The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-15
GENERAL NOTES.

COst VI WHICH Will De 90O,OUO
Seven stores In Chester were recently
closed by the Sheriff in one day.
The Hamilton Print Works, at
Lowell, Mass, have suspended work.
The funeral Of George Sand took
place ut Nohaut on Tuesday.
$4,3l7 in cash was stolen from the
office of the City Treasurer of Fall
River, Mass, on Friday.
| Asa W. Rugg, of the Worcester Organ
Company. hanged himself near Goes
| pond, Massachusetts, on Saturday.
Johnstown, Pa, sends calf to the
| Centennial with five legs, which is
three more than most of them have.
Alexander P. Tuition has been con-
| firmed by the Senate as Collector of
the Port Of Philadelphia.
The daily expenses of the Centennial
exposition are from ten to twelve thou
| sand dollars.
Make home bright nd,beautiful with
all that wit, taste, and good nature can
accomplish.
Decoration Day was generally and
patriotically observed throughout the
country.
Nearly 100000 strawberry baskets
have been manufactured in Wicomico
county, Nd, this year.
The gauge of the Delaware, LaclSa-
wanna and Western Railroad was mar
rowed last week Sunday.
The Senate bill providing for the
retirement of Judge McCandless
within six months has passed the
House.
About three thousand miners are
already in the Black Hills. The nor
thern mines are reported as paying
well.
An undergraduate crew will be sent
from the Dublin University to partici-
pate in the American College Regatta.
The yellow fever prevails at Rio
Janeiro, the deaths from the scourge
averaging from eighty to one hundred
daily.
1t is reported in Paris that England
is willing to agree to the holding of an
international conference on the East
ern question.
The loss of the Gautemalean gun
boat General Barrios is reported. The
crew were saved, but sixteen soldiers
were drowned.
The Cunard Company is about to
send their steamers Scotia, Cambria
and Cuba to the Clyde, to await the re-
vival of the Atlantic trade.
Speaker Kerr's physician states that
should no untoward symptoms occur
his patient will be restored to his usual
health in few days.
Clymer's committee have presented
q unanimous report exonerating
| Speaker Kerr, which was adopted
unanimously by the House.
The House Monday passed the reso-
luton to modify the treaty with China
SO as to restrict immigration to persons
engaged in commercial pursuits.
The insurgents in Bosnio are very
vctive, and more hard fighting is re-
ported, resulting, it is stated, in the
killing of $50 Turks.
The Methodist General Conference
on Tuesday, adopted resolution look
ing to an early and thorough revision
of the hymn-book.
In the Presbyterian General Assem-
bly,, few days ago, resolution look
ing to an early union with the South
ern General Assembly was adopted.
In the Presbyterian General Assem-
bly, last Tuesday, a resolution was
adopted recommending the use of the
term SABBATH instead of SUNDAY"
Michael Nolan was Kicked and beaten
to death by Thomas Mcdonnell, Jr.,
near Lake Monticello, in Baltimore
county, Nd, on Friday afternoon.
Henry Ward Beecher's house, in
Brooklyn, was robbed of between six
and eight hundred dollars worth of
silverware on Saturday night.
The Democrats will need fifty-four
votes in order to be the successful
party at the approaching presidential
contest. Where will they get them?
A Miss Stewart of Hamilton, On
tario, has recovered S7OO damages from
a lover who forsook her after an en-
gagement of twenty-six years.
The State prison at Concord, n. H.,
has more than paid expenses for the
last year. The earnings were $36,399
and the expenses $l5,S21.
"There may not be gold, but tn ere's
no question about the quantity of lead
in the Black hills. Every Indian has
a gun full of it and isn't stingy.
There was torchlight procession in
Doublin Saturday night in celebration
of the escape of the Fenian convicts
from West Australia, Mr.. Disraeli was
burned in etfigy.
Charles Taube, 6S years of age, com.
mitted suicide at Harrisburg on Sat
urday by shooting himself in the
breast with a musket. Taube had been
sick for several months.
In the House Monday a joint resolu.
tion was presented for an amendment
to the Constitution of the United
States such as Assessors, Postmasters
etc., be elected for term of four years
BY the bursting of a fiy-wheel weigh.
ing three thousand pounds, +. L.
Kuntze's brewery, in New York city
was partially demolished on Saturday
No one was injured.
j. G. Berrenue, j. J. Hannah and E
]. KuTschedt have been arrested al
New Orleans on charge of defraudine
the government in connection with
the construction of the Custom House
Cochran, Mclean & Co., the recently
suspended dry goods firm of New YORK
city, on Saturday made a statement te
their creditors They place their as
sets at $2.054 900, and their iabilitie,
at 81, COG, 900.
William Leith, of Brooklyn, doinl
business in New York as q bond brokel
was onSaturday arrested on the charg,
of completely with William VeltmaI
in attempting to obtain twenty-on,
, thousand dollars from the Merchant