The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-05-14
GENERAL NOTES.

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100000 acres Of land inundated by
the Mississippi floods.
Snow foot deep on the leve lis re-
ported from New Hampshier
The fruit ard other crops of Georgia
have been injured by frost.
Snow fell in New Hampshire or
seventeen days in April, to the total
amount Of thirty-6ve inches.
The great want of Fair Play
Colorado, is "a car load Of marriageabe
girls"
A Missouri judge has decided tha,
woman is not an 'old maid" until she
is thirty-6ve years old.
$5,000,000 in gold will be thrown
iuto the market by the Treasury Depart.
ment during May.
The Grangers at Pomfret, VT, have
offered a premium to those Of their order
who set out the largest number of fores,
trees next Saturday.
A Kansas book agent says he can Sc ]
ten dime novels to one work Oh religion,
and he looks for earthquakes and
hurricanes TO visit that State.
That controversy about Mt. AraraI
continues, but there's no use locating it
in the United States just because Noah
same out of the Ark and saw.
Vernon Center claims to have the
biggest elm tree 10 Vermont 1t is six
feet four inches in diameter, and less
than one hundred years old.
Joseph Waltz, the Cask:ll, N. Y.
double murderer, was hanged on Fri
day, week. His father witnessed the
execution and took possession OF the
body
The othyr day, in New York, nearly
900 TIA ians got vaccinated, in consequ-
ence Of number of cases of small pox
being reported among their country
men.
The medical examination of the
brain OF Waltz, the murderer, showed it
was in perfectly healthy and sound
condition and weighed ffty.iour ounces.
In quarrel ia Burlington Vermont,
George Buchanan stabbed his brother
William in several places, causing death
The difficulty originated in family
feud
At Maiden, Mass, las, week, a two
and-a-haIi-story house was moved by the
wind twenty-five feet and dashed against
another house. rhe Grst-houre was COM
pletely destroyed and the o;her badly
damaged.
Farmers in many parts of Camden
county are Teplanting their potatoes,
many of those planted early having
rotted in consequence Of continued
rainy weather.
A young man named George Van
Velzer, about Ell ,htecu or lnscen years
Of age, employed for some time as I;
clerk in the tresuier's Office OF the New
York Central and Hudson River Rail
road, at the Grand Central depot. has
deoamped with S32, 900
Smallpox has broken cut to on al
arming extent i'll Rock wood, Ga. S,
great is the distress that the citizens OF
the town sent a petition to the Mayo,
of Atlanta asking that nurses be SEN
them, and also quantity ol provisions
The Mayor has called upon the people
OF Atlanta to respond with contributions
for the assistance Of the sufferers.
A convict escaped in Georgia recently
uuaer extraordinary circumstances. I
appears that he with others had been
hired out for agricultural labor. III,
overseer had some dogs that he VA
training to catch any OF the gang wh'
might escape, ana he turned hi,
convict loose to exercise the dogs anc
instruct them in their parts. But tn,
fellow took his part in earnest, aud a.
the dogs failed to cone up to what va,
expected of them, he was not cuughi
There was a terrible calamity at the
village Of Shawanguuk. on the WAIKIKI!
Valley Railroad, 80 miles lro1
Kingston, n. Y, on Saturday. May "a
AS the day hauds employed iu ComGte
large paper mill were leaving tie shop
just before 6 p. NJ, the large rotar,
boiler exploded. nearly demolishing the
building, and burying in the ruins mapy
of the lsborers. The following were
taken out dead: Mary Mclaughlin
cutter tender; Eliza Conklin, cutter teu
der; Patrick Tuer, straw,cutter feeder,
W. B. Hill, boiler tender; Michae
Flanagan, tub tender, aud Robert
Owen, fireman. Fatally injured, JOHN
Smalley and George Robinson, straw
room employers, and Joseph jansen
firemen. Those killed were trightiulIS
maugled. The force OF the explosion
was terrific. The boiler, weighing five
tons, was thrown six hundred ieet
There was intense excitement in tn,
village and the crowd threatened tt
lynch Mr.. Tranter, the superintendent
of the mill, who, it is claimed, is guilty
of criminal negligence in using "a con
demned and rotten boiler.