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

| Tunnel.
lee in Maine has been advanced from
| $3.50 to $4a ton at wholesale.
Quitman county, Georgia, claims to have
| q negro inhabitant 104 years old.
The Hon. A. H. Stephens is able to be
out of doors, but only with the sid Of
| crutches.
Chief Justice Waite, of the Supreme
| Court of the United States, is at Avon
| Springs, New York,
The wife ofa New York undertaken laid
out I03 children during the first two weeks
| Of the present month.
Sitting Bull, the Sioux chief, won't be.
lieve that there are over 10, 900 white people
in the country.
There are twenty.four Catholic Total Alb
stinance Societies in Boston, numbering
over four thousand members.
John McCullough's theatre, in San Fran
cisco, is to be closed aud sold to the govern
ment, to be converted into post office.
The new cotton factory at Atlanta, Ca,
will be one of the largest in the world. 1t
will contain 2l, 500 spindles and 500 looms
Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 1.-The Repub.
licans elected their Mayor to-day by S02
majority The Council Is strongly Republi-
can. Republican gain, nearly $50.
The Detroit Free Press asks this difficult
question: "When a Baltimore lawyer will
kill himielf because it is too hot to live, what
are the rest of us foolng around here for?"
Trenton, July 3l.-A porpoise, weighing
600 pounds, and measuring nine feet six
inches in length, was killed in the Delaware
here to-day-a distance of over 100 miles
from the ocean.
The report of the tecever of the New York
and Erie Railroad shows that the balance
on May l was S305, ,005 96; the receipts for
the month were S2,O75, 104 60 and the dis
bursements, S2,2l9,l lsl SO.
An Illinois judge has decided that
washing bill cannot be collected, aid any
experienced washer woman will tell him
that he is right six times out of ten, which is
probably better than the average of his deci.
sions.-Ex.
General Crook and his command have
been heard from, and are safe. They have
been harassed considerably by toe Indians,
but were able to take care of themselves.
The health of the force is good.
Congress having reduced the appro-
priation asked for the free-deliveIy service
for the fiscal year, the Postmaster General
gives notice of reduction of the salaries
of letter carriers according to grade.
John Fassold, at Pine Brook, Luzerne
county, found Paris green q sure cure for
unpleasantness in his domestic relations.
For that purpose he took dose of it and it
killed him.
A child in Troy, who had been put in
crib for a morning nap with vail over his
face to keep the flies from worrying him,
sucked the arsenic and coloring matter and
died in convulsions.
Cincinnati, July 25.-Two young daugh-
ters of M. Prichard, near Logansport, Ind,
were burned to death on Sunday night by
the explosion of an oil can from which they
were pouring kerosene on the kitchen fire.
A drove of cattle, driven few weeks ago.
from Captain Kings rancho, in Neuces
county, Texas, to Kansas, numbered 10000
horned cattle and needed 700 drivers. The
outfit alone cost $4,000, and the cattle
were disposed of for $320,000.
Senator Allen 7. Caperton, of West vir.
ginia, died suddenly at six o'clock Wednes-
day evening, Of angina pectoris. He had
been sick since Friday last, though his
physicians did not regard his symptoms as
dangerous whom they left him at one o'clock.
Augusta, Ga, July 27.-On Thursday,
the 10Th inst. negro at Red Hill, Edge
field county, S. c., committed rape on a
little white girl five years of age, the
daughter of Louis Prescott. Last Tuesday
evening party Of men took the negro into
the woods and hung him.
Boston, July 31.-Ex-Secretary Bristow
leaves to-day for Vermont, where he will
take the stump for Hayes and Wheeler,
speaking at some of the larger places. He
will then pass a few days in the White Mouu-
tain region. He will finish his trip in this
region of New England by brief stay at
East Hampton, Mass.
81, Louis, July 30.-The coal miners of
St. Clair and Madison counties, Illinois, in
mass meeting yesterday, resolved that after
Aug they will not mine coal for less than
three cents bushel. AS much the larger
part of the coal consumed in the city
comes from the counties named. the pros
poets are fair for coal famine.
A policeman at Troy, N. T., several days
ago, threw his wife's old shoes into the
street, and soon after missed his pocket
book. Having searched the house thor.
oughly but without avail, he at last remem-
bered the shoe, and after finding it discov.
cred in the toe the pocket book which con-
tanned more than two hundred dollars.
Philadelphia makes a good showing for
the cheated term" championship in twelve
successive days of temperature above
| ninety three degrees. No such weather
has been reported in that city for eighty-six
years; so there is reasonable ground for
hope that the next Centennial Exposition
may be held under more favorable auspices
in this respect.
A Troy man caught number of boys
bathing in pond on his premises recently,
and seizing the lads clothing, hid it. and
awaited developments. The boys appar'
emily took no notice OF the man, but after
while they managed to surround him, and
| getting him away from the clothes pushed
him into the pond, nearly drowning him
before he could be rescued.
Philadelphia, July 3l.-A colossal statue
of Washington for the Exhibition arrived
at this port yesterday. 1t was modelled
from LeulSs painting Of Washington eros.
sing the Delaware, is twelve feet high, and
was cut from solid block of marble. 1t
will stand between the western end of the
main building and Bartholde's fountain
upon pedestal lS feet high.
New York, July 30-The United States
| Quartermaster's Department yesterday ap-
| Piled to Mr. Samuel Carpenter, general
Eastern passenger agent OF the Pennsylv a.
MIA Railroad Company, for the immediate
transportation of some three hundred troops
TO the Indian frontier A special train
will leave Jersey City with the men this
morning at ii O'Clock, an it is expected that
it will reach st. Louis in twenty nine hours.
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