The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-22
Qunck-Grnss.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Interesting Items from Homo md Abroad


Interesting Items from Homo md Abroad
1t is said that the forthcoming English
budget will show total revenue for the
financial year ending March 81 of ga, 922, 900.
This falls 60, 414,0 900 below the revenue of the
previous year, but exceeds tie estimates by
f497, 900. .... Jonathan L. Jones failed to get
a claim of 100000 through the last United
States Congress, and committed suicide by
drinking liquor. .....A gang of counterfeiters
in Virginia was broken up and large number
of them captured with their tools All
available United States troops have been
ordered to the Texas border to act against the
Mexican raiders. The Secretary of the
United States Treasury has decided that ves-
sells should hail from their home ports, and not
from places not ports but selected merely from
the fancy of the owners. . The trial of the
Guikwar of Borada, at Calcutta. on the charge
of attempting to bribe the servants of the
residency to poison Colonel Phayrc, the resi-
dent, has resulted in the disagreement of the
commissioners before which the case was on
trial. 1t is believed that little Charley
Ross is dead-that the excitement relative to
him was so great the kidnsppers took his life
to destroy traces of their guilt .. A row boa
was run down by a steamer in Norfolk bay
Va, and two men drowned. go. The total out
standing currency of the United States is
S424, l48, 1862. ...... Yellow fever is reported
as epidemic in Havana, and cases have oc-
CURED in Key West. .....A large reduction in
the railroad fare between tho East and West
has taken place.
meeting Of merchants in New York, ir-
respective Of party, was held, at which resolu-
tions indorsing the action of Governor Tilden
relative to canals were passed, and committee
appointed to present the report to Governor
Tllden. Henry Ward Beecher, in His evil
dence in the great Tilton vs.. Beecher case,
testified that he was born in Litchtield, Conn,
in 1873 He was thirteen years old when he
left Litchtield. The family lived in Boston for
eight years following, and Mr. Beecher gradu-
ated at Amherst College in 1884. He studide
at Lanes University three years and was
licensed as a preacher in 1887 his first pulpit
being at Lawrenceburg, Ind. In 1S47 he went
to Brooklyn and assumed the pastorate of Ply
mouth Church, then just organized At that
time the church numbered twenty people. He
preached continuously at Plymouth Church from
that time to this. II do not think" he said,
that during that time-twenty-seyen years
l have lost five Sundays" The number of
communicates of Plymouth Church he places
at from twenty-five hundred to three thousand.
Aside from his duties as clergyman, he has
filled several editorial positions, written large
number of books, and delivered numberless
lectures The Overlook Mountain House in
the Catskills near Woodstock, Ulster county,
n. Y, famous summer resort caught fire and
was entirely consumed. Labor troubles are
reported in several cotton manufacturing towns
of Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire.
caused, as alleged, by an imperative order
from the Fall River Head Centre of the Ma
tional Union, requiring operatives to demand
restoration of former prices. .. The decrease
of the public debt of the United States since
June 80, 1874, has been 50, 453, 4G2. 60. Mr..
Childer, speaking at Pontefract, England,
prophesiea brilliant future for America, and
said that England should GEEK the friendship
and alliance of the United States.
The New York State Senate passed resolu-
ton to investigate the tolls charged in New
York on grain transfers....It is reported that
Spain has requested Germany to order its war
vessels to lombard Zarauz for the Gustav out
rage but Germany has refused -. The Cuban
government has abolished the 2]5 per cent tax
on capital and imposed an income tax of fifteen
per cent. 80. Delegate Cannon, of Utah, was
put on trial for polygamy and discharged the
prosecution being barred by the statute of
limitations, ...,. Andreas Egner and George
Rufer the murderers of Herman Schilling, will
be hanged at Cincinnati July 13 John n. ].
Monks's house in Boardville, Y. j., was burned
Two children We're saved by being thrown
from window. Two others were burned
to ashes. Mr.. Monks was go terribly burned
that he died. .... The mills of Natick, R. l.,
closed recently, owing to the strike of the
operatives ..... The boiler in Tunnels Mills,
III Elliotsyille, Jefferson county Ohio, exploded,
killing three men. .... The bodies of three
men Who had persisted with cold were found by
hunters in rOohess cab in Ness county,
Kansas. Harry brown, aged thirteen son
of a New York custom house official, was
found dead in his fathers barn in Blooming
burgh, Orange county, having a,cidenty
hanged himself whio preparing first of April
trick, ,.., Enooh Avery, of Pennington, Me,
was attacked by his half crazy son, who severe
ly wounded him with shot gun. The lad
then went into the barn, set it on fire, aud
perished in the flames. Sylvsnus Keller, his
wife, and five children, were buried in the
ruits Of their house. which was flown down in
Jasper county, Mo. All were saved but one
daughter seven years old.
The past winter shows a largely increased
death-rate in many of the large cities in
America asd Europe. =. b. an accident Oh
the Chicago, Burlington AID Quincy railroad,
near Tyrone, Ia, four persons were killed and
many severely injured ,n. Letters from the
Governors of Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
New Jersey, Ohio Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Minnesots, Kansas, Nebraska Virginia, Ken
tucky South Carolina and AIksnsss say that