The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-08
GENERAL NOTES.

General Sheridan is at New Orleans, it
is supposed on account of the Mexico.
Texas uoubles.
Teaching convicts trade is the only
sort of compulsory education ag ainst which
there is no objection.
A number of professionals have arrived
at Chicago to participate in the Western
billiard tournament this week. The prizes
aggregate $1,000.
A duel is reported to be impending in ST.
Louis between Silas Hutchinson. of the
Dispatch. and James Hyde, of the Repub-
Hcdn, newspapers. The trouble arose rom
a practical joke.
Gen. Sherman states that the German
girls taken from the Indians will be pro-
vided for for life by the Government. The
Indians who massacred the girls parents
will be sent to Florida and held as prison
ers of war.
The managers Of Dexter Park. Chicago,
have concluded to give two race meetings
in July, the prizes to aggregate 100000.
Efforts are being made to secure the atten-
dance of Bodne, Occident and Goldsmith
Maid.
Fall River, April GA dispatch re.
spinners there have turned out on strike,
owing to the manufacturers declining to
give back the ten per cent,
The commission of John Z. New, of In
diana, to be Treasurer of the United States,
to take effect from June 30th next, was
signed by the President last Monday, and
forwarded to Mr.. New at indianapolis.
A Bangor, Pa, special, gives an account
of brutal outrage by Welsh miners in the
strike upon William Hughes, miner who
refused to quit work. They backened
their faces, surrounded his house at Md
night dragged him from his bed through
the snow and beat him nearly dead with
| clubs, inficting injuries which will likely
| prove fatal.
Washington, April Information re
| ceived by the Bureau of Statistics show
that during the month of March, 1876,
there arrived at the port of New York
| 6,4T immigrants, of whom 4.203 were
males and 2,274 cemaler. During the
month of March, 1864, 6,05S immigrants
arrived, 4,0lS being males and 2,040 fe-
males.
New York, April 81 ohm Bingham was
tried in the Court of General Sessions to.
day on charge of bigapy. Both his
l
wives were in the court room. He pleaded
guilty and refused to change the plea. The
Recorder asked him which he would prefer
to be discharged to live with his two wives,
or sentenced to State Prison for three years.
The prisoner promptly expressed a prefer
ence to be locked up, and the Judge SEN
fenced Bingham to State Prison for three
years at hard labor.
New York, April 3.--A Pottsville special
says. There were no serious outbreaks
among the miners yesterday, but an inse-
cure feeling continues, At shamokin the
excitement is at fever heat. The striker
have compelled the working miners to
cease work at Centralia. lncendiari SIN
was attempted at Tuscarora, but fortu
nately was unsuccessful. Bands of armed
and unarmed men are wandering arount
and assaults and depredations are not un
frequent. The Workinyma1s, the strikers
Official official organ, calls upon them t.
preserve peace and quetness until The
end which is believed to be near, wher
victory for the strik ers is predicted
Presid mt Welsh, of the Laborers' Beuevo
VIOLENT Association, publishes an appeal tC
the strikers to observe law and order.