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

this place
Benezett is feasting on strawberries and
cream.
Last sabbath afternoon Mrs Annie Jones
tainted and fell out of swing when about
twenty feet from the ground lighting be-
tween the roots of tree, and some rocks
cutting her face badly otherwise no serious
injury.
June Is son to John and Emily John.
son.
June 1Sa daughter born to William and
Mary Holland.
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Peruvian guano is blamed for the
potato bug.
Out in Nevada they match rats to
fight rattlesnakes.
Thirty thousand Norscmeu are ex-
pected here during the Centennial.
That's all stuff about a short peach
crop. There'll be millions of 'em.
A Germantown nIan wears a shoe
that casts shadow as long as his leg.
Charlotte Cushmau is at Newport
training for another season of affecting
tarewells.
Talk about hard times! The outgo-
ing steamers are loaded down with
tourists.
Lincoln, has been appointed guardian Of
| hiS Of har,s ta nrlar hnnd Of S1 IN
600.
An Illinois grocer says he would
rather have the power to tell good
egg from bad one than to be Presi-
dent of the United States.
Flies are the scavengers of vitiatt d
air where they fatten on the parasites
that settle upon them in myriads; while
they grow lean and starve in pure
atmosphere where their favorite game
is scarce.
Railroad commissioners from six
States met in convention at Spring
field, Ill.,, July 2, to discuss plan Tor
uniform action against railroads violat
ing the railroad law.
The Indians of The Red Cloud and
Spotted Tail Agency have signed the
treaty relinquishiug their right to hunt
in Nebraska in consideration of the ap-
preparation of S25 900.
By the fall of scaffolding in one of
the Susquehanna Coal Compauy's shafts
at East Nanticoke, near Plymouth, Pa,
yestel day, six men were killed.
Another miner was killed at Plymouth
by falling down a shaft.
The Supreme Court of Utah has de-
cided that the conviction of George
Reynolds Of bigamy or polysamy is null
aud VOID from the fact the Grand Jury
was composed of twenty. three Instead Of
fifteen Jurors, as required by the Terri
toral statutes.
In a thunder storm in Suthe rford
county Tenn, one McWillam was
killed by lightning, four others were
struck seuseless, four were Knocked
down, and five houses were unrooted.
Much damage Yves done in Chattanooga.
The 100-mile walk in Boston for the
pedestrian championship of New Eng.
laud aud $4,000 was won by Haydock,
an English pedestrian, iu % hours, SO
minutes, and 20 seconds. Cushing
walked seventy-oue miles, and Avery
walked seventy-fve.
The iron safe of the United States
steamer Cumberland, sunk in Hampton
Roads in 1862 by the ram MerriuIac.
and supposed to c0utain about 100000
III gold has been recovered after a teu
Jeais' search.
A young lady after reading attenti-
vely the title of novel called The
last man." exclaimed BLESS me, if
such thing were ever to happen, what
would become OF the women" "Wnat
would become OF the poor mani" was
the remark OF au old bachelor.
At New Orleans, the tax registers
having failed against the state, have re-
organized under the name Of the Prop
erty Holders Union, and are now exer
cising their influence in obsructing the
collection of the city taxes.
Cant help it, sir" said a Boston
hotel clerk to a Massachusetts Senator,
who came in about midnight to get a
room. Can: help it, sir, if you're the
Vice President himself. Why, we've
got ten Governors of States sleeping on
, dinuing-room tables, thirty odd Mayors
t lying around on the parlor floors, aud a
hundred country editors snoring like
bulls of Bashan on the back stairs" -
". 7, Commercial Adrerttser.
Washington, June 24-Messrs Post,
Norcross and Smith, the commission ap-
} pointed by the Secretary of the Treas.
= ury to examine the custom house, court
house and post Office buildings al
! Chicago, have made their report tC
Secretary Bristow. The committee
, condemn the foundation and the stone
used in the building in unmeasured
, terms, and recommend that the building
be torn down. and that the stone te
r abandoned. Secretary Bristow vii
l Immediately give orders that all worl
shall be stopped, and that steps b'
taken to preserve the structure in it
present condition until the matter cal
be submitted to Congress, which vii
). be as early as possible after that bod
q conveneS iu December next.
An account of the earthquake at Gu