The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-19
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N 0 TES.
Hon. HENRY EoUTnER is attending
court here this week
THERE is some talk of getting a new
bell fov the Episcopal church.
The Episcopap Parsonage is nearly
finished, and presents neat appearance
THIs fall has been remarkable for
the extended period of pleasant weather,
and it still continues.
THE fumes of birthstone match will
removs berry stains from q book or pa
per or engraving.
THERE was a tie vote for Commits
fioner in Luzerne county, both parties
receiving 9,l79 votes,
Little boys begin to look forward to
hat period of Thanksgiving when it is
permitted, as Ike Partington says, to
"fill themselves to their utmost rapacity."
A BERKs county Democrat describes
! New Workers as cherry fine deeples,"
who ego about der streets sheating each
k2der, and dey call dat pizziness."
NE Western Indians now prophesy
tdst there will be no more grasshoppers
for six years. Now, if the grasshoppers
would only give us the same gratifying
Burance about the Indians.
ICHANGR or ScHEDULE.-Followine will
5e found the change in the running of
trains, at Ridgway station. The Niagara
/ Express has been taken off, and the through
Local put in its stead.
Mail East 7;19 P: NJ.
do West 1888 P. NJ
Through Local, East $50 a. NJ.
do do West 6:25 P. NJ.
Local East 4:50 P. NJ
do West S;2O A. Nj.
RI The Mail and Through Local carry
passengers, the local does rot.
CoURT PROCEEDINGS Phillip Will helm
charged with rape on the person of his
own daughter, was found guilty and sem
fenced TO pay a fine of twenty dollars an d
cost of prosecution, aud undergo an impris-
onment Of two years and SIX months Il
solitary confnem ent in the Western Peni.
tentary.
Two Swedes, named John Peterson and
II. D. Moline who broke into the Wilcox
\pepot were convicted of burglary and lar
Gem and sentenced to pay fine of twenty.
FIVE doSsrs, each, and undergo an imprs.
onment of two years and nine months in
solitary confinement in the western Peni-
ten tiary.
AccIDENT.-Last Sunday a son of A.
J. Runner, about 7 years of age, in Jay
township this county, me with serious
if not fatal accident. He in company
with another little boy of about II
years of age, had taken some horses out
to water, and were returning to the
barn with the horses on run, when
J ohm the name of the boy hurt, come in
contact some way with the barn, un-
|horsing him and throwing him with
violence on the frozen ground; the boy
has been delirious most Of the time
Bince the accident.
A SUBSTITUTE FOR LEATHER.-The
british Trade Journal describes
newly patented substitute for leather,
,uowu as "leatherette," but not the pro-
ss by which it is made. 1t says that
bacterial is made in perfect imitation
& difAent kinds of leather, the sheets
fbrous pulp being pressed into real
Ekins of leather used as moulds. The
,r.inds Of the leather are thus accu-
rately reproduced in the leatherette.
rhe Trade Journal says that leatherette
bosts only one eighth as much as leather,
md that it has two advantages over the
real article, being stronger and of more
inform quality. 1t is said to be par
tcularly we'll adapted for use in book
>inding.
HEAVY SENTENcE.-Geo. W. Daley,
ae embezzling and defaulting postmas-
er at Phillipsburg, this county, plead
Juilty before the United States Court
Pittsburgh, and was sentenced to fif-
zen years in the penitentiary. There
ere three indictments against him, and
was sentenced to five years on each
3. Daley, when asked some time ago
hat he thought his sentence would be,
Piled that he supposed he would get
bout FIVE years in all. He was SOL
- the Federal army during the
and lost leg in the service.
oubtess he is to-day ruminating bit
rly over the ingratitude of Republics.
ut then Mr.. Daley ought to have con-
;dered the consequences beforehand
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