The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-19
.orNHRAL NOTES.

coal sbsle.
The Des Moins coal mines emplo
! over 500 me6.
Paper as a Building material has be
come great success.
Angry women in Omaha right thei
wrongs with revolvers.
Nova Scotia "6shed up" S6,20Q, ,Ool
from the briny deep last year.
An Iowa man has perfected 4 process
for utilizing coal dust as sfs fuel.
/ A lady was recently ordained q Uni
versalist minister at Kittery, Me-
France exported 1898 horses durinl
the first three months of last year.
New York State contains one-nintl
the population of the entire country.
There are over $4,000 idiots in thil
country, who are acknowledge as such.
Missouri legislation costs seven dollar.
a minute.
Chicago spent $63,l0 in tho relieI
OF the poor during January.
Small feather fans are said to be tax.
ing the place of the gigantic wind sal
of last summer. '.'
The question Of the legal right of q
women to be Justice of the Peace in
Maine is at issue, and the Governor has
asked the Supreme Court for decision
A boy in Quincy, Ill.,, has discovered
by personal experiment that the prob
lem of rapid transit may be solved by
tickling a mule with a stick.
A New York woman asserts her
equality with man by running policy
shop, and found that her sex did not
save her from arrest and punishment.
According to the new directory, the
District of Columbia contains no less
that Thomas JefFersous, Q James Mad
isons, 4 John Adamses, 8 John Quincy
Adamsea, and 27 George Washingtons.
London papers allude to the Inarema-
ton Clup, which, We believe, is the last
new club 10 that city. TIE members,
one and all, hold to the idea of burning
after death. .....
The Southern Historical Society is
gathering the records Of the late icivi.
war, in order that the material. may be
obtained for Southern history of the
struggle. t..- ~.
Wolves are still troublesome and
hungry in Pauldiug county, Ohio. One
night, a week or two since, they killed
fifteen sheep belonging to shepherd Of
those peaceful wales.
The Detroit Free Press says, that
pair Of lovers in that section have been
known to sit up half the night and not
burn as much kerosene as the family
uses il half an hour during the even
ing.
The Evangelic clergymen Of Detroit
nave been discussing the propriety Of
having but one sermon on Sunday.
Most OF those who took part in the dis
cussion we're in favor of one service.
The production Of coal on the Pacific
coast is rapidly increasing. The, Mount
Diablo mines have averaged 175,000
,""s a year for two years past, and the
lowest prices are $6 70 for tue, aud
So rs for coarser ':
Gold wears away in the handling.
Government officials state that in the
simple counting and transfer Of one
million of dollars from one vault to
another the loss by abrasion amounts to
six dollars.
A new freak of fashion consists ol
birth announcement cards. They are
exceedingly small, and the announce
ment reads, "Compliments of Mr.. and
Mrs Blank, and son or daughter, as
the case may be. February 10, 8 p. m
A sharp shock of earthquake was dis
tinctly felt a, Father Point, Canada, re
Gently. 1t shook stoves and everything
movable in the houses OF the village
A shock was also felt about ten miles be
low Quebec. 1t appears to have COM
from the southwest. ....>
The murderer Rafferty, is to be hun,
at Chicago on February 27, for killing
Policeman O'Meary a year or two ago
aud the State Attorney says that Raj
fertie's s,ringing up "will be equal t.
an addition of two hundred men to th'
police force for period of five years."
Bishop Doggett, Of Virginia, Wit
has just returned from California, saw
wheat field there seventeen miles long
When the owner plows it he starts sh'
plow on one furrow and goes al! day
and when night comes stops and camp
out, and plows back the next day.
Excitement at Omaha over Indial
news is becoming great. There is n
doubt but that, in consequence of tn
failure of agents to provide for them, tn
Indians are leaving their reservations 70
the purpose of providing for themselge
at the expense of the settlers, herdert
and ranchmen.
The disbursements by army pay
masters during the late war amounte
to 81 ,094 100000. The whole numbe
of psymasters was SAL, of whose Al
counts 1856 are closed and l55 opel
with cash balances unpaid amounting
S780,705. Some of these balances al
ID suit, others are considered WORTHLESS
and few are to be settled.
Officers of Madison county,. Ne
York, have succeeded in capturing
gang of thieves who have been opera
ing upon goods in the cars Of the Mi
land and Central Railroads. Hem