The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-05-29
state Notes.

The Pennsylvania railroad Ia
Carrying on an average of 1900 emi-
grants a day.
"A wolf was trapped within a few
miles of Cresson, on the Allegheny
mountains, last week.
The Montgomery Iron Company
at Port Kenneda are making repairs
to their furnace preparatory to going
| into blast. - sg. A.@I IS b
There is talk at Pittsburgh of a
private company taking and running
the new water words there to lessen
taxation. These works cost about $4,-
600, 900. ....,
The Delaware County Agricultu-
raj Society has purchased the Fair
lamb farm, Middletown township, as
a site for exhibitions, and will at once
proceed to improve.
The authorities Of Bradford, Nc
Kean county are trying to break up
the gambling houses there. Last week
a stranger lost thirteen hundred dol
lars in one ofthese places.
--Germon Dickinson of West Pike
land township, Chester county, has
lost within o short time four cows
with pleuro pneumonia, and others are
suffering with the same disesse.
Mrs. Wren and Mrs. Howell were
drowned by the upsetting of a small
boat on the West branch of the Sus-
quehanna, near Kopp's Siding, above
Sunbury, on Monday afternoon.
While the body of Mrs. Sylvester
Bromley, of East Troy, Crawford Co.,
who was supposed to be dead, was
being prepared for the grave she came
to and lived two days afterward.
Great excitement exists among the
oil men in Mexican county over the
discovery OF we'll at Gobber City
that, after having been bored three bits
in the sand, showed 700 feet of oil in
the hole.
Michael OHara of New Philadel-
phia, Schuylkill county, has had a
gold watch that was stolen from him
fourteen years ago returned by the
thief, who acknowledges that he is
conscience stricken.
Gen. w. w. H. Davis and H. c.
Michener of Doylestown, will start at
an early day upon footpad trip
through the coalregions. They expect
to escape the penalties of the new tramp
law by wearing good clothes.
Peter Robinson of Scranton was at
the bottom of { coal shaft when drill
fell and struck him on the head. He
got into the crriage to ascend, but
when about sixty feet up he tainted
fell out of the carriage and was dashed
to pieces.
The citizers of Pittsburgh propose
to erect monument to Abraham Lin
coin, in Allegheny Park, at a cost o.
$1,000. The design which will proba
bly, be used is the one with Mr.. Lincoln
seated and holding the Emancipation
Proclamation in his hand.
In the case of Francis M. Kane, o
Norristown, indicted and convicted o
selling liquor on election day th'
supreme Court, in reviewing the de
csion Of the lower court, affirms tina
"eIection day means twentyfou
hours. and not during the time tina
the polls are open; also "that tn
jurors are the judges Of the law an'
facts"
: Three boys, hungry and travel
stained, arrived in Pittsburg late OF
Friday night from Kansas, having
tramped u good deal of the way
They went out with a party of thirty
three boys that Mr.. Whitelaw Rel,
/ was instrumental in sending iron
New York. They were apprenticed t
farmers, but said they could not stan
r the diet, consisting of corn bread an
sow belly, with a cup of sour mill
, thrown in once and a while. 1t
said that all the thirty-three boys ar
either back in New York or on thei
way.
Among the many articles sent t
: the Allegheny County Commissioners
after the riot, as property stolen fron
the burning freight ears, was famil
bible, which at the time of the sale
was thought best keep until claimed
1t is still at the Commissioners Otfic
awaiting the coming of its owner. A
it contains family record of birth
f and deaths, it may be of peculiar valu
r to those who have lost it. The recor
consists of the parents names. whic
are Jas. S. Sahbridge and Susan I
E Mountz; five children, Joseph. JohI
: Henry, William and Carrie; and thre
obituaries. The last local date was i
a Johnstown, Cambria county, 1871.
- Stowells Petroleum Reporte
e gives the following statistics of the o
trade for April: Producing wells {
the close of April. 1882, an increas
q in April of 80; wells completed. ~
against 33S in March; wells drillin;
46S, being so more than in March; ril
= up, 4l2 a decrease i'm April of Al. df