The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-30
GENERAL NOTES.

repetition of the two great fires.
Fighting with the Indians is reported
from all along the Western frontier.
At Washington no notes have as yet
been issued to the new national banks.
In the city of Boston there are twenty
one savings banks, with more than $780,
100000 on deposit.
The new directory of Springfield
Mass, contains 1878 names,an increase
of nearly 700 since last year.
Last week the fishermen at Barnegat
amused themselves by dragging blue fish
ashore with garden rakes.
During the harvest time throughout
some sections of the country farmers
are glad to get hands for So per day and
board.
1t is said that the usefulness of the
English sparrows is greatly destroyed
by feeding them in the summer.
In Gardiner, Maine, ice can be bought
for 81 per ton, whilst in New York it
brings all the way from SIS to 25.
General Phil Sheridan has been au-
thorized by the War Department to pur-
sue and punish the hostile savages on
the frontier.
Immense clouds of grasshoppers
alighted one day last week near Colum-
bus, Nebraska, and are doing some dam
age. They are rapidly moving east
ward.
John Kaiser, shoemaker, of Franklin,
Ohio, ended four weeks spree on the
18th inst, by shooting his wife and in
stantly killing her, and then killing
himself.
The police Of the Brighton district,
Mass, Sunday night made haul of six
teen railroad thieves. They had been
operating considerably on cars switched
on side-tracks.
Six hundred buildings were burned
and three thousand people rendered
homeless by the late fire in Oshkosh
Wisconsin. Loss about Sl,00O,00O
and insurance 100000.
From four millions to six millions OF
dollars will cover the loss by the Chi
cago fire. OF this sum the insurance
companies will have TO pay two million
FIVE hundred thousand dollars.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
determined that there shall be no defcl-
ency bill reported to Congress from his
department, and has given notice to all
officers of the department to that effect
Under the will of her uncle, just de-
ceased, Mrs. General Bristow, wife o.
the new Secretary of the Treasury, has
Just fallen heir to fortune of $3.50, ,00C
Fortunes, like misfortunes, never come
single.
Secretary Robson will soon issue I;
new order with regard to the manage
ment of the several navy yards in thC
United States. The most stringen
economy is to be practiced, and th'
force in all the yards will be reduced.
The boil and army worm have mad,
their appearance in Middle Alabama
Eastern Mississippi, and in many paris
hes in Louisiana. Three large planta.
tions in Middle Alabama have been en-
tirely destroyed within three days.
A fire on Saturday afternoon, on the
farm of Joseph Bennett, eight or nine
miles from Trenton, on the Pennsylva
nia side, destroyed mis- barn, two child
rem, aged seven aud nine, eight loads o
wheat, and large quantity of hay. The
children were playing with matches il
the cellar of the barn, and set fire to thu
hay.
If half the croaking men would cease
their grumbling, roll up their sleeves
DO an honest days work and stop max
ing the panic an excuse for not paying
honest debts, confidence would be res
sored, trade revived, and every honest
industrious man would be enabled to pay
one hundred cents on the dollar.
The last Indian war Uncle Sam en-
gagged in, that with the Modocs, was a
a cost OF s5O0,000 for every Modo,
killed, and a little cyphering will sat
isfy any tax payer that it is cheaper tt
feed and cloth the Indians than tt
starve, strip and fight them. But then
IN times of peace, contractors woult
have no chance to supply munitions o
war at triple prices.
Last March, in Topeka, Kansas, R
W. Ferris and Fred Olds qual alrelled
over a game of checkers, when the lat
ter killed the former, burying his body
in the celler aud giving out that Ferris
had gone East on business. The latter
not seeming likely to return, Olds wa
arrested on supicion, and now confessed
the crime in the District Court.
Nathan Isaacson has been arrested il
Chicago, charged with firing the build
ing that caused the fire on July II
The testimony taken goes to show tina
the prisoner offered peddler named
Wolfson 500 to set the house on fire.
that the peddler had once made an un
successful attempt to do SO, and then