The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1867-03-07
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| - NasuNhle paper speaks OF radical
blood pudding.
-Why is lady's dress like roasted
! goose? Because it has been basted.
"A colored poet is giving readings in
Washington.
One of the State Senators of Virginia
owns 100, 900 acres of land. 49,
"A western paper dubs Thad. Stevens
the Great Vulgarian.
"A young man in Iowa, after his faith.
ers death. married his step-mother.
Joel Lindslev. the child murderer.
gels only 1our years and thrco months in
the penitentlary.
During the past month there have
been 1907 ratons issued to tho Missippi
negroes, an increase of li9 over the pre-
ylous month.
p. T. Darnum is candidate for Con-
gress at the approaching Connecticut cleo
ton.
"A woman hos been brought into court
in Northampton, Pa, on the charge of be.
ing common scol.
woman in Chicago on visiting her
hut5tnd' 5 Office, discovering long hairs in
hair brush applied for a divorce.
1t is estimated that since the close of
the war, the coiored population of Virginia
has been reduced l9J, 900. - j.
John McDuf, of Marietta, committed
suicide, last Saturday, by taking poison.
Whisky caused him to commit the rash act.
lion. John Morrissy is said to have
lost $1,000 900 by the Cumberland corner
smash, in ali street, last week.
Miss Gustnn Bartlett died ut Bart
lpttl lg l.l.. l.
but fifteen years Ulu. and weighed four
hundred pounds.
"A bill levying q specific tax on old
bachelors, to support u bure4u of emigra-
tion, has been introduced in the West Vir-
ginia Legislature.
An unwashed street boy being asked
what made him so dirty, his reply was, 4
was made. they tell me. Of the ground, an d
l Ieokon it's Ju st working out"
AT IL recent fashionable reception in
New York, several yodng men appcared in
maroon ueivet oolts AMI bre0enes, with
silk stocklnss--a sort OF court costume.
"A bill has been introl luced in the New
York Senate, providing Tor conventions to
amend the S,ate Constitution. SO as to ss-
cure the franchise to colored persons.
Speaking of impeachment, Mr.. Gree
ley says no patriot will wantonly or light
y sh Ike the twin fabrics OF Public Order
AMI Public Credit.
The radicals have no objection to their
memb 'rship in Congress dong, but only Of
their beng told or 1t.
Carpenters ''Death Bed of Lincoln"
represents Schuyler COitax. who wasn't
there, as oue of the chief mourners over
the couch of our martyr President.
Never desp.se cOunsals, from whafcv.
er quarter they reach you. Remember
tlat the pearl is keenly sought for IN spits
OF the coarse shell that envelopes it.
A Colorado woman elopcI from her
husband and three children. Adding in
suit TO injury, she lett a note behind infor-
ming her husband that not one of the chill
drcl were has.
The Tennessee Legislature -so-callei
which represents about ono-eighth Of
the people OF the State, has passed a negro
Suffrage b!il with which to prop up tas
raeic4l usirpatlon.
the Rtls of the Nevada Legislature
have passed. n resolution asking their bre-
thren OF the idmp 10 give them Stare ju-
risdiotion over the territory Of Utah. QIite
modest (?) request, truly. ta.
The Harrisburg Telegraph complains
that certain pa rites steal its subscribers
papers. Amy person who can bring him
sell down to stealing that sheet, must be .
mean cuss indeed.
--Tle Maine House has refused to Join
in the action of the Senate in amending
the law so as to permit white persons to
intermlrry with negroes, Indians, OF mu-
lattOes.
A number of bootblaoks were arrested
in New York lately for violating the excise
law They polished boots for twenty i've
cents and gave drinks of whisky to their
customers from small bottles which they
had about them.
&c. W. Elery, the last of II children Of
VIM. Ellery, signer of the Declaration Of
independence, died at Newport last Mon
day. Deceased had been collector OF tho
port of Newport for forty years.
Bob Schenck wants to have the mill
tary academy removed from Annapolis, Nj.
because the ''femlil sect" are likely to
work upon the irrepressible ''feelinks" Of
young sons of Mars. Guess Massachusetts,
wants the school.