The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-24
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Our Jail is at present empty.
DIPaTHFRIA is still alarmingly pre-.
vaent in Warren.
COMPANY Ii is to be bucktail com.
pany. Each soldier wears a bucktail in
his cap.
CRAWFORD County has Manufac.
:ureG S750,000 worth of cheese during
the present season.
The tannery that was burned at En-.
porium recently it is to be rebuilt at
| once.
EMPORIUM has a Ere department, and
on last week, Monday, a meeting was
held and officers elected.
THE Emporium post Office is now a
presidential appointment with salary
of $1,000.
A subscription is being raised to
furnish the new Methodist church
edisce With a new carpet.
A man named Young, a resident Of
Bedford county, has just shot the one
hundredth deer.
A bill has been introduced in the
House to make the Presidents salar,
$4,000 instead of $780, 900 per annum.
A young fellow in Grundy county,
Iowa, wanted to charge bis girl 20 cents
for his picture, informing her at the
time that it originally cost quarter.
"A NORTHUMBERLAND county man
wears a suit which cost him seven hun.
dred dollars. He endorsed for a
"friend," and tnis is how it come.
HUNTING for deer is forbidden by
law after the 1st of January. We sup
pose some of the boys will have "some
to bring in" for a month or two yet.
Tue Reynoldsville Herald has been
issued only few weeks and yet pub
fishes the legend "pay the printer"
After the Herald becomes older it will
find that they don't do it that way.
ATTENTION COMPANY IA meet
ingt of company II will be held at the
armcry next Saturday evening for the
purpose of trapsactinS important bust
ness. All members are requested to be
present.
THE Welsboro bank robbers, Cook,
and CoSgrove, were sentenced last
week. Cook to thirteen years and nine
months, and Cosgrove to sixteen years
and rine months in the Eastern Peni-
Tertiary.
Horace IIawcs, Esq, of Erie, died
in California some time ago, and villed
his entire estate, valued at s2,000,000,
to found a college. The courts have
decided that he was insane. AMI bis
widow tskes the money. Now who
takes the widow?
The Supreme Court of Maine has de-
cidcd that women cannot be Justices of
the Peace or hold any other office des-
ignated by the Constitution OF that
State. But that the Legislature may
authorize women to hold any office crea-
ted by that tody.
A FELLOW named FarieIl is now in
the Cameron county Jail, on a charge Of
attempting to shoot brakeman tho had
been detailed to prevent him from get.
ting on the train from whence he had
been elected BY Conductor Metzser, for
refusing to pay his fare.
The first bill passed in the lower
house Of congress on Monday, was one
offered by Mr.. Tyner, OF Indiana appro-
priating the handsome sum of $4,000
for the purchase of scales for the post
office department in executing the new
law requiring the prepayment Of post,
age on newspapers, which goes into
operation en- the first of January.
THE n. Y. OBsERvER.-This is one
Of the oldest and most widely circulated
journals belonging to the Presbyterion
denomination, and deserves public pat
ronage. 1t is large double sheet-in
fact it is two papers in ope--publist ed
at So per annum postage paid. Two
copies will be sent for $3.50, to ne,o
subscribers. Samples copies sent free.
Address.
S. |. PRIME & CO.,
81 Park Row, New York
On Wednesday last the heaviest man
n the State it not in the country died