The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-08
GENERAL NOTES.

the cashiers room of the Treasury Of
the United States.
A bridge is to be built over the Firth
of Forth, in Scotland, .he ho;eLs vi
which will be 150 feet, and the number
of spans nearly 100. The largest span
in the centre Is to be 1900 feet, or
nearly nna.third of mile in width, and
the smaller spans $50 feet. 1t will
cost about SO, 100000.
Under the ruins of the old castle of
King Dagobert the Able Denis found
hens nest full of eggs. They bad
been there 1,200 years hidden from the
light and the air and the changes of
temperature, and the hen herself had,
perhaps, barely escaped when the fall
ing walls sealed her eggs hermetically
for future times. Able Denis put
three eggs under a hen and they were
hatched.
Jersey City, June 24.-Early this
morning a herd of sixteen short horn
cattle, comprising the finest animals in
America, and probably in the world,
which cost one hundred and twenty
FIVE thousand dollars, were shipped on
the steamship Holland for England.
They were purchased for G. w. Fox,
European partner of A. T. Stewart, for
his country seat in Stafordshire. One
bull cost thirty thousand aud one heifer
eighteen thousand dollars.
Washington, June 26-The Post
master General has issued the following
order: 1t is hereby ordered that the
fee for registering a letter mailed at
any post office within the United States,
or to foreign country, be fixed on and
after July l, 1875, at the uniform rate
Of 10 cents, in addition to the regular
postage, to be fully prepaid by postage
stamps affixed to such letter, and can.
celed at the mailing office.
A man walked into the Office of
Long Branch hotel the other day, and
actually had the audacity to address the
elegant hotel clerk by his first name.
Two call-boys tainted away, the porter
| went into spasms, ana the offender him
self was carried out frozen stiff as an
icicle, but the gorgeous man simply gave
| his rnoustache an additional twirl, and
went on just as if nothing had hap
pened.
Washington, June 26.-The follow
ing dispatch was received at the Indian
Bureau this morning from Indian In
spector Daniels from the Red Cloud
agency; June 24-Hon. E. P. Smith.
Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Indians
have signed the agreement to relinquish
their right in Nebraska. They want
$1,000 in horses $4,000 IN COWS,
81, 100 in harness and $1,000 in
wagons. All are well pleased.
Washington, June 24.-Tle Indian
Bureau does not credit the report that
all the Sioux are on the war path
They believe that neither Spotted Tails
Or Red Clouds men are engaged in any
warlike demonstrations, and feel con-
ident that if any Sionx are mixed up
with the lawless movements that it is
only roaming raiders, who are not un-
der the control of these chiefs, and it
would hardly be fair to hold the Sioux,
as nation, responsible for any raids or
depredations committed by these lawless
| bands,
Three highwaymen intercepted a
lady and gentleman near Kansas City,
Mo-, on Thursday night and ordered
them to hold up their hands and deliver
The request Was not acceded to, and on
the parties attempting to escape the
robbers assailed them, knocking down
the lady-Miss Alice Wlliams-and
beating her severely. The man es-
capped, leaving the lady to the mercy of
the brutes. They searched Der person,
but found nothing she having concealed
her watch in herabosom. They left her
in an insensible condition on the ground
and made their escape, but were sub
sequently captured after sharp fight
and are now in Jail.
The locusts throughout Kansas began
to take their fight on Friday last, and
immense swarms Of them were observed
in the air, moving in northwest direc-
tion Their instinct seems to direct
them to travel northwest, but occasion.
ally unfavorable winds drive them out
Of their course. Very few Of the pests
now remain in the State. Advices
from all parts of Northwestern and
Southwestern Kansas are to the effect
that very few Of them have descended
and consequently, the splendid crops
throughout that vast region are as
promising as before the locusts came
and in fully fve.sixths of the State the
prospects of an immense harvest we're
never more favorable. 1t is estimated
.n1 ny 1aI aa-s"' --~"~J IN r..l.-. Q.
OOO,OOO bushels of wheat, Northwest
ern Kansas as much more in rye, barley
and oats and the corn harvest promises
to be equally as large.
The Chicago TiJme, commenting on
Judge Kelley's views as lately pub,
lished in the Times, says: "We think
a nation that can pay annually $780,
oo0,oOO in gold to Europe is not so
hoplessly insolVent. The apnual pro-
Duct of gold and silver in the United
States States does not much exceed $7O,OOO,-
OOO, and if we succeed in paying out of