The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-15
NEWS ITEMS.

The Central Pacific Railroad sheds
extends % miles.
- The late Gov. Todd, of Ohio left an
estate of 100000.
The Emperor of China is IA years of
age, and his afianced bride ii.
Mississippi has, in some parts, raised
three crops OF hay last year.
Nine cents piece is all they charge
for eggs in Nevada.
"A new wrinkle is to smoke the tub
into which hams are to be put, instead OF
smoking the hams.
in Polk's administration one agricul-
tural patent per day was the average The
average now is seven.
Irish Ripple post Office, in Lawrence
county, has had its name changed to Wam-
pun post office.
-Pittsburg some days ago seized two
hundred and fifty pounds of putrid poultry.
She dumped them into the Monon gahela.
Lafayette Lentz has $4,000 ova of
trout in the hatch-room connected with his
ponds, on his farm near Mauch Chunk,
NoiDOu SOuhNJ'
Charles Oakford of Detroit, who calls
| himself the champion skater of America,
will soon skate sixty consecutive hours
without rest on the new skating rink at
Providence.
The village of Ceres is situated in
two States and two counties-a part in
Allegheny county, New York, and part
in Mexican county this State.
The grave of John Harris the found
er Of Harrisburg, is at the foot of the tree
to which he was once tied by Indians and
fire kindled about him to burn him alive.
A simple iron fence surrounds the grave.
minnesota is in trouble about wolves.
1t pays bounty of ten dollars head for
their scalpes, and this has during the past
year a charge upou the treasury of S11 300.
The worst of it seems 70 be that the wolves
are increasing, giving ground for suspicion
that some one is raising wolves.
Last Friday afternoon brakeman on
a freight train running between Harrisburg
and Maysville fell between the cars, his
foot catching in the machinery, his head
hanging downwards. In this position he
vas dragged over two miles. When dis
covered, his skull was mashed almost to a
Jelly. His remains were properly cared
for by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
AT Lackawanna, Luzerne county, a
boy named Daniel Boone (uo doubt de-
>cendent of the historical Daniel thirteen
years of age, while skating on the ice near
The residence of his parents. heard his
mother scream, and Immediately repaired
to the spot when he observed a wildcat
about attacking her. Quick as flash he
darted into the house, secured loaded
gun contained therein, and returned just in
time to put load OF buckshot into his cat
ship as it was about to make the fatal
spring. Not killing the animal at the first
shot, the lad followed it, and reloaded as he
ran, fired two more rounds into its body
and then dispatched it with the butt of the
gun. The animal is said to be the larges
of its species in this country.
"A short distance below Barryville
Wayne county, on the line of the Delaware
and Hudson Canal, large mass of rock
has been for some time regarded with
anxious eyes by the company. Fears were
entertained mat u might some day, during
the season of navigation, be precipitated
into the canal 1t was finally determined
TO take time by the forelock, and dlslogt
the mass in the winter season, and accord
ingly on Friday last the thing was accom-
plished. Twenty Kegs of powder hav
ing been deposited in assure, and wei
tamped with the sand, the match was ap'
piled, and at one blast the immense body
known as Hanging Rock" was hurled
from its foundation. About half of tht
mass lodged in the bed of the canal, anC
the balance, crushing the tow-path like al
egeshill, made its way into the river. The
rock was of the following dimensions 81
feet long, 81 feet high, and 32 feet thick
containing upwards Of 5000 cubic y ards
its weight over twenty thousand tons-tht
largest mass, it is believed, even disloged
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