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

Al Californian sold his orange croI
from FIVE acres tor $4,000.
All work at the ice houses on tn,
Hudson river closed on Saturday, 21s
ult. Close figuring shows that up 4
that time $50, 1000 tons Of ioe have beer
gathered, and the harvest is considered
over,
The National Crop Reporter esti.
mates that 4S per cent. Of the hay oroI
Of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota
Ohio, and Wisconsin remain in the
hands Of producers.
The journeymen shoemakers belong.
ing to the Crispin society Of Chicago
are on strike. The only point at issue
between them and the employers is that
the Crispins refuse to promise not to
strike 10 body whenever the employees
of any one house strike.
Morgantowu, KY, has a little boy
who, though seven years old, has never
walked, except with the assistance of
his hands. He uses them in looomo-
tion like a quadruped. No effort on
the part of his family has succeeded in
teaching him to walk as ordinary hu-
man beings.
The grand jury Of Henry county,
Illinois, Is competing with the Spraying
women" in suppressiug the sale Of liquor.
Indictments were found, February Is,
against forty-eight saloon-keepers in that
county for selling liquor to minors,
which is strictly forbidden by law, and
punishable with severe penalties.
WashiDgton's birthday was commem.
Grated all over the country by very
general suspension of business. In all
the leading cities the stock exchange,
produce exchange, and other similar
places, did not open. At Key West,
the national flag was displaced at the
peak and each masthead of the fleet,
from sunrise till sunset.
The petition of steel consumers to,
Congress contains the names OF over
$50 prominent manufacturers in all
parts of the country, who represent over
a hundred millions capital, employing
more than $4,000 hands. West New
York State, Pennsylvania, and New
England are largely represented in the
document. Their object is a reduced
and specific duty on steel.
The workingmen Of indianapolis
have adopted resolution approving of
arbitration as a means for the settlement
of disputes between the employe aud
opposing the contract system
as adopted in penal and reformative in
and also the system of work.
ing overtime as au injury to the indi-
vidual as well as to the trade in which
he is employed.
Professor Proctor says that If an in
fant were born with IN arm of the
length Of 100000 miles, so as to
reach the sun; and if in the cradle he
were to stretch out bis arm and touch
the sun, that infant might grow to the
years and ten allotted to man,
but he never would be conscious of the
fact that the tip Of his finger was
burned; he would have to live 1875
years before that would be experienced.
McNutt, who, with Winner, murdered
and burned painter Damed SAVERS, at
Wichita, Kansas, in December last, has
confessed his cTiue. He says Winner
persuaded him long ago, in Kansas
City, to enter upon course of crime,
and planned the whole affair. McNutt
was to have his life insured for FIVE
thousand dollars, and then kill and buru
some victim aud palm off the body for
his, so that the money could be co.,
lected.
There are two Indian tribes in Maine,
the Passamaquoddies and the Penob-
scots, and each are represented in the
by one of their own num-
ber. These two representatives of the
red man take no part in legislation, but
are allowed to draw their pay just the
same as the representatives Of the white
man. They spend most Of their time
during the session in the rotunda en-
gagged in chatting with each other in
the dialect of their fathers.
The Massachusetts, Supreme Judicial
Court has decided afirmatively the fol-
lowing question referred to it by order
of the Legislature. Under the consti-
tuition OF this Commonwealth can a
women be member of a school COM
mittee? The court holds that the con-
stitution contains nothing relating to
schools committees, and the common law
Of England was our law upon the SUBJ
ject Of permitting women to gil any
local Office Of administrative cbaracte or,
the duties attached to which we're such
that woman was competent to perform
them.
Brooklyn, February 26.-1t has been
rumored for several days that an exami-
nation OF the accounts of the Tax Col
lector's Office by the Board of Audit
has resulted in the discovery of evidence
sufficient to warrant the arrest of ex-
Collector Isaac Badeau for fraud, and
yesterday he was arrested on the aft.
davit of Controller Schroeder for en-
bezzlement of funds amounting in the
aggregate 70 more than twenty five
thousand dollars. A preliminary hear
ing was had before Judge Moore, who
fixed the bail at thirty thousand dollars,
to be offered by two sureties, to justify
in double the amount. The necessary
bail was furnished last evening. and
Badeau was released.
PHILADELPHIA, February 25-Tbe