The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-14

disgusted with the Crawford county
system of making nominations. There
is not so much fault to be found with
the system, if honest men could be in
duced to act as election officers. Cor
ruption in the election boards is where
the trouble lies.
Will the ladies' who now wear brass
buckles adopt brass brands.
A head that is easily turned--A head
of water.
Methuselah never reported for daily
paper
A number of tea traders in New
York have recently tailed. The losses
in the business amount to $4,000 00C.
The grass-hoppers are making havoc
in Io~a.
A postal card treaty between the
United States aud Great Britain is
proposed.
A rise OF from II to 20 per cent. in
the price OF coal, is reported in New
York.
When man won't keep his word and
nobody will take it, what is to be done
with it? Why let it lie where it is"
Husband, where shall get the tick
ing for our new feather bed?" "Any
place you can get tick"
A Troy man is spending 50 1000 in a
lawsuit about FIVE and one-eigh. in hes
Of land.
The Chicago Directory begins with
Aaeard and taking Ra ani Xaujausteixp
in its way, ends with q, berchropp.
The progress OF the Hoosac tunnel
during July was 22S feet in solid rock.
This leaves ,ll9 feet yet to be pierced.
More than four thousand people were
married IN San Francisco last year, and
yet only 249 were sent to the lunatic
asylum.
People who have been sending after
the "queer," or counterfeit. money, will
no doubt be pleased to learn that full
lists of nam es are being made for pub,
lication.
A lady call ed on witty friend, and
Guding the piano dusty, wrote upon it
"Siattern." The next day they met,
and the lady said, 81 called on you
yesterday" Yes; l saw your card on
the piano.
This is the era of railroad decisions.
Here is another: George Van Kouten
brought suit in the Cass county 1ud.)
court against the Pittsbur gh, Cincinnati
and St. Louis Railroad, to recover So
900 damages. Van Kouten had ell
tered a car of the eompany's and re-
fused TO deliver up his ticket until the
conductor furnished him with a seat.
The cars were crowded and no seat was
to be obtained, so the conductor Just
stopped the train and put Van Kouten
off. Nothing dauuted, he caught on
last car aud was put off a second time,
and his baggage flung off with him.
The case was entered in Cass county,
and under change of venue was taken to
Carroll county, and the plaintiff was
awarded $4,000 by the jury as COM
pensation Tor the broken contract.
Klennen, cashier of the Hoboken
Bank for savings, stole only S3S,000 Of
its funds, but the bank closed its doors
as soon as the "detacation" was dis.
covered. The New York Commercial
Adcertiser says Klennen was "permtted
to do as he pleased, and so far as ascer-
tanned, he is entitled to credit for his
moderation" 1t may occur to some
that the loss of S5S,o00 is RI ther
small amount to cause the ruin of re-
spectacle banking institution, but pos.
sibly the directors of the Hobokcn have
concluded that it is a bad time TO
"bank." The Atlantic, swamped by
Taintor; the Market Savings Bank,
crushed by Conkling; the Bulls Head.
driven to the wall by thieves; the Wall.
kill, ruined by Graham and Horton; the
Brooklyn Trust Company, swindled by
Mills. All these constitute a rather po-
tent argument against becoming re-
sponsble as "diroctors' for other
peoples money and permitting it to be
stolen by cashiers and presidents. In
deed, it may at last strike the dull ap-
prehension of bank directors that to ac
cept the care and custody of Jones
money and allow Smith to steal it is
almost as bad as to parcel it out among
themselves ana retire from business
If these 'defalcations" continue to oc-
cur, and the thieves TO 90 unpuuished,
it will soon become practically a proverb
that "there's no law against stealing"
The American people eujoy the reputa-
ton OF trying to cure everything by
statute. 1t is a question whether it is
not about time to enact laws holding
bank directors criminalIy responsible for
the acts of each other, and for the hon
esty OF their cashiers and corps of en-
ployees. Bank robbsries from behind
the counter at the hands of trusted
officials is becoming a national scandal,
demanding radical tr, atment.
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