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The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-03-29
COUNTY DIRECTORY.

President Judge Hon. R. G. White, Wells.
ough, Pa. ''' y sii'
-. associate JudgeS-Hon. Charles Mead
hidgway, Pa, aud Hon. E. c. Scbult1e
st. Mary's, Pa. -0'
SSaerT-James A. Malone, Kersey. Pa.
Fr9th0notarV, Register and Rccorder- Geo
Ed; Weis, st. Mary's, Pa. ~ 0sO'
Ridgway, Pa. D'D"eiS'
r,', IrstoSarer-James Coyne, st. Marys, Pa.
Mary's. Pa. Ut
" commemorative. A. bly,, Fox. Louis
Fox. "S ioi'
Rldgway, Pa. i'"n'
d1a'tors-C. A. Wilcox, Fox. Jacob Nc
Cauiey, Fox, H. D. Derr, Benezette. Pa.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY

=. oHN .; HALL. Attorney at law. Ride.
y way Elk county Pa. mar. 2266 1v
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-03-29

MODEL GRAMMAR SCHooL.-"Did
you ever study grammar" ?"
81 aid SIR"
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Hes au objective case"
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years aud half"
Plight. What's noun ?"
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renown is"
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"kunuing off without paving the
printer, and getting on the black list as
Il delinquent"
Good. What's a conjunction ?"
A method OF collecting outstapdipo
subscriptions in conjunction with the
constable, never employed by printers
until the last extremity"
That's right Go to YOUR seat
and quit shooting paper wads at the
girls"
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Inside a Printing Office

1T Is not alone compo,iturs who will
cojay the following. II isa canit,I ana
very lorclble illustration OF PRINTING
oHice dialogue
Foreman Of the Office Jones, what
are you a; now ?'
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Oh lire, almost dune."
Foreman" What is Smith about 9''
Compostor-'H Tie is engaged on 4
uOrrid murder
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p'"N'o'atand help Morse through with
his telegraph Bob, what are you try
ing to get up?"
Bob--'A p'oic in the money mar
Foramau--"Thomas, what are YOU
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Thomas Prizes in the g,lt lottery"
fOTeluan-"Stop that aud take hold
or a runaway horse SIocum. what
IN creation have you been about this last
hall hour 2"
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there what are you on now?
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that you gave me-"
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the present; no room for it"
'ompositor--" How about these Mu.
nicipal candidates p"
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Boston p"
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lion Of ''ahtornia gold, and when YOU
get through with it I'll give you some
more"
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Eloquent Thanksgiving discourse p"
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set up "A warm winter "-Printer.
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GrAn Irishman recently stopped
at hotel in Des Moins, Iowa, where
pretty high bills were charged In
the morning the landlord made out the
amount OF damages aud presented it to
rat After he had gone over it the
latter looked the landlord in the face
and exclaimed.
~ pat me in mind ofa snipe."
why" asked the landlord.
because ye're very nigh all bill"
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-03-29

DIRECTIONS FOR THE YEAR 1866
The year 1866 will be very eventful
one to every maiden who gets married.
Throughout the whole course of the
year, whenever the moon wanes the
night will grow dark.
If dandies veal their boards, there
will be less work for BARRIERS. He who
wears his moustache will have something
to sneeze at.
Whoever is in love this year will
think his mistress an angel. Whoever
gets married will find out whether it is
tue.
He that loses his hair this year will
grow bald
He that loses his wife will become a
widower.
lfa young lady should happen to
blush she will look red in the face. If
she dreams Of a young man three nights
in succession, it is sign Of somethi ng.
II she dreams of him four times. or has
a toothache, it is ten to one that she is a
long time getting either of them out of
her head.
anybody jumps overheard without
knowing how to swim, it is two to one
he gets drowned.
If any one lends an umbrella. it is ten
to one he is obliged to 80 home in the
rain for his pains.
Whoever runs in deot this year will
be dunned.
Many an old sinner will resolve to
turn Oven new leaf this year, but the
ucw leaf will turn out blank.
1t is probable that if there is no busi.
dess doing, people will complain of hard
times. but it is certain that those who
hang themselves will escape starving to
lea,t
Tie that bites off his nose, or turns
poIiri ,ian, will act like fool, and this
is the most certain of all.
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-03-29

EVERY man can tame a shrew but he
that hath her,
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eAIhe returns Of internal reyepuo
Tor petroleum for 1865 show an inc, css,
OF $40 Gao over 1864.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-06-30

the declivity of chain of mountains,
the passes of which, as was proved IN
1873, may after defeat be defended
against the conquerors by rear guard
of beaten army, and in such way as
to convert the defeat into a victory, while
before them they have vast plain, un-
interrupted by single eminence, from
Leipsic to the shores of the Baltic, where
their splendid cavalry can be employed
with better effect than in Lombardy, and
in the event of a victory on their side
woHld complete the rout OF the enc my.
A single battle might thus bring the
Austrians to the gates Of Berlin, and in
yolve Prussia in as irredeemable disaster
as after the catastrophe ofJena whereas
if the Austrians come off second best,
they have but to fall back to the noun
tains, like the allies did after the battle
of Dresden, where, if the Prussians fol-
lowed them, they might meet with the
fate of Vandamme, or atany rate, would
in all probability be as unable to dislodge
them from their favorable positions as
Napoleon was when he appeared in per-
son to avenge the defeat of his general.
The Prussian strategists are quite alive
to this danger; and if Bismark, was his
own master he would undoubtedly have
been beforehand with the Austrians and
have sent corps weeks ago to occupy
Saxony (as his organ, the North Ger
man Gazette, threatened to do) but this
the King who has conscientious regard
for the rights of his fellow-princes and is
only partially initiated in the ambitious
schemes of his minister, positively re-
fused to consent to- Rismark would like
not only TO swallow up Saxony, but halt
a dozen other German principalities.
The King, on the contrary, shrinks from
the idea of despoiling sovereigns who
reign by the same right divine that he
lays claim to, and would not ever have
countenanced the project of annexing
Schleswig- Holstein if the crown lawyers
had not assured him that the Prince
ofAugustenberg had no legitimate title
to the Duchies, and that the true owner
was the King of Denmark, who was per
fectly at liberty to make them over to
any one he thought proper, as. he had
to Austria and Prussia. That the in
habitants themselves should have voice
in the matter is of course heretical no
ton which his majesty would not listen
to for moment
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MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE SATURDAY EVENING JUNE 3D. 1866

and liberal outlay of Northern resources.
To do this must be done:
First Money must be loaned literally
to the planters. They are honest, capa-
BILE, experienced, and are alone able to
control Southern sentiment and labor.
They cheerfully admit the result of the
war, and are anxious and willing 20 or
ganize labor and give security for
capital.
Second. Abandoned plantations should
be bought or leased by responsible par
ties, desirous aud capable of work, and
then the right sort Of emigration should
be encouraged TO the South. SO anx-
ious and solicitous for aid and work are
the planters, that most Of them 90 so far
as to offer half their crop, and the prln-
cipal they can borrow, with eight per
cent. interest thereon, in return for tenn
porary aid Land will produce bale to
the acre. On two hundred acres, il $4,000
were loaned, two hundred bales will
sell for $4,000, from which, $4,000
principal and $l00 interest deduc-
ted, leaves $4,000 to be di-
vided between lender and planter
Few, he hoped, would be so Shylock like
as to exact such terms, but the circula-
ton only showed what was possible.
Land is cheap-the late masters tracta-
Bile, earnest, industrious; the freedmen
can, by them, be secured and controlled
to work Fraternity, patriotism, and the
most certain available pecuniary inter
est called for the investment of Northern
capital as loudly as they dictated for an
era of good feeling forbearance, forget
funess, and equality between the sec
| tions.
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THE WAR CRISIS.
The Military Preparations and Strategic
Combinations of Prussia.

Correspondence N. Y. Herald.l
BERLIN, Jnne 6, 1866.
At present the Austrian corps of occu-
patton in Holstein only consists OF single
brigade, under General Malik, about six
thousand men in all, which, of course,
would be too weak to resist the attack
of a Prussian force, and would be obliged
TO surrender or retire into neutral ter
ritory. Yesterday, however, information
was received that the Austrians had dis
patched strong body of troops per rail
through Bavaria, Hesse and Hanover, to
reinforce the division in Holstein, and,
perhaps, to encourage the King OF Nan
over, who has long been wavering be
tween his prediction for Austria and
his fear of Prussia TO declare openly in
favor of the Kaiser. Will Prussia allow
the formation of an army in her rear
which would cut off her communications
with Schleswig and Berlin from the north,
while Benedict is advancing upon 1t from
the south Or will she take measures
to stop the reinforcements IN trGRsita
In the former case she will have suffered
a strategic defeat before the war has com
menced in the latter, as the Austrians
will hardly be polite enough to suspend
their march at the mere request OF Prus-
sia, q collision appears inevitable.
If the official journals are to be trusted,
the total military force OF Prussia
amounts, at this moment, to exactly six
hundred and ninety-fve thousand and
twenty-six men, of whom five hundred
thousand may be effective The Guards,
whose departure had been postponed,
have been marching out Of Berlin and
Potsdam since Sunday, and will form a
camp between here and Frankfort on the
Oder, from whence they can join either
the army of Silesia or that Of SaXony, as
circumstances may require.
The movements of Prussia, however,
will depend upon those Of Austria, for the
Government is anxious to keep on the
defensive as long as possible, so as to
throw upon their antagonist the respon-
sibility of having commenced hostlllues
which is taking a leaf out of Caryour
book, who pursued the same policy IN
1859 As above mentioned, the dispatch
ing of Austrian troops to Holstein Ia tel
egraph arrived last night stating that the
order had been countermanded, but this
assertion is eontradicted again today
may bring about a collision sooner than
was anticipated, but, in other respects,
beinr the initiative to Austria, though
politically advantageous TO Prussia, may
be extremely hazardous for her in a
strategic point Of view. II the Austrians
enter Saxony, either with or without the
consent of King John, and occupy the
conntrv as far as Dresden, they will have
aimed a first rate military position on
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PROFE SSiONAL.
M. COMBS, JR. & CO.,
Attorneys at Law
Against all Departments of the Government.
ALSO, FOREIGN CLAIM AGENTS

ALSO, FOhElGN CLAlM AGEN 10
WILL GIVE PROMPT ATTENTION TO
w tbs collection of claims arising under
the Revenue Laws-such as seizures. erroneous
fines. etc. Claims against the Quarternasier
and Conn issnry General's Department. for sup
plies furnished the army aud for transporta-
ton, charters etc. For property destroyed and
horses lost by cipturc or killed in service. For
pensions. prize money. bounty, arrears of pay.
etc, due oficer-, soldiers and seamen, white or
colored or their hers-at-law; and claims of all
kinds against the United States in all depart
ments oi the Government.
Will also practice law in all the Courts of
Record in Shelby county, and the Federal
Courts ion the Districts of Vest Tennessee.
Correspondence solicited from attorneys at
law and respectable agents throughout the
country.
Terms moderate. and no charge made unless
successful.
90. Communications by mail with stamp en-
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REFERENCES Every first t-class business house
in NJ emplis, as well as the many highly re-
spectacle citizens throughout the State, whose
claims we have collected.
Office, Room No. 2, Postofice Building,
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NEORGAN, ALLEN f.. Pk0PkIEr0k Or
streer. south Of Beal. :ny9-3m .
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say The Duke of Coburg, the brother
of the late Prince ALBERT, will, it is re-
ported, accept high command in the
Prussian army.
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ssOO,OOO 90

An average annual cash dividend 10 stock
holders Of fourteen per cent. upon its capital
stock, since its incorporation, portrays the great
success and stability Of this eminent lnstitu
ton, the superior financial accuracy displayed
in its investments, and the important truth that
the management of the PHRNIA is in tho
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cOuducta
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INSURANCE.
100000 DOLLARS
OF PROPERTY
Destroyed by Fire.
Within the limits of the United StL.os.
DURING THE YEAR 1906.

CH0ULD SUGGEST THE NECESSITY OF
- good insurance TO every man who desires 70
protect himself against the loss which follows in
the wake of fire.
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S4IO.8I3 81

LOSSES ADJUSTED AND PAID durins the
year 1865, in very marked and striking man
ner exhibits the solid. substantial. and faithful
as its ability to pass through seasons prolific OF
confagrations,. with honor and profit TO those
most interested.
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DE-. SWANS VsosrABLs HAN BALn

DE-. SWANS VEGETABLE HAIl BALn
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Numeroa preparations e oil, alcohol
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knowledge of the greatest Importance to
the single or married Of either sex. While
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certified certificate, or written guarantee,
that the picture is what it purports to be.
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