The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-14

wild cats are plenty in snyder
county.
Erie county's slmshouse has 23s
inmates.
The Susquehanna at Harrisburg is
alive with wild fowl
The town Of Parker, In the oil re-
gions, is overrun by rats.
Horse thieves are becoming nu-
merous through the State.
The barrel works at Titusville turn
out 5000 barrels an hour.
-Emigrating parties for Texas are
organizing in the oil regions.
1T costs Pennsylvania nearly 50.
600, 900 per year for school books.
-Oleomargerine is injuring the but
ter trade Of Philadelphia dealers.
Butter sells for IL l-2 cents per
pound in Crawford and Mercer coun-
ties.
The saw mill at Blossburg recently
cut IL 600 feet of lumber in three
hours.
A fat COW in Warren county drop
ped dead after being kicked by boy
driver.
A large pack of wolves are prowl-
ing through Blacklick township, Blair
county.
--Partridges are flying into the towns
through the State to get rid of the army
of gunners.
Two large tobacco warehouses are
in course of erection in Wrightsville,
York county.
"A man nine-two years was recently
baptised in the creek at Benton, Co
lumbia county.
Valuable deposits Of plumbago
have been found in West Pikeland,
Delaware county.
The hog crop is unusually good
this year, and pork Of extra quality
Will De ODtalneu.
DIR. J. A. Paxson has been elected
President of the Permanent Exhibition
in Philadelphia.
The ladies of fashionable church
in Meadville go to service in calico
dresses. Reform.
The number of visitors to the Get
tysburg battlefield was larger this sea.
son than ever before.
The recent storm was so severe ut
Ardmore, Montgomery county, that it
blew off a horses tail. less
The Reading Eagle tells of the
catching of fat eel, inside Of which
was found dead cat.
Nearly one hundred buildings
have been erected in the town of Edin-
burg since the great fire.
There were coined at the mint i'm
Philadelphia, in October, l,645, $50
pieces, valued at SO, 1881 300.
Howard Fritzsimmons, of West
Chester, recently shot an Acadian owl.
a rare bird in this latitude.
The York Democrat thinks bird
shooting ought to be confined to the
slaughter of English sparrows.
r. NJ. Simcox, of Queens Run,
Clinton county, has shot 462 squirrels
and eight pheasants this season.
The oil suits against the Pennsyl-
vania railroad will be before the Su-
preme Court on November l4th.
"A new company for the recovery of
stolen horses has been formed in two
of the townships of Delaware county.
An owl was shot recently in Hell
lam township, York county, that had
two musk rat traps on one of its legs.
L. w. Harrington, the publisher of
an obscene paper in Pittsburgh, has
been arrested and his paper suppressed.
The reported murder of school
mistress in Thompson, this State, is
cruel hoax, no such affair having taken
place.
The employees of the Western
Division of the Pennsylvania railroad
contributed $l,S14.6O to the yellow
fever fund.
The first installment of five per
cent, with interest, has been paid the
depositors of the broken Reading Saw
ings Bank.
-Supervisorsin Montgomery, Bucks
and Chester counties are prosecuted
whenever the roads become dangerous
for travel.
Beer selling on Sunday has been
stopped in Pittsburgh, and the beer
men have stopped the running of street
railway cars.
The meanest thief on record is in
Chambersburg. He stole the white
Grape announcing the death of q child
from the door.
President Gowen, Of the Reading
railroad, says there is a prospect of
steady work in the Schuylkill mines
until December 18th.
Milton P. Ludwig, postmaster at
Hamburg, this state, has been arrested
and held in 81, 500 bail for attempting
to defraud creditors.