The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-02-05
NEWS ITEMS.

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Corn is selling at Denton, Texas, for
ten cents bushel-no distilleries there
The total loss by the recent food at
Albany is estimated at Sl25, 900.
A valuable horse, with cracked or
grease heel, may be cured quickly with
Dalley's Salve.
Senator Nyle's house was entered by
thieves Thursday night and $4,000 in
money and a quantity of valuables were
stolen.
An artesian well in St Louis is nearly
$500 feet deep. 1t is now the deepest in
the world, but is to go 500 feet deeper
By the sudden closing of the Delaware
have been left in boats along the canal,
1t is not fashionable now to announce
g no cards" for a wedding-in other
words, they are again to be played out.
One of the jury which tried Aaron
Burr for treason, is still living at Chilli
cothe, Ohio.
Lent begins this year on Wednesday
February 10th. Good Friday falls on
March 2Gth, and Easter Sunday on March
28th.
Some Cincinnati brewers are importing
barely direct from Germany, and report
that it weighs eight pounds to the buShel
more than the American barely.
About three millions Of dollars worth
of property was lost on the Lakes during
the past season by wrecks, fires and other
accidents, 32l lives were lost.
The worthless ruins of Fort Lafayette,
New York, which was lately seriously
damaged by fire, are to be taken down,
and the site of the fertilization is aban,
doned.
Charles Dickens is suffering from the
scriyeners palsy" a malady affecting
the muscles of the arm and hani in con-
sequence of long use OF the pen, and is
able to do but small amount Of work
"The dearest spot on earth is home,'
the song being believed. Mr.. Peggit:
says it's true-costs him twice at much
as any other spot-ruins in fact, 500
spot each month.
Remember who you are talking to-,
sir !" said an indignant parent to frac.
tons boy; IN your father, sir. -
x Well who's to blame for that ? p" said
the young impertinence: 'taint me! "
Gov. Palmer, in a letter to Rev. Mr.,
Carr, Of Griggsville, Ill, says -" You
may be assured that, while am Governor
Of Illinois, the temperance cause will not
suffer either from my example or precept."
A gentleman travelling on steamer,
one day, at dinner was making way with
a large pudding close by, when he was
told by servant that it was dessert
1T matters not to me-" said he, :"
would eat it if it were Wilderness
strakosch, it is stated pays Miss Kel
logg the sum OF $50 per night for one
hundred nights, making a snug little
total of S5O,00O He says his friend,
predicted certain ruin for him; but he is
all right so far, and thinks he can see
himself clear.
Miss Olympia Brown of the Way
mouth, Massachusetts, UniverSalest churcl
is about to be married, and the G0Spe
Banner hazards the facetiousness that il
is in obedienc to the recent remark o
George Francis Train, We need moro
Olympia Browns
The Union Pacific Railroad, on Tues
day completed 1000 miles of its road :
1t is now but twenty miles from Sal
Lake Valley, and from the end of it
track to the end of the Central Pacific, il
but 1876 miles,
In Texas, on the lst inst, about so In
dams attacked the El Paso mail stage
The driver was killed, stripped naked anC
tied by the heels to the hind boot of tn
stage and dragged off the road about
mile. The four mules were then takel
out and the harness and stage-coach wer
. cut TO pieces.