The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19
State Notes.


blast in Blair county.
in Philadelphia nearly $4,000
have been contributed to the yellow
fever relief fund-in Pittsburgh about
$4,000.
Alexander Campbell, one of the
Mollies hung at Mauch Chunk last
summer, is to have tombstone seven
feet high.
The Hyde Park central school
building was touched off by an incen-
diary the other night, entailing on the
city loss of $4,000.
-" Refugees from the yellow fever
districts" are making their appear
ance in different parts, and generally
prove to be swindlers.
Contributions for the yellow fever
sufferers in the South, sent from many
parts of the State to Philadelphia,
amount daily to about $1,000.
"A few days ago Charles Buxton, a
mile and a half from East Conemaugh,
Cambria county, fell from precipice
twenty-five feet high, and was killed.
The gold excitement in Bucks
county has been revived. What is
supposed to be gold dust has been dis
covered in mine seventeen feet deep.
Judge Rowe, of Franklin county,
has sentenced three tramps to the pen
itentiary for three years for an assault
on q man, given an individual two
years. sentence for killing man, and
the Chambersburg Herald complains
that this is not even-handed justice.
In the great council of the United
States of the Independent Order of
Red Men, at their annual session held
in Baltimore, Morris ii. Gorham, Of
Pennsylvania, was elected Great In
cohonee, which means the biggest
Iniun."
The discovery of copper ore in
veins ten feet in thickness on the
South mountain in Franklin and the
upper end of Cumberland counties is
creating much interest to parties own
rng land in that vicinity. Specimens
of the ore are exhibited, averaging 80
per cent. pure copper.
Miss Eleanor Paulhamus, daughter
of DIR. Paulhamus, of Williamsburg,
Blair county, was few days ago bit
ten by poisonous snake known as the
"blowing viper" Every known an
tidote for poison was given her, all tC
no avail, as she died shortly after being
bitten.
' Altoona is infested with house rob
bers who go about at night chloroform
ing innocent sleepers and carrying of
all valuables they can lay hands on
The latest victim is Mr.. Charles Ever
son, who was robbed "Wednesday nigh
of money, silver spoons and clothing
, jacob Sallade, Esq, of Williams
q port, sued the editor of the Daily Ban
n ner for libel. The injurious publica
q ton consisted in charge that Sallade'
f vote or influence had been purchase
= for S., 900 in connection with som
q public improvement engineered b.
,r Peter Herdic. The jury acquitted tn
!. Banner man, and Sallade had to pa,
~ the costs.
% The Board of Education of AL
L. legheny city recommend the introduC
n ton of the metric system of weight
d and measures in the public schools c
g that city. The committee to whom tn
w subject was referred states that all civ
IS ilizcd counties with the exception {
II England and the United States, hav
&c adopted that system, and the last tw
e. named countries are preparing
n adopt it, and our children should b
" made fully conversant with it as 500
e. as possible.
id While Miss Maggie Lewis, (
Sc Glendon, Lehigh county, was in tt
e. act of passing a cup of coffee to pc
n son at the table, she felt ticlIlin
sensation run the entire length of h,
arm, and suddenly the arm and han
- became numb and perfectly dead he
~ hand closed, and the strongest man l
Glendon is unable to open the finger
- - The arm and hand are perfectly sens
- less. Miss Lewis is robust and health
- woman of eighteen years of age. I'll
~ case has excited great deal of interes
90 AT Brushkill Falls, Pike count,
n while Il number of visitors were viey
W ing them daughter of Mr.. Compton
" proprietor ofthe Branch cottage, ,slipp6
in and fell from the top of the falls to I'll
n bottom, a height of not less tina
or ninety feet. The young lady, who
10 sixteen years DID, was standing upc
~. the brink of the precipice upon Il
in east side of the stream, the highest pc
re pendicular point there, leaning h.
nc arms upon the railing, when her fe
,a slipped from under her, passing und
tb the railing, and she was precipitat,
M in the yawning chasm. Hopes Of tt
III lady's recovery are entertained.
or "A very remarkable and interestir
Ms contest is about to take place before ii
It's Register of wills in Philadelphia.
be illustrates again the lesson taught
the cases of Cornelius VANDERBILT
Alexander Stewart and others, ST
fresh in the public memory. On Au