The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-28
Notes Of News.

-InOnaS IL. ROVER, u Pnllauelpn1a
drug manufactures, is dead. His prop
erty is valued at $40, 100000.
Scarcely a tramp is now to be found
in New Hampshire, thanks to a rigid
tramp act thoroughly administered.
The Glasgow policeman who ar
rested Mr. Lewis Potter, one of the
City of Glasgow bank directors, had
once been his footman.
lone of the articles shipped from
India to China is salted rats, which
are, as is well known, highly appreci-
ated in China as an article of food.
The stables of the Central City
horse railway company, at Peoria, ILL.,,
were burned on the Goth inst. Thirty
horses were roasted alive. Loss, SIS 900.
AT single meal three or four
Afghans find no difficulty in eating
the tail of a Duamba sheep, a mass of
pure fat weighing from six to eighteen
pounds.
Clinton, Moscow, Columbus and
Arlington, Kentucky, were vigorously
shaken up by an earthquake Monday
night at u o'clock. Considerable scare,
but no one hurt
Three Hindoos, who recently
killed q young man named Mainpuri
as a sacrifice to the Goddess Kali
have been arrested and stand a good
chance of being hung.
Some burglars entered the resi-
dence of G. NJ. Tanning, a farmer at
Dearborn, Mich, and having chloro-
formed the entire household, proceeded
to rob the premises. During the fol-
lowing day the inmates were discov-
cred still asleep, and were with diff
Guilty brought back to life.
Stephen Guffey was executed at
Newport, Tenn, on Friday afternoon,
for the rape of Eva Clark, a white girl
under ten years of age. Notwithstand-
J ing numerous petitions, signed by a
large number of prominent citizens,
t Governor Porter refused to commute
| the sentence to imprisonment for life.
: AT 7 o'clock Thursday morning a
fire was discovered in the post office at
Mayville, n. Y, and in less than two
hours dozen buildings in the busin ess
: part of the town were totally destroyed,
) including Masonic Hall, lodge OF
knights of Honor, lodge of the United
Workmen and the post office. Loss,
$50, 600; insurance, $4,000.
"A special dispatch says: " AT
Brookfield, Wis, James Donnalson, a
young lad, coming into blacksmith
) shop, threw his overcoat, in tie pocket
of which was loaded pistol, down
upon the anvil. The hammer striking
the anvil, the pistol exploded, and the
ball entering the head of Chris Sewers
a farmer, caused his instant death"
On Saturday night last, brake.
man named Meyer fell between two
cars, near Lime Lake, while uncoup'
, ling cars. He stood with one foot OIL
each car and pulled the coupling pin
when the cars parted, letting him be.
tween them. Both of his hands and
one leg were cut off. He was taken tC
Olean, where he died in few hours
His remains were taken to Buffalo for
Acknowledgement Press.
John Taylor, with his wife and
, two children and a Miss Clutz, left
f Springfield, Missouri, in n wagon, fol
Colorado, some two months ago
Nothing was heard from them until 9
few days ago, when letter received
f from Miss Clutz stated that Indians
had captured the party and murdered
them all except herself. She was
afterwards rescued by United States
troops. The letter graphically de
| scribes the fight with the Indians
. about twenty of whom were killed and
. wounded before capturing Taylor.
ALI the parties to lawsuit tried in
l Los Angeles, Cal, were Cinnamon
e and it was deemed proper to swear the
: witnesses Chinese fashion. The judge
: jury, lawyers and witnesses went into
the yard of the court house, where the
, ceremony was conducted by Chinese
: priest. Wooden tapers or joss sticks
were stuck into the ground and light
ed. The oath, written in Chinese
characters on yellow paper, was read
aloud by every witness; after which
r each stepped solemnly over the burn
| ing sticks, and priest cut off the heat
S of q chicken.
: The four pounds of calcinei resi-
a dunn, which were all that remained o
t the bodily frame of the late JOSEPH
+ Henry Lewis, Baron De Palm, Crane
4 Cross Commander of the Order of Holy
# Sepulchre (Knight of Malta, Primo,
, of the Holy Roman Empire, lat,
e Chamberlain to His Majesty, the King
I of Bavaria, Fellow of Theosophica
L Society, etc., after his cremation il
Washington, Pennsylvania, have beeI
e cast into the sea with appropriate cere
o monies. This last right of respec
It which was paid by the Theosophiea
It Society, was never before performed il
; Europe or America, because, as Hero
J, phant Olcott says, the formula was los
e in ages during which the language @
Vedas has been gradually forgotten.