The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-01
GENERAL NEWS.

Warren, Ohio, is to have a woman
brass band.
Washington county, New Jersey,
b still has three feet of snow.
A skeptical citizen Of Rockford made
a ghost sick last week with revolver.
The first fractured leg of this years
base ball season is reported from Iowa.
In Wisconsin jury never agrees un-
til it has consumed small keg of lager.
New York will send twenty journalists
to the Exposition.
Grasshoppors are gettingin their work
in Parker county, Texas.
Savannah, Ga, has tailed one for
the first sunstroke of the season.
Nellie Grant will be eighteen years
old on the 4th of July.
There are elephants in Kansas, but
you have to dig for them if want them.
Tennessee pensions forty-nine soldiers
of the war Of 1912 and four of the rcvo-
luton.
A lately deceased nillionaire's estate
in San Fransisco is claimed by four law
full widows already.
A bill making civil marriages compul-
sorry is about to be introduced IN the
German Parliament.
A London gas company has dispensed
with stokers, and proposes to make its
gas by machinery.
A Colorado banker sends brick to
the Vienna Exposition. 1t is of sohd
gold and weighs 400 pounds.
Michigan never brags about it, but
she has sixty marderers in her prison
under life sentences.
Preparations are making for the sur
vey of the route of a railroad from
Johnstown to Bedford.
Advertising reminds people Of things
they had been wanting all along, but had
forgotten all about.
The Atlantic Gable Companies have
increased their rates to one dollar and
half in gold per word
Heightened gentlemen who throw
pepper in the eyes of those they wish to
they wish to rob, are called Cayenne
artists" in New York.
1t is said that in Scotland one man in
every thousand goes to college; in Ger
many the proportion is one for every
1000; in England it is one for every
$500,
The Internal Revenue Bureau has re-
deemed over 100000 worth of stamps
since the last act On account of the
abolition of the tax on many dutiable ar
ticles.
A Terre Haute Gudiana) mule saved
valuable hose for his owner a few
nights ago by kicking the thief out of
the stable.
Sunday bootbacks about Court
Square, Boston, make from Sl5 to $25
a week, and have hundreds of dollars in
the savings banks.
Two candidates for local Office in
Illinois receiyine. an ea":l -..; 'wilf6ii
yEJo1G7o lave the Office.
a South Carolina Lothario has ruined
the peace of one family BY seducing one
daughter, marrying another, and run
Ming away with a third
The hornets and wasps, which are of
au industrious if not affectionate disposi
ton, are beginning to reconnoitre for
summer residences.
A Buffalo girl, pretty and eighteen.
has sold over five hundred sewing ma
chimes in the last Two years. She tray-
els with horse and wagon.
A Minnesota lover lately captured his
dulcinea, aged fifteen, from her reluctant
parents, and drew her to his forest home
a distance Of eight miles, on hand sled.
The Director Of the Mint has fixed
the chage for coming the new trade dol
lar at half cent per cent piece, which is
the lowest possible rate under the law.
The total loss of the Boston fire is
placed at $70,0000O0. Total insurance
S54 100000. $36,875,342, or G57 $40
per cent. of the entire loss has been paid
A nan at Montezuma, Iowa, said his
prayers, took club, wadei into his corn
crib, and slaughtered 15l rats. This he
swears to before notary public,
A six foot able bodied constable at
Hennepin, ILL.,, recently knocked a blind
man down, aud shot seven times at six
year old boy before the latter surrend
cred