The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-06-04

to succeed is to fail.
| The late DIR. Rush left between one and |
| two millions of dollars to establish free |
library in the city of Philadelphia
| A firm in New York offers to clean all the |
worms off the trees in Brooklyn, and will |
prove that they can do it before they ask for
a contract.
| New York city Merchants have paid the |
past winter nearly $11 900, 900 for dry goods
manufactured in the State of Rhode Island.
A furious rain and hail storm passed over
Wheeling, Virginia, on Friday. Some of the
halstones were as large as mans fist.
In the near neighborhood of Goldsborough,
| North Carolina, there are one hundred acres
of land devoted to the cultivation of straw
berries.
Secretary Boutwell, has not authorized
any of the statements lntmating a purpose
to withdraw the three per cent. certificates.
Two Louisville policemen the other even
ing tried for some time, but unsuccessfully,
to induce a castiron dog to take poisoned
meat.
President Grant is credited with the epi-
gramatic remark that "office-seeking was
fast becoming one of the industries of this
country"
Marshall Bazaine says that he was poisoned
half dozen times in Mexico but that his
Mexican servants gave him antidotes and saw
ed his life.
The regning belle of Brooklyn sings like
an angel, and leads the choir of prominent
church.
Romero wants the Mexican Congress to
issue eighteen millions of paper money.
Danbury, Conn, has 500 pound female
corpse.
The Detroit Board of Trade talks of ship
canal about the Falls, having only single
lock Of 800 feet lift.
! The effect of all the dispatches from Cuba
I is to announce further Republican gains.
Sheridan and Breckenridge met on the
judges stand at the Cincinnati races last
week.
In Troy, New York, there is peanut ven-
: der who returnes an income of 50, 600 per
s annum.
. Two brothers-in-law quarreled in Texas
t last week, about thirty cents, and one finally
i killed the other
Imitation meerschaum pipes are now made
> of stale bread which hardens, and, it is said,
" 'colors" equal to the genuine.
:. In San Francisco there is now on exhibi-
II tion q revolving rife capable of being fired
1t of FIVE hundred times minute
e The New York Express says that in the
j. income of business men of that city, 'those
! who advertise make the largest returns"
A man in Connecticut has invented a new
e machine, with which, it is said, one man
can sew six hundred pairs of shoes in one
day.
e A Portuguese inventor has recently pre-
o sented to the Cabinet of Lisbon murderous
e little engine firing 800 shots in a minute.
:, The Grand Lodge of Orangemen, of Ire
~ land, have pettioned the Queen against til,
IS disestablishment of the Irish church.
- The excitement in France is as great a
y, ever. A large number of arrests have beef
v. made in Paris In other parts of the king
,o dom. the disturbances are open and violent
~ Riots have taken place in several places, at
ne tended with bloodshed.
OF Senator CASTELAR,, made a speech in tn
Spanish Cortes, on the goth inst, in favo
Of Republic. There is great agitation i
!, Saragossa and Barcelona in favor of Re
- publican government.
hs In the Spanish Cortes, on the 21st, At
ne miral Topete said that he thought the elevt
ng tion Of Montpensier to the throne was desil
lie able, but as a member of the Cabinet, b
No anxiously awaited the action of the Corte:
~ He advised the Cortes to take care that Il
. daring man cut the knot which they wer
its unable to undo.
Mr.. Sanford, United States Minister t
ess Belgium, has sent his resignation to Wasl
&c. ington.
10 One of the largest meetings ever held W;
lct held in Belfast, Ireland, ON the 22d inst, d:
ill protest against the disestablishment of IL
,k. Irish church. Nearly two hundred thousar
of persons were present.
're The rejection of the treaty for the sale
ca st. Thomas, by the United States Senat
causes much irritation at Copenhagen.
.Lo The Republican newspapers of Madri
'n0 say that the recent vote of the Cortes b
wo only deferred the scheme for federal Repu
her lie, not defeated it.
Minister Washburne has been formal
presented at the French court, as the succt
sor of Gen. Dix.
The general elections for the Corps Leg
latif commenced on the 22d, The voti
progressed quietly.
as 1t is rumored that Prince Agustus,
el Portugal, will be put forward as a candida
for the Spanish throne.
nm On Wedpesday night the 5th inst,
'oo larger beer brewery and residence of
j. Bacher, of Sunbury, were entirely
on stroyed by fire. Some of the househc
goods were saved, but the brewery apparatl
;s contents of the vault, &C., were consume
Mercer University, Georgia, is reported
;s;t be in very fourishing condition. The
~ sets of the university are valued at $l86, OF
but the convention resolved to appoint
me- agent to secure at least 800, 900 more
In Sunday School of the Howard PresI
lies terian Church, San Francisco, class of j
anese young men is in regular attendan
10 10 who are much interested in the instructit
for they receive.
A man in st. Louis has sued his guard
this for 50, 900 for work performed on farm,
,OO tween the ages of eight and eighteen yea
- and 60 lnl dnmanaa for NOT aandinn him