The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-12-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Detroi. complains of too much cabbage.
Hog cholera is raging at Peoria, Illinois
Straight drinks make men walk crooked.
Can the Suez Canal be calle1 ] fixed fact ?
Boston was wndier than usual last week.
Savannah has had the first shad of the
season.
Boston proclaimes itself proud Of Jim
Fisk.
There are 2415 cotton factories in Great
Britain.
There are sixty thousand Jews in New
York City.
Mrs Suratt's ghost drives Stanton all
over the country.
The garrote business has Broken out in
New Orleans.
In Cleveland, Ohio, the Germans do most
of The marrying.
An Illinois women committed suicide TO
stop too.hache.
Portland, Oregon, has saloon called the
"As You Like It,"
The Fifteenth amendment" in Virsioia.
suffer from measels.
ODe Florida planter has shipped $4,000
oranges this season.
1880 immigrants arrived at the port If
Boston during October.
Edwin Booth cleared $4,000 by eleven
performances in Boston.
Soldiers orphans in the Illinois Asylum
are barbarously treated.
Indiana has 609,3O2 Children between
the ages of six and twenty one.
A Richmond thief stole a preachers
watch, but left him his pray.
Iwo'c cent pieces. "silvered" are being
passed on the unwary for fives.
The proprietor of the Onondaga stone
giant refuses to take $4,000 for him.
Tie Children will be sorry to learn that
tile castor oil crop OF the country is good.
Springfield, Greene county, Mo-, com.
plains OF large population of skunks.
A festive New Yorker celebrated Thanh,
giving by scalping his wife after dinner
"odes aud Poems" on George Peabody
VIII be In order for the next three months
Old John Brown is still MARCHING on
lie was up in Portland last week, drunk 90
a fiddler
7l3,OoO,OOO pounds of coffee per wear is
supplied by the coffee producing countries
OF the world.
school ma'ans in Cleveland are bripy.
ing up the young finale idea" in favor Of
female suffrage.
Mark Twain appears to be the main stand
oy OF two-thirds of the newspapers of the
country.
An unruly mare threw Cincinnati I'm.
dertaker out of his buggy. He won't uu
dertake 'er again.
AN Indiana mule committed suicide bv
butting his head against a wall C,use
disappointed love.
lhe biggest blower in the country turns
up at Kansas City. He blew 500 cubic
inches on blowing machine.
The exceeding great briskness of III,
matrimonial market is regarded as sigr
OF long and severe winter.
There are 10000 more insane peonle ir
frarce than there were in 1856, but not Sc
many as there were in 1898.
A slight shock of an earthquake sbool
up the people and things in the neighbor
hood of Columbus, Oh, last week
A recent high wind in Atlanta, GA.
blew all the hair from off the head of an un
fortunate female. She wore wig.
bostonians don't like the Japenese. The,
say :he Japs have a "heathenish habit o
attending to their own business,
} A Clneinatti woman. believer in rights
stole the Sunday shirt and breeches of ar
! unfortunate male last week.
a new "rights" paper is to be starte,
q in New York to be called, The Woman'
G World. "You bet" there"ll be a man il
it.
, New York medical students, when don
r with ther Subjects" deposit the remain
!. in ash barrels along the sidewalks.
}. Catharine Elderberry, of Danbury, Conn
b was recently married to Nehemiah Black
e berry, by the Rev. Mr.. Cranberry.
A Peoria ILL.,, slop gatherer becam
drunk, fell in among the slops in his car
and his horse carried him home to the pig
For new railroad the Pacific does r,