The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-22
GEME RAJ NOTES.

Hay is S11 per ton in Susquehanna
Altoona has a colored justice of the
peace.
A Doylestown clergyman has married |
Oh couples.
Dlaosfeld Is organizing colony for
The Pacific cosst.
Judge Packer has given $4,000
toward the Centennial,
Joseph DelIart, Jersey City con-
tractor, has absconded.
The State exports S37,000,000,
worth Of petroleum annually.
A pail and tub factory is about to be
erected in Warren, Pa.
The anniversary of Odd Fellowship,
In Elmira, on the 2Sth inst.
1t cost Boston s3,795,73 to do honor
to Senator Summers remains.
The people Of Reading buy four
thousand sewing machines per year.
Las: week one sale was made at Oil
City OF 100000 barrels OF oil, at 81 IS.
A little girl in Delaware county has
died from the effects of rope jumping.
The Central Pennsylvania Confer
ence will be held at Harrisburg next
year.
The West Hamburg rolling mill and
iron works will soon resume operations.
The present term Of the United
States Supreme Court will adjourn May
,.
The Easter offerings OF St. Peters
Episcopal Church, Albany, y. Y, were
S4J 0JQ.
Three parties turned out of Jersey
City house tried to burn it down for re-
vcnge.
There sre thirty building associations
in kcsding, handlipg over 500, 900 per
munth.
The Fogelsyille, Lehieh county, Say
iuas Bank is to be converted into a Ia.
tiousl hank.
Captain J. r. Orwig has assumed
The duties of assistant Librarian, 10 the
Capitol, at Harrisburg.
A number of Eastonians are going
to emi9rste to Florida to engage in the
cultivation of oranges.
Two cE-Mayors Of Gloucester City,
New Jersey, are candidates fer the
position Of policemen.
Shares in the National Bank Of Ches-
ter, were recently sold fer S53 20, the
par value boiug S25.
YLc Woolvale woollen mills, at
Johnstowu. Pa are to have their capa-
city doubled by the introduction OF new
machinery.
Michael Meylert, editor of tie Sulli-
van county Democaat, weighs 315
POUNDS. That paper certainly has some
weight.
Philip Murray, who has been on trial
in Pittsburgh Tor the murder OF james
White, WIS on Saturday convicted OF
murder in the first degree.
L. J. Castle, tie confidential clerk OF
Parker l. Kelsbey, Newark, has been
miseing tor the last two weeks. just
before his di-.ppearsoce he drew $500
IRON tie bank where he kept his pri-
vate accO2ot.
Our imported liquors cost the con-
suplor Sl2.OOO,9G0 annually; our native
'jquors 500, 600, aud our malt
liquors S200 100000 moro; total OF
over S40c 100000, or $40 per head Of
the cutire population.
5. y. Toibert, Of Girard Manor,
Schuytiil county, Pa, had his leg
broken on Saturday atterroon, 10th in
slant, by falling over an enbankment
with horse and wagon, whie passing
along narrow point on the State road,
goiug down the mountain, "near the
Manor"
Paris, april 13.-The Diplomatic
Conference upon the metrical system OF
weights and measures met here yester-
day. The Governments OF Brazil, the
United States, Venezuela and the Ar
gentine Rrpublic are represented. 1t
was resolved to establish All international
bureau of weights and measures.
Charleston, S. c., April la-The
pleasure yacht Ella Anua, containing a
party of eight excursicuists, was sunk
to. day in the harbor by a sqrall. -Four
Of the persons were saved and four are
missing, aud it is supposed they we're
drowned The names Of the missing
are George Il. Kent, Of New York;
Adolph Davis, of Louisville, Ken,ucky;
j John Kenslow and Gelman Burke, OF
Challston.
Boston. April 1S-A fire broke out
yesterday moring in the four-an1- half
story brick building corner OF Franklin
aud Congress streets. The fire caught
il the upper story, occupied as litho.
graphing establishment. The other oc-
cupants were Clark & Warren, and
Lumkin Dc Foster, boots and shoes; and
Robert B, Denny, wood. The damage
to the building is about $4,000 The
loss is at least $4,000, covered by an
insurance of $4,000
The Forest Republican, of the 18th
inst, Gays: A man named Frank Hoy
was drowned yesterday at Lacytown,
six miles above this place. 1t appeais
that it is the custom to put extra men
on a creek piece to help run it over the
dam, and the extra men jump off at the
l.