The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-05-11

elected Circuit Judges unanimously.
They have peculiar breach of prom
se case in the st. Louis courts. Louise
bulls has sued father and son for s. o.,
1000 damages, her ground of actor
Iagainst the son being that he refused t.
marry her according to promise, and
against the father that he had objected
to the proposed match.
The great strawberry fields of New
Jersey and Delaware promise an unu.
sualy abundant yield this season. The
profits on the crop have been SO great
$4,000 having been realized some.
times from a single acre-that largely
increased area is put under cultivation
each succeeding year. Strawberries
and peaches ripen in Delaware about
ten days earlier than in New jersey.
The bear known as the club-foot,
which has been for years the terror of
the TETON mountains in California, and
for which a reward of 1000 has been
standing for some time, was found dead
in the TETON mountains, and all indica-
tious show that it is the same bear which
so fcarfully mangled Searles few weeks
since. Nine deaths are attributed to
this bear. Only last year two brothers
fell victims to his terocity.
Tree planting in Nebraska is prosecu-
ted at lively rate One day sixteen
thousand young trees passed over a sin.
gle line of railroad. A company of
Swe6es have contracted for twelve
thousand cotton woods to set out Oh
their farms. This tree-planting is now
regular routine of agricultural
settlements, and cannot fail to produce
the most beneficial effects upon the eli
mate and productive power of the State.
The Hon. James NJ. Ashley, re-
Gently appointed Commissioner of the
United States to act in conjunction with
the Commissioner of the confederate
tribes of Indians for running the line
along the western boundary of Arkan-
sas and Missouri, and the southern
boundary of Kausas, left Washington,
on Saturday, on his way to that country.
He is authorized to select the requisite
number of scientific men for the pur-
pose.
New Orleans, May, 1.-Several hun
dred persons went on an excursion to
the Bonnet Carrie Crevasse yesterday.
The levee on both sides is still giving
way although uuremitting labor is being
made to stop the further spread of the
crevasse. The roar Of the current at
the break can be heard at the distance
of more than mile. Well informed
planters estimate that the loss 20 the
sugar crop will exceed 10000 hogs
heads.
From the census returns Of 1870 it
would appear that the largest proportion
of foreign-born persons in any of the
States is to be found in California. 1t
stands thus: Natives, 356, 1893; foreign
ers, 209,S Wisconsin comes next,
with this exhibit: Natives, 690.320;
foreigners, 304S45. The States with
the smallest foreign population would
appear to be North Carolina and Vir-
giuia. The latter, with population OF
l,2l1, 1888, has out 1888 foreigners;
while North Carolina, with 1861 l3
inhabitants, has but 1922 foreign born.
New York, May THE work of
erecting the East river bridge progresses
favorably. The caisson for the New
York end of the bridge will be launched
on Monday morning and force Of 100
workmen employed erecting upon it
seventeen courses of timber as a tourda-
ton for tower on the New York side
Dredging to prepare the river for the
reception of the foundation will be
commenced next week. Thirty thousand
cubic feet of mud is to be removed
and the excavation will extend forty
feet below the river bed. One year
will be spent on the foundation. The
shortest period assigned for the com.
pletion Of the bridge is six or seven
years.
Washington, May 7.-Simultaneous
with the announcement that orders have
been given at the War department fol
additional troops to be sent to South
Carolina, come letters from that State
reporting additional outrages, and al
increased boldness of the Ku.Klux. A
letter received at the Washington Bur
eau of the Tribune. to-day, from ;
prominent South Carolina journalist
besides giving additional particulars o
outrages which have already been re
ported, says: "Matters are becomiu!
desperate, and some wef Informed per
sons believe that the Ku-Klux intenc
to visit the Capital, and expel the Stat
Government"
FOREIGN.
There is a revival of letters in Italy
Last year upward Of 1000 books wer
printed there.
The Paris journals declare, in spit
of all stories to the contrary, that Loui
Napoleon is now worth Sl6,000,000.
London, May 5'-Earl Granville an
nounced 10 the House of Lords tC
night that the Government had receive
official dispatches confirming the re
port of the safety of DR.. Livingstone
the African traveller, and also givin
| hot t, ho