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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-30
A FORGOTTEN CRIME.
A Corpse Supposed T." be that OF One of
sthe McKeesport Murderers of 1857.

A Corpse Supposed to be that OF One of
.the McKeesport Murderers of 1857.
A man, giving as his name Luther
Ballard, applied for work on Farmer
Miller's farm, near Six-Mile Run, Mid
delsex county, N. J. After he had
worked three or four days he went
away. and was found dead in clump of
woods near the farm, an empty whisky
bottle by his side, leading to the infer
ence that rum had been instrumental In
his death. On his left arm was the
name Of "B. Stewart" pricked in India
ink. On his person was an old, soiled.
and ragged envelope, addressed to
"Benj. Brown, Calais" post.marked
from Brownsville, Pa. A letter was
sent to that point, and the evidence
elected revives the story of a tragedy
of 1857, and points to the dead man as
one of the principals.
In the latter part of April, 1857, an
old man named Wilson and his sister,
who lived near McKeesport, Pa, we're
| found in their house horribly mangled
and dying. In McKeesport suspicion
pointed to Charlotte Jones, niece of
the murdered couple. She was watched
closely, and having at length been
ia.
made confession, duplicating Charles
tyffe of McKeesport and Benjamin
Stewart, coal boat laborer, who lived
alternately in Brownsville and in Nc
Keesport. She said that Fyffe. who
knew that the old couple had money,
hadurged her to poison them. She
consented, and bought quantity of
arsenic but when the hour arrived for
administering it her heart failed her,
and she refused.
Afterward, at the solicitation of Fyffe
and Ben Stewart, she accompanied them
to her uncle's honse. She knocked,
and some one within inquired, "Who's
there ?" She answered, "It's me let
me in." The old man, recognizing her
voice, opened the door. At this juno
ture both Stewart and Fyffe sprang into
the room and attacked old Mr.. Wilson,
and soon left him dying. Miss Wilson
threw her arms around her neice
and implored her to spare her life, but
Fyffe and his companion soon finished
her. The three then ransacked the
house, and secured $1,400 in State
money and between $500 and 5000 in
gold. This they buried in McKees-
port.
Fyffe and Stewart were soon after
ward arrested, and after long trial
sentenced to be hanged. Charlotte
Jones and Fyffe suffered on the scaf-
fold, Stewart having been taken with
smallpox was sent to the poor house
under guard to await recovery. He es-
capped, and was invisible afterward until
the fact of a man by that name having
died in New Jersey was sent to Browns.
vile. The dead man and Ben Stewart,
the murderer, are believed to be iden-
| tical.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-30
The Cholera.

1t is we'll known, says an exchange,
that the germs of cholera will lie dor
mant during the winter and revive with
the appearance of hot weather. The
energetic action of the health authori-
ties of Cincinnati, Chicago, and Pitts
burgh has evidently destroyed the
germs which unquestionably existed in
those cities last year. 1t is to this that
we owe the fact that cholera has not
make its appearance anywhere in the
country this season. 1t is certainly
strange that while we have thus learned
to fight the cholera we are still unable
to put a stop to the spread of scarlet
fever-a disease with which our ply.
sicians have been familiar for centuries,
and which still annually slays it's thou
sands where cholera kills its hundreds.
We do not dread the scarlet fever SIM
ply because we are so familiar with it,
but this very familiarity ought long
since to have taught us how to cure
and how to prevent it.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-30
Sad Case of HydrOph0bia.

VIM. McGinnis, a child seven years
of age, died in Bellevue Hospital, New
York, from hydrophobia.
the boy, "has been exhibiting symp-
toms of hydrophobia of very virulent
character for the past few days. He
was bitten by a dog on the 25th OF May.
He went out into the street to play as
usual with the other boys, and was not
long gone when he came back to me
bleeding profusely from the mouth,
his eyes staring wildly in their sockets.
He said, Mamma, dog bit me, and I
feel very sick
"The animal ran away and was froth-
ing at the mouth. The child was cut
about one inch at the right side of the
mouth, and it required seven stitches
to close the wound. Sometimes since
then he would behave very quiet and
rational, and sometimes he would get
spasmodic fits. On those occasions he
would seem to initiate the bark of a
dog, and would show disposition to
violence. He never, however, showed
any disposition to bite either myself,
his father, or any of his sisters.
"He got on, as 1 thought, pretty
well, until about the morning of his
death, when he said to me-
Mother, I know 1 have hydropho-
bia; but will bite none of YOU
"He then became awfully violent.
We told the police at the Eldridge
street station house, and he was re-
moved from there to the hospital in an
ambulance, where my poor child died
in an hour afterward. He was my only
boy; 1 have three girls, and he was
one upon whom my affections were
most bestowed"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-30
What Writers Receive.

The price paid for magazine articles
by the publishers is not fixed, but the
maximum is usually about $40 page,
the pages varying from 500 to 1000
words. The Atlantic and Lippencott's
have 75O, Harper's has 1000, while Old
and New has 500 words Scribner's
900 The Overland 800, and the Gal
axy 735 in its single, and s25 in its
double column pages. The Atlantic
has given as high as $3.50 an article to
Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Agassiz,
FELTON,, Parton, and few Others, but
this is altogether exceptional, $40 being
its general rate. Harper often allows
$12 80 to $15 (the latter for illustrated
articles) a page, and in rare cas,s even
more. Lippencott's rate is from So to
So that of Old and New So, the Over
land only 81 (gold) ; Scribner's, ordina-
rily from So to $40 (much higher some
times for specific articles), and the Gal
axy's So to $40 per page.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-30
How Legislators are Bribed.

The New York Tribune treats of the
different methods by which corrupt
men accomplish corrupt purposes, by
means of Legislators. There are a
thousand approaches, it says, to the
venal and selfish side of men, and it
not infrequently happens that under
some of the subtlest forms of tempta-
tion the palm closes over the price and
the bribe is appropriated before the
victim realizes that he is in the market.
The cunningest of vote-manipulators
and lobby agents begins his work back
of the Legislature, and even of the
primary meeting; he works up the
preliminaries, secures the nomination
for his victim, and contributes hand
somely to his election.
The man who has been assailed in
this manner finds it difficult to say
"no" when the pinch comes. The
paying down of so much money for a
vote is too gross form of temptation,
unworthy the ingenuity of the tempter,
the position of the tempted, and the
spirit of the age. To contribute money
to defray the election expenses of the
person whose assistance you shall need
by-and-bye, is a much more refined and
gracefully winding approach, and it
amounts to the same thing in the end.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-30
GIT MIGHT HAVE BEEN"

=, was horribly lonesome. What could
l DO with myself? 1t is only about
Christmas time that the responsibility
of my individuality hangs heavily upon
me: my business engrosses me for the
most part, for had been more success
ful in money matters than in any other
interest in life. But now the holiday S
were here. Everything in my neat
chambers were orderly and comfortable,
and L had real satisfaction in the feel
ing that they belonged to me. But
how lonesome they were. A fellow Just
passed my window with covered
basket on one arm, and on the other q
happy looking woman chattering gaily
as she walked. Well, l might have had
wife, if it had not been for Charley's
perhdy-yes, and Emma's too, for
suppose she was as much to blame as
he was.
l wonder if either of them were to
blame? Love goes where it is sent,
they say, and really suppose they
could not help loving each other. Poor
Emma Proud, splendid woman; I
should like to know what her fate has
'osen. 1t seems strange that I have
never heard one word from them since
that Christmas eve on which they
eloped. She was to bave married me
before another Christmas, but Charley
was younger and handsomer than /, and
there were such brilliant indications of
genius about him. Strange that they
have not been realized; and surely they
have not, or L should have heard. o,
if could only see them again. l had
forgiven them both before the expira-
tion of the first year, in my anxiety
about them for how could l forget the
charge of my dying mother? "Take
him, Paul." she said, "be good, and
tender, and true to hun all the days of
your life. No matter with what ingrati-
tude he may repay your kindness-for-
give him not only seven times but sew
enty times seven. Be to him more than
brother, my trusted child /; fill my
vacant place for him. Say to yourself
it will be true-tbere is no crime on earth
that would cause my mother to cast one
of her children out The more aban-
doned, the more wretched they become,
the more my affection shall comfort and
solace them until ,at last, with patience
that never wearies, aud zeal that never
flags, and love whose strong wings
bear all burdens upward, l will land
them within the portals of that eternal
home where sin and sorrow can come
no more forever"
And now four years had slipped
down the thread of time. each adding
to my anxiety, until / felt that would
give all my accumulated wealth for the
sight OF their dear faces once more.
a, WiH get away from these torturing
thoughts, said; I will go cut and
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-30
A Petty Prince.

Poor "Sharkey is dead. True, he
was only bootblack yet he filled his
niche in the world with exceeding
honor. The whole gamin tribe re-
spected him, for he was the benefactor
of all boys poorer and smaller than
himself. He was always called in to
settle their disputes, and his decision
was law. Ii little fellow was unlucky
and had not enough money to pay his
way into the pit or gallery when he
wanted badly to go, Sharkey helped
him to that extent. He was always
willing to divide his cash with any of
his fellows who were unfortunate
enough to want bread. Thus he built
up bright reputation, and won the
deep respect of all his associates. 1t
was with surprise that they missed him
from his accustomed corner one day.
It was with deep sorrow they heard
that he was very i'll. Sharkey lived with
his aunt, and the little bootblacks
washed their hands and faces and went
by twos and threes to see him, and
were admitted to his bedside. The boy
was really dying, He whispered word
or two to each, and they went out OF
the house to give the newcomers a
place in the small room beside the lit
tie bed. They all noiselessly came and
went, but still fingered on the steps
and about the pavement in front of the
house. Presently one of the boys
brought out the word that he was dead.
And still they fingered with swollen
eyes and quivering lips, and refused to
be comforted. The passers-by in
quired the cause and learned that {
bootblack had died. No member of the
Exchange, dying, could have wrung sc
many honest tears from his friends as
honored the memory of poor little
Sharkey. And SO everywhere in this
wide world does true merit meet with
just appreciation.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-30

DRUNK AND SOBER EYEs.-There is
nothing more assimulating, more art
full, more tainted with duplicity than a
glass eye. A Danbury man, little
given to his cups, and afflicted with one
of these optical deceptions, drops in to
see us from time to time, and invari-
ably when he is tight. To gaze at the
natural eye of that man and see it
drunk at every square inch of its sphe-
roidity and then turn to his glass eye
to behold in it the vigor of youth, the
fire of genius, and the essence of sobri-
ETY., is trying to the nerves.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-30
Cleaning Kid Gloves.

During this warm weather kid gloves
are easily soiled, particularly as the pre-
vailing colors are quite light, and as it
costs some time and money to have
them cleaned at the dyer's, we let our
readers into the secret of cleaning
them at home, which can be done Just
as we'll as if paid for outside. Take a
little sweet milk and a piece of white
or brown soap. Fold clean towel
three or four times, spread it over your
dress, and spread out the glove smooth
ly upon it. Take large piece of white
flannel, dip it into the milk, then rub it
upon the soap, and rub the glove down.
ward toward the fingers, holding the
wrist of it by the left hand. Continue
this process until the glove, if white,
looks of dingy yellow, but if colored,
looks dark and entirely spoiled. Now
let it dry, and then put it on your hand,
and it will be soft, smooth, glossy and
clean. Take care, however, to omit no
part of the glove in rubbing it, and see
that all the soiled parts are thoroughly
cleaned. This process applies only to
white and colored kid gloves. For
black gloves that are soiled. turned
white and otherwise injured, take tea
spoonful of salad oil, drop few drops
of ink into it, and rub it all over the
gloves with the tip OF feather; then
let them dry in the sun. White kid
boots and slippers can also be cleaned
by the first process to "look as good as
new," and black kid boots and slippers
can be restored to their pristine gloss
by the latter method. White kid
gloves can be dyed yellow or brown by
stepping saffron leaves in boiling water
for eight hours, and then wetting the
gloves with a sponge dipped in the de-
coction. The color can be graduated by
the strength of the dye. A handful of
saffron leaves stepped in pint of water
will color half dozen pairs of gloves.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-30
The Deserter.


What's that to thee surly Dan
Thou hast no lads in thy own cot,
Or thou wouldnst talk so, my man!
But stop till thou'st heard it all out, Dan,
Till you know how it ended down there
An you won't blame the lad nor the widow
When you hear what they botI had to bear.
was down at the cottage this mornin'
When the soldiers marched up TO the door,
An said as they'd got the Queens orders
10 tside away George once more!
An IN they all come, the Queens soldiers,
With their handouts for poor Georges
wrists
The Queens got more right than the mother
Neither him mnor his mother resists
Poor lad, he warnt fit for a soldier,
With his nineteen years only just told
He was mad with his lass when he listed.
An his life for a shllin', he sold.
Yes, sergeant, he'll stick to his bargain"
He's there in the room at the back,
An as truly as blood-hounds ye'ye scented
An followed the lad on his track!
But he starved for a week in the marshes
Afore he crawled in at that door!
An weary, broke down. an half dyin
He dropped, faintin dropped, on the floor
So step gently, sergeant, step gently,
For Gods sake, men, don't let your guns
clenk.
An the mothers who bore ye, al nursed ye
For this mothers sake shall We thank
an the big bearded men laid their muskets
Alongside the old cottage wall
An we all of us went in so softly
You couldn't ha' heard football!
An there she was bent o'er his pillow.
f.. Her face hidin' his from our sight,
An her hands in his black hair was twinin'
An lookin' like dead hands so white
The sergeant's hand placed on her shoulder,
The sergeants voice whisperin low,
Made her start made her rise, made the hot
Down her pale face quickly flow
What will ye:" she walled; want We
Georgiel
Come We me an my poor lad between -
he must" says the sergeant, ego with us
He belongs to his country, his Queen :"
= Stand off he is mine come not near him
He has breathed in these arms his last
breath:
No Queen nor no army can claim him.
He belongs to his mother, and Death"
An my heart Almost stopped in its beatin
As looked on the widows white cheek,
Wbila the so1diers with banf baa1a sta,,,,eJ Il
backward,
An the sergeant in vain tried to speak!
The light in his young eyes had darkened,
His voice with Deaths silence was dumb:
Never more, Dan, shall poor George answer
Friend, mother, Or trumpet, or drum!
Once more che cried out, "Get ye gone, men
Your comrade no longer does heed
Your words, or your threats, or your lashes:
My poor lad from this oath Death has
freed :"
An she fell on her knees by his beside
An kissed the dead face DER an DER
Fhou needn't be 'shamed O. thy tears, Dan;
Let EN- come, if they ne'er come afore!
1t was said as young George had scaped EN-,
So he has the Queens order is naught.
NO laws nor Gourt-martals can touch him;
The Lord his discharge Dan, has bought
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-30
An Indian Delicacy,

A writer on Indian life says: Sin the
sand deserts vast swarms of grasshop-
pers are Matched. and while yet their
wings are undeveloped and they cannot
fly they are caught in great quantities,
swept up by the bushel and roasted in
pits like the ant, or on trays with hot
embers like seeds. They are then
ground and the -four is boiled as mush.
or made into cakes, and grasshopper
cake is considered a great delicacy.
Later in the season clouds of grass
hoppers leaving the warm plains below
attempt to cross the mountains. When
they come near the SUBMITS they are
chilled by the cold air, and tumble
down, and falling on the deep sloping
snow-fields they roll down the sides OF
the mountains, and are thus gathered
into great winrows along the foot of the
snow banks. Bushels, scores of
bushels, hundreds of thousands of
bushels are collected in this way"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-30

A WHOLESALE SUIoIDE.-A very sad
and peculiar suicide in Paris recently
was that of man who threw himself
from the Point de Solfeune into the
Seine, holding in his banda bagwherein
he had placed his cat, his dog, and two
canaries. He was taken out terribly
injured, though still in possession of
his senses, but the poor animals were
alldead. He declared, on being con-
veeyed to the hospital, that, being weary
OF life, he had resolved to quit it,
taking with him the only creatures that
had not ceased to love him when misery
and want became his portion. He died
in few hours after being rescued from
the Seine.
The New York herald., 1874-10-05

OF 7TH Av., BETWEEN 9TH AND 2s II SITS.
oil fnncy store.-A first class cook (FnQiish) In a
private family; understands her busness country and
The New York herald., 1874-10-05

ak EAST 31oT STA RESP CTABLE Girl. AS
OfC cook and 20 assist with the washing and ironing
or 70 do ehamberwork ana wang best city reference
The New York herald., 1874-10-05

OC0 WEST 10TH ST., BETWEEN sTH AM 9TH
CLO ava-A Young girl good cook and brst class
washer and roner in private family good city refer
The New York herald., 1874-10-05

Oh 7TH AVE-, BETWEEN I2D AND 5iTH STS IN
Ol-f the Fancy Sore.-As cook in a first cass family !:
excelien references from her last place. Can seen
for DAYS.
The New York herald., 1874-10-05

Cnn FAST A., STA RESPECTABLE YOUNG
COV girl to do chamherwork ami wal ing or would
do general housework is first washer and roncr
hes ca " $500 '
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-07-16

to the one single impracticable idea of
Temperance. The records of achieve
ments of the Republican party, form the
brightest pages in the history of our
country; defeat sustained because of fl
deity to them is infinitely preferable to
the inevitable defeat that would await
the party after it had surrendered every
other principle to the one idea of Tenn
perance.
Let it be understood; the Journal is
not against Temperance, and seeks not
to injure that cause but it is a. Republi-
can paper first and Temperance paper
so far as it can combine Temperance
Cih Republicanism not to the detriment
of our great party. The Republican
party stands superior to every other con-
sideration, for the Republican principles
mean pure patriotism, national prosperi-
ty, and broad philanthropy of which
Temperance is only single idea So
far then as the Temperance agitators are
allies of their great protector and patron,
the Republican party, so far they are en-
titled to faithful consideration so far as
they attempt to rise above the Republi-
can party, to cripple its usefulness, be-
tray its power into the hands of its enc
mics, and to carry their single idea at its
expense, or overwheIm it and their own
hopes in one common ruin, so far the
Journal and the Republican party which
it represents must accept the alternative
forced upon them, and, like the heroes
of Wa terloo, resolve 'the old guard dies
but never surrenders. .....
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WHOLE NO. l4l6.

and full of infrmities She is nervous,
fretful, peevish, melancholy, dyspeptic,
consumptive, or, she is of unsound mind,
we will notsay insane, though she may
become so, unless she frees herself from
foolish fashions, which are SO destructive
to health and life 1t was not SO in the
times of our forefathers. Women wore
calico then. Women had sound teeth,
good digestion, sweet breath, cheerful
faces, with hopeful, happy hearts. they
became mothers of healthy children, and
nUrsed them, too Sucking-bottles were
not so much in demand when women
lived simpler, truer, and nearer to Nature
and to God sla
When women wore calico there were
fewer commercial failures, and less COM
petition among business men than now,
when women are more extravagant.
When women wore calico there was
less lewdness, less domestic infelicity,
less divorces, less scandal, and more
quiet contentment and peace.
The poor ape the rich, and some of
them sell their virtue to procure the
wherewith to shine in fashionable feath-
ers. "Yes, but that is not our fault, say
the selfrighteous, "and may we not do
what we will with our own p Aye, SO say
those who are altogether worldly But,
woman, woman mother OF the raceI
See you to this: Try to realize your true
mission on earth Let it not be said,
that by your example, you lead weak
sister into temptation. Let it not be
said, that your extravaganza led your
husband into bankruptcy. Let it not be
said, that you lost your health and be-
came a helpless invalid by following
foolish fashions. Let it not be said you
are too proud to wear calico.
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Old Hats Paradise.

The grotesque fancy of savages for the
cast-off habiliments of civilized races is
source of amusement to travellers the
world over. 1t is rare, however, that the
fancy rises to such passion for a single
article as is exhibited among the Nicobar
islanders Young and old, chiefs and
subjects, in these Summer Isles of
Eden" alike endeavor to outvie each
other in the accumulation of old hats,
priding themselves on the extent and
variety of their collections as other peo-
Pile do on their wealth of gold or jewels
or works of art. Curiously, secondhand
hats are most in request, new ones being
looked upon with suspicion and disfa-
vor. 9
The singular passion is taken advan-.
tage of by the traders of Calcutta, who
make annual excursions to the Nicobars
with cargoes of old hats which they bar
ter for cocoanuts, the principal produc-
hat with black band fetches from fifty
five to sixty-6ve prime cocanuts, some
times more, as, during the intense ex-
element which pervades the islands
while the trade is going on, fancy prices
are often asked and obtained. When
the market closes, by the exhaustion of
the stock of hats for sale or cocoanuts to
buy them with, the traders usually land
cask or two of rum, and the entire
population, clad in their new possess
sions, with perhaps rag about the loins
in addition, celebrate the occasion by
getting thoroughly drunk. : Scientific
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