The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-17
State Notes.

"A creek III Erie COUNTY is undC-
countably full of dead fish.
Refined oil sells in Franklin at
five gallons for twenty-five cents.
The Blair county wheat crop will
be about large enough for seed next
season.
"A. j. Groscort, of Mercer county,
sheared sixty eight large sheep in nine
hours.
s. A. Smith, Esq, one of the ed
itors of the Indiana Messenger, weighs
305 pounds.
For the six months up till June
30, 1879, there were 1,29S deaths in
Pittsburg.
The Greensburg Tribune says that
toad was caught up in that region
recently that weighed ten pounds.
Tobacco farmers in some sections
of Dauphin county have been water
ing their plants because of the drought.
Corporal Skelly Post, of Gettys-
burg, are inviting the neighborlng
posts to soldiers reunion on the 10Th
inst.
AT distance of five yards John
Graham, of Erie, with rifle gun, hit
forty-three out of fifty butternuts
tossed into the air.
Most of the counties are chang
ing the six per cent. bonds to four per
cents. Money is now abundant in all
parts of the State.
- The 18th regiment, Duquense
Grays, of Pittsburg, will pitch their
tents at Maysville, Chautauqua lake,
on Monday, August 4th.
New cities are being laid out in
the oil region of Mexican county al
most every week. No less than five
were surveyed in the month of June.
There is happy couple in East
Titusville who are the parents of seven
pairs of twins, all alive, and the oldest
only about fourteen years.
The discovery of an alligator nine
feet long in the Monongahela river, al
Pittshurg, has excited public curiosity
to know where it came from.
SO far as explored, the copper mine
on the farm of Abraham Kober, in
Upper Stafford, Montgomery county
has been found to be three feet thick
and the ore worth S125 ton.
Mr.. w. C. McCandless, who own:
| a large tract of land about one and {
| half miles northwest of Unionville
| Butler county, has, at the depth o
twenty feet, found five foot vein o
camel coal.
"A COW in East Finley township
Washington county, was killed OF
Monday by lightning, while he
owner, Mrs. Towne, was milking tn,
animal. Strange to say the lady wa
uniniured.
The clatter of anvils around tn
Altoona car shops has drowned every
other sound for many weeks, and al
extra force of workmen have been EN-
ployed to fill an order lately received
for 900 freight cars.
In Beaver county on Tuesda,
evening Mr.. James Reisinger Will
cutting grass with a machine com
pletely amputated both feet of hi
four year old boy who had unobserve,
seated himself in the grass.
"A new secret order, composed o
ladies, is organizing in the notherl
part of the State under the mysteriou
initial of F. o. r. G. Erie contain
one of them, and the young men ar
almost crazed to know what it is.
The bull and bear fight whicl
came off at Custer City, Mexican Co.
was, from all accounts, most bruta
and disgusting affair. Its manager
have since been arrested and fined
and the animals seized and confiscateC
"A little daughter of David Kunt
was fatally burned by the explosion @
a can of kerosene oil at his home nea
Breinigsville, Lehigh county, ol
Thursday last. She was kindling fir
and used the oil can to hasten th
work.
The number of juvenile criminal
in all parts of the State is frightful t
contemplate. Till-tapping, vestibul
burglary, and other thcfts are the o1
fenses perpetrated. A little girl onl
eight years old stole $500 from
drawer in Scranton.
On Wednesday afternoon citize
of Chambersburg while gathering bel
ries, found COW in the woods boun
to tree by the tail, She was so firml
bound that in order to release her tn
tail had to be cut where the bone
were separated, which was done.
Riser, the young man charge
with the murder of farmer Miller, {
Lebanon county, few years ago, an
who was tried and found mot guilty
in the courts of Lebanon county,
now eXhorting and preaching in IL
T backwoods of Lebanon county.
-Eph. Morris, the vanquished oar
man, has got back to Pittsburg, an
Indignantly denies that the race wa
sold. 1t was as square race as b
ever rowed, but he was ''played out,
and could not have pulled another goo
stroke if his life depended on it.
AT a late meeting held at Coate.
, vile, Chester county, it was unan
mously resolved, says the West Chestt
Local Ne.CS, that a new county shoul
be formed from portions of Cheste
Lancaster and Berks counties, wit
the county seat at COatesville. 1t wa
resolved to call the new county BranC
wine.
One of the incidents of the Gel,
brations at Hollidaysburg was a sa
accident. William Ambros, colore,
was almost instantly killed by a gu
, in the hands of William Campbell
who playfully pointed the weapon
and his grasp slipping from the lock
was discharged, A wound was mad
large enough to insert mans hant