The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-04-20
NEWS.
DOMESTIC.


1l03, 110j, 110}.
The weekly expenses Of the New
York Tribune arc $4,000.
Olive Logan says she is thirty-two
gears old.
General Sheridan is expected homo
about the last of April.
A Michieander extirpates snakes by
biting their heads of.
Strawberries are selling at 70 cents a
quart in New York.
The Mississippi River is now open to
navigation.
Prince Alexander. of Prussia, is ex-
pected to arrive in this country next
June.
New Orleans has contributed $60,-
900 for the benefit Of the French sufF-
erers.
The Mcthodists of Canada are divid-
ed into five sepsrate ecclesiastical
bodies.
Southern peas are now coming north,
and are sold for seventy-fve cents a
peck.
A large coal mine has been discover
ed in Colorado, on the Kansas Pacific
railroad.
Every time the yeas and nays arc
called in Congress, it costs the nation
$1,000.
While gold is worth SIT per ounce,
fine blonde hair readily commands S25.
Kansas expects an addition of 100,-
900 to her population by immigration
this year.
A woollen manufacturer in Maine
runs his mill with ten hands, all OF
them his own children.
Out West, when a notoriously lazy
man is caught at work, they say he is
aneddling with industry.
Brigham Young has ordered daily
prayers by the Utah clergy against the
;gr&sshoppcr this summer.
The idea of taxing cats as means OF
facilitating the payment OF the national
debt originated iu Boston.
y Texas post Office has sent forward
letter addressed "Nlis Loucaseer
Grcbc, Kansas City, Misery"
The Immigration to Kansas is unpIe-
.cedeptly large this year, especially to
Southern Kansas and the Usage lands.
James Gordon Bennett of the New
York Herald, is said to have a fortune
of $l0,0OO,0OO.
An Anti-Income Tax Association has
been formed in Boston TO test the con,
.stitutionality of the law.
While sinking a shaft on King Bee
Mine, near Ogden, Utah, lately, some
miners discoYered an extensive cave.
A new counterfeit so cent postal cur
rency is in circulation, which is said to
be the best imitation yet produced.
Silas Brainard, the well.known musi
soal composer and publisher, of Cleve
land, died on Saturday last.
A Wisconsin editor was called out Of
bed one night to receive subscription
After that he sat up nights for over {
week, but the ofense was not repeated
A correspondent Of Boston papcl
urges the formation of female emigra
tion societies, to supply wives to the
young men of the far West.
In Chicago some of the ladies ar
said to wear all the hair styles at one,
on their heads, and fifty hair-pins are re
,quired to support the structure.
The widow of John Brown lives will
part of her large family in Humbold
county, Cal. der other children ar
dispersed throughout the United States
Naples large enough to make thre
ten-feet rails each, with 1000 trees t
the acre, have been raised from the sect
in seven years in Monroe county, Iowa
The surveyors on the proposed lin
of the Northern Pacific Railroad repor
that the snow was l74 feet deep a
fGuoquelmie Pass on March l..
The Mississippi River at New Orlean
is only two inches below the high-wate
mark of 1862, and uneasiness is felt re
garding the security of the leVees.
la President Grant is making arrange
ments to start on his Pacific trip i
about 10 days. He proposes bein
absent month or SO.
i+ T. Buchanan Read, the poet painter
intends to quit Rome next June for
visit to this country. He expects t
return to Italy during the autumn.
.na A deposit of genuine black diamonds
such as are used in drilling rocks, ha
been discovered in Noun. Hope Town
ship, Orange County, N. Y,
.o IA Western writer gives it as his be
lief that if as much attention were pal
to improving corn as is given to grapes
hundred million bushels might b
added to the annual crop. 70 4og,Ii /.
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