The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-09-20
state Notes.

Oats sell for twenty five cents per bushel
in Erie county.
Pittsburgh manufacturers are shipping
lamps to Switzerland.
The Erie Gazette prints list Of dead
beats who won't pay the printer.
In Erie county foot disease similar TO
foot. rot in sheep affects the cattle.
The value of recovered goods stolen dur
ing the riot in Pittsburgh 10 over $50, 900.
Lewis Larkins, of Crawford county,
burnt hornets nest the other day, and in
doing so burnt his baru.
The Erie Dispatch says that the Pitts
| burgh, Titusville and Buffalo railroad has
| secured device for consuming smoke from
| the locomotive.
The Pennsylvania coal company has
closed its works and put everything in
order for a suspension as long or as short
| as the miners choose to make it.
The twenty fourth annual exhibition Of
the Pennsylvania State Agricultural So
| CtptY Will De utlu tb CTley COMMENCING
| September 24th and continuing five days.
There are 1884 miners in Allegheny
county, 1,149 in Fayette, 1,l3O in Washing
ton and 2,55S in Westmoreland, making
total in four counties of 8,67l.
A Wayne county farmer put twenty drops
of ipecac on some fine looking pears and
| IL. 60 Ito trao
The boys no longer raid that orchard.
Israel Daub, near Jamestown, Lebanon
county, was recently caught in the revolv-
ing arms of the cylinder of threshing ma
chine and received injuries which ter
minated fatally in two hours.
| A queer sort of worm has been dis
trees in Wayne county. 1t seems to attack
the body, or trunk of the tree, boring q
hole therein about the size Of pipe-stem.
The owners Of the celebrated "Watkins
Glen" are Messrs. John ]. Lytle, Amos j.
Miehener, and Thomas Lippincott. all
Phiadelphians and members of the Society
of Friends 1t cost them 100000.
The Pennsylvania railroad CON pany re-
quires passengers to enter The cars at the
rear door and pass out at the front door.
Much pushing and pulling and squeezing
and elbowing and swearing is thereby done
away with.
Wm. Taylor, of Forkstown, Wyoming
county, Pa, is over one hundred years old
and works every day. He enjoys good
health and says he never felt better. He
was in the war of 1872, and has made ap-
plication for q pension.
Canning and jarring times are here,
when sugar bills grow big, and madam
waltzes kitchenward with culinary jig; the
fire-blush blooms upon her cheek and ruby
grows her nose, o'er peaches, berries,
pickles, corn. ketchup and tomatoes.
Last week Monday young man named
Clark Brown, son of Sylvester Brown, of
Woodruff, slipped from NOW of hay and
struck on the upturned handle of pitch
fork, which penetrated his bowels and in
jured him so that he died the next day.
Of the two regiments recently authorized
to be recruited from the National Guard Of
Pennsylvania, about enough men to fill one
regiment have been enrolled. There are q
very large number offering that are not and
will not be excepted, as they are not the
right kind of material.
The Pottsville Chronicle says that owing
to the fact that the colleries along the line
of the Pennsy lvania Railroad have sus-
pended. that company is obliged to pur
chase anthracite coal for the use of their
engines. II was supposed that they could
not use any coal except bituminous, but it
seems that the hard coal suits as well.
gentleman in Harrisburg, Pa, has an
order for army supplies written by General
Putnam in 1776. The order is Drowned by
age, is written on a scrap of paper, evil
IDENTIFY the fly leaf of blank book, and is
penned in legible, bold, round hand. but
shows that the General shared in the bad
orthography so common in those times.
Barney Harron, of Pittsburg, who had
been blind six years, ON Sunday, while his
. family were at church, twisted a lot Of or
binary wrapping twine into rope and ty-
. ing it to the banister of the stairway and
around his neck threw himself over the
. banister. He was found hanging there
dead when his family returned.
: A few days ago den of copperheads
was discovered near the residence of Mr..
Chester Childs in Sheshe1uin township,
Bradford county. The reptiles attacked
: by Mr.. Childs and two other men, and af-
ter the combat was over the attacking party
= discovered that they hdd slain five of the
venomous serpents. one of them five or siX
= feet in length and as large round as a
mans wrist.
The Pittsburg Post gives romance
;. briefly, thus; Seventeen years ago Mr.
and Mrs. j. T. Wilson, of Bridgeport
;. Beaver county, Pa, concluded to dissolve
partnership. Mr.. Wilson went West, and
!, when the war broke out enlisted in the
Union army. In the meantime, his wife
}. secured a divorce. No communication
passed between the two until few months
}. ago. A few days ago Wilson returned to
Bridgeport, went to see his former wife, fel
}. in love, minister was sent for and a mar.
riage ceremony was performed. They
}. expect to have better luck this time.
With reference to trade at Pittsburgh
G the Commercial Gazette says that "gener
ally merchandise, wholesale dry goods
&c groceries, boots and shoes. clothing, etc.
are, at present, doing about on an average
&c with this time last fall aud, in some cases
| 4 shada hai and tho haalthv oon1ifiop n