The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-03-02
News Items.

A Pittsburg newspaper Gays that man
in that city has sued dentist for $4,000
for pulling oni the wrong tooth.
II costs twcnty-onc and scven-e eighths
cents per dicm TO maintain each inmate of
the Philadelphia house of correction.
A woman at Belfast Me has just oh.
taiucl u divorce from her husband, aged
81, whom she married less than year ago.
rhilpdclrhs is trying 20 get rid of tcle.
graph poles which ut present obstruct its
public streets.
A man has offered $50, 600 for the privi-
ledge of sweeping out every morning the
fifty acres Of ground covered by the Cen.
tennial buildings.
The action of the Democratic Committee
in appointing st. Louis for the Democratic
Convention, is regarded as favorable to
Hendricks.
NJ. Thonb De Gamond, the French engi
neer who first put forward the scheme for
n submarine tunnel between England and
France, died ut Paris recently.
Edinboro, Erie county, has joint stock
company with capital of SIS 600, Organi
zed for prosecuting violations of the liquor
law.
During he past tw enty years there have
been l0,032 fires in Philadelphia, the total
loss caused thereby having been $25 454,-
6S0 SO, and the insurance 41,i03, 797, IA
The London Times says there are now
in the English amy two generals, one
colonel, three lieutenant colonels in com
mand, and many other field officers who
have risen from the ranks.
The daughters of Sir Edward Thornton,
the English Minister at Was hington, wear
thick-soled shoes, plain unpinned-back
dresses and heavy old fashioned cloaks.
And they are pictures of health.
Josh Billings remarks: "The only way
to Git thrue this world and escape censure
and abuse is to take some back road. You
kant travel the main turnpike and do it."
This is the plain, unvarnished and unadul.
terated truth.
Thomas Skelly Mcdowell, the first white
child horn in Franklin, Venango county.
died on the Sth inst. in his seventy third
year. lie had always lived in that place,
and Within one hundred feet of the spot
where he was born.
Quite number of experienced miners
from Utah and Idaho are going to the
Black Hills by way of Cheyenne. They
report that there will be graDd rush fol
the new Eldorade from the western state:
and territories very soon.
Pottsyille February pa fatal explo
sion of sulphur occurred in King u Co.'S
coliery. at Llewellyn, this morning, which
killed Adam Sherman and fatally injured
John Harms 1t is thought that sulphur
was iguited by the lamps which the min
ors were carrying.
Boston, February 23.-The failure o
Elijah Shaw, of Wales, Mass. who own,
| i've mills and employs two hundred anC
seventy five hands is reported His liabili
! ties are $500. 600 He owns real estate tC
the value of $4,000 to $4,000 but fol
which there is no certain market.
Washington, February 23.-Treasure,
| New states that there is or hand only cur
rency enough to meet the demands of TIM
next two months. 1t is evident, therefore
that unless Congress shall provide mean
whereby work in the Engraving and Print
ing Bureau can be resumed the govern
ment will be seriously crippled.
Columbus, Ohio. February 23.-Th,
| State Prohibition Convention today
nominated the following ticket; Secretary
CT State, L. S. Chapman; Judge Of the Su
preme Court, d. W. Gage; Member of th
Board tf Public Works, Ferdinand Schu
macher; Comptroller of the Treasury, j. c
aIurdock, School Commissioner, George x
jenkins.
A petition has been received and pre-
s5n,ed to congress, which is curiosity il
| the matter of autographs. II asks th
removal of the duty on works printed il
the dead languages. Among the sigma
lures are the names of Henty W. Longfel
low, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, James Russell Lowell anC
other famous literatures.
Boston, February 23-The Carroll Pa
per Company, of Mill River, New MARI
boro, consisting Of John Carroll his son
S G Carroll. and James Goodwin. of New
York. are seriously embarrassed, and ar
net likely to recover from the r diff icuties
They have been working fvc or six month
without paying their hands dollar, an,
on Saturday last ten of the prin neipal work
men attached all the property for thei
wages.
Washington. February 22.-ht the pres
ent time indications favor an early spec
issue for Two reasons; first. the presen
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mage of the printing of currency by tn
Treasury Department. The Governmen
has in its possession about Sl2, 100000 il
subsidy coin, of which fraction over $40.
000 is in ten cent pieces. The Secretar
of The Treasury has for sometime past bee
considering The question Of issuing ihi
coin as provided in the first section of th
specie resumption act, but has not yet ar
| iva of ~ s. CT f,Nrtt hs.
ing made both tor and against the imme
diate issue.
knotty question of law as to the own
ership of a ring is to come up in the Wes
Virginia courts, A gentleman of Washing
ton was engaged to he married to a Morgan
rown, W. Va, belle, and the engagement
was suddenly broken off. The youcg lad
put the engagements ring in Letter an
directed it to the Washington gentleman
Shortly after she saw the same ring on til
dainty middle finger ola other Morgantuw
belle. She was net jealous, probably. bu
lhoughtit very strange incident Woman
like she made efforts to find out how tina
particular ring g5t OH that particular fiuge
in Morgantown. 1t was finally brought t
light that post-office clerk had abstracte
the ring from The letter and given it TO
friend. who placed it on the finger of hi
'ady-lovs as a token of affection an
promise. That is how the ring came to b
doing double duty in Morgantown. Til
poslofice clerk was arrested for the thei
of the ring. The question at law will b
to whom did the ring rightfully belong {
the time it was abstracted from the lettel
The courts will answer.
An investigation into the mana cement Z
the San Francisco City Hospital is in pre-
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