The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Two thousand dollars worth of CEN
times have been coined and issued from
the French mint. A. centime is worth
oue-6fth Of cent.
TIE cables Of the East River bridge,
at Brooklyn, will contain more than
5000 wire strands, aud will sustain
thousand tons weigh.
Ss, Losis will shortly have a new
industry, . company having been Or
gaaised 30 manufacture spades and
Shovels The supply has hitherto been
drawn from E&sern factories.
ANoTHIn RAIeRoAp.-The Clear.
field region is looking up-s branch road
is being laid from the Moshannon, near
the Sterling mines, 10 four new operat.
ions that ere nearly ready for shipping
COAL
Guigot's library, according to writer
in the Constitutional contains no less
than 10000 books, q number Of which
ere works Of great value relating to the
history Of France, Germany and Great
Britain.
About ono-half of the railroads in the
United Kingdom are worked upon the
"absolu!s block" spstem. BY this ar.
rangemeut train Is not permitted to
leave station until signal is received
that the line between that and the
hext citation is clear.
THREE "parties by the name of Cox"
have already been nominated for Con-
6ress. There is St. Julian Cox in Min
nesota, Jonathan D. Cox in Indiana,
and John R. Cox in Maryland. Some
of these are doom ed to be dead Cox in
the pit when the election is over.
Albany, N. Y. October 2.-The trial of
Phelps, the defaulting cashier of the State
Treasurer, Was continued to-day. The
arguments we're both closed and the Court
procssdsd 70 charge the jury, reviewing
the charges against the prisoner aud tax.
ing strong grounds against him
The Louisville Ledger publishes a
carefully prepared review of the trade
and commerce Of that city for the year
ending August 81. which shows that
there are now in successful operation in
Louisville more than 500 manufacturing
establishments, representing an invest
ment of S2O,0O0,O00, producing wares
annually estimated at s56,0OO,0OO en-
ploying constantly 10, 900, persons, and
paying out annually for labor about
ss,00O,OOO,
Kingston, N. A. Oct. Ga man
giving his name as Charles r. Ballard
of New York city, to-day called at the
First National Bank of Rondout and
presented to the cashier letter of in
PRODUCTION purporting to be signed by
George Obdyke & Co. of New York,
and a check for $4,000 on the Third
National Baak of New York, signed by
George Obdyke & Co. and certified by
letter. The cashier suspected fraud
telegraph to New York, and discovered
that it was forgery. Ballard escaped
WARRINGTON, Oct, lon the way
to the Sherman wedding to-day the
horses attached to the Presidents car
riage became frightend and ran away
near Seventh street and New York av
enue. The carriage contained the
President and Mrs. Grant and Marsha
Sharpe and wife. None of them were
injured, though the carriage was
smashed. The President immediate !
halted another team on the street anG
proceeded to the church; arriving there
about five minutes after the service had
commenced,
The Mauch Chunk Coal Gazette i.
ofopinion that "Mr. Lstta, the Demo
cratic candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, is not much q friend of he far
mers. While he was q member Of th'
Legislature he introduced bill TO tai
all sheep over two months old at tel
cents per head. He failed to get tht
bill through, but he limited it
workings to his own country and re.
duced the rate TO Eve cents per head
and this bill passed. 1t is not likely
many farmers will support tnan whose
only public act was an attempt to impose
an unjust tax upon them. Don't vote
for Latta, the sbeep-taxsr of the South