The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-22
NEWS.
DOMESTIC.


day at 112s.
The schools of Connecticut cost the
State 81 ,621 1888 last year.
There is family in Vermont con-
sisting of five sisters, who are all over
ninety years old, and of three brothers
all over eighty years old.
There are eighteen Democratic can
didates for Governor, in Maine, and it
is doubtful if any Of them can be elected.
Iowa has planted corn crop to raise
100,000,000 bushels. All that remains
is to raise. and harvest it.
A Syracuse firm paid S17, 900 in one
day last week to farmers living in the
town of Van Buren,, Onondago county,
for tobacco.
Crop reports from Georgia and Ala
bama are bad. Farmers were late in
planting, and excessive rains, with cool
weather, have done much injury.
The death warrant of Laura Fair,
sentenced to be hanged at San Fran
cisco, has been sigued and placed in
the sheriff's hands.
The convcts in the Iowa penitentiary
lament the absence OF woman's refining
influence. There are no females in the
building.
The Michigan Far2cer thinks the
supply of domestic wool this season will
be short, and that while there may be
1uctuation IN price, the downward dip
cannot long continue.
1t is now estimated that there will be
at least one hundred thousand tons of
wheat for expectation o. this years
crop in California, and fully five cargoes
of old crop are available for expectation
In sections where the "bug" affects
the peas, it is sometimes customary to
SOW this crop the first or second week
in June. The bug seldom attacks crops
sown so late. But the yield is usually
small.
The farmers Of Iowa have been very
much annoyed by the immence focks
OF wild pigeons, the ravages of which
have compelled them in many instances
to entirely re-sow their fields The
birds are in such numbers as to cause
whole acres of sprouted grain to disap-
pear almost instantly. Pigeons meat
is at discount.
Brigham Young celebrated his seven
tieth birthday on the I'd instant by a
royal repast, at which were eighty
seven men, women and children, all
near relations or connections of his
family. His private secretary read an
address, which closed with the wish:
MAY you live till the rulers of every
nation on earth shall acknowledge the
wisdom of God in your administration,
seek unto you for counsel, and recog-
nize you, as you trul y, are, the friend
Of God and man"
FOREIGN.
1t is reported, that plot to assassinate
the Pope has beer discovered.
While almost every other great COM
mercial city is gaining rapidly in popu-
lation, Liverpool has lost thirty. five
thousand IN ten years.
Bri 1andage has been nearly suppress
ed iu Greece. Turkey has given valu-
able assistance by arresting all brigands
on the frohtier.
? The weather in Great Britain con.
tinues cold for the season. There was q
snow storm of an hours duration in
Birmingham on Saturday.
The festival of the Corpus Christi wal
celebrated in Montreal, on Sunday, will
unusual magnlGcence. 1t is calculated
that 5000 people were in the process
sion.
The French Imperial Guard will b.
reorganized under the name of the Re
publican Guard. Over 1000 women
convicted of incendiarism in Paris, vii
t be transported to New Caledonia
: About 10000 French prisoners yet re
S main in Germany.
!. FAMINE IN PERSIA.
- London. June II Late advices fror
, Teheran say famine in one district {
Persia reached such a state that tn
S starving people had killed and eatel
:, fftr chil6yan