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

Is Inc president oil Harvard University
is on a strike, because he has found out
that cook at Boston hotel gets a sal
airy Of $4,000 year, while he only
gets $4,000. +
Mark Twain having sold his interest
in the Buffalo E1press, has gone to
Elmra to live, threatening to abandon
pen,aud-ink labor for the remainder of
his he.
Memphis, Tenn, April 12.--The
Memphis aud Littlo Rock railroad was
completed yesterday, A large number
of citizens aud railroad men witnessed
the driving of the last spike at Duvall's
Bluff. Trains are running through TO-
day.
Over 100000 cords of bark have
been peeled in the hemlock regions OF
Ulster County, n Y, the past season.
This has compelled the telling of 1,000,-
100000 feet Of lumber, three,quarters
OF which will be left to rot upon the
ground.
New Orleans, La, April 14.-The
White Stockings of Chicago beat the
picked nine today, by score of 28 to
9. Six of the White Stockings will
play game with the Lone Stars on
Sunday. A close game is expected.
A terrific hail-storm passed over
Mississippi on Friday. Many stones
measuring six inches in circumference
were found. Several thousand window
lights were broken. The gardens,
fields, crops, and fruit are seriously
damaged; trees have been stripped Of
their foliage, and hundreds of birds
killed.
Sir Walter Scott was born at Edin-
burg, August Is, l77l, and the centon-
NAL anniversary Of his birth, therefore,
is near at band. It is proposed to cele-
brate it throughout the civilized world,
as the centennial birth hday of Burns and
Schiller were celebrated, more or less
extensively, II years ago. The occasion
is certainly one fit to be comlnemorated.
Scott was not only. one Of the greatest,
but one OF the purest Of authors.
The Missouri, Kansas, and Texas
Railroad Company are laying track in
the Indian Territory at rate of two
miles per day. They will reach the
Arkansas River in June, and by early
Fall they will be near enough to the
Texas liue to control the cattle trade,
which, it is expected, will reach half a
million head. There were about 300,-
600 steers driven to Kansas last season.
A man in Peabody, Mass, had been
treated for more than year for paralysis
of the throat, and was for some time
unable to take any other than liquid
food. At last, to the great astonish-
ment of himself and friends, the cause
of the trouble was revealed by his
coughing up an upper set of false teeth,
which he had swallowed in his sleep l 5
months before. The teeth were missed
at the time, hunted for, but never found,
and nobody had suspected the place of
! their concealmeDt.
San Francisco, Cal, April 12.-The
steamer Ajax, with Australian mails, is
now three days over due.
Eleven japanese merchants have ar
rived here with $4,000 cords silk
worm eggs for sale. They we're ordered
10y the French houses at So per cord,
but cancelled in consequence of war.
William II. Seward, jr., and party,
are resting here. preparatory TO tour
Of California and Oregon.
Galvestoa, Texas, April 12,-An
Austin special to the Galveston News
says Keard and Miller's train, loaded
with bacon for Fort Bacon, near CHA
huhua, close to the boundary, was at
tackled by large band OF Indians
Keard's wise and five other Americans
were killed. The Chiahuhua frontier
Mexican troops pursued the murdelous
band across the boundary, into the
United States, and killed aud captured
80 Indians. The United States troop;
at Fort Goodwin went TO protect the
Indians, and collided with the Mexi
cans, when Gght ensued, in which the
commanding officer of Fort Goodwin
and 10 American soldiers were killed
The Mexicans numbered 200.
FOREIGN.