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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-31
A Spanish Prison.

A correspondent writing fror.. Madrid
gives q vivid description of the city
prison of the Spanish capital. He goes
on to say that, h wing traversed well
lighted passages, we stumbled down a
dark, break neck and filthy staircase.
and making our way through groups of
ill-favored, ragged denizens of the
place, stop before an iron-bound door,
at which my conductors knocked loud
ly. 1t is opened We enter another
passage and halt for few seconds. A
man with forbidding countenance, him
self prisoner, shouts loudly, an
nouncing the Governors visit, and a
crowd of filthy, miserable objects in
human form hurry past. The Governor
beckons me to follow, and we find our
selves in long, dismal, vaulted cham
ber The offensive stencil for an
instant makes me recoil with disgust.
Throughout the whole length of this
horrible abode is sloping woodwork,
similar to that in guard houses, which
serves for the prisoners bedsteads.
Standing on these sleeping places, the
wretches, about ninety i'll number, had
taken their position. No bedding of
any kind is provided for them, and un-
less they have friends outside who char
itably supply them with Il mattress, the
scum of society crouch for the night on
the blackened, filthy boards, huddled
together like wild beasts in their lairs.
The authorities have not a sufficient
quantity of blankets to provide one for
each prisoner. And now, although the
weather was mild, within this vaulted
den the pestilential atmosphere was
damp and chill The inmates who had
blankets kept them tightly drawn
around their shoulders for warmth, and
for fear of their being stolen by their
associates. On the walls are long lines
of wooden pegs, to which are suspended
the extra rags of the prisoners entitled
to consider the portion of the plank
beneath his sleeping place.
High on the wall, to the left hand,
are few small unglaze6 apertures with
iron grating, which dimly light den,
and afford the only and far from suf-
| fcient means of ventilation. Toward
the centre of the wall is a recess, the
state of which is indescribable. And in
this den, unfit for wild beasts, human
| flesh and blood must pine and rot until
tardy Spanish justice either releases
the wretched tenant, or sends him for
trial or to the Bagne, which is, by com
parison, Paradise. The brawls and
| tights which sometimes occur are terri
BILE. Imagination refuses to picture to
itself the horrible and depraved scenes
enacted when the sun has set, and those
two poor little lanterns, swinging by
cords from the roof, shed their faint,
hickering light on the man of human
wretchedness shut in from the outer
world A sojourn in the Saladero
would denioralize the strongest mind.
Therein the innocent become criminal,
and depravity doubly deprived. The
abuse of power, the total disregard OF
humanity, and the disgraced admins
tration of law, which my visit to this
hellish place has revealed, would also
justify the overthrow of the govern
ment that has tolerated them.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-31
A Private Still.

We heard a good story lately. A rev
enue officer was sent into the illicit
whisky distilling district in Kentucky
He knew illicit distilling was going on,
but he could get no basis to work from.
Coming to an Irishman who was toler-
tbly drunk, the officer tapped him Oh
the shoulder, and SAID, My man, do
you want to make ten dollars ?" "I Is il
ten dollars ?" said Pat, "sure and ]
TO-" "Then," said the officer, "show
ne private still. ," "Pll do the same;
follow me, yer Honor"
The officer followed across lots and
ields to the camp of a company of sol
liers that had been sent there to aid
the revenue officers. The soldiers were
in line dress parade. "Do you see
hat red-headed man?" asked Pat,
pointing to one of the soldiers. eyes, y
replied the officer. He is, said Pat,
"my brother. He's been i'll the service
Twelve years. He'll be a corporal after
while, but he is "a private still. -
"Ten dollars gone, and no illicit whisky
found" moralized the officer as ht
wended his way back to his hotel
Madison Courier.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-31
Narrow Guage.

Mr.. Hall, of the Catskill Recorder,
writes to his paper from Colorado. He
says eat Golden we were transferred
to new narrow guage g feet) railroad,
the first of the kind have seen. The
passenger coaches were neatly and COM
fortably constructed, with double seats
on one side and single seats opposite
one-half the length of the car, and then
alternated, to preserve equilibrium.
But little motion, or jar, is observable,
and one rides as comfortably as upon
the New York and Erie six-feet guage.
This road is marvel of engineering
and enterprise, and as great q curiosity
as can be found on the continent. Some
of it's heaviest grades are ITO feet to the
mile, while the average is 140 feet. 1t
is completed only to Floyd's Hill, Is
miles from Golden, but will soon be ex
tended to Georgetown, about 20 miles
further, with branch (now in opera.
tion) to Central City. The roadbed is
nearly all "made," OF masonry, and is
Il complete succession of short curves
almost the entire route. In fact, do
not think there are, in the entire Is
miles, forty successive rods of straight
track. Our party wisely gave the open
observation ear the preference"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-31
The Boy Whose Mother Cuts His Hair.

You can always tell boy whose
mother cuts his hair, says Danbury.
Not because the edges of it look as if it
had been chewed off by an absent
minded horse, but you tell it by the way
he stops on the street and wriggles his
shoulders. When fond mother has to-
cut her boys hair, she is careful to
guard against any annoyance and muss
by laying n sheet on the carpet. It has
never yet occurred to her to set him
over bare floor and put the sheet
around his neck Then she draws the
front hair over his eyes and leaves it
there while she cuts that which is at the
back. The hair which lies over his eyes
appears to be surcharged with electric
needles, and that which is silently
dropping down under his shirt band APP
pears to be ON fire. She has uncon-
sciously continued to push his head
forward until his nose presses his
breast, and is too busily engaged to no.
tice the snuffling sound that is becoming
alarmingly frequent. In the meantime
he is seized with an irresistible desire
to blow his nose, hut recollects that his
handkerchief is in the other room
Then fly lights on his nose, and does
it so7unexpectedly that he involuntarily
lodges, and catches the points of the
shears in his left ear. At this he COM
mences to cry and wish he was man.
But his mother doesn't notice him. She
merely hits him on the other ear, to in
spire him with confidence, and goes on
with the work. When she is through,
she holds his jacket collar back from his
neck, and with her mouth blows the
short bits of hair from the top of his
head down his back. He calls her at
tention to this fact, but she looks for a
new place on his head and hits him
there, and asks him why he didn't use
his andkercbief Then he takes his
awfully disfgured head to the mirror
and looks at it, and, young as he is,
shudders as he thinks of what the boys
on the street will say.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-31
The CAPTURE of Khiya.

Dispatches from Khiva give the fol
owing account of events subsequent to
The capture of the city:
The Khan voluntarily entered the
Russian camp and gave in his submis.
sion, formally declaring himself a vassal
of Russia. Gen. Caufman then restored
him to the throne, and appointed q
council of administration to assist him
n the government during the occupa-
ton of the Khanate by the Russian
forces.
The Khan, in token of gratitude,
issued on the oath of June decree
forever abolishing slavery within his
dominions.
Gen. Kaufman has sent dispatches tc
Teharan, notifying the Persian Govern
ment to make preparations for the re
ception of ten thousand natives o.
Persia released from slavery by the
Khan's decree.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-31
A Night of Terror on Lake Erie.

The details of the fortunate escape
from drowning of five men of Cleveland
who passed night and a day adrift in
boat on Lake Erie during gale have
come to light with the return to Cleve-
land of the party from Buffalo, whittier
they were carried after having been res
cued. The men in boat left together
for Rocky River on Sunday morning
last. Crozad had chartered the boat,
IN open yacht twenty feet long, and the
amusement. After Crozad had finished
his business, the party set out on THEN
return to Cleveland. The breeze fresh
ened, and the yacht was running along
very we'll, when an accident happened
to the rudder. Two hours time was
consumed in the effort to repair the
damage, and in the meantime the yacht
had driited helplessly out to sea. She
was now distant eight miles from shore,
and the wind was blowing away from
the land, while the gathering of thick,
black clouds betokened a coming storm
In spite of all efforts the boat could not
be made to near the land, and at every
tack made she was further away. One
Of the Benjamins took charge of the
helm, as he was the only man of the
party who knew aught of the manage
ment of boat. The night came on,
and the wind, now increased to a gale,
drove the yacht, drifting under bare
poles, the sails having been clewed
down, far out to sea. The sky was OF
inky blackness the rain fell in tor
rents the waves rolled around the
boat, threatening each moment to sub
merge her, and the scene was rendered
more fearful by the glare of the light,
ming and the incessant crash of thun.
der. For hours, with not light to
guide them, and half expectant of q
grave in the angry waters of the lake,
the crew of the yacht waited for the
break of day. They were exhausted
as none of them had eaten anything
since breakfast the previous morning
When daylight things visible they
could see fifteen sail in the distance
But none of these noticed their signals
of distress, and they continued to drift
until towards shutdown. After nearly
thirty-six hours of fearful physical ia
tigue and mental torture, they were res
cued by the schooner A. Bradley, bount
for Buffalo, and were carried TO tha
port. When picked up, only the jill
sail and single oar remained to tn,
castaways. They we're at the time fort,
miles below Cleveland, and in sight o
the shore of Canada.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-31
Conductor Bradley.

Conductor Bradley (always may his name
Be said with reverence y as the swift doom
came.
Smitten to death, crushed and mangled
frame,
Sank, with the brake he grasped Just where he
stood
To do the utmost that brave man could,
And die, if needful. as a true man should.
Men stopped above him; women dropped Their
On that poor wreck beyond all hores or fears
Lost in the strength and glory of his years.
What heard they' Lo! the ghastiy lips Of
pain.
Dead to all thought save duty's, moved again:
Put out the signals for the other train /"
No nobler utterance since the world began
From lips of saint or martyr ever ran
Electric. through the sympathies of man.
All, me how poor and noteless seem to this
The sick-bed dramas of self-consciousncss,
Our sensual fears of pain and hopes of bliss
Oh, grand. supreme endeavor! Not in vain
That last brave act Of failing tongue and brain !
Freighted with life, the downward rushing
train,
Following the wrecked one, as wave follows
wave,
Obeyed the warning which the dead lips gave.
Others he saved, himself he could not save.
Nay. the lost life ,cds saved. He is not dead
Who in his record still the earth shall tread
With Gods clear aureole shining round his
head.
We bow as in the dust, with all our pride
OF virtue dwarfed the noble deed beside.
God give us grace to live as Bradley died!
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-31
An Indian Wedding.

Gov. Sockalexis, of the Penobscot
tribe of Indians, was married at Old
Town, near Bangor, Me-, to Miss
Moddlin, who is a daughter Of DR..
5ockalexis Glossian, and reported to be
m Indian maiden of great beauty. The
Bangor Wing says that the interesting
ceremonies included revival of the
old Indian dance, the marvellous snake
dance, and the still more intricate Mic
mac, being skillfully executed by stal,
wart men and maidens brown. Later
in the evening the fashionable dances
of the white man were introduced, and
the younger members of the tribe tool
part with much apparent satisfaction
The bride was attired in brown anG
white striped silk dress, heavily hounced
and long train black lace shawl fiesl
colored kids white lace hat, trimmed
with white ribbon and pink flowers.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-31

The owner of hotel in Skye has
brought an action for slander for e500
against a gentleman who made the
following entry in the visitors book
81 have been in many-indeed in most
hotels-ip Scotland, but nowhere have
I encountered so much drinking, or so
much squalid untidiness and dirt.
(Signed) Malcolm M'Niell."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-31
RIDGwAY, ELK COUNTY, PA, THURSDAY, JULY 81 1873

81 never saw or heard of him after
that night but he had his revenge, if
that did him any good. The De Courcy
never got over the fright he gave her
she fell into adecline, and died eighteen
months later; and her father wasn't
long in following her.-Now, then,
what do you say to hand at ecartes'" /"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-31

The Chignon is no longer seen at
fashionable watering places,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-05
SPAIN.

Threatened Outbreak In Andaiusia.
MADRID. September 4.-The authorities of
Jerez, IN Andalusia, fear q socialistic out
break IN that town, and have made q de-
mand upon the central government for re-
ln1orcements for the grrrison.
Artillery Commander Resigned.
The commander of the artillery in the
republican forces besiegng Carthagena has
rendered his resignation alleging as his
reason that the means placed at his dis
posal are not sufficient to enable him to
make himself felc against the guns of the
insurgents. -
Proceedings In the Cortes.
The Cortes is engaged in the considera.
ton OF a motion authorizing the enforce
ment OF military DEGREES without the ap-
proval Of the COrtes..s..
An amendment was offered that
all cases in which the penalty is
death shall be referred to the Cortes.
1t was rejected by vote of eighty:two yeas
been made cabinet question If tho orig.
inal motion is adopted President Salmeron
and his cabinet will resign and Senior Cas-
teIlar will be called upon to form new
ministry.
Sentenced to Death. sf-
VALENCIA, September 4-The socialists
have been sentenced to death by the tri-
0unal OF Justice of this city. .
The Imsuraane~ dsunboats.
GIBRALTAR, September 4.-The Spanish
ironclads Vittoria and Auamanza have ar
rived here.
Fsrty thousand Carlfsts Under Arms.
BAYoNNE, September At is announced
upon authority that there are now about
10000 Carlists under arms in Spain. They
are making arrangements to establish q
cannon foundry near the town of Tortosa
or Tarazona
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-05
B Y TELE GR APH
WASHINGTON.
Beau Hickman. .


WASHINGTON, September beau Hick
| man was buried from the hospital, in tn,
public burial ground yesterday. A su5sc9p
ton was made to give him better interment
The undertakes employed by the mana gers
OF this charity found the grave desecrated
The limbs. viscera and brain had been re-
moved. The heart was found neatly
wrapped IN newspaper, which the mutila-
tors probably forgot in their haste. A sur
geons knife was also found near the grave
The mu,ilatiOn was evidently performed by
skilled hands.
News from the Tigress.
Information has been received at the
Navy Department that the United States
steamer Juniata, Commander D. L. Braine,
arrived at Holstein burg, Greenland, on
July Is. She touched at Fiskanes and At
'Sikker." No dogs could be found at the
latter ports. Commander Braine, through
the courtesy of Governor Frederick Larsen,
procured at Holsteinburg eighteen dogs
and an abundance of sealskins for clothing
for officers and men of the Tigress. and
sailed on the nineteenth of July for Disco,
thence to Upper Navik.
the tenth of July from Disco, but no tidings
had been received there regarding the
Polarls. The ice was reported very heavy
IN Omenakfiord, and at and above Upper
Navik The health of the officers and crew
of the Juniata is excellent. The dispatch
to the department came by the Danish
brig Constance. via Copenhagen.
The Wawasset.
The owners OF the Wawasset in case suit
is brought against them, will bring an
action against the government inspectors,
as being equally derelict with Themselves
it there was any dereliction. There is
nothing in the law forbdding the use of old
boilers in Few boats, providing the boilers
stand the test. r.--
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-05
Important Business.

A Mrs. LEACH, of New Orleans. is in
trouble in New York, and if she finds Mr.
Leach, her husband, she promises to make
some unpieasantness for him, and intends
to stick to him until she reclaims him to the
path of virtue. Mr. Leach is a sea captain,
and until about six years ago he made his
home in New Orleans, between voyages.
He told his wife one day that he had very
important business at the North, which
would keep him away from her and his
four children a considerable length of time.
He left without giving Mrs. Leach very
clear idea of what the business was. He
wrote regularly, however, and also endured
the long separation uncotnplainingly, until
about a year ago, when the correspondence
on his part suddenly ceased. MRS. Leach
hacked her trunk and went to New
YORK. There she heard that William Leach
was living in Trenton, New Jersey. To
Trenton she went, but could find no resi-
cent OF that place who answered to the
name of William Leach. Size had heard
her William had property IN Trenton and
went to the office of the deputy clerk, but
could not lind the name. She then be-
thought herself that if William Leach had
any object i'll concealing his identity, as she
now suspected, he would probably take the
name of Drake, which was his mothers
On examination it was ascertained that
William Drake had property near Trenton,
and thither Mrs. Leach and the city mar
shal went. They found house and a
woman in it. who said she was William
brakes wife. At first she was very
uncivil. but finally the marshal was dis
missed and Mrs. Leach and Mrs. Drake
had long interview. They satisfied them
selves that William Drake was no other
than William Leach He had gone to New
York on curious errand. He was having
a lawsuit with Trenton woman for marry
ing. him, having husband already, and
laid his damages at $4,000 He was then in
New York hunting up witnesses. The two
women found that they had a common in
terest in following Leach, and they both
started off to New York to hunt him.
When he takes aIview of the peculiar situa-
tion he will probably drop the suit against
the Trenton woman, which will be satisfae-
tory to her, and return to his first wife,
which will suit her. If this should be the
:s,sult, it will be an instance of two wrongs
making rights. Louis Republican,.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-05
Loutsianian. Abroad.

Tie American Register, published at
Paris, on the sixteenth ultImo contained the
names of the following New Orleans people
now registered in the principal European
cities:
PARIs.-Mrs. W. j. Behan and child, Ho.
tel de rAthenee Edward Bell, Hotel de
Normandie; John =. Berry, Hotel de Ba-
Were; Mrs. j. D. Cobb and family, No. 81
Avenue Josephine. Mr.. and Mrs. Forester
DolhOnde, D. Jamison, Blair Jamison. X. I.
Saunders. and James Thomas. Grand Hotel.
LnsDoN.-James Hagan, Miss NJ. c. Ha-
gan, Langham Hotel
AMsTERDAM.-C. Cavaroc, Jr., Amstal
Hotel. fl-e
GEsEvA-Mrs. Ninette, D. H. Warrea,
Mr.. Strong. ..EE
INTERLAKEN.-G. Hazard. J. and Mrs.
Perkins.
BADEN-BADEN.-R.I II. AlleS j. NJ. Allen,
NJ ISIS Mary L Allen.
MrNICH.-Miss Bailey, Miss Annie G.
Lowell, -Four Seasons Hotel.
WEIsBADEN.-J. Brock, Rhein Hotel
PRaGUE.-A. X. Brown, Hotel Ange-
terre.
The same paper announces the return of
Durant da Ponte, Esq, from Spain to Paris.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-05
Communicated
A City Nuisance
.DITOR REPUBLICAN

EDITOR REPUBLICAN,: -r-
Knowing that'you have more influence
with Colonel Lewis than any other city
journal, and believing that he means to do
right and does not wish to create nuisance
on premises under his own control, we beg
yoTSto please call his attention to the city
yard on Erato street where three of the city
horses Goard. The water is permitted to
flow from the hydrant over the sidewalk
all day, and frequently all night, greatly to
the annoyance of pedestrians. If the hy-
drant was removed to the rear instead of
being placed in the front of the yard the
nuisance would be obviated. Between the
noise of the running water and the stamp
ing of the iron shoes on the stone pavement
during the night las the horses are allowed
to run loose during the night, it is impos-
sible to sleep. l believe, as in the case of
Cushings dog, an action can lay against
the city for damages. E. T. r.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-05
DISASTERS.
More of the Great storm,

HALIFAX. September 4.-The schooner
netis. OF Lunenberg, before reported lost,
ith all hands, is in New London, Prince
awards Island, harbor. Three bodies were
Ind ii the cabin. and the remainder of
q cFew are supposed to have been washed
bout fifty bedies, supposed to be the
colse5 o. American fishermen. have been
a'ed ashore Oh the north side Of Prince
Edtrd5 Island. Thirty-three of these
werpicked up betv@.n North Cape and
Coscanpec.
Ihbark Helen, from Montreal. is total
Wrecion Hog island, on the north side.
SeVenf the crew perished. The captain,
DoatsFin and two sailors were saved.
The 'atswain was rescued from the surf
by Capin Mcdonald, of the Dominion.
A guilty of wrecked material, boat
anu wv. bodies were washed ashore at
Campbell
The cabin and crew of the abandoned
brig OakEnt were rescued by an Ameri-
can nshln.chooner, the Gertle Lewis
Captain toward, of the brig Oakpoint,
states that American captain, whom he
saw at Cani reported having passed at
sea- after gale, foreign bark, painted
white, on nrtwhich burned to the water g
edge IL wasrobably1h Norwegian bark
horsefaner, Mch left Halifax on the morn
ing of the galeor New York.
Burning Of thFa shiou stabIes-ya,uable
| orses Lost.
| TRENTON: n. Septenbe 4.-The Fash
ION stud staoiesvere burned to-day. Ou,
OF nineteen nors nine woe lost, as t0l