The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1865-12-02

of you ever think Of marrying a wild
ow," said an anxious parent to an heir,
"selcct one whose first husband was
hung for that is the only way to pre-
vent her throwing his memory into your
face, and making annoying compari.
sons" Even that won't prevent it,
exclaimed n crusty old bachelor, "she'll
praise him by saying that hanging
would DC too good for you"
Prize fights between woman are of
daily occurrence in South Staffordshire,
England They strip to the waist and
follow the rules of Fistiana implicitly.
81 am willing to split hairs with my
opponent any day If he insists upon it,"
said very distinguished American law
or, in a speech at the bar. "Split that,
then," said the opponent, pulling a
coarse specimen from his own head and
extending it. May it please he Court,
| didn't say Jristles"
A young lady was told by married
one that she lad better preci pitate her
self off Niagara Falls into the basin be-
meath than to marry. The young lazy
replied, II would if | thought could
fad husband at the bottom"
A fruit preserving house with a
capacity of $4,000 bushels, is to be
erected al Buffalo at "a cost ofS100,00O.
There are 10000 skeletons of
horses and cattle killed during tie war
in the Shenandoah Valley collected at a
bone factory near Winchester.
! About 100 colored emierants sail
ed from Baltimore for Liberia last Sat
urdoy in vessel chartered by the Mary
land Colonization Society.
-General Grants reception at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York. on
Monday evening was attended by over
1000 invited guests.
The Democracy OF Wisconsin have
gained Two senators and numerous rep.
iesentatives, and have popular MAORI
ties in three congressional districts.
Last week Cleveland justice of
the peace summoned Il negro jury
man, but had to back down. as the white
jurors refused to serve with him.
! "A young man named Power has
been committed in Waxford Ireland,
on charge of killing his father by stab
bing him in fifteen places with hay
fork.
The board of Aldermen in Wash
ington have resolved in favor Of spe-
cal election to settle the question Of
negro suffrage in that city, in the event
0. Congressional action on the sub
ject.
"A railway is to be built through the
Alps oy the pass of st. Gothard Eight
years of labor aud an expenditure of
/ eighty millions of francs will be involved
! in the undertaking.
- The Emperor Of Napoleon. upon
being informed that the chief of police
of Marseilles had lett the city during the
prevalence Of the cholera, at once sigued
an order dismissing him.
The Florida Convention has an.
nullcd the secession ordinance of that
( State, abolished the reception or negro
testimoney in the courts, repudiated the
rebel war debt, and adjourned.
In Boston, on Saturday, boar.
! ding house keeper was found murdered
in his bed. In the vicinity of the same
city, on Sunday, the body of murdered
man was discovered, stripped of its clio
I thing.
The public anxiety in New York
on account Of the appearance ofthe chol
era has entirely subsided The sick or
board the hospital ship at Sandy Hook
are rapidly convalescing, aud the cholera
ship Atlanta is now entirely free
from pestilenco.
"A Providence man deposited ST..
600 for safe keeping in an unused stove
He was called out of town unexpectedly
and cold snap coming on, fire was kin
died in the stove, aud the hard earnings
Of years we're reduced to ashes in sin,
gle moment.
! Gen. Sheridan is ut San Antonia
Texas. Orders have Zone forward t,
Concentrate pretty large military force
in that vicinity, the precise object o
which has not yet transpired, but it i
supposed to be for the purpose OF look
ing after the French troops. ..
Theodore Smith, Of West Chester