The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-07-16
NEWS ITEMS.

Borie got out before the President could
say Jack Robson.
The New York EXPRESS thinks o good
clay delegation . is chen"
Mississippi has a Ku Kux charged with
numbering seventy-eight persons
Gov Gearys majority against Clymor in
1866, was II, 17G votes.
The Jubilee receipts were nearly ST, O0O,-
600.
NJ. d. Williams, ticket agent at Buffalo,
has absconded with 50, 600 belonging to diff
ferent roads.
New York city has 10, 600 thieves This
does not include the city government, stock
board, &C.
Minister McMahon is out of the wilder
ness lie has reached BueDos from the camp
of Lopez, aud is bound for Rio Janeiro.
Pennsylvania is the banner State as to
railroads, having four thousand four hun
dred miles of track in operation.
Maine has family in which the father is
six feet four, the son ditto, and the grand son
two inches taller.
Nasby is in troubc-the guillotin hez fal.
len-he is no longer p. Ma cussid nigger
hez been appinted.
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from the disturbances in Spain, but we have
put our Sckles there.
Senator Morgan says that the Democratic
party having lived upon the negro for twenty
years have now starved to death.
Mrs Il. A. Pollard, sentenced to 80 days
incarceration in Baltimore for shooting and
wounding DIR. Moore, has been released on
paying 500 fine.
Richard Realf, old John Browns Secretary
Of State, has been appointed Assessor of
Internal Revenue in the District Of Edge
field S. c.
Hon. w. T. Seward has purchased Thur
low Weeds interest in the COMMERCIAL AD-
vERTIsER, and will assume the editorial con-
troll of that paper.
Josh Billings says: "Givo the devil his
due" reads well enough in proverb; but
mi friend what will become of me and you if
this arrangement is carried out?''
The cnameling Of female faces, rs a branch
Of business is quite lucrative. For enamel
ing the face to last two days it costs from
SO to $l5. This trade is carried on at
Broadway New York.
Horatio Seymour has won 81, 900, 600
lawsuit, about some Illinois lands he was in
terested in. That's as good as being PEes
dent.
Mrs Livermore, the Chicago Womanist,
says that if any man proposes marriage to
Anna Dickinson, he would get conloundly
snubbed. 'Sho!
IT is said that A. T. Stewart & Co., are
gradually introducing saleswomen in their
establishment, and intend, in time, TO en-
ploy only women rs selling clerks,
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Chicago was last week, for a lot on the south
east corner Of Washington and State streets,
at the rate Of $3,T17 per front foot.
Thomas Jefferson has been committed 10
Jail in Pittsburgh for petit larceny.
George Washington couldn't keep
sober on the 4th in Pottsville, and had to
go 10 the lock up.
Pittsburgh has increased her police
force from one hundred and twenty-five
members.
Hon. James Pollock, of Philadelphia,
will deliver the Grafton before the literary
societies of Lafayette College, on Tues
day evening, July p.
Brannon has escaped for the second
time from the Washington county jail
1t is about time the authorities examined
q little into this matter.
Pittsburgh is just now agitated over
the question of Sunday labor. Some are
in favor of shutting down all secular en-
ployment, and some are not.
In York county the other day, a horse,
hitched to moving machine, took fright
and undertook to run away but the ma
chine proved to be too much for him and
moved both his hind legs directly below
the knees. Ofcourse, the mutilated ami
nal had to be shot.
-Four of the prisoner incarcerated in
the Williamsport Jail conceived that their
quarters were too confined, and so one
night not long since bade it long and
sad farewell" The Sheriff not relishing
such unceremonious leave taking, nor hy
any manner of means desrous of part
ing with their company, has offered a re.
ward of S25 apiece.
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