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

A Philadelphia pCrfumery house
uses 400, 900 pounds orange blossoms
in season, tits said.
Forty thousand brick are laid per
dov i'm the reconstruction of the Pitts
burgh railroad depot.
A barn on the Berks county poor
house farm was destroyed by IRE Oh
Saturday night. Loss, S2,50o.
There was an insurance on the Lee
banon Valley railroad bridge Of 500 900,
divided among about thirty-slX conf
panies.
The Philadelphia Ledger aflirnls
that so far as it could see there were
no Americans in the mobs Its VISION
is circumscribed
Orlando Bertz. a fifteenycar-old Lee
high boy, fastened himself to n rope
and now his name is craven on u mar
ble slab.
Some Grcencastle youngsters satu-
rated dog with coal oil and set fire to
him. Exit dog in Il hurry, "makes"
barn and sets il on fire.
Six iron steamers are now on the
stocks at Roach's Chester, and prepa-
rations are being made for laying the
keels of three others.
A little daughter of Daniel Bowen,
of Jersey Shore, was burned to death
on SUNDAY while attempting to kindle
fire with coal oil.
John Welsh, of Lycoming county,
while unhitchiHg his horses was al
| most instantly killed, one of the ami
mails kicking him in the stomach.
Mary Mulligan, of Carlisle, placed
her young affections on young man
whose feelings didn't correspond, SO
she's gone to seek an angel lover.
Rev. o. II Ashenfelter, Carlisle,
thinks there is no hell, and the Re
| formed church are going to put him
| into ecclesiastical torment therefor.
A little daughter of VIM. OXenrder,
of North heidelberg township, Berks
county, fell down flight of stairs,
dislocating her neck, causing instant
| death.
"OUT IN THE COLD. About 3d.
! 900 Lehigh and Luzerne miners,
while in the anthracite region there
are about 10000 unemployed. Are
they any better off for the strikes?
| Every man, woman and child in
| Pittsburg, it is calculated, will have to
pay $40 per capita for their late fire in
| the shape of riot. a more striking
argument against strike will not be
required.
Annie Reimensyder, of Lancaster
county, didn't believe what the pa
pers said about the efficacy of coal oil
| for starting q fire. On Saturday morn
ing, had she been living, her testi-
mOny would have been corroborative.
1t required eight men and block
| and tackle to lower Fannie Wallace,
of Lancaster county, into her grave.
| She was "a years old and weighed $50
pounds. Her coffin was feet inches
! long; feet inches in width and
feet wide.
At the Philadelphia permanent eX-
hibltion there are now 1900 eXhibi-
| tors, representing all the states OF the
| Union and all the principal countries
of the world, and less than one-half of
these are Pennsylvania exhibitors.
At Shartlesville, Berks county, on
Saturday, while q Miss Foose was
kneading dough masked man eX-
tended his hand Supposing it was a
friend in disguise she grasped his
hand. At the same time a man APP
preached from behind and seized her
arms. She was soon bound and
threatened with death If she made II
noise. After having secured her
hands and feet the robbers went
through the house and stole all the
vaIuablcs they could find, When the
attack was made On Miss Foose she
was alone her father being in distant
field and her mother at the village
store.