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Ellsworth American., 1874-07-30
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To The Hon. Court Of County Commissioners
fpr The County of Hancock.
WE TIE UNDERSIGNED citizens OF said
w County respectfully represent that The
Couaty road leading over JoDes' iliIl, so called.
lin Nalthaml can be male much easier by chang.
ing Il so as to pass around on the Nortberiy and
Westerly side of said iIili, aud the same would
be OF great public convenience and necessity
We therefore pray your Houors TO view said
route and make such change at your earliest
convenience.
And a IN duty bound would ever pray
LEWIS sILSBY and IL others.
Plantation No. Il, April Is, 1874.
Ellsworth American., 1874-07-30
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Ellsworth American., 1874-07-30

>ch Minpeoia. Farrell. Boston
sch Tamerlane, Hodgkins, Boston
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-03
The Slave Trade of the Nile.

In 1870 or 1871 Sir Samuel Baker, the
well-known English traveller and ex-
plorer, entered the service of the Khe-
dive of Egypt for the period of three
years, at salary of $50, per annum.
He was ordered to suppress the slave
trade of the White Nile and to re- es-
tablish the Government of the Egyp-
tian Viceroy in the Nile basin of Cen
trail Africa. His expedition to that
country was partially successful. He
reclaimed much territory, which was
added to the dominions of the Khedive.
and he captured many slavers and re-
restored their victims to liberty.
But Notwithstanding his glowing and
self-congratulatory accounts of brilliant
victories, it may we'll be doubted
whether Sir Samuel Baker succeeded in
seriously crippling the slave traffic. 1t
is true that he had great deal to strug-
gle against. The feeling of the Egyp-
tian people is strongly in favor of the
continuance of the slave trade, which is
regarded by them as a domestic neces-
sity and as source of commercial
profit. Nor was the suppression of the
traffic the main object in view with the
Khedive.
Sir Samuel Baker has very recently
written letter expressing his surprise
that Abou Saood, the great slave hun
ter of the White Nile-to whom he at
tributes much of his trouble on the ex-
pedition-should have been appointed
by the Khedive to be the ght hand
man of Col. Gordon, Sir Samuel's sue
cessor in the present expedition. Ac-
cording to this letter, Abou Saood is a
most unmitigated rascal. He is the
sonin.law of the head of a Cairo firm
of slave hunters, Agad & Co., and every
year he leads an armed force of $500
cutthroats ON slave hunt from Khar-
toum in the Soudan. He massacres,
plumbers, and burns through the inte-
rior, and kidnaps the women and chill
dren to sell them into slavery.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-03
The Corn Crop,

The August returns to tho U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture from New Eng
land show general improvement in the
corn crop during July, though it is still
backward. Maine averages 80 per cent.
of full crop; New Hampshire, 90 !;
Vermont, 81; Massachusetts. 1O1 !;
Rhode Island, 100; Connecticut, 1O7.
1t is very promising in portions of the
Middle States, but in other parts it
was injured either by drought, or ex-
cess of rain.
A decline is noted in New York, it
averaging 81 and New Jersey 81 ; Penn
sylvania and Delaware have both risen
to per cent. above the average of the
South Atlantic States Maryland aver
aging 90, shows the crops damaged by
drought, especially on stiff soils; Vir-
ginia averaging 80, also shows decline
from the same cause and from insect
ravages North Carolina 81, it lost l
per cent. South Carolina and Georgia
have risen to 10 per cent. above the
average Florida 102, maintains her
July average; Texas declines from 1O6
to 100
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-03
The Old Letter,

i found 1t this. morning where it had
blown with Tie dtied leaves. Under the
porch, JJrroc.i faded and creased and y6il5tF ID
Flanders lace, and written in a fine
cramped hand, with schoolgirl -four
ishes and queer, old-fashioned DIS.
"DEAR JOHN Git RAM" You say you
have lost all love for me since last
night, at the ball, because firted with
the doctors son.
"Oh, John, t meant no harm you
do not know-I was always such g silly
little thing, and it is so pleasant to be
told one has bright eyes and o sweet
voice When you passed me without
speaking, 7 thought my heart would
break.
"Only forgive me, and [ will be SO
good you won't know it is Olive at all
---yoti will think 1t is some one else.
Emma and Henry will go to the con-
cert tonight, but I shall be alone, and
watch for you at the south window. [
shall always now be 80 discreet, so pro-
per, SO careful and L love you, John.
OLIVE WILDE"
No one would suppose that the little
old maid, who lives with her brother
on Bleecker street, was ever young and
girlish and impulsive ugh to have
written that letter but here is her
name in full, on the faded margin,
1 saw John pass yesterday in his
family carriage with his feshy, COM
Portable looking wife and his four rosy
children, wealthy, portly, lofty old
gentleman. Perhaps Olive saw him,
too, knitting by the same south win
dow where she had sat and watched in
vain twenty years ago, till the sky and
her life darkened together.
Little things make mountains of diff
culties to lovers. and John never came.
He married some one else, and per-
haps soon forgot entirely the saucy, af-
fectionate, coquettish Olive Wilde,
whose bright oddity had chiefly at
tracted him.
Women do not forget SO easily as
men.
Olive thought of him when the morn
ing colored the bit of sky at the end of
the street; when the evening clouded
the south window; when her parents
died when her brother and sister mar
ried through every Joy and sorrow of
her life she carried this one memory.
Poor Olive if there was anything
harder than to get fixed idea IN her
head, it was to get that idea out again
when once there.
She never saw any one she fancied,
pei haps no one ever fancied her. Her
freshness and vivacity (she had no
beauty were soon gone. The red in
her cheeks and the light in her eyes
began to fade. She ceased to take any
pains with her dress.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-03
The Infinite Presence.

gaze aloof,
On the tissued roof
Where time andspace are the warp and weof
Which the King of Kings
As a curtain filings
Ger the dreadfulness of eternal things.
But could see
AZ in truth they be,
lhe glorles ~ heaven that encompass me,
should lightly hold
The tissued fold
VI ialat marvellous curtain of blue and gold.
Soon the whole,
Like parched scroll.
snail Before my amazed sight uproll;
And without screen,
AT ono burst be seen
The Presence wherein 1 have ever been.
Oh who shall bear
The binding glare
vi the Majesty that shall meet us there?
What eye may gaze
On the unveiled blaze
Of the lightt-sirdled throne of the Ancient Of
Days !?
Christ us aid
Himself be our shade,
IFlat in the dread day we be not Gi,smaved.
WHITEHEAD.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-03
NO.. Z.
Items of Interest,"

This is called Ministers Leap Year
because the vacation month, August,
has FIVE Sundays.
Phineas Battle, who committed sui
eide at Orange, Mass, gave $1,000 to
the Universalist church of that town.
A wealthy English widow, whose
passion is small feet, offers to marry
the man who is over five feet tall and
can wear her shoe, number three's.
Talking of Goldsmith Maid, it may
be woll to state that she is seventeen
years of age, is owned by Henry N.
Smith, of New York, who says be won't
sell her for one hundred thousand dol
lars.
Fifteen hundred persons are en-
ployed at Key West in making cigars.
More than half of them are Cubans.
This industry has raised the place to
one of the most prosperous communi-
ties in the South.
A beggar posted himself at the door
of an English chancery court, and kept
saying, ga penny, please, sir ! Only
penny, sir, before you go in" "And
for what, my manP" inquired an old
country gentleman. "Because, sir, the
chances are that you will not have one
when You come out"
"Papa, do you think Beech"
Hush, Johnnie" But, papa, don't
you think Beech" "Didn't you
hear me tell you to stop your noise, sir?
L won't have you talking about these
things. Go in and get your face
Washed" And Johnnie, with tears in
his eyes, wants to know why papa won't
tell him whether beechnuts are ripe.
The South Kensington Museum, in
London, has cost the nation since it's
establishment $5,95S,549. A cores
pondent writes "Those who have
visited this matchless museum will
know that I understate rather than
overstate it's actual present value, when
I say that if it's contents were disposed
of at auction tomorrow, they would
not bring less than twenty millions
sterling"
Hamburg, Conn, has recently had
curious love affair. Two brothers
courted the same girl, and she engaged
herself to the younger, but as the time
set for the marriage drew near, the
youth had difficulty in obtaining GER
tifcate. Meanwhile, the girl trans
ferred her affections to the older one,
and, he having armed himself with
certificate, they were married on the
very day set for the marriage with the
Younger brother,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-03
New York Milk Trade,

The milk trade of New York city and
its vicinity is very large one, and
gives employment to great number of
persons, besides forming an important
portion of the traffic of seven lines of
railroad. In order to give clear idea
of this trade it may be interesting to
show the plan of operations between
the producer and the consumer. The
milk dealer first arranges with the
farmer or dairyman as to tho price to
be paid to him per quart, delivered at
the station of the railroad, and the
probable quantity to be supplied daily,
after which the former has to pay the
freight to this city, and provide means
to transport it to his customers. In
numerous cases the dealer will agree to
take from the farmer the whole of his
production, and in these instances the
trade is sometimes uncertain, and often
Improbable. When the weather is hot
or the winter severe, there is often n
greater demand for milk than the farm
ers can supply, and the dealer is COM
PEELED to buy the required extra guam
tity from spectators and in these in
stances $5 has often been refused for q
can of 40 quarts. Should the weather
be cool, or a large number of con-
sumers be absent from the city, the
supply will exceed the demand, and the
dealer will often be unable to sell his
extra stock for even 81 per can, which,
in some instances, is lower than he paws
the farmer, and he also loses the cost
of freight. Before a farmer can enter
upon the work of supplying a milk
dealer he requires some capital, as it is
necessary for him to have a double +
triple set of cans, and in some instances
four or five cans for every 40 quarts of
milk he sends to market. First he
must have one can to hold the milk.
This is filed on the day prior to being
sent during the night to market. This
can is held the next day-the day of ar
rival-by the dealer, and returned to
the milk depot the next night, at the
same time when removing the following
days supply, and is forwarded to the
farmer by the returning train. The
can has then to be thoroughly cleansed,
and placed for a time in a running
stream to cool off, so as to be fit for the
reception of milk. Should there be the
slightest particle of old milk or cream
left in the can the probabilities are that
the whole can of new milk will be
spoiled. Where streams are not con-
venient ice is often used. Meanwhile
the milk has to be sent to market, and
cans are thus detained, others must
take their places. AS each can costs
from 81 to $5, capital of about $1OO is
necessary to send even five cans, or 200
quarts of milk, to market daily. Some
large dairymen have over $1,000 thus
invested in cans alone, and many have
lost large amount in consequence of
cans having been lost, stolen, or misap-
propriated by the consignees and others.
The total daily supply from all
sources is between 5000 and 10000
cans, averaging 40 quarts each, and the
revenue to the railroads from freight of
milk alone aggregates about $4,000
daily. About 1000 cans of milk come
in on private wagons, or are supplied
from COWS in the city and suburbs.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-03
A Deadly Spring.

A writer in the Colusa (Cal.) In
dependent says "About one-half
mile over mountain from Bartlett
Springs there is what is called the Gas
Spring. This is probably the greatest
curiosity of the mountains. The water
is ice cold, but bubbling and foaming
as if boiled, and the greatest wonder is
the inevitable destruction of life pro-
duced by inhaling the gas. No live
thing is to be found within circuit of
100 yards near the spring. The very
birds, if they happen to fly over it, drop
dead. We experimental with lizard
on It's destructive properties by holding
it a few feet above the water; it
stretched dead in two minutes. 1t will
kill human being in twenty minutes.
We stood over it about five minutes,
when /. a dull, heavy, aching sensation
crept over us, and our eyes began to
swim. The gas which escapes here is
the rankest kind of carbonic, hence it's
sure destruction of life also, quench-
ing of flame instantaneously."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-03

him waving the stick to which his hand
kerchief was tied. The master, John
Dennis, sent boat, and brought him
off in an apparently dying state, so ex-
hausted IS TO be unable to speak.
With care and kindness, however. he
recovered, and was carried to Marble.
head, in Massachusetts,, where he sup.
ported himself by his trade of black
smith.
This circumstantial account satisfied
people at first, but when the letter was
shown to Robert Jefrey's ntothor she
pointed out that not only was it written
in strange hand, but that it was not
even signed by her son, who could
write we'll enough, and was very un-
likely to make his mark, as the man
VINO vouched for the genuineness OF this
epistle had done. The objection natural
ly carried weight, and many people sus-
pected that the evidence of George
Hassel and of the letter had been Eot
up by the captain, who was anxious to
prove the man alive, and SO escape
from the odium which attached to him.
Finally ship was sent to bring this
protesting Robert Jeffrey to England,
where he arrived in due course, and
proved to be the right man safe enough,
certain shyness and difidcnte which
he felt in the presence of the gentle
men vino had drawn up his report be-
ing the cause of his making O cross?in-
stead of signing it.
He landed, at Portsmouth in the Oc-
tcber of 1910, three years after the
event which had caused him to become
public character. The Admiralty for
warded him under the charge of naval
officer to Polperre, where the entire
population recognized him, and his ar
rival was made the occasion of great
public rejoicing.
But before settling down in his native
place, he accepted an offer from the
manager of London theatre to exhibit
himself for certain number of nights,
and as it became the rage to go and see
Jeffrey the Sailor" he made rather a
good thing of it. These profits were
presently swelled by sum of six hun
dred pounds, which was paid him by
the family of Tie captain in acqnittal of
eli claims he might have against that
officer, who was still liable to civil ac-
tion, and in the excited state of public
opinion was likely to be cast in heavy
damages.
After the lapse of few months, when
he ceased to "draw," Jeffrey returned
to Cornwall with money enough to pur.
chase coasting schooner; married,
and, it this were fiction, would have
lived happily forever afterward. But
the story being a perfectly true one,
Robert Jeffrey was subject to all those
ills which afilict ordinary mortals who
have never been the subjects of popular
sympathy or curiosity.
He failed to make his schooner pay,
and he died early of consumption, leav-
ing his wife and daughter in great pov-
erty.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-03
Home Luck.

A young lady in San Francisco is en-
gagged to gentleman who, through his
recklessness, has well nigh caused her
death on several occasions. About
three months ago this young man, when
on the point of separating from his
affianced until the next evening, made
a mistake in his selection of overcoats
in the hall, and, finding revolver in
the pocket, he drew it out and COM
menced toying with the weapon. 1t
was accidently discharged, as a natural
consequence, and the young lady re-
ceived a severe wound in the arm. This
mishap retarded the courtship for a
time, but the maiden finally recovered,
and the current of true love was glid-
ing very placidly again, when she ac-
cepted an invitation to ride out with
her lover. The couple had scarcely
started when the horse ran away, the
buggy was capsized, and the young
lady was thrown down bank, sustain
ing fracture of the leg and severe
bruises. This accident will again defer
the elimination of this disastrous
courtship for several months longer
With patience and the exercise of much
prudence, however, they may be happy
vet.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-03
A Romantic Story.

Excellent material for a sensation
story is furnished by the following we'll
established facts Victorine Lafour-
eade, young, beautiful, and accomplish
ed, had a great number of admirers.
Among them was q journalist named
Jules Bossouet, whose chances of being
the successful suitor seemed to be the
best, when suddenly Victorine, contra
ry to all expectation, accepted the hand
of a rich banker named Renelle. Bos-
souet was inconsolable, and his honest
heart ached all the more when he learned
that the marriage of his lady-love was
unhappy. Renelle neglected his wife
in every possible way, and finally began
to maltreat her.
This state of things lasted two years,
when Victorine died-at least so it was
thought. She was entombed in vault
of the cemetery of her native town.
Jules Bossouet assisted at the ceremony.
Still true to his love, and wellnigh be-
side himself with grief, he conceived
the romantic idea of breaking open the
vault and securing lock of the de-
ceased's hair. That night, therefore,
when all was still, he scaled the wall of
the cemetery, and, by circuitous
route, approached the vault. When he
had broken open the door and entered
the vault he lighted candle, and pro-
ceeded to open the coffin. At the mo-
ment when he bent over the supposed
corpse, scissors in hand, Victorine
the face. He uttered cry and sprang
back but, Immediately recovering his
self-possession. he returned to the cof-
fin, covered it's occupants lips with
kisses, lifted her out, and soon had the
satisfaction of seeing her in the full
possession of all her faculties. When
Victorine was sufficiently recovered
they left the church-yard and went to
Bossouets residence, where physician
administered such remedies as were
necessary to affect the complete re-
covery of the unfortunate woman. This
proof of Bossouet's love naturally made
a deep impression on Victorine. She
repented her past fckleness, and re-
solved to fly with the romantic Jules to
America.
There they lived happily together,
without, however, ever being able to
fully overcome their longing to return
to their native land. Finally, their
desire became so strong to revisit the
scenes of their youth that they decided
to brave the danger attendant on re-
turn, and embarked at New York for
Havre, where they arrived in July,
1880. Victorine, in the interim, had
naturally changed very greatly, and
Jules felt confident that her former
husband would not recognize her, In
this hope he was disappointed. Re-
nellie had the keen eye of financier,
and recognized Victorine at the first
glance. This strange drama ended
with suit brought by the banker for
the recovery of his wife, which was de-
cided against him on the ground that
his claim was outlawed.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-03

DUE11ING.-Duelling is to be legal
lied in Germany, and "Councils of
Honor" are to be formed, to consider
personal difficulties between officers in
the army, to adjust them if possible,
and if not, to officially authorize duel.
Officers fighting under such circum-
stances, will not be subject to criminal
prosecution. This regulation may seem
of questionable propriety, but there
can be no doubt, that it will have tend
ency to diminish the number of duels.
1t will probably be the determination
of this council of honor to prevent all
duels, if possible, by effecting COM
promise, and not to give permits au-
thorising parties to fight it out, except
in very rare cases. AS it is, officers
having personal controversies will in
sist upon settling their grievances with
sword or pistol, but hereafter they will
be compelled to refer their difficulties
to the council of honor for arbitration.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-03

WHAT TO Do.-That was shrewd ad-
vice of a learned lawyer to pupil |:
"When the facts are in your favor, but
the law opposed to you, come out strong
on the facts; but when the law is in
your favor, and the facts are opposed to
you, come out strong on the law"
"But," inquired the student, "when
the law and the facts are both against
me, what shall do ?" "Why, then,"
said the lawyer, "tslk around it."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-03

There is scarcely fashionable Ca
price that doesn't do good to some one.
Thus the ornaments of white and black
jet which have become the vogue in
Paris have restored prosperity to the
working classes Of Venice, who were
in state of great distress before the
revival of the taste for jet trimmings.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-03

Theodore Geer, a crazy man of De-
wittsville, N. Y, nearly cut off his
thumb with chisel last winter. 1t was
properly dressed. and the wound
healed. Lately Geer got the idea that
the piece of thumb should not have
been put on again. So he took an axe,
and chopped it off. Then he looked at
the stump for a moment in reflective
criticism, decided that it was still too
long, and cut off another piece. He is
now perfectly satisfied with the job.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-03

If any carriage upsets or Injuries an
other carriage in the streets of st. Pc
tersburg, or if any passenger is knocked
down, the horses of the offending vehi-
Gle are seized and conGseated to the use
of the Fire Brigade.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-03

Somebody defines Irritation to be at
tention without intention.