The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-08
Pennsylvania News.

The debt OF MlL1ln county 10 SfO,-
600.
An oil excitement has broken out
In Cameron county.
Mr.. Moore, of Beaver county, died
recently from tho kick of vicious
cow.
A deed, 100 years old, was entered in
the Recorders office, at Reading on
Wednesday.
Mr.. Smith, of Pottstown, owns
fourteen hens, who laid 229 eggs dur
ing the month of February.
All the idle mines of the Lehfgh
and Wilkesbarre Coal Company will
be put in operation at once.
The valuation of real estate and per-
sonal property in Washington county
is S39, sos, ,239.
a new bridge will be built across
the SusquehaDna at Rockville by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
The temperance men in the West
ern part of the State have selected AL
toona as their next field of action.
Mrs. Farrel, of Chester, was 80
badly burned by the explosion of
lamp, II few days ago, that she died in
a short time.
The new iron railroad bridge, which
crosses Tunkhannock creek below the
town, is rapidly approaching comple'
ton.
a daughter Of Mr.. Christy, of West
moreland county, was attacked bya
dog the other day and drcadfully
mangled.
The citizens of Carbondale arc circu-
lating papers expressing decided
protest against the construction OF
| Lackawanna county.
The papers of Pittsburg say the
| ravageS of diphtheria i'll Western
Pennsylvania are unprecedented.
Whole families are being swept offby
this terrible disease.
Two large wolves were recently seen
near Sechler's Mills, Cambria county.
The deep snow drove these animals
from their usual haunts in search of
| food.
The dwelling, barn, outbuildings,
household furniture and farming
utensils of County Commissioners
Hileman, of Blair county, were con-
sumed by fire the other day.
The editors of the Clarion RepubLjS
can and Clarion Democrat were each
candidates for borough offices and
each defeated. y "fellow feeling
makes us wonderous kind"
The Pittsburg Post says that the
price of barge lumber has advanced
from SIS to $50 per thousand, owing
to the great destruction of barges in
the Monongahcla and Ohio rivers by
the ice gorge of u few weeks ago.
There are seventeen school slate
manufactures along the Delaware be-
tween Easton and the Delaware Wa
ter Gap, and five along the Lehigh, in
the vicinity of Slatington, manufac-
turing 60, 900 cases of school states per
annum.
No ice jams IN 1877. The gradual
wasting of the ice has prevented the
possibility of any damage this year
from the ice flood. In u few days the
rivers will be clear and people along
their banks have less care for the
spring tides.
The Huntingdon Nous learns that
Mr. Colbert, the gentleman interested
in the erection of plate-glass works in
this country, will leave Belgium in
| April next and come to that section
with a view of erecting the works in u
most advantageous location.
There is more trouble for the soldiers
of the National Guard. a bill was re-
ported from the military committee,
with an affirmative recommendation,
in the House last Friday, providing
for certain severe penalties to be
visited upon refractory soldiers here
after who shall give insolence to their
superior officers, sell their own horses,
talk without permission, or commit
any one of the almost ridiculous Often
ses enumerated. The court-martial,
which is established by one of the pro-
visions, gives the same jurisdiction to
summon witnesses and punish often
ses concurrent with the Courts of
Quarter Sessions and Oyer and Ter
miner. The bill was drawn by Mr..
Graham, of Allegheny, and, if it is
not a joke, will have the effect of de-
populating the ranks.