The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-05-21
GENERAL NOTES.

have blast furnaces.
Michigan boast Of a surplus ia it
treasury of a million dollars.
The grain trade on the lakes has op.
ened lively,
Crusaded saloonist in Indiana turn
druggists.
The ship building aud lumber bust.
ness opens briskly in Maine this season.
There are two millions beehives in
the United States.
The National Women's Suffrage
Society will meet in New York on the
14th inst.
An exchange remarks that sermons
as well as steamships are weakened by
frightening.
ga cheese factory of one hundred COW
power" has been established in an ILL
nois town.
The American Sunday School Union
organized upward of 1900 schools
during the past year.
The subject of the higher education
of women is beginning to attract atten-
tion in Denmark.
There is said to be over sixty thous-
sDd grangers connected with the various
lodges in Kentucky.
The hay crop in Texas promises to be
very bountiful, as its effect on the mar
ket is already felt. The price per ton
is $40, against s1S last year.
A Western Justice Of the Peace is
said to have had 1870 out of bis 1876
decisions reversed on appeal. In the
other FIVE cases, the parties died before
they could appeal.
Cape May, it is reported, is to have
baby house this summer. 1t is to be
large frame building, and is to be
exclusively used by children to play in
in rainy weather.
Soyer, the cook of the London Re.
form Club, asserts that person living
to the age of fifty years, and conforming
the ordinary diet of well-to-do English
people, consumes no less than 1854
eggs.
A British engineer proposes the con.
struction of an acqueduct from Brigh-
ton to London, distance of AZ miles,
with the view of supplying the metrop.
oils with salt water for baths, etc.
A Lucus county QoWa) stock raiser
recently sold one hundred and fifty
beadof tat cattle, the average weight
being LOO pounds, and for the lot he
received the snug sum of sl5,240 %.
Everything, says fashion writer, ap
pears to be beaded now in the feminine
dress line, from sunshade to underskirt.
All kinds Of beads are used, from the
real jet to those sold at five cents the
string. The newest bounets, said to be
imported, are literally covered with
beads on top, and the same may be .aid
Of the sunshades, which, to be admired
must always be kept up-sun or no sun.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company
has bored six artesian wells in the arid
district to obtain water supplies tor their
locomotives. All OF them were suc-
cessful, and from several the water rises
above the surface. At Rock Springs
the water rises from a depth of 1,145
feet, twen:y-six feet above the surface,
and discharges ST. gallons per hour,
and at the surface, $50 gallons. The
wells have more than paid for them
selves.
Leeds, Mass, May 16.-The destruc.
tion was greater than supposed by the
break OF the reservoirs which occurred
this morning. The torrents swept the
valley, inundating the whole of Will
iamsburg and the greater portion o.
Leeds and Haydenville. 1t Is impos
sible 20 ascertain the loss of life unit
the flood abates.
Haydenvilc, Mass, May 16.-The
:own of Williamsburg was swept away
One hundred bodies have been recov
cred up to 10 a. m. Buildings from
Williamsburg and Leeds are floating
past With people on them going to sure
death.
Leeds, Mass, May 16.-The follow
ing are few Of the losses by the food
Silk mill and button shop; Skinner
silk mills, Skinnersville; Hayden's bras
mandatory. The station agent of IT,;
New Hampshire. Hartford and North
ampton Railroad land wife were drowned
The water is now falling, and in tbre,
hours the danger will probably be past
SINNERS boarding and dwelling house
are all destroyed. The inmates had nc
a moments warning. The water CAM
like an avalanch, sweeping down well
built houses. Whole families wer'
killed.
Boston, May 16.-Six or seveI
towns, villages and settlem ents wer
swept away by the reservoirs bursting a
Leeds. SINNERS silk mill, at Williams
burg, filled with girls, all ages, wa
swept away and all lost.
Haydenville; May 16. - Whole
blocks Of tenements have been swep
away, filled with men, women anC
children. Twenty-three bodies hay,
been found.
Northampton, Mass, May l6.-Th
engineer of the New Haven train, wifi
and two children were drowned. Sew
eral hundreds have certainly perished.
DIED.
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