The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-16
GENERAL NOTES.


Nail kegs are made in 7 minutes.
California has 80 Episcopal churches.
Chicago has 353 acres of pleasure
lands.
Illinois is already threashing her
wheat.
Chicago is disgusted with its street
beggars.
Only two hand organ makers in the
United States.
San Francisco is building hotel to
cost 81 100000.
Florida reports good crop Of alliga-
tors this season.
New Haven had procession of bak-
ers the other day.
78 years has a Wisconsin wood chop.
per been at his work.
Sheep raising is assuming lively fea-
lures in Southern Illinois.
Not one accident or fire occurred in
Baltimore on the Fourth.
Highwaymen infest the route from
Salt Lake City to Montana.
Havana is blessed at this time with
yellow fever and small pox.
A New London, Conn, fishing boat
recently captured rs sword fish,
Quicksilver has been discovered in
the mountains back OF Baralito, Cal.
1t is roughly estimated that the au-
nual production of American wine is
about twenty millions of gallons.
The women and children at Smyrna,
Del, earned $1,000 picking Strawber-
ries.
A Jersey City pet-dog seized
lady by the lips and bit one off, few
days ago.
An attempt was recently made by an
Inmate to burn the almshouse at Lowell,
Mass.
A balloon voyage was recently made
from Buffalo, N. Y, to Salem, N. j.;
time l3 hours.
Five hundred Mormon emmigants ar
rived at New York on Monday.
Weymouth, Mass, celebrated its two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary Satur-
day.
Gill, on trial for murder in New York
has been sentenced to imprisonment for
life
The increased acreage Of corn planted
this season is in round numbers 2,00O,-
600 acres.
The majority for the new constitu-
tional convention in Arkansas is esti-
mated at 10000.
The long strike of the union coal min
ers, at New S raitsville, Ohio, has ended,
the miners returning to work in body
Miss Carrie Ostrander, one Of the in
jured in the Baptist Church disaster at
Syracuse on June 23, is dead, making
the fourteenth victim.
The Michigan Central Railroad de-
pot and freight house. at Grand Rapids,
Michigan, was burned on July 7th.
Loss, $4,000.
Orders were issued on July I'd, iu
Boston, directing the police to kill all
unlicensed dogs found at large within
the city limits.
The assessed value of real and personal
estate in the city and county of New
York is reported at ,754,000,00O, an
increase of S24,78S,000 on the valua-
tion of last year.
At Paterson, N. j., on Monday, jose
phine Divine, who lives alone with an
Invalid sister, was fatally burned while
lighting fire with coal oil.
Governor Groome, of Maryland, will
commute the sentence of Charles Jones,
the murderer, to life Imprisonment.
Jones was to have been hung August
81.
A courier from General Clusters ex-
pedition, telegraphing from Bismarck
st. Paul, reports the command twenty
miles out on the 4th at noon. The
weather was exceedingly hot. Five SOL
diers and one teamster had been sun
struck. Clusters orders prohibit firing
on Indians unless they show unmistaka-
BILE signs of hostility.
Information telegraphed from Fort
Fetterman states that on the I'd inst,
party of citszens engaged in hanlng
wood near there were fred on by six In-
dians, but they escaped. At noon the
same day eight Sioux attacked and shot
Jesse Hampton, sixteen miles from the
same post. He was dangerously woun-
ded, and is now in the hospital at the
fort.
A postponed exhibition of fireworks
took place at New York on Monday
evening. When near its close a pile of
fireworks lying on the ground exploded
by a spark from a rocket, and Roman
candles, bombs, rackets, etc., whizzed
among an assemblage of about five thous-
and people. A number of persons were
injured, but only four so seriously as to
require medical attendance. For short
time there was fearful panic among the
nroWd