The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-11
GENERAL NOTES.

apples in Vermont.
The Mill river disaster inquest has
been adjourned until June l3.
The Arkansas Legislature has ad
jounod to meet on Dec .mber 7 next.
Governor Dix has appointed Abra-
ham Lansing State Treasurer of New
York.
In fifteen elections under the local
option law in California the anti-liquor
people carried eleven.
A man named Turney was killed by
Cincinnati express at Duncannon, Penn
sylvania, May 2Sth.
The long-standing award to the
Choctaw Nation is about to be paid by
our Government.
The Bible is said to have been trans
lated into Persian verse by native o
that country.
Alabama thinks some of her re-
Gently discovered coal beds may be
worked proftably.
The tide Of emigration from the
New England States westward, has
greatly increased since 1871.
An Indian tribe, in Michigan, is
said to consist of an old horse, a chief,
and demijohn Of whisky.
An iguominious death was that Of
the New Hampshire man who was
killed by the bursting Of beer barrel
The New York stage-drivers' strike
has ended in the sue cess of the employ.
ers.
On the 28th ult, the car works o!
George Bi,ncr & 60, near Terrence
tltion this State, were burned. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
An old woman in Illinois has forwar-
ded ten cents to Washington to pay her
share of the national debt before she
dies.
y BIZ has passed the House that no
rerson shall serve as juror in a United
Stltes court who cannot read and write
English.
The State Engineer of Louisiana
writes Governor Kellogg that three mill
OF cubic feet of levee will be required
TO protect the State from overflow next
year.
The body of Arthor Sharp, sixteen
years Old, a victim Of the Mill river food,
has been found. The bodies of only
four Of the known victims are now unre-
covered.
The House Committee on Appro-
priAtions have agreed to insert, among
other items in the sundry appropriation
bill, S750,000 for the Philadelphia post
Office building.
The Little Rock news does not indi,
cate the most peaceful feelings in that
country as yet. Thieves, robbers, and
outlaws scom to run things about as
they please.
A special dispatch from Rome says
the health of the Pope is steadily im
proving and he is able to be about, but
physicians advise that he shall not 60
into the open air much.
y bill has passed the House giving
to the widow OF Captain Hall the am
cunt due him at the time OF his death
81 ,S36, aud $4,000 for the papers Of
his Arctic explorations.
The first criminal trial for violating
the railroad law of the State OF Wiscon.
sin took place on Saturday. a station
agent OF the Chicago aud Northwestern
Railroad Was tound guilty. Of charging
more than the legal fare for tickets, AND
was fined 81.
A young man, named George Cordes
aged about 27, died at Harrisburg, OF
Sunday, of trichin@, caused by eating
raw ham few weeks since. A sistel
Of the deceased, who partook Of tho
meat at the same time, died week pre-
vious OF the same disease.
The Court OF Common Pleas of Pitts
burgh on Thursday reversed the decis
ion of The acting Mayor in the case o
the temperance women recently arrested
here. The women are jubilant owe
their victory.
The cornerstone Of the new Museum
Of Natural History, Twenty ninth stree;
and Eight avenue, New York, was laid
Tuesday by President Grant, ia pres
cncc CT lully 5000 persons. The build
5 ing will be twenty-five feet longer thar
the Capitol at Washington, and will cost
{ about $G,00O,00O.
Tic monument in honor Of Colonc
) T. Il. Ellsworth was unveiled in The
cemetery at Mcchancsvillo, N. Y. Ma,
! 9th, in the presence OF a large crowd
: An Grafton giving the history and career
of Ellsworth, was delivered, poem WAS
read, and there were other exercises.
The Speaker OF the Senate and House
of Representatives of this State me-
Monday, in the Senate Chamber a
, Harrisburg, for the purpose of opening
the bids for publishing the Legislotie,
Record Tor the next tour years. GeOrg
!. Bergner being the lowest bidder, tn
! ! contract was awarded to him.
: On May q, while a young MAJ
named Burton aud two women wer,
crossing the Hudson river, at Albany
. in boat, the former attempted to hauC
: ia dog which was swimming aftel
them, and fell into the water. One 0
the women, in her efforts to help him
: also fell in, and both were drowned,
. A severe storm, resembling a cy