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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-25

Charles II. Gering In the Court of
for use j. 7. Borek, Common Pleas OF
VS., Elk County.
E. G.. Schultz and No. II of January
William G. Schultz. Term, 1872.
Ejectment to enforce specific performance
of agreement for the purchase of the un-
divided one-half of four certain town lots
or pieces Of land situate in the Borough
of st. Mary's, in the County of Elk and
State of Pennsylvania, known and desig-
mated as town lots Nos. (26) twenty. six
(2S) twenty eight, (30) thirty and 1927
thirty-two, on st. Mary's street in. said
Borough of st. Mary's, each lot being one
hundred feet in front by two hundred feet
deep at right angles, said lots lying adjoin-
ing each other, fronting on said st. Mary's
street, and containing together, eighty
thousand feet more. or less, with the appur.
tenances. April 9th, 1872, on motion of
Geo. A. Rnthbun, plaintiffs attorney, the
Cours grant Rule on the defendant to ap-
pear and plead on or before next Term or
Judgment.
FRED. SCHOENING, Prothon otary
To the defendants above name: Please
take notice of rule of which Tie above is
copy
d. G. OYSTER, Sheriff.
n13to.
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TN THE MATTER of the application of
the Elk and Mexican Rail Road Com.
pany, to change the name style and title
of said Corporation.
August term, 1872.
Notice is hereby given that an applica-
tion has been presented to the Court of
Common Pleas of Elk County for decree
changing the name of the ''Elk and Nc
Kean Rail Road Company" to the "Pitts-
borgh Buffalo and Rochester Railway Com
pany," and that no. objection appearing,
the prayer of said petition will be granted
at August term Of said Court.
FRED. SCHOENING, Proth'y.
GEO. A. RATHBUN, Any. l9tc.
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s.A. Rote, WEST END ART
GALLERY is famous for TAX
ing first class pictures.

The Titusville Herold's monthly
petroleum report, as published July 16,
shows the following daily production for
June, 17,449 barrels. Decrease as
compared with May 500 barrels per day.
Decrease of stocks in the oil regions for
the month, 2O,O73 barrels.
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ESTRAY.-Came to the premises of the
TI subscriber on the Smethport Pike
one mile and half from Ridgway, on
about the lst of May. 1872, large red COW
about 8 years old. The owner of said COW
is requested to come forward. prove prop
erty and take her away or she will be dis
posed of according to law.
SIMEON HARPS.
Ridgway, June %, 1S72.-n17t3.
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Buckingham's Dye,
FOR THE wHTSKERS

AS our Renewer in many cases
requires too long time, and too
much care, to restore gray or faded
Whiskers, we have prepared this
dye, in one preparation, which will
quickly and effectually accomplish
this result. 1t is easily applied,
and produces a color which will
neither rub nor wash off. Sold by
all Druggists. Price Fifty Cents.
Manufactured by r. P. HALL & CO.,
NASHUA. NH.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-25
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE
CONSTITUTION OF PENN'A.
JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to the Constitu
ton of Pennsylvania,
BE il resolved bY tie Senate ana House Of
Representatives. Of The Commonwealth Of Penn
syipdnd IN General assembly met, That the
following amendment of the Constitution
of this Commonwealth be proposed to the
people for their adoption or rejection, pur-
suant to the provisions of the tenth article
thereof, to wit;
AMENDMENT:
Strike out the sixth article of The Con
stitutiou, and insert in lieu thereof the
following: "A State Treasurer shall be
chosen by the qualified electors of the
States, Mt such times and for such term of
service as shall be prescribed by law"
WILLIAM ELLIOTT,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JAMES S. RUTAN,
Speaker of the Senate.
APPRovED-The twenty day of
March, Ammo Domini one thousand eight
hundred and seyenty-two.
JNO, W. GEARY.
Prepared and certified for publication
pursuant to the Tenth Article of the Con-
stitution.
FRANCIS J0BDAN,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Office Secretary of the Commonwealth,
Harrisburg, June 26th, 1872.
july 4m3.
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| LEGAL. |

LEGAL.
cotharine J. Bowen, | In &C., Common Pleas of
vs. Elk County.
James Bowen. No. 2 April T. II.
Libel in Divorce, UiRcuLo matrimonH
To James Bowen, respondent above named:
You are hereby notified that the subpoena
and alias subpoena in the above case having
been returnel non est mventUs, you are re-
quired to appear on the FIRST MONDAY
OF AUGUST next being the 9th day of the
month, to answer the complaint in the
above case.
D. c. OYSTER, Sheriff
SHERIFF's OFFICE,
Ridgway, July 4th, 1872. ( n1Stc.
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\ EW LIVERY STABLE
RlDG MAY.

DAN SCRlBNER WISHES TO IN
form the Citizens of Ridgway, and the
public generally, that he has starteda Liv
cry Stable and will keep
GOOD STOCK, GOOD CARRIAGES
aud Buggies, to let upon the most reasona
BILE terms
BsA.He will also do job tear ing.
Stable in the Brooks Barn, near the
Post Office, on Mill street. All orders left
at the Post Office will meet prompt atten-
ton.
Aug 20 1870. If.
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SERVICES in the Court House next
Sunday morning and evening, by Rev.
H. A. Pattsou. Monday at 1870 and
evening at 1880.
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HAVING secured the service OF an
assistant S. A. Rote is now prepared to
furnish work promptly at the West End
Gallery-Give him q CALL
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-25

THE SCHOOL LAw-The people
have right, under the laws of the Com
monwealth, to have School Directors
provide allthe necessary accommodations
for educational purposes. A correspond
ent of the Scranton Republican hunts
up the law to incite some laggard Board
to do their duty in the premises. This
is it:
"The School Law of 1854, section 90, de-
fning the General Powers and duties of
Directors among other things provides
'That they shall establish sufficient num-
ber of common schools for the education of
every individual above the age of five and
under twenty one years who may apply for
admission therein"
"They shall cause suitable lots of ground
to be provided, and suitable buildings to be
erected, purchased, or rented for school
houses, and shall supply the same with
proper convenience and fuel"
''This mandatory law for more than
eighteen years has stood upon our Statute
books, and deleg gates to the Directors all
the power they possess relative to the use
attempted to repeal OF modify it,"
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The West End Gallery Is no
ted for IT'S eIeeItenE tcOrk i'm
the Photograph Tine.

SERVICES at Centreville school
house next Tuesday evening, July 3Oth
at half-past seven o'clock, by H. A.
Pattison.
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TN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
L, u. Zimmerman, deceased

Notice is hereby given that the under
signed Auditor appointed to distribute the
funds remaining in the hands of the admin
'istrator os the above estate will attend to
the duties of his appointment at the Pro-
thonotary's Office in the village of Ridg-
way, on NJ Onday, the first day of July, A.
D, 1872, at o'clock, p. m.
R. LUCORE, Auditor.
vDn1ht2
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Insure against ACCIDENTS in the
TRAVELLERS. J. @ w. Bailey, Agent.

ACCIDENTS AT HoUK & Cos. Plan
ING MILL.-Three accidents have oc-
cured at the above mill within a week.
The first, on last Friday, John Cum,
mings had one of his hands slightly
sawed. The next day, Saturday, Jake
Dible had his right hand caught in the
planning machine, and badly cut the
wound will probably prevent his work
lug for some time. On Monday moru-
ing, at about eleven o'clock Salyer Jack
son, caught his hand in the belt of the
grind stone on the line shaft, sustaining
a very serious injury, although no bones
were broken, the hand was badly bruised,
and but for the presence Of mind Of Mr..
Edward Derby, who threw the belt off,
the accident might have resulted in far
worse consequences.
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GRACE CHURCH.-Services next
Sunday at 1870 a. n. and p. m.
Sunday School at 2 p. m. All are in
vited.
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New Advertisements.

SOOO Agents wanted to sell the
CUUUb beautiful PHOTOGRAPH MAR
RIAGE CERTIFICATES AND PHOTO
GRAPH FAMILY RECORDS. For terms,
send stamp to GRINDER & Bro, Publishers,
York Pa 2 21t4
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Temple Of Honor and Temperance.

Elkton Temple No. 81. meets on each
alternate Thursday. at their Lodge Room,
on Main street, over J. V. Houk's store.
S. A. ROTE, W. r.
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Go to the WEST END GAL.
LERY, for fine pictures.

PETER HoUGHTAILING, has been
cleaning the court house the past week
to have it in readiness for court
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Elk Lodge, A. Y. M.

Stated meetings of Elk Lodge will be
held at their hall on the second and fourth
Tuesdays of each month.
G. L. McCRACKEN, Sec'y.
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For S a | e.

Lots to suit buyers. Large or small, on
long time one. fourth cash, balance on ten
years. Inquire of II. Little, Ridgway, or
G r. McNulty, No. $50 Broadway, New
York. 2-20m1.
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SAD FATAL ACCIDENT.-The sadest
accident it has ever been our lot to note
occurred at the saw mill of Messrs. Hor-
ton Il Wheeler at Whistletown, about
four miles from this place, on last Mon
day morning 22d, inst. The night
Watchman, Joseph L. Scott, who had
only been hired on the Saturday prev
ious. to work in the mill, and part Of
whose duty it was to draw the logs into
the mill for the mornings saving, was
found at about FIVE o'clock, Monday,
morning by Amos Wheeler on the shaft
of the bull wheel, dead. Esquire Mead,
held an inquest on the body, aud the
evidence, and surrounding circumstances
al went to show that he came to his
death by having his coat caught by the
chain, and with this start the chain
slowly but surely drew him on to the
shaft, first winding around and breaking
his arm, and then winding around his
breast, neck and head. Deceased
leaves a wife and one child to mourn his
sad end
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81 900 REWARD !

A reward of One Thousand Dollars vi,
lie paid to any Physician who ill produce
a M .dicihc that will supply the wants of
the people better than the article known as
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DN. F.sHRFEY"S

Celebrated Blooi Cleanser or Pana:ea.
1t must be better Cnthartic. n better Alter
ative, a better Sulorifc, a better Diuretic,
a better Tonic, and in every way better
than the Pan ice a. No matter how long
1t has been in use or how lately discovered
Above all it must not contain anything NOT
PURELY VEGETABLE.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-25

New York has just received its first
load of peaches for the season.
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TNRED. sCHOENING,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
PIANO-FORTES, ORGANS,
SHEET MUSIC,

and MUSIC BOOKS.
Pianos and organs to rent and rental ap.
piled if purchased.
Prothonotary's Office, Ridgway, Pa.
v2nl0tf.
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Car Time at Rtdgtcou.
Rates Of Advertising.

One column, one year r...................S75 90
" .................... 40 90
" ..................... 25 90
" ..................... Is 90
Transient advertising per square of eight
lines or less-3 times or less. ......... 200
Business cards, ten lines or less, per
year d w
Marriages and Death notices inserted
gratis.
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$500 REWARD!

A reward of Five Hundred Dollars will
be paid for medicine that will perma-
nently care more cases of Costiveness,
Constipation. Sick or Nervous Headache,
Liver Complaint, Bilious Disorders, Jauu-
dice, Rheumatism, Gout, Dyspepsia, Chills
and Fever, Tape Worms, Boils, Loins, Side
and uenI and EennIe Eomplnint than
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-25

LEGAL.
James II. WILDER, In Common Pleas
VS.. OF Elk county.
Kate II. Wilber. 2l April t., ~.
Libel in Divorce, uinculo matrimonii.
To Kate H. WlJer, respondent above named:
You are hereby notified that the 'subpena
and alias subpoena in the above case hav.
ing been returned non est inDentus. you are
required to appear on the FIRST MONDAY
OF AUGUST next, being the 5th day of
the month, to answer the complaint in the
above case.
D. C. OYSTER, Sheriff.
suERrrr's OFFICE. !
Ridgway, Jaly 4th, 1872. 1stc.
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DIR. F.ssEEsrEY,S

BLOOD CLEANSER OR PANACEA,
which is usel more extensively by practie .
ing physicians than any other popular
medicine known.
For Sale by &. &. MESSENGER, NJ
and WHIPPLE IL HARTLEY, Ridg-
way, Pa. vln22y1.
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Ayers Cathartic Pills,

For the relief and
cure of all derahge.
meRts in the stom'
ach, liver, and bo,w:
els. They are q mild
aperient, and an
excellent purgative.
Being purely vege-
table, they contain
no mercury or mine.
raj whatever. Much
serious sickness and
suffering is prevent
II L.. al..... ss...g -
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-23
A Golden Thought.

Nature will be reported. All
things are engaged in writing their
history. The planet, the pebble,
goes attended by its shadow. The
rolling rock leaves its scratches on
the mountain, the river its channels
IN the soil, the animal its bones in
IN the stratum, the fern and the leal
their modest epitaph in the coal
The falling drop makes its sculpture
in the sand or the stone; not foot
steps into the snow, or along the
ground, but prints in characters
more or less lasting, a map of its
march; every act of the man in
scribes itself in the memories of his
fellows and in his own face. The
air is full of sounds-the sky of tok-
ems, the ground is all memoranda
and signatures, and every object is
covered over with hints, which speak
to the intelligent
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-23
The Nile.

The bed of the Nile, like that of
lower Mississippi, is higher than
the valley through which it passes.
Warburton said:
"The Niles bed is sort of saw
ings bank, by means of which the
deposits OF four thousand years
have enableaeIlsin.-=-to rise-pin the
world and run along causeway of
his own" 1t is the only river in the
world which runs upward of twelve
hundred miles, in undiminished vol
ume, without a tributary stream. II
moves on its long course without
the help of even a creek, tapped by
innum erable canals and thirsty gar
dens with which it is fringed, alb
sorbed by hot sand banks and hotter
sun, and empties greater bulk at its
mouths than it has between the cat
aracts. The products of Egypt are
the gifts of this stream. The lands
on which the towns and hamlets Of
Egypt repose is foreign soil, brought
from the far south by this public
farrier. For more than four thous-
and years he has faithfully brought
his burden and deposited it at the
ceet of Egypt. The Rameses and
the Ptolemies come and go, and the
Nile remains unchanged.
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GREAT Britain is threatened with
a potato famine.
A SINGLE point lace at the Cincin-
natl exposition cost $4,000.
KEEL boats are more numerous
this year on the Ohio than ever.
EIGHTY new pieces of music are
published in London every day.
AN Illinois vineyard Of twenty
acres will yield this season 10000
gallons of wine.
RUSSIA imports cotton cloth from
Turkey pIeferring it to that woven
in England.
Ir is said that the people in the
wine districts of California are ex-
ceedingly temperate.
The Chinese government has
started forty young mandarins to
this country TO be educated.
ONE of the Sicily islands. lately
ruled over by Augustus Smith, is Of
fered for sale for 5000, 900 francs
JERUSALEM has been lighted with
gas, and it is proposed TO run street
cars up the slopes of Mount Zion.
THERE ara seventy three weekly
papers published in Michigan that
have one side printed in Chicago
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-23
Lee, the Learned Carpenter.

Samuel Lee, Professor of Hebrew
at the University at Cambridge,
England, was seventeen years of age
before he conceived the idea of learn
ing foreign language. Out OF the
scanty pittance of his weekly earn
ings as a carpenter he purchased a
book, and when this was read he ex-
changed it for another, and thus he
he advanced in knowledge. He had
not even the privilege of balancing
between reading and relaxation, but
was obliged to pass directly from bod
ily fatigue to mental exertion- Dur
ing the six years previous to his TWEEN
ty-fifth year he omitted none of the
ohurs usually appropriated to man
ual labor, and he retired to rest
regularly at ten o'clock in the even
ing, and yet at the age Of thirty-one
wears he had actually taught seven
teen languages. This illustrates that
Where there's will, there's q
way"
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-23
IN GREEN PASTURES.

BY c. B. LE ROW.
Cloud shadows lie
Upon the soft grass underneath my feet.
Gods grea. infnity
Wraps around in blissfuI rest complete;
Like angels breath
feel the air of Heaven which seems so near
No thought of pain or death.
No want of woe can grieve my spirit here.
- Gods hand holds mine.
lean on him in loving faith secure,
And read in every line
Ofnature' book, His mercies shall endure -
look above
In thankfnIness Of all the good I've seen.
And trusts the Fathers love
Who led my feet within these pastures green.
The day will end
And Eight fade slowly till the west is gray;
When He az last sh 81 send
Cold winds and savy dews upon my way,
Can sill trust His love
And wait until the morning breaks again?
In darkness look above
And in the sunshine. when feel no pains
Lord, help my child
To be as hopeful in the heavy night
When skies are dark and wild,
As in the happy day when all is bright.
Let me hold fast Thy hand
In deaths dark valley as in pastures green,
SO at last may stand
In that dear country which my faith has seen.
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-23

finest blooded horse in the State to
pay my wager with that lady, SIR
The black boy had led Powhattan
to the hitching rail in front of Mrs.
Fauntleroy's yard. and, having tied
him, had gone into the quarters to
tell his brothers and sisters of their
I mistress's great good luck in having
won the famous horse Powhattan.
When General Peyton and John
arrived, they found the pretty widow
and two young lady friends in the
yard admiring Powhattan.
The ladies were in high glee, and
after the usual salutations, the gen
tlemen were invited to take seats on
the porch, which they did.
Madam" said the general to
Mrs. Fauntleroy, 81 have come
here, like a true Kentucky gentle
man, to pay the wager L have lost.
Powhattan, madam, is rightfully
yours.
But, general, said she, "I be-
ieve the wager was conditional 1t
was the horse or, anything else on
the place. was it not ?"
Madam" he replied, "you are
correct. Bus there is nothing on
my place one half in value of Pow
haitian. 1 cannot permit you to Sc
lect an inferior animal.
The pretty widow blushed to the
tips of her fingers when she said:
" You have another and superior
animal here-your son John; If he
would but use his tongue, 1 think 1
shall choose him.
There was a moment of dead 81
Hence, then a laugh, in which the
general did not join.
He rose, and IN the blandest man
ner, bado the ladies good night.
To John he said: "Sir, you viii re-
main
And that was the way John Pey-
ton came to marry the pretty widow
Fauntleroy.
General Peyton never forgaye his
pretty daughter-in law her practical
joke. In after years he used to say;
" Sir, she is the finest lady in the
Blue Grass district, but she lacks
taste"
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-23
ssNOW.''

If l were to give you a motto TO
go through life with, one that would
stand you for warning and counsel
in any strait in which you might
find yourselves, / would give it in
this one word, "Now,"
Don't waste your time and your
strength, and your opportunities. by
always meaning to do something
do 1t! Only weakness comes of in
decision. Why, some people have
so accustomed themselves to this
way of dawdling along from one
thing to another, that it really seems
impossible for them to squarely
make up their minds to anything
They never quite know what they
mean to do next, and their only
pleasure seems to consist in putting
things off as long as possible, and
then dragging slowly through them,
rather than begin anything else.
Don't live a single hour of your
life without doing exactly what is to
be done in it, and going straight
through it from beginning to end
Work, play, study, whatever it is,
take hold at once and finish it up
squarely and cleanly; and then to
the next thing without letting any
moments drop out between. It is
wonderful to see how many hours
these prompt people contrive to
make of a day; it's as if they picked
up the moments that the daWdlers
lost. And if you ever find yourself
where you have SO many things
pressing you that you hardly know
how to begin, let me tell you a se-
cret: take hold of the very first one
that comes to hand, and you will
find the rest all fall into file and fol-
low after like o company of we'll
drilled soldiers; and though work
may be hard to meet when it charges
in squad, it is easily vanquished
when brought into line. You may
have often seen the anecdote of the
man who was asked how he accom-
Eplished SO muca in his life. "My
father taught me-" was the reply,
"when I had anything to do, to ga
and do IT," There is the secret-ths
magic word Now."-Erchange.