The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-12-07
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politics, he says. and IL Intensely en-
gagged in the coal business.
1T is proposed to change the name
of Roseville, in Jefferson county, to
White, after General Harry White.
An Indiana county man took q
drove of several hundred turkeys TO
Pittsburg, driving them by the COM
mon high way, aud arriving safe and
in good conditions.
There is in cell in the Jail at
Harrisburg boy only ten years old
who has been confined there since last
June. His offense was frunning away
from the poor.house.
Professor Ledy has decided that
the fossillized bone discovered in a
Mifflin county quarry belong to a
member of an extinct species of pee
cary, one of the hog family.
-Scrantonians have been badly
frightened by discovering that over
800 pounds of giantpowder have been
lying in ther freight depot since last
March.
john Coyle, seventeen years of
age, became temporarily insane at
Scranton ,on Saturday and inflicted
severe injuries Oh himself. 1t was
caused by drinking liquor.
-,One of the bright little misses of
Montrose, upon witnessing the pleas
ure manifested by dog on meeting
its master, exclaimed: See his tail go!
Ways so fast you can't count it,"
The finance committee, of Erie city
councils, has recommended the adop-
ton of an ordinance fixing the salary
of the mayor at s 900 a year; that Of
select councilman 5000 and common
councilman 500.
In one election district in Bedford
county the Republicans did not have
a vote for auy candidate on the ticket,
This was southampton No. l, COM
monty known as "Beaus Cove" 1t
polled forty votes for Pattison.
John Troutmau, deceased, of
Uniontown, was the oldest newspaper
subscriber in the United States. He
subscribed for local paper in 1910,
the year he was married, and contin-
ued to take it up to tthe time of his
death, a period of seventy-two years
He would have been uinety five years
old next Friday.
Recently a farmer in Armstrong
county gave chase to fellow who was
stealing his c1rn. The thief ran into
a double harrow leaning against the
barn, causing one wing to fall, which
caught and held him tight as Il rat in
a trap. The farmer got a rope, tied
him and giving him II good whipping,
sent him home.
Justice Mayes, of West Alexander
recently married his two thousandti,
couple. For sealing these happy bonds
he has received the sum of $&26i.14, Oh
an average of three:aEd twelve and q
half cents per couple. The regulation
fee was originally two dollars, and
after 1865 it was three dollars although
some couples paid nothing and othel
from six dollars to twenty dollars
The lowest sum paid was ninety cents
Thirty couples have been colored, fifty
of the men were named Smith and
fourteen of the women did not change
their names. Business ranged from
six couples day to none.
DEAD BODY hsuNr. The dead
body of Edward Corcilius, of North
. .Houtsdale, was found in the woods
about two miles west of Raney, in
Clearfield county. Daniel .Higiey, q
boy fifteen years of aye, while driving
home some COWS. discovered the body
but was so fris htened that he ran
away. and.it was until the next morn.
ing that an elder brother accompanied
him to the spot, when they found the
almost nnde body of the ,mau. \
coroner's inquest was held, when the
identity of the body was ascertained
ana verdict rendered that he cam,
to his death from hunger and expos
ure. He had wand cred from home
being somewhat deranged, and had OF
when he left Il good suit OF clothes, al
of which had been torn off or lost il
his ;wanderings.-BrOokciHe Rep.