The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-03-16
News Items.

dispatch to the State Department from
Copenhagen, mentions that the Danish
Rigsdag has recently passed law prohib
iting the importation of potatoes from this
county.
In the New York municipal elections
Tuesday the Republicans carried Roches-
ter, Cohoes, Ithaca, and Aublrn. aud the
Democrats Newburgh, Uswego, Elmira, and
Utica.
Reports Of destru ,tve snow slides come
| from along the line OF the Pacific Railroad
in California. At some points the EN-
ployes have refused to endapger their
lives by working in the sheds.
| In the New Jersey Senate Tuesday th e
bill to make an appropriation of $3.50, 600
to the Morrisiown Asylum was passed.
In the Honse the general bill regulating
elections was ordered 10 n third reading,
| with but slight amendments.
| BY the latest mail from Iceland comes
the report that the FIVE hundred inhabitants
| of the West Msnna Islands nre probably
| dying of starvation. The dangers Of the
sea during the winter months render relief
from other quarters Utmost impossible.
In its address to the King the Spanish
Congress, among other things expresses
the hope that the difficulties with the
| OuNtN O'WNto VIII ut sttlleN " iuc shtlsiaSs
ton Of the two countries, which 'shonld
march united in the path of progress and
liberty"
Captain Craig and G. W. Bryant, Of
Missouri, have been arrested on charge
Of conspiracy to defraud the Government
of S26, 900 on alleged loss of q train VIII .
trans asportng Government freight between
Leavenworth and Fort Yuma.
| ~. A. n,
I flee will be displayed at the Centennial Ex-
, hibition in the Government Building. The
collection will contain IN odels of all mechan-
ical inventions made in this country dur
= ing the past century.
= Two members of the firm of Burchnrd &
Mills. of Florida, in Port Jervis county, N.
! T., have absconded. leaving liabilities
= amounting to $35 900 three. fourths OF
L which will be total loss. Both men oc
= cupied good positions in society. Burchard
was the village postmaster, and was alsC
! treasurer Of the Presbyterian church.
The Director ofihe Mint, DR.. Linderman
Tuesday. received telegram fr ON Virgins
Is City, Nevada, stating that the bullion yielC
v of the Consolidated Virginia Mine during
II February was $2,S32, 900. About As pc
y, cent in value of this bullion is gold. 1t il
! expected that the yield from the same min
1, this month will exceed So 100000.
"a The narrow passage on the Harper
ID Ferry and the Valley Branch of the Balti
,e more and Ohio Railroad, sixty-three mile
=, from Harpers Ferry has been the scene o
- disastrous accident. The middle span 0
lie the bridge gave way, wrecking an entir
l. ght train. with an attached passenge
G car, and killing eleven of those on board.
i. Official reports show that during the pas
month the operations in South Carolina b
ie the mounted force under direction of Majo
i Jacob Wagner, revenue agent, have II
lie suited in the br eaking up of thirty thre
ST Illicit dstilleries and the capture of twenty
eight copper stills, caps, and worms, As
'e 600 gallons mash and beer, and the ARE:
e. and binding over for trial of forty -illici
ID distilers.
is The two little girls who were reported t
70 have been kidnapped from Brooklyn hav
:. returned to their homes. They say the
Is were taken TO hotel by the man VII
H. coaxed them away. and there left alone
he him all night. They fed in the morning
w and were found at vne of the ferries Mon
y day evening. Howard F Curtis a mariner
t aged 81, has been arrested and indent ifie
s. by the girls as their abductor.
n The Court of Appeals of Maryland in tn
al case of the State against the Northern Cen
O. trail Railway Company, involving the que.
tion of the exemption of the capital stoo
" Of the company from taxation under tn
d. laws Of that State, rendered decision i
a. favor Of the State that under the preser
ar laws. the capital stock is liable to valuatio
and assessment as other property.
~ Mr.. Robertson is the author of a bill in
I'll troduced in The United States Senate 10 re
o- asks for the repeal of the act of January 8
1872, which abolshes it. and for Its n
vi uewal in the form IN which il existed al tn
)r time Of the passage of said act. Anothe
q, measure of interest is the one handed in b
~ Mr.. Hamin fixing rates of postage O
:: thirI-class mail matter and for other pur
l. poses"