The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-12-09

We export yearly between 500, 900
and 100000 stand of arms.
The names Of eighty-six towns in
Pennsylvania end with burg"
Potatoes are only eighteen cents per
bushel at Girard, Erie county.
An unusually large emigration to
California is proguosticated this year.
There are now about 27O inmates at
the moutgomery-county Almshouse.
The Tribune estimates that 100000
persons attended the Brooklyn revival.
A single bolt of lightning in Dakota
lately killed fourteen horses aud five
steers.
Banana culture is increasing at the
South, particularly Id the old cotton
fields OF the Gulf States.
The sGgar crop of Louisiana promises
this year to reach the enormous figure
Of 10000 hogsheads.
One of the Cincinnati breweries has
received an order for 10000 barrels OF
lager beer, to be Used at the Centennial
COLONEL b. G. Bush, of BelIeionte,
has sold house for $4,000, to be paid
Oh U. 5 Grants thi,d Inauguration.
Representative Butler, of Climber
land county; has in preparation a bill
tor the breaking Up Of the tramp
nuisance.
Diphtheria is raging to an alarming
extent in PORTIONS OF Orange aud Suli-
van counties New York, aud in Pike
cCunty Pa.
1t it proposed to remove all the tele.
graph poies in Chicago, subierraueap
cables being laid to convey the wires
John Spaueaxe, of Ellwood, Schuy.
kill county shot and captured bald
eagle which measured 6 feet s inches
ACROSS the wings.
Three gold pieces, the highest in
value half.eagle, will be given to che
three best spoilers at the Cambria
county Teachers Ins,itute.
by a recent discovery Of process ol
cooking" Ohio coal manufactures
there can place iron in the Cincinnati
market Tor Sl7, per ton.
A prisoner at indianapolis laughed
heartily at the trepilation of fellow
convict, aud SO had year added to his
term of imprisonment.
Blue Earth county, Mini, paid last
year as. bounty on grasshoppers S31 '.
255.66, the artount destroyed being
1876 bushels and 18 quarts.
A school teacher 10 Leandro. Cal,
compelled boy to walk up a fight Of
20 steps 100 times for the offense oil
looking over his shotldef.
They have just begun to hail the
piles tor the foundation of the Chicago
Court. house, but a steal Of $4,000 has
been unearthed in the contract.
| There seems to be but little abate
ment of. diptheria among children il
Jersey city. During the past thret
days three families lost two children
each.
The vaalt in the Catholic cemeter,
Of st. Denis, Montreal, was broken ibti
by bod y ,snatchers, and several corpse
carried away the other night.
Common field hands in Mississippi ar,
now earning from 81 so to So da,
picking cotton, steamboat labortrs S6t
per month and skilled artisans proper
tionatcly higher prices.
When a Chinese bank fsiIA dill th
officers have their heads cut of an,
fluug into corner with the assets, an,
it has been 500 years since there was
bauk iaiIu.e in that couutty.-fre
Press.
BY the sinking of the Englisl
steamer Charles Dickens across tn
mouth Of the har5or OF Boulogue, tn
fishermen OF that place are losing al
average OF 800 pounds sterling daily.
Two men claim to be postmaster a
Tidioute, and they are at present ell
gagged iu advancing their claims with a
possible ardor. First Que will get in anC
then the other. Meantime the inhab
'ants sit patiently upon the fence await
: ing the close OF the combat that the
uay get their mail
What makes me love my delicate Iii
tie blue eyed boy, said the toud iathe
as he and the pastor entered the librar
is that sometimes the tears run dow
the wrinkles in my Checks as ! feel hi
fine DoiDts tuuchino me- to the nhre an
wonder it God will let him stay With NJ
, very, very" here the fond father 81
down on pin and said, Slafiar, wi
you force me to go u restaurant to e
my dinner
S The great vintage in France this yes
s has set the arithmetic man by the ca
He says it amounts to 2,0U,000,00
, gallons, and asserts that it N0nld fill
canal three and half feet deep an
three and hall feet wide 4,60C mile
: Tong lie calculated iurther that, I
] draw twenty-five gallons a minute
Z would take 1876 years aud 10 days
draw of the whole quantity.
Syracuse, December A fire brok
out here about 3 o'clock yeSterda
; morning in block owned by Lew
=, Tabor, the lower aud part OF the tppe
! foVrs being occnpied By Robt. Withel
as a dwelling. The block aud adjoil
: ing residence of Mr.. Tabor we're entire
destroyed. A man named Frauk Smit
: was suttocated and his body nearly cG'
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