The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-08
a. WILSON NORRIS, Sec'y.
GENE RAJ NOTES.


labor in her copper mines.
There are 1000 more women than
men in the District OF Columbia.
Monroe county, Ohio, has 1926
pound girl who is still growing.
Charles Il. Cutler is the Democratic
nominee for Governor in Connecticut.
4 bank, with sj000,O0O, has been
organized by the Grangers Of California.
The total number of oranges iu the
United States is now reported at 22,-
81.
Roach the shipbuilder, has still l.
100 men in his employment at Chester,
Pa.
The prospects of the fruit cror are
reported to be better than for years
past.
Colorado steps into the Union with
more than one hundred mountain peaks
over 1900 feet high.
Muskingum county, Ohi9, produced
last year 10l .633 pounds Of butter and
3l2, 103 pound of wool.
The Kansas Legislature proposes to
distribute S95,C00 among the destitute
in its border counties.
Daniel Doran, sentenced to be han
gcd at Lockport, N. Y. on April 2,
has been respited until April 16
The on'y church in the county
where preaching may be heard in Irish
is said 10 be at Elmlra, Ill.
Our total cotton production for the
last three years reaches the enormous
aggregate Of 1l,750,000 bales, worth
about S725,000,00O.
1t is estimated that from thirty to
fifty per cent Of all the cattle in Mon
tana, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Eastern
Washington, Oregon is likely to be lost
from the severity of the winter.
The way the Chicago saloon keepers
evade the civil-rights act and keep out
oainbo is to put up sign, Drinks So,
subject to discount" The discount for
white men is 81 50 per drink.
Michigan las a compulsory school
law, but the State Superintendent of
Education says: Il have yet to learn
OF It's enforcement in single locality
1t is dead letter on the statutebook
An African Lothario, who made per-
sistant attempts to ingratate himself in
the favor OF a number O. white ladies in
Ashbury, Warren county, received a
coat OF tar and feathers few nights
ago.
a prodigal son, finding himsslf in
the police station at Joliet, shot himself
using a golden pocket piece fer bullet
and his last y for wad. His death
might be called pecuniary embarrass.
ment,
George Crowell, of Gardner, Me,
gets S2.9c5 from Litchfeld for injuries
caused BY an unsafe bridge in tha: town
and Mary n. Libby IS 600 from Port.
land for injuries caused By a defect in
the street.
Paris, Ky, April 5,-During the stallion
show here to-day Goldsmith's Abdallah
while going aroInd the track was met by
his full bro Other' John Bright, and the shat
of the sulky drawn by the latter entered
his breast and came out near the top of thu
shoulder, causing death in few minutes
lie was valued at $4,000.
lottsville, Pa, April 2.-The riotous
feeling among the miners and laborers
is Increasing. During riot at Ash
land only few shots were fired and nc
damage done. A dastardIy attempt was
made to wreck the evening train from
Philadelphia, two miles below Pottsville
at seven in the evening. A large stone
was rolled down the mountain side and
struck the rear car demolishing it but
not wrecking the train. When the
train reached Mount Carbon, the by.
ISLANDERS asked, "Did you get through?
Were you not stopped?" showing that
the stone was not diSlOdged accidentally
The outrage was doubtless the work OF
the men recently discharged by the
Philadelphia and Reading Company
The miners at Schuylkill Haven re-
sumed work. North of the mountain
trouble is hourly expected, and a num-
Der of colliers in the Shamokn district
struck yesterday for the basis of 1874.
Others are still running, the operators
agreeing to pay on that basis, All the
coal now gOiog to market comes from
these eOllicries.