The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-03
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EEWs m BRIEF
Corduroy and plush costumes will be very
fashionable this winter.
The hotels at Cape May would like Just
a few more guests to crowd the mosquitoes
out
There is wealth enough in Boston to give,
on an equal division, every man, woman and |
child $4,000 each.
A graveyard inscription in Kennebunk,
Me-, reads thus: Poor Joe his head is
level now, if it never was before
A Chicagoan has received the fullest lc-
gal penalty for stealing Tupper's 'Proverbial
Philosophy The court decided.that forsuch
theft there could be no exteuuating cir
cumstances.
The Beloit Register asks: why is a Be-
lott man trade mark like certain leading
Prussiau? Because it is bis biz mark.
[The author of the above leaves wife and
twelve small children.
Long John Wentworth and Horace
White of the Tribune contest the renomin-
alton Of Representative n. b. Judd in the
Chicago district
j Clancy Jones, formerly of Pennsylvan-
ia, now living in Delaware. is said to be ex-
pecting an election to the United States Sen
ate if the Democrats carry Delaware.
Senator Feuton has secured bis election
as delegate to the State Convention to be
held at Saratoga, and he will seek to be
made permanent chairman Of that body
The first of the fall elections occurs on
the 9th of September, in Vermont. The
State is so overwhelmingly Republican that
there has been no canvass made by either
party.
Samuel y. Clark and Alex Moore hare
received the Republican nomination for As
semhly in Lawrence county defeating David
Craigan George W. McCracken, who were
members OF the last house.
Ignatius Donnely, OF whom the country
thought itself we'll rid, after his
overwhelming defeat in 1865, again aspires
to congressional honors, and has entered the
field for the republican nomination in the
st. Paul (Minn) district
Tho nomination Of Fred. Douglas for
Congress- to FIJI the vacancy occasioncd by
, the retirement of Hon. Noah Davis, is beng
discussed in Monroe and Orleans counties
New York. In point of intellectual ability
the district could not do better.
Ex-Gov. Bigler OF this state has iorsaker
politics for religion. A few days ago, at the
Presbyterian Synod at Belletonte, he an
| nounced that he had retired from public
and political life, and bore strong tcstImon.
TO the value of religion as compared witt
the uncertainties and exctemenis of pol
itics.
In Erie District, New York, there ar
four prominent aspirants for the Republican
Y nomination to Congress: Hon. T. S. Ben
e nett the present incumbent; Hon. j
1 Lewis. the present State Senator; Lymay /
Bass. the present District Attorney, and
NJ. Schermerhorn, formerly Of Buffalo. Th
I Democrats OF Erie have substantially agree
i upon the nomination OF Hon. William Wi
$ liams, ct Buffalo.
n The TiIioute Jomnnl in caunection wit
n the Senatorial question in this District, It
, calls the interesting fact that at the ratifc'
ton of the Fifteenth Amendment by III
t Legislature Of our State a gentleman we
Il known III connection with john Brown
G knqrsack, exclaimed in the exubcrapce I
q his Joy. in speech to a vast osscmblage {
colored people who had gathered to ceIebra
: the event:
"All hail the power Of jesus name,
}, Let angels PROSTATE fall"