The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1867-08-15
a CnrinNls Affair.

lew Gays IaSt, the history OF Nhlch Is
MS follows: Some time last fall a man
and his wife came here from Columbus,
st. Clair county. The man is a laborcr,
and tho lady who shared his fortunes
lcre is a second wife. The man found
ready work, and the family houri,hod
A month or two dnce a nice looking
boy, apparently about nineteen yoars OF
age, came into the family circle, claim
ing to be the son Of the lord Of the house
by his former wife, and as such the la
dy of the house, who knew nothing Of
her predecessor showing her kind at
tcntions and care upon the visiting son.
An went well for month or more,
when, to the horror Of the lady in qucs-
tion, She discovered that her husband
had sold everything he could, and had
left country with mis- son." which per.
son the wife found not only to be not
her step son, but indeed not boy, but
youn. lady, fond of her husband, and
unscrupulous enough to live more than
month with him representing herself
TO be his son, and finally to depar. with
him to parts unknown. The wife of
this man is left IN destitute circumstan'
ces, and is now seeking means with
which to return to her former home.
Mormonism in England is colapsing.
In Liverpool, where, in 1861, their was
a church of one thousand persons, their
are not now twenty members And so
it is all through the country. Poverty
has settled upon them all. The Presi.
dent of a conference was once maintain
ed in fine style. But now he is scarce
ly able to maintain himself. The
"Saints possessed of the means have
emigrated to Salt Lake, and no new
recruits are being obtained. "There
are hundreds of unmarried sisters"
writes an apostle, " waiting for the day
of deliverence, and looking to the
mountain for help"
"A new York police officer, seeing
a negro whom he knew exclaimed,-
"Ah, Sambo, you are an honest faith
ful fellow. 1 will give yon drink"
ovid all my heart, sa," said Sambo !;
"wid all this Heart. Some niggers are
hauty and proud, and proud and wont
stoop to drink wild a police officer most,
if not cherry way, as good as niger
specially when dat niggor's dry"
"John, my son." said doting faith
or, who was about taking his son into
business, " what shall oe the style of the
new firm ?" Well, Governor" said
the one.and twenty youth, looking in.
to the heavens to find an answer, |
don't know-but suppose We have John
II. Sampliug & Father" The old gov
ernor was struck at the originality of
the idea, but couldn't adopt it.
There are but three kinds Of
wrongs in our lives The wrong man
does 10 his own soul or body, or suffers
in either the wrongs of man against
his brother man; the wrongs between
man and woman.
"A drunken fellow sitting on the
steps of church in Boston, the cold
wind blowing chillingly round the cor.
ner, exclaimed. If heaven (hic) tenn.
pers the wind to the shorn lamb, I wish
the lamb (hic) was on this corner"
-" Whatl Is the difference twixt a
watch and fcddcr bed, Sam ?"" Dun
no-gin it up" Because de ,ickin'
of de watch is on the inside, AMI the
ticking of the bed on the outside
The eldest daughter OF the Queen
of Spain, now young lady grown, re-
sembles her mother, and NOT p put too
fine a point upon it's said 70 be the
homliest girl in Europe.
"A clorkyman down s'st " asked
woman he had baptisod as she was
coming out of the water, dow she 'olt IN
her mind, and was somwhat surprised
to hear her answer, Gully"
An editor out Vest has married a
girl named Church. lie says he has
experienced more happiness since he
Joined the Church than he did in all his
life before.
"A backw,odsuan saw lady at a
piano, and sung out, " Jim, jis come
here. Taruation, if here amt woman
pullin muAc out Of a chist
PIE Prince Of Wales is writing a
hoor about what he saw IN the United
states. AS he f.oauently saw double,
'hc narrative will be intereetinp.
Who is meaner than the man
who promises to pay the printer, and
when the time comes is not to be found
You tell h.!
In St. Paul the thermometer on
Wednesday stood 90 deg. the hottest
day Of the season. Thursday the mer.
curry stood SO deg.
The Russian loan is being moro
readily taken in Paris than was at
first expected. Its success may now
be said to be established there.
One of the mills of the Massachu.
Irtts Dowdar Gonononu in Nortb Sud