The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-29


work.
Wiliamsport is to have new daily The
TINES
Relief committees i'll Scranton have thelr
hands full.
A boot and shoe factory ia to be established
at Willsboro.
Valley Furnace, at Sharon, is running on
Bessemer iron.
The Columbia and Port Deposit railroad
will be open for travel April lst
The Scranton TIMES says that the mines ID
that section are working on one-third time'
Nine thousand dollars have been sub
soribed by the people ofON City to erect
new opera house In that place.
The Huntingdon county treasury con-
tanned almost $4,000 ut the last settltment,
aud the county is vtrtnallyuPut Of debt.
The Scranton FREE PREss Is disgusted be-
cause the members from that district have
not secured the passage Of a new county bill.
There are nlncty.two distilleries in the
Eighth district composed of the counties Oh
Berks, Lebanon, Schuylkill and Lehigh.
A large dwelling and storehouse at Not
tinglIafD Station, Chester county, was con-
sumod Ey fire on the 18th instant. LOSE,
about $4,000
The Reading papers state that since the lst
OF March there has been general improve
ment in tho local freight business OF tie
Reading road.
a child of DR.. Messenger, of Bowmansvillei
Lancaster county, poisoned himself on tues
day by drinking Il medical preparation in his
fathers study.
A cclored minister at Sewickly has been
suspended for unhecoining conduct. He was
too familiar with a married sister.
Peter Hordic occasionally gives the VII
liamsportcrs II church, but he charges them
three dollars anda half tor gas.
The HoncSdalc HERALD says that ex-Con-
gresham John y storm is about to enter the
ministry.
The Baldwin locomotive works at Phiadcl-
phia have lately received an order for five
locomotives from Brazil and one from
Austria.
The lower Susquehannu river furnaces are
making about two-lilths of the iron they are
capable OF producing when running steadily:
Water has been let into the West Branch
canal between Lock Haven and Willamsport,
and navigation will be resumed on the lst of
April.
The total receipts from the Girard estate for
the year 1876 were SIG 036S,76. over l75,oOO per-
visited Girard college during the centennial
season.
On Friday last the Oak Hill coal breaker,
about five miles from Scranton, was burned
| to the ground by inceudiaries. 1t had not
| been in use for four years past
| The Wilkesbarre DAILY saysitiE accounted
| n Joke upon the ScrantonianS that they went
| to Harrisburg to divide the county and only
| succeeded in dividing the city of Scranton
The coal miners in the Wyoming region are
| organizing associations for mutual relief and
to protect themselves against sudden stop
pages and reductions in the wages of labor.
| j. II. Bengler, an ingenious mechanic, at
| Williamsport, has invented Jig saw for
! fancy wood working that bids fair to make
! him wealthy man.
Twenty-Five sheep We're killed and thirty
wounded in one night recently, in Mercer
county. The loss estimated at 500, tell upon
| one man, Henry Brown.
The item about Joseph Mishow, of Will
| Transport, being l05 turns up every little
! while as II seems to have done for the last
ten years. Joseph, when shall we Mishow?
\ son of Mr. sitgraves, Of Pittston, aged IL
years, committed suicide on Thursday by
! hanging. lie had been confined in room
for some oifense when lie committed the rash
deed.
| One ri the stacks belonging to the Lenigh
Coal Company, on the Lehigh Valley Rail-
| road, below East Penn. junction, has been
| put in blast, and preparations are making to
blow in the other stack.
! Mr.. Charles Wister, OF Germantown, has
! received from James Duffy, of Marietta, one
OF the state Fish Commission, about two
hundred black bass, and deposited them,
| alive and wriggiing, in stream near that
suburb.
The Lelligh Car Wheel Works, at Ferr
Dale, are shipping orders for the Great West
ern Railway of England and narrow gauge
! wheels for the Beach line on Long Island.
| the Royal Land Improvement Company OF
Virginia. the Texas and Rio Grande Railway
and others.
The Bcdbank Furnace, the largest iron es-
| tablislIment in Clarion county, will continue
to run, having purchased 22.oO9 tons of ore
from the Sligo Furnace Company. The firm
has 1850 tons of metal on hand, holding for
higher prices,
While widow Campbell, of Carbondale
was absent upon a visit to her son, under
| sentence of death in the Wikesbarre Jail, her
| house was set on fire and burned by some of
the enemies other son. This is a most detes-
| table and mean revenge.
| Ii is stated on good authority that about
$1,000 tons of pig iron, which embraces the
entire stock which the company has had
pledged for loans at Port Richmond and
Reading, were sold by the Reading coal and
iron company yesterday to New York parties
at a price which is understood by our infor-
nlant to lie SIS per ton.
The supreme court has decided that on Il
lease Of land made in ITO by Thomas Pen
nington to Jonathan Evans, for 999 years,
during the term Of the lease the lessee had
no right to cut trees, or in legal phrase, COM
nit waste" \ hopeful representative ofthe
original lessor has thus protected the rights
OF his remote posterlty.
The Benevolent Association of York hired
a stone quarry near that place, where a large
number of otherwise unemployed laborers
have been kept at work, at ten cents an hour,
during the winter. The Result of the work is
estimated to bc about three thousand perch
OF broken stone, ready FOR piking streets or
roads.
Joseph parkG, superintendent of the
motive power, on the Mountain Division;
Pennsylvania Railroad, will this week rc-
species Of gamc-ish, which will be properly
distributed in the streams in the vicinity.
Mr.. Parks is true disciple of Sir. Isaac
Walton, and will put his pets whero they
will do the most good.''