The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-06-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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The rains have caused heavy freshets in
the Southern States.
One hundred females are now studying
law in this country.
There landed at New York in one day re-
Gently 1870 emigrants.
The Channel Islands have sunk forty
feet in the last five centuries.
Vermont is proud of being able to ship
statuary marble to Italy.
An artesian we'll was sold at auction in
Charleston, on last Monday.
Bender is the suggestive name Of large
liquor dealer in Baltimore.
A new city in the oil region is omiuously
named Shamburg
Bombay, like the United States, protests
against income tax.
A ten million dollar mortgage was record
ed at Indianapolis the other day.
In Cedar county, Iowa, sthe chief busi-
ness is said to be prospecting for copper.
In London, single firm makes 13O diff
fereDt patterns of iron aud bedsteads.
Philadelphia is said to be growing more
rapidly than any other city in the Union
The Duke of Beaufort has eaten pound
of sugar every day for the last forty years.
Virginia oysters are sent to England pack
cd in mud, that they may reach there alive.
Cowley county, Kansas, which had not
white family two years ago has now a pop
ulation of 1000.
In Paris, fashionable ladies now wear
strings of small silver bells around their
uecks.
Dispatches from India, mention an alarm
ing outbreak of cholera in Rewah, in the
Beagal Presidency.
At Portland, Maine, on Saturday, Mrs.
Hutchings, Geaf old lady, was run over
and killed by locomotive.
A young lady in West Philadelphia
smokes cigar after every meal to reduce
her size and improve her complexion,
The Twenty-third annuel preliminary
sociable of the American Institute of HON.
oeopathy was held yesterday, at Chicago.
Pittsburg has adopted paid fire depart
ment, and a Commissioner is now engaged
in appointing the various officers necessary
to run the machine.
At the dedication Of the new First Con-
gregational Church, in Chicago, Sunday,
the sum of $4,000 was subscribed, nearly
clearing off the church debt.
Secretary Boutwell, proposes selling in
July 100000 in gold, interest on bonds
that have been purchased from time to time
and credited to the sinking fund.
The extensive Touring Mill of Casper
Dull at McVeytown, was destroyed by fire
on Saturday night last The mill contained
over 1000 bushels of wheat at the time.
John Brooks, freight conductor on the
Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad, while
at tempting to jump on train in motion
Sunday near Lemont, Illinois, fell under
tho +--:- ....a w., i--o oautiy hiieu.
John Little, and intoxicated German
fred his revolver into promiscuous crowd
at German picnic in Ormsby borough
yesterday evening, shooting John Daniel:
through the arm, and Bartholomew Glingel
in the abdomen. The latter will probab y
die. Little has been arrested and held tt
bail for his appearance at court.
A destructive tornado swept over Scot
county, Illinois, on Saturday 1t covered al
area Of four or five miles in length, aud
, mile in width. Fences were demolished
wheat, com, oats and garden vegetable
were completely destroyed, the largest for
est trees torn up by the roots, and orchard
and vineyards ruined. No lives were lost
A communication from Vienna state
that since publication in Austria OF the law
on religious liberty, strange movemen
has arisen in the population of that city. L
less than two years about sixty-eight person
of both sexes have abjured the Christian fo
the Jewish faith, and these conversions ar
on the increase.
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