The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-14

Hay ia $40 to % per ton at Easton.

nay 10 p~O W - poi Vob oV 1~ootSh'
Pottsvile barber.shops will here
after be closed on Sunday.
The movements in oil from West TO
East at the present time are very
heavy.
Ice has been made this season In the
vicinity of Harrisburg four inches
thick.
George Turner was killed at Alaska
Colliery, near Shamokin, last week.
by fall of coal.
At the Children's Home, in Lancas-
ter, 100 boys and girls were lately
vaccinated.
The diphtheria has broken out in
the Soldiers Orphans School near
Uniontown.
A steer e'ghing 5000 pounds was
recently slaughtered by Chambers
burg butcher.
Three large raeoons, weighing
together AZ pounds, were caught
lately in Montgomery.
James X. Davis, of Selinsgrove,
Snyder county, recently distributed q
large quantity of coal to the deserving
poor of that place.
OF the 6;252 pupils who attended
the public schools in Reading last
month all but 297 have been vaccina-
ted on account of the prevalence of
smallpox in that city.
There is now growing on the farm
of Evan Pyle, on the line of Kennett
and New Garden townships, in Ches-
ter county, u peach tree known to be
over 6S years old.
The Cambria Iron Company, at
Johnstown, have just purchased q
smoke-consumer, from the use of
which they expect to save from SlO,-
900 to SIS, 900 per year, in fuel.
Lieutenant Cornin,, who was shot
and severely injured by the parties
who attempted to enter the Second
National Bank OF Pittsburgh, has SO
far recovered as to be upon duty.
Two tramps who refused to work
were kept without food in the Lancas.
ter work-house. One white man,
gave in next morning. The other, a
negro, held out until the afternoon.
The new Court House at Holidays.
burg will be ready for occupancy at
the April term of court in Blair
county. An insurance of $25, 600 has
been placed upon the structure by
the commissioners.
1t is exceedingly gratifying to know
that only three editors have been adj
mitted TO the State Lunatic Hospital
at Harrisburg in % years, while 1s
lawyers and % physicians have be-
come inmates.
| Nearly all the crews of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad, who where taken
from coal trains and placed on passen-
ger trains, have been retransferred to
| their old trains since the close of the
Centennial travel.
In the village of New Alexandria,
Westmoreland county, there stands
tavern which was erected in 1913.
! One of the gable walls is butt the en-
tire width of the house, and from the
ground to the apex OF the roof is five
feet in thickness.
The Miners Journal learns that Mr..
Huntzinger, of the suspended Miners
| Trust, makes a proposition that if the
prosecutions are suspended he will
pay so per cent. of the deposits down
80 per cent in two years and the bal
ance in three years.S
The steel department of the Cam
bria Works made 1,706 tons of ingot
steel during the week ending Novem-
ber IS. The largest twenty-four
hours work was made on the 18th,
amounting to sixty-eight heats, of
which thirty-six were made in twelve
hours.
The Indiana Messenger reports that
all the persons who commenced legal
proceedings against the Normal
School at that place have agreed to
stay the same until the State Legisla-
ture shall make an appropriation suf-
ficient to relieve it of its present en-
barrassment.
The Harrisburg Patriot notes thatit
was thirtX-two years on Monday since
the destruction of the G. V. r. r.
bridge at that place by fire, and that
on the same day the State electors
met and cast their votes for James x.
Polk and George NJ. Dallas, which
was followed by an OK roast.
The entire length of the Columbia
and Peachbottom road is now com-
pleted, with the exception of about
five miles, and work on that portion is
being pushed vigorously ahead. Three
trains each way daily, except Sunday,
now run between Columbia and
Peachbottom. Considerable freight is
already carried over the route.
The Shamokin Times says that if
the libel suit brought by Senator Dill
against Charles y. Wolfe is based on
the circular letter which Wolfe dis
tributed so literally through Shamo-
kin, then Dill is likely to lose the