The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-06-27
The N eWs.

Florida is the only State in the United
States without daily newspaper.
France exports more playing g-cards to
foreign countries than she uses at home
Illinois produced $4,000 tons of pig
metal last year; five years ago, not ton
Glmoies great jubilee has opened,
and the first day has been passed with
complete success.
Michigan is to have new Statehouse,
costing 81, 100000, to be finished in six
years.
One-half the population o. Virginia
City. Nevada, is below the surface in
the mines.
They say that the potato bug in
Kansas is causing all the converted
farmers to backslide.
Teaberry Aavoring, hitherto unknown
in Europe, has recently been introduced
among the confectioners there.
Oranges are one dollar thousand at
Zanzibar. Is that what keeps Liviugs-
tone in that vicinity?
Martin Gibbs, a black boy, son of
the Secretary of State of Florida, has
entered the Military Academy at West
Point
A grad parade of the S. P. K. took
place in Pottsville, on June II, in honor
of the Grand Conclave of Pennsylvania
On Sunday the twenty-sixth anniver-
sary Of the accession OF Pope Plus TX.
was celebrated in Rome in an appropriate
manner.
An Illinois Sunday school scholar has
received a prize for finding 1853
Scripture names for the Deity.
A woman in Iowa has been indicted
for murder in the first degree for whip.
ping her stepdaughter to death.
The village of Newport, Fla, which
formerly had 1900 inhabitants, now
has but twenty-five.
The eastern slope of the Rocky Noun
tains is said to contain inexhaustible
deposits of petroleum.
The western wool crop is better than
ever before, which is pleasant news con-
sidering the weather.
The Indiana State Democratic Con-
vention, yesterday, nominated Hendricks
for Governor, and put up Greely Elec-
toral ticket. Vermont similarly favored
the Philosopher.
Chicago has been suffering recently
from revisitation of the fire fend
Several destructive confagrations have
taken place in that city within a few
days.
1t has been estimated that Niagara
Falls will wear away the soft rock up to
Buffalo in 232,320 years. Those who
cannot afford to visit the FolIs now
should wait, and the expense will be Goa
siderably reduced
The law abolisbing the grand jury
system in Michigan, and authorizing
the prosecution for felonits by iufor-
nation, has been pronounced constitu-
tional by the Supreme Court of that
State.
The mine inspectors in the anthracite
region report the number of workmen
killed during 1871 at 272 About one
third of these were killed by the explo-
sion of gas, and nearly one-sixth lost
their lives through their own negligence.
The number injured was 622.
New York, June 24.-It is now eight
weeks since the great strike, and the
prospects seem favorable for speedy
conclusion. Many trades have achieved
their object and are now employed
upon the eight hour system. Others
have failed and the men are now en-
ployed under the ole ten hour rule
The piano makers gave in on Saturday
night to their employers, and SO far as
the action of their trade is concerned it
has proved total failure. There are a
few trades which still hold out, but
their prospects seem rather unfavorable.
The trouble between the sugar refners
and their hands seem to be near its So
luton, most of the people having return
cd to ten hours work at the old prices