The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-25
GENERAL NOTES.

Tin shirt fronts are the fashion at Nor
wich, Conn.
An Iowa woman found live snake
coiled about the door knob.
The yellow fever is raging at Key
West and the Dry Tortugas.
Twenty thousand dollars are to be ex-
pended for Improving the Baltimore Ca
thedral
A new morning paper is talkep OF III
Chicago, under the editorship OF ex-Sep-
ator Doolittle.
The labor troubles in Charleston S.
c., have not been quoted, but the strik-
ers are not successful.
A bank cashier in Turner's Falls,
Mass is under indictment for balancing
his accounts on the Sabbath.
An English jury recently returned a
verdict of mot guilty, but we believe he
broke into the house for all that"
A man who will deliberately and will
fully cheat printer, ought to be, kicked
to death by an iniuriated saw-buck.
A French lady, hearing that tunnel
cost 5000 yard, importuned her hus-
bnnd to her dress of that material.
There is a ceiored man running Tor
the Assembly in Hamilton county, o.,
for the first time in the istory of that
State.
Suburban Peorians mistake their new
letter carriers for book agents aud light
ning rod peddlcrs, and throw stones at
them.
BY order of tue Shah, the Grand
Vizler, who accompanied his magesty on
his recent visit to Europe, has been sent
to prison.
Sermonette Is the Illinois title for a
short Sunday discourse suited to the
hot weather and thnly attended churches
Of summer.
The shade trees of Cleveland, Ohio,
in the belief Of the Herail, are falling
victims to the coal smoke aud gases
which pollute the atmoshpere.
A singular epidemic has broken out
among the hogs at Salem, Vermont
They refuse to eat, turn dark red or
purple coor, and die in a few hours.
The Baltimore San gives notice that
Maryland will spend no more money on
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and
Congress will be asked for a subsidy.
Miss Margaret Bennett, sister of the
late James Gordon Beneett of the New
York Herald, died recently at Huntly,
Scotland, in the eightieth year of her
age.
The track entering the Hoosac tunnel
will soon be connected with the maiu
road, the necessary cut through the
rocks to the westward being nearly com,
pleted.
Levenworth, Kansas, boasts of frost
on Sunday night a week ago. At Fair.
mount, near Leavenworth, the frost was
so heavy that letters could be traced on
he fence boards.
The periodicals of the United States
according to the latest estimate Of Row.
ellis Newspaper Reporter, number 5 5,97z
aud those Of all the rest of the world
only 7,742.
The drou4hts in Maine causes lower
water in the Penobscot river than ha:
been known since the year 1925, auG
the Kennebeck and other rivers and
streams are also unusually low.
The three Ku Kluk captured by the
aid of the Louisville Courier-J2urnar,
correspondent escaped soon after they
were locked up. The correspondent says
that they were left in an open corroder.
The farmers of Missouri are to hold {
State Convention at Jefferson City OF
the 1st OF October. The Grangers have
already carried the heretofore Republi
can county of Nodoway by large ma
jority.
Jack Shepphard, at the City Garden,
San Francisco on the 18th inst, sue
cessfully accomplished the task of walk
ing one Thousand miles in one thousanC
hours. lie suffered extremely durin:
the last portion Of the walk.
The Temperance society of Leaven
worth, Kansas, is trembleing before tn,
threat of a wholesale liquor dealer, VIII,
says he will bring suit against theil
president for inducing a certain druggis
to reship barrel of whisky.
The British Government has decided
on destroying the Ashantees. BY De
cember the troops will be ready to taxi
the field. Fifteen hundred aditiona
European soldiers will be placed at tn,
head of the existing force. After tn
Ashantee army has been defeated a rapir
march will be made upon the Capita
! Coomassie, which is to be destroyed.