The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-05-22
State Notes.
Judge Asa Packer died In Phila
delphia, Saturday, May IL.

Lady clerks are now employed in
the court offices in Chester county.
"A supposed case of infanticide is
creating quite sensation in Media.
The regular meeting of the Board
of Pardons has been adjourned until
June IL.
The Delaware and Chester county
jails contain the same number of
prisoners-fifty-five each.
The fire in Pike county is gradu-
ally being subdued. The territory
burned over extends thirty miles in
length.
Farmers are increasing the acreage
of potato-planting in many parts of the
State, and there is le - indication of the
potato bug than for several years.
"A Sheridan correspondent says {:
A tenant farmer who lately removed
from one of our neighboring farms left
in one of the stables 1876 loads of ma
nure.
1t required 1s2 pounds Of silver
advoirdupois weight, or 2ll pounds
troy weight, to pay off the employees
at the Harrisburg Car Shops Saturday
afternoon.
-Four thousand dollars worth of
four per cent. L. S. certificates were
sold at the Harrisburg post-office on
S,,t,rlox, rVbic tof n 7
of $4,000 worth sold since April 1.
Miss Addie Austin, the youngest
of the lady equestriennes connected
with the London Circus, fell from her
horse, at York, and the animal step.
ping on the girls leg, broke the bone
in two places.
-Pennsylvania emigration beats the
exodus all hollow. Sixteen thousand
whites have left this State for Kansas
since January /. Thegreatest number
of negroes that has yet reached St.
Louis is given as $500 to April, and
since that the estimate is $500.
The following State Military
Board has been appointed by Governor
Hoyt, to purchase National Guard
equipments: Major General John f.
Hartranft, Brigadier General j. X.
Siegfriend, Briyadier General James
A. Beaver, Lieutenant Colonel Russell
Thayer, Major Alex. Krumbhaar.
-Phnnixville has q professional
| shop-litter. She wears the cOnven-
tional overskirt in ample form, and in
the undersl<irt has pocket that will
conveniently hold a couple pieces of
goods. She is generally considered "A
respectable woman, buta few days ago
she was cleverly detected.
Elliott, the battered pugiist is
lying in Erie serious wreck. -Four
ribs on the left side are fractured. A
very serious confusion was made in
the region of the heart, and on the
right side were some ugly bruises, with
possibly some rib injuries. Respira
ton was frequently attended with
coughing, which indicated internal in.
juries.
The jury in the Mowry Cubba
You Quit ejectment case at Pittsburgh
brought in u verdict for the defendants.
The claimant is an Indian, of the
Chippewa tribe, who says she is the
legitimate daughter of William Now
ry, who owned large estate in that
city. Judge Marsden, of the Michigan
Supreme Court, was plaintiffs leading
counsel. The property in dispute con-
sists of forty acres of land, worth
about 81 200, 900. The plaintiff proved
she was Mowry's child, but could not
prove that she was legitimate.
In the license contests before the
court of Blair county Judge Dean mar
rowed the issue down to the following
points; ~ Is the house necessary for
the accommodation of the travelling
public? (2) has it the means of ac
commodation as required by law? (3,
does the applicant possess the personal
character demanded in the keeper of a
public house? az has sufficient bond
been filed? If the weight of the
evidence satisfies US that each of these
questions should be answered in the
affirmative, then we cannot refuse the
license. On the other hand, if the
weight of the evidence fails to affirm
either, the license must be refused
After IA spirited contest and four
ballots, the directors of Lackawanna
county elected Miss H. Evelyn Brooks,
ofCarbondale, superintendent of com
mon schools last week. Three candi-
dates entered the field, but Miss
Brooks distanced them all, taking the
lead on the second ballot, and coming
out with majority of p on the last
ballot, in total poll of Is votes. She
is described as a young lady Of high
scholastic attainments and much eX.
perienced in teaching. Lackawanna
county is the second in the State tc
elect lady superintendent, the Other
being Tioga county, where Miss Sarah
+. Lewis is now serving her second
term.
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