The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-03-02
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ing house on his Boot Jack farm this
summer
The county seat bill hhs"pbssed the
house by l43 yeas to % nays and has
been sent to the Senate.
THE Maine Legislature has passed
bill abolishing the death penalty for
murder and substituted imprisonment
at hard labor for life.
THE Jury Commissioners have filled
the wheel for the ensuing year, and
dra%n the jury for the May term OF
Court. We will give the list next
week.
Give us call forjob work. We have
n tifst-class press, and several new
faces ofjob type and are prepared to do
all kinds of job work cheap. Esti-
mates for all kinds of Job work given
on application.
We received d fine lot offlower and
garden seeds this week from James
Wick, Scotsman, Rochester, n. Y.
We recommend Mr.. Vick I'd our
readers as the man to buy seeds from.
All his seeds are fresh and just as rep
resented.
In reply to a resolution of the House
of Representatives, the Secretary of
the Treasury informs the body that
the cash assets of the Government at
the close of business on the 25th day of
January last amounted to one hunred
and ninety millions seven hundred
and seventy-eight thousand and forty
three dollars and twenty-four cents.
OF this aggregate forty-four millions
were in gold and eleven millions in
silver coin.
The Boston Board of Aldermen
have resolved on reduction of ten
per cent. on the salaries of city Off
cials of all grades. In justification of
this comparison has been instituted
between the prices of various articles
of food and clothing in 1865 and those
which obtain at the present title: 1t
was found that the average prices of
provisions and groceries were 50 per
cent. higher in January, 1865; that
cotton goods were pa per cent, and
wooden good 81 per cent. higher; or,
making the comparison the other way
provisions and groceries have fallen 81
per cent, cotton 73 per cent, and
woolen 81 per cent. Rents, as COM
pared with 1866, We're found to be 20
per cent, lower in the most desirable
locations, apd still larger percentage
in places of undesirable character On
the whole, it was found that the nee
cessary cost Of livifig had been re-
duead at least % to 81 per cent. dur
ing tho last eleven years.
General Sheridan proposes that if
Congress will give him 10000 men,
with full power to act at his own dis
cretion, he will take charge of the
Texas border and stop incursi6ns. He
would give the Mexican government
thirty days to perfect measures for
preventing any further raids, and if
any occurred after that period he
would cross over into Mexico and
punish the thieves on their own soil.
If we were compelled to come to close
quarters with the MeXicans respecting
this matter, there is no man in the
country whom tile people would
rather have entrusted with the work
than, General Sheridan. But his plan
would probably iiivolte us in war
with Mexico, and it may be advisable
for us to try other and less belligerent
measures first. We are hardly in a
condition just now to go to war even
with Mexico, although we may be
compelled to such course if our very
great grievances are not@redressed by
more peaceful means.-P P,ttSJurgh
Dispatch.
A horrible catastrophe oceufreda at St.
Petersburg, Clarion county, on We'd
nesday last The nitro-glyc crime
magazine of the Roberts torpedo
company, situated in a hollow a short
distance northwest of the town, ex-
ploded with terrific force, shattering
the windows, rocking the buildings
and spreading CONSERVATION on every
hand. Every one seemed to instantly
comprehend what had happened, and
hundreds rushed to the scene of the
disaster AS nearly aS oan he ascar-
TONED the facts are as follows: James
Barnum an old employee of the Tor
pedo company, it is supposed was en-
gagged in placing Some cans contain.
ing about one hundred and twenty
pounds of glyzerine in the magazine
when it exploded. Barnum has just
brought the explosive in from Edin,
burg. The crowds that rushed to the
spot were appalled, by the sight tha
met their view. The unfortunate
Barnum was torn to fragments, por.
tions of his body being lodged in thu
trees near at hand. Upon log abou
twenty feet from whore the magazine
stood lay piece of the left arm ant
shoulder, together with the heart anC
some of the ribs; while equally distan
in another direction were found tn
lower half of the spinal column and
portion of the trunk. One of tn
horses driven by Barnum was in
stantly killed and the other so badl,
ipiurad h.st N had tn ha shat nar,,,,,