The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22
Pennsylvania News.

There we're sixty-five deaths in Pittsburgh
last week.
A large steam tanncry is to be erected near
Curwensville, Cleariield county.
Reynoldsville. Jefferson county, had %
stores last year but only l3 have survived.
There are a number of cases of small pox
i'll Allentown, according to the Easton papers;
since the opening of the temperance cam
paign in Erie $50 persons have signed the
pledge.
Mrs. Mills, of Cory, was found dead in hor
barn last week. 1t is supposed her death re-
suited from "a kick given by Il vicious COW.
At West Chester, on Tuesday last, Mrs:
Margaret Graham, more t0miliarly known
as "Aunty Graham" attained the remark
| able age of 100 years.
Luke Flood, who murdered Alexander
Black at Mohoc City in december last, is to
| be tried at the coming term of court in
Butler.
| 1t cost S s. Grimes OF Wayncsburg, $3.50
/ for what he knows about the game laws of
! Pennsylvania in connection with squirrels.
| He killed nine out of season,
1t is stated that the Boston and Maine rail-
road company has concluded Il contract for
35 900 tons of Clearfield coal. This company
! has heretofore used Cumberland coal
| Twenty rounds were fought between two
! men employed in Roach's ship-yard at
! Chester, on Monday. when the wives of the
conbatants put in an appearance and led
| their british husbands home.
The officers of the First National bank, of
Allentown, which is winding up its business,
allege that there is no occasion for uneasiness'
Its assets are abun liant to pay all it owes.
The Easton Express says there are six SIS
ters residing in South Easton, who, together,
weigh l,23l pounds, One year ago they aggre-
gated l,23O-malSing clear gain during the
centennial year of one pound.
w. Boardman Reed, u former editor of
the Philadelphia Sunday Press, who pull
lished an article charging Mrs. Annie Bailey
with having abandoned her husband and
eloped with another person, has been SEN
fenced to pay d fine of 500 and costs.
Colonel NJ. II. Horn, of Catasauqua, has on
his dairy farm near that place nine Ayrshire
heifers, real beauties, four Ayrshire cows, one
Alderney COW, four Devonshire cows, and one
| Ayrshire bull, all full blooded.
Mrs. Caroline F. Schugart committed su
eide by hanging in wood shed attached to
the house in which she lived, in Erie, on Sat
urday. Her husband had gone for doctor
and when he returned found her suspended
to beam and lifeless. The cause was sick
ness, poverty and despair
The Lewistown Gazette says: A. NJ. Shoor.
of Yeagertown, Miffiin county Cwho has heal q
his twenty-third child cry), was reelected
justice Of the peace at the late election, which
lands the veteran hero at the threshold of h {
twenty-ffty year as an expounder of justice
to those that err. The inkstand in his office
has been In use over one hundred and sixty
years in u Justices office.
The Bloomsbury Columbian says, Mrs
Sallie Snyder, an aged widow, committed sui.
eide on Wednesday February Is, by drowning
herself in spring, ner the residence of Phin.
cas- Young, in Orange township, where she
had been living. The water in the spring die
not cover her head, and she laid with only
her face in the water. 1t is said she hes tried
to freeze herself TO death several times thi.
winter. She was about 70 or 80 years old, ano
had been supported by the poor directors for ;
number of years.
We have in York at this time, says the Press
a first cousin of Carl Schurz, who is tailor b,
trade, and working at the establishment O
MIR. George Kable. The gentleman CORES
ponds regularly with his lucky relative a
Washington. He says he used to make hi
cousins clothing, and was always upon tn
most intimate terms with the new cabine
officer. No doubt the tailor will soon be ele
waited to position more suitable for the rela
tive of "A cabinet officer, by his more fortn
: nate cousin,