The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22
GENERAL NOTES.

The State fair at Easton was a great
success.
There are $50 postmistresses in Penn
sylvania.
The Grasshopper Aid Society of Ne
brasIa have Issued call for additional
subscriptions. 1t is hoped aid from
abroad will be rendered.
To promote the cause of temperance,
a number Of Paraisians have established
"milk club"
The first of the new sugar crop iu
Louisiana arrived in New Orleans en- the
Sth inst.
The price of tuition at Cornell Col
lege has been raised from $50 to $40
per term.
The dome Of the Capitol building at
Boston is being decorated with gold leaf
at cost Of 1859.
Wells, Fargo d, Co., had s5,719,S19
worth of silver, gold and coin pass
through tteir hands during the quarter
ending Sept 3Oth.
The citizens of Swiss nativity in
Baltimore propose to celebrate the ami
versary of the freedom Of Switzerland
on the 9th of November.
The New York Board OF Health ad-
vocates the disuse Of candy, as it blunts
whose reported wealth exceeds one mil
lion dollars apiece.
Snow blockades are already reported
from the far west. On September 4th,
a train on the Union Pacific Railroad
was SNOW bound on the Red Root
Mountain.
A Boys and Girls Aid Society exists
in San Francisco. 1t has large rooms,
and provides a library, reading room,
gymnasium, and other rational amuse-
ments for boys and girls.
Eighteen thousand boxes of matches
were thrown overheard from steamer
at San Francisco. one day last week, Oy
an irate importer who was dis usted
with the scale OF duties.
York is to have a soldiers monument
the base of which has already been ship.
ped to that place. 1t is to be of the
finest Maryland marble.
The cotton crop notes for October
show that the crop opens freely, ano
the picking generally was In rapid pro
gress. In some cases the seed had
sprouted in the boil.
A sad accident is related from Spyde
county, Pa. a little girl, the daughte
Of Job Walter, while left alone in tht
} house. caught fire by her clothes, an,
before assistance could be rend cred va
burned to death.
Governor Hartranit, after careful
examination of the case Of Udderzook
finds it his duty to issue the death-war
rant. The condemned has received tn
decision with that strong nerve 70
+ which he is noted.
, Fashionable women in Paris nov
wear attached to a belt around thei
waists an aims bag, fan, a card case
pocket-bo an umbrella, a turIi
watch, pin-cushion, some ivory tablets
! and little mirror.
Chicago's latest sensation is a sui
against G. B. Farwell, a member Of Con
gress from that city, to recover eight
acres of land, which; il is alleged, wer
T obtained by Farwell in settlement of
J. gambling debt
e Baltimore will hold a Centennia
: celebration on the 10Th instant A hur
) dred years ago on that day the Pegg
i Stewart laden with teas, was burned i
e the harbor of Annapolis, by Charlie
Carroll, of Carrolton, and other eminer
d sons OF Maryland.
n Sewing machines are opposed i
e China on the score that they cheape
;. labor. Several tailors in Hong Kon
: who tried to intoduce them were mobeC
e IN America Chinese cheap labor is d.
j. rided, and in China American chea
Il labor by machinery is forcibly repudi'
ted.
e At a squirrel hunt in Florenc
a Mass, on Monday last one part
It showed 3,915 heads, and the othe
!. 4,9l5, chipmucks beng excluded
e Among the game were 200 coons, 3
e gray squirrels, % red squirrels, 8
t. pigeons, rs woodchucks, 100 crows, 10
10 hen hawks, so rabbits, 200 foxes, an