The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-07-20
NEWS ITEMS.

Cucumbers are raised in Florida four and
o half feet long.
Texas has seven new lines of railroad in
the course of building.
The Yale four oar races at Saratoga and
Philadelphia will consist of Kennedy, Colin,
Kellogg and Wood.
The City Treasurer of Dublin has gone
to meet Tweed, and carried with him several
thousand pounds of the city's funds
Nine gas companies, with an aggregate
capital Of $50, ,000,0 900, furnish the illumn-
ating material for the city of London.
The bishops of the Colored Methodist
Episcopal Church have appointed Friday,
August a. as day of fasting and prayer.
Centennial handk erchiefs, with fac smile
copies of the Declaration Of Independence
stamped on them, are no offered for sale.
Over thirty thousand persons are engaged
in the cultivation of rice in Louisiana, and
the annual business amounts to $40 ,000 600.
A number of cattle are to be shipped
from England next month for the interna-
tional cattle show to be given IN this city.
The failure of McLagor s. Smith, irou
founders, New Haven, Conn, is announced.
Liabilities, 100000 of which $SS, 900 is
secured.
The Chicago Times remarks that a man
never knows how many warm friends he
has until the thermometer stands at SO in
the shade.
The Board of Trustees of the Grand
Army of the Republic Soldiers Home have
decided that the said home shall he erected
at Bath, New York.
A company has been organized in St.
Louis to build a new hotel that will cost
2,00O,O 900, contain 1000 rooms and ac.
commodate $500 guests.
Robbins, the murderer, who escaped
from the Augusta (Me.) Insane Asylum, on
Saturday morning, was captured at Rock
land, Me-, the same night.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Weick, under sentence
of death at Buffalo. New York, for poison.
iGg her step. son, has had her doom COM
muted to imprisonment for life.
The london Observer states that the
rumor that the stolen printing of the
Cuchess of Devonshire, by Ga;nsborough,
has been recovered is unfounded.
The Cumberland Valley Railroad Com
pany has generously furnished its four
hundred employees with tickets and free
transportation to the Centennial.
Orders have been received at the ChaSjes.
town (Mass.) Navy Yard to fit out for sea
the sloop of-war Ospee. She will prob
ably sail for San Domingo tom orrow.
The failure of Jove, Terry s. Co., sugar
importers, of New York, was announced
on Saturday. Their assets are said to be
sufficiently ample to cover all liabilities.
The Swedes will celebrate the four
hundredth anniversary of their nationality
at Philadelphia on August &c, and invite
their fellow. countrymen from all sections
to join then.
A citizen of Boston has been fined $40
and costs for putting out American flags
projecting more than twelve inches over
the sidewalks, without permission from the
authorities.
Mr. Blaine has formally accepted the
United States Senatorshp rendered him by
Gov. Connor. The vacancy thus created in
the House of Representatives will not be
filled until the regular State election in
September.
Some idea of the extent TO which base
ball is played may be had from the fact
that q single firm in New York have sold
$4,000 bats, 100000 balls. 2 500 pairs of
hall shoes, 3.0S0 pairs of colored hose,
5000 caps and 500 complete uniforms.
man named Knott, at Altoona, who
distinguished himself by making inforna-
tions against over one hundred employees Of
the Pennsylvania railroad for working on
Sunday, is now charged himself with the
forgery of District Attorney Milliken's
name to a paper by which he compromised
Il Sunday liquor selling suit and obtained
S25.
From Harrisburg and vicinity we have
had reports of the birth of set of triplets
this year, one set being girls and the other
boys. And now Reading comes to the front
with triplets, two boys and girl. Mrs.
Michael Latus, wife of Seventh street
baker has done this thing, and Reading is
proud of her. The multitudinous progeny
are doing well.
"Hayes' letter isn't we'll liked by the
Presidents crones. Some of them are in
high state of indignation, and they say
that 1t is stab at Grant Well, Grant is
hitting back; he is making capital for Tilden
every day. Still the Independents are
rallying to the support of Hayes. Al
together, it is going to be pretty and 4
hot fight. ."-BOStOn Globe
The prosecution of the Chicago branch
of the whisky ring has not been a success.
The Tribune says: "The fact is, that, out
of about nineteen persons implicated in tke
Chicago whisky ring, only twelve are in
Jail. The management of the Chicago
cases does not compare favorably with
those of St. Louis"
Mr.. John Fiske writes to the Nation
that there is not a word of truth in the
story that the library of Harvard College
is in danger of being destroyed by white
ants. They have never aDDeared in tho