The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-12
Items OF Interest.

The Utah immigrants who settled in
Arizona are dissatisfied with the country,
and are returning in large numbers.
A Deadwood City jury honorably
acquitted " murderer who killed man
whom he mistook for the one he intend
ed to kill.
The cost Of lager beer is computed by
the Chicago Tribune at $1.80 keg, for
which The brewer gets $3.50, and the re-
taller about 81.
The king of Dahomey wears q swallow
tail coat buttoned mp at the back. That
manner of dressing is not bad one for
a man who has no vest.
A census of the republic of Peru just
taken shows the total population to be
2,72O, 735, an increase Of less then ten
per cent. in fourteen years.
Nearly every citizen here has told his
wife that there is another man in town
who closely resembles him, and who is
frequently seen coming out OF saloons.
The Eureka (Nev.) Sentinel doubts if
a shotgun could be fired up or down the
main street at any hour of the day or
night without killing q prospective
sheriff.
"There |" said Jones, as he wrath
fully pushed away the pie which his
landlady had just served him, "the stuff
isn't fit for q pig to eat, and amt 60
ing to eat it,"
A Nevada man, being commanded by
robber to throw up his hands, obeyed
promptly, and concealed his money in
them. The robber searched his clothing,
but not his hands, and SO got no booty.
Old John Adams said, when he was
ninety years of age, i'll letter, that he
had seen four wars, and that, following
each of these wars, there had been
period of great financial and industrial
depression.
there are 929, $40 horses, nearly 1900, 600
cattle, 1000, 800 hogs, 1876 pianos,
21, sos melcdeons, 1856, 728 sewing ma
chimes, and $50, 900 worth of diamonds
in the State of Illinois.
Two girls took arsenic in Newport,
Ind, last spring, and ono died at once,
before the romance of the event had
lost its interest. Now the other has
Just prosily died of liver complaint
brought on by the poison.
This is what they call farming in
Georgia : Many country people are sell
ing their eggs and butter to buy their
bacon, and using the bacon to feed the
hands who make the cotton, which is
mortgaged to pay for the fertilizers used
in making it.
According to the revised statutes of
Illinois any person who wagers money
u e tho ,.ac111f
of an election shall be liable to pay
fine of $1,000 and undergo imprison-
ment in the county jail for period not
exceeding one year.
The company of San Francisco va
riety theater intended to take the re-
4, mains of comrade from the hospital in
which he had died and bury them, but
they got the wrong body, and made
touching public demonstration over a
Mexican horse thief.
Mons. Colombier, q merchant of Paris,
recently deceased, has left 10000 francs
to lady of Rouen, for having, twenty
years ago, refused to marry him,
"through which," says the will, Il was
enabled to live dependently and hap
PLY as bachelor"
Miss Middlecrib sat down at the piano
aud sang "Where are the dreams of the
dawn 2" And her young brother, COM
ing out of an adjoining room from an
interview with his father, sobbed out
the refrain "Under the bending willow"
And he meant it, too.
A large party who visited the White
House the other day, asked to be shown
"the kitchen where the President cooks. V
Upon being told that it was private, a
slab sided, shrill voiced female ex-
claimed 81 guess it belongs to the
United States, don't it 2"
A foolish bet has been made in Gin
cinnati. If Tilden is elected o council
man OF that city will take good sized
bag and go from room to room in every
house in one ward and beg for some
rags, which are to be sold for charita-
BILE purpose. If Hayes is elected the
Tilden man will officiate.
II was at the funeral of the head of
family. A neighbor in the yard, while
the service was going Oh inside, was
speaking of the deceased, and took ad-
vantage of the opportunity to observe in
tone of subdued sympathy: can
had just got in his coal and potatoes for
the winter. 1t is q sad case"
The prospect of the public's obtain
ing much advantage from the gifts OF
James Lick, the rich but eccentric Cali
fornian, are not considered very encour-
aging at San Francisco. The Nea0s-
Letter of that city, which calls MIR. Lick
"pinchback Peabody" say 8: The
fact has slowly but thoroughly developed
that the Lick fund is but the vehicle
through which the vagaries of childish
and petulant old man are to periodically
aflict the public. The upshot of the
whole business will, doubtless, be a
large crop of lawsuits after Mr.. Lick s
death, and the usual division of his