The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06

Haven was entered on recent Oatur-
day night and the carpet stolen from the
floor.
Mr.. Moore, of the Altoona Sun, has
withdrawn his suit against u. r. Ream,
for libel, and paid the costs himself.
A new Presbyterian church in Cir.
ard township, ClearGeld county, will be
dedicated on next Thursday.
Easton has only two policemen, and
these spend half the time fighting to see
who shall be chief and who the force
TIE citizens of Indianapolis are proud
of one of their girls who whistles over
100 tunes.
The Louisville Courier Journal cor
cludes that the only way to reform vic
ious women is to shoot bad men.
How is this for French description
of a young lady: "She leaves off kissing
at twelve, and begins again at twenty"
The building of an OK cart is said to
be among the lost arts in Georgia.
Florida is reported to be already fill
ing with invalids for the winter season.
Sacramento contributes to refined civ
ilization 5000 hogsheads of beet sugar.
A Texan ranch man boasts of thirteen
bullet holes IN his skin from Indian
rifles.
A result of the Nation system of edu-
cation in England has been to increase
the demand for female teachers.
Boston is proud of the fac. that, with
her increased dimensions, she will pay
forty per cent. Of the entire State tax.
Amherst Agricultural College pro-
poses to teach its students to drill for
soldiers as well as for turnips, and to
cultivate the sword and sward simultan-
eously.
An ingenious Kentuckian has in.
vented a wheelborrow in which a man
can trunble himself home at night, if
necessary, without troubling his friends.
Hannah Rutland, aged 100 years, died
in New York city on Sunday.
The ship Three Brothers carries 1900
tons of wheat, and is the largest sailing
vessel in the world. Her cargo is val
ued at $199,000.
1t is stated the Atlantic and Pacific
and Kansas City and Northern Railroads
will reduce the salaries of all their en-
ployes, from presidentdown,..l0 per cent.
George Wolf, wealthy farmer resid-
ing three miles from Hopkinsville, KY,
was assassinated in his bed Tuesday
night, October %.
A bale of cotton for the Memphis suf-
ferers sold on Change at Louisville, last
week, for S455, or about 81 per pound.
The cigar makes Of New York city
have been informed that their wages
will be reduced to the rates Of year
ago.
The Newburg, N. Y, steam mills
have been stopped for an indefinite
period. About 400 persons are thrown
out of employment.
2,4l7 miles of new postal service has
been put in operation since June 80,
1878, making total at this date of 65,-
876 miles O. such service in the United
States.
All the banks OF St. Louis resumed
currency payments on Monday. Moth
ing unusual occurred, there was no ex-
citement, and confidence seems 20 be re.
stored, The deposits exceed the drafts
An account of the recent hurricane on
the Florida coast has been aeceived at
the War Department. Washington.
Cattle were swept into the sea, house
undermined and uuroofed, and boats
lost.
The two female members of the Wyo
ming Legislature are said to have al
ready required great proficiency in the
art of throwing ink-stands and lodging
law hooks.
Twenty-odd oonvicts at Auburn, in ad-
ditional to board and lodgings at the ex-
pense Of the State, get military pensions
fro m the Federal Government for poe
ket money.
Brashear, La, after cougratulating it.
self on escaping an invasion of the yell
low fever, has succumbed to the more
fatal importation of 800 barrels of Gin
cinuati whiskey.
The burial of State elephant with
royal honors is noted as an important
item Of news from Siam. The death of
the king would hardly have created a
greater sensation.
A New Bedford sea captain has in
vented a new plan for building ships.
He proposes to do away with the usual
rib frame and double sheathing, and
build them with plank twelve inches
wide, laid fiat one upon the other, aud
n 4 l.