The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-23
GENERAL NOTES.

is fully protected against hostile Indi-
ans by the troops
Mrs. Mary Ann Harrison, aged SO,
died on July 10 from genuine Asiatic
cholera, at her residence in Brooklyn.
Fires of burning kerosene, it is said,
may be extinguisbed by throwing on
-four.
The city of Chattanooga las voted to
give 100000 to the Cincinnati South
ern Railway.
NJ. L. Sullivant, of Ford county, ILL.,,
las a single field of 10000 acres that
will produce over 100000 bushels Of
corn this year.
Sixty thousand young shad, hatched
by Seth Green, at Holyoke, Conn, have
been placed in the Rock river at Rock
ford, Ill.
Lotus, who recently murdered his
wife in Gravesville, Wis, pleaded guilty,
and was sentenced to the State Prison
Cor life,
The rumor from Washington of the
intended resignation Of Vice President
Wilson, has no foundation in fact. Mr..
Wilson's health is bette. now than ever
sience his illness.
James McCabe, a New York thief,
robbed jewelry store at Hartford,
Conn. Tuesday. July 9th was caught
aud tried and at p. NJ. was sentenced
to the State Prison for seven years.
The balloon Monarch of the Air, con-
tanning James Allen of Providence,
George A. Rogers aud Charles II. Bald
win of Boston, made an ascension from
Boston Common at half past five p. NJ,
on Saturday, and landed at Point Shir-
ley two hours afterwards.
The deficits in the First Nationa
Bank of New Bedford, Mass, caused by
John p Barker, cashier, have been
made good by his friends, and no loss
falls upon the bank. The defalcation is
stated at $4,000. Barker is nearly
sixty years Of age, and has been cashier
about twenty years.
In some parts of the interor, the ri
pening Of fruit is fastened by removing
the earth around the trees to such an
extent as to leave depth Of earth over
the roots of only about two to four in
ches, which could De thoroughly war
med by the sun,
In order to make the lowlands in
Louisiana safe for residents, 800 miles
Of levee, or 50,000,000 cubic yards of
wal! will have to be built The necess-
airy repairs at crevasscs alone are expcc-
ted to cost S3,C00,000, of which Uncle
Sam is expected to pay two-thilds.
The champion COW of the season
turns up in Washington county, Tennes-
see, where she has given the immense
yield of 2,0404 pounds OF milk in thirty
days. The animal is au Ayrshire breed,
and the smallest amount OF milk given
by her in single day was found by ac-
curate weight to be 81 pounds.
Early Sunday morning Mrs. John
Meats residing about ten miles south OF
McConnellsburg, in this State, while la
boring under state Of mental aberra-
ton, seized a gun, and while her hus-
band was still sleeping shot and killed
him instantly. She then with a razor
inflicted horrible wound upon the
head and neck Of one Of her children,
and with a pitchlork almost killed
another. The children are in critical
condition.
A decision under the new bankrupt
law has been made by Judge j. c. Hop
kns, Of the United States District Court
for the Western district Of Wisconsin,
that adjudications confirming to the
old law made before the passage of the
amended act are not void thereby; that
such adjudication partake Of the nature
of judgments, and cannot be set aside
or altered by subsequent legislation;
that the provisions in the amended act
10 regard to the number and amount OF
petitioning creditors do not apply to
cases in advanced stage.
Abiding to the impression which
seems to be prevalent in the East, that
nearly the entire State of Minnesota is
overrun with grassboppers and the crops
utterly destroyed, the St Paul Press, OF
the l4th inst, published statement
showing that thc total damage done by
the grasshoppers' raid is equivalent
simply to loss Of about oue-twelfth Of
the usual crop, or about the same as il
the average yield throughout the State
was diminished from any source some
thing over l. bushels Per acre below
the. general average. 1t extends over
only about one-tenth of. the area uf the
State, and involves about one-thirteenth
of the population. The crops outside
Of. the devastated region promise most
abundant yield.
The terms of twenty-five Senators ex,
pre March /, and nearly all the Legis,
latures which elect their successors
are to be chosen this year. These
Senators consist Of seventeen Republi-
cans, three Liberals, and five Democrats
Northward of Virginia and Ohio six
Republicans and three Democrats retire,
Two OF their successors have been
chosen. Hamilton, Democrat, of Mary
land, to be succeeded by Whyte, Demo
crat. buckingham, Republican, OF
C, nneclicut, to be succeeded by Eaton,
Democrat. Rhode Island has adjour-
ned its wrangle TO January, In New
England, Hamlin, of Maine; Edmunds,