The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-06-12
GENERAL NEWS.
Hon John G.. SAKE resides in BRO

They are eating blackerries in Jack
sonvill, Fla
The rolling mill at Kittanniug, Pa,
has suspended operations temporarily.
Pullman has been successful in intro
ducing his palace cars into England.
A paper at Bedford, Indiana. wants
school teaching let out to the lowest bid.
der.
The Erie Railway will have a feet of
thirty propellers OF lake Erie this sea-
son.
The cultivation of ginger is the new
est-fangled notionaof California agricul-
lists.
The Illinois farmers think they have
succeeded in bringing the railroad up to
time.
Deaths from heart disease have in
creased twenty-five per cent. in twenty
years.
Floating docks for timid bathers are
to be introduced the coming season at
Cape May.
A man at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has
been fined So for snatchinG a paper from
newsboy.
Nc man is humbled and sincere with
God till he is willing to know the worst
of himself,
Everybody of prominence in Kansas,
excepting the Beuders, has offered a re-
ward for them.
A Kentuckey woman has been supplied
with an iron jaw. Her terms are twenty
dollars a lecture.
Great warriors, like great earthquakes
are principally remember for the mis-
chief they have done,
The New York carpenters are on a
double strike; one with the bosses and
one among themselves.
\ thousand singers arc to participate
in the Saengerfest at Dubuque on the
10th and DIST of June.
The whole town of Corning, Iowa,
lately turned out to hunt lost child and
found it at home asleep.
1t takes two boys to 60 to school now
a-days-one to study and the other to
carry the books.
Heavy rains in Quebec have so swol-
len the rivers that about 5. 600, ,00U'iec
of lumber has gone adrift.
There are no less than seven White
Sulphur Springs in the Union, all OF
them in the Southern States.
Taxation in Mississippi is two and a
half per cent. ln Louisiana it, reaches
nearly three times that amount.
The owners of the Mammoth Cave
talk of advancing the prizes charged for
going through that natural wonder.
A Methodist preacher furnished the
gospel to the two towns of Sandown and
Hampstead, N. H., last year for $500
\ sailor at Bay City. Mich latey fell
eighty-one feet, and struck the deck Of
vessel without serious injury-to him.
self.
A Maine court has lately decided tina,
railroad ticket is good for six years ii
not used before toe expiration of that
time.
Statistics show that every person
added to the population requires an ad
ditional ton OF coal. Great persons need
more.
THE Order of United Workmcn in
Erie have finished new hall for their
stated meeting which is soon to be dedi
Gated,
The New Haven police will be pro-
vided with straw hats, for the purpose OF
showing which way the wind blows on
dusty days.
Captain Hall went more than two
hundred miles further north with the
Polaris than any other Arctic explorer
ever sailed.
Extensive tree painting in the West
the Boston Globe thinks, would lessen
the force of the terrible tornadoes that
devastate that section.
The Captain-General of Cuba has beer
officially notified to carry into effect the
order of March "a, directing the eman,
cipation of 10000 slaves,
A Boston lager beer saloon posts this
notice: "Only those liquors will be
given to friends which our immalcuate
Legislature considers healthy.
The iron ore recently discovered in
Nelson and Amhurst counties, Virginia
will, it is believed, yield 65 to 20 pc
cent. of pure metal. Copper is said alsC
to exist in the same locality.
The North Carolina Judges make onl,
one bite of it. In charging a jury at
Raleigh, recently, Judge Tourgee told
them that il they were satisfied that the
criminal should be punished with death
he would "take great pleasure in pro
nouncing the sentence"
A young man in discussion the otLel
evening, commented in this way on Poca
hontas "Pocahontas was noble, kind
hearted and true man" "Iold on,
cried his companion, "Pocahontas was
woman" "She was, eh! Well that
just my luck; how am l expected tt
know? | never read the Bible,
The total receipts from Internal Rev
enue during the month of May wer
Sl2,553, lO772, making the tota