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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-05-18
Murdered by Request.

Last night we were summoned to lis
ten to one of the saddest stories ever
told. But few days since was an
nounced the death of Daniel E. Hedden
by his own hand. We had every reason
to believe it was so. Last evening, how
ever, came a startling disclosure-Hed-
den murdered!
Captain butcher was called to the
Cedar Rapids House. He went. Cora
Clinton wished to see him. When in
her presence she says: Captain, 1 have
something to tell you. You would new
er think it, but 1 shot Hedden"
This was indeed something to tell, it
was startling announcement. She
said she had carefully thought over all
the consequences; knew she had to go
to JAIL and probably to the gallows.
Yet with all that staring her in the
face, she wanted to make the confession
tell the true story.
In the Jail at IL o'clock, the reporters
met the unfortunate woman. al make
the confession that 1 killed Hedden."
"Why did you do it?" cat his own re-
quest" was the reply. 81 went up
stairs and found him, as thought, dy-
ing. He asked me to shoot him. He
wanted this sin off his soul. He took
the pistol from his pocket, cooked it and
placed it in my hand. He held open his
coat and l pulled the trigger. I thought
there was more than one ball in the pis-
tol. and intended with the other to kill
myself" The prisoner in her confession
says there was no malice! She fred the
pistol at his own request, and then in
tended self-murder. But an empty pis-
tol prevented her. She was excited, and
didn't think what she was doing. In
brief the above is the sad story. 1t is
to be remembered that Hedden bought
three bottles of laudanum the night of
his death, and upon his own confession,
through the testimony of Cora Clinton,
drank the same.
Sunday evening Cora Clinton con-
fessed that she took chloroform with in
tent to take her life; and it is feared
that she will, by some means, yet sue
ceed. There is scarcely doubt that su-
icide has been determined upon, in her
mind, at all hazards.-Omaha RepuJH-
can.
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in the way of the success of narrow
gauge railroads, which are not so form
liable in other countries. The struggle
will be to procure the right of way from
the legislature, and that issue must be
met. This country cannot be kept in
the rear of progress by Legislative re-
striction on the right to construct rail-
ways. Wherever competent parties with
sufficient capital are willing to test this
system, the legislature should give them
liberal encouragement. Competition
thus produced will relieve the public
from the thraldom of monopoly. In the
mining regions, for which the narrow
gauge is peculiarly adapted, and where
the oppression of capital is most severely
experienced, competition in carrying
would greatly benefit the miner and the
consumer. Railroad combinations, such
as that which exists at present, would be
rendered difficult, if not wholly impossi-
BILE by the construction of rival lines.
The expense of construction is dimin-
ished by half Regions of the State will
be penetrated which have hitherto been
considered inaccessible by engineers, and
the benefits of the railroad system will
be diffused all over its surface.-HarriS-
burg (Pa Patriot.
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RIDGWAY, PA, THURSDAY, MAY 1S, 1871.

me. 1 entered the car, and, to my un-
bounded astonishment, found there not
only no Bob, but no Fanny either.
For a moment believed that must
have entered the wrong car and turned
to leave it but no, there was my UNI
brella--a huge cotton one, which I had
bought few days before when caught
in shower-lying in the hat-rack over
head that only of all that had occupied
those two seats when I left, remained
there now. In stupid bewilderment 1
turned to passenger reading his news
paper in an adjoining seat.
"Can you tell what has become of the
lady who occupied this seat a few mo-
ments since?" l asked.
He looked up, pausing for moment
before he spoke, as if to recall past
event, of which, at the time, he had
taken very little notice.
"The young lady, with the blue veil
and black silk travelling suit Z" he asked.
" Oh, yes, remember. She got up just
after you did; gathered up all her bags
and parcels in a great hurry and went
out at the north end of the car"
Ibid she leave by herself?-did no
gentleman Join her either before or after?"
mot that saw" replied he, resum-
ing his paper as if weary of the inter
ruption.
"She went down to the carriage road
off yonder," said an old woman who sat
upon the opposite side OF the car and
heard my questions. Somebody met
her down there with carriage, and she
jumped in and was druv off"
1 clapped my hand to my watch fob !;
it was empty. TO my trowsers pocket !;
my wallet was gone. At last 1 under
stood the situation I had been the dupe
of as clever pair of swindlers as ever
rode in railway car. Money, watch,
and diamond ring had all gone, the two
former, doubtless, cleverly picked from
my pocket while was leaning over the
confiding Fanny lowering her obstreper-
Gus window.
Of course 1 telegraphed to all adjacent
stations and set the police to work as
soon as possible, but 1 accomplished
nothing by my trouble; 1 never heard
of either Bob and Fanny or my stolen
property again.
1 had the curiosity to telegraph also to
the clerk of the ticket office at c.
concerning the pocketbook consigned to
his care by Mr.. Fry; 1 learned, in return,
that he had never seen or heard tell of
any such article.
L cannot say the information much
astonished me.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-05-18
MAY-FLOWERA
By LOUISE CHANDLER MouLToN.

If you catch q breath of sweetness,
And follow the odorous hint
Through woods where the dead leaves rustl
And the golden moses CLINT.
Along the spicy sea-coast,
Over the desolate down,
You will find the dainty May-fowers
When you come to Plymouth town.
Where the shy Spring tends her darlngs,
And hides them away from sight,
Pull Off the covering leaf-sprays,
And gather them, pink and white.
Tinted by mystical moonlight,
Freshened by frosty dew,
Till the fair transparent blossoms
To their pure perfection grew.
Then carry them home to your lady,
For flower of the Spring is she,-
Pink and white, and dainty and slight,
And lovely as lovely can be.
Shall they die because she is fair,
Or live because she is sweet?
They will know for which they were born,
But you-must wait at her feet.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-05-18

Two tailors in Louisville had fight,
and one stabbed the other with a pair of
shears. When he has killed eight more
tailors they are going to try him for
manslaughter. I.lE .lI g'FfLiL
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-05-18
Increase of Wealth i'm the United States
in Ten Years.

The following table is compiled from
the official report made to the Census
Bureau, and represents the total valua-
tion of real estate and personal property
in the States and Territories named for
the years 1860 and 1870:
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-05-18

Silver smelling furnaces will soon be
added to the list of Pittsburg industries.
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WHERE Is TRAINq

The 81. Louis Times asks this ques-
ton, and adds: "At one time, and il
seems but a few weeks since, he was
raIlying the Fenians to g final strike
for the freedom of Ireland, from his
headquarters at Omaha; again he was
boarding at a city Jail in Msrseilles,
issuing lunstic pnonunciamentos to
the defunct Commune; the last we
heard of him he was about to crush
the German empire, and he is proba-
bly, discussing the question just now,
over a gill of brandy, with the cold
blooded car Of all the Russias."
The last the APPEAL heard of the IL
lustrious hair-brained was through q
modest circular about a yard square,
in which the ~irrepressible claimant
for the Presidency in 1882 announces
that he will open his tall and winter
campaign on the LIST OF October, in the
Times own State, whence he viii
journey to Kansas, and sfterward
wherever else he may find audiences.
o. one thing the Times may be as
sured, George Francis is not and win
not be idle, wherever he may be.
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~repressive system-ran Its course
through Louis XIII, Louis XIV,
Louis XIV, and Louis VI and then
Mirabeau-followed by Vergniaud-
followed by Danton-and followed by
Robespierre-and we are now in this
stage; but what followed? Did that
s'r~evolutionp 60 "backward9" Bona
parte succeeded the carnival Of ''hu-
man rights" and still the reaction
was not expended. The Bourbons
were restored as the Stusrts had been
in England, and two of them reigned
again in France a two of the Stuarts
had re-reigned in England. Here was
a revolution" in the direction of des-
potism following a revolution in
the direction Of freedom. And this
revolution also was reversed, and
went 'tbackWards'-like all other rev.
olutions, Louis Philippe was sum-
moned from private life to s~upercede
Charles x. The pendulum is still in
vibration-and so, restless and unset
tied, after eighteen years, Louis Phil
ippe is deposed, and the late emperor
of France succeeded-not as emperor,
but as the head of a second republic
In the politics of America, history
will repeat itself, and if the Demo
cratic party viii cease its factious
wranglings and prepare for the work
before il, the Radicals who are so jubi-
LIANT over the late elections viii learn
that revolutions still go backwards.
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You viii not find this table in a Re
publican paper, not even in those
which, like the New York Tines, pro-
Tess fair play. 1t would be too much
for even the best Of them. like the
New York EUeRing Post, to confess
that whereas the whole cost of the
government for twenty-four years
under Democratic administrations
was $3.50, 592, 1886 91i the amount OF
revenue collected from the people by
the present administration per annum,
is s441, 255,477 IS; for "a years,
$3.50, I8l, 463 12I It would be too
much to expect that Radical leaders
and journals would confess that where
as the averge cost of government per
capita for twenty-four years under
Democratic administration, was 81 n
~(inciuding expense OF Mexican
war; il is 81 rs under Grants Re
publican administration, Excluding
recei9ts for property and war mate
rial sold.) An expenditure Of 81 n
1.-THE average per capita under Jack
son, Van Buren,, Polk, Pierce and
Buchansn) with our present popuIa-
ton 10000. OOO) would be $40, 500, 600.
Grant spends $3.50, 797, 855 per annum,
exclusive Of principal and interest on
the public debt! The total cost, in
Guiding principal and interest on the
public debt, during the above named
Democratic administrations, averaged
less than 81 per capita, Amount of
Federal taxes extorted by Grants adj
ministration durinQ the last fiscal
year, S411, 255,477 So Gas stated by the
Radical campaign document, styled
National Finances page A which is
average of $40 28 per capita, esti-
mating the population at 40, 600, 600.
Is it any wonder that people are in
despair; that many Of them contem-
plate national bankruptcy as a posi-.
bic national blessing, and that the
cry goes up from every part of the
country, release US from the bonds of
taxation or we perishl
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pared by the National Democratic
Resident Executive Committee at
Washington, we may learn OF this
economy:
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J. RAwLrSes :. Z. wEsB. ~. L. RAWEfNas
III. RAWLINGS & co.
8 Cotton Factors
C0EAsIS MERCHANTS
No. 254 Er0nt Street, ass
ea5a SCI aa5iIaa5
MEMPHIS, : TENNESSEE
mP:srsrRa

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
~ To those who desire II, we win advance
three-fourths Of the value Of cotton on de.
except ban tnfersst from the time OF the
advance until the cotton Is sold and the
money collected. This can hardly fail I o be
wagons, n want the money 70 return the
same day before the cotton can be sold, and
by merchants and buyers who want the
ing The facilities for remIttances by ex.
pres are sucn that the shipper can have the
money In hand In TWO or three days after g
shipment.
- We win MI ali orders ct Ia lowest cash
prices, free of charge, when We have the
In hand. sell
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Popular Democratic mai T-0a

TotalA, $500 los L,982,s2O l.9I5.zsS
l,9l5,738
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WORDS OF HOPE AND WORDS OF
WARNING.

WE are not of those who are ready
TO despair of the future of the Demo
cratic party. A resction will surely
come. This revolution S0W 60 back
ward, and in a few years hence people
will be astOnished at what they said
and did in the delirium Of the passing
moment. Nothing but the folly of
Democrats can prevent the Democrat
ic party from redeeming the country
and securing a glorious victory. If
the enemies of Radicalism would fore
20 all useless and improbable discus
sion, and lay their differences upon a
common altar, the ground they have
lost would soon be recovered. We trust
the Democracy Of the Union viii
arouse and shake off the spell Of
lethsrgy and despair, and commence
anew the war against the party that
knows no law except the law of self
preservation, that violates all consti-
tutiOnal Limitations and restraints.
that destroys States, degrsdes courts
and judges, squsnders the public
treasure, gives away to party favOrites
and vast monopolies controlled by
party pets the public domain, imposes
onerous taxes, destroys commerce, ep-
presses labor and protects capital, in
vades States with Federal troops, dis
trusts the people and surrounds the
baIlot-boxes of the people with bayo-
nets lest the peopleshould cheat them
selves and that even controls cOnven-
tions by Federal bsyonets.
There is no cause for that despond-
ence which pervades the Democratic
party. The result Of the recent cleo
tons was Oceasioned, not by gains TO
the Radicals, but by the divisions in
our own ranks. We have read with
interest 8 communication from a. w
Kelsey to the st. Louis Repu6Goan, in
which he shows by the following fig
ures that the Democrats can, if they
will unite, triumph in the next Presi-
dental election. AS evidence we re-
fer the reader to the following tables:
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n~eighborhood into 8 state of terror and
grief A whole family, consisting of foul
persons, 3 father and mother and theft
two children, were murdered In their
thouse on Sunday eyeninE last, the agsss.
sin or -sssassins having dispatched the IN
happyEietims with a1atchet.'f "a
On account of the prolonged absence Of
the Governor of Georgia-for nearlythrse
months, the State treasurer gives notice
that he win pay no warrants 0nthe treas
ury without q resident governor to app
prove them, except chsthe civil establish-
ment and special appropriations when the
law specifies the sn1oRnt. rnr7e 7HE
We fndit stated in English exchanges
that the skulIof the Ia'e Mr.. Grote, the
historian of Greece, has, in accordance
with his own wish, been opened by Prof.
MarshaAy and contrary to general belief,
tbe brain has been found to be astonish-
ingly small and Of peculiar formation.
The latter clause was probably added for
the comfort of phrenologists.
From a report pablished In a French
journal OF the trial of Rossel, who was
sentenced to death bv the Versailles
council of war, it appears that he was
most Bternly, not to say VindictiyslF,
dealt with. %Iti is apparent fromtha many
replies he made during his examination
that he, was as patriotic, in the true sense
Of b word, as he was humane and
brave. soy a
The Tallahassee Floridida wants some
body in Washington TO hunt up some SI3,-
000Lof bonds ont OF which the State Of
Florida was sWindled in 1866, in an author
lied purchase by Governor Reed Ia carpet
Dagger rom Wisconsin, whose robberiss
Of the State have enriched himself, if they
have Impoverished F1oridsl of a lot OF
worthless old arms. IsfE
Horstio I. Cook, a hslf-crszsd fellow,
committed suicide at Norwalk. Conn. ,cin
Thursday, in s novel and most deter
mined sort OF way, and st the same time
came near numbering his wife. He placed
himself across keg Of guHpOwder which
was kept at the foot of his bed, and de-
hberately blew himself to atoms. The
house was destroyed, but his wife escaped
with comparatively few injuries.
An official report Of the viee-consul Of
France st st. Thomas to the French Min
lister of Marine and the Colonies, states
that after q severe gale in the mOrnin 2 the
wind, which had done no great damage,
subsidized shout noon. About 2 p N. 1t
rose again, and st 4 pm. three or four
violent t~OFnadOes, in rapid succession,
swept over the town, "levsliHE nearly
every house in the place, and blowing to
pieces many wooden ones" Twenty
two p~ersonsii says the v~ice-cOnsul,
a were killed and thirty wounded" In
the hsrbOr the damage was less serious.
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hnIIGE

NOTICE
IS hereby given OF appointments a. guar
4 dian OF samuel A. Mesoham, ind pro-
weddings in the Second Chancery Court, be-
cause OF his uns0Rndnsss Of mind: All cred
itors srs requsstsa to make known the char
Rcfer OF thsir claims TO Luke W. FlnlRyrmy
attofnsy IN the premises. &c e1s o11ce, No. Al
Madison street. A. BURLESONg
Guardian Of S.A- Meacham.
Memphis, August 8. 1871. sue wed
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Popular Democratic maj 7,O&
These eleven States contain about
four-sevenths of the entire population
Of the country. According to an
equitable appOrtionment they would
be entitled to q hundred and eighty
Of the three hundred and seventeen
electors; they have only one hundred
and siKty-fve, which is, however, six
more than enough to elect any candi-
date on whom they may unite. Some
Of them are safe to rely on against
Radicalism. Others may be secured
by a proper combination Of all the
opposing elements. With a triumph
ant leer, the Radicals point to the
result in Maine, and tell us that revo-
buttons never go backward. We beg
leave to inform them that revolutions
do go backward. Harrison was tri-
umphantly elected President in 1910.
but four years aiterward the revolu-
ton went backward, and Polk
beat Clay. In 1913 Taylor defeated
Cass; but four years afterward the
revolution went backward again,
and Pierce routed Scott in almost
every State in the Union. So far as
ancient history is concerned, it shows
that revolutions generally 20 back
ward. What became Of the Cleisthe-
nian Constitution of AthensP What
became Of the Roman republic? After
the Plebs had thoroughly triumphed
In Rome, the Lmperator succeeded
The pendulum In the life of human
society returSs as surely as it ad-
vances, and very generally it has
gone up rs high on the return trip "a
IL had done on the opposite side. But
we do not insist on this; we hold the
opinion that there has been so far in
general in every age something gained
for human freedom; but there has
been in all ages a constant effort ID
adjust between RIGHTEOUSNESS and
despOtism. And the process has been
ordinarily a movement from despot-
ism to freedom, followed by a resc-
ton; because liberty runs into as vio1
lent excuses as despotism-and has so
O~verreached itself. The history of
England shows that revolutions do 90
backwards, for the Tudcrs had everv-
thing their own way, and their au-
thortty descended to the Stuarts, who
pushed the despOtic idea to that ex.
treme which evoked opposition, and
30 were developed the civil wars of
England. Z The result was Oliver
Cromwell and the commonwealtb-i
and this commonwealth endured
eleven years, and only eleven wears
And IL is 70 be noted that the ParlisI
mentary rule had previously been SUI
perseded by the Concentration Of ali
power in the hands of soldier, When
Charles II succeeded Cromwell, the
reaction was ever violent, and the
very name Of the Pgritans and the
Long Parliament is an offense to the
English 70 this day. The pendulum
went back again from the Puritans
and the Fihh Monarchy men to the
height ofths bigotry and narfowness
Of James II, and then it begun to de-
scend again tOwafda moEeIiberal and
catholic administration. 81
we call the attention also to the
French Revolution. Despotism-the
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THENew York Times, the first to
spring the mine of popular indigna-
ton upon the Tsmmany Hall thieves,
has almost forgotten that it belongs to
the Radical party, so severe are its
well-meTited rebukes upon dishonesty
in fhe Radical ranks.
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NOTICE.

HAVING been qualified es administrator
III OF the estateU John a. KELLY, de-
ceased, this u I notify all persons having
ciaiins against said estate TO present them
TO me within The time prescribed d Flaw, or
this notice will be plead In bars those
who are Indebted % Sad eststes VII please
coma forward and settle.
- HENRY HKMAEN Administration
auB1tW1m
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-25
HOUSE.
The Omnibus Bill.

The House took up the bill making ap-
preparations for sundry civil expenses of
The Government usually designated the
Omnibus bill. 1t appropriates So, 65S,
1922. Among the items are the follow
iDgs:
National currency, detecting and
Furnishing counterfeiters 5000, 900; Co.
lumbia Woman hospital and other chart
ties $50, 900; SmithoniSn Institute $50,
900; Expenses ninth census 81, $50, 900;
Washington Aqueduct 1924, 900; Rock
Island bridge, Illinois, $500, 900; Freed
mans Bureau 1865, 009; to indemnify
States for war expenses and other proper
ty lost in military service $3.50, 900; post
offices and other Government buildings
$5,O74,O 600.
This last includes $50, 900 for Charles
ton, S. c.; $40, 900 for Knoxville, Tenn;
1885, 900 for New York; $942,000 for
Boston; $500, 900 for San Francisco mint;
$3.50, 900 for New Orleans Custom House;
800, GOO to purchase lot in st. Louis;
800, 900 for Nashville, Tenn; $50, 900
for Montgomery, Ala; 5000 for Lit
tie Rock, Ark; $34 600 for Cairo, Ills.
The bill appropriates SIT, 500 for sal
airy of Envoy Extraordinary and Minis
ter Plenipotentisry to the German EN-
pire; 81, 500 for Secretary of Legation,
and 1900 for Assistant Secretary OF
Legation
The item of $3.50, 900 to pay the State
of Massachusetts for cost of coast de,
fences was ruled out of order on a point of
orJor ,,,ogJa NV FarpouOrtb IN the ground
that there was no law authorizing it.
The item of $4,000 to Winnie Ream
for statue of Abraham Lincoln was in.
creased to $4,000, making the tota
amount $l5, 900.
The House having disposed of 90 pages
ont of SIS. adjourned.