The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-22
GENERAL NOTES.

New York city, this year, it is estima-
ted, will consume 100000 baskets of
peaches.
At the great fair held annually at
Mini Novgorod, in Russia, commodities
valued at S90,O00,000 are usually dis
posed of.
The Partisan journals say that the
French vineyards are in splendid con-
dition, and such promise of abundance
has not been seen since lS40..
The potato bug has reached the
Desert, hundred miles north Of Ottowa
Canada. They are devouripg all the
potato vines in the vicinity.
The Musica! Association in Paris now
has 1856 members. This association
supports about 800 old people and
orphans who have been in. any way con-
nected with music.
Doc Sweeney, the last and boldest of
the Carbondale, Pa, bank robbers, was
lodged in Jail at Wilkesbarre on Tues.
day, having been captured by detectives
in New York State on Sunday last
Edward Kelly, bridge watcbman
and his wife and child, were run over
at Otsego, Otsego county, N. Y, by
railroad train on Saturday night, Kelly
and his wife we're killed, but the child
escaped.
The Connecticut Senate on Tuesday
concured with the House iu gift of
$4,000 to the National Centennial,
and also appropriating $4,000 to a
local board to promote the interests OF
Connecticut at the Exhibition.
Tie new census of Rhode Island
shows that the population of the State
exceeds, by few hundreds, 25S,000 a
grain over IL 900 in the last five years.
The new census of Troy makes the
population OF that city 4S, ,253, an in.
crease of 3,715 since 1869.
The Conewango swemp, containing
some $4,000 acres of wet farming land,
in Chautauqua and Catiaraugus
counties, New York, is about to be re-
claimed by drainage. 1t is estimated
that by this means over 81 100000
worth of land will be got under cul,iva-
ton.
The funeral of ex-Chief Justice
Woodward took place at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, on Saturday afternoon. The serv-
ices were conducted by Rev. H. L.
Jones aud Bishop Stevens, of the
Episcopal Church. The bar of the
county attended in a body, ana there
were number OF distinguished persons
from distance present.
Collector Carpenter, of the Third
Sou,h Carolioa district, reports to the
Internal Revenue Office the capture Of
five illicit Jistilleries, the seizure Of
four distilleries, and the destruction oI
one still. He says within the last forty
days he has seized fifteen distilleries
captured ten men, and destroyed {
large quantity of illicit whisky.
A woman named Drake was assaulted
by tramp, while picking berries in the
woods near Chester, N. Y, on Saturday
and had her head cut open, and wa.
otherwise dangerously wounded. Th'
constable and posse pursued and ar
rested the tramp, who would have beer
shot on the spot but for the efforts o
the constable.
The settlers in the valley of the Ar
kansas manage to make a comfortable
living, Notwithstanding the destruction
of their crops, by gathering up buffal
bones on the prairies and hauling then
to the towns. Heads and ribs are wortl
S5 ION, and are ground up into fertili
zers; shins and shoulder blades, whicl
are used in the sugar refneries, brin|
SO ton, and horns $50.
A few days ago the proprietor of
market at Hartford, while serving Gus
toners, was astonished by the loud, AM
sudden squealing of rat in the rear O
his premises. On examination he founC
that one of the animals, in attemptin
to pass over pile OF clans, had droppe'
his tail into the partly open mouth Q
one Of the shellfsh, which, closing, hel
: the interloper fast The rat was dull
dispatched.
, The Chicago Times thinks that wit
the recent Improvements in its manu-
factories glass will become a favorit
, article for the adornmcnt of the fair Sc,
| After advocating its adoption for sue
T purposes the Times concludes by saying
n "The principles of refraction might b
introduced in the manufac ure of thes
y glass dresses, supplying the shortcon
> ings OF nature and modifying its exag
ge:ations. Thus an unduly develope
= foot might be dressed in ,retrasin
= glass shoe which would give it the r.
quisite enstallment."
e The gilt knob of barber's pole rel
S resents the brass basin which was fol
S merly actually suspended on the poll
e The basin had a notch cut in it to +
e the throat, and was used for latherin
= customers who came to be shaved, Th
v pole represented the staff held by pc
It sons in bloQd-lettiDgs, and the tw
g spiral ribbons painted round it repre-
Il sented the two bandages, one for twis
;. ing round the arm previous to operatio
/, and the other for binding. Barber
D "all in the olden time," used to be I'll
surgeons, but have fallen from the
O high estate since science has made i
J. voice "to be heard on high" To th
Y day however, the guild of "barber, su
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