The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-26
STATE NOTES.

The Valley furnaces and rolling mill al
Sharon. Pa, are idle. They have large
stock of ore and pig iron on hand
The religious and temperance movement
is soon to DE inaugurated in Philadelphia
mt mber of clcrgymen are cooperating
with the mo vement.
After long trial jury in Pike county
has awarded $4,246 damages to a maj
whose barn was burned by spark from al
Erie Railroad engine.
The family of Deiringer, the pistol man
have just won suit in luzerre county
which gives them the title to 81, ,OOO, O0(
worth Of coal lands.
VIM. S. Stokley, Republican, has beer
elected mayor OF Philadelphia, over A. II
Mcclure, Rform candidate, ty 1886 ma
jority. ..
Philadelphia leads all other cities in the
molasses trade. Last year she imported
los, 0U0 hogshead Of molasses, against
100, 600 for New Yolk and $4,000 for
Boston.
The greatest breadth of this State is one
hundred and seventy-six miles. and the
greatest length two hunurel and eighty
miles. 1t contains twenty eight million
three hundred and sixty-two thousand eight
hundred and eight acres of land.
The total amount of coal mined in Tioga
county in 1873 was 99l ,057 tons, of which
the Fall Brook Company furnished 3l2,-
466 tons; Morris Run, 357, 3s4 tons Bloss-
burg Coal Company, 52l, ,20I tons.
Postmasters in Somerset county have
been collecting postage on weekly news.
papers at the rate of eighty cents year.
That's a trifie steep, as Uncle Sam only
claims five cents per quarter.
Samuel L. Young, of Reading, has in
his possession a book printed in Venice in
l4T3. 1t is work on Theology in the
Latin language, with the heading, of chap
ters and paragraphs illuminated.
Philadelphia had 2S4 deaths last week,
decrease Of only two from the correspond
ing period last year. OF this number there
were nine between eighty and one hundred
years old.
John D. Patterson, the Republican can
didate for mayor Of harris burg, has ma
jority of 1873 on the official count. David
5. Herr, Republican, for city Treasurer,
has 739 majority.
A Titusville man has sent Mcconnell of
the Penn Yam Democrat, a piece of deers
leg, which was found inbedded in the heart
Of an oak tree thirty feet above the ground.
1t is said to be a great curiosity.
williamsport was visited by the fire fiend
on the night of the 18th inst. During the
fire four men were run over by an engine
weighing 1000 pounds. and strange to say,
none we're fatally and only one seriously
Injured.
The citizens Of Jefferson county have
given notice by advertisements through the
newspapers that application will be made
to the present Legislature for authority TO
build and maintain a poor house in that
county.
From January 1st up TO the l4th instant
the Catawissa railroad had shipped ,l55
car loads of lumber, aggregating l1,0l5,-
76O feet. For the same time the p. & y.
had shipped S94 car loads, making S.567..
coo feet. Total over bo tn roads, 13. $685.
$50 feet.
Sad is the story of the greasy town of
Plthole, Pa, which, ninety days after ;he
first house was built, during the petroleum
had two theaters, two daily
newspapers, an opera house, seventy-fve
hotels and saloons, and n little latter q pop
nlation of 20, OU0. Now it boasts popu-
lation of scarcely 100.
Martin Seeley was killed by John Wise,
in Butler, on the l4th inst. II appears
that Wise visited Secley's house and was
being shown scmo papers by the wife Of
the latter, who entered about that time ani
began a quarrel, ordering Wise to leave the.
h""~e. wisa took q stick from the fire
aud struck Seeley on the temple breaking
his skull from ear to ear.
EX-Judge william II. Cool, a prominent
citizen of Carbon county, and resident of
Beaver Meadow, while engaged with his
son in tearing down an old powder mill
about four miles from. the latter place on
the 18th inst, which mill had been aband-
oned for some years, struck an iron bolt
with an axe, causing spark TO fly, which
i guishtsd some twenty-five or thirty kegs
of powder lying on the floor, Mr.. Cool,
on seeing the sparks, started towards the
door, and had passed out when he heard
terrible explosion. He WAS knocked down
and was much burned, but is not seriously
injured. The mill was con sumed in II
short time.