The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-06
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Morrison, the chairman, was a Mexi.
can hero.
Motley soon leaves London tor the
Hague.
DR.. Holland thinks the cure for gos.
sip is culture.
Charles O'Couor has again rallied and
is better.
The pope will send works of art TO
the centennial.
Three hundred Comanche warriors
are preparing for a raid into Texas.
The Spanish government has decided
to send heavy reiDforcemeuts to Cuba
Earthquake shocks were felt Friday
in Nevada aud Yuba counties, Caliior-
mia.
The weather has been oppressively
hot in Richmond since the earthquake
shock
Henry Clews & c. have arranged
with their creditors aud obtained q iull
discharge.
Australia's centennial exhibits will be
sent direct to New York at the end Of
this month
The murderer Standermanu, has been
removed to Sing Sing to be imprisoned
for life.
SigDor Blame, the italian minister to
Washington, has been nominated GEN.
tennial commissioner.
Secretary Bristow has ordered a new
inspection of distilleries throughout the
country.
Hourly mails will be carried between
the Philadelphia Post Office and its
branch Office on the Centennial
grounds.
The Chicago attack on Bristow turrs
out to have been mere flash in the
pan, an ill-natured sputtering Of Ham
fat.
The President is represented as de-
claring that he will veto any bill Con.
gress may pass looking to reduction OF
the army.
H j. Hall, Baltimore dry goods
merchant, with S4,800 of stock in his
decamped, leaving creditors to whistle
for about $1,000.
1t is proposed by railroad kings to
connect North Adams, Mass, with the
Pennsylvania coal fields by a direct
road through the Hoosac Tunnel.
The suspension in The v ouiug coal
region will not co.tiIue mOie than ten
days.
Secretary Belknap is a candidate fer
the U. S. Senate from Iowa, uice Judge
Wright, resigned.
Twenty buildings including the post
office and court house, in Piedmont,
West Virginia, were burned on Satur-
day.
Later development lead citizens ~
st. Adams, VT, to believe that the boy
found there will yet turn out to he
Charley Ross.
The Hon. A. H. Stephens is suffer.
ing from severe cough and expectora-
.ion. The bronchial tubes are affected,
and his recovery is doubtful.
Numerous bands of Khokand insur-
gents are preparing to resume hostli,ies
Fresh troops will be dispatched to the
scene of operations this month.
Convicts in the Columbus, Ohio,
penitebtiary have been amusing them
selves by manufacturing bogus Eve cent
coins from old harness mountincs OF
ANA lgam.
Four hundred hostile Indians of the
Sioux tribe are encamped at "OId
PoDca" Agency, and the settlers are fy:
ing for safety. An attack on the agency
is expected.
The Supreme Court will resume its
session to-day, when it is exp, cted an
opinion in the Grant parish case. involv
ing the eons,itutionalty of the enforce
nent act, will be delivered.
Hon. John H. Clifford, ex Governor
of Massachusetts,, died at Bedford yes
erday of dropsy, aged &c years.
If the present mild weather continues
tanother DAY navigation will again be
open on the Hudson from New York to
Albany.
The newly-elected State officers of
New York were qualified and took for
NAL possession of their Offices in Al
baDy on Saturday.
The citizens of Quebec yesterday
celebrated the anniversary OF tic re-
pulse of the American troops before
that city December 81, 1875.
The Second Comptroller OF the
Treasury, Deputy Second Comptroller
aud Third Auditor, have sent their re-
81 signation to the President.
The President states that all the dis
abled soldiers who have been removed
from positions under the Honse O.,
Representatives have been supplied
with other places.
The report Of the receiver of the Erie
Railway for November shows the re.
ceipts to have been s2.5S4, ,S25.47; ex-
penditures, s2066,653,95, leaving a
balance Of S51S.l7l,62.
G, G, Carpenter, of Iowa, whose term
as Governor expires next week, has
been appointed Second Comptroller OF
the Treasury, to succeed Brosdhesd who
has resigned.
Sir Edward Thornton, the umpire OF