The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1868-06-27
vol UME EIGUT-NUNBER II
BRIEF NOTEs FH0M EXCHANGES

--Lotta is 6. Saratoga star this season.
Tom Thumb is high in Mason
Notwithstanding his shortncss
"A d" Lincoln Democratic club has
been organizoda at Springfield, Ill.
Two thousand Hebrews in St. Louis
protest against Grants election.
One thousand dollars a week are
spent on the social evil in New York.
Mrs. Texter, formerly. Miss Bloom.
er, is giving lectures to the Mormons.
Tho only point Giant has made
since his nominatiou-West Point.
Only two of the Maryland delegates
are opposed to Pendioton.
"A Philadelphia hcircss has just
eloped from Paris with bogus count.
Kit Carson leaves five penniless or
phau children, all under sixteen.
The man who raised breeze will
try his hand at a crop Of onions.
Excursion parties go from San
francisco to see the great eruption III
the Sandwich Islands.
1t was testified that Callicott $50,
600 for his appointment. Who got it :?
There is an opportunity for Butler.
"A Democratic Wigwam has been
opened in Philadelphia. 1t will scat
one thousand persons.
--Newhouse, a rising English jockey,
weighs forty-fOur pounds. He ought
to iise easily at that weight.
"A. Il. Stewart of New York, re
turns S667 ,499 income. Some charlta-
bic person ought tc give him dollar to
make it even.
Tho Cleveland Democracy propose
to send two carloads as their portion Of
the Pendleton escort" to the New
York Convention.
What has become Of Stanton ? lie
has gone out like penny dip. Iii,
light has been thoroughly oxtinguishct
and will never again be rckindlcd.
Somebody having stated that Grant
had no will of his own, Prentice think;
lie had better make one as soon as poSs;
bic, in view Of his political death.
Mrs. Cady Stantonscolds Theodore
Tilton because he will not " follow GooC
man with the Democratic party, rather
than help to place drunken soldier il
the White House"
-Forney is moro ready to revive 1
recollection of the scenes of the war tha,
he was to participate in them Tn
same can be said OF the leading Radical
everywhere.
"A Radical organ says that Gran
and Collax have no strength TO dclib
erately throw away" That is the lea.
on why they stick SO close to the niggol
He is much strong, is Sambo.
DR.. Potter, of Cincinnati, left tol
tune to his heirs on condition that the
eschew tobacco. The first one oil thcl
who puifs a cigar blows his inhcritauc
to the four winds.
The friends of Pendloton who ar
, expected to be in attcndanco at the Ma
tional Convention are SO numerous tN'
+ it is proposed to build wigwam e
, their special accommodation.
. The party which deliberately Aaul
over the government of the finest cou
+ try in the world to negroes, trayelir
gamblers and escaped couvcts, is u
. exact y the party for the people Of IL
+, Republic,
/ The Seneca Advertiser, of Obi
: says A dog fight would have made
y better show than the Grant ratiticati,
. meeting did in this place" We dol
- doubt it, tor a dog fight might ha
! brought out Grant himself.
;. Ordinary sports are dangerous
Il California. Not long since a game
d marbles was ended by the stabbing
e one infant by another, and now so:
c difficulty about base ball has been S
J. tied by an lmprOmptu duel with kniyc
II An unpoetic English autiquary i
i discovered that ST. George, the dragC
= slayer and knightly patron Of Euglan
y was an Amy contractor, who made
money by furnishing decomposod bac,
for which he narrowly escaped lynchil
y The Revolution tells us there
as plenty of ladies quite equal to the Vic
,e r'as, Annies and Elizabcths Of Eugla
a the Theresas of Austria and the Cath
ID ines of Russia" We have not met t
item OF news in any other paper.
- The Richmond Examiner says t
&C "the present agitation IS an irrcpressi
On confic: which will never end until
rs tice is done or the heavens fall" {