The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-16
100 houses were unroofed at WISH

stated to be far in excess of any within
the last twenty years.
In maine, the other day lightning
struck in thirteen places, between the
cities of Bangor and Bucksport.
At the recent Commencement of the
Boston Latin School, the first Franklin
medal was awarded to grand nephew
of Daniel Webster.
Kittens are said to be taking the
place of poodle dogs, as occupants Of the
elegant equipages which drive along the
Bluff, at Newport.
AT Lowell, Mass, slaughter house,
party OF six consumptives are exper- :
menting with the bed blood cure with
decidedly satisfactory results.
Notwithstanding that fireworks were
strictly prohibited by the municipal au-
thorities, Boston Mass, passed very
agreeable Fourth of July.
An agent of the Russian Governmel t
is in Paterson, n j., inspecting the con-
struction of the locomotives being built
for that power at the Grant Wor 8
there.
4 German barber has recently celc-
brated his sixtieth year of service with
the razor. During that time he shaved
2OO,Ol2 persons and earned 5000 thi :
lers.
An ex-member OF Congress for Missis-
sippi was among the recent arrivals as
the Albany Penitentiarv. He was un-
der sentence of $1,000 fine and two
years Imprisonment for embezzIement.
In order to secure the circulation of
its paper at Saratoga on Sunday morn
ing the New York Herald establish
ment runs a special train to that resort,
lerving the former city at $3.50 in tie
morning of Sunday.
The Brooklyn Eagle credits the re-
du ,tion of freights on live stock to the
Changers. 1t is said that the treights
on cattle from Chicago to New Yolk
have been reduced from Sl35 to $50,
and from Buffalo to New York $50 to
s45 per car load.
According to the Charleston Ne,cs,
in only nineteen of the tbirty-two coun-
ties South Carolina one hundred and
forty-six square miles of territory have
been sold for State and county taxes,
whilst five hundred and twenty-seven
square miles havn been forfeited to fhe
State at tax sales during the current
year.
The age of Simon Sturges Of Allen
town, Pa, was 70 years when he died.
He had been married four times, the
weddings having been on his fortie,h,
fft eth, sixtieth, and SEVENTEEN birth
days. His last wife was dead, too, and
it is likely that, had Mr.. Shuges lived
another year, he would have celebrated
his eightieth birthday in the accus-
toned style, because he was u very
methodical old man.
"The shingles upon the roof of the
First Congregational church in East
Haddam, Connecticut" says the New
Haven Register, "were placed there
seventy-nine years ago, and the roof is
sill tight. The Rev Isaac Parsons was
pastor OF this church continuously for
forty-four years, and the late jeremiah
Hutchins was deacon torty-seven years
The folks of seventy years ago
were pretty good judges Of shingles and
parsons"
The final and very severe test of the
st Louis and Illinois bridge was made on
July I'd. Fourteen locomotives, averag-
ing forty tons each,wer placed seven on
each side OF each arch, which produced
a DETECTION of two and half inches on
the centre arch, which is five hundred
and twenty feet long. Several other
tests were made, all OF which were re,
garded as highly satisfactory by large
number of distinguished engineers pres.
ent.
A special dispatch to Cincinnati states
that E. j. Thorn and Francis Tierna, O.
Springfield, Ohio, were held to bail al
Wapaconeta, on June 80, to answer ;
charge OF forgery. 1t is said that forged
paper to the amount of 100000 has
been negotiated among farmers by these
men. Their plan was to get some far
mer who could not read to sign wha
purported to be contract tor the agency
of patent plough between the farmer
and certain R.. r. Fenner d; Co., bu
which was really personal note.
A most atrocious attempt at poisoning
at Bridgeport, Conn, has just been
made public. Four young business mel
got their lives insured tor 20 900 each
sometime ago, with the agreement IL a
if one of them died his policy should be
divided among the other three. Tw
Of them recently became SO embarrassed
in business that they found it hard tc
meet the payments on the policies
About week ago, box of strawberries,
poisoned with phosphorus, was sent to
one of the other men, and it is supposed
that one of the insolvents was guilty OF
trying this method of extricating him
self from his difficulties
Divorce suits, where a separation is
asked in consequence of cruel treatment,
are usually brought by the wife against
the husband. Iu recent case in New
York, however, this rule was reversed.
The complainant was the husband, who
charged his wife with cruel and inhu-
nan treatment, and so satisfied was the
Judge from the testimony given of the
truth and gravity of the complaint,