The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-03-09
NEWS.

The St. Louis Water Works have
been completed.
tits proposed to erect bridge across
che Hudson at Poughkeepsie.
Four fruit-growers in Clarke county,
Indiana, have 81 900 peach trees.
Hon. Lee ClaHiu, father of Governor
6,lahiu, died on ihe 23d, at Boston, aged
~.
Thompson Il. Mcmahon, q leading
banker Of Galveston, Texas, died on
ahe 9th.
The subscriptions for the Frepch Re-
lief Fund, in New York, now exceed
100000.
The Baltimore French Relief Fund
Nop1mittce repor, collections amounting
10 $4,000.
Western Pennsylvania manufactured d
624, l0S gallons OF whisky during the
six months ending December 81.
st. Clair county, Illinais, estimates
shat it possesses i,0s0,0OO, 900 tons OF
coal.
The subscription to the Freoch Re-
lief Fund, in San Francisco, has tcacheJ
ahe aggregate Of s202, ~.
Mrs. Maria Clemm, the aunt and
y&other-in-iaW of Edgar A. Poe, died i,
Baltimore on tho 18th ult, at the ed
~auced age OF 81. .....
The Germans of San Francisco are
Yrepasing for q graud celebration il
G,onor OF the cocclusiou Of the coates
Between France and Germany.
Jr the Alabama Legislature, resolu
aious have been introduced looking tC
she impeachment Of Judge James q
smith, Of the Second Judicial Circuit
for official misconduct
A Lodge Of Sorrow wac held il
Montgomery, Alabama, on tie 23d, il
respect to the memory Of the late Judg,
Chiffon. who was Grand Master of th'
Grand Lodge of the State.
A tooth fifteen iaches IN eircumfer
ence and weighing TWO pouuds, whicl
was dropped by some immepse anima
in Marion oouoty, Iowa, some thousand
of yesgs ago, was found the other da
near tile Des Mones river.
A Polish Jew died few weeks sine
in Warsaw who distinctly remembere
Frederick the Great, and has frequent
sy seen the monarch at Potsdam. H
~ss 100 years old at the time Of hi
death.
In Mobile, Alabama, a man marie
gecently his seventh wife, Mexica'
having previously been united to Ge
man, French, English, Dutch, Iris
and American woman, all of who
died.
During 1870, the lifeboats Of Il
British National Life Saving Instit'
son rescued SOB lives and 81 vessel
Fishing boats and individuals not Co
nec.ed with the institution rescued 2I
1ives, for which services rewards we
granted.
A Young man named Villa
Thompson, late of Wales, suddenly b
came insane and left his home at Ra
snilton, Venango county, Pa, some tin
an August, 1870. He is about Fl
feet I've inches in height, of slend
build, spare face, light complexic
light brown hair, and about 25 yea
old. Information sent to j. j. Barn
Raymilton, Venango county, Pa, "
be thankfully received.
The saving banks Of New Jsrs'
twepty-six in number, make the folio
ing report of their operations In lsi
Deposits, $20.009.lS8; securities a
Investments, s2O,773,0S3. Cash, SIS
522; profits on surplus, s92S,47O. I
number of dsposisors in seventeen
these institutions is 4S, l54, The rema
jug nine having made no return. 1t
however, estimated that the entire nu
Der amounts to 10000. The most
.portsnt Of these savings banks are
astsd at Newark, where there are th
institutions Of this description, hold
deposits amounting in the aggregst
alS,85l,S94; securities, Sl4, 4,lOO,4
and and making Ps06ss % surplus Of vi