The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-09-07
GENERAL NOTES.

IlOOSdC Oulluel TeClpUS lOT U16 ear
ending July i, $79,371; expenses, $44-,
705.
Property of Brigham Young has
been attached to satisfy judgment for
50 900 as a'imony due to Ann Eliza.
During the month of August private
buildings worth 1878, 800 were erected
in Washington, District of Columbia
The sentence of Jesse Pomeroy,
the boy murderer, has been committed
to Imprisonment for life.
Fifteen million cartridges, valued at
1916, 600 have been shipped from New
Haven for Constantinople.
There is a woman in the New York
Alms-house, LOB years old, who has a
heavy gray beard and is shaved occas-
ionally.
To excite no further attention to the
subject or for some other reason, New
YORK is removing her rotten telegraph
poles by night.
The English channel bottom is to be
bored out to the diameter of nine feet
in two years. -Four years more will
be needed to build the tunnel.
Reports from several districts of
Pike county, Pennsylvania, say the
fires have been entirely distinguished
by the heavy rain of Friday night.
The total coinage of the United
States mints for the month of August
was 81, 900, of which 81, 4,25O, 900
were gold.
The Independent Greenback party
of the State of New York will, at AL
bany, on September 20, hold con-
vention to nominate State ticket.
George Rae, wealthy and retired
lawyer of New York city committed
suicide on Saturday morning by cut
ting himself in neck and thigh.
s. B. Packard, having accepted the
the Republican nomination for Gov
ernOr of Louisiana, has resigned his
office as United States Marshal at
New Orleans.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western, the Pennsylvania and Della
ware, and the Hudson Canal Conn
panies have reduced the wages of the
miners ten per cent.
Mr.. Beecher having moved for
change of venue in the suit brought
against him by Frank Moulton, the
latter has served supplementary
complaint, locating the action in New
York city.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue has fixed the product from each
bushel of grain used at sixteen quarts,
when the fermenting period is forty
eight hours, and fifteen quarts when
seventy-two hours.
Press Palmer, city marshal, ,at Louis
burg, Ohio, was shot and instantly
killed by N. A. Wireman. The lat
ter's wife confessed to her husband
that she had been having criminal in
tercourse with Palmer, and Wireman
shot him at sight. The murderer is
now in Jail.
Through the recklessness of a
drunken driver in New York, a
wagon filled with people returning
from a picnic of the Parkvile Brook
lynn Methodist Church, was over
turned and two gentlemen had their
skulls fractured, several had limbs
broken, and one lady, Mrs. Nicholas
was killed.
When Mrs. Patience Remington, OF
North Smithtield, Connecticut cele.
brated her ninety-fitth birthday, re.
Gently, her three triplets-fifty
nine years old, were present. When
they were born their father was offered
SIOC to name them Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob, but his patriotism was
greater than his avarice, and he
named them Washington, Jefferson
and Monroe.
Albert Rhodes has got himself into
business. In the September G0loay
he thoughtlessly asked, "Shall we
drink wine?" And now postal cards
are pouring in upon him by thousands
bearing affirmative answers, and ask.
ing to name the time and place. AS
for us, not any, thank you, Albert
but if you have any good old Bourbon
in your flask, here's hoping.
eye.
Allentown, Pa, September AT
$3.50 \. Nj. to-day, as passenger train
No. Is, on the Lehigh Valley Rail
road, was nearing Quincy's furnace
below the East Pennsylvania junction
1t struck two ladies walking on the
track. Both We're instantly killed
Their names are Mrs Rudolph, O.
Salisbury township, and Mrs. Misscr
her daughter.
The Parker City Daily learns tha
the work of laying the pipe for til,
new SeabOard line and OF erecting
stations, will commence this week
point near Feast Brady, Pa, bein,
selected as the western, and q Poini
at Chester, Pa, as the eastern termin
us. The pipe laying is to be conduc
ted from both ends and prosecuted
with all dispatch, and the line will
probably be in complete wook.ng or
der by December next.
The will of the late Speaker Ker
| gives his law library to his son, and be
queaths the balance of his property tt
his wife. He concludes by most earn
estly beseeching his son to cherish al
ways most sincere love of justice ant
truth, and to make all his aims in lif
consistent Herewith, and they canno
fail to be high and noble. He make
his wife the sole executor of his will
The paper is dated May u, 1856.
Tyrone, Pa. September 3.-Albert
Brothers steam saw mill and iona
than Boynton's lumber yard, togethe
with the railroad company's waite
tank, at Woodland, Clearfield county
were burned this morning. Abou
one million feet of sawed lumber an,
fifty thousand pickets were destroyed
Loss on lumber, $4,000; insured TO
$1,000. Loss on mill, So, 900; insure
for 5000. The fire was of incendiar
origin.
The public debt statement for Au
gust shows reduction of upwards {
three million dollars, which is not
bad showing considering the ''corruI
tion and extravaganza ola Republica
administration, as the Democrat
"reformers" style it. In the light {
truth, the present administration wi
not only show up as honest and eco