The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-01-02
State Notes.


uary.
town, will attend Governor Hoyts in
auguration.
northumberland county has just
completed new Jail, at Sunbury, at a
cost of 81 1882.
Amos w. Bertolet, an Allentown
pedestrian, proposes to walk hundred
miles in thirty-five hours.
The Mcclellan League. Of Phila-
delphia, will give an anniversary re-
ception at Red Mems Hall, Monday
evening, January 8.
--Montour county claims distinction
for having no criminal cases for the
consideration of the grand jury at the
present term of court.
The Scott rolling mills, in Erie.
are to resu ne operations about the lst
of January, and will give employment
to many now idle hands.
Some of the people of South Beth
lehem have been raising q purse for
the purpose of impeaching the town
council on the charge of extravaganza.
Somebody i'm Blair county is man
! ufacturing a lot of spurious nickel
/ pieces, which are having large cir
culation in the central part of the
| State.
The campaign goes right on in
Ciearfield county. A Greenback editor
| this week refers to Democratic editor
as "a knave, a fool and a contumacious
liar all in one"
There was an old peoples party in
West Chester, Monday, at which Ann
| Scarlet aged one hundred years. and
| Aunty Graham, aged one hundred and
| two years were present.
| The Pittsburgh Post insists that If
there were frauds i'm Governor Curtin's
district-and it believes there were
they must be exposed, whether Mr..
Curtin gets his seat or not.
| Martin Kreiner took his cousin,
Clara Winter, to a ball in Lancaster
and was not polite in his manner to-
ward her. Her father demonstrated,
and was instantly killed by the young
boOr.
Mrs. Cronin, of Wilkesbarre, left
her two children in the house while
she went out to work. The oldest, a
| little girl of three years, was burned
to death, her clothes taking fire from a
stove.
The court at Lock Haven has de
cided that Mr.. Quigley, in his contest
against Mr.. Eldred for the seat in the
legislature from Clinton, did not bring
anything up over which the court has
jurisdiction.
A little girl named Findlay, while
playing, snap the whip" in Danville,
Montour county, a few days ago, was
thrown against building with such
! force as to cause her death in q few
hours after.
The Americus Club of Philadelphia,
will celebrate the anniversary of the
battle of New Orleans with Il banquet.
A Portrait of Martin Van Buren, will
also be added to the collection of Demo.
cratic celebrities.
Mr.. Daniel Drawbaugh, living
near Carlisle, invented clock four or
five years ago which has been running
ever since without winding. The mo-
ton Is secured by utilizing magnetism
as a dynamic force.
George Bridgeland, an English
man, aged sixty-seven, who lived with
his daughter at Williamsport, com.
mitted suicide by hanging on Friday
afternoon He had been stricken with
paralysis not long ago.
Over l0,O0O, 900 pounds of pipe, six
inches in diameter, will be required to
lay the new pipe line between the
bradford region and WilliamspOrt
The capacity of this line will be from
5000 to 1900 barrels day.
Over one hundred horses have
been stolen in Lawrence county during
the past three years. 1t is thought
there is an organized gang of horse
thieves operating in the county, and
an association for protection has been
formed.
The shipment of lumber from
Lock Haven from the closing of the
canal last year to the close of naviga
tion last week Were, by canal and rail
1856, 900, a falling off from the ship
ments of the previous year for the
same length of time of 7,414,5 800 feet
"A tramp in New Bloomfield hurlee
n stone through the window of s
dwelling, that he might be sent to Jail
The lord of the house happened to b.
at home, and rushing out seized tn,
tramp, and with a stout club belabore,
him so soundiy that he begged fo
mercy.
-Ex-COngressman Owen Jones start
ed from his residence at WynnewOOd
near Philadelphia, last night, to visi
neighbor. and was found before mid
night, frozen to death by the roadside
Deceased represented the Fifth Penn
sylvania district in the Thirty-fifti
Congress.
The Reading Eagle thinks that tn,
labor certificates which are being issue(
by the Reading company will be ex
changeable in business transactions, a
their full value, all along the line O
the road, although Philadelphia brok
ers are buying them at a discount O
five per cent.
On Monday evening. at the hous
of Milton MunshOwer, a few mile
from Indiana, his two boys, aged re
spectively eight and six years, wen
into an upper room, and it appear
from the statement of the oldest boy
We're examining rifle standing there
The parents, who were near the house
heard the report of the gun, and rush
ing in were horrified to find thei
youngest son lying dead OH the floor
Since the agitation of the projec
, to introduce wild rice along the Sus
quehanna river as means of multi
plying fish and water fowl severa
bushels of wild rice have been ordere,
by parties i'm Selin's Grove from Wis
cOnsin, and will besOwn in the prope
season. Wild rice was introduced ol
a small scale last year by the Hon
John B Packer, of SunbuIy, who ha
a small quantity sown about his islam
at Northumberland as defense agains
floods.
The detective who last Friday LEI
Harrisburg for Memphis to bring bac