The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-17
News Items.

Eight thousand Friends il Iowa propose
the restsration Of The gallows.
rraulein Hulern and Mrs. Marshal, of
Chicago, have got up a walking match.
The emigration returns of Liverpool for
last year show q decrease Of 33, 902 per
sons.
Bruoklj is to be lighted with oil because
of the exorbi:ant charges of the gas com.
pany.
A Nebraska paper says that there is n
great scarcity of marriageable females out
there
Michigan owns million acres of public
land appropria ted for school purposes, and
yet unsold
The New York theatrical agencies
are said to te absolutely overrun with ap-
plicarions for employment.
The British government expects to have
six Sl-ton cannon ready for service before
the end of the yea-.
The habit of secret drunkentsss, it is
said, is becoming very common amote
English publicschool boys,
Seats in the New York Cotton Exchange,
having q nomiua. value Of $1,000, can now
be brought for $1,000.
Thirty.two sales of short. horns took
place in KentucSy last year, in which !, =
553 animals were sold for $685., ,936.
"Cold tea" is what they groundlessly call
whisky in the restaurant Of the United
States House Of Representatives.
A large number Of European Jews are
going to purchase the Holy Land of Turkey
with view of going thefe in a body.
A recent inspection of the Chicago pub.
lie school buildings has brought to light the
fact that the ventilation in many of them
is bad and the exit defective.
Yellow stone'-Park tourists are seriously
damaging the curious calcareous forms.
tions which abound there by breaking of
portions as specimens and mementoes.
A citizen of Somervlle, Mass. was sur
prised by the delivery of coffin at his
house, and later a hearse AMI eight carria
ges came. 1t was the joke of luna,ic.
Prof. Henrichs, of Des Moines, says that
sevcnty'fve years hence Iowa summers
will be like those Of Louisiana, and the
winters like those at Daluth. MINI.
At the time Of the Revolution there were
25,O0O Baptists in this country. There are
now l,750,000 Then they had but one
college; now they have thirty.
A "free-school guard" organization has
recently been started, with eadquart ers
in Washington, which has alrerdy q mem
bership of fifteen thousand.
A young man of East Jaffray, N. H.,
who went to Viueland few YEARS ago to
make his fortuEe by raising grapes, has
gone home q sadder and wiser man. He
lost $4,000 in 1874 and $500 in 1878.
During the last six months the numbe:
of gallons of spirits produced in the United
States was 26, 100 S92, against %, 26O, 2l2
for the corresponding period the year be.
forei falling off Of 2,l59, $40 gallons.
1t is proposed To abolish the State Fish
Commission Of Maine which has cost tn,
State $2l 900 during the past seven years
on account Of the positive injury done tc
the fish through the efforts of the mem bers
1t Is feared in California that the Law
which allows women to hold educstiona
Offices is only the entering wedge fo
women suffrage, and a bill has been intro
duced in the Legislature to repea; the act
Three women are now olding the Office ot
county superintendent In different section,
of the State.
The bill dividing cities Of this Stat
into i've classes makes the following classi
fcation; Three hundred thousand, frs
class; less than 100000 and esceedinl
100, 900, second class; less than 100, 90
and exceeding $4,000, third class les
than 10000 and more than $4,000, fourt
class; less than $4,000 fifth class. Philadel
phia is in the first class; Pittsburg, secon
class; Allegheny, Scranton and Reading
third class; Harrisburg, Erie, Lancaste
and four others. fourth class; York, EastoT
Altoona, Titusviils, New Castle, Oil Cit
J and twelve others. nth elass.