The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-29
GENERAL NOTES.

! river, 1euuessee, lew Gays ago.
A woman in New York on Saturday
night captured burglar who was en-
doavoring to get away with $1,000
which he had stolen.
Patrick Kehoe, convicted of murder
in the second degree for killing his wife
in Jersey City, was on Tuesday senen.
ced to twenty years in the State Prison
A swordfsh weighing three hundred
pounds was recently Let by the return
ing tide in shoal water near Dennis
Port, Me. A man attacked the fish
with a club, and after clinging to it for
nearly three miles succeeded in landing
it.
l'he Indianapolis Sentinel says that
all the prisoners in the penitentiary at
Joliet, ILL.,, were afforded a fair oppor-
tunity to escape on the 5;h of July, but
respected their parole, anl went back
to their cells without any attempt to dc
SO.
No less than twenty-nine trade marks
have already been secured in the Patent
Office tor the word "Centenniel," US
applied to various articles of manufac.
ture, such as perfumes, plmanacs, cigars
blacking, bijters, shIrts, watches, and
even lager beer.
At Halifax, Il. s., a circus has tal.
len into the hands of the bQiliffs. a
firm of printers seized several of its et-
fects for debt, among the rest a fierce
lion. They announce that they are 60
ing to put this animal to use i'll collect
ing bills of refractory patrons.
A gambler 10 Iowa, to escape arrest,
attempted TO cross river with u pocket,
book between his teeth. His strength
or skill not proving adequate, he was
obliged to open his lnouth in order to
call for help, and his pocket-book, con-
tanning 81 ,O00, went to the bottom.
At Atlanta, Ga, last autumn, a negro
built coop six feet by seven, inlo
which he put a dozen patridges, the
ground being first covered with grass
During the winter they thrived, in the
spring they mated, laid eggs and
Matched out several broods of young,
and the negro now has about sixty
young partridges, all doing well. They
are tame, healthy ard seem be conten-
ted.
Pottsville, July 22-This morning
about l O'Clock, another attempt was
made, with coal oil and cotton to burn
another portion of Independence Square
Shamokin, The fire was got under con-
trol in a short time, on y burning parts
of two houses. The damage by fire is
slight. This is the second attem pit
within two weeks to burn that town by
incendiary fires being started in the
square. BY the former attempt several
stores and dwelling were burned.
Washington, July 23.-The Govern
ment has purchased at New Orleans the
steamer Planter, small boat, drawing
but four feet of water, but strongly con-
structed. She will be properly armed
and manned, and sent to the Rio
Grande for duty on that liver, to pre-
vent Mexicans crossing INTO Texas and
running off cattle, The Planter has
been ordered 10 Mobile Lieutenant
! Commander d. 9. Kclls detached from
the ionclad Cauonicu5 and sent 10 that
city to take command Of the new vessel.
1t is said one or tWo other steamers OF
similar character will be purchased and
fitted out TO act with the Planter in the
suppression of Mexican dcpredations.
Cincinnati, July 22.-Reports from
the entire length Of the Ohio valley to-
night show that one Of the heaviest rain
falls of the season has occurred in tie
past twenty-lour hours. At Evansville
three inches OF rain fell to-day. AT
Vincenncs rain fell in torrents; beating
down grain, corn aud grass. 1t is es;i,
mated that ten thousand acres of corn
IN the Wabash bottom are under water
The Wabash river is rising rapidly
threatening an overflow OF the entire
bottom. Through Southern Ohio and
Kentucky all streams are reported rising
rapidly, The Kanawha river al
Charleston, West Virginia, has risen iif
teen feet in the past twenty-four hours
Great damage 10 crops must necessarily
result from this severe storm.
Writing of the grasshopper depreda
tions in Missouri, Kansas aud Nebraska
a special correspondent OF the Chicago
Tribune, sent QUO with instructions tc
make a minute survey of the field, says
that the damage, aside from the loss Of
the small grain crops, done thus far, is
the loss Of about sixty days labor III the
best part OF the season, Of an agricul,
tural population Of about two hundred
thousand persons. The farmers are
sparing no efforts TO ipsure a crop, il
hard work can do it. But very little
planting remains to be done in either
State; and within the grasshopper dis,
trict, not only have the corn fields been
replauted, but about two-lhirds Of the
wheat fields that were "srasshOppered
have been plOwed and planted with corn
tho Canada and other varieties gener-
ally. Besides millet aud rutabages
have been sown in large quantities, and
the prospecss OF ful! yield are repor-
ted to be excellent.
Mrs Lincoln's metal condition is un
improved. She remains 10 the insane
asylum at Batavia, Ill.,, where she has
careful attendance, and is Gifted visited
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