The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-11-03
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

telegraph.
General Sheridan is expected home III
December. N.
More trouble in the Red River country
is reported.
The new Ohio State Capitol will cost
$1,500,000. s- 15-
The valuation of the city of Boston is n
$104, 100000.
The new State Capitol of Iowa will
cost S1,500,000.
The Chicago census shows popula-
ton of 207 1888. irap
They keep "Knew Syder Fur Sail " at
a Texas grocery.
Texas has over seventy million acres
of unoccupied land.
In Taunton, Mass, street swearers are
promptly arrested.
Female street-corner loungers are COM d.
planned of in Troy.
Prairie chickens are more plentiful
than usual out West.
There are 100 young ladies at the Ell a
mira Female College.
The exports of hops during the last
year were 16,356,63l lbs.
Sioux City has "Woman's Rights
Hotel" kept by lady. -
Kentucky's sweet potato crop this year
is the largest ever raised.
The State Debt of California is two and
a-half millions of dollars.
A Chinese newspaper has been estab-
lished at Helena, Montana.
During August, 312,O71 letters were
received at the dead letter office.
One Boston firm has put up over $780,
300 gallons of pickles this year.
A Wisconsin judge lately fined himself
one dollar for tardiness at court.
California is the only State that re-
ports an increased average in hops.
The manufacture of spurious century
plants is a branch of Chicago industry.
The resignation of Secretary Cox has
finally been accepted. Delano is named
as his probable successor. o..
There was doll baby's wedding at
Edgefeld, Tenn, the other day. Several
hundred little girls were present.
Small bills are so scarce in some parts
of Iowa that merchants are using scrip
of their own for one and two dollars.
The Democrats in Kansas have nom
mated woman for the office of Superin
tendent of Public Instruction.
A Santa Fe editor, in giving an ac-
count of his fight with Gen. Heath, says,
"Having nothing to defend myself with,
we made the best possible time-and our
friends say it was good-to our Office"
There is colored man in the Michigan
Penitentiary who has been there for ten
years for murder, and he now insists
! that Lincoln's proclamation set him free,
and he asks the authorities to let him go.
, Miss Nora Perry and Miss Lille Chase
have been chosen assistant editors of
, daily paper to be issued during the con-
, tinuance of the woman suffrage fair in
, Boston.
: In East Tennessee, the other day, an
old lady waved red flag till train
, stopped, and then asked the conductor
if her daughter Sally was aboard. The
: language used by that conductor in re-
; ply is described as terrible. .f..1
The Washington Star says that GEN
eral Beauregard, who is reported by ca
! BILE to be in France, "was in Lynchburgh,
: Virginia, no longer ago than last week.
: He is not in the lead and saltpetre line
" at present, but on the other hand, is
l. about to marry lady of Richmond"
q An insurrection of negroes has broken
4 out in the French colony of Martinique,
n in the West Indies, consequent upon
h the proclamation, by the Governor, of
y the establishment of the republic in
4 France. The insurgents have proclaimed
o republic of Martinique, similar to that
o of Hayti. lso.
J; Hamden, Conn, with population of
It 5000, has had not less than 1000 per-
q sons sick with the malarial fever, in one
It form or another, since the 1st of July
is last, or since the drought began. The
a epidemic was caused by decaying vege-
n table matter exposed to the action of
IT the sun by the subsidence of the pond
6 in that vicinity.
n The losses in Virginia from the recent
a floods, directly and indirectly, are calcu-
lated at $5,000,000. A serious feature
r of the disaster is that the price of coal
a will be materially increased by the in
n terruption OF railway communication.
y The greater portion of the loss will fall
s. upon small farmers and the poor popu-
ie lation generally occupying the river re-
IL gions overhowed.
ie One of the novelties of the season is a
u, II ladies "business suit" 1t is simply and
> plainly made of cloth with galloon
bindings, and intended to be sensible and
serviceable as the outdoor dress of a man
of The number of women now engaged 'up.
rs ON the press and in other active occupa
We tions, in the larger cities, renders a neat
90 durable, unpretending, yet lady-like cos
a tune, most desirable.
IN A new form of envelope has recentl,
become quite popular in Germany, an,
O. possesses the convenience of enabling ON
d. to open letter when completely scale
a. up, without the ordinary difficulty q
IT finding an entrance. The .arrangemen
ny consists IN introducing a thread, whicI
projects from one of the corners, by null
ing which the lower edge of the envelop
re is cut through without injury to the ep
en- closure, the address, or the stamp.
su Boston has an institution known q
ne "The Flower Mission" which has thi
'h' season distributed among the poor an
So sick eleven thousand bouquets and non
Use lilies. Such tender recognition Of III
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