The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-06-05
GENERAL NEWS.

Senator Summers health continues to |
improve,
Water is as expensive as wine in San
tiago de Cuba.
The word "immortal" occurs but once
in the Bible, l Timothy, II.
The yellow fever is raging at Uuca-
tan, Mexico.
The price of coal has been advanced
at New York.
The Cuban insurgents have sustained
another defeat.
Train is to undergo another examina.
tion as to his sanity.
Another railroad war is in progress
at Youngstown, Ohio.
Petroleum has been found in small
quantities near Chicago.
Chicago hotel walters are on a strike.
The guests are walters now.
Portland, Oaegon, expects to put up
100000 cans of salmon this year.
: A Minnesota hen has got into the
newspapers by laying thirty-six eggs in
sixteen days.
Stokes suspense will not be relieved
for several weeks, the Court of Appeals
having postponed the case.
a decree has been promulgated in
Spain prohibiting the use in official doc
uments of titles of nobility.
The awards of the Indian Commission
for annuity goods have been approved
by the Secretary of the Interior.
During the year ending April 1st,
BIG boys and 81 girls were born in
Portland, Me.
Potatoes ale to be raised at the from
tier army posts to give a mealier-ratiou
to the soldiers fare.
No wonder our Indian affairs look
squally-we look to the squaw for all
our diplomacy.
Another peril seems to have broken
out in New York in the revival of the
mysterious air gun.
Attorney General Williams has given
no opinion whatever as to what should
be done with the captured Modocs.
Mrs. Hedden, respectable elderly
lady, committed suicide at Hawesville,
KY, Tuesday, because of i'll health.
10 the English libel case of O'Keefe
VS.. Archbishop Cullen, the plaintlve was
awarded one farthing damages.
A thousand singers alc to participate
in the Saengerfest at Dubuque on the
Goth and 2lst of June.
A youth in a Hampton, Conn, school
has been working on the al phabet eight
years and hasn't mastered it yet.
Efforts are being made to have the
Constitutional Convention of Ohio ad-
journ from Columbus to Cleveland.
A Louisville man had to pay $50 for
clipping hair from child's head for lis
daughter to make hair flowers with,
A young wouan at Fall River at
tempted to cowhlde young man the
other day, and came out second best.
At wooden weddings in Montana,
clubs are among the gifts to the married
pair.
A man at Wolcottville. Couu,, has
windmill 10 feet high and Of ten hoTss
power.
They are encouraging indigestion il
Northern Iowa, by offering prizes fol
mince pie at the fair.
The fourth Gospel set to music has
been found among some fourteenth-cen,
tury relics in Holland,
A man in Otsego, MIMI, lately had al
orchard of 100 fine apple trees all cut
in the night by some high-minded
enemy,
There are 321 convicts in the Kansa
State Peuiteniary, which speaks well fo
the increase Of population in that young
State.
The "Gherka" is new and popula
brand of California wine, few glasses
of which never fails to 'jerk" man OF
his feet.
A reverend gentleman in Wheator
H., thinks he sees in the Oranges 81
flank movement of the Masonic lodges t.
rope the farmers"
Many professional thieves have lef
New York since the passage of the at
authorizing their arrest as suspicion
characters.
Internal revenue receipts for the yea
will probably exceed the estimates b
, 100000 or $4,000,0OO. They wer
expective to reach Sll0,000,00O,
twenty-five thousand BUSHES of wh ca
were bought on the Southern Minuesot
Railroad, May II, at prices ranging frou
; 81 to Sl,lS per bushel.
, The extensive condensed milk facto
, les in Switzerland use 10000 quarts {
milk daily, and four-fiiths of the pre-
/ duets, are exported to England.
A colored convert in Georgia got
: religious conviction at a revival on
morning last week, and secular eonvi'
tion for THEFT at police court in the al
= ternOon.
t Some idea of the lumber trade of Pl
e get Sound may be formed when it
g stated as a fact that the average OF fort
] acres of land are denuded of their foreI
each day.
' According to Methodist statistics, tn
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