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

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wheat crop of 1879 is 800, $50, 900 BUSH
els, against 25,ooo,OOO bushels in
1873.
Washington, ID. c., July Is. -
There will be no call for TO- 40 bonds as
enormously stated last night, but all
outstanding called 1910 bonds will
mature during the present month. On
the 9th $40, 0,00O,0 900 matured, Sl6O, ,O0O,-
900 will mature on the 18th, and $685.
567, 800 on the 21st, These bonds were
called on the 9Th, 18th and 21st, of
April last, and comprise all that were
subject to call at that time. There are
no bonds that are now subject to call.
Mr.. Crawshay, the iron master,
left property in England worth $780,
600 900. Ten years ago it would prob
ably have been far larger. The COM
paratively small amount (S13, 500, ,000)
under which Baron Rothchi]d's per-
sonality was sworn-less than half
that of the late Mr.. Brassey-is doubt
: less due to a large proportion of his
wealth being in other countries. Only
f two British personal estates have ever
reached $50, 100000, and there is but
one instance of direct legacy of S.
600, 900.
) "A scamp, who represented himself
as Government agent, excited the
, negroes of Holmes county, Miss, by
telling them that a free train would
take them on the following Sunday to
Kansas. He charged every man 81
for small flag, which was to be his
title to spot of land when he reached
Kansas. The news spread like wild
fire, and, selling their cows for 50, their
chickens for penny apiece, and other
possessions at as ruinous rates, 1,000
negroes gathered to wait for the train
that never came.
-Intemperance among the women
> of springfield, Mass, has excited the
alarm of a local temperance society.
The Republican says that two women,
who were richly dressed, and who are
accustomed to move in the city's best
society, went shopping while so OBJ.
viously drunk as to attract the atten-
ton of all who saw them These are
not the only women of good social po.
sition who have been seen in public
Within few months, the worse fol
wine or something stronger.
Immense pumping machines were
' nrInro1 hx- IT,, -; ~,
of English firms for the rebuilding ot
Szegedin, at an expense of over half a
! million of dollars; but this money
proves to have been entirely wasted
' 1t has become evident, says the .Szeged
Ndpio, that Szegedin can be rendered
dry only by the falling of the river
that caused the inundation For the
money that these enormous pumps
cost, the banks of the river might have
been fortified, and future overflows tc
that extent guarded against.
! A young Chippewa hunter was
=, shooting squirrels in the woods thai
border Lake Huron, in Ontario, wher
a large pine tree fell upon him, knock
ing him down and crushing his leg
He could not rise nor remove the tree
-. which was lying across his broken leg
To lie there and starve to death seemed
. all that was left to him. In his di
lemma he took out his knife, cut of
his own leg, bound it up with his sash
dragged himself along the. ground t.
: his canoe, and padded home to hi
wigwam on a distant island Their,
the care of his wounds was completed
and he is still alive.
According to a decision just rem,
dered by the Supreme Court of Cali
fornia, lawyers are not at liberty t.
decline to appear in the defence of i'm
pecunious prisoners, if assigned t.
that duty 10y the court. Judge Clark
. of Sacramento, requested young at
torney to take charge of the defense il
a case where no compensation could
> be expected, and adjudged refusal to
be contempt of court, for which he
. imposed fine. Upon a writ of ha
, beas corpus issued by the appellat,
= court, this decision was pronounced
, sound law. The liability to serv,
gratuitously is declared to be one o
> the burdens of the legal profession, fol
which its privileges are ample com
= pensation.
o Nelson Bogard bargained to buy
= the farm on which he and his mothe
lived. The owner was seen going t.
q the place to deliver the deed and ge
the money, but he was never know
to return, and his horse remained
among Bogard's stock. The missin,
man was stranger, and nobody wa'
o particularly interested in his fate, o.
, in disproving Bogard's assertion tha
he had departed afoot after selling hi,
:, horse and the farm. That was sever
years ago Afterward, a boy who haC
been reared on the Bogard farm wa.
! found hanging in a barn. Old Mrs
, Bogard fell i'll recently at the age O
: II, and, believing that she was abou
D to die, confessed that she and her sol
; murdered the stranger for his money
o and killed the boy because he knew
something about the crime. But sh'
recovered, and is now in Jail togethe
with her guilty son.