The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-07-28
state Notes.

1t will cost $4,000 to repair the
st. Clair street bridge, Pittsburv.
Swedish farm hands are becoming
very popular in Blair county.
OF ten cases of sunstroke in Pitts
burg last week, four proved fatal.
"A Johnstown physician says that
flies help to spread the smallpox.
A number of artesan wells are be-
ing bored in Washington county.
-Derringer is the name of new
coal region town in Luzerne county.
-Grasshoppers are destroying the
oats crop in portions of Berks county.
The corner stone of new Odd
Fellows hall to be erected at Remove
was laid last week.
An old man named Dauser of Titus
vile, last week forged u check for $500
against his son.
The miners of Schuylllill coun ty
complain that they cannot make
victuals and clothes.
THE oleomargarine factories of Phil
adclphia are running to their fullest
capacity now.
Forty per cent. of the school tax
of Pennsylvania is paid by people
who have no children.
The premium list of the Pcnnsyl-
vania state agricultural fair this year
will amount to So 900.
Charley Garrett, the defauting
clerk of the Schuylkill county COM
nlissioners, has absconded.
Alfred H. Moore has $75, 900 in
10, at = al
Montgomery county.
There will be II larger plant of to
bacco in Clinton county this season
than any year previous.
1t takes $4,000 men and boys to
do the work of the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad company.
1t is estimated that Pennsylvania
buys annually in Kentucky $500, 900
worth of trotting horses.
-Heister Clymer is one of the
largest land owners in Berks county,
and raises large crops of tobacco.
General Beaver, of Bellefonte, is
the recognized champion of Sunday
schools in Central Pennsylvania.
The law against common scolds is
frequently enforced. A case occurred
in Greensburg last week.
A bear cub, belonging to g Green
county family, is raising a litter OF
squirrels and seems to enjoy their
antics.
All attempts to close the restaur-
ants and liquor saloons of Philadel-
phiu on Sunday has been failure up
to this time.
Walter shoemaker, of Ashley, at
tempted to jump on IL moving train
near Willkesbarrc, and had one OF his
legs cut of
John Burn, Of Pittsburg, was in.
stantly killed ut Pittsburg by man
running against him while running a
foot race.
A Pittsburg nTan left u pint o.
brandy where his little son found and
drank it, and from the effects o
which he died.
"A female undertaken thrives in
Philadelphia. Gradually all protes
sions and means of making II living
are opening up TO women.
A "cranll' was found wandering
about Altoona the other day with /
double barrel!ed shot gun. He was
lpl
The directors of the poor of Ches
ter county brought suit against L. 5
Long, of West Chester, for violen
abuse of boy in his employ.
The output of coal from the
Clearfield district last week wa
nearly 81 900 tons, an increase of l3,
GOO tons over the same period las
year.
There is Il demand for harves
| hands in the northern and western
counties, and trampS are hurryins
from that part of the State to the east
"A tract of one thousand acres ha:
been purchased near summit, Car
bon county, by Philadelphia capi
talists, and is being explored 70
coal.
Mrs. Keiser, of Lancaster county
found her husband hanging in TIL,
barn the other day with a wagon lin
around his neck. 1t was Il case o
suicide.
Mrs. Margaret Clark, of Phoenix
vile, aged 81 years, fell down a pair o
stairs on Saturday morning, receiving
injuries sufficient to cause her death.
In the western part of the Stat
many people who own picnic ground
will not rent them unless the partie
contract not to take liquor to the 10
cality.
A petition is being circulated fo
the removal of the South Bethlehem
school board because they have no
published an annual report, as re
puired by law.
-Enos Baker, of Edgmont, Dela
ware county, discovered turtle o
his farm few days ago, upon tn
shell of which his fathers name am
the date 1900 were engraved.
The new game and fish laws al
not regarded with favor by farmer
and others, and efforts will be made I
repeal or amend them at the mex
meeting of the legislature.
In the oil country two men some
times engage in sham fight near
toll bridge, and when the keept
rushes out to part them confederat
slips in and makes off with the to
box.
The insane asylum at Norristow
now has between 600 and 700 inmate
An additional building for the daI
gerous patients is about to be erecteC
and the grounds are being laid out an
ornamented with trees and flowers.
Had barber's itch for years, tel
ribly. Doctors failed. Peruna cure
it.
My son had terrible skin di
ease of head and face. Peruna cure