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Death Of . Brother q Senator HamlIu
BAHGoR, ME-, july n.-Hon. Elijah l. Ham
lin, mayor Of this city, and brother Of Seua-
tor Hamlin, died 1t late hour last MINT Alter
long illness. He was % years Of age.
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SUIT AGAINST PRIEsr.-A German tailor
residing at Union Hill, New jersey, has sued
i rather Barnard, German Catholic priest, for
dler. The damages are laid &C e6 900.
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MARSHALL HALL PAVILION.

This beautiful summer resort having been en-
larged and reftted, is now open for NOss
ehs sIteI for Excursions and Picnic, Ess!EE
Special inducements are offered 70 Sunday Schools
and private parties.
n Especial arrangements having been male
with the authorities OF Charles county TO Keen order
at this pavilion, persons visit this beauti-
Iul resort without fear OF being annoyed by disor
For terms q charter apply to Capt. FRANK
HOILINGSHEAD, 9TH street wharf iel9lm
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NJOONLIGHT EXCURSION.
STEAMER ZAIDEE,
Capt. CHARLES E. MITCHELL,
viii leave Crouch's 9th street Wharf on MONDAY
Tuesday and WEDNESDAY r.
EVENINGS. July Is, l6 and II. at Esa8ahs=ze{ n
O'Clock runnirg down the Pot mac a. ezc1ezz<x11D
Tar "a Mount Vernon; returning by moonlight.
Round trip tickets, so cents; to be had at the
boat iy15 3t
EOR MOUNT VERNON.-1he steamer ARROW,
Il Capt. Frank Holm eshead. hav- N~ss ,
ing been rebuilt and entirely refitted S454a=ESN
by her present owners, will leave her
wharf, foot OF 9TH street daily sunday excepted for
Mount Vernon 1.-THE tomb Of Washington and inter
mediate landings. JAMES SYKES
jel9-3m Gent Superintendent Steamer Arrow
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TIE y. y. CENTRAL. RAILROAD TAX CASE
Mr.. Fairchild, the attorney, and MIR. Worcester
treasurer of the New York Central railroad
company, had a conference with Acting Secre-
taIy Richardson and Commissioner Douglass
this morning, in reference 10 the decision OF the
latter ordering levy tor the tax OF nearly
$780, on scrip dividends. Judge Richard IN
agreed with Commissioner Douglass, and refused
to suspe nd the decision Of that officer, in order
70 bring the matter before the courts. He in
formed them that the department would not
waive its rights under the summary process
afforded by the law, but the company might
deposit the amount of tax claimed IN United
States bonds, and then bring suit against the
collector at Albany, as though formal distraint
had been made.
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OLD JONI H. RPER,s SHARrN sss.-An

cSAN - m cfAki Sad IN
tsTesting story il / oi Mr. HaIg-r. he owner
OF Lonsf.liow, and Ills white rider, before the
race az Long Branch. The Old .nau observe J
.ometLlng mys'er.0us. but ssia nothing. he
autographed 70 kentucky fcr the CO. srga bcv
sLo hed driven longfelOw before. = lie .sr.
immediately % Long branch. He arrived hu'
not word was said. and tie whit rider Va
dressed Tor the contest with Harry BaS.,ff
Then the old man told him that he taolgbt t.
eo.osed boy could tide better thai jay than he
mounted uToPg longfeliOw aud E2n the race
ARD noW col9ys tie conclusion: Tee white l,oy
was seen " Mr.. Harper 10 have r0l u money
siOh!Ls llat ne had been tampeTei with.
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iHE fpEEfsIE n EAT.-Acc0urf. ~ Ir'suaI
heat reach ~ ffom abroad. and Dc Ha -.a.l -fta'
We are Io' TIE oriy sufferers from 90 r.r sV.s.-
uonal season. Ahe Bombay Gsyst-. SAWS tAa'
me tbeI fDprtftr has reached IL .ig-rae, in tn
s1aCt - Al.ft ahad, and lie degree ia "a.
shate a. n deTsDsd. 81 the latter ,,la,P many
deaths had taken place frUm the heat s.1au.
lie Sixteenth laucers. In the Ns..ar tiT
wells were driving ny fast and the cattle t!vrr-
hnt water famine was threafenIarF % A al Id fa-
general suffering Fortunately. The "a sfiSor-s
was close al hand, when relief could BE Je,aaa-
ed UIcn.
In Rome the heat has been excessive. ara
there Wa smother lively scene an tie Cham rsr
81 Deputies there on the y "a ult., which j. i'm
puted by the Pies TO the cause SlFe-sl mem
bets came with N an ace OF &c ting % I W ,anF
Signor Sslla said that IL would De a'I,rlirei,
Impossible To continue the sitt.ngS another year
after the Isl OF May. Since the great heat = %
general, The question as 20 how Tar ~ b % bc
ascI ihed to the coming comet take an in
creased significance, and there are many who
viii rejoice when, whether for veal Or woe tlie
18th OF August hss passed.
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.sEpH.sgEJFC.fL

BUSINESS D1RECTORH
csEtsl1i1g Cards q FiTs:-clsSs Ests Oh ahr sn.s
Il a. B-zneEss OK BUSINESS IL ne District.
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INDIAN AFFAIRS IN TEXAS AND ARIZONA
batch Of communications from Texas and
Arizona in regard TO Indian affairs was received
at the Interior department to- day. None of the
communications, however, contain any news of
special Importance. Lieut.. Thomas Garvey, OF
the LIST cavalry, in letter dated Fort whippe
A. t., June 18th, gives an account OF
an expedition against the hostile Indians
in which some of the latter were killed
Lieut.. GiihTaith, of the 10th infantry. sends
dispatch from Fort Griffen, Texas, dated the
18th ultimO, in which he gives All account of the
massacre o. Abel Lille and Francis Lee, and
the capture OF COrdeiia, susanna and John Abel
Lee. He had been In pursuit OF the savages,
but had not succeeded in rescuing the captives
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ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE.-Msuv wears auo.
tie daughter OF an English bsrrisfaT IA hugh
practice. etoped with her fathers cnachmaO
much 10 the indignation Of the Offended parent
who vowed that be would neither admit the in
considerable one 10 the shelter OF his roof again,
nor a low her even the prOverbial shilling. Mr..
and MIs. $ settled in the Island OF Jersey.
and convinced that the father would not re-
lent. worked night day and for the maintain
ance OF an ever increasing family. The hus-
band. Il appears, obtained employment A. a
laborer, earning twelve shilliRgs per week esnd
the wife kept a small shop. Three weeks since
- the a GeUGHf groom was digging in a potato
held. the solicitor or his Nife's father touched
DC ath OF the, till then, ineNorable barrster who
however, had at last relented, aud had left each
Of his three daughters one-third OF a sum OF
slO.OoO besides other (landed) property.
The EARTHQUAKE on MONDAY FELT IN
MIssOURI.-H anybody has been disposed to
question the ability Of North Missouri 20 get up
things on large scale, such doubling must nov
be laid aside; tor on Monday night, about TO-
O'Clock, We lad an earthquake. Some persons
had noticed slight shock about ! OF , O'Clock
IL was 80 slight, however, as 10 be barely per
ceEtibie 10 those wins were quietly sitting OF
lying down. But the shock At l0gs was distinct.
strong handed, suTeing one, accompanied By the
usual hOarse, rumblng sound OF an earth Iake.
The duration OF the shock was very short. some
say that there were two shocks at veTv short ia
teTVals. WIN n IeIGOr intervening. We are iu-
TONED by some Of the older residents here that
iiis Il rot The INST time that earth d axes have
visited Missouri. At least three ar tour have
been felt here before -CLi1iilsf4s ~ \ TIL IN.
yE'g IL.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-01-11
The World to Stop in 1873.

The Second Adventists ara at it again.
At a convention held in Rochester, they
have definitely settled the time for the
total destruction of the world. 1t is
to take place in 1878.
DR.. Barbour, who has prepared sever
al charts from which he has lectured ex-
tensively of late, from Boston to Roehes-
ter, on the coming of Christ in 1878,
made speech on the signs of the times,
and cited articles in the London Quar-
terly, the Edinburgh ReOiesO, BLaekacood's, s,
and several American magazines, quar-
terlies and newspapers to show the enor-
nous proportions of the Commune-its
rapid growth the past year and its pres
ent threatening aspect. There were (he
said) 100000 members in this country
and millions in Europe. Wendell Phil
lips was member, and said in his recent
lecture in Music Hall, Boston, that "Eu-
rope was resting on a volcano that
threatened the destruction of all he,
thrones" And if the Church would moi
discern the signs of the times, the world
did, and mems hearts were failing them
for fear, and for looking after the things
that are coming on the EARTH"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-01-11
JeffersOn's Liking for Indians.

That liking for Indians which we OBJ
serve in the writings of Jefferson resulted
from his early acquaintance with some
of the best of the uncorrupted chiefs
who used to visit and stay with his faith
er on their journeys to and from the
capital of Virginia. The Indians held
his father in that entire respect which
they were apt to feel for men who never
feared and never deceived them. One of
the most vivid recollections of his boy
hood was of famous chief of the Chero-
KEGS, named Ontassete, who went to
England on behalf of his people. The
boy was in the camp of this chief. the
evening before his departure for Eng
land, and heard him deliver his farewell
Grafton to his tribe-a scene that he used
to describe with animation seventy years
after its occurrence. The moon was in
full splendor that evening, and it seemed
as if it was to that lustrous orb the i'm
passioned orator addressed prayers for
his own safety and the protection of his
people during his absence. The power
full voice of the speaker, his distinct ar
ticulation, his animated gestures, and
the silence of the listening Indians sit
ting motionless in groups by their sew
eral fires, filled him with awe and vener-
alton, although he did not understend a
word that was spoken.-James Parton.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-01-11
She Oycrdid It.

1t is easy to overdo very good thing,
and the slip" between the cup and
the lip" is so readily found. A mechan-
ic, rejoicing in the name of Dubois, and
resident of the city of Detroit, took
to drinking, and was speedily trans
formed from hard workingman into q
drunken sot. His good wife scolded, en-
treated, diminished the thickness of his
beard without the use razor, but could
make no change. One night Dubois ar
rived home and found that his wife and
his coat had changed places-the latter
lay ON the floor, and the former was sus-
pended from tina hook. Up rushed Du-
bois to the rescue, took his wife down,
and after much labor brought her to her
senses.
The attempt at suicide completely So
bered him, and, like Obadiah Oldbuck,
he turned over new leaf. He pro-
missed never to drink again, and probab-
ly would have kept his word if his wife
had been able to keep her own counsel
But she was just smart enough to in
form several of her neighbors that the
apparent hanging was put-up job, the
rope being tied under her arms. The
knowledge of this little practical joke
coming to the ears of Dubois, he first
thrashed the whole family, then perform
ed some extraordinary feats of furniture
smashing, and finally left the premises,
and has not been seen since.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-01-11
The Empire of japan

With its forty millions of inhabitants,
has recently been the scene of blood
less but radical revolution. For CEN
turies past the provinces Of the empire
have been ruled by feudal princes,
know as Daimios, descendants OF petty
kings, who cnce maintained independent
sovereignty. These Daimios, like the
feudsl nobility of medieval France,
always seized opportunities to weaken
the power of the reigning sovereign, and
raise themselves to the dignity of in
dependence. In 1919, when Xavier
visited Japan, he found the princes of
Bungo, Avima, and Pxuma maintaining
regal state and authority. The recor d
of the struggles during the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries between the
sovereign and his mobiles, must remind
the historical reader of the continual
conflicts between the monarchs OF France
and the princes of Burgundy, Cham
pagne, and Anjou. The work of ter
ritorial unity was commenced in France,
in the fifteenth century, by the cunning
Louis XII, and was begun in japan, in
the sixteenth Century, by Taiko Same,
the Napoleon Bonaparte of Eastern
Asia. Having raised himself, amid the
turbulence OF civil war, to imperial
power, Taiko determined to weaken the
authority of the Daimios, many of
whom had thrown off their allegiance.
With this end, he increased their num-
Der from sixty to several hundred. This
policy, carried out by his successors,
ended in establishing GOA independent
principalities and lordships.
To the Daimios the present Mikado
owes the enjoyment of imperial power,
which he only possessed in name before
the overthrow Of the late Tycoon.
Within the past few years, civilization
has made more rapid strides in japan
than in any country of the East, and
the Mikado, in centralizing the national
authority, doubtless aims to place his
country on an equal footing with the
great centralized ompires of the West.
The decree ordering the princes to sur
render their sovereignties was no doubt
hailed with satisfaction by the great
multitude of the Mikado's subjects, for
petty governments are usually oppres-
sive. japan, as an enlightened and
well-governed empire, now takes the
front rank among the independent
powers of Asia. AS in the Sandwich Is
lands, foreign enterprise and immi-
grafton, instead of threatening, will
secure her independence. With its gold
mines, its silk groves, and its tea, the
island empire is conveniently situated
for intercourse with the United States,
and unless the whole empire be devoured
by the Russian bear, which has already
commenced on it piecemeal, an impor-
tant commercial interest may be built
up between the two nations.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-01-11
C0urt Anecdotes,

The tedious session of the Supreme
Court at Pittsfeld was relieved by an
incident, one day recently, that drew a
little smile. A leading member Of the
bar, rather noted for his strategy Of
confusing witnesses by working them in
to passion, had under cross-examina-
ton woman who seemed an apt SUBJ
ject for his favorite tactics. Having
wound her up to the desired pitch, he
inquired Madam, are you now liv-
ing with your first or second husband ~
/" That's none your business !" sharp and
short. With an air of offended dignity,
the attorney turned to Chief Justice
Brigham, who remarked, with smile.
"I think the witness is about right in
that, is she not 2"
Which reminds the older members OF
the bar of a similar misadventure that q
still more distinguished member of the
Berkshire bar once met at the hands oi
Chief Justice Shaw. "Where did you
get the money with which you made the
purchase spoken of ?" asked the " learn
ed brother" of witness under the tor
lures of cross examination. None ot
your (gentle expletive) business !" thun-
dered the victim. "Now, may it please
you, are counsel to be insulted in this
manner ?" appealed the lawyer. "Wit-
ness" said the Chief Justice, compass
sionately, " do you wish to change your
last answer ?" "No, sir, I don't p'
Well, wouldn't if L were in your
place W And the chuckle that shook
the bench was audibly echoed.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-01-11
Kerosene.

DIR. James r. Nichols, the we'll known
chemist, in his new work, Fireside
Science" says in substance of the fire.
fend, kerosene:
Kerosene is not explosive lighted
taper may be thrust into it, or flame ap
piled to it, with perfect safety. Acct
dents from kerosene occur from two
causes imperfect manufacture and adul-
teratiOn. Naptha is volatile, infamma-
BILE and dangerous, and with imperfect
distillation of kerosene some naptha re-
mains, and further, unprincipled dealers
add naptha to kerosene. But even nap
tina is not explosive to render it or the
vapor that rises from it explosive it must
be naired Uith air, and this is the great
secret of the terrible accidents now so
frequent. A lamp full, or nearly full,
is comparatively safe. In using impure
oil, above the line of oil is inexplosive
vapor (not gas), and as long as it is
warm and quiet no air can reach the oil;
but when the lamp cools the vapor con-
denses, and vacuum is formed which
is instantly filled with air, and the mix
ture is more or less explosive. Let the
lamp be suddenly shaken, and an explo-
sion is PROBABLE or let an unreplenish-
ed lamp be lighted, and there is similar
danger. Cold air striking partially
filed lamp will condense the vapor, air
will rush in, and there will be an explo-
sion. So much for impure kerosene,
Moral, buy of responsible parties, and
always keep your lamps well filed
The whole hazard comes from air-mix,
ed vapor."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-01-11
THE NIGHT EXPRESS.

A bitter December midnight, and the
up-express painting through its ten min
utes rest at Rugby. What with passen-
gers just arriving, and passengers just
departing what with the friends whe
came to see the last of the departing
passengers, or to meet the arriving ones,
the platform was full enough, l can as
sure you and had some difficulty in
making my way from carriage to car
risge, even though generally find that
people almost unconsciously perhaps
move aside for the guard when they see
him walking up or down close to the
carriage doors. This difficulty was in
creased, too, by the maneuvres of my
companion, London detective, who
had joined me to give himself II better
opportunity of examining the passen-
gers. Keenly he did it, too, in that
seemingly careless way of his; and,
while he appeared only an idle, loung-
ing acquaintance of my own, knew
that under his unsuspected scrutiny it
was next to impossible for the thieves
he was seeking to escape-even in ham
pers. didn't trouble myself to help
him, for / knew it wasn't necessary yet
1 was as anxious as hundreds of Others
were that those practiced thieves, whom
the police had been hunting for the last
two days, hould be caught as they de-
served.
Sometimes we came upon group
which my companion could not take in
at glance, and then he always found
himself unusually cold, and stopped to
stamp little life into his petrifed feet.
or course for me this enforced standing
was the signal for an attack of that per-
sistent questioning with which railway
guards are familiar and, in attending
to polite questioners who deserved an
swering, and unpolite ones who insisted
on it, had not much time for looking
about Inc but presently did catch
myself watching girl who stood alone
at some distance. A girl very pretty
and pleasant to look upon, l thought,
though her face, and her dress, and her
attitude were all sad. She stood Just at
the door of the booking-ofice a tall,
slight girl, in deep mourning, with a
quantity of bright, fair hair, plaited
high upon her head, as well as hanging
loosely on her shoulders, with child
ishly innocent face, and pretty, bewil-
dered eyes. wished could have gone
straight to her, and put her into one
the most comfortable-of the line OF
carriages at which she gazed so timidly.
just as hesitated, very remarkable
figure elbowed its way to me; stout,
grandly-dressed old lady, painting pain
fully, and almost piercing me with a
pair of restless, half-opened eyes, that
looked out through the gold-rimmed
spectacles perched on her sharp nose.
Two porters followed her, laden with
bags, cloaks, umbrellas and howers-the
only flowers in the station, Iexpect that
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RIDGWAY, PA, THURSDAY, JANUARY II, 1872.

out into the blackness of the night as
cleverly as they had managed their
theft and subsequent concealment. But
how could they have depended on this
unusual delay-this exquisite opportun-
ity given them in the utter darkness,
close to the city, yet at no station 7
When officially made my deposition,
and explained the cause of our stoppage,
something of the truth seemed to break
upon us all; but it wasn't for good
while that it settled into q certainty.
Then it got clear to everybody that the
older scoundrel had duped us more in
geniousiy than the younger ones. As
the incapable old lady deaf as stone,
snd so blind that she had topper through
her glittering glasses, with eyes always
half-closed, and SO hungry that she had
to stop the train for luncheon-basket)
he had played upon us the neatest trick
of all. Where on earth were the thick
iron-gray hair and whiskers by which
we were to have identified him? But
by the time the police saw the whole
thing clearly it was too late to follow
up any clue to him.
The cab which had taken the eccen-
trio old lady and her narcels and flowers
from Euston was lost in the city, and
could not be tracked. A high reward
was offered for information, but no one
ever won it. My firm belief is that it
was no legitimately licensed cab at all,
but one belonging to the gang, and part
Of the finished fraud. 1 verify believe,
too, that sometimes now-though per-
haps on the other side of the channel
those three praoticed knaves enjoy a
hearty laugh over that December jour
ney by night-express.
Davis still assures me, with the most
cheerful confidence, that he shall yet
have the pleasure some day of trapping
three of the most expert and skillful
thieves in Britain. wish felt as sure
of 1.-THE Argosy.
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CONCERNING NEW YoRKERs.-A f

CoNoEREING NEW YoRKERs.-A free
and-easy correspondent of the Cincinna-
ii Commercial, himself New Yorker,
" expands" in this fashion: "Ne v
York is a noble State, that can not claim
to be the mother of Presidents and to-
bacco like Virginia, but she has pro-
duced good deal else that is worthy of
notice. including Orange County butter,
New Workers are an eminently respect
able set, no matter where you find them.
They are famous for good character. In
Tennessee, for instance, there is not a
single New Yorker in the Penitentiary
or in the Legislature either. 1 call that
@ pretty good record"