The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-09-13
State Notes.

| Inc uhlly VI the NdTTSu OlA
district is about 800 barrels.
II is reported that vein of iron and coal
ore has been discov vered near Mt. Etna,
Berks county.
Allen c. Laros, in the Easton Jail, under.
| took to commit suicide again the other day,
hanging himself with strip from the sheet
| on his bed.
A four. year-old son Of Mrs. Edward
Murray, of Scranton, was burned to death
on Wednesday, his clothes taking fire while
at play near a bonfire.
The miners at Penn, Irwin and Larimor
mines and Spring Hill Station, Westmore'
land county, are again at work, com.
promise having been effected
| The tramps are getting distributed again,
and if they can't have bread or blood they
are willing to take the white meat of a
chicken.
Farmers in the vicinity of Scranton COM
plain that their MAit, potatoes and corn
are stolen, whole crops being carried away
in single night.
The Norristown Herald fears that some
country debating society will seize hold of
| the labor problem and settle it before Con-
gress gets chance at it.
A Corning sportsman set out to shoot q
woodcock. After spending the whole day
in fruitless search while returning home
he found one in a lager beer barrel. Hor.
rors!
Mr.. A. scofeld, son of Hon. G. W.
Scofeld, of Warren, q student Of Lafayette
College, will join the scientific expedition
which starts in October on two years
voyage around the world.
Victor f.. Piolet, Of Bradford county,
master of the Patrons of Husbandry Of
Pennsy ylvania, says that there are in this
State some 800 subordinate Oranges, with
a membership of 20, 900 men and woman.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
have put an additional watchman on each
section of the road at night, and also at
every bridge. This is deemed necessary
by the railroad officials on account Of the
late labor troubles.
While the Van Storch mines were being
filled up with water recently during the
stoppage Of the pump, droves of large rats
came out of the mine IN search of dry land.
1t was estimated that at least fen thousand
were thus drowned out.-Scranton Repub-
lican.
Two hundred farmers in the neighbor.
hood of Milwaukee, Luzerne county, have
organized themselves into q home guard
for the protection of their crops, which of
late have been despoiled by the raids of
lawless men that infest the rural districts
in that region.
A woman in Northampton county OBJ
served her husband in company with
another female, and in or Ter to get even
with him she made an effort to drown her.
self by Jumping into q creek. While she
was being rescued her husband admonished
her rescuers to ''let her go.'
The Wayne county farmers are begin
ming to pay considerable attention to rails
, ing of sheep, and large numbers Of them
are weekly sent to the New York market
from that county. The money brought
into the county on account thereof runs
f way up among the thousands.
On Wednesday last there was sad scene
at the schulykill county prison. Robert
Helms, of Schuy4kill Haven, who is under
confinement for robbery, was shown the
corpse of his child. IT was impossible for
him to go to the funeral, and it was brought
to him. The sight of the father weeping
over the dead body in prison was affecting
In the extreme, and highly moved those
who were comp elled to witness it.
sent to the Eastern Penitentiary last year
one hundred and seventy-three never
served an apprenticeship at any trade.
Only seven of the whole number were ap-
prentices. There, is food for thought in
this fact. The inability of young men to
obtain chances to learn trades has helped
to push thousands into crime. The destruc
ton Of the apprentice system was one of the
greatest misfortunes that ever betell this
country.
, In consequence of misplaced switch,
q which was spiked, a train on the Delaware
!, !, and Hudson gravity railroad suddenly
l jumped the track three miles from Homes
r dale throwing the parlor car Passac twenty
, feet down an embankment injuring, al
=, though not seriously, engineer W. Muir.
1t is supposed that this switch was spiked
s for the purpose of doing harm to Gen. Nor
) row, commanding the regulars at Scranton,
+ and party Of officers connected with the
Third National Guard infantry and Nine
. teenth National Guard Of Pennsylvania
I who were on board, all of whom escaped
= unhurt.