The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-10
EDITORIAL NOTES.


Court in a few months, which he may
do under law of Congress, on full pay.
Should he resign, President Grant will
have the appointment of fifth member
of the Supreme Court, or a majority OF
tha. body.
The application for stamps Tor the
prepayment of newspaper postage for
the first month of the new year already
aggregate $5OO,0O0. The Post-oflicials,
however, consider that this sum exceeds
the probable monthly demand. the esti-
mate of the annual revenue from this
source being st,000,O0O. The Depart
mept does not expect that any consider
able amount of the newspaper business
will go to the express companies.
HEAVY monthly reductions of the
public debt are evidently things of the
past, the Government, like individuals
being compelled to postpone the dis
charge of its Indebtedness until the re-
turn of good times. The statement
issued on Tuesday, shows decrease
during the past month of S123,427 6S;
the coin balance is sS3,043, ,367 "a; cur
rency, sl6, ,699,31 As: coin certificates.
S23,045, 400; certificates of deposit,
S47,I20,000.
JUDGE PAxsoN's good fortune still
serves him. On Saturday 2Sth of
Nov. be met the Hon. Warren J. Wood
ward of Reading, his brother judi ee-elect
Of the Supreme Court for the term Of
tSenty-one years from the first Monday
of Jan. next, in the city OF Reading to
cast lots for "priority Of commission"
in accordance with the provision of the
seventeenth section of article 5 of the
Constitution. The prize was won by
Judge Pa1son, who will thus be Chief
Justice of Pennsylvania for the last
seven years of his term, unless his place
should become vacant by death or resig-
nation.
How TERRIBLE The Clear6eld
Repubhcdn last issue says, speaking of
the XLIIId Congress-: at will be the
last Radical Congress that will ever meet
at the National Capitol. Mark what we
siy."
How sanguiue the gleeful Democracy
are now days they "iondly hope twill
last for aye" but we predict that some
fine morning the Democrats will wake
up and discover that the people who
produced the reaction this fall, are not
so anxious to be found training with the
Democrats. We claim that in four
years We will have o Republican ma
jori.y on joint ballot in our National
House Of Representatives. Will Bro.
Goodlander please mark that and hang
it up to dry.
Emigration Returns-During the
first nine months Of the present year
there was a great falling off in the num-
Der of emiersnt arrivals at New York
The number arriving at that port during
the hrst nine months of 1873 was 227.-
S9l, while during the corresponding
period Of this year only I24,6S0 emf
grants arrived. A part of this reduction
may prove permanent, for the continual
drain made upon the labor markets of
Europe must result some day in better
ing the condition of those who remain,
and thereby check the desire to emf
CRATE. But the greater part of the re-
duction was more likely due to the
panic Of last fail and the consequent
depression of business. 1t seems prob
able, too, that there has been return
Ing tide of foreigners since the panic,
but there have been no official figures
on this subject published.
A MODEL WITE.--A Japanese lady
has invented q means Of reconciliation
between quarrelsome partners which
should not be confined in practice to
that distant part of the world. Having
quarreled with her husband, she
decided upon dying. Not content with
merely reinquishing this dreary world,
she eudeavored to do it at the greatest
possible sacrifice. She bit out her
tongue, and awaited death. Fortuna tely
for all parties, death did not arrive as
soon as her husband. She was there
fore saved. And now Nakamura has
model wife. When be complains of the
toughness OF his steak, she can merely
look at him. Turning bis eyes in
another direction, be can make the most
satirical. comments upon feminine
economy; can wonder why women never
do learn how to keep down the grocer's
bill, to save = portion OF their husbands
salary; can assure her that a li.tle yari-