The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1868-11-20
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS.

The first sleighing of the season took
place at Erie, ON Wednesday. Snow fell
to the depth of one inch. -.
The Columbia bridge last week stretch.
ed itself to the York county side, and
will be finished by New Year,
The Bellefonto Wdtchmdn has been
sued for libel by the President of Dickin-
son Seminary.
The trial of William Drum for the
murder of David Mohegan is in progress
in Greensburg.
Mr.. B. +. Howard, high constable of
Easton, has resigned his office and James
Slmons has been appointed in his place.
Lancaster county has produced an egg
whose greater and lesser circumterences
are respectively eight and one half and
six and three-fourths inches.
The Good Templars of New Brighton
met on Wednesday, on the occasion Of
the dedication of their new spacious and
beautiful hall.
A twenty inch Rodman gun was sue
cessfully cast at the Fort Pitt foundry on
Tuesday last, and was named " General
Grant The gun weighs eighty-fve
tons and is destined for Fortress Monroe.
The contract for building the Soldiers
Monument of Cumberland county has
been awarded to Mr.. Richard Owen, of
Carlisle 1t is to be located on the Court
House Square, Carlisle
Cooperation is gaining ground in
Pennsylvania, gradually but surely
Large associations exist among the min
ers in the coal regions, and on or about
New Years day CO operative store will
be opened at Scranton.
The size of the car shop which the
Northern Central Company are erecting
on their grounds below Sunbury, is 60
by 200 feet, and will furnish ample acomo-
dations for repairing and rebuilding the
company's oars at that place. The bull
ding is now bein ! rooted.
The Republicans of Tamaqua are talk
ing OF having an OK roast on Thanks
giving Day, Thursday, the 2Gth inst, in
honor of the election of Grant and Cofax.
The entire community, without regard
to politics or nationality, will be invited,
and everything will be free to all who
choose to participate.
To persons unacquainted with the slate
interests of the Lehigh Valley, their ex-
tent may prove astonishing. In and
around the town of Slatington alone, clus-
ter twenty eight quarries in active opera
ton, and some four or five which are
lying idle on account of want of co oper-
alton among owners and pending disa-
greements. The total valuation of these
quarries is about S2,0O0,O0O.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
have acquired, by purchase, the coal lands
of the Locust Mountains Coal and Iron
Company, the Coal Ridge Company, and
one half tie coal lands of the Trevortan
Company. The consideration price paid
for those acquisitions amount, it is said,
to less than one and half millions of
dollaLs, payable in first mortgage Lehigh
Valley Railroad bonds. The object of
the purchase is, doubtless, the securing
of the coal tonnage TO the Lehigh and
Mahanoy Branch of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad, and also to the Lehigh Valley
mail trunk, from the Shamokin coal re-
gion.
A few days before the Presidential
election, disciple of the Seymour school
in one of the many villages in Mercer
county, bantered young lady of Repub
lican ideas, for pair of slippers on the
result. She accepted the banter and the
bet was clinched Election day came
around, and as the gentleman aforesaid
stepped up to deposit his vote, it was
plainly hinted to him that he had violated
the law in such cases made and provided,
and had forfeited his right to deposit his
ballot. After some alteration, the young
lady was advised of what was going on,
and making her appearance at the win
dow, was sworn to the facts by the pro
per officer, and thereupon the vote of the
young man refused. He went away
sadder, if not wiser man, AS she re
tured to her school, she observed, in
good humor, that she had got her vote in,
any how.
The Homeopathic Medical Society Of
Cumberland Valley met in Carl sic on the
4th inst DR.. NJ Friese, of Harrisburg,
was admittel as delegate from Dauphin
County Society. On the subject of the
formation of a Central Pennsylvania Med
ical Society, the good results of frequent
interchange of views among physicians,
lead this society to think favorably of the
project. Dr. Bowman reported on be
half of the delegates to the State Society.
DR.. Cook called attention to the following
Hygienic subjects, which elected discus
sion. The deleterous use of cast iron
stoves, where seperate fire pan is not
used in their construction Carbonic
oxide gas is efflsed, poisons the air,
whence headache, vertigo, and whole
train of ailments result; better use more
and warmer clothing on the body, and
fewer stoves, and more freely unhoused
air. Good warm flannels worn next the
skin need to come into more general use
n ouapI tho hnp,on SyStap aoninst tho