The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-26
GENERAL NOTES.

paper terms the women's liquor crusade.
Chicago detectives are demanding
more pay In consequence of an Increase
in business.
The first brook trout of the season
were offered for sale in New York on the
7th inst.
The Society for the Rescue Of Ship
wrecked Persons in Germany saved las
lives during 1878.
A Council Bluffs saloon keeper told
the ladies he would giveup the business
if they would elect him Mayor.
Oberlip, Ohio, has 100 less inhabi-
tants than five years ago, and real
estate is lower tn an fifteen years ago,
David G. King. convicted in New
York OF the murder of Anthony +
O'Neill, has been sentenced TO State
Prison for life.
The amount of immigration into
Eastern Washington Territory will be
unusually large large during the coming
season.
Some cattle in Minnesota were re-
Gently killed by eating barley straw, the
boards of which lodged in their throats,
causing severe inflammation aud conse-
quent death.
How heroic that declaration of Brig
ham Young that, "if necessary to the
building up OF the Kingdom, | could
bury all my wives without sigh or
tear"
A London paper advertises an adult
Egyptian mummy for sale. The thought
Of being dug up and hawked about for
sale 5000 years hence makes the crema.
tion theory less distasteful.
At the Lansing meeting OF owners of
pine lands, one gentleman was presen,
who owns 100000 acres of those lands
in Michigan, and another who is the
possessor of about 100000 acres in
Wisconsin, besides a very large quantity
in Michigan.
The Legislature of New Hampshire
being Democratic. though Weston lacks
a few hundred votes, Of a popular ma
jority, he will probably be the next
Governor of the "Grauite State"
The Cherokee Indians are no dolts.
They send 1900 children to school,
nine months in the year, and the rising
generation will be great poets, after
Joaquin Miller ct i'll genus.
The Savannah Ne,cs says a negro was
buried alive in a well at Butler recently.
His friends dug down to him in about
four hours, aud found him alive and
well. He said that he never wanted to
sneeze SO bad in his lite, but he was
afraid he would jar down some more
dirt.
The distress from the famine in Ben
gal is increasing, and many thousands
Of the natives are dependent upon the
Government tor food. In the Trihoot
districts, 100, 900 persons, all of whom
were in an emaciated condition, made
application tor relief within the last ten
days.
A female graduate of the medical de.
partment Of Iowa University has taken
the first plize for the best performed
dissection in surgical anatomy. in a class
consisting of twenty four young men and
one other young woman.
The Illinois Legislature is consider
ing bill for the appropriation of ST.
225 600 for the erection and furnishing
of building for training school for
feeble minded children, the location of
the institution to be at or near Jackson
vii lie.
The exploring expedition of citizens,
organized at Bozeman, Montana, has
started down the Yellowstone. There
are $50 men in the party; they have
400 rounds of small-arm ammunition ,er
man; two small cannons, and two hun
dred rounds for the artillery.
A band of Sioux Indians are en-.
camped on Big Dry Greek, and others
of the same tribe are near the Bear-Paw
Mountains. These aborigines are hunt
ing buffalo, and are receiving arms,
powder, and shot from the traders on
the Missouri river.
Mrs. Bridget Ward aged IS, of Balti
more, attempted last week to accelerate
the Kitchen fire with coal oil, when the
cen containing half gallon of fluid ex-
ploded. She was Immediately envel-
oped in flames, and 80 horribly burned
that she died in a few hours. Her
daughter was also badly burned in her
endeavors to save her mother.
The will Of Miss Sophia j Snow, of
Boston, bequeathing sS5, 900 to various
charitable institutions, has been admitted
to probate. The will ends as follows:
81 forbid all person or persons to
break this my last will and testament,
and whoever attempts to break it, may
he, she, or'they find no peace for mind
or body in this world, or in the world to
come.
At Hosmer's pond, Camden, Me-, on
Sunday night, a week, a young man
named Keller, of Camden, accompanied
by Miss Holt, of Lurechville, was driv.
ing on the road used for hauling ice,
when the team broke through, carrying
the buggy and its occupants under the
ice, and all were drowned. The water
was about foot above the top of the
carriage.
1t is estimated that one-tenth of the
horses in New Fork are affected by the