The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-11-11
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Item. OF Intoro., from Hon. nnd Abroad.


to the German Parliament that peace is more
assured now than at any time in the past
twenty years. The President has appointed
Thursday, November 25, fer a dsy Of thanks
giving ... John Dowdell shot his son James
in the head with load OF buckshot, injuring
him fatally, in New York. Both bad been on
a drunken debauch all the night before ......
The suffering occasioned by The fire in Vir-
ginia City was great and as there we're many
residents afflicted with typhoid fever,a number
of deaths have occurred from exposure. he
extortlonate demands Of drivers OF vehicles
retarded many in tho removal Of sick, and in
one case resulted in a murder, where father
frensied to find he was unable to pay the price
Of removal, shot the driver dead. The losses
by the fire are now estimated at something
over 50, 900, 900, ON which the insurance is ST.
200, 600. Tho director OF the United States
mint has received dispatch from the mines
saying it will be months before any bullion can
be supplied, on account of the destruction OF
the works. j ohm Dolan was found guilty of
murder in the first degree OH the charge
against him for killing Mr. Noe, in his brush
shop in New York. see. Venezuela is quiet.
Business is improving, and general confidence
prevails all over the country. The crops of
coffee and cocoa will be abundant. =. The
official returns of the Ohio election give
Hayes 5,549 ms jority ... D. r. Fogg, Of st.
Louis, shot Pauline Plachnan, aged sixteen
years, to whom he was engaged to be married,
but did not mortally wound her. He then
fatally stabbed himself. Four men were
killed by an explosion of gas in the Raccoon
Pit coal mine, Chesterfield county, Va.
The October report Of the Department OF
Agriculture shows that the cranberry crop
is short, rice is abundant, sugar fully up to
the average, hops quite good, hemp very fine,
and the number Of fattening cattle larger than
that Of any previous year ...... The losses by
the Virginia City fire grow day by day, as the
full damage is made known it is now set
down by competent figures at 81 900, Goo Focd
and clothing for the destitute is pouring in
from all parts of the country ... The Farmer
of London says the cases of cattle disease
for the quarter ending October 16, were
as follows: In Somersetshire, $1,000; in
Cheshire, $4,000 i'll Dorsetshire, As, 900 in
Gloucestershire, 44,0O0 in Oxfordshire, 3d.
600, in Warwickshire, 3,000 in Norfolk,
$1,000; in Cumberland, %, 900. Throughout
England and Wales there were for the came
time over 800, 900 cases. The money damage il
estimated at million dollars ... The Nassau
club of New York beat the Anacostans of
Washington, in a three-mie straightaway race
on the Potomac, in twenty minutes and fifty
seconds. The proprietor OF he Cardiff
giant has sued the Boston Herald for $50, 600
for questioning the genuineness of the petrii-
cation. ... "A sailor, claiming to be the sole
survivor OF the bark Jewess, Of Boston, which
sailed year and half ago for New South
Wales, has just turned up, and tells horrible
story, to the effect that the Jewess, with an
unknown English bark, we're becalmed of the
Auckland islands for several days, and that
one night both were boarded by savages, the
crew overpowered, the vessels scuttled, and
the prisoners taken ashore and eaten. .....A
fast mail to New Orleans via Charlotte and At
lanta, and second one from Washington to
Chicago, are projected..... NJ. Gambetta has
issued a manifesto fayoring amnesty, depart
mental voting. and State control of education
As Brigham Young disregarded the conrt's
order that he should pay his divorced wifg
S9,500 alimony, his case was again brought
up, and he was sentenced to be imprisoned
until he paid the sum with costs Of court. AZ
Mr.. Young was sick in bed, a marshal was pu
in his house TO watch him. go. There are
prospects Of speedy outbreak between japan
and Corea. ... 1t is said in Berlin that thu
Imperial government is about to formal,
cashier Count Won Arnim from the public ser
vice. .. Her Royal Hghness, the Duches
OF Edinburgh daughter Of the Czar), ha
given birth to daughter. .... Reports are re
oeived from various portions Of Indiana, Mis-
souri, Illinois and other Western States to tn,
OBJECT that the hog cholera is taking off thou
sands of swine, and packers begin to look upol
it i'll serious light. The attorney-geuera
OF New York State has received certified
check for $500, 1864, payable to the Stat
treasurer, being the proceeds Of the moneys re
ceived from the Watson estate in the Twee
suits .. 1t is reported in Vienna that til
Turks have murdered sixty Christians in Bi
hacz, fortified town near the Dalmatia
frontier. Extensive preparations are O.
foot for an unprecedented display Of Japanes
productions at the American Centennial expo
sitIon to be held in Philadelphia .... Ther
has been fighting between United States troop
and a band Of Cheyenne Indians, in which tn
troops were worsted, with loss Of three mer
Cell Carr's command left Fort Hayes b
special train for the seat of war. ..... In tn
absence of colored man from his house i
Athens, Ohio, the house teok fire and his thre
children we're burned to death.
The secretary of the treasury has instructe
the assistant treasurer at New York to sc
90 O00,0 900 gold during November .... Th
iron-clad Magenta flagship of the vice-admiri
commanding the French squadron at Toulol
was destroyed by the explosion Of her nags
zine 80. The restoration of peace is conf
IDENTIFY expected in Uruguay. The Londo
Times estimates that two hundred mariner
and others we're drowned in the North sea du
ing the gales of the past three weeks. Til
members OF the consular commission for til
settlement Of the troubles in herzegovina al
unanimous in tho opinion that the Porte
incapable of pacifying the country. Foreig
intervention in some form is believed to be il
dispensable ..... The British expedition
punish the piratical natives on the Cong
river, Africa, for numbering English sailo
was entirely successful. Many villages wei
destroyed and a large number OF native
killed The British lost one man killed al
six wounded ...... The Carleton cotton al
wooden mills, at Philadelphia were destroye
by fire, throwing 1900 persons out of emplo
ment. Loss nearly 100000; insurance $464