The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-30
GENERAL NOTES.

eleven years of age.
1t is said that the Rocky Mountain locusts
or grasshoppers cannot exist east of the Mis-.
sissippi river, but this fact has been care
fully concealed from them by western pa
pers. sl,.
A Brooklyn woman Is to be tried the third
time for one murder, the first and second
juries having disagreed. She thinks she is
having more than her share Of trials in this
world.
At the trans-continental hotel sale in
Philadelphia ingram carpet sold at 40 to 65
cents yard, Brussels at 80 cents, cham
ber suits, SIT to $40; spring beds, SO to
| So so; cots at 55 cents each.
Gen. Crooks command is at Fort Reno.
Its total strength, including Indian allies,
is 1000, Crazy Horse with about 400 lodges
is encamped on Rosebud, near the scene of
the June fight, and cavalry command has
marched TO attack him.
The Younger boys, the notorious outlaws
who murdeed the bank cashier at North
field, Mimi, plead guilty, and are now in
the penitentiary for life term. Ninety
five claimants want the reward for their
capture.
Mr.. Solomon Crise and son, of Donegal
Westmorland county, were ouI hunting last
Friday, when the father shot at rabbit,
but the ball missed the animal and striking
stone glanced of and struck the son in
the heart, killing him instantly.
During the six months of tn, Centennial,
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company started
22,617 trains from Jersey City alone, west.
ward, made up of ,OSO csrs and carry.
ing not less than 7,500,0 600 passengers.
This includes no way passengers, and only
the travel in one direction.
General Wiudfcld Scott effered himsel'
to Miss Maria Mayo, of Richmond, Va,
when he was a captain and was promptly
refused; he repeated the Offer when ma
jor and was again dismissed; when he be-
came general the fair lady yielded, declar-
ing that she fully appreciated the differ
ence between Captain Scott and General
Scott.
A naturalized Chinaman voted in the
Fourth ward, San Francisco, on election
day. When challenged by the inspector
he took off his hat and swore in his vote
like Christian. The spectators were very
anxious to know how he had voted, but he
evidently regarded it as au important State
secret, aud answered no questions.
Lucius Robinson, Governor-elect Of
New York, says he shall resign his place
as Comptroller between the 10th and 17th
Of December, after be has written his re-
port for the Legislature. After that he
will write his inaugural. Governor Tilden
will appoint Mr.. Robinson's successor as
Comptroller for the remainder of the term
New York, November 22.-The Tines
Hartford special says the point is raised
here that if Postmasters are ineligible as
electors because the hold an Office of profit
and trust, and that their places cannot be
filed, that Ex-Governor Ingersoll, one o
the Democratic electors of Connecticut, is
disqualified by reason of his holding the
position of Commiss ioner Of the United
States Court.
New York, November 22.-By order of
the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad Company, 100000 tons OF
Scranton coal were sold to-day at auction.
Prices show large falling off as compared
with last month. Seventy-fve hundred
five hundred tons of steamboat brought
So ~; $4,000 tons CRATE, 50 CIT and IS;
II 500 tons egg, So 65 and 50 72l; $4,000
tons stove, SO SGT and So 723; $1,000 tom
chestnut, So Is and So 37!.
A correspondent says that the great
Louisville Library for which SO many mil
lion dollars were obtained from unsuspect
ing people throughout the country is
shame and q disgrace to the city in which i
stands. There are about 10000 volumes
of rubbish in bare unexpected room, and
the building unpaid for, the rent of rooms
and halls not amounting to interest and in
surance.
Most of the voters in Newport and Gov
ingtou, KY, voted for Tilden an
Hendricks direct, but this so-called irregu
larity is now considered Of no consequence
As the vote for President in Kentucky.
viva voce, the names of all the electors be
ing printed on the poll-books, it has bee
the custom of the voter to say, 81 vote fc
Tilden and Hendricks" or Hayes an
Wheeler, as the case may be, and in tn
voters presence the clerks tally one vol
for each of the electors of the ticket voted.
The Chief of the Secret Service idivisio
70 the Treasury Department received dis
; patch Friday announcing the recapture
Pete Mccartney, the notorious counter
feiter. In 1874 he was caught in st. Loui
' with fifteen thousand dollars in counterfe
Z money, aud was recaptured the followin
June at Dallas, Texas, and while being col
veyed to Waco again escaped. Since the
! he has been at large until his capture
!, Richmond, Ind, Friday. He had on hi
] person eight thousand dollars in fifties an
a twenties. He went to Iniianoplis. Nc
n Cartney ia an engraver and printer. H
plate of the twenty dollar legal tender ca
= scarcely be detected from the genuin
The plate has been captured.