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@ % on having @ Rs s
Lodge Speciality
sUng should be 70 him what e
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ss s
the the special
have befogged. Lodge passed
pay a Lodge @ a7 @ a 's1 9 Pa s
instance, pay years,
membership years,
he Bro the of dues depends
@ short r. method nj @ as Lodge had paid the Grand Lodge %
payment arrears Lodge Lodge any
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with me thanEng Grand Secretary his great eey
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exhibit Grand
purpose exceeding
hands live another
pains deeply falling beloved
me the particulars his aGon and eRpesng the g cpnon % ta %
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and full of hono he has again. by unanimous aecepe
s and ysf[ s da a % @ baPy delivered 0m his present
SUGGESTIONS
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spection brethren
with Politics.
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% 5se sGs @ & A dTSRs M M % % has t a in our our & 2 $ and Officers
4ns % of dES o ae r. ES de
this subject
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while called numbers the political State
political in
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S o Masonry h eoPe dSt We % @ ot b % @
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the acts and you pursue course which @
verse sss Besufu % sHe Of III His
own bng--aTe placed IN te snsI proper estimation
seal By nGs % en %
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REPRESENTATIVES LODGES.
have RRO%9sd IN the lSOwing the
arise Of tendency
nn q d fd haT a1d D 3e @
Lodge, and present
t1-a Nv appointments follows
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Lodge powerful organization in point
borders Of the State, the
brother
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or4NsEs.

The Grand Lodge in january indicated by special certain
good, complain
of
CANDLES the should what
obligation climb
either
injury
numbers
swinding
horrid prostitute.
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On the Sh Of special Deputy,
Hill Lodge address
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6tane Officers.

N, GRAND LECTURER, and d.. c.. NJ. 4th Dist.
DEPUTY GRAND MASTER, 1st District.
DEPUTY GRAND MASTER, 2d District
DEPUTY GRAND MASTER, Sd District
DEPUTY GRAND MASTER, 5th District
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-05-21
Some Homemade Fun.

We thought of describing, this week,
says an exchange, different kinds of iorleits
that may be exacted in parlor game tha.
cali for them, but we picked up this little
description Of "Potato Pantomimcs" in the
HcarM and Home, and conclude that our
young readers may prefer it:
"PotatO PGntomimes" may be as old as
the hills but l confess not to have heard of,
or seen them until lately. So perhaps, you
have not. Take good-size potato with a
smooth skin; cut out nose, eyes, and mouth
twist curled horse hair into the shape of
wig and whiskers or mcustache, aud fast
en on with pins; then make hole for the
!o:efnger to 90 into this gives tie head a
throat. Wrap bit of cloth, handker-
Chief, or what not round the hand, arrang-
ing one corner of it around the thumb,
and another around the second finger. Then
you have little man, with hands and arms,
capable of bowing and moving his lead
Make screen, let four or five youngsters
be behind. it, each with their potato char
acters, and as they say the words of the
charade, burlesque OF tragedy, let these po-
ta.o men perform. 1t is capital fun, and
beats Punch and Judy out of the field.
Potato men have amiable dispositions.
They are generally friendly, fond of shak-
ing hands, embracing and nodding their
heads cordially at each other. They have
also thoughtful way Of rubbing their
foreheads, that is very funny. Sometimes
they fight, I admit, but they don't bang
each other all the time as Punch and Judy
oes. Try them.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-05-21
4 Confession Of Ignorance.

A youthful applicant for certificate to
teach school presented himself Before the
Supelintendipg School Committee of o
town in Maine, and after having answered
correctly several questions in mathematics,
he was asked:
In what year did Columbus discover
America p
The young man paused, scratched his
head and replied:
well, mister you've got me now
'Was ii before or after the Birth of our
Saviour continued the committee man.
The youth spent moment in thought
and then raising his huge fist and striking
it upon the desI, exclaimed !:
you've got me again, by thunder
The certificate was not granted,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-05-21
Wanted, Wives.

There is loud call for womnn in Wash
ington Territory. A thousand virtuous
girls, writes one who lives there, are want
ed. In the county where the correspon-
dent resides there are four hundred MEN
and only twenty-three adult white women.
The region is fertile, and farmers raise fifty
bushels of wheat to the acre. Yet, what is
all this worth? ? "For," says the corrospon-
dent, "the farmer enters his dark house at
night, has to light his own fire and cook
his own supper, without q soul to talk to or
TO cheer and encourage him. He may be
miles from his nearest neighbor. This con-
tinues day alter day and week after week.
On Sunday he must. wash and mend his
own clothes. This is what all have to do
who settle on piece of land, unless they
are married. Men can't stand it." In some
cases Indian women are taking for wives.
so great is the demand. Here is an open-
ing for the thousands of unprotected East
ern girls who can hardly support themselves
and whose hopes of marriage are worth lit
or nothing. The east is overstocked with
girls In the great West there is shocking
scarcity of them, These are, or ought to
be, valuable facts to enterprising girls every
where.-Erie Dispatch.-
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-05-21
Governors For 1870.

The following is the list Of Governors
of the thirty-seven States of the Union for
1870. These officers in seven Of the States,
Wis California, Delaware Kentucky, Mary
land, New Jersey, New York, and Conuec-
ticut, are Democrats. In two, Virginia,
and Tennessee, they are Conservatives, or
inde6nitcs. In all the rest they are Re
publcans. The figures stand for the years
In which their terms expire:
Alabama, VIM. II. Gmi.h, 1870.
Arkansas, p. Clayton, 1878.
California, II. Il. Uaight, 1871.
Connecticut. James i. English 1871.
Delaware, g. Salisbury, 1871
Florida, II. Iced, 1878.
Georgia, r. i. Bullock, 1872.
Illinois, j. NJ. Palmer, 1870.
Indiana, Conrad Baker, 1872.
Iowa, Samuel Merrill 1872.
Kansas, James NJ Harvey, 1871.
Kentucky, J. w. Stevenson, 1871.
Louisiana, Fl G. Yarmouth, 1872.
Maine, j. L. Chamberlain, 1871.
Maryland, Odin Bowie, 1872.
Massachusetts,, William Cafin, 1871,
Michigan, II. z. Baldwin, 1871.
Minnesota, Horace Austin, 1872.
Mississippi, j. l.. Alcorn, 1872.
Nebraska, David Butler, 1871.
Nevada, II. G. Blaisdel 1871.
New Hampshire, o. Stearns, 1870.
New Jersey, T. F. Randolph, 1872.
New York, j. T. Hoffman, 1871
North Carolina, W. W. Holden, 1879.
Ohio, R, B. Hays, 1872.
Oregon, George L. Wood, 1870.
Pennsylvania, J. W. Geary, 1873.
Rhode Island, S. Padelford, 1871.
South Carolina, r. X Scott, 1871.
Tennessee, D, w. G. Sentor, 1871.
Texas, e. j. Davis, 1871.
Virginia, G.. G. Walker, 1874.
Vermont, P. I. Washburne, 1870.
Wisconsin, L. Fairchild, 1872.
West Virginia, w. E Stevenson, 1871.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-05-21
Select SSflistellnnp,
KISSED By MISTAKE.

A quiet, uneventful life was mine until
l left the shelter Of my fathers roof in
Graham, and accepted the desk of book
keeker in the wholesale clothing establish
ment of Shear & Prescott, in the busiy little
city of Weston.
Out there, one fine afternoon in October,
just in the midst of the Indian summer, l
invited Lille Prescott, with whom | was
very nearly in love, to walk ip the park
with me.
Her little hand in its delicate primrose
colored glove rested on my arm, her black
eyes were lifted to my face. felt par:ic-
uIarly tender aud confidential, and at peace
with all the world. We were speaking of
eorgiousness Of the distant hills, clothed, as
they we're, in their mautle crimson foliage,
when | was brought to stop by hearing
my name pronounced in a tone neither
sweet or agreeable
Mrs NTH, I'll just trouble you ccr
mint
L lookecd up. A woman Of fifty, or
thereabouts, etFectua!ly blocked the side
walk before us; indeed her proportions were
colossal If ever have seen the person
ifcati9n Of Indignation, l saw it in her
countenance.
MADAME ? exclaimed, rotreating lit
tie from .he battery of flashing grey eyes
which she had brought tie bear upon me
you needn't madame mer she cried
waxing redder. I'll jest trouble you to
settle this bill " and she thrust an omuous
piece of paper before my eyes which read
'ubstantialy--
Richard Smith, to Julanna Diggins, DR..
10 six months board, SG5 GO |
" washing, II 90 |
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your life shall pay the forfeit ? he ex
claimed with mad vehemence. The mar
who has dared to win Alice Hereford
love shall die p
Gentlemen" interrupted the sweet voice
of her whom they had calld HELEN, be
patient; there is some mistake Which
one of you is named Richard Smith p
Il am " replied L.
Il am " replied my counterpart.
But which of you is Richard Smith the
son of Archibald Smith
L am said my second self
And I am not said my father was
named Robert
Helen looked at me in doubt, evidently,
how to treat me after what had occurred
Finally, she held out her hand.
Il beg your pardon Mr.. Smith; it was
all careless mistake OF my own, can you
forgive me I?
Il thought Of the kisses she had given
me, and wished the same mistake might
be made over again, though was wise
enough not to make that thought known.
Let me explain she cOntinund, frankly.
I'VE were expecting my brother Rich
ard home from the South, where ne has
been some four or five months past and
were quite sure that he would arrive on the
train which brought you; he has for some
years been engaged to Miss Hereford and
the marriage ceremony was to take place
Immediately on his arrival | went down
to the depot to welcome him, and because
of the striking simiitude in your personal
appearances, [ mstook stranger for my
brother. That is all. Brother Richard,
Mr. Smith is entirely bameless of any
wrong. We gave him no time for expa-
nation. Let me present you to each other
as friends
lily Counterpart shook hands with me,
and begged my pardon for dislocating my
necktie. granted it, and begged his
pardon for committing a depreciation on
his necktie.
And then at sign from the elderly gentle
man, we all walked into the drawing room,
where, in brief space of time, ny counter
part was the husband of his blushing Alice.
The acquaintance SO singularly begun
with the Smith family, soon ripenod into
friendship, and become one of the most
precious of life's blessings to me.
Helen Smith had kissed me and she
could not forgetit it, If man can get a wo-
man to think OF him it hardly matters in
what Way-he has claims on her, and SO 1t
was in my case. | believe that l never
met Helen but she blushed at the memory
which stole over her.
Three months after our first meeting she |
kissed me again, and called me "Dear Rich
ard" And this time she was we'll aware |
that she was not addressing her brother.
Is it fortunate or unfortunate thing to
have counterpart ? When I think Of
the genteel boarding house keeper, l say,
NO" but when l look at Helen, and re-
call the circumstances Of our introduction,
am accustomed to answer Eyes"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-05-21

There were 575S horses eaten in Paris
last year.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-05-21
elA QtoNntg Illrett0rn.

ItSlutul y u'!Hc--A7. p''illiN'lil.
Additional Law Judgo-,ilon. Jho. T.
!iucent.
Associate Ju1soa-E. c. Schultae,
Jesse KJler.
District Attorncy-J. X. F. Hall
Sheriif-J1coh MoCauIey.
Prothonotary SC. Fred. Schmning:
Treasurer~-t!audius Y. Giiis.
60. intonlant-Duius Luc3rc.
Commissioners Il Warner, Jos. Y.
Tay ylof Louis No!lwor.
Auditors --Ciark Wilcox, t;eorge d.
Neysengcr, and Joseph Wilhelm.
County Surveyor too. Walus!oy.
Jury Conmssiouc!s.-G George licLirsn,
- ana Horace Little.
TINE or HOLDING COURT.
Second Nnnday in January,
Last Monday in hryil
First Monday in August
First Monday in Eoycn,bcr.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-05-21

On and after Mon lny Nov. 22l 1859, trains
Sill run as follows:
& ING SOUTH
Day Express leaves Oh City at 1o,H9.. n,
Arriving at Pittshurg at 0,30 p m.
Night Express leaves oil City At 9,3a p. IN.
Arriving at rntsburg at ZOO n. IN.
Kitiarni3gA Ace. leaves Enlcnton G,l0 p. m
Arriving Mt kittaunng 9,G3 p. IN.
Afixed Way leaves OIL City Mt 100 y m.
Arriving at West Penn Junction at 100 7. IN.
GOING NORTH.
Day Express leaves Pittsburg at 7,15 a. m
Arriving at Oh City AZ ,55 p. m.
Right Express leaves Pit,sburG at 500 p. m.
Arriving at Oil City at 6,cGa IN.
Parker Ace. leaves KittanniEg 7,20a. m.
Arriving at Parker $50 a m,
Mixed Way leave West Penn juno. at 200 a. IN.
Arriving at Oil City ut 600 p. m,
Connections at CORY and Iryiue'on for Oil
City aud Piusburg. At Franklin with James
tsvn and FranKlin r. r. Connections with
West Penn, Z. r. at West Penn Junction for
Blairsville and all points on the main line Of
the Pennsylvania X. Il.
Esfg5-"Silver Palace Sleeping Cars" on all
Night Trains both ways FROM Pittsbrgh to
Cory. -
]. ]. LAWRENCE, General Supt.
Tuos. II. KING, Asst. Supt.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-05-21

The Louisville Courier says: "When
you come to look at it properly, there is
nothing strang in the fact that no citizen
tf Chicago has ever been converted to
Mormonism. A man who can't live with
one wife six weeks at time naturally
stands aghast at the thought of attempting
to live with fifteen or twenty"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-05-21
BUSTNESs CARDS.
j. S. BnRDWELL, NJ. d.

4 ~ II N .
Nhe word eclectic means to choose or Sc.
lect medicines from all the different
SCHOOLS Of medicines using remedies that are
safe, and discGrdng from practice all medi-
cines that have an injurious effect on the sys-
ten, such as mercury, antimony lead, cop
per. &C.
| lay aside the lance-the old bloodlctter,
relucer or depletcr, and cquaize the crcula,
tion and restore the system to its natural
state by alternatives and tCnics. l shall here
after give particular attention to chronic dis
eases, such as Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, Liver
complaint Catarrh. Ne ;ralgia, diseases Of the
throat, urinary organs, and ell diseases peou-
liar to females, &c.
CATARRU treat with new Instrument Of
a late invention. which cures every case.
TEETH extracted without pain.
Office and residence South of the Jail on
Centre st. Office hours from 10 8 a. m II
70 p. m: to up. IN.
Dee. 23'G -ly. J. s. BORDWELL.
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$107 90
! returned the bill to her.

o"c you hothlnE, macame. l never
saw you before in my life =
You needn't lie tie me = she cried, set.
ting h'r arms akimbo. i hain't kept q
gcntcei boarding house fifteen years for
nothing sir. You'll either fork on the
spot or Ill take the law
Take it, remarked | you're welcome
to it,
You think to scare me, young man re-
member what you promised III have you
took up for it as sure as my name is Dig
gins! I'll learn you better than to de-
ceive trusting widder woman 10 that wayl
You Gesateful hypocrite
Madame, you insult me -
'Oh, it looks well tor such as you to
stand on your dignity! Mighty lofty, all
at once You've forgot the cream fipiacks
| used to make you, and the kisses you
used to give me every evrning after the
rest OF 'em was gone to bed You've for
got the half dozen shirts | made you, and
never charged you cent! You've forgot
that you solemuly promised to marry me
last Tuesday morning. You've forgot that
have you?
'Yes-yes-- th-that is I never mo p
stammered l, dropping Miss Lilies arm,
10 CONSERVATION.
DO you dare to. deny it 2 cried she in
rage.
Yes, forever, and day aftervard p
| roared out. DO you think would mar,
ry an old termagant like you? I'd rather
marry my grandmother.
| saw the Gre flash up in her eyes. The
widow was waxing dangerous. | lodged
the reticule she aimed at my head and fell
over backwards as she charged upon me
with her half mourning parasol Miss
Lille turned and fed. l thought discre-
tion the better part of valor, SO I leaped
over a garden fence near at hand, and was
Immediately attacked by large dog, that
sprung out of kennel near by. l seized
a dahlia pole, ard hnrlug it at the belig-
Grant, made good my escape by fording
duck pond and reaching the next street.
from which hurried home at the best
time could command.
was resolved that | wo1ld not remain
in Weston a day longer. Evidently there
was in this city some other Richard Smith
for whose notorious self was mistaken. Il
penned hasty note to my employers,
giving my reasons for leaving them, packed
my trunk, paid my board, and marking my
trunk and baggage. 'R'd Smith, New
Hampton took the cars for the locality
specified
In selecting New Hampton as my desti-
nation, l had no very defnate purpose in |
view; but in place of its size had no
loubt Of being able to secure some lucra-
i've situation aud backing of boots was
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-05-21

The new style of fan that looks like a
revolver is intended exclusively for the use
of young ladies who are perfectly killing
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-05-21
A LLEGHENY VALLEl RAIL ROAD.

4
The only direct route 10 Pttsburg
HITUOET CHANGE or CARS
from Oil City.
On and after Monlay Nov, 22i 1859, trains
Sill run as follows:
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-06-04
1% Mr.. Jerome Bres has lost two
mules. See advertisement.

GEN. j. FRANK PARaoUD. This
worthy and prominent gentleman has
recently been appointed Brigadier Gen
eral by the Governor of the State, and
acting upon the advice of friends, Gen.
Pargoud, has, we learn, concluded to
accept.
Tho evil consequences of military
power when reposed in the hands of
such man as Gen. Pargoud, will be
found, we believe, to lose more than a
moiety Of their injurious tendency
No class or race of people need fear
military oppression at his hands. Both
white and colored will alike receive
justice from, such an officer, if, indeed,
it shall ever fall to his lot to exercise
the authority he has thus acquired.
For this instance of promotion unin-
aueneed by partisan views, the Gov,
eruor has shown regard for the peo-
pie conspicuously raro and has per.
formed an act which does him honor.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-06-04
Ennemoser.

Pity alone for the miserable imbeci1
ity and cowardice of the editor of the
In.el!igencer could prevent US from
q ami nistering to him punishment he
has richly earned by his last weeks
paper, and which, notwithstanding our
commiseration, he will yet inevitably
receive, unless, being wholly irrespon-
sGble, he refrains from conduct which
creates responsibility. Nearly every
epithet of reproach has been, from time
to time, applied to him in these COL
umns, and he resents the insult only
with an envy as malicious and detesta-
BILE as it is harmless and unheeded.-
Seeing that, like Dogberry, he was
proud of being called an ass and rioted
in the indignities which other men
would spurn and resent, we Of late have
been constrained by sense Of self
respect to minister no longer to his
ambition as bastard or tickle his van
ity as mendicant. It is impossible
to dissociate the thought Of such man
from the contemplation of all that is
pitiable for its deformity or contemp-
tible for it's depravity. The condemn
nag restraints OF conscience-the sym
pathising emotions Of the public-the
certain loss OF Of self step
forward to stay the hand uplifted to
chastise such wretch. And yet there
must be somewhere limit to endu-
rance, and we give fair warning to the
editor of the Intelligencer that he is
rapidly bringing US to that point.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-06-04
Resolutions of Monroe Brass Band.
HALL OF MONROE Brass BAND,

dALL OF MONROE BRASS BAND,
Monroe, June !, 1870.
At a meeting of the members Of the
Monroe Brass Band held on this day,
the following resolutions were unani-
mously adopted:
Be 1t resolved By the members of the
Monroe Brass Band, That our sincere
thanks are due, and are hereby tender
ed to Capt. G. P. Work commander
of the splendid steamer Wade Hamp-
ton, for his generous and polite atten-
ton shown US on the recent excursion
trip of that fine steamer from Monroe
to Ouachita City and return to the
former place.
2. That we likewise offer. our &C
kno wledgements to his courteous and
gentlemanly officers for their many
marked kindnesses exhibited on said
trip.
3. That amidst the vast concourse
of people, on the Wade Hampton, on
her excursion trip, the utter absence of
the least disorder!y incident, speaks
volumes in behalf of Capt. Work as a
prudent, safe and discriminating CON-
lnander.
CHAs. BoFENsCHEN,
Secretary.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-06-04
Gov. Warmoth's Answer,

The following is from the New Or
leans Tribune, the organ of the colored
men in that city:
According to resolutions passed by
the New Orleans Parish Committee Of
the Radical Republican Party and pre-
scented by Mr.. l.. 8. Rodriguez, the
CO mmittee appointed to wait on Gov
ernor Warmoth to inquire from the
Executive of his intention concerning
the promulgation.o OF the bill passed by
the last Legislature, which guarantees
to every citizen bis rights and privile-
ges, was answered by His Excellency
that he will not sign the bill "nor any
other bill of similar character for he
considered it ridiculous, absurd and
foolish and he would sign no bill max
ing it penal offence in refusing to sell
to colored person."
The title and first section of the Act
referred to reads as follows:
AN ACT
bidding unjust discrimination account of color
or race, and to provide means for enforcing the
same.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-06-04

Senate and House Of Representatives
of the State of Louisiana in General
Assembly convened, That it shall be
unlawful for any person or persons
keeping or attending any place of pub
lie resort, where license is required !,
or any public conveyance, to make any
distinction or refuse any accommoda-
ton on account of color or race, in this
State, and any person or persons who
violate the provisions of this act shall
be fined not exceeding fifty nor less
than ten dollars, by any Justice of the
Peace in the parish wherein the offense
shall have been committed.