The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-07

Mercer county ships beef cattle to
Europe.
"A Norristown merchant sells coal
by the quart.
"A Franklin county pumpkin
weighs l0s pounds.
Black bears are very numerous in
Monroe county.
Eight lives were lost in Philadel-
phia by the storm.
"A horse bit boys car off the
other day at Oil City.
They call chestnuts "prickly peri
carps" in Lancaster.
-Mechanicsburg has cooperative
carriage mandatory.
Crawford county ships large guam
It'll s of cheese to Canada.
"A violin 362 years old, was exhib-
tied at the Centre county fair.
Huntington has been chosen as
the site of the new Middle Peniten-
tiary.
An average Of ten tramps per day
sre set to work on the streets of Erie,
$4,000 is given as the receipts Of
the various fairs in the State this year.
The burnt district of the town of
Edenburg covers about twenty-five
acres.
William Cooper, said to have been
ITO years old, died recently near Sum
bury.
The Reading railroad has made an
advance on the price of coal for No
vember.
Walter Kinzer, of Lancaster. had
his nose broken by the discharge of a
cane gun.
1T is said that Allen C. Laros, the
escaped murderer, has been seen in
Philadelphia.
Tin for roofing purposes went up
50 per box in Philadelphia, immedi-
ately after the storm.
The State has brought suit against
the city of Altoona to recover $4,000
for money loaned.
Hundreds of dead cattle are to be
seen on the inundated meadows below
Philadelphia.
The Pennsylvania railroad author
tiles are reducing the force of repair
men on their road.
Thieves of most contemplate
kind are stealing Bibles, hymnbooks,
etc from country churches.
The Baldwin locomotive works
have shipped three large locomotives
to new South Wales.
jacob Beerbower, of Chester coun-
ty, raised $40 bushels of corn on three
and one-fourth acres of land this sea-
son.
"A child of George McGonegal, of
Rockdale, Delaware county, died from
swallowing broken glass.
"A man and two women have been
arrested in Philadelphia for passing
counterfeit trade dollars.
The Permanent Exhibition build
ing in Philadelphia was damaged to
the extent OF 81 900 by the storm.
Miss Mary Marshall, of Chicago,
recently walked fifty miles in eleven
hours and thirty-one minutes at Oil
City.
Circus men have made money this
season by taking the trade dollar at 90
cents and paying it out for 100.
William Minnich, of Freystown,
York county, ed from lockjaw
caused by running a splinter in his
finger.
During the winter steamer laden
with fruit from Mediterranean ports
will arrive in Philadelphia every ten
days.
Daniel Mayhem, who killed Henry
Downs in Pittsburgh, in 1867, has
been sent to the Penitentiary for six
years.
Gen. James a. Beaver has assumed
command of the Fourth Brigade, Ma
tional Guard, with headquarters at
Pittsburgh.
The farmers of Northampton coun-
ty, wish the Legislature to pass law
imposing SO fine on tresspassers on
their lands.
Christian Good and wife, of Balm
bridge, Lancaster county, have been
held in S., 900 bail for opening the let
tiers of their hired girl.
Alexander Summerfield was dis
charged from the House of correction
in Philadelphia, and killed the same
day by railroad train.
| The Bible publishing houses O
Philadelphia have sent some 60,00t
Bibles during the past year to Austria
liza and New South Wales.
twenty-five farmers in West Han
over township, Montgomery county
have warned gunners not to trespass
on their properties.
The Pennsylvania railroad com
pany does not permit passengers t,
stand on the platforms of the carr
when the train approaches a station
Alex. McGill, of Allegheny, diet
recently, and in his will left his prop