The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-08-17

The Methodists have made arrange
ments to celebrate the one hundredth
anniversary of the organization of their
first conference by a general conference
in Baltimore in December, 1884. In
honor of the occasion they will raise a
fund Of So, 900, 900 to be applied equally
to church extension, education and
foreign missions.
The chances are that America will
have to supply the whole OF the Egyp-
tian deficiency in cotton. The old
stock OF cotton is very light in GIea'
Britain, while East India cotton cannot
come into the English market before
the end of January, even should the
Suez canal remain open. When the
East India cotton does come, it requires
an admix ture of sixty per cent. of
American cotton to be made available
for the English machinery. Altogether,
the outlook is very promising for re.
munerative prices for the American cot
ton crop of the current year.
The silk association of America re.
ports the products of the year ending
June 80. which amounted in value to
about S35 ,00U, 900, are triple the value
OF the products of the factories ten
years ago. Since 1870 the product and
the productive capacity of the industry
have very greatly increased. Within
the decade the number of factories en-
gagged in silk manufacture has increased
from eigbty-six to 388. while the looms
increased from /, 500 to 5000, and the
hands employed from $500 to 81, 1900.
The wages paid rose in ten years from
SO, 900 600 60 SO, ,OOU 900, and many new
States not previously engaged in the
industry began TO manufacture silk and
now have factories at work. These
s ates are Maine. Rhode Island, Cali
fornia, Illinois, Kansas and Missouri.
The 18Th day of next December will
be the tiftieth anniversary OF the first
election of Mr.. Gladstone, England's
prime minister, to parliament, and
some Of the more enthusiastic admirers
of " the grand old man" propose to hold
a jubilee ON that occasion Mr.. Glad
stone was then as rabid tory as he is
now an incorporating liberal. His
address to the electors was dated from
the Clinton Arms, Newark, on the 9th
OF October, 1882, and the nomination
took place on the following 11th OF
December. Two days afterward Mr..
Gladstone was returned at the head OF
he poll, and from that day to this no
parliament has met in which he has not
had seat. 1t was in 1845 that he
changed his politics, at the time of the
corn laws. The liberals wish to make
fhe celebration a national affair, one
enthusiast describing Mr. Gladstone as
the member for "aH England"
The salmon fisheries of the United
States have increased more than twenty
fold within ten years, and last years
product was nearly million cases,
worth five million dollars. But the
result of this vast business is that the
southerly and more accessible rivers are
becoming fished out. as the greed of
the fishermen has extended to the cap
ture of the salmon which are on the
way to their spawning places. The
Sacramento and even the seemingly in
exhaustible Columbia are suff ring
rom this cause. The more distant
waters of British Columbia and Alaska
ire still bountiful, but they will be
mined in their turn by such methods OF
fishing. The experience of the Atlantic
, asst should teach the Pacific to
Zuard its treasures by appropriate laws
regulating the time and manner of fish
ng, lest it be compelled to 60 through
the process of restocking.
In the Reuue TAnthr0pOl0gie DIR. Be-
renger. Ferand describes In a paper
entitled Lies Griots" those peculiar
| ,tineraut musicians who wander all over
Central Africa from shore to shore.
They belong to different low castles,
out are under one chief of great power,
who takes what he needs from the gen.
eral receipts. "Griots" is French
corruption OF the Ouolove word
'Gwewonal." This guild is both feared
and hated by the natives. The members
# it are considered impure. The bodies
of the dead are thought to make sterile
the land in which they may be inferred
But it seems these people are skilled in
| composing without previous study, and
in paying on the guitar and the violin
The least gifted among them beat the
tam-tam or operate on some other rude
instrument. They carry news from
place to place, and it is said they also
excite wars. But whether there is
peace or war in a locality, they have
The peculiar privilege of coming and
going as they please.
A gentleman who has recently taken
mp his residence in Salt Lake City writes
of one of the means employ ed by the
Mormons to recruit their ranks with
emigrants from Europe. He says: We
had quite sight here last week-900
emigrants from Denmark and Sweden
arriving in one day. I went to 'the
flee" TO see them. Those who have
friends are cared for, but those having
none stay in "the Office" until they find
employ ment. They know nothing about
polygamy until they get here, and are
made to believe that il they will come
and be good Mormons they will be
healed, physically as we'll as spiritually.
There are great many cripples among
them. but L have not seen any "healed"
physically yet. There is one poor fell
low among their number who is minus
leg. They told him in the old country
they could give him another good leg
if he would just come to Salt Lake so
he came full OF hope. Now that he is
here, they tell him they can give him
another sound limb, but if they do he
will have three legs in the next world,
and as he cannot live very long in this
world would it not be best for him 20