The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-04-09
NEWS ITEM 8.

There are % prisoners in the Clear6eld
county Jail.
Doylestown has milestone which has beer
in use 126 years.
Williamsport claims to have a man hale,
active and strong aged 93, whose father, by
no means decrepit, is living in Maryland,
aged l20.
Mr. G. W. Ray, of the Sharon Herald
has recently doue very sensible thing by
taking unto himself wife. -
William Garrity, y brakeman on the Erie
Railway fell from the top Of Il box car, near
the jamestown and Franklin crossing, last
week, aud was run over aud instantly killed
A new well, pumping one hundred and
twenty-five barrels q day, was strnck at
Pleasantvile Crawford county, on the Goth
ult 1t is owned by Collins Brothers.
Hon. Edward Bates. Attorney General
under President Lincoln, died at st. Louis
on the 25th Of March, aged - years
The annual wool crop of the United States
is over $50, 900, 900 pounds.
Two thousand million pins were made by
q company in Connecticut last year
Ripe tomatoes, ripe strawberries, aud
green cucumberS are for sale in New Y York
One Kentucky merchant sent North l2-
900 dozen eggs in one consignment last week.
Sixteen hundred cattle were wintered at u
town on the Union Pacific Railroad by u
single firm.
The peach trees of Delaware are uniniured
by the winters frosts, and promise good
crop.
At fox hunt IN Wayne county, recently,
bn fn haf ha L.
caught and killed him.
The Appleton (Wis.) PosT says that salt
mixed with a little butter sells readily there
at thlrty-fve cents pound.
Wisconsin asks for the repeal of the law
by which murderers are exempt in that State
from capital punishment.
1t is estimated tha. there are 255, 900
thrashng machines in the United States
without counting the 'school-marms.
In one window of Trinity church, New
Haven, there are 10000 pieces Of stained
glass, each prepared and cut separately.
There are AZ 329 miles of railroads in
operation in the United States; Pennsylvania
has the greatest nunber-4, 397 miles
Oregon papers report smoke issuing from
Mounts Hood, Jefferson aud Three Sisters,
man who passed twenty-four hours in
the New York sewers emerged with bag
full OF watches, jewelry, and other valuables
The burning of dead bodies is being
strongly advocated in Paris. 1t is thought
that the French Assembly may make crema-
tion legal.
The Sixth Annual Commencement of the
New York Medical College for Women took
place last week, at which ten students gradu-
ated.
A Boston paper estimates that the United
States contains 5000, 900 horses valued at
So 666, 100000. Five eights of the whole
number are valued at 5000 each, or under.
1t is estimated that there are in New
York at least sixty thousand girls and women
who have to earn their own living. One
third of these do not average five dollars a
week. R
The Pensacola and Georgia Railroad and
the Tallahasshee Railroad were sold at pub
lie sale recently. The first was knocked
down at 81, 250, 900, and the last at $780,
600.
The young men of Erie havnt got the
velocipede fever very bad. They don't mind
falling, ng,-certainly not-but then they hate
the trouble consequent on having to get up
so often.
The election in Meadville on Friday re-
suited IN the choice of Jas. Foster Esq +,
tie Republican candidate for Mayor, and the
election of the Republican ticket, with two
or three individual exceptions. in three or
four wards of the city, the Democracy carry
ing the Third Ward.
An Alabama paper announces that it will
net. hereafter, take payment in dogs