The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-08-08
State Notes.


The wheat fields of Bradford Co.
contain white mice.
Farmers in Chester county offer
25 cents for ground-hog scalps.
The Woodvale wooden mills, I'm
Johnstown, will shortly suspend op
erations.
The disease among horses, first de-
veloped in Berks county, is spreading
eastward.
king, Son d Co., of Pittsburg, are
filling large order of glass for South
America.
1t is estimated that the recent wool
clip will circulate over$2, 600, 900 among
the farmers of Pennsylvania. y
The creditors of Lloyd, the AL
tOOna banker, who failed some time
ago, are having great deal of trouble
to determine how the estate shall be
handled.
The three-cent beer men in Pitts
burg are beginning to make inroads i'm
the ranks of the opposition. From
the Saloon Keepers and Brewers AS
sociations fresh converts have been
made within a very few days.
Israel Erb and Uriah Meyer were
arrested and placed in Middleburg Jail
on Saturday, charged with the murder
of John Knisler and wife, of Adams
township, Snyder county, some months
ago. A third party informed on them.
z. II. Owen, a milkman, living at
Plymouth, Montgomery county, dis
appeared on Tuesday, and nothing was
heard of him by his family till yester-
day, when they learned that he had
been injured on the railroad at Wissa-
hicken, and was in Philadelphia
hospital.
The tenth annual reunion of the
Eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteer
Infantry will be held at Titusville,
with appropriate ceremonies, on the
second Tuesday in September. Invi-
tations to attend will be extended to
all honorably discharged soldiers and
sailors.
People in Montgomery county are
still hunting for those wolves. A
goodly company of sportsmen assem-
bled at the Franklinville hotel on
Tuesday to search for the animals. 1t
is said that another company, num-
bering about forty hunters, has been
organized few miles from thatvi IL
age.
Alta meeting of the Reading Com
mon Council last week one of the
members, Mr.. John c. X. Heine, in
terrupted the proceedings by insisting
in boisterous way that some one had
stolen his spectacles. He refused to
be quieted, and finally after fierce
struggle with an officer he was ignom-
inious thrown down stairs.
Mrs. Henry Hinkle, living on the
line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad,
two and half miles below Weatherly
Carbon county, on going to the cellar
OH Sunday last heard the sound of q
rattlesnake She called for assistance,
and her husband came with candle,
when they discovered snake en-
deavoring to devour rat, which it had
swallowed all but the hind parts. The
snake had fourteen rattles.
Speaking of the probability of the
taxpayers of Pittsburg nominating a
ticket, the Dispatch of that city says :
"There are four tickets in the field
already. The addition of fifth will
only assist in still further dividing the
forces opposed to the regular Republi
can ticket, and so favor its chances of
election. The more opposition candi-
dates there are the brighter is the out
look for the Republicans"
The resumption of work at the
mills near Philadelphia, where the
special fibre paper on which green
| backs and other Government issues
are printed, is only temporary. The
Treasury Department needed an addi.
tional lot of paper on which to print
the new per cent. bonds, for which
there is such an unexpectedly large de
mand, and its order has enabled the
mills to resume temporarily, after sew
eral months of idleness.
Rev. John Moffett, of Smithfield
Fayette county, is naughty preacher
according to reports. A month ago h,
married Mrs. Hannah Freeman ant
went with her to Baltimore. After
two weeks debauch he disappeared
and has not since been heard from. HI,
had managed to get possession of al
her means, which seemed to have con
sisted of a certain amount of read,
cash and two drafts, one for 81 ,OO(
and the other for $500. These he go
her to indorse, and then, it is alleged
surreptitiously abstracting them from
her trunk, made them payable to him
self and negotiated them and pocketed
the proceeds, leaving her in strange
city, almost penniless. 1t is discov.
| cred since that he has victimized q
number of the brethren at Smithfield
| in sundry small amounts, amounting
| in gross to about $500.
Married.
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