The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-08-26

A heavy defalcatiop has just come to
light in one of the st. Louis national
banks, the criminal being a teller and
connected with one of the oldest and
most respected families, which promptly
restored the 100000 he had stolen.
A gentleman on Monday caught, near
Newport, with hook aud line, seven
striped bass, weighing in the aggregate
two hundred seveuty-eight pounds. The
heaviest weighed fifty and a quarter
pounds, and the average was trife be-
low forty pounds.
A little boy in Amity township,
Berks county, Pa, although seven years
old, measures but thirty-two inches in
height. He has grown but little, if any
since he was two years old. He is said
to be very bright aud intelligent for one
OF his years.
The estimated coinage of the U. s.
Mints at Philadelphia, San Francisco
and Carson City for the present fiscal
year is as follows: Gold, 4,O00,O 900;
trade dollars, $4,000, 900; subsidiary sill.
yer coinage. S5,000,000; minor coinage,
s25O,OO0; total, s45,25O,O00,
A farmer near Des Moines, Iowa,
while driving his COW pasture by rope
tied around her neck, was thrown down
by sudden movement of the animal,
and turned a complete somersault
breaking his neck and driving his head
violently into the earth.
The Treasury officers have decided,
after examining the capacity of the
vault in the Boston Sub-Treasury, that
it will not be safe to deposit more than
S3,O00,0OO of subsidiary coin there, on
account of the condition of the flooring.
1t had been the intention to store $6,-
100000 in the vault.
Milwaukee is called the beer capital
of America. 1t is city of 100000 in
habitants and during the month Of June
consumed 28,327 barrels of lager beer,
making l4,O50, 1872 glasses. Estimating
that only abont half the residents drink,
it appears as if a portion Of the people
drink more than one glass day.
The comptroller of the currency has
completed his abstract of all the reports
of the national banks in the United
states. There were 2,066 banks of this
character in operation at the close of
the fiscal year, having aggregate OF in,
dividual deposits On hand Of S6S6,47S,-
630.4S. The surplus fund of the banks
amounts to 3.lG9,096 70; the capi.
tai stock paid in S50l, ,56S, ,563 so; ma
tional bank notes outstanding, S318,-
l4S,406; specie on hand, SIS, S,949,-
4S2 80; whole amount of business done,
Sl,913, ,239, ,120.16.
New York, August 21.-Several ex-
cursions went to Cony Island, short
distance up the Hudson river, yesterday
and during the day there were probably
eight thousand persons there, chiefly
belonging the Masonic and Odd Fellows
organizations, both of which held pic
MICS. The excursionists embarked for
home about five p. NJ One unfor,u-
nate lady was caught between the dock
and barge, as she tried to get on an
already too crowded steamer. She was
crushed to jelly and expired almost
instantly. A gentleman in attempting
to save her had his right arm torn from
his shoulder.
immigration to the United States,
since the panic of 1878, has fallen of
one-third. The people Of all other
countries except China have come to
the conclusion that they cannot improve
their condition by taking up residence
in the United States The decrease at
the port of New York this year is
likely to reach 100000, enough people
to found new state or build new city
AS emigrants bring with them very
considerable amount of money which is
expended in the purchase o. land, and
the implements OF their crafts and the
means of subsistence, this decrease in
their number has a considerable effect
in retarding the ordinary growth and
prosperity of the country.
Baltimore, August 20.-Twenty.two
thousand five hundred boxes of peaches
were received at Light street wharf yes,
terday by steamers and pungies, from
different points on the Chesapeake and
tributaries. Heavy arrivals continue
the glut in the markets. OF the re.
ceipts yesterday over two Thousand
boxes were reshipped to the growers, OIL
thrown into the river. Prime peaches
brought 80 to 60, and extra 70 to 81
cents per box. The quality for sevcra
days past has improved very much, and
fruit Of the finest flavor and variety is
coming in freely.
Boston, August 20.-The workmeu
employed on the new Insane Asylum al
Danvers were astounded this afternoon
by the descent of a thunderbolt among
them, which instantly killed a man
named Sullivan and prostrated John
Farquhar. Mr.. Ewell, foreman of the
laborers, sprang upon a horse to ride
for physician. Turning the corner Of
a building at full speed he ran into q
number of workmen who were hurryine
to the scene of accident. Mr.. Collins
OF Salem, was knocked down by the
horse and trampled upon, receiving in,
'juries which will prove fatal.