The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29
NEWS.


in San Francisco on the 18th,
The grass crop of Connecticut prom
ises to yield good per centage of hay.
| Corden, ILL.,, shipped II ,242 bushels
of strawberries this season.
The University OF Kentucky have
bought Harry Clay's famous homestead,
Ashland, for 100000.
The parties who arrested Ruloff are
quarreling over the reward and it has
gone to the courts to be decided.
The largest railroad depot in the
Iworld to be is at St. Louis, at a cost Of
ls5,OOO,OOO.
| A bloodthirsty citizen of Richmond
has written a novel, and threatens to
kill the Richmond editor who refuses to
publish it gratis.
| West6eld, Mass. made IA 900 rattan
and $4,000 whalebbone whips in May,
and whips all creation in this manufac-
ture.
The planting of rice in Louisiana has
fallen off. so that a crop of $4,000, or
100000 pounds, is considered an
outside estimate.
The capital inv ested in boats on the
Mississippi river, and in the cargoes they
are constantly carrying. is estimated at
81 500, 100000.
} The Indiana Legislature offered a
bounty for dog-skiDs, to stop sheep kill
ing. Now the farmers fno dog-raising
pays better than sheep culture.
North Carolina sends only 1000 bags
Of peanuts this season, against 10000
last year, and fears of famine in this
: delicious esoulent are sorely felt.
Piscataquis, Me-, has not less than
ten slate quarries, from some of which
are obtained forty tons of slate per
week, worth not less than Sl,000,000.
A portion of Clinton Mountain, in
Arkansas, including about one hundred
1 acres, has sunk, carrying trees entirely
outot sight, aud the space is continually
enlarging.
The Texas Pacific Railway is to be
s. 1915 miles in length. For 25O miles
is the road will be an air line; and in {
It stretch of SIS miles there will be bu
is six bridges.
If During a thunder and hail storm a
10 Rockford, Coosa county, Ala, do!
= was killed by fash Of lightning Will
Is being fed by child. The child wa
not hurt.
The stone pier for the East rive
re bridge has reached the height of twent
er feet above the foundation. Eight
r workmen are employed, and the mum
4 Der will he increased to 200.
O. From Eve to seven hundred emigrant
49, leave California for Oregon by ever
steamship. They are tempted by chea
}" land and reports of great productive
e. ness and hopes Of finding gold.
C. The country at and near the easter
in end of the Il oosic tunnel is coming int
is notice as place of summer resort fe
+ such as desire a quiet, rather than
II fashionable country life during the he
weather.
at Sumner county, Kansas, had not
,u single inhabitaut in the summer of 1871
" It now has population of 5000.
ut has one paper, the Orford Times, d.
Of voted to the interests Of the county, an
ne it is one column larger than any pap'
90 in the Southwest. This county is o
the Usage Diminished Reserve.i
"a The penitentiary bill, which has pas
~ ed the Illinois Legislature, provides f
ng e continuance of the present system
Ill management, the appropriation OF S33l
lg. 900 for the payment of outstanding /
te. debteduess, aud S350,000 to meet +
~ ture expenses. The bill passed by
ne strict party vote; the Radical majori
ed sustaining, and the Democratic minorl
ite repudiating it.
'le. The locusts are making night hideo
in the vicinity Of Mquaoketa and lo'
City. The forests are full of the
lgo and their numbers are daily increasir
de while, of course, their ravages upon t
:. foliage of the trees and bushes is fe'
N' full. 1t is said their constant noise is
vac great that the farmers of the localit
where they most abound cannot h'
nly the cow-bells of their cattle grazi
and among the timber.
ter One of the best managed "effec
he. during the Pope's jubilee was produc
49, in Charlestown, South Carolina, at
ure close OF an address delivered by tor
ons, light in the cathedral by the Hon.
The p. O'Connor. Almost the last wo
i've uttered by the speaker were There
~. still within us that mystic want OF
'oi0 soul-Faith." Immediately tn
one flashed out from the walls of the ruiz
as cathedral, like vision, a colossal fig
Pass of Faith-a female in brilliant robes
white, having her hands clasped ;
her soft eyes raised and fixed inter
The upon large white cross planted upo
rock! The effect upon the dense cro
veu of human beings which gathered aroI
Mc- the vision was electric.
.reu A report of the last meeting OF
into Nauvoo grape and wine-growers' G
our gives some interesting statistics OF
last grape and wine crop in Hancock coul
nod Illinois. The amount of wine ma
w. "'N factured in Nauvoo in 1868 amour
h'y' to 1850 gallons, chiefly Catawba.