The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-16
State Notes.

Several circuses have recently become
Financially embarrassed" in different To-
calties in this State.
Duringa recent storm a lady in Perry
county was SO frightened by the lightning
and thunder that she died.
Much indignation is felt in different parts
of the country at the hordes of worthless
tramps who are prowling about.
Seven persons lost their lives by boiler
explosion in Lehigh county few days ago.
The death of another is expected.
A young man in Cambria county was re-
penitentiary for carrying concealed pistol.
The Pittsburgh Telegraph estimates that
the gun dealers of that city city lost $lS,-.
900 in goods stolen by the mob.
Six new wells have been opened in East
Titusville, and there is considerable excite
ment in consequence.
Oil has been found on Dunksrd creek, in
Greene county. One well gives out from
thirty to fifty barrels day.
In Crawford county there are ninety
eight properties advertised to be sold at
sheriff sale
General Brinton says General Pearson
does not deserve the harsh criticism he is
receiving at the hands Of the newspapers.
Foolish miners are still flooding the
mines in the coal regions, thus operating
| to make coal dear.
There are two counties in the state of
Pennsylvania which have not q rod of rail
road within their limits-Forest and
| Greene.
The Keystone bridge company, of Pitts
| burgh, has been awarded the contract of re-
building, of iron, the Ashtabula railroad
bridge.
Nearly three hundred cases will claim
the attention of the August criminal court
of Derks county, which commenced last
Monday.
Henry W. Corbit, member Of the Read
| ing School Board, who was wounded dur
ing the late riot, died on Wednesday of
lock-jaw.
A party of fishermen broke camp at
Brookland, Potter county, one day last
week, taking home with them 2 IS trout as
the result of the weeks sport.
IL tr.1 tnl
to the soldiers monument at Montrose,
Susquehanns county. The monument was
Dedicated on the 4th ult.
A saw fifty -four feet long and eight inches
wide, INTENDED for use on the big trees in
| California, has Just been turned out at the
Beav er Falls steel works.
An emigrant train passed through Sus-
| quehanna few days ago with over 600
people from Norway and Sweden, bound
for Salt Lake City, to help prop up Nor
mondom'
A number of Ger wheels intended for the
Great Eastern railway Of England, have
been made at the Leh,gh car wheel works.
Tt has also some orders from South
! America.
Doc Sweeney, the Carbondale bank rob-
Der, died in the Eastern Penitentisry the
other day. Two other convicts from Lu-
zerne county have died in the instituti, n
during the past two mouths.
six year-old boy at Larry's creek, Ly-
coming county, got in front of reaper on
tirely off and the other 80 badly iacerated
that it had to be amputsted.
A wagon load of people fell over a bluff
at "the narrows," below Crescent, Lycom-
ing county, descendinga distance of over
forty feet; but strange to say none Of the
party were hurt beyond a few triflng
bruises.
A passenger car has been put on the
Waynosburga and Washington Narrow
Gauge Road, and the line SO far as COM
pleted, is now open for passenger travel
and freight business.
Two men, John Harris and Henry Hall
man, working in the Ocean colliery, in the
Clearfeld region, were killed by fall OF
coal few day ago. Their families lived
in the same house.
The Greenville Advance says: The twin
steers, now between five and six years old,
belonging to the Pierce estate, were
weighed recently and turned the scales at
5,776 pounds. They were weighed separ-
ately, and, what is most singular, their re-
spective weight did not vary half pound.
The Reading Times says that the Sheriff
Office in that city has to all appearances
been converted into an arsenal fifteen large
boxes filled with Springfield rifles and thre'
boxes of ammunition have arrived from thu
State Arsenal, Harrisburg. They fllet
two large express wagons, the total " eigh
being 4.S00 pounds. They were sent fol-
the arming of the six hundred members o
the Sheriff's posse.
"A number of prominent Welshmen o
Pittsburgh have devised scheme to induce
the thousands of Welsh who are engaged
in mining to forsake calling which is no
only dangerous to life and limb, but is als'
largely over-crowded, and oolonize upol
| fartile Western lands and devote their at