The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-20
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woman who ascribed her staggering to
the effect oil very tight pull-back skirt
A bill has been introduced into the
Legislature of Mississippi to make edu-
cation compulsory throughout the State.
1t is estimated that about Sl2, 900
worth of dried fish are monthly sent
from San Francisco to China by the
Chinese.
A private meeting of Western iron.
dealers was held lately at ST Louis for
the consideration of certain matters re-
lative to the present depression in trade
A nice young man, in New Orleans.
stabbed his mother, the other day, aud
then excused himself by saying that she
was thief aud wouldn't allow him to
live honestly and d.ceutly.
Clinton county, iowa, stood in the
way of thoroughbred hurricane last
Saturday, that cut across the country
without any respect for line fences, and
uurooted moie barus and demolished
more small buildings aud little shops
than eau be repaired iu week.
Up to December 1st, 1875, the Gen.
tennlal Board of Finance have received
the sum of S5,l87 $50, OF which sum
Pennsylvania alone contributed 81 ,699, :
700, leaving the bal1uce of receipts
from all the rest OF the States and Ter.
ritories in the Union, at $4SS,050
The discrepancy in these figures will
strike every one with peculiar force and
hence comment is not called tor.
The Louisville Courier Journal re.
ports very sad case from Sandusky,
Ohio. A man hung himself there the
other Gay because his wife wouldn',
lend him thirty cents. Now, if his
wife was personal friend of his, or il
his colaterals were worth anything at
all, 1t really does seem THAT he ought to
have gotten that amount. However
money is very tight, aud no doubt he
was, too.
New Orleans, Jauuary 14.-Alter a
lengthy DEBATE to-day in the Senate, a
resolution was passed providing that
the Governor shall send the militia to
the parish OF East Feliciaua, West Fell
ciana and Fast Baton Rouge, to assist
the courts in executing the laws against
the socaled regulators. If the militia
is insufficient the Governor is requested
to report so by special message to the
Legislature, the latte, to call under the
Constitution, upon the President of the
United States to restore a Republican
form Of government in the said parishes
In the House a committee was ap
pointed to call upon Governor Kellogg,
and notify him of the election Of Sena.
tor James B. Eustissso the United States
Senate, aud request him to issue to
Eustis the necessary credentials. The
committee waited upon Governor Kel-
lugS, who answered that, having already
issued credentials to Senator Pinch
back he could not issue them to au-
other gentleman for he same position.
He declared himself, however willing to
certify to the proceedings of the House
lCldiiFC W Cuotio ClCCilDU. uG CUtO-
mittee reported this to the House.
Cincinnati, January 1.-THE will of
Timothy Kirby, who died recently, leav-
ing an estate valued at over a million
dollars, was taken to the Probate Court
yesterday, but owing to the strange be-
quest made by the deceased steps were
Immediately taken to prevent the pro-
bate Of the will by General Banning and
Don Piatt. 1t appears that Mary Fran
els. notorious character of Cummins-
vile, suburb of this city, where Kirby
resided, claims to have been the wife of
the deceased and is left by the will
$4,000. Five ilegitimate children,
whom the deceased mentions as his
adopted children, are placed on an equal
footing with the legitimate children.
The latter are made the trustees for the
period of fifteen years of the former.
Mrs. Fox, another woman, was made a
handsome bequest 1t seems the entire
estate has been frittered away in this
manner. DR.. Thomas Wood, who had
known the deceased number of years,
testified in court this morning that the
deceased was monomanic; that he was
infatuated with the woman Francis, and
submitted to intolerable abuse from her.
Other witnesses will, it is said, give sim.