The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-05
STATE NOTES.

A lady ia Bradford county recently CAV
birth 70 triplets, two girls and boy
weighing FIVE pounds each.
Petrolia, March 2, 1874.-It is reporte
that new well was struck this morning Of
the Deviner Farm, near Millerstown, Pa.
owned by Lee & Plummer, and is fowin
between !, 200 and l, 200 barr els.
The time for holding the next State fai
has been fixed for the last Tuesday Of Sep
tembcr. The length of the meeting is K
be four days. The place will not be de
cided until the March meeting of the Stat
Agricultural Society.
A Tidioute man quit drinking rum, usin,
his jug for savings bank, in which he de
posted daily what he formerly spent fo
liquor. He had accumulated a nica littl,
sum, when his wife traded off the jug ant
some old clothes to tin peddler for dish
pan aud nutmeg crater. The man was 81
mad that he took to drinking again worse
than ever.
A miner was killed in West Elizabeth
coal mine, few days since, in consequence
of looking out from wagon in the PIT JUS
as another wagon passed it. His head wal
torn from his body, and the frat knowledge
his companions had of the accident re.
fulted' from their finding his headlesi
body on the srack.
Pittsburgh oil dealers state that arrange.
ments have been made between producers
and refners of petroleum by which the
| price Of that article will be advanced. All
refneries in leading centres of trade are
| to stop work for some time, at least Until
the 1st of April, and all crude oil produced
in that time is to be stored in tanks. 1t il
claimed that oil has been sold at about one.
fourth the cost of production for year
past, and that by pursuing the course indi-
Gated above the market will be drained and
profit gained.
An interesting railroad case was decide
at the last term of the Franklin county
Court. A Mr.. McFerren sued the Mont
Alto railroad Company for damages claimed
in consequence of their cutting through
his farm of three hundred acres. Twenty
witnesses testified to the expense sustained
by the plaintiff and the dim mutton in the
value of his land. They estimated the cost
of fencing, the difficulty in passing from
one section of the fan m to the other, and
declared that in consequence Of the division
the farm would bring much less money
than it had been worth in tho general mar
ket. On the other side, witnesses Of the
company pointed out the advantages of
read transportation, not only of the pro-
duce, but for the iron ore, of which there
are large deposits on the farm. Judgmen,
was given for the defendants.
A letter from Harrisburg gives the fol-
lowing history of the progress of improve
ment in the State Capitol building and
grounds; 1.-THE prospective culargem ent
of the Capitol building to accommodate the
enlarged Legislature recalls the former ex.
penditures in that direction. 1t is esti
mated that the enlargement, if they euarge
az all, will cost S150,000. Originally John
Harris, the founder of Harrisburg. gave
four acres of land on which to erect the
Capitol and State Offices. Subsequently
ten acres and five lots were bought by the
STAGE for So, 100 and added TO the Capitol
grounds. A small part of this was subse-
1ueptly sold for S4lZ, leaving the cost to
the the State for the land only $l.6SS In
1919 the cornerstone of the Capitol was
laid by Governor Findlsy, and the building
was erected OF cost of $l35,0O0. 1he
first Legislature met in il in 1922. For the
Executive officers, arsenal enclosing the
grounds, and furnishing the Capitol, some
$l55, 200 were expended. thus making the
original expenditures about $292, 900. Not
many years ago the State Library and com.
mittee ro oms were added at cost OF $780,,
600.