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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-04-23
DEMORESTs MONTHLY,

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mirror of the fashions, and literary conser-
vator Of surprising interest and artistic excel
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The engraving, 28x32 inches, is from the or
ignal painting, entitled, 'The Picnic on the
Fourth of July.
The painting took a whole year, and is con-
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IT S. TAX APPELS.

L. s. AssEssoR's OFFICE, 10TH DIsTRIoT |
Pa, Office, CUEwENsyILLE. Cleariield Co. Pa. I
Notice is hereby given that the assessment
lists, valuations and enumerations made and
taken with the Neneteenth Collection District
Pa, by the Assistent Assessors und ar the laws
of the United States will remain open to all
persons concerned for examination for the
space Of ten days from the 9Th day Of April,
4. D., 1870, at the Asscesor'e Oihoo, in tho Ior-
ough of Curwnsyile.
At the time stated above the Assessor will
receive, hear and determine all appeals rela-
tive TO any erroneous or excessive valuations or
enumerations by the assistant assessor.
In regerd to appeals, the law provides, ''That
the question TO be determined by the assessor,
on AN appeal respecting the valuation or emu
merati II Of property. objects liable to duty or
taxation, shall be whether the valuation COM
planned Of be or be not in a just relation or
proportion to other valuations in the same as
sessment district, and whether TIE euumera-
tion be or he not correct. And al appeals to
the assessor as aforesaid, shall be made in WIZ
ting, ard shall specify the particular cause,
matter, or thing respecting which decision
is requested and shall moreover, state the
ground or principle inequality or error com
| planned Of.
DANIEL LIVINGSTON,
! Assessor of the Nineteenth Collection District,
2j3t
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-04-23
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
REGISTERS NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the following,sc.
counts have been 6led in my Office and will be
presented at the next Term of Orphans Court
of Elk County, for confirmation:
Account of Joseph Hanhauser, Guardian of
Mary L Mecum.
Final account of George w. Rhines, Guardi-
an of Mary Il. Dougberty.
Final account of A. W. Gray and John Barr,
Executors of the last will and testament of
Michael Oval, de ceased
Final account of r. 7. Kyler, Administrator
of the Estate of Anthony Cunes, deceased.
n23w4 FRED. SCHOENING, Register.
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GRAFT DISTRIBUTION
Blythe Metropolitan Git Co,
cAsH GIFTS TO THE AMOUNT vF $500, 900
EVERY TICKET DRAWS A PRIZE.


ch gs, each $4,000 eco a4006Chgs, 406 each 81. 600 600
20 500 800 " " 100
90 Elegant Rosewood Pianos each $500 to 500
rs " Melodeons - SO to 100
$50 Sewing machines " 6Oto l75
800 Gold Watches 10 to 800
Cash prizes silver ware, &C., valid at l, 600 600
chance to draw any of the above Prizes
for 25c. Tickets describing Prizes are sealed
in Envelopes and well mixed. On receipt Of
25c. Sealed ticket is drawn without choice and
sent by mail to any address. The prize named
upon it will be delivered TO the ticKet-holder
on payment of One Dollar. Prizes are i'm
mediately sent to any address by express or
re turnmail
You will know what your. Prize is before
YOU pay for it. ARy Prize exchanged for anoth-
er of same ralue. No Blanks. Our patrons can
depend on fair dealing.
RBFERENCE:-We select the following from
many who have lately drawn Valuable Prizes
and kindly permitted us to publish them:-
Andrew j. Burns, Chicago, $4,000; Miss
Clara S. Walker, Baltimore, Piano, $500;
James N. Mathews, Detroit, 1000; John T..
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n UNSMITHING.

The undersigned respectfully an
nounces to the citezens of Elk, and adjoin.
ing counties, that he has recently established
a Gun.Shop in Ridgway at the head of
Main and Depot Streets, in the basement of
the building occupied by w. s. Service as
a tin shop, where he will attend promptly
to all orders for work in his line.
TARGET AND HUNTING RIFLES,
Single Or Double. made to order, and war
rnted.
lie also keeps on hand, and for sale a
NEW AND SUPERIOR
Breech Loading Rife, good assortment Of
Ammunition, Kevolvers, Hunting Tackle,
and other articles pertaining to the trade.
Mo. If HORACE WARNER.
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EREE no BOOK AGENTS.-We will send
L a handsome prospectus Of our new Illus
rated Family Eii lie, 10 any hook agent free Of
charge Address National Publishing Compa-
ny, Philadelphia, Pa. 4w
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A THIEF.-Ile has been trva'ing about
humbrgging druggists and private parties
mixing IN and Sc ing base compound which
he calls WOLCOTTS PAIN PAINT. N Of
Woicott genuine remedies have a white out
side wrapper with signature large) Lock
out for esHnterfeits.
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TERMS ::
OUR HOME PHYSICIAN

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rTENRY WGRD
Il
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EUREK a

In Ie1I1-IalbL| - - - 1GHiA ~
Smoking Tobacco is an excellent article of
granulated Virginia.
Wherever Introduced it is universally ad-
mired.
1t is put up in handsome muslin bags, in
which orders for Meerschaum Pipes are daily
packed.
LORILLAAD'S ''YACHT CLUB"
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1t is produced from selections of the finest
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1t is very aromatic, mild, and light weight
hence it will last much longer than others;
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-Ordrrs for genuine, elegantly carved
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al in nea, iea'rer PDcAci cases, are pia tun
the yacht Club brand daily.
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Chewing Tobacco
This braud Of Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco
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If your slorekeepers does not have these
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They are sold by respectable jobbers al
most everywhere.
-Csrculars mailed on application.
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-04-23

CtARDS, Bill Heads, Letter-Heads, Tags,
I Handbills, &C., done in a neat manner,
and at the LowIsr PRICE, FOR CASH, at
the Elk Advocate Printing Once.
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THE SATURDAYGvENING POST.
THREE MONTHS GRATIS !


This cheapest and best of the Literary Week
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subscribers.
In the first paper of October. it commenced
a brilliant Novelet, called " Family Falling"
by Elizabeth Prescott. 1t also is now running
a serial, called " George Canterbury's Will"
by Mrs Henry Wood, the famous author of
" East Lynne" sc.
NEW NovELETs
will continually succeed each other. Among
those already on hand or in progress are
" Under Ban," by Amanda NJ. Douglas
" Leonie's Secret" by Frank Lee Benedict
Novelet, by Miss Hosmer, &C.
The post also gives the gems of the English
magazines
NEW SUBSCRIBERS
For 1870 will haue their subscriptions dated
back to the paper of October I'd, until the
large extra edition of that date is exhausted.
This will DO thirteen papers in addition to the
regular weekly numbers for lS1O-or fifteen
months in all +! When our extra edition is ex
hausted. the names Of all new subscribers for
1870 will be entered ON our list the very week
they are received
TERMS:
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Sc. Five copies (and one gratis) SO. One
copy Of the Post and one Of the Lady's Friend,
81.
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il tuI pI .rra
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| 3l9 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.
Specimen copies sent free for five cents.
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GROUND FLOOR

Another advantage. You can always
get what you want at their store, hence
you will save time by going directly to
them-and TINE IS MONEY. We
have no space here to enumerato ali the ad-
vantages you will have in patronizing their
establishment. But call and see, and
reap the advantages for yourselves.
Among their Goods you will fad
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-04-23
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The finest, most pleasing, and costly cngrsv-
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-04-23
RIDGWAY,

Have on hand a splendid assortment Of
all seasOnable Goods adapted to the wants
of the people of Elk and adjoining
counties, which they are selling at prices
that defy competition. They would simply
state here, that being very large dealers,
their facilities for purchasing are un>
equalled by any establishment in the
county. They buy directly from manu-
facturers and on the
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HE LADY'S FRIEND.
TWO MONTHS GRATIS !!


The Lady's Friend announces the following
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a finely executed steel engraving, hand
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and large assortment Of wood cuts, ilustrat
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twill give popular piece of Music in ov-
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PORTRAITS OF DISTINGUISHED
AUTHORS.
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engraved on STEEL of Mrs Henry WOOD.
Florence Percy, Louise Chandler Moulton
Elizabeth Prescott, Amanda NJ. Douglas Mrs,
Margaret hosmer and August Bell,
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Who send in their names before the first of No
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December shall receive the magnificent Decem-
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epoieshlc, land one grals) S8 One copy Of
Lady's Friend and one of the Post, 81.
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ceddmS Ring engraved in England at a
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Address 4
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! Specimen copies sent for ten cents.
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SIR, ,u ANN WAIVE. n,pr,,o
KITS sE1yrs FLIES HOOKS
ALL ORDERS FOR GUN WORK
BIRD CAGES a NICE 'Ahh& IL
ROOFING, CUTTERS, SPOUTS.
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Exclusive Agent for the sale of
ALEX. MORTON'S GOLD PENS.

Repairing Watches, etc., done with the same
accuracy as heretofore. nov20, '69tf
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-23
MAILS AND CARRYING TRADE.

Congress probably did not act on the
Presidents suggestion to pass some ena-
bling measure by which we could avail
ourselves of foreign vessels to get'the car
rying trade of the nations implicated in
the present struggle and facilitate the
transportation of our mails, because that
body did not feel certain that war would
come. Now that it has, a quorum Of Con-
gress will probably get together in some
way and make an effort to avail them
selves of the great advantages growing out
the European situation, in accordance
with President Grants suggestion.
Something of this kind should be done,
and with the utmost dispatch. If it is not,
England will soon take advantage of our
blunder, and make money which should
come to our coffres. It is not yet too
late for Congress to repair its error, but
there is no time to be lost
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-23
A TRIP TO BARRATARIA BAY,

The Stock Landing at the foot of Lou
isiana avenue presents different appear
ance to what it did before the butchers
crossed the river. The long, rambling row of
stock houses are bare and deserted, and the
only sign of life about the place is the little
Jessie which plies swiftly to and fro
across the ferry Landing from her
on the opposite side of the river
a short walk brought us to the
steamer Colonel Cage, just getting up
steam for her departure for Grand Isle. She
lay at the head of Harvey's canal, directly
abreast of Mr.. Harvey's handsome brick resi-
dence. Between the steamer and the levee
the canal was choked up with barges loaded
with muscle shells not yet bleached, which
were being rapidly gathered into drays by
brawny, muscular colored men to supply
the city.
melons, onions and other esculents, came
driving up. Little boys with big wheel
barrows. and an old man with long, white
beard, came jogging along upon an ancient
gray nag, with one or two Of his grand
children seated behind him. A huge bell
hangs over the Harvey gateway.
When that sounded the steamer
blew long shrill blast and steamed down
the canal. Slow, slow, slow, at a snairs
pace, making only two miles per hour. The
banks thickly wooded render the air close.
Vegetation is luxuriant and active, and
weeds grow long and rank The surface of
the canal is covered with aquatic plants,
which, floating on the water, give it stag
nant appearance. On either side, close
up among the bushes, appears at in.
tervals dug-out or pirooue,
manned by fifteenth amendments.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-23
NEW ORLEANS
OIL ON TROUBLED WATER.

The Times is generally good-natured-
leasing aside the .Siaughterhouse Compa.
ny, its chronic malady-except when the
civilization Of New England is referred
to. Any allusion to the progress and cul-
tivation Of that part Of our country is to
our contemporary, as water to mad dog.
Its course in this respect reminds one OF
Mephistophiles in Faust. He is diaboh-
cally gay and self-possessed until the
sword-hilt crosses of the true church are
thrust before him, then he shows his
cloven foot-he almost persuades the
kneeling Margaret to abandon her hopes
of heaven when the waves of music Of the
true church reach him over the praying
woman, and be staggers back, ugly,
thwarted, and in very bad temper.
The civilization of Yankee-land seems
to have the same effect on our neighbor,
as the true church had on the dark gentle
man who is supposed to reign below.
knowing the sincere desire Of the Times
to improve itself in dilettanteism, and
make that the leading feature of the jour
nal, we would suggest that the proper
way to do this, is not by screaming about
convent burning, slave stealing, and
Notwithstanding Massachusetts,. This
is an error Of taste as we'll as Of fact. The
raw-head and bloody-bones Of our con-
temporary-Yankee civilization-has be-
trayed it into an exhibition of bad temper
and coarseness, which We are sure it al
ready regrets.
Considering the shortness of life and the
hot weather, the Times would do well to
take more cheerful view of things-Mas-
sachusetts civilization included. &
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-23

The Times calls attention to an appa-
rent error which appeared in the REpUB-
CAN yesterday morning, as to the location
Of the proposed depot Of the Jackson Rail
road. Although we wrote that it was to
be built on Tivoli Circle, the meaning was
that it was to be erected on one of the
streets opposite the circle. We do not
learn that it is the intention of the COM
pany to appropriate the ground now de-
voted to public uses, especially as
there is plenty of private property for sale
in the vicinity, on both sides of Triton
Walk or Delord street. There is the old
Carrollton depot, and several lots opposite
now numbered by old dilapidated shanties,
either of which ought to be obtainable on
reasonable terms.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-23
A GOOD RECORD.

The numerous important events which
are transporting at home, in measure,
have eclipsed the efforts and doings of
our Republican representatives in Con-
gress. As matter Of justice to them,
and in order to challenge comparison with
the results accomplished by any delega-
ton Of the old regime during a single
term, we present below a list of the appro-
priations, acts, ETC., directly benefting
our citizens, which have been secured
wholly or in great part through the labors
of the present Louisiana delegation
There has been appropriated, for re-
moving Instructions at the mouth of the
Mississippi river, 100000; for surveying
the parish of Orleans and other portions
Of the State, $4,000; for repairing the
New Orleans Customhouse, 1000, and
for improving Bayou Teche, s17,5O +
A survey of the Rigolets and Lake
Pontchartrain has been ordered, and a
committee, consisting of Senators Kellogg
(chairman), Trumbull, Schurz, Bayard
and Spencer, are now making preparations
to inspect the levees of the Mississippi,
with view to devising permanent national
relief for the districts of country subject
to overflow.
Sundry mail routes and numerous post
Offices have been established within our
borders.
E Our Senators and Representatives took
an active part in passing the bill regarding
importations Of goods from New Orleans
to Natchez, Louisville, and other ports,
giving our importers extra facilities in
shipping goods to the interior. This
measure encountered the united opposi-
ton of the Eastern States.
A bill was passed granting lands to the
North Louisiana and Texas railroad; and
one doing the same to aid the New
Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg
road.
The lands granted to the Opelous as
road in 1856 have been forfeited and
thrown into market for entry and pur-
chase, the same as lands to other States.
By separate acts the mint property has
been restored to this city; the port Of
New Orleans extended, and the collection
district of the Teche created. Through
the efforts Of our representatives, the
committee of conference so amended the
tariff on sugar as to make the classified
ton a substantial victory for Louisiana
interests, all circumstances considered.
And last though by no means least,
with several other pending measures comes
Kelloge's Pacific railroad bill, which
even the opposing Washington lobby"
comedies will become law early next
December.
We hope our Democratic friends will
bear the above enumeration in mind,
when next they feel the spirit moving
them to declaim against carpet-bag Con-
gressmen as wholly destitute of thought
or regard for their constituents. At least,
make exception in favor of the Louisiana
delegation.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-23

Those who may wish to escape for few
days prosaic bricks and mortar to the
poetic region of verdure and balmy breezes,
will find on reference to the advertisement
of the jackson Railroad, in another column,
that tickets can be had to 60 this evening
and return either tomorrow Or Monday, at
option. A trip to Premier and back costs
but fifty cents, and a trip to Brookhaven
and back, distance of one hundred and
twenty-eight miles, can be made at an ex-
pense of six dollars and forty cents; inter-
mediate places are charged in proportion.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-23
THE CHANGE,

S,... .CarOndelet Street s
Will open on TUESDAY, July s. and keep con-
stantly on hand the choicest WINES, LIQUORS and
LAGER BEER, ETC., with SUMPTUOUS LUNCH
daily from 10ls A. NJ. to o'clock P. NJ
Proprietor Frank Landfried hereby solicits the
patronage of his numerous friends, and the
public generally. iy3 1m2dp
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-23
Shreveport.

There are two ladies' in the Postofice De-
partment at Washington. who are en-
ployed in translating the foreign correspond
ence and in keeping up the accounts in
foreign languages. They are scholars in
four languages-German, Spanish, French
and Italian.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-23

Persons desiring to make short excur-
sion on the jackson Railroad, should avail
themselves of the opportunity shown in an
advertisement to be found in to-day's Re-
PUBLICAN, offering excursion tickets as far
as Magnolia, distance of ninety eight
miles from New Orleans, and back, at the
low price of two dollars. These tickets will
be good for the Sunday train, starting at
seven o'clock A., ~, and on Mondays trains,
returning at forty minutes past two o'clock
A. NJ, and at five minutes past eleven
o'clock A NJ