The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-05-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Eastern and Middle States.

TIE remains Of General Hurlbut. late IIn;tod
states minister TO Peru, reached New Yorl, on n
steamer IRON Aspinwall, accompanied by The
family OF deceased.
y ID. ANDREWS, whose wonderful skill as a
mathematician had given him the name Of the
lightning Calculator" killed his wife at their
residence near Hayesvile, Pa, by striking
her on the head with roling-pin. Andrews
was about sixty years old, and for some tine
past had manifested tendency to INSANITY.
New York daily paper publishes dispatche.
from thirty-seven States and four Territories
concerning the present condition Of the crops.
The reports show that despite frosts, floods and
backward spring the general condition Of the
crops, with few exceptions, is indicative OF
an abundant harvest. Tho small grains
promise WELL Winter wheat will give an
increased yield in Learly every State except
Indiana, Ohio and New York, and in the last
named State only will less than the average
crop be produced. Spring wheat is much more
hattering in its promise, the increase being es-
pecially marked in the great grain States west
of the Mississippi. In some of the old grain
States other grains are replacing wheat--bar-
ley, oats and rye especially. In all these there
are indications of large crop. Corn shows
O large increase in nearly every State where it
is cultivated. Cotton is expected to give at
least an average crop, notwithstanding the
floods and other drawbacks. Except in few
cases the sugar cane crop is looking splendidly
The average crops Of rice and tobacco will
probably be secured. Hay and grass crops
have been much injured throughout the coun.
try, and light yield is generally expected,
The fruit crops have been the chief sufferers,
frosts having about destroyed them in several
localities.
SEXTON defeated Schaefer in a cushion carrom
billiard match for $4,000 in the New York
Academy Of Music, making GOO points to his
opponents $50.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, the eminent Ameri-
can essayist and poet died suddenly the other
day at his home in Concord, Mass, of pneu.
monia. Mr. Emerson was born in Boston Nav
20, 1903, graduated from Harvard college, and
was ordained Unitarian minister. In 1892 he
resigned from the church in which he was Off
clatng, and after tour through Europe began
his career as lecturer. He published several
volumes OF philosophical essays and contributed
many articles to magazines. His last appear.
ance in public was at Longfellow's funeral.
TIE boiler in the Dalton Pail company's
mandatory at Dalton, N. Y, exploded killing
Newell olney and Francis Baker, the proprie-
tors, and injuring several other persons.
AT the trial in New Haven of the Malley
boys and Blanche Douglass, charged with the
murder of Jennie Cramer, Professor Chtten-
den, of Yale college, chemical expert, testified
that arsenic sufficient to produce death had
been found in the body of the deceased,
The remains of Ralph Waldo Emerson were
laid at rest in Concord, Mass. with simple
ceremonies.
Mrs. ScovILLE, Guteaus sister and wife of
the assassin's counsel, lectured the other night
in New York to an audience Of about eighty |
persons. The lecture was mainly devoted to |
her brother, whom she declared insane, and to |
religious subjects.
JAMES TRErHwAY, tramp was refused |
lodging by Henry Ames, living in the out
skiris of Carbondale, Pa Shortly afterward |
Ames, while going from his house to the barn.
was shot and mortally wounded by Trethway
and Ames' wife, upon reiching her husband,
was also shot by the tramp, receiving mortal
wound.