The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-08-12

Several parties suspected of being i'm
plicated 10 the recent theft Of SAT 200
from the United States Treasury have
been arrested.
An additional recovery Of specie to
the amount OF 500, 900, has been made
by the divers at the wreck of the
steamer Schiller.
Senator Morton, of Indiana; opened
the Ohio campaign, on behalf of the
Republicans, at Urbana, on Saturday;
confniDg himself principally to the
financial question.
Returns from fifty.six out of the one
huodred and sixteen counties in Ken.
tucky give McCreery, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, 1000 votes
over the vote for Leslie in 1871.
The counsel for Tweed have filed a
notice of appeal from the decision Of
Judge Barrett refusing to reduce bail
in the six million dollar suit, and deny
ing the motion to vacate the order of
arrest.
A lawsuit is 10 progress in San Fran
cisco in which one of the questions
raised on demurrer is whether mud
scow is "steamer, vessel or boat" in
the legal acceptation of those terms.
Troy has a ladies' boat club, the fair
members of which are attired in neat
white waists, broad brimmed hats and
ordinary short dresses. The club re-.
joices in the euphonious title Of "Walla
Walla."
The bulls for regular bull fights of
Spain are bred with the greatest care
for this special purpose, the most cele.
brated herds being those of the Dukes
OF Ossunda aud Saraguas and of Don
Antonia Miura.
Two ambitious fellows who went to
count the Thousand Island have re-
turned with report that there are but
four hundred and ojd-as if that fact
could impair the beauty or attractive
ness of that resort.
So great is the rapacity of suufish,
bass and pickeral in lake George that
fishermen declare that of the 10000 or
$4,000 trout placed in these waters by
Seth Green scarcely one in a thousand
will come to maturity.
A prisoner in Texas Jail illustrated
the old saying of "out of the frying pan
into the fire." by escaping from Lis
place of confinement into a woods near
by, only to find himself a prey to a
huge rattlesnake, which bit him SO
badly that be was obliged to deliver
himself up in order to save his life.
Scranton, August 7.-On the Phil
delphia and Erie express between Sum-
bury and Selinsgrove, yesterday, while
the train was making forty miles an
hour, nuptial knot was tied. Conduc-
tor Trump had for some time been pay
ing his addresses to Miss Maggie Knapp
the belle of Northumberland and
daughter of Amos e. Kapp one of the
.wealthiest and most influential men in
Eastern Pennsylvania, and yesterday
morning after Conductor Trump had
reached his journeys end he found the
Rev. Mr.. Gibson, aud taking palace
car, the two returned on brother COD
ducter's train to Northumberland.
Thus the friends Of his sweetheart
we're switched off the track. They
knew that he went out of town in the
morning, and Of course did not expect
him to return until his regular hour in
the evening. Meanwhile Miss Kapp
suddenly wished to go down the road
short distance to visit a relative. She
entered the train unsuspec,ed, and after
it had started Miss Kapp and Mr.
Trump took their PLACES before the
Rev. Mr.. Gibson, and were married.
The nuptial knot was tied between the
stations Of Sunbury and Selinsgrove.