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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-22
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IIarper's Bazaar contains, besides pictures.
patterns, etc., variety of matter Of especial
use and interest TO the family articles OH
health, dress and housekeeping in all its
branches its editorial matter is especially
adapted to the circle it is intended to iniercs
and instruct and it has, besides. good storie
and literary matter of MERIT. ]t is not sur
prising that the journal, with such features,
has achieved in a short time an immense
cess for something of its kind was desi-ed in
thousands Of families, and its publishers have
filed the demand.--Ne,r York Evening Post.
Whether we consider its claims as based
upon the elegance and superiority Of the
paper, its typographical appearance, the taste
and judgement displayed in the engravings or
the literary contributions contained in its
pages, we nnhestatingly pronounce it TO he
superior in each and every particular to any
other similar publication here or abroad
Ph,Pa Lrgai IntetHgencer.
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it in completeness and variety Y. Times.
1t has the merit of being sensible, of cnnvey.
ing instruction, of giving excellent patterns
in every department, and of being stocked
with good reading natter Watchmdn and Re.
fector.
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NEWS ITEMS.

Edward Mcpherson. Clerk of the
House, Washington, d. c., is actively
engaged upon the Life and Times of
Thaddeus Stevens tor early publication,
and will be glad TO receive copies of
letters of the deceased on political topics
from 1923 to 1868, and any personal in.
cldents illustrating any point in his career,
or any feature of his character Original
letters or other documents, if sent to him,
will be returned after use.
A Washington paper says that a rumor
is prevalent in that city that Justices
Grier, Davis, Swayne and and Miller are
in favor of declaring the Legal Tender
act Constitutional, and that Justices
Field, Clifford and Nelson are against it.
Chief Justice Chase is believed to be in
favor of it. The paper adds that those
who have been looking after the matter
with solicitude are now quite sanguine
that the decisions will be postponed.
The latest estimates the Agricultural
Department for both Cotton and Corn
crops of 1868, foot up very favora5ly -
The Cotton yield is set down at nearly
TWO ana u nall IlllllOn DdleS anu .lilaJ Ol
Corn at nine hundred and five millions
of bushels
The Peace Conference of Paris has
finished its good work. A Paris paper
says that the declaration agreed upon by
the Conference asks of Greece to sup.
press bands and vessels intended tor in.
cursions into the Turkish dominions, and
advises Turkey to withdraw her ultima
tum. Both the Turkish and the Grecian
Embassdors declared that as yet they
were without instructions authoizng
them to sign their assent to the conclu
sion of the Conference.
JEoKUs says he has seen great deal
about railways carrying passengers
through without charge" and as he was
little "short the other day." thought
he would try it. The experiment resul
ted in his being put off in a ditch, and
he declares there no believing anything
that the newspapers say.
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-22

AROUND TIE WoRLD.-When the Pa.
cific Railroad is finished the tour around
the world can be made in two months
and a half. From New York to San
Francisco will take seven days; from San
Francisco to Hong Kong by way OF
Yohohoma, twenty days; from Hong
Kong by steamer to Suez, thirty-two
days; from Paris to New York, ten days /;
in all, seventy,fve days This can only
be done, however, by continuous travel
ing and successful connections every
where
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-22

THIS is the way French paper chronicles
an accident: "On Saturday an accident
which might have been attended with sad
results, took place in this city (Paris) A
bricklayer, having lost his balance, fell from
the sixth story of a house to the street. -
Fortunately, two women, who were chatting
on the sidewalk, received the falling man on
their heads and broke his fall. The brick
layer was taken up safe and sound. The
bystanders shuddered to think that but for
a lucky chance the accident would have cost
him his life. The two women were instantly
killed"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-22
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-22

Attorney General Evarts has issued in
structions to all the district attorney in the
United States ordering them to discontinue
proceedings against all persons accused of
reasonable offences for acts committed DUR
ing the late rebellion. This proceeding effec-
tually settles the whole question as to the
operation of President Johuson's amnesty
proclamation. 1-s
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-22

These last estimates cannot be regarded as
being in accordance with that economy which
is mperatively demanded by gradually di-
minished revenue. Congress should cut
them down to at least $3.50, 900, 600, and
then inaugurate prompt retrenchment so as
to leave balance on the right side Of the
ledger. here are great many projects be.
fore Congress, for which appropriations are
asked, some of which are of great Importance
to the country, but this is not the time for
lavish expenditure, and it would be better to
defer important works of internal improve
ment than to 60 on increasing the debt
The Special Revenue Commissioner, however,
has intimated that we may expect this year a
saving of thirty millions, on various ac-
counts among which are the finishing up of
the bounties, the reduction of interest from
conversions, and the withdrawal of the com
pound interest notes, and the surrender of
pensions. The Commissioner further esti-
mates that an increase of thirty millions of
receipts, from the same sources of revenue,
may fairly be looked for, with an ordinarily
efficient collection and All ordinarily honest
administration. He believes, therefore, that
it is within bonds to regard the Treasury as
master of clear yearly surplus, from this
time forward, of one hundred millions. 1t
is sincerely to be hoped that this sanguine
view may be realized.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-22
"a Repository Of fashion, Pleasure, and
Instruction."
HARPER'S Bazaar.

supplement containing numerous full
sized patterns of useful articles accompanies
the paper every fortnight. and occasionally an
elegant Colored Fashion Plate.
HARpER's BAzAR contains l6 folic pages Of
the size of HAkPER's WEEKLY, printed on su-
perhne calendered paper, and is published
weekly. ...
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-22

AN editor wrote leading article on
sex, in the course of which he said:
"Girls of seventeen or eighteen are
fond of beaus." When the paper was
issued be was rather shocked to discover
that an unfortunate typographical error
had made him say, "girls of seventeen
or eighteen are fond of beans
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-22
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-22

"PA, will you get me new pair of
skates if will prove to you that dog
has ten tals?', ..... ..-
Eyes, my son. .- .......
"Well, to begin, one dog has one more
tail than no dog, hasn't be I" t....
eyes"
"Well, no dog has nine tails and il
one dog has one more tail than no dog,
then one dog must have ten tails"
The father gave the boy his skates.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-22

GEN. GRANT authorizes the statement that
the articles written by an occasional cores
pondeut of the New Y ork WoHDb, and pur-
porting to relate conversations or furnish
opinions of his in regard to public men and
public matters, ARE UTTERLY wtrHoUr foUNDA.
rIoN. No human being has ever listened to,
OF shared such conversation as those reported.
General Grant would not deem it becoming
in him to contradict the articles in question
if they simply affected himself But as they
are evidently written with view to embroil
his relations with prominent gentleman,
most of them his political or personal friends,
or at least outrage their just sensibilitiss
he deviates in this instance from his usual
course, and pronounces the articles alluded
to incorrect, indelicate, and impertinent in
an extraordinary degree.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-22

The New York ruffians who murdere
Mr.. Rogers mulcted thu life insurance
companies s22, 5000. t9gI ...r
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-22
DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS.

The annual reports of the State. Depart.
ments have been made to the Legislature,
and are now either published, or in the hands
of the State printer. aI.g..r--
The reports of the Common School Depart
ment by the State Superintendent j. r.
Wickersham, shows over 100000 pupils at
tending the public schools-an increase of
above II, 600 from the previous year. Over
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-22
Revenue and Expenditures.

The receipts and expenditures for the next
fiscal year are thus forshadowed by the Sec
retary Of the Treasury:
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-22

The expenditures for the same period, il
the expenses of the army should be kept up
to about the present average, will be as fol-
lOws.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-02-11
State of Wfsconsfn--K enosha County

State OF observation-disclosures County
Court.
In the matter of the guardianship of the minor
heirs of Calvin L. LOOMS, deceased, to wit
sRolin A. LOOMS, Julius N Loomis Francis E.
81 Loomis Ella LOOMS, and Carrie E. Loomis.
I'm reading and filing the petition of Francis f.
W LOOMS, the guardian of said minors, dated
January 18th, 1869, representing among other
things that they the said wards, are seized of Ger
tain real estate in the equal, undivided one third
parts and interest in lots l. and g. in block o. in
section 81 town north of range % east in the CITY
OF kenosha, in the county of Kenosha and State
aforesaid and that it is expedient that all their in
terestin the same should be sold, and the proceeds
invested i'll interest," bearing securities for that said
property is wholly unproductive, and praying for
license to sell the same; and it appearing to the
Court from said petition that it would be for the
benefit of said wards to have all their interest in
and to the said lands Sold and the proceeds in.
ordered and directed that the next of KIN to said
wards and all persons interested in said estate APP
pear before the judge OF this Court on Monday the
eighth day of March, 1859, at one O'clock P M AT
the Probate office in the city of Kenosha in said
county, then and there to show cause if any there
shall be, why license ould not be granted for
the sale of said real estate according to the PRAYER
of this petition.
And it is further ordered that a COPY of this or
der shall be published for four successive weeks
prior to said day of hearing, in the Kenosha Tee.
graph, weekly newspaper printed at Kenosha
city aforesaid and circulating in said county
Dated at Kenosha, the 18th dav of January D
1869,
BY the Court: JAMES j. PETIT,
County Judge III and for the county of Kenosha
4w34
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-02-11

sad nerves kidneys bladder, womb and blood affections
Ut TIE urinary orgrns gravel sorofua, rheumatism
kaIrh, Asthma, bronchitis, dyspepsia.
Oar practice Is not of experiment but of twenty
reArs standing founded the laws oNature with years
experience and evidence to sustain it. Do notear
~ build make sick to make wellno harsh
se trihins; no Gathering We know the and the
fsFaedy needed work. but knowledge gained by
of experience the treatment of these diseases
esNsively-no encouragement without prospect Candid
IA opinions, reasonable in charges, claim not to
kaow everything everybody, but do claim
sen and common sense. We invite the sick, matter
What their al to call investigate before they aban
don hope, make nerrogaons and decide 70; themselves
1t will cost nothing consultation is free This the
Sixth that have visited this place shall max
visits fer years regularly the days of they
every eight weeks.
" CLARENCE PRICE Re CONSULTED AT
Kenosha, Halliday House, during Sat
urday the Goth of February.
Ey~ Residence and Laboratory, Waukegan Ill,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-02-11
DISSOLUTION.

The co-partnership heretofore existing under
the firm name of Lyman & Richardson, has ex-
pired by limitation. The BooT. SHOE and LEATHER
business will be continued at the old stand, by r.
w. Lyman and Frank H. Lyman. under the firm
name of f. w Lyman u Son, who will pay all debts Of
the former company, and to whom all indebted to
Lyman & Richardson requested to make i'm
mediate payment +. w, LYMAN,
GEO. S. RICHARDSON
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-02-11
I'm Probate--Ikenosha COUNTY Court.


In the matter of the Estate of Margaret
Schleiser deceased.
Am reading and filing the petition of Henry
W Linstroth administrator of said Estate
representing among other things that he has
that time and place be fixed for aIIowinS
and examining hiSaccount of htsa administration
(to be fled, it is ordered that said account be
examined by the Judge of this court on Satur-
day tho goth day of February 1869, at his office
in the City and County of Kenosha, at 10
O'Clock A. M. of said day and that the residue
of said estate be then and there distributed to
the heirs of said deceased.
sFAnd it is further ordered that notice thereof
be given to all persons interested by publish
ing this order in the Kenosha Telegra oh, a
Newspaper printed and published in Aenosha
City tor three successive weeks before said
day Of examination and distribution.
Dated January n, A, d 1850.
J. j. PETIT,
3W35 County Judge.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-08-18
lYeather and Cr0p items.

COLUMBIA, s. c., August 17,-The
weather for the past few weeks has
been dry and hot until yesterday,
when a fne rain fell. An average
cEODi of corn is anticipated. ilt
GoLUMBgs, Ga, August 1z,EThs;. 4;
and dry for the past four weeks. This
only slightly Injured late corn crops.
There was a good rain yesterday, and
light showers to- day, which has
greatly benefited late crops. .....
CHARLESTON, S. C.s August IT,
The weather the past week has been
dry and warm. This has had a good
effect on the corn crop, which is well
matured IN this section.
RALEIGH, n. c., August 17.-There
has been but very little rain, Scarcely
enough to lay the. dust. The corn
crop in this vicinity is suffering very
much, and it Is thought the yield this.
year viii not exceed tWo-thiTdsof that
of last, There Wasoa very fine rain
to- day, but it is feared that it came
too date 40 benefit the CORN. e5iia fg
GALVESTON, August 16-It has
rained three days and bee1 ulearfoar
days during the past seven. 4r.s.t
The corn crop is abundant all over.
the State. The rains cannot ipjure it,
CoLuMBUs, Miss, August 1.-THE
weather during the past week has
been dry and fac, but to-day rain
fell. There will be about half a crop
of corn.
- The co ton crop promises to be
fair one. .5iht
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-08-18
81. LorIs- Anrnst 11.-The account

ST. LOUIS, August 1.-THE account
telegraphed from the battle field this
afternoon does not agree with descrip-
tions brought by the reporters who
returned on the Louisville this eve
ming. Instead of nine rounds, as
previously reported, there were eleven
rounds fought, more thaR one half Of
which were decidedly in favor Of Al
len. AT the end of the eleventh
round Tom Kelly, one of Gallagher's 5
seconds, threw up the sponge.
Allen and his seconds left the ring.
Subsequently, the referee said he did
not know who threw the sponge up,
and declared the battle a draw. 1t IS
stated that Tom Kelly acknowledged
on the ground that Gallagher was
whipped, and he threw up the sponge; i;
but, after getting on board the boat,
he denied having done so. The re-
suit is considered a greater outrage to
Allen than the decision IN the Nc
Coole fight.
Captain Abe McPike, well known
steamboatman of this city, lost his
pocket book on street car, last
night. 1t contained $4,600 In money
and $4,000 in notes and checks.
The Southern Base Ball Club play
ed with the Unions Of this city, to-
day, and beat them 30 to 81.