The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-31
Items OF Interest.

destroyed about eight thousand acres
of woods.
A Maine farmer hos pnt up on his
land sign reading: No Gun in aloud
Hear"
Vermont is fortunate State. It's
outstanding debt now amounts to only
$297, 500.
A party of Englishmen have arranged
for the purchase of 10000 acres Of land
in Kansas.
The Fall River Cooperative Associa-
tion has declared quarterly dividend
of IL per cent.
The Iowa State Fair will be held at
Cedar Rapids, from the Sth to the 18th
of September.
A little boy at Maysville was with diff
| ficulty saved from death from the bite
of caterpillar on his tongue.
Fifteen persons were badly injured
by nj accident on the Nashville Di-
vision of the St. Louis and Southern
Railway.
A rattlesnake bit boy on the finger
lately at Hamilton, Ga., and the boys
mother chopped the finger off in time to
save him.
The New Hampshire Agricultural
Fair will be held in Manchester, be-
ginning September 30, and continuing
four days.
The keeper of a town farm in
Peacham, Vt, is accused of kicking
little boy to death, and has left for
parts unknown.
What's the date of your hustle ?"
was what an anxious papa of Cobleskill
asked his well-dressed daughter, after
searching for the latest copy of his
paper.
The farmers of Tennessee will hold
State convention in Nashville on the
18th of September, at the suggestion
of the farmers of East Tennessee, who
recently met in Knoxville.
Gov. Carpenter, of Iowa, has decided
not to call the convention of Western
and Southern Governors, to consider
the transportation question, until the
Fall.
A Boston ieweler has on exhibition
what he claims to be the largest dia-
mond in the United States. 1t weighs
thirty-two carats, and has yellow
tinge.
A Connecticut farmer. who set ont an
! elaborate scare crow in his strawberry
patch, was disgusted to find that pair
Of robins had built their nest, and were
raising their young, under its hat.
They found the body of a boy in the
lake at Chicago, the other day, with
pair of skates on his feet. 1t was
identified as the remains of lad who
went through theice, mile from shore,
on New Years day.
His Holiness Pope Plus TX. will, it is
said, create the Most Rev. Archbishop
Manning of Westminster, England, and
two American Archbishops Cardinals Of
the Church, and forward to each of the
prelates q scarlet hat.
From returns lately published, we
learn that there are i'll India 3lo differ
ent newspapers, of which 6S are Eng
Iish, 36 in the dialect which passes as
English among the natives, and 2ll are
in the native languages.
A Lancaster (Pa) man had what he
| The ught to be IL very painful bunlon F.;
but on pairing it he found the cause of
the irritation to be a long human hair,
which had by some means become I'M
bedded in the flesh of his foot.
The libel suit of Miss Linda Gilbert
rgainst the Chicago ECeni"9 Post was
given to the jury, with instructions! to
bring in sealed verdict. The jury
came into court with verdict for the
plaintiff, assessing the damages at six
cents.
A western traveller suggests new
sleeping car regulation, which shall
prohibit porters from extracting
passengers well-polished boots from
under his pillow, and charging twenty
| 4 tla
in front of his bunk.
The great log raft from Michigan has
arrived at Chicago. Not single log
vas lost, no heavy weather having been
experienced, save during the last four
hours of the trip. 1t is estimated that
the profit over the old method of trans
portation was about 81 800.
The will of Kentuckian, which was
made before his marriage, and gave all
nis property to the lady who afterwards
became his wife, has been successfully
contested by his legal heir, it being held
that the marriage acted as n revocation,
and that the widow is entitled to only
one-thlrd.
A lady in Providence was accosted
few evenings ago hy a stranger, who
handed her new purse, cOntalnlnR
sum of money, which he had stolen
from her three years before. He simply
remarked in giving it back, 81 took 1t.
was in bad company, and was tempt
ed, but l never meant to keep 1T"
A professor of physiology, in explain
, ing to class of female students the
theory according to which the body is
renewed every seven years, said,
{ "Thus, Miss B., in seven years, you
) will, in reality, be no longer Miss b"
81 really hope shan't," demurely re-
sponded the young lady. casting down
her eyes.
Z New Jersey, although the twentieth
! State in population, is the sixth in the
value of it's manufactures, which are
. steadily increasing. Newark is the
:, third city in the Union in the value OF
: it's manufactured products. The pot
= teries of Trenton are more extensive
2 than. any other in the country. The
glass manufactures are large, and more
than one-half of the zinc products in
the Union are mined and made in New
r. Jersey.
IS 1t seems that every member of Con
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