The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-16
STATE NOTES.

are resumiug operations.
The coieries in Northumberland couu,y
are In active operation.
Forty-two thousand tons of rails werc
sold last year by the Pennsylvania Steel
Company.
The Lehigh AMI Susquehsnna Railroad
Company are furnishing their line with
double track.
Joseph Braddee, of Fayette county, shot
wild turkey recently that weighed twenty
five pounds.
In graveyard in Warren lie two hus-
bands of one woman, both of whom com.
! mittcd suicide.
The tenth annual session of the Cameron
County Teachers Institute will meet at
Emporium on the 27th inst.
One hundred and fifty sheep were killed
by dog, in East Marlborough township,
Chester county last week.
Twelve hundred barrels Of oil, Il is est-
mated, we're cons umed duiiag the late can
vsss in this State by torchlish.ors.
Mrs. Maria wsple was outraged and
murdered BY tramps near Clearfeld last
week.
The p. & E. Railroad shops, at Sunbury,
are now working on full time instead Of
every other week, as heretofore.
One day recently ten men wen. ou, hunt
ing in Lancaster county, near the Lebanon
line and in less than twelve hours killed
109 rabbits.
lease on thirty acres of land in Cla7icr
county was recently SOLD for $4,000.
There ere four wells on the tract, produc-
ing altogether about sixty barrels per day.
white owl, measuring fve feet across
the wings was recently shot in Mercer
county, by Frank s. Reeger. It is rare
bird in this locality.
The employees of the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western Railroad have been on
strike for three weeks and show no signs
of returning to work.
A buck deer recently attacked Miss Dun.
kle, near Sinnemahoning. She was res.
cued by Mrs H. E. Chamberlain, who
killed the ahitnal with an axe.
Seventy five hands are employed at the
Glen Mills paper mandatory, Delaware
county and ton and quarter of revenue.
stamp paper is shipped daily from that
place:
William Jacob of Indiana returned from
hunting tour the other day, minus game
and three fingers of his left hand. He bad
previously mutilated his right hand in
similar manner.
From the coal pockets of the Reading
and Columbia Company, at Columbia, dur
ing the month of October, 1g, 1853 tons of
coal were taken. This is the largest months
work ever done there.
''Shibbs" Arnold, noted criminal, died
in the Western Penitentiary Friday night.
He has served six years and eleven months
Of a term of fourteen years and ten months.
Arnold committed many depredatione in
the oil country in his day.
J. W. Freeman; editor of the Pittston
Comet, has been sued for libel on John
Howell. The Comet has said that John
had been "dallying with hoary headed
daughter Of Belal." The magistrate dis.
charged the case.
On Tuesday Of last week raft of timber
was run through from Wild Cat to Columbia,
on the Susquehanna river. The channel
has been considerably improved by blasting,
and readily admits the passage of small
raft at moderate stage of water.
On election day Judge Henderson, of
Lebanon, held court for the purpose of de-
Gliding legal questions in reference to the
| right Of persons to vote. As voting him
self might give color to partisanship IN
his decisions, he declined to exercise tho
elective franchise.
G. v. Lowe last week caught 274 black
bass in the Susqueh hanna, and sent them to
the fish hatchery at Donegal for the pur-
pose OF propagation; and also to stock
streams in different portions of our State.
Mr.. Lowe is considered the champion bass
fisher of tie State.
Sophia Valentine, a girl residing near
Peekskill. Jefferson county, strayed from
home on the 14th Of October and was found
on the 9th in swamp near that locality.
dead. Her clothing had been almost en-
tirely torn off her in her fight, doubtless
through briars and stones. Her flesh was
bruised and torn terribly, and her bare fee.
nearly in pieces.
John H. Miller, of Chester county, lost
four members Of his family last week by
suallpox. The cotiins used in the burial
Of his dead wife and ohildrsd were brought
by his neighbors near the building, where
they were taken by Mr.. Miller. and the
corpses placed in them by himself as we'll
as he could, the lids screwed down and
then dragged by him into the road, when
they were taken BY bis nsighbors aud
buried.
DR.. Frank Cowan, Of Greene county. e
engaged in examining into the details Of an
interesting geological discovery recently
made by him in Southwestern Pennsylva.
mia. On sandstone two hundred and
fifty feet below the Pittsburg coal seam
stratum he has found the footprints of six
| new species of air- breathing animals. The