The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-05-04
NEWS.
DOMESTIC.

Gold closed in New York, last Mon
day, at 1113.
Richmond, Virginia, has sixty-three
tobacco factories.
The total population of the United
States is SO, ,547,53
Horses are selling at S13 head in
Los Angeles County, Cal.
Several earthquakes have recently
taken place on the South Pacific Coast.
A clergyman in Connecticut boasts
the title of the Rev. Hezekiah Fiddle,
d. d.
The heather Chinee are making
whisky in California by fermenting old
rice and rubber shoes.
Two mail coaches were recently de-
,stroyed by indians in Arizona, and
several persons murdered.
Hon. Humphry Marshall, of Ken
tucky, now weighs 400 pounds, is abou,
rs years old, enjoys good health, and
works hard every day.
General Spinner, during the ten
years he has been the Treasurer of the
United States, has handled the large
:sum of $4,000, 100000.
In Michigan the House of Represen-
>tatives has passed bill compelling the
attendance at school of children between
the ages of eight and fourteen years.
Postage stamps of the denomination
of seven cents have been issued by the
Government. They are designed espe-
,cially to prepay letters to Germany.
Jasper Morgan, of Middetown Conn,
never called in doctor until he was in
his eighty-eighth year. Then he called
zone, and is now gathered to his fathers.
Mobile is becoming an important
market for importations from the West
Indies. OF coffee alone, the imports
this year will probably reach some TO-
900 bags.
Me-no-see-how, an Indian woman,
aged one hundred and eleven years,
'lied in ElGridge township, Occana Co.,
Mich. She, with three sops, was at the
famous battle of Tippecanoe.
Samuel Thatcher, born at Cambridge,
Mass, July l, 1776, at present residing
in Maine, is said to be the oldest sur
'viving graduate of Harvard college,
and the Oldest ex-member of Congress
now living.
Louisiana sugar planters are disap-
pointed at the price Of sugar, and have
wisely determined on an entire change
in the system of planting. They will
hereafter raise their own provisions and
go to as little expense as possible in
producing sugar for market.
Governor Scott, of South Carolina
says that the entire bonded debt oI
South Carolina, is less that SS,000,000
with about S1,000,000 floating debt
which last will be paid Immediately
with funds now in the Treasury, anG
with the incoming taxes.
Stephen Girard has an imitator il
the late Robert Barnes, of Evansville
Indiana, who left S500,000 to builc
and endow college of that State, en-
joining that no missionary OF any sec
whatsoever shall ever hold Office in th,
institution, or even be allowed to visi
the premises.
Mrs. Sarah Hand, whose death a
ahe advanced age of SO at Cape Ma,
was recorded in the obituary column o
the Philadelphia Ledger last week, wa
the last survivor of the company @
young ladies who strewed flowers i
Washington's path during his triumphs
passage through Trenton in l7S9.
New Orleans, April 2S.-The Cit
Surveyor reports the river falling an
the levees all safe along the front of tn
city. Bonnet Carre Crevasse is no
1900 feet wide. Otherwise there is q
material change in the situation ther
The water is within half mile mort
of Kennerville. 1t has also made i
appearance on the low ground east an
south.