The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-24
Peunsylyania Notes.


and scarlet fever.
All the rooms in the Norristovn
insane hospital are filled.
There are over one hundred cases
J of smallpox at PlttsIon.
There were six deaths from small
pox i'm Allegheny last week.
1t is reported a white deer was
shot near McKeesport last week.
| The mules in some of the coal
mines of the state are troubled with
the new horse disease. "pinkeye."
More freight passed over the Penn
| sylvallia road in October than in any
other one month in its history.
"A large fly wheel was made re-
| Gently in Norristown for the Coates
vile rolling mill 1t weighed 5000
pounds.
| George Henderson lost a leg on
| the Reading railroad, near Pottsville,
on Friday, while stealing ride.
The Lancaster Inteitigencer as
serts that some of the members of the
| ire department in that city are incen-
| diaries.
Corn husks are selling in Phila-
| delphia at $50 per ton. The demand
| comes from manufacturers of husk
mattresses.
George DeHart, Berks county
| farmer, has four hundred turkeys
ready for the Thanksgiving and
Christmas slaughter.
Forest county is now overrun
with Guinea fowl, which in the dry
weather of the past summer were
Matched and lived.
AS soon as the insurance claims
are adjusted the trustees of Swarth-
more college say they will be in po-
sition to rebuild the college.
Judge Pershing of Schuylkill
county, refused a charter to the Mu-
tual Union association of Pennsyl-
Vania for unmarried persons.
The Philadelphia county medical
society has decided that henceforth
women practitioners may be eligible
to membership under its rules.
David Eby, of Hamilton town
snip, franklin county, raised 6OO
bushels of white potatoes Oh four aud
one-quarter acres of ground.
-Oieomargarine under the disguise
OF best Chester county print butter
is finding it's way into some of the
first-class houses OF Philadelphia.
The Phoenix iron company has
made general advance OF wages,
averaging about ten per cent. Its en-
ployees are consequently greatly
elaled.
"A boy named Larner, living in
franklin county, had his eye knock ed
! out by his teacher thmwing stick
| at him when he was nlisbehaving i'll
school.
Reports show that wild pigeons
are more abundant this fall than they
have been for many years, and llOcks
containing more than three hundred
have Decn noticed i'll some localities.
The Berks county agricultural
society Is the most prosperous and sue
cesstul organization OF the kind in
TINS state. Its expenses are kept
within bounds and II rigid accounta-
bliity is eXacted OF all its officers.
Very considerable numbers OF
FARMERS, VINO lett this state to go t.
Michigan years ago, and who suffered
greatly i'll the forest fires there, are
ished, to find shelter among theil
lornler trends.
-Orris Hall, of Warren, Pa, 8
pioneer OF That region, and an eXten'
sivc lunlDerman, prominent in busi
hess circles, died on Thursday, Nov
| 10, aged II years. He possessed
wealth and influence. He leaves &
VIE and large family Of children.
The remnants of the Philadel
| phia centennial exhibition have beel
sold ut auction. The great organ
which cost So, 900 went for %, 600, auC
ii is to be removed TO Il Boston fail
| building. The largest mirror in the
world, eleven by eighteen feet, i'll one
plate, originally costing $4,000, was
bought by Il saloon Keeper Tor S5UU.
The Clearlield Repu6 Hcan says
The buck wheat crop OF Pennsylvania
it is generally conceded by this time
is Il failure, and the price of the fiou
in this vicinity will bear us out il
this statement. Very little flour cal
be had in this market. Five dollars
per hundred has been paid. The eX
treme heat coming at u time when tn,
grain was SOwn and should hav,
taking root, destroyed the plant in al
but highly favored localities. Buck
wheat cakes are luXuries, and are har,
10 find on the bills OF fare ut ou
hotels and boarding-houses. In thi.
connection Il Washington City eX
change thus lifts up its voice all,
weeps: 1.-The last news from Penn
| Sylvania takes the cake. The buck
wheat crop is reported to be a com
plete failure. With the tobacco, corn
apples and buck wheat crops gon
back on Us, making whisky, cider ant
break fast cakes beyond the reach O
any but the wealthy, we seem to hav
hard Winter before us.
The Spirit Of BerkS in spite of tn
threat of speculatives insurance mel
that they will Injure that paper in it
business for opposing the disgracefu
barter in human lives, keeps right OIL
in its opposition, and will be still ol