The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05
General Notes.

In few weeks a young lady of great
wealth and personal attractions. who lives
in this city, will be led to the altar by the
man other choice. who is an ex penitentiary
convict he having served for nine years
for robbery. .-Richmond, Va, Wing.
Brigham Young has had to pay three
thousand six hundred dollars alimony to
Ann Eliza and a note of one hundred
thousand dollars in the State To meet
these payments he has sold lot of grape
canister and Springfield rifles ;or old iron.
The captured cut-throats in Minnesota
are in weeping condition, and ask vis.
tors to pray for their poor mothers and sis
ters. They can't be hung under the laws
OF Minnesota. and the people are busy just
now praying for law on the subject of
blowing out a cashiers brains because he
refuses to hand over his treasure.
Cincinnati, September ga Times
special from Coshocton, Ohio, says Francis
Ept, who was convicted in May last of
numbering Abraham Wertheimer was hung
to-day. The fall did not break his neck or
even cause stranguatior, the poor man
uitering the most piteous cries and groans
The trap was readjusted rs speedily as
possible and sprung second time, dislocat
ing his neck and causing death without a
struggle.
Captain Bates and his wife, formerly Miss
Anna Swan, the giants, whose marriage in
London attracted so much attention several
years ago. have retired from show life and
built a fitting residence near Rochester,
New York. He is seven and a half feet
high, she is an inch taller, and each weighs
over four hundred pounds. The rooms of
their house sre eighteen feet high and the
doors twelve feet. Their bedstead is ten
feet long, and all the furniture is proper.
tionately large.
New York, September 2O.-General New
ton, III communication to the Commission
ers Of Pilots says the reef at Hallett's
Point has been swept and the summary OF
facts is as follows: From one hundred and
eighty feet distance from the shore line to
the line of buOys the bottom slopes
gradually from eight feet of depth at near
low water to twenty feet. Outside the line
of buoys nothing less than twen feet OF
depth at mean low water was observed
The divers have been examining the reef
and report thorough breakup.
Pottsvlle, Pa, September 29.-This even
ing Jacob Hunt7inger, late president of
the Miners Trust Bank, was rearreste1
here. There are hve counts in the charge
against him. the first and second charging
that by fraudulent dividends, declared July
1875 and 1876, he and his family drew SO,
40; the third and fourth counts charge the
embezzement of $50. 100 from the Sheriff
also OF the frauds remaining in the bunl
when the doors were closed the fifth coun
charges that he received for a solvent banI
ever $ll4,000. In default of S238, ,OOC
bail he was committed to prison.
New York, September 28.-The Della
ware and Hudson Canal Company sold a
noon to-day lO0.500 tons of Lackawani
coal, deliverable at the coal company's
docks al Rondout. or brought to New Yorl
harbor, the company towing vessels up anC
down at its own expense. There was
large attendance and prices were from 25c
TO SIPS over those Of September 20. tn,
bidding was very spirited. The followin,
were the prices: Steamer, 5000 tom
S3,l29 9,l5; CRATE, so 600 tons, So, l73i
3.25; egg, 20 200 tons, S3.27Aa $50; stow
40, 1000 tons, $4a 4.I5.
Ex-Governor Underwood, of Vermont,
man of as pure character as ever lived
writes over his rame Il have known Mr.
Tilden for twenty years; heard him de
clare in conversation with myself, near tn
close of the war, that every man of tn
United STATES army that marched acros
Southern soil was lrespasser, and liable l.
suit for damages IN an action for trespass
asked him if he undertook TO talk suc
treason as that, and it was his opinon, as
lawyer that this Government could enlis
men, put arms in their hands, and sen
them ID the protection of the Governme n
against rebels, and then furnish tribunal
10 try its own soldiers as trespassers-ant
Ae raid that it was.