The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-14
state Notes.

There arc GS7 convicts in the Western
Penitentiary, of whom four are women.
The seventeen year locusts have made
their appearance in Lehigh county.
About fifteen hundred shad have been
caught in The Juuiata near Newport this
| season.
The Hon. George Tracy, of Bradford
| county, died the other day at the Insane
Asylum Harrisburg.
| Lester Hassenplug, sou of the Prothono-
| tary of Union county, was drowned in the
river at Lewisburg the other day.
The pardons recommended by the Board
| on Thursday were J. Horack of Bucks,
urglary Moses Wolf, schuylkill, larceny.
The Titusville Courier says if the ''pres-
ent rate continues 100000 barrels of oil
will be shipped from the Pennsylvania re-
gons in June"
A Scranton man has been arrested for
| perjury. He sworc that he had lost ST.
| 500 by recent fire, while the actual dam
| age is said to have been only $3.50.
During the month of May 314 oil wells
were drilled. Of these go were dry holes.
| Thus 2j4 producers are added, which ON
! the whole, will more than counterbalancc
the falling of in production. There are now
275 rigs up and in process of erection.
An unknown Irishman was found dead
in car on the Allegheny Valley railroad
on Friday. 1tis thought he was moulder,
as a number Of moulder's tools were fouLd
in his possession. The deceased committed
suicide by taking laudanum.
The Shenandoah Herald is endeavoring
to create sensation with the story that
the Muuch Chunk Jail is to be lttac ked
with the purpose of liberating the con-
demned Mollies. The police force on
duty at the Jail has been doubled
The people of Wayne county endcavored
to procure an injunction to prevent the
Commissioners from erecting two hum
dred thousand dollar Court House by days
labor instead of contract, but Judge
Drcher decided that the building might go
on as the Commissioners directed.
At Pctrolia on Friday Minnie Smalley,
aged ten years, attempted to kindle fire
in stove with kerosene oil, but holding the
can too near the flame it exploded, burning
her fatally, the skin being torn from her
body and limbs. She died in u short time
in great agony.
The Selingsgroye Times says: ''Wm II.
| l,, lo;o ,ba
business for John NJ. Rine at M'Kces Half
Falls, Snyder county, disappeared several
days ago, leaving Mr.. Rinc minus about
81, 800. On Tuesday morning Mrs. Glib
bony followed her defaulting husband but
no one knows whittier.
1t is reported that an immense gas vein
has just been struck in well in Mexican
county, about five and half miles south of
Olean. The gas comes from depth of
!, l,lS0 feet faom a sand rock about 25 feet
thick and about 10 feet over the producing
(third), sand of the Bradford oil region,
and indicates pressure of about sixty
pounds to the square inch.
The Clarion Democrat says: "Ncver
since 1865 has there been so much excite
ment about oil in Clarion as there has been
this week. The well Of Mclaughlin, Law
& Co.. on the Samuel Sloan farm, about
half a mile east of the borough, struck the
third sand at n depth Of I,l5O feet, last
Monday night, and before noon on Tuesday
there was between 800 and 400 feet of oil
in the hole. The news spread rapidly and
hundreds Of our citizens have visited the
well, and scores of operators, spectators
and curiosity seekers have come from
Edenburg and other points in the oil re-
gions."
Preacher in a Pittsburgh church was
charged with forty otfenscs by the congre.
CATION Of which he was pastor. He ac-
knowledged the truth Of thirty.two, among
them the following: Sixteen for debt
eight for falsehood; two for engaging in
immoral conversation while visiting, and
one charge Of writing promissory ncte in
church while brother was praying. He
had borrowed some money from one of the
members, and while another of his flock
was sending up fervent petition to the
throne of grace the pastor was engaged in
making out promissory note with lead
pencil and handed 1t to The right party
while the prayer was still going on. The
, immoral conversation, charged against
him. is for bringing up the subject of game
chickens and their fighting propensities at
houses where he would visit, The investi-
CATION was brought to an abrupt termina.
ton few days ago, when the minister's
friends rallied at the church in large force,
refused TO hear any evidence and ex-
onerated The minister
= From the Harrisburgh Patriot 18th inst
The LarOs Poisoning Case.
l The supreme court yesterday morning
= rendered an opinlon afirmino the iudr