The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-30
"TuosE FIVE DoLLARs."-The head


ing of this article we quote from the
last issue OF the Eb Democrat, and re-
lates, las our readers will at once surmise,
to our taking FIVE dollars on the fourth,
for calling numbers, and selling tickets
at dance held on the evening of that
day. Mr.. Miller in his effort has occu-
pied over a column of the Democrat to
explain about "Those Five Dollars,
We have carefully scaned the aforesaid
article, and failed yes, utterly failed, to
even see the first semblance of an argu-
ment showing up the great wrong we
did in hking five dollars. However,
we notice that Mr.. Miller has character
lied us as having "ungainly arms"
"fuzzy pate" and "smutty jaw" and
numerous other names, more characters
tic Of the Miller, who wrote them than
of the printer to whom they are applied,
at least we believe this will be the ver-
dict of that discriminating public" on
whom MIR. Miller fondly hopes to throw
the burden Of his folly, as eviuced in
the article before mentioned. It is hard
work for a person to answer a thing
when you have nothing to answer, and
had Mr. Miller made the least shadow of
an argument, We would then have had
something to answer. Mere assertions
count as nought and are as apt to re-
bound on the person that makes them,
as they are to hurt the person of whom
they are made. The Miller did not
want to make public matter of thi:
affair, but to set himself right before the
world he must needs strike us in the
back, under the cover Of "those persons
and when we protest against the outrage
he pours on our "defenceless head" the
vials of his unmeaning argument, and
then, pulled up with conceit, he makes
himself believe he has written some.
thing that cannot be answered and some
thing that will cause the life of the
Advoca.e, and its editor, to hang in the
balance. Behold, gentle reader anoth
er tragic attitude which the young
man takes VIXEN the "ungainly armed"
Hank of the Ad9ocate appears before
the committee with his bill for "those
five dollars" he at once becomes too tul
for utterauce, and we might add that it
we're we'll for his credit that he we're
"too full for utterance" at all times, and
surely then he would not show himse i
to be so great fool, like that boy
whose father told him, when starting
into the world FOR the first time, not to
open his mouth aud no one would sus-
pect him Of being fool; the first time
the boy was spoken to he disregarded
his fathers advice and the result wa
ali knew him to be fool. Again Mr..
Miller says; I've were requested by some
of our most respected citizens to pub
Used the whole transaction, in order that
the public might know what Parsons
was capable of doing" In this sentence
he strives to convey the impression
that We were capable of almost any vi,
lapy; of this we have nothing to say
simply we leave it with a "discriminat
ing public" that have known US for
twenty years, to determine whether Mr.
Miller has any ground, save that Of mer,
cenary motive, to publish such an asser-
tion. Mr. Miller also, accuses US OF
having volunteered our services on the
Fourth-of-July, this is not true, and W.
can Unnecessary, furnish proof to susta ain
our statement. We ind at the end of
this famous article that Mr. Miller has
resource to doggeral to more fully redi-
cule us, this he charges to "friend of
known poetical proolivites" when the
truth is he wrote the stuff him self
Miller, calls us the "fve dollar man."
we might more justly call him the
fourteen per cent" man, an explana-
tion OF which term we may sometime
give.
MURDER IN JEFFERSON COUNTY
We learn from the Brookvile RepubE