mayor and force Of officers the little
party started for home. The mob had i'll
creased meanwhile and threw bricks and
other missilcs severely injuring many Of the
police as well as Orangemen. The mob Gnally
| got 30 far that the Orangemen drew their pis-
tolls and fired volloy, which quickly scattered
the crowd, and resulted i'll the wounding of
two men, a woman, and boy. Twelve Orange
men and four policemen were badly injured
from bricks and stones. ....A daring rob-
York city in daylight About ten o'clock in
the morning three meu with implements in
their hands called at q house in Eleventh
street occupied by a Mrs. Danser, and informed
Mrs. Danser, the only one at home, that they
were sent to inspect the water pipes She adj
mitted them, but no sooner was the door
closed than they seized and gagged her and
on her refusal to tell where Mr.. Danser kept
his bonds, they searched the entire house
most thoroughly-throwing clothing about,
breaking open everything and even ripping
up the carpets and upholstery. They succeeded
i'll carrying of $40, 900 in Virginia bonds.
In reply to an inquiry, Gen. Crook, in COM
mand at the Black Hills, has received instruc-
tions from the War department to issue orders
necessary to continue to keep people from 60
| ing to the Black Hills at least until the result
of the labor Of the commission to treat with
the Indians is known. -. Prof. Marsh, of
Yale College, who made trip to the Indian
country in the interests OF science, has ad-
dressed a letter to President Grant in relation
to frauds which came under his eyes at Red
Clouds agency, and which he promised Red
He states that the agent is wholly unfit for his
position and guilty of gross frauds that the
beef issued is very inferior to the quality the
government pays for, and the pork is unfit for
food the tobacco was rotten and all the food
OF very poor quality, in consequence of which
the Indians suffered much. .... "A reliable dis.
patch from Vienna says that the Southern
Sclayonic party has grossly exaggerated the
Herzegovina disturbances, which are entirely
OF an agrarian character and originate in re-
sistance to tax collectors. Turkey considers it
unnecessary to send re-enforcements to the
scene of the trouble .... Messrs. Moody and
Sankey were rendered farewell by the clergy
of London, at which one hundred and eighty
eight Episcopal clergymen were present, far
exceeding any other denomination. The gem
tlemen declined any remuneration from the
committee. Their meetings during the past
past four months have been In Gambler
well, sixty meetings. attended by 100000 per-
sons; i'll Victoria, forty-lye meetings. attended
by 10000 persons; in the opera house, sixty
meetings, attended by $4,000 persons in
Bow, sixty meetings, attended by six hundred
thousand persons, and in Agricultural hall,
sixty meetings, attended by 100000 persons.
The race of the freshmen crews at Sara
toSa was one Of the finest aquatic contests
ever recorded. The four crews-Haryard,
Brown, Princeton and Cornell-got away to-
gether at the word, and at the half-mile flag
they were not half boat-lepgth between any
of these, with Cornell leading at the mile flag
Harvard had slight lead, which she also held
at the mile and half flag as they neared the
two mile flag Harvard spurted and led by half
a boat with Brown, Princeton and Cornell in
order close behind. On the last mile Brown
caught 'crab" and lost her position as se-
cond, which was quickly taken by Princeton.
The last half mile was pulled by all the crews
at their best and caused change i'll their posi-
tions-Cornell gradually forcing ahead, until
she passed the winner in II, 324, with Harvard
next in 1874, Brown 17.39l4 and Princeton
II 491l. --.
To CLEAN GUNs.-Guns and rifles can
be easily unleaded by the following II