The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-06
GENERAL NOTES.

selling in New York from seventy-fvs
cents to one dollar basket.
1t is said that the Western watering
places have been much better patron
lied this year than ever before.
The fire patrol, organized in Chicago
by the insurance companies, is to be in
creased from % to 100 men.
Montreal is said to be one Of the
most orderly cities in the world on Sun
day, the laws for the observance of that
day being rigidly kept.
The hay crop is said to be in every
way the most satisfactory for years. The
quality is excellent and the crop is very
heavy,
A New Bedford druggist says the
construction Of sewers in that city has
greatly reduced the sale of medicines
for summer complaints.
A farmer in Missouri fred at man
he saw stealing his COW, and the next
morning the Sheriff of the county ap-
peared with his arm in a sling.
Two men working on the st. Louis
bridge recently jumped into the river, a
distance of sizty-fve feet, for a wager Of
ten dollars. They both swan ashore in
safety, and won the wager.
Since the regatta, the farmers in the
vicinity of Saratoga have all appeared in
new store clothes. The extravagant
prices paid for wagon hire is supposed
to have been the reason.
The new church of St. Thomas, at
Fifty-third street, New York, has a
tower with lantern twenty-eight feet
high above the belfry. It is said to be
the only church tower of the kind in
the country.
A special to the Louisville Courier
Journal of July 25th, says that one
stroke of lightning killed six persons in
Woodford County, Ky, last night, viz:
Mr., Mundy and wife, Mr.. Black, wife
and daughter, and coored man living
in the same house.
New York, August 1.-Over two
hundred dogs were asphyx lated this
morning. Pound Master Marriott says
he can dispose Of thousand CANNES
per week, and expects to have the ci ty
ridden within years time.
Twenty years ago there was but SIN
gle house in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Last year, using but one-seventeeth part
of the capacity OF her motive power, she
manufactured three and a quarter mill
ion feet of lumber, one hundred and ff-
teen million feet of shingles and thirty
three million lath, besides carrying on
many other branches of manufacture.
A jolly party of Maine ship captains
who, unknown to their better halves,
had ordered a grand dinner at Camden
Maine, with the intention of having a
glorious time, were somewhat surprised
at having their festivities disturbed by
the entrance of their wives, who had Or
dered dinner at the selfsame place.
There are said to be SEQ paper mills in
operation in the United States, with a
eapi tai invested of S4000O,000, and a
total production OF $40, 100000 These
mills give employment nominally to 20,-
900 people, whose earnings are footed
up at $40, 10000 annually. Last year
was not profitable one tor the manufac-
tories.
Yankton, D. IT,, July ga sad and
fatal occurrence happened IS miles from
here on Tuesday night BY the burning
of the farm house of Mr.. Shoffhousen,
whereby he lost his wife aud three
children. He was absent from home
and his wife was not aware of the fire
until the roof of the house fell in, when
she walked a mile and half, with her
child, but both died within ten hours.
The other two children were burned
in the ruins. The remains of the four
were buried in one grave to-day.
Lightning played some curious freaks
at Oxford, N. H., few days ago.
Striking a chimney, it passed downward
to the stovepipe and stove of the kitchen
into an outer room, and thence down the
pump rod into the well. In its course
it threw a clock from the mantel across
the room, and fifteen minutes after it
was found lying on its face striking
away at a great rate. The bail ola
kettle which CHANGED to stand behind
the stove was thoroughly welded to it.
One of the covers was also welded to the
stove. The metallic parts of the pump
were so welded together as to be useless
the glass at the bottom blown to atoms
an the whole pumping arrangement dis
organized entirely.
New York, August 9.-The World
to-day predicts the Republican nomina-
ton for Governor of this State will be
given to Reuben E. Fenton, by the Re
publican State Convention.
A special from Philadelphia to a
morning paper says the detectives en-
gagged on the Ross abduction case sus-
pect the number of men who came from
Rochester, New York, as agents for
nursery there, as the kidnappers. They
inquired for and searched out rich resi-
dents here, but sold no trees. The kid.
nappers are supposed to have taken the
bou to Cipc;nnari or Nia0ara Falls