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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03
Wanted to Go Up, but Couldn't.

A late case of Millerism in Delaware
came to grief in a peculiar manner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Calender of that State,
were so firmly convinced that the end
Of all things had arrived, that arrayed
in white garments sewed up at the ex-
termities, to guard against contingencies
of wind and weather, they recently hied
them to the top of their woodshed await
ing the blowing of Gabriel's trumpet.
1t was night-night, calm and lustrous
and the New Adventists patiently
awaited the signal. In the mean time
something commenced to slip along the
roof; it proved to be Mrs. Calender
herself. The lady, who had hoped to
ascend, now commenced to descend at a
rapid and perilous pace, seriously i'm
commoded in her movements by the
sewed-up garments. Finally she rolled
off the roof to the ground, distance of
five feet. Mr.. Calender, meanwhile,
bound in his dress in like manner to his
spouse, helplcssly watched the proceed
ing; but when Mrs. Callender's shrek
announced that she had reached mother
earth, he bestirred himself to assist her.
Rending his bonds with a herculean eff
fort he stepped lightly down the ladder
whereby they had assembled, and hasten
ed to the aid of Mrs. Calender, whom
he found suffering from dislocated
ankle. The presence Of the doctor, and
the necessity of paying him his swing
ing fee, wound up in the most worldly and
practical manner possible, this strange,
eventful history" of Mr.. and Mrs. Cal
lender of Delaware.-Baltimore american.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03
Paper from Wood and Straw.

The comparative merits of wood and
straw as a material for the manufacture
of paper depend mainly on which is the
cheapest and most conveniently obtained
in any particular locality. The product
is nearly the same in amount for one
coid Of wood as for one ton of straw,
the former making one hundred pounds
of paper and the latter about fifty pounds
less. A waste of ten per cent. occurs in
the use of wood, according to the kind
OF paper manufactured. Experiment
seems to prove that equal parts of straw
and wood produce the best quality of
paper attainable without the use of rags.
One of the largest paper mills in the
United States turns out four tons of that
article daily, sizing it in the ordinary
manner, only one pound of glue being
used to two hundred pounds Of paper.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03
A Terrible Revenge.

On Wednesday last man named Lay
ton arrived at Bailtow, and put up at
the hotel kept by Mr.. Pennington. He
appeared to be a very quiet man, was
riding splendid horse, and wore brace
of revolvers. He talked very little, but
made some casual inquiries about man
by the name of Bedford. On Thursday
he was absent all day, returned in the
evening, and on Friday made arrange
ments to have his horse taken care of
two or three days; but in short time
he changed his mind-got his horse,
fired off and cleaned up his pistols, and
said he would take ride.
While riding along he was overtaken
by one of the citizens of Usage, who was
going to Marsh Owens house, where
they were threshing wheat. When they
reached Owens house, Layton asked the
neighbor, "Is this the road we go?"
The gentleman answered, "That is ac-
cording to where you want to go"
Layton said, "Oh, anywhere; not par
ticular." They rode down the lane near
the house, got off their horses, and
hitched them to the fence, and then
jumped over into the yard where Bed
ford was at work. Immediately after
crossing the fence Layton began pulling
off the glove of his right hand with his
teeth, and walking toward the machine,
which was still at the time.
When within about thirty steps Of the
thresher, Bedford saw him, turned, and
ran. Layton drew his pistol and fired, the
first shot dropping him. Bedford arose
and started again, when another shot
brought him to the ground. Then Lay
ton stepped up to him, and put another
ball through him as he lay on the
ground. Bedford was shot through the
thigh, through the bowels from back to
front, and through the chest from back
to front, penetrating the lungs. After
firing the third shot, and seeing his vic
tim lying helpless before him with the
blood running from his mouth, he
turned and walked to his horse, and
mounted, and leisurely cantered out to the
mouth of the lane. and then walked his
horse until out of sight. Layton never
spoke a word after crossing the fence,
but did his work coolly and deliberately.
1t appears that during the war Lay
ton had Bedford in his employ. He
trusted him with his family and his
honor, which Bedford took advantage OF
by seducing Layton's wife, for which he
has now paid the penalty. Layton has
been hunting his victim for several years.
-Necada (Ao.) Times, Of July l4h.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03

OLD PREJUDICEs ARE DYING OUT.
New facts are killing them. The idea
that invalids weakened by disease can
be relieved by prostrating them with
destructive drugs, is no longer enter
tanned except by monomaniacs. Ever
since the introduction of DIR. WALKERS S
VINEGAR BITTERs, it has been obvious
that their regulating and invigorating
properties are all-suilicient for the cure
of chronic indigestion, rheumatism, con-
stipation. diarrhna, nervous affections
and malArious fevers, and they are now
the standard remedy for these COM
plants III every section of the Union.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03

A LONG JOURNEY AFTER WATER
Some trees send roots out great dis
tance for moisture. A little less than
twenty years ago, Californian planted
"a weeping willow on his place near the
well. Two years ago the water began
to taste bitter and otherwise unpalata-
bic. He hired man to clean it out,
but it has troubled him all along until
recently, when he sent another man
down into the we'll to see what could be
done, who went to work, and succeeded
in bringing up about six bushels of fine
roots, ranging in size from a pin to an
eighth of an inch. The tree had sent
them down outside the brick wall. a dis
tanoe of twenty-three feet until they
had reached water, when they had
forced themselves between the bricks
and literally filed up the we'll dis
tance of three feet. They had formed a
compact mass, just fitting in tightly,
and had to be raised out with hooks and
lever.
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Navy York hInrkcts.

FLOUR AND MEAL.-The market for Western and
State tlours was less active and q 1oo lower re-
oepts arge S pI gnr S coT mea sre a
tive and firmer. We quotei Flour-Western and
state superiue a 50 vi chipping az extra d. s55
se25 do. Dakors and family 6raiids, 1913 25.
Western; 'Brahdywine, a q sL1o.
GRocEIEs.- Coffee was steady, but rather moro
Rice i unchanged sugar@aaw, very lirm, but no
higher, fair to good refining, Oh Csc; refined
rather firmer; hnrd, 13h BAG; soft white, l2S
a 12'Sc. and yellow, II 12c
at 25Ac. ; crude 1ic: bid and 142ic. asked. Rosin
nominal for strained at S3.12k. Spirits turpentiDe
at oSc Whisky was was firmer at 95 a o5So., tax
paid. Freights were frmer wheatto Liverpool by
GRAIN"Wheat was dull and heavy sales at si.34
$1.36 for No. Spring, fair to prime. Sl40 81 4t
for new and old amber, and Sl.56 for white Genesec
Rye dull and nominal at SOC. ST. Barley malt firm
but quiet at s.2O si.S5 for State. and siSo s.4C
for Western and Canadian. Oats were a &c. lower
and fairly active sales at GS a zoe for whito Ohio
on the track and afloat and 60 g2o for Western
Corn was lower and active; Gales at 6ssa GoAc fol
Western Mixed and tic. for Western yellow.
CoTToN-The marset. on the epot was fairly nc
tive, and prices unchanged; safes at 2ic. for mid
ding upands, and l07sc. fer low niiddling. For tu
ture delivery there was moderate BUSINESS atlow
steady sales. mess at S1402h for August, ant
S475 for September; jobbing sales at $l2 for rump
and extra mess in bbls and $40 s25 for prime ant
India mess. Beef hams dull at $40 q S26 BacOr
was jobbng at steady prices; long clear, s a sac.
and SIC. for short rib Cut meats firm and in goot
demand; smoked hams 13 n &c., and picked do
IL 13kc. Dressed hogs steady at ca axe. Lart
was in moderate demand and prices q shade eas1el
for Western but higher for city; sales Mt l0lsc. fol
prime Western, and 10 1Ohc. for No; and ptim,
city. Butter was dull and heavy at 13 n 1Sc fol
Western, aad 10 a 2sc for s tate. Cheese weak a
IA lie.
LIVE STOCK MARKET-The market for bceve
firm last week, prices fell oil QUUu
hc. p ID at the close. Sales OF Texans at SIC.
ib and Illinois, Kentucky, and Ohio steers at 10
12c - ib Fair lots brought III Ike. ~ To-, t,
dress Sc fts. and 57ibs. to the gross cwt.
Sheep and lambs had n ready sale at q exc. " ID
for sheep, and n 10kc " ID. for lambs.
Nothing doing in live hogs. Dressed were dul
at 6S a 7a5c fg fb. ..'t .
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03
DIR. Walkers Vegetable Vinegar Bitters.

From the Texas NeaO YorLar for December, 1870.
Never before has the science of medi-
cine revealed to the profession an article
which is such universal cure-all as the
above named VINEGAR BlTTERs. From
its presence in the sy stem, chills and
fever flee as does Yellow Jack fcom the
purifying influences of Jack Frost.
Fact No. 1.-Business men, worn by
care and sedentary habits, often suffer
from constipation of the bowels, until
the evil consequences of such condition
are realized in extreme debility,nervous-
ness, and prostration OF the vital encr-
gies of the system and it may be safely
asserted that a majority of the female
sex are little better than invalids, from
the same cause; but by simply using
DIR. WALKERS VEGETABLE VINEGAR
BIrTERs, this natural aperient and tonic
brings back the vigor and buoyancy of
health.
Fact No. 2.--Pure blood is essential to
sound health and long life. No chronic
disease, sores, ulcers, skin erNptions,
glandulous swellings, discharges from
the ear, sore eyes, sores or cankers in the
mouth, will ever appear if the blood is
pure. To secure tins great desideratum
take DIR. WALKERS VEGETABLE VINE
GAR B1TTERs. 1t is the great Blood Pu-
rifer and Life-Giving Principle, in
creasing the power Of digestion, and ex-
citing the absorbents into healthy action,
whereby all impurities of the system are
carried off.
Fact No. 3-THE TRUE WAY TO SE-
CURE BEAUTY.-It is not to cosmetics
and artificial appliances to the skin and
complexion that we must look for per-
sonal comeliness, but to pure and
healthy blood. Let those annoyed with
a sallow and rough skin, eyes yellow and
dull, complexion disfigured with blotch-
es, pimples, eruptive sores, ETC., teeth
discolored, ami breath offensive, cast
aside all frivolous cosmetics, and resort
at once to the use Of DR.. Walkers Vege-
table Vinegar Bitters, which will purify
and enrich the blood, and give health
and buoyancy to the system.
Fact No. 4.-Our "better half" will
not allow us to go to bed at night with
out bottle of Vinegar Bitters in the
house. We no more dream Of being
without it than we do of being without
bread.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03

TIE PIRENoLoGICAL JOURNAL comes
to us with the August number, richly laden
with good reading. John Tyndall, the emf
nent Chemist; Under the Surface, or the
Workings of Universal Law; Spiritual Pres
encc; The Beggar and the Banker; Miss Kate
Stanton; Dirty Children; The Nervous and
the Paraiyzed; Street Sights in China, with
original celestial" Designs; The German
School System-what it is The Chinese La
Puzzle; Conversation and its Uses; Are we
True to Oursevesy Our next President; A
Good Wife, Hotel Life in California The
Judgment of Satan !; A Picture in Two Lights !;
Ihe Beautiful Sunshine, a new Poem after the
style OF beautiful Snow" Price, 80 cents.
S3 a year. Address s. r. WELLS, Publisher,
SS9 Broadway, New York.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03
LITERARY NOTICES.

TIE LITTLE CORPORAL for August
has an enticing table of contents. Stories
from Mrs. L. d. Kendall, Susan Coolidge,
Lucia Chase Bell, and Others. The second in
stallment Of "Summer Days at Kirkwood,"
by the editor, Mrs. Huntington Miller Art,
Science, and Natural History, put into fasci-
mating dress by the pens of Martha Powell
Davis, David Rice, M. D., and Olive Thernc,
and some very charming poems from George
Cooper, Ellen Porter Champion, and Mrs. NJ
B. c. Slade. This number has several fine il
lustrations, which now form an attractive
feature of this popular juvenile. Terms S1.5O
year. John Z. Miller, Publisher, Chicago.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03

cept Cornwall, which has lost 1922 from
the emigration of copper miners to
America, and Huntingdon, which has lost
SIS. Three Welsh counties show de-
crease: Anglesy, $3.50; Brecon, 1,723 /;
and Pembroke, 4,342. There were 49,
COG enumerators employed, the lowest
by any one officer being of
64 persons in few cottages scattered on
an extensive moor, and the largest being
of 1880 in London, down in Tom-all-
Alone, no doubt.
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Ho for Missouri!

The subscriber offers for sale part of his VAL
UABLE FkUIT LANDS, situated in Jefferson
county, Mo-, on the Iron Mountain ltailToad, and
within 40 miles of st. Louis. These lands are eX-
celled by in capacity for fruit growing, both
in quantity and quality. Grapes after the third
year. under proper culture VIII net $500 per acre,
and the cost OF planting viii not exceed a75. CHI
mate healthyi timber for building and fencing in
vantages for men of energy and thrift either with
capital or of limited means. Improved lands from
SIS to S2O per acre unimproved from s. TO Sl5,
corng to distance from railroad. Information fur.
nished to parties wishing to purchase by addressing
D. B. VEAIEY Victoria station, JeGelsOn Co, Mo
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03

The discovery of an ancient outlet to
Lake Superior is mentioned by Professor
Winchell, the Director of the State Geo.
logical Survey of Michigan, in his last
report. 1t is a deep valley, bordered
with high bluffs. and runs from Lake
Superior to Green Bay, in Lake Michi-
gan, suggesting the practicability of a
ship canal along the same route, with q
view to shortening the voyage between
the ports of the two.
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The editor of Western paper, in his
last issue, says: 1--WE cannot exist any
longer on fire wood, maple sugar and
sheepskins. We bid our patrons good
by, and offer for sale two hundred bush
els seed notatoes. slightly frost-bitten."a
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Vinegar Bittcrs arc not a vile Fancy Drink
Made of Poor Rum, Whiskcy, Proof Spirits
and Refuse Liquors doctored, spiced and sweet
cncd to please the taste, called "Tonics," "Appe
TIERS" Restorers, &C., that lead the tippler on to
drunkenness and ruin, but are true Medicine, made
from the Native Roots and Herbs of California,
FREQ from all Alcohol StfmuIunts. They are
the GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER and A
LIFE GIVING PRINCIPLE, perfect Reno
vaor and Invigorator ofthe System, carrying of oil
poisonous matter and restoring the blood to healthy
condition No person can take these Bitters accord
ing to directions and remain long unweD, provided
their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or
other means and the vital organs wasted beyond the
point ofrepar.
They nre n. Gentle Purrntiye MS well rs n
Tonic possessjne Also the peculiar merit of acting
no nnovcrrI ogcnt IN reevino Con pestion or nlam-
- y =, - 49,, re I I,, el " ~, ., ,y,.eo.,, DREAMS
maton OIL tnc Liver, ana all INC Nlsecrai vi is"n''
FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, whether in
young Vi oiu' niasiieu VI sinSo' aU .no a, p;t.ors
manhood or at inc turn OF llie these loho oi'''i'
have no equal. Z
80. .n, I'm. m...I amu I..s;ras,tor,
t@io,n @ una Uout' DysPepsli UT Ah"boos3
Bilious, Rcmittcnt and Intermittont Few
ors, Diseases of tho Blood, Liver, Kidneys,
md Bladder, these Bittcrs have been most sue
ccssGul. Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated
Blood, which is generally produced by derange
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03

Henry X. Bond, of jefferson, Maine,
was cured of splitting blood, soreness and
weakness OF the stomach, by the uss of
J0hnSon's AaOdyns Ljaiment.
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The United Kingdom los
The time for taking the census was
fixed at midnight as being the hour at
which the largest number of people pos
sible would be found under shelter, and
to obtain the greatest accuracy of which
a proceeding of this kind will admit, the
enumerators were instructed to take
their account precisely as the population
existed at the stroke of twelve, excluding
alike any birth five minutes after, or
death five minutes prior thereto. By
this extreme caution it has been esti-
mated that the count would be brought
some twenty-five hundred to three thou
sand nearer absolute accuracy. The
method of the enumeration was this :
England and Wales-for the figures
from Scotland and Ireland are as yet un-
revised, though substantially correct
were divided, as in 1851, into eleven
grand divisions, England forming ten
and Wales the eleventh, and these again
into registration districts. The first di-
vision was London, and surprising
idea of this great city must be conveyed
in this statement that one single town
should have one-eleventh part of the en-
tire population of England and Wales.
London proper, or "the city," as it is
termed par excellence-that is the region
within the municipal limits-it will
further surprise the reader to know re-
turns q population of but 74,732, or a
trife over the population of Milwaukee
at our own census of last year, and some
seven thousand less than the present
population of Jersey City. Within the
Parliamentary boundaries, however, the
population is 3,00S,1 ,10l, and within the
police circle, which is really the proper
Limit, the enormous total of 3,SS3,092
persons is reported. How portentous a
city this makes can be best seen by q
glance at the number of our largest
urban populations it takes to make up
this unexampled sum. Thus the account
stands on the British and American CEN
sus respectively of 1870 and 1871:
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03

A want has been felt and expressed by
physicians, for safe and reliable purg-
ative; such want is now supplied in
Parsons Purgatioe Pills. ......
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O'DOWOVAM ROSSA'S
REVELATIONS OF
Prison Life.
Those Startling Revelations will commence in the
lrish People" Newspaper


Cd EEEc r~+K-e tH9 a z.
They contain an interesting and lively resume CT
the Authors srifeTinss during his cruel incarcer-
tions in the depths of the prison.pens OF England
oDopovan Rossa has specially selected the
for the publication of his New Work in order that
his Revelations may pas into the hands OF as many
Irish National readers as possible. This Work, by
one of the most prominent of our distinguished
Irish EXiles, will be history within itself which
every 1rishman should possess. #.....a
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SO1 SWINDLERS, QUACKS AND HUM
Ccl BUGS have their names, address and spec
dalty given in the star SpangIed Bans' for June.
The BGnntr is large 8.page 40column illustrated
paper, overlooking with Tales, Sketches, Wit HUI
NOR, Fun. 1t fearlcssly exposes each and erery
swindler from Maine to Texas 1t will be sent ON
TRIAL three months, including Juno number, for
only TEN CENTS. ADDRESS STAR SPANGLED
BANNER, HinsdaJe, N. II.
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CENSUS OF GREAT BRITIAN.

"London Town. Town, and Country Die
tricts-71S,OOO More Women Than Men.
At midnight ON Sunday, the Sd day of
April, in this year 1871, a census of the
population of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland was taken
throughout England, Scotland, Wales,
and ireland, and in the Iso of Man and
the Channel Isles. The result is now
announced by the British authorities as
follows.
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A1sa2 4 nook + For Or THE SCIENCE OF LIFE

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Oh the Cause and Cure of Exhausted Vitality, Pre-
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the Assistant Physician.
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TIE RECTAR

For ten years DR.. Crooks Wine of Tar has
been tested and proved IL thousands of cases, ca.
pa6le Of curing all Diseases Of he Threat ina Lungs
udice prevent you from being cured also?
DR.. CROOKS WINE OF TAR is rich in the medicin-
al qualities of Tar, combined with vegetable in
gradients of undoubted value. 1t rapidly restores sz
haus.ea strength, cleanses the Stomach feaxes the
Liver and puts them to work, causes the food to
in any way, we know the eg!vrg toni: properties OF
DR.. Crooks Wine of Tar, are what you need.
Itcures all Coughs and Colds, and its many wonder
full cures of Asthma and Erorehtis, have caused many
to call it aspectc for these complaints. Threat all
ments require buta few doses. All suffering from
nsumptiol any Disease Of the Lurga should remem-
ber that DR.. Crooks Wine of Tar has cured many
cases pronounced incurable.
TheWeak and Dehita.ed should remember it reno
rates aud nygoratas the system, and is healthgying
Ind appe.ite-restoTing.
1t also cures Liver and Kidney Complaints, and by
ITS healthy action on the Stomach, removes pys-
tepsa. Try one bottle. Take only DIR. Crooks
Wine of Tar. Sold by Druggists.
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DCii lwheat, fowls and fine stock for salel , L
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