The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1868-02-22
CiippimEs from Erchnngcs.

-Lorillard pays over one sixth.of the
tobacco tax Of the country.
Queen Victoria jewels are said to
be worth S., 900, ,000.
There is great desttution among
.he laboring classes in Pittsburgh.
1t is said that Chicago has $4,000
men out Of employment Es ts..,,
M. Ju Challu, the traveller, has
been offered by tho Africans $50 wives.
The Ohio river is nine hundred
miles long and floats 400 steamers.
' Nineteen United States Senators
retire in 1862 only six Ct whom ;qre
Democrats. ' u. .t - .
- Sheep have been selling at San
Antonio, Texas, for a -qnarter Of qylol.
lar per head. ... .,.....,..
Jerusalem is estimated to contain
I, 100 Jews, 5000 Mahomeians, and 8,
100 Christians. ..
Every daily papersin New York is
a stock concern except the Herald, Tx
press and Mail. -a
Tho losses~by fire in Chicago dur.
ing the montn Of January foot up to
S3,000,G00. III ,..........
Michigan sends 243, 3,13S children
to school in 4 Cpl school houses, worth.
$3,250,0O
Western miilers are said to be mix.
ing white corn meal with their -four.
Look out for them.
"A serious collision is moalcntarily
feared between the contendng tanists,
Of the Florida mouagerio.
Gen. Thomas is to succeed General
Townsend, as Adjutant General Of the
War Office. '.
The number of deaths in Chicago
for January last was ll8, there being
thirty nine from small pox. .-.e
The Texas cloction Ear cou
vcntion has been carrid like the rest
wit negro. votes and by fraudulent ballot.
box stufiDg.
One large dry goods house in New
York discharged all the single men in
its employ on the first instant, and re :
duced the salaries oe the remainder.
A man in Illinois recently tried to
bang himself out Of spite, bur his wife
cut him down and revived him by the
vigorous application Of whip. H.
Dictator Meade has arrested and
imprisoned Comptroller Burns, of Gcor.
gia, for refusing to give up the records
OF his Office r.
The newspaper correspondents at
Washington City have refused to tell
any OF the Rump smelling committees
wherethey got their information upon
public matters. .........
The citizens OF NowyOrleans are
enjoying snow and Strawberries. The
latter can be obtained at fifty cents a
box. TIE Louisiana oranges arc also
very plentiful in themarkots of that city.
New Orleans merchants arc said to
be the best ADVERTISERS in the country.
Seine issues of the Times have contain.
ed seventy columns Of advertising, anG
the usual space occupied in that paper
for auction sales alone is twelve columns
The gum business is fourishing
one in Maine,and is estimated at $40, 900
a year Tor the raw material. Cum
mers " often clear s. to ST day gath
cring spruce gum. The best is worth
90 ceuts per pound. ..5
The story about Mrs. Lincoln's in.
sanity, it is now said, comes from per
sous who are iearfal Of having their
honesty and patriotism damaged by the
book which she is supposed to be. get.
ting ready for press. '7 '.I .''
1t is said that not FIVE hundred
white mems votes were cast for the AL
ALBANIA Radical negro constitution" ;"
These are the " Yunion men OF the
South" about whom SO much has been
slid by " loil " organs t.. ..
The Arkansas black and tanists
adjourned an the l4th, "subicct to de
call ob de Precedent" The Conserva>
tive members protested against the
constitution" declaring it proscriptive
and subycrsiye Of the rights Of the citi-
zen.
the destituton and suffering among
the working classes in almcet every
Northern State has never been 50 bad
in the memory of man as at present
The country IS traversed in every di-
rection by mechanics in search of work
The Louisville Democracy want
the next National Convention to be held
in that city, They promise to erect a
suitable building, to pay all expenses, to
open the hotels and private houses and
generally to cxteud genuine old Ken
tucky hospitality to the delegates,
1t is said that Gen. Howard, Chief
of the Negro Bureau, has had, for long
time, lot of emissaries trayeIing over
the South organizing negro leagues aud