The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-03

ADVOCATE one year.
"Brick" Pomeroy says that S. J..
Tilden will never be President, and
the signs of the times indicate that
Bricks" head is level.
The seventeenth regiment N. G. p,
passed this place last night on express
east. The express was intwo sections,
one section of twelve cars and the other
of eight cars.
Seven Antwerp carrier pigeon were
let loose in Scranton, last Thursday.
To one was attached a message of 2O7
words, written on fine tissue paper.
The bird made the quickest journey to
New York, $50 miles and carried the
message. all right in two hours and
twenty-seven Misunderstanding about
a mile a minute. All the birds reached
the city in safety.
Gen. Green b. Raum, of Illinois,
was last week nominated and con-
firmed as Commissioner of Internal
Revenue. Gen. Raum is lawyer by
profession. He served through the
war in the army of the Tennessee, and
represented the Cairo district in the
10th Congress. His old Congressional
associates in both parties speak of his
appointment as highly commendable.
Syracuse was thrown into a perfect
fever of ex excitement last Saturday week
by the poisoning of thirty-four per.
sons. 1t was ascertained that the
poisoned persons had all partaken of
milk from one delivery wagon belong
ing to the milk association. The milk
was taken to the city by farmer who
supposes that it was poisoned by some
thing his cows had eaten in the field.
A company of the Cincinnati Light
Guards walked from Cincinnati to
Philadelphia to see the Centennial.
They started May 22d and arrived
July oath, making about 800 miles in
about 80 marching days. They stay
ten days in Philadelhia and return by
rail. Director-General Gorshorn at
one time commanded the Light
Guards and his nephew is one of the
long trampers.
a gentleman explains through the
columns of one of our exchanges,
what he claims to be the cause of the
apple tree blight, and which he says
is the same everywhere. By splitting
the twig at the point where the last
years growth commenced, it will be
found that worm has been at work
in the heart at that point. The as
sumption is that an egg was laid there
at the budding of the last years
growth.
Yesterday Joseph Hemmer, em-
ployed by Grant & Horton, and work.
ing in the woods, above the tannery,
was seriously injured, He was chop.
ping down trees when his AK slipped
embedding itself in his left leg, and
cutting a terrible cash from few in
ches below the knee cap, and up
through the cap. The wound will
undoubtedly cripple him for a long
time. DR.. Bordwell was called and
dressed the wound.
According to the Bradford Ncv
Era some of the Bradford operators
have tried the process of flooding their
well with oil for the purpose of increas'
ingt production with the best of re-
suits. Connections are made with the
tank and the oil allowed to run into
the hole until full. 1t then pumped
off and in every instance where a trial
has been made the production has been
increased. This method is claimed to
be preferable to torpedoing in many
respects
A Scranton maniac, Richard Bar
rett, incarcerated in the Danville In
sane Asylum, murdered a fellow luna
tic the other day. The warden was in
the act of supplying sick patient
with dinner, and while passing these
lunatics one of them, a big muscular
fellow, seized cup of hot tea and
threw it in the warden's face. Bar
rett, maddened by the act ofAis COM
panion, sprang upon him with the
ferocity of tiger, and hammered him
to death before the warden could in
terfere.
Two fishermen of Harrisburg con-
cluded to try their luck in Clark's
creek, and being comfortably seated,
one of the party, intent on a sly nib
bic, did not observe the stealthy ap.
proach of a huge black snake, until he
was Mortified to find that the reptile
had wound itself several times around
his leg. He called to his companion
for assistance. but he was not within
hearing, and he had but one remedy
left, and that was to cut the snake in
two with a pocket knife, which he
did, and thus relieved himself from an
unpleasant situation.
BRADFORD OIL STATISTICS Thirty
five new wells have been added dur
ing the month of June to the number
of wells in this district. Two of them
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