The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-05-18
NEWS.
DOMESTIC.

Gold closed In New ork on Iuesday
at 111a.
Baltimore annually ships 4O;0OO,OoO
cans Of oysters.
Spencer county, Ind, hopes to raise
100000 pounds of tobacco this year.
Auburn, Maine, manufactures 2,00O,-
600 pairs of shoes per annum.
There are at present over 500 appli-
cations week, for patents.
Governor Jewell Of Connecticut will
be inagurated tomorrow.
Chicago calculates upon one fatal ac-
cident day.
There is 210,293 gallons power of
whisky daily ir this couutry's distiller-
les.
An extra session of the Illinois Leg
islature has been called to meet May
"a.
Chicago recorded 129 divorce suits
one day last week, and then told about
the spring trade opening.
A Colorado and Wyoming shale con-
tains a half pint of petroleum to the
pound and makes excellent gas.
Gen. Burnside has been elected
Grand Commander of the Grand Army
of the Republic.
There is man in New York now
who owns II, 900 acre dairy farm in
California.
One Wisconsin county has made
twenty tons Of maple sugar this year;
one town eight tons.
Anna A. Pomeroy, wife of NJ. NJ.
Pomeroy ("Brick"), has had divorce
granted her, and $4,000 alimony.
The Lutheran church synods of Ten
nessee and North Carolina, met at
Mount Pleasant, N. c., and agreed to
unite.
The Massachusetts, Legislature or
,dered the bill authorizing nario gauge
railroads to be engrossed, without DIS
sent.
The tea growers in the South and
Southwest are extending their acreage
so much that they claim that in a few
years enough tea will be grown in this
country to supply the home demand.
Immense works for construction, To-
Gated at Ilion, ILL.,, give constant EN-
ployment to about 1900 men, who fur
'nish, every day, from 1900 to l,5OO
guns, throwing the once famous arsenals
at Springfield wholly in the shade. The
Springfield works are now standing still
for want of an appropriation from the
United States Treasury.
The census show S1,200,000,000
loses by rebellion in all the South,
Kentucky l04 millions; Mississippi,
,655 millions; Tennessee, 60 millions;
Florida, SO millions; South Carolina,
1926 millions; Virginia, 1856 millions, all
ireckoned between 1860-7O. The
Kentucky loss is 20 per cent, and
South Carolina nearly two-thirds of all
Much of this arises from emancipation
Denver, Col, May l2.-Later ad
vices to-day confirm the report of the
massacre OF Indians at Camp Grant
Arizona, by citizens, and increase the
number of Indians killed to $50. The
people of southern New Mexico aud
Arizona are growing desperate, and are
determined to protect themselves if the
government fails to do So They say
ihenceforth the Indians must stay OIL
their reservation or be shot wherever
found.
A Mr.. Thompson, living near thu
town of Wells, Minnesota, is doing {
big thing in the farming line this sea
son. His farm has l,400 acres o
wheat, 1850 of fax, 800 Of oats ant
400 of corn. About 4,400 all told arr
under cultivation. He has put out 80,
900 Cuttings, cottonwood and whit
willows, and built Is tons of fence
consuming 10000 pounds of wire anc
10000 posts. He now owns 20 bricl
farm houses, 20 stables, 33 by 60, anc
other improvements. He wants to oper
20 more farms this summer, putting VI
the necessary buildings, &c