The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-16
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The present capital of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company is $84, ,OS4,
$50.
Lock Haven is excited ovei
Chinese immigration IN the town
They are to have laundry.
Tyrone school "marms'' hold
weekly meetings to discuss the theory
of teaching and the studies taught in
their schools.
The railroader, named Madden
who was robbed of S40O near Sunbury
some time since, has died of grief at
his loss.
The public schools of Birdshoro
Berks county, were closed Friday on
account of scarlet feverand diphtneria.
-Mahlon G. Lichty, a Somerset
man, charges three Johnstowners
with getting him intoxicated, knock
ing him down and robblng him.
On Friday night an incendiury
fire occurred at Lock Haven. Two
stables and some small out buildings
were destroyed. The property was
| insured.
The proprietor of the Altoona Coll
announces that he has sold all interest
in his establishment 10 Several we'll
known Democrats,h and that the
paper herea!tcrwill be published by the
"CdH Printing and Publishing Com.
pauy, linited'
William 4. Welshons, of West
moreland county, on September 8.
sowed three-fourtbs Of an acre of buck
wheat and in less than two months
the grain was harvested and threshed,
yielding eighteen bushels.
A number of young bloods have
been in the habit of loafng around
the Pennsylvania station at Johns
town insulting ladies and raising dis
turbances. On Friday night two of
them We're arrested. The company
intended taking the matter before the
court.
E. B. Haines, editor OF the Al
toona CdU has sued the Times Publish
ing Company, Of that city, for libel.
The libel consists in statement made
in the Times that Haines meant TO
trick the public when lie announced
that he had sold an interest in his
paper to several prominent Demo
Gratis.
Some Of the former employees of
the Philadelphia alnshouse who did
not receive their money from eX-
superintendent Phipps, have brought
suit against the ciiy for the recovery
Of their back pay. Henry Starr and
others have already forced payment
from the city and number of others
intend doing the same.
Alexander McClelland one OF the
most notorious roughs in VenGngo
county, returned to his home at Sum
init from franklin, on Monday even
ing last in an intoxicated condition,
and began abusing his wife and child
renhy driving the children out of doors,
and d.ngging his wife from sick bed,
and threatening to shoot her with re-
V0iVer which he was iiOurishing, when
i'll some manner She succeeded in get
ting hold Of the revolver and tried 10
escape, when he followed, and she fear
ing he would Kill her, Jurned aud fred
at him, the ball taking effect in the
right eye. He fingered until A. NJ,
and died. Forest NQt50nuL Democrat.
We find tie following in the
Wellsboro Igiiat0y, but cannot tell
what it is that cXcites the editor SO
much. "On the 9th of December the
much talked of transit of Venus w i'll
take place. Pennsylvania will be Just
as good a place from which to see it as
could be found by travelling 1000
miles. The celestial Russy will waltz
right between thesun and the good peo-
pie Of our State. Those who wonld in
spect The scandalous sight had better
have their smoked glass ready. 1t is
now or never with those who want to
see Venus in her great transit act,
because her next transit will not come
along until the year 2004. At that
time of all the fourteen hundred mil
lions of people now living and paying
taxes on the earth, there will not be a
single one alive-eXcept, perhaps,
remnant Of the aged people
who nursed George Washington and
voted for him."
-Bi Centennial Beer. Tho books
of the Tn tied States Internal Reve.
nue. officer for the week covering the
Bi-Centennial pageantry in Philadel-
phia, show an increase in The deliver |
les of beer represented by the sale of
stamps amounting to 9,9GS barrels.
The figures for the week of October |
p to 2S, 1881, were Is. .42O barrels, and |
for the same week this year, 2S, ,3S8
barrels. The actual increase thus
shown is nearly 10000 barrels, and,
when allowance is made for the stocks
IN retailers hands, q moderate esti-
mate Of the extra consumption for the
week would be II, 600 barrels. This TO
he brewers means an iHcrcase in sale
to SOC 900, and in sales of
'etail consumption of about $50, 1000, or
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