The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-05
GENERAL NOTES.
A ten-yesr Old girl in Wood county,
Ohio, weighs 245 pounds.

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pounds, is being cast in Boston.
The Maine Senate has voted ID to IL
to abolish the death penalty. -
Arrangements have been made in
Louisville looking towards a movement
against the liquor sellers. ~
The Kansas Senate has bassed ioin,
resolution to submit the question Of
female suffrage to vote of the people.
The Chester Republican thinks that
city may be annexed to Philadalphia
before many years.
Chief Justice Park, of Connecticut
made eight DEGREES of divorce the first
day ol his term of Office.
The latest theory concerning the DO
tato rot is caused by deficiency Of lime
and maguesia in the soil.
A sure sign Of an early spring is q
cat watching hole in the wall with her
back up. .... ...
1t is said that $50 persons have been
adjudged Insane by the courts in Illinois,
who were make so by the Chicago fire.
The Virginia Penitentiary is not only
self sustaining, but has balance in it's
favor Of Sll 900.
Kansas farmers think, as the winter
has been SO favorable they will have
enormous crops this year.
The statistics of Iowa show the siu-
gular fact that the greatest number OF
thieves and murderers have blue eyes.
A special dispatch says premature
explosion of blast in the Phoenix
mine, Lake Superior, on the 18th ult.,
caused the death of six persons.
Fifteen hundred aud elghty-nine hogs
slaughtered in Cincinnati, last week.
For the corresponding week of 1873,
1881 animals were killed.
The clearinghouse of Jonathan
Hortsman & Co, Dayton, Ohio, has sus-
pended. The average monthly deposits
were about $3.50, 900.
Stephen and Abbie Kelley Foster,
with Miss Sarah Wall and Miss Marietta
Flagg, of Worcbester, Mass, refused to
pay taxes because ladies cannot vote
The Superintendent Of the Street
Department of New York says he can.
not clean the streets thoroughly tr
100000.
France consumed dnring 1878, 27,.
900 tons of tobacco. Nearly one.
fourth of this quantity Of weed was con-
verted into snuff.
The number of prisoners in the
Colorado Penitentiary is exactly the
same as the number of the members of
the Legislature.
There is a tendency in the West to
make marriage laws more stringent.
Colorado has adopted the license system
for matrimony.
The Washington Star says that iu
that city, on the 10th inst, crocuses and
violets we're blooming in the open air,
and the scarlet japonica. was bursting
into Leaf and blossom.
A Mississippi paper needs the SER
vices OF new editor. The Inst one
went out with revolver to uphold an
editorial, and he returned in a whesl-
barrow, with blanket over him.
An Indiana man with turn for sta
tistics calculates that his faithful dog,
ten years of age, cost him 1924 rs for
hash aud $50 for license. The dog is
now for sale. Price, 10 cents.
When they find man in Washing
ton who hasn't plan of his owu for the
solution Of the financial problem they
drown him. No one has been drowned
there yet.
The Idaho Mountaineer thinks the
Indians, who are gentlemen of leisure,
might be induced Tor trifing bounty
to undertake the externination of OBJ
noxious wild animals.
The depth of snow on the Pacific
railway, 10 the Rocky Mountains, can
be imagined when it is kunwnjethat the
snow plows frequeAtly are propelled by
seven locomotives. The snow piled UP
by the sides of the tract is twenty feet
in hight. Contrary to the usual expert
ence Of the country this winter has been
the severest ever known in those moun-
tains.
The aggregate amount in the legisla-
tive, executive, and judicial appropria-
ton bill is $40, ,393,60l. Salaries and
compensation OF Senators, Representa-.
tivcs. and delegates are S2,065,000, or
$940, 900 less than the estimates which
we're made before the repeal of the
salary bill. Treasury Department s2,.
5000 or about s75O,000 less than the
estimates, S6OO,000 being 70. postage.
For the Department of Agriculture
sl75,690, or s97 900 less than the esti-
mates. Estimates for other departments
are curtailed, in all, about $3,000,0O0
from the estimates.
New York, February 2S.-1he Tri-
June this morning Publishes three
column article containing an expose of
the manner in which merchants of this
city have been made victims through
spies and iniormers of the Custom
House. The Tribune claims that with.
in less than FIVE years the merchants OF
New York and Boston have been plum.
dered by spies and infoTmers out of over
four million dollars; that of Ss96, ,046,-
%, paid to informers during the last
four years and halt, Special Agent
Jayne's share was $290,167 II, Or about
one-third of the whole amount. The
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