The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-05-28

The prospects are now excellent for
an abundant crop of peaches all along
the Lake Shore region. Apple pros
poets are also good.
The Arkansas Legislature, by vote
of forty-seven to seven, has passed re-
solution of thanks to President Grant
for his mediation in the late gubernato
rial war.
California is enjoying bountiru|
crop of strawberries. On the Sd inst
10000 pounds Of the fruit arrived at
San Francisco, selling for more than
$4,000.
The average daily consumption Of
pig metal in Pittsburg is about twelve
hundred tons. That city furnishes six
ty-eight per cent. of all the steel manu-.
featured in the United States,
A dispatch from the scene of the Mil
River disaster which occurred on Satnr-
day, says that the last two bodies have
been found, and the total loss of life is
now known to be one hundred and forty
seven. The tissue in the ruined barrier
shows that the flood must have started
with volume one hundred and seventy
five feet wide and thirty five feet deep.
The Journal Of Chemi>ty thinks that
the potato is deteriorating, and that a com,
mittee should be detailed ty Congress to
go to S. America aid select specimens
from the healthiest wild potato vines,
bring them by good cultivation to a
proper degrees of perfection in their
native habits, then import them to this
country, so that American agriculturists
may obtain seedlings of original health
and vigor of constitution.
A New YoRK Sm special from
Scranton Pa, says the Lukawanna Iron
Coal Company OF that city suspended
work last week at all their pudding
furnaces, rolling g-mills and mines. thereby
throwing about LOO men out of work
The cause is the continued depression
in the iron market. The company's
yards are crowded with thousands Of
tons of rolls and other products Of
their works for which they cannot find
sale.
Animated by poetic sentiment, Miss
Lester, of Baltimore, has sent to Tenny.
son wild daisy picked from Foe grave
on the Sd ull. The package was ueG
with a white satin ribbon, upon which
was written, "The ouly blossom from
the nameless and neglected grave of
Edgar Allen Poe, 1874" 1t was the
only flower to be found on or near the
desolate place. Miss Lester may expect
an autographic acknowledgment from
AT. by mail.
The Legislature of Massachusetts
proposes to make it crime, punishable
by law, for the manager OF any exhibit
tion to employ children under the age o.
fifteen years for the performance Of
acrobatic and equestrian ieats. A bill
to this effect is now unde consideration
1t prohibits the Mayor, Alderman o.
Selectuen of each town and city from
granting licenses to showmen with such
"attractions," and provides for the pun
ishment of offenders by a fine not ex
ceeding $500 for each offense.
The Harrisburg patriot says that il
the Office of the Deputy Secretary of thu
Commonwealth are a number of docu
ments, etc, whose age is not far fion
two hundred years. The first law pass
cd in the province of Pennsylvania
recorded on parchment in 1852, thu
date of its enactment, is among tn;
curiosities. Two of the Hessian flag
captured by the Continental troops a
Trenton, and powder horn used 10 thu
Revolutionary war are also preserved al
relic of that memorable period wher
America threw off her yoke Of British
tyranny.