The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-08-20

Hon. Jeremiah Nichols, for several
years popular State Senator from Philadel
phia, died on the 18th inst, aged 46 years.
Died, in Brooklyn, on Saturday, Mr.
Henry q. Evans, formerly co-editor ane pro-
prietor of The New Y ork Evening MIRROR,
in the 5Tth year of his age.
Minnesota people believe that there are
valuable gold mines just north of the State
line in the Hudson Bay Compauy's territory.
Half breeds claim that they can make eight or
ten dollars day by washing kirt in some of
the small streams in that territory.
Mrs Henry b. Stanton has come out
boldly in favor of the wearing of pantaloons
by women, and by consequence, we presume,
intends thatmen shall wear petticoats. Thus
| is it Mrs. Stantons masculine object that
women shall behave like men; and we doubt
not some of them will.
Western Massachusetts is to have Grand
Musical Jubilee on the 9th of September
next The chorus will consist of three hun
dred voices, with other proportionate arrange
ments
1T has been charged that President Grant
was using his influence to cause the nomina-
tion of Judge Dent his brother-in-aw, for
Governor of Mississippi. We see it now de-
MED with authority that the President had
no part nor lot in the movement.
The Louisiana PLANTERS BANNER says
that ten white men nave cultivated planta-
tion in that State as thoroughly as ever was
done by negroes, and that :hey have suffered
far less by sickness-showing that white la
borers can stand it as we'll as the blacks.
--Beecher says that men confess everything
but their own besetting sins. They steer
clear of these. Who ever heard man say:
40, Lord, l am as proud as Lucifer humble
me;' or, 20, Lord, | am SO mean and stingy
that It's only with great pain that can un-
close my fist; make me generous.
The Erie OBSERVER claims the result in
Tennessee as democratic victory. The Gov
ernor elect, Senter, says emphaticaly that in
Tennessee equal civil and political rights
shall be guaranteed to all without reference
to race or color. Will those who claim his
election as democratic victory please ac-
cept the situation?
The New York HERALD fears for the
moral effect of so many of the Catholic Bish-
ops leaving their respective hocks exposed
while they attend tue Gcumenical Council
at Rome. II says: "When all the Bishops
are gathered in Rome at the Gcumenial
Council, there will be fine time for the
Devil all around the world"
Owing to the long continued dry wealth
er the Schuylkil River has dwindled to a
small stream and causes q great scarcity of
water in Philadelphia. Over two hundred
canal boats are stuck in the mud between
there and Norristown. 1t is feared if the dry
spell continues the supply of water in Phila-
dephia will fail entirely.
twenty-five States have already ratified
the XVth Amendment to the Federal Con-
stitution, whereby the Right of Suffrage is
accorded and secured to every native and
naturalized citizen of the United States,
without regard to Iace, color, or previous
condition of seryitude. The ratification of
five more States is required.
The Lynchburg REPUBLICAN says:--
Earnest prayers were offered in the churches
of Petersburg, Virginia, for rain, on Sunday,
the draught having parched and withered the
growing crops and gardens in that vicinity.
That same night, for the first time in mary
weeks, a heavy rain descended in sufficient
quantity to wet the ground thoroughly and
refresh the languishing vegetation.
-Advices from Gen. Hancock, who has
been visiting the various forts on the upper
Mississippi River in Dacotah, are to the eff
feet that the various Indian tribes manifest
every disposition to continue az peace with
the whites. No disturbances have occurred un-
less some provocation was given, ald the sum.
mer is likely to pass without the annual loss
of lives and large expenditures of money.
"A no armed soldier recently appeared in
in Auburn, n. Y, and ground hand organ
by playing it with his feet arranged with a
treadle. His answers about his service in
the army excited suspicion, when he was ar
rested, and on examination, it was found
that two good arms were folded across his
breast under his clothing He turned out to
be recent vender of catfish in that city.
The "Pride Of the Valley" is very
sweet and poetic name for Packer, but it ap-
pears that the valley is not so proud of
Packer as his friends would have us believe.
In 1861, he ran for the Common Councils of
the town Of Mauch Chunk and was defeated
by heavy majority by Republican who is
unknown to fame anywhere but in the valley
of which Packer claims to be "the Pride. "
The mines of the Lehgh and Schuylkill
coal regions are again in active operation
though from the unsettled state of the minds
of the miners there is no telling how long
this comfortable position of things will last
AT last accounts the mines of the ID. l.. &
W., and d. & III. railroads, were still idle.
The operators claim the right to use their
capital as they please, and Will not yield to
their employees. The miners demand that
the price of coal at New York market rates
be made basis of mining rates:
The proposition to change the divorce
law is being freely discussed in Washington.
AS the law now stands conjugal infdelity is
the only cause for which the Courts Of the
District are authorized to dissolve a matri,
monial contract freely made without fraud.
The law proposed authorizes divorce in the
discretion of the Chancellor for other causes
This law was introduced into Congress last
Winter, but it at once met with opposition,
which will probably be kept up as a change
is not deemed very desirable, and especially
the sweeping change proposed.
AT the Missouri Insane Asylum there is
a boy eight years old, who manifests some
strange propensities. The boy is in the habit
of eating up his clothes. Not 'stitch" can
be kept on him. He devours everything, and
is perfectly ravenous. He will even eat up