The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-09-28
NO. 80.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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The act providing an annuity of e15,-
600 per annum to Prince Arthur is to
take effect from the 1st of May last.
The Rev. Mrs. Celia Burleigh has ac-
cepted pastoral charge of the Unitarian
Church at Brooklyn, Conn.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, having put
up her claim of Sl25,000 against New
Orleans at auction, it was knocked down
at $4,000.
Life insurance agents in Georgia So
licit policies by advertisements printed
on sugar-plums and sent to the farmers
children.
Bret Harte has reached the summit
of earthly happiness. A hotel at Cohoes,
n. Y, was recently opened under the
name of the Bret Harte."
Napoleon, unwilling that his exile
should completely deprive the poor of
Paris of the gifts he was accustomed to
make to them on the 10th of August,
distributed a large amount of relief in
the poorer districts of the city.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers now has 1873 divisions or lodges
in the United States and Canada. They
WILL 1Olu tuSlL SiShth dhhudl ihOOuiilSo
in Toronto in October. The association
has accumulated a fund of $4,000.
The last mail brought very bad news
from Banda, the isle of spices. Bad
weather, which lasted six weeks, has
damaged the nutmeg trees enormously.
The whole crop fell in an unripe state off
the trees. The damage amounts to more
than half million of guilders. ...
During the present year our Govern
ment has received from the Royal Gar
dens at Kew, London, 1000 distinct spe-
cies of seeds and plants, being mainly
hower-seeds, intended for experimental
purposes at the Botanical Garden, where
they have been planted and produced
fine results.
An unhappy resident of Buffalo, who
has been long tormented by an offensive
odor about his premises, and against
whom the health officers had actually
commenced suit for maintaining II
nuisance, has inst discovered that it is
caused by a flow OF natural gas in his
| CELLAR.
The Mont Cenis tunnel has been sue
cessfully opened, and trains are now
passing through it without delay. This
tunnel, which was commenced by Ca
your, and intended as great national
enterprise to connect Piedmont and Sa-
voy, has risen to an international i'm
portance, and has more than once been
the occasion for diplomatic spats.
The Massachusetts, Woman Suffrage
Association is to hold series of mass
conventions in every county in the State.
Thirty meetings are to be held in Berk-
shire county alone, and among the speak
ers announced are Julia Ward Howe,
Lucy Stone, Mary A. Livermore, Mar
garet Campbell, Adah G. Bowles, Henry
B. Blackwell, and Mary Eastmann.
Chicago has "Slough of Despond,"
otherwise known as Healeys Slough,
which seems to be sink OF contagion
and death. 1t is sort of dead lake, in
the midst Of the city, and is " covered
with deposit of two feet Of animal
matter" The authorities have Just or
dered the place to be dredged, by way
of aver,ing further serious consequences
to the public health.
Mrs. Van Harmon revived in Montana,
the other day, the memories of our Revo-
lutionary danes. Left alone in her
cabin, she was startled by the approach
Of three Cheyennes, and had barely time
to bolt the door when the Indians flung
themselves against it. Sending her
children into the cellar, the heroic young
woman seized a revolver and gun, and
confronted the Indians at the open win
dow. The redskins were finally driven
of, after firing the barn.
By an enactment Of the last session of
| tho VLrmnpt T,anicl t,,r ra o,lx, ,,ra 5,a 20,
of normal schools are to be permitted to
serve as teachers in the public schools of
the State. AS there are something over
1000 districts in the State, with not
more than one-fourth that number of
available graduates, and the normals"
are ct only about 100 school ma'am
power annually, of whom at least twenty
per cent. will get married and retire
every year, the rural districts are neces-
sarily trying to reconcile themselves to
shutting up their literary shops until
their Lawmakers come to their senses.
A Kentucky man who attempted to
cross high railroad bridge at Shep-
herdsville, in that State, few days
since, stumbled and fell between the
ties, but fortunately managed to grasp
tie with his hands, and there hung
dangling, with one hundred feet of
sheer fall beneath him. He was utterly
unable to regain the top of the bridge,
and he hung on with death grasp un-
til his cries brought assistance. Lifted
from his perilous position, he was led off
the bridge, apparently overcome by the
danger through which he had passed.
Than he got up, as he said, to go home,
walked few steps, and fell to the ground
dead. Physicians, who have carefully
examined his body, say that there was
no bruise or wound sufficient to disable
him, much less cause death, and are of
opinion that his death was caused by
fright.
A curious illustration of the probable
loss of bonds to which no clue can be
obtained, when not registered, is afford
ed in the recent count of the old Rut-
land and Burlington first mortgage
bonds. 1t is more than four years since
holders of them were advertised for, and
it is eighteen months since the contro-
versy, which vexed the Vermont courts
for so many years, as to the status of
these bonds, was decided and their set
tlement provided for Out of 81 100000,
the whole issue of these bonds, $l,T56,-
600 have passed into the control of the
Rutland Railroad for settlement and
conversion into preferred, stock. Of the
| x42 000 at;l1 laft ont the own org <f Ab,,4a