The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-19

the northern part of the State.
Fruit will be more plenty in Phil
adelphia this year than ever before.
Armstrong county is afflicted
with diphtheria OF malignant type.
More than two hundred Odd Eel
lows Halls were dedicated the past
year.
There are four ladies in BROOKLYN,
Susquehanna county, each aged 95
years.
The Philapelphia banks decline to
oppose the circulation of the silver
dollar.
"A. J. Vansant, of Oxford, Bucks
county, trapped 100 muskrats in No
venber.
The Board of Pardons refused to
recommend the pardon of j. Albert
Huntzinger.
The Police Committee of Pitts
burgh Council are $4,000 short for pay
of the police.
-Robeson township, Bucks county,
has an apple butter kettle one hum
dred years old.
There is an increasing demand for
the abolition of the office of Jury
Commissioner.
William Lytle of Smith township,
Washington county, has had thirty
five sheep stolen.
The wife murderer Sayres, under
sentence of death, is rapidly wasting
away by disease.
MFR Schlaugh. editor Of the Stating
ton NetDs is missing. He had libel
suit on his hands.
Frank Fullerton, of Pittsburgh,
has been arrested on suspicion of mur,
dering his mother.
-Whiskey can be bought for two
cents drink AT some of the low grog-
geries i'm Philadelphia
Rev. Edward H. Hammond, the
revivalist has commenced series of
meetings in Allegheny.
There is a hog near Shoemaker
vile, Berks county, that weighs 800
pounds, and is still growing.
VIM. S. Torbert of Schuylkill will
contest the seat of John Parker,
National, in the State Senate.
Russia ships at Philadelphia have
taken on board heavy cargOes of car
tridges, shells, Gatling-guns, etc.
The Inauguration ceremonies of
Governor HOyt bid fair to be the Most
imposing ever known in the State.
1T is reported that Col. A. X. Nc
Clure of the Philadelphia Times is to
he married to Miss Gratz of that city.
The tax rate of philadelphia has
been finally fixed at S2,05 and it is
claimed this will not pay current eX-
penses.
"A petition to Congress has been
signed by many ladies of Lancaster
asking for the abolition of polygamy
in Utah.
The late Thomas Fl. Powers, OF
Philadelphia, left from $500 TO $500 a
year during his life to several of his
employees.
The new pipe line from Bradford
oil regions is being rapidly pushed to
completion. The total length will
be LOB miles.
William Howells was instantly
killed by a descending cage in Noting
ham Colliery, near Plymouth, on Mon
day afternoon.
"A telephone line has just been
constructed between the Western
Union offices, Harrisburg and the
capitol building.
A tree was cut down, in Clinton
county, recently, from which was
taken six logs sixteen feet long and
scaling 400 feet.
Reading is queer place. Musk
rats attack men, raccoons assault
women and game chickens try to ex-
terminate children.
- Beautiful varigated black and
colored marble has been found on the
land of Henry d. Kintzle near Myers
town, Lebanan county.
Peter Rhodes of East Hanover
killed black snake last week. six feet
in length. The reptile was sunine
itself on the limb of tree.
Fourteen heirs-at-law of Stephen
Girard have brought suit against the
city of Philadelphia for all the surplus
income of the estate for twenty years
Mr.. Benjamin Clewell, organist
for forty years of the Morvian church
in Easton, has resigned on account o
old age. A faithful servan: truly
1t has been decided in Allegheny
county courts that election poles are q
nuisance. One In Allegheny City fel
and killed boy, and the city was sued
for damages.
Governor Hoyt elect was knocked
down by baggage smasher at the
depot in Wilkesbarre one day last week
He was on his way to New York t.
attend diuner at the Gilsey House.
Numerous bariis in Bucks county
have been burned of late and there is
much excitement. Near the ruins o
one a letter was found stating tina,
sixteen more would be burned during
the winter.
There was tie vote for Prothono
tary'in Bucks county and one of the
contestants has filled petition. II
will be a long and tedious business t.
go through as every voter will have to
prove his ballot.
Geo. w. Huntzinger, ex-President
of the Philadelphia coal company was
acquitted Saturday morning of 8
charge of misapplying moneys of the
company, but was Immediately re.
arrested upon criminal charge o
embezzling $1,000 belonging to the
company in 1876 and 1877. He was
held in SIS 900 bail.