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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-12-27

A SENSATION. Reno had quite 4 sen-
saiion lasi Wednesday evening. A lit
tie girl was passing up the @. p. track
close to the depot platform when some
man underneath Il, reached out and
caught her BY the foot and attempted to
drag her through the hole. She
screamed and he let 60 In haste. A
short time after another girl. aged about
ten yssrs. was passing the same spot
whom the villain grabbed her and pulled
her toward him. She struggled and
screamed. and fell TO the ground. Her
screams attracted the attention OF several
persons Who were around the Atlantic
and Pacific telegraph Office. and they
ran and picked her up. She told hsr
story and showed that her garments were
nearly OF her. An alarm was immedi.
atsly raised and the platform surrounded,
while Il was carefully examined under
meath, but no hsnd could b found. Had
he fallen into their hands. In their OF.
cited state, he would have had . coat Of
tar and feathers. IL not q short shrift at
the end OF q rope. We forbear mention
ing names. Hanging 10 too good for
suoh h~lsak-hsartsd scoundrsls. Ofcourse
there can b no doubt % to his purpose
had he succeeded in getting either Of
the little girls under that PLATFORM
Reno Journal. De. 2lh.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-12-27
RETURN IT.

THE PARTY WHO TOOK A BLUE
i Beaver Ovcrsoat. with silk iappels, from
Miners Union Hall. Gold uLl, last Christmss
eve, will please return the same TO the Bank OF
himself trouble. ~ he u known 70 The owner
Of the coat. de71 81
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-12-27

MrSERs' LucK.-Miners' luck Is illus.
traisd by an incident OF mining ut Gen.
trail City, Colorado. About two years
ago two young men. with . joint CAPT.
tai Of $500. were offered q half interest
in a gold mine at Central II they would
sink 1t thirty feet deeper. Upon either
side were the Veto and other paying
lodes. but these had good roads TO the
mills and furnaces Of wealthy oompa-
MES. Moreover thslmine was dinioult
OF access. Il was necessary TO carry the
ore in gunny sacks for = considerable
distance. then TO pack II upon mulss,
aud thus by the time IL reached the
mill, tho gold in II would not pay eI-
psnses. The young workers, when they
had spent all their ready money, became
discouraged and abandoned the contract.
This year two new spectators came and
undertook to 60 on with the work upon
the same terms. They had not sunk
more than two feet In this abandoned
tunnel when they struck ore worth
$4,000 per ton.-Dornierls Messenger.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-12-27

1HEnE ID said 10 Be . girl In Washing
ton City who Is seven feet high. II
would BE- mighty Troublesome and an.
noying to have a wife that tall. You'd
OF course have TO kiss her every morn.
ing when you started down, and tho
chances arc that you would find in nine
case out OF ten that n OF the children
had mislaid the step ladder.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-12-27

FRANCE requires two years residence
in q place 10 qualify a voter.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-12-27
BORN.
MARRIED.

BAUER-In Au,tin. Dec mbsr "a, to the wife o.
u. A Bauer. . 900.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-12-27
Itemhs

MILWAUKEE. December 25. AT Swartz-
burg, on the st. Paul road. last night,
Stewart. q brakeman got of to switch.
His light suddenly disappeared. A jar
was felt, q search made and his body
fosnd literally torn apart. with the lamp
several yards of.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-12-27
rh. C.Iorea ouIsord Ahe.d.

PnuApELPHIA. December 2i.-The
ease OF Henry Jones, who was refused
intermsnt in Mount Morris Cemetery.
three months ago. on tho ground OF
color. wal decided to-day by the Court
Of Common Pleas; Judge Morris giving
u strong opinion. declaring the validity
Of the deed Of transfer. and granting
the writ Of mandamus. The Cemetery
appealed the case TO the Supreme Court.
The intsrmsnt will not take place pend.
ing the result Of appeal.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-12-27
wreeL or RnIIvay Train.

HARTFORD. December 24.-Ths mixed
train on the Connecticut Western Rail-
road, bound west, wa wrecked BY
means Of . misplaced switch. near the
New York State line last evening. The
engine and ave freight cars were thrown
down an smbankmsnt and smashed.
The baggage master was slightly In
iured.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-12-27

ST. JouSs. N. b.. December "a
Judgment was delivered by Juede Waters
this morning in the application Tor the
extradition Of Robert Carney. for the
murder Of John Ryan, near Boston. dis
charging the prisoner from custody.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-22
The Italian Beggar.

The Italian, when he takes to beggary,
says city paper, is very much of an
adept. There is about his stimulation
picturesqueness and dramatic power
which is most fascinating. He speaks of
his sunny Italy with fine poetic feeling
sharply in contrast with the shoulder
Struggling condescension and diffident
depreciation with which he alludes to
our own poor inhospitable country.
"Ah bella ma," said one Of these ro-
mantle vagabonds TO a lady in whose
kitchen he was solacing himself, "my
beautiful Italia is one day il June. 1t
has no snow in the street and no
hungaree in re belly" The lady natur
ally inquired why he did not stay in
beautiful Italy. "Ah |" he said, with a
shrug of the velveteen shoulders, "it
was Vesuvius that drive me to zis forlorn
country" Vesuvius drove into lawyers
Office on Broadway one fine day, a
brazen scamp, who exhibited n printed
certificate from an American consul in
Italy to the effect that the bearer had
been blown up by the volcano, his
family torn from him, and his vineyards
made desolate. Would the liberal citizen
of great republic have pity upon the
wretched stranger. The lawyer, who
had more leisure than briefs, cross-ex-
amined the volcano smitten Italian
Did he like travelling by volcano3 Did
it hurt him most when he went up or
when he came down. At what rate of
speed did he travel when he was blown
into the air, and did the smell of gin
certify to his sutferings, or was it only
an accident of temporary emergency
The suffering foreigner only shrugged
his shoulders and said: "Me no speakee
Inglesia." Finally, losing temper under
the continuous fire of cross-questions,
the volcano ruined stranger measured
the distance between the stairs and the
place where he stood, and said: "Oh,
you be dashed" and down he went be-
fore the astonished lawyer could put out
his hand tO Stoy him
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-22
A Cardinals State Coach,

1t is an old Roman custom that q car
dinal should not appear in the streets on
foot, so it is necessary that Cardinal
McCloskey should have his state car
riage. The New York Herald gives us
a description of it: Neither in color nor
ornament is it prepared to attract notice
in the street, still it is an extremely
luxurious vehicle. Hung upon what
are termed suspension springs, the body
of the coach sways with cradle-like
motion at the slightest impulse. The
coach cost $1,000. 1t is an almost mas
sive. round-bodied town coach. Within
it is lined with dark green satin and
fitted with every appliance needful to
people who can ride in their coaches.
The body is painted lustrously black,
and its running gear is of dark green,
like the upper side of an oak leaf These
colors are relieved by the pallor of the
silver mountings Of the carriage. The
only exact mark by which people will
learn to pick out Cardinal McCloskey's
coach from host of fine vehicles drawn
by proud horses is the coat of arms on
its doors. This is a combination, it is
said, of the armorial insignia of the
cardinals family and some of the en-
blems of his priestly office. The field
of the escutcheon is green. A crimson
chevron running from side to side of
the shield up toward its center makes a
lozenge at its base, in which there is a
golden lily flower. On the field of the
chevron are three silver Maltese crosses.
At each upper extremity of the shield is
golden star. Surmounting the es-
cutcheon is double crosslet, as it is
called-that is, a cross having one large
and one small transverse, the latter being
above the former. The escutcheon is
thus described in heraldic terms :
Field vert, chevron gules, with three
Maltese crosses, argent; two ctOiles or
in chief, and a fcr-de-iys or. Crest, a
double crosslet. The horses are said to
be the finest of any team to be found.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-22
Making a Piano.

1t takes nearly four years to make one
instrument: three years and some months
to season the wood, and three months to
form the parts. No less than sixteen
different kinds of wood enter into the
formation, embracing the softest, tough
est, hardest, heaviest, ightest and most
compact grain. In the "action" alone
there are eleven different kinds of wood.
The piano, moreover, is cosmopolitan,
from the fact that the vegetable, animal
and mineral kingdoms of the world con-
tribute to the composition. While spruce
pine from Northern New York, maple
from Massachusetts,, pine and ash from
Michigan, cherry from Pennsylvania,
walnut from Indiana, and poplar from
West Virginia, after passing through
choppers, sawyers, raftmen and inspec-
tors, as well as buckskin of four kinds,
first from the wild deer and then from
the manufacturers, are necessary, this
country docs not furnish all the material
required. Six kinds of felt, four kinds
of cloth, besi les silver for the plates, sill
yer gilded strings, cast-iron, many kinds
of paper, as also ivory, ebony and var
nish, are all imported from other coun-
tries. In an ordinary piano there are
five hundred screws, one hundred and
seventy strings, eighty-fve keys and five
hundred and twenty key and tuning
pins. In q seven octave square about
ninety square feet of veneering is used,
and in the "action" alone there are no less
than SOP pieces. From the foregoing
some conception of the requisites of q
square, upright or grand piano may be
formed
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-22
JUSticcS' Justice i'm England,

The Pal Nal Gazette says: With
Goals at their present price poor people
who live near forest are exposed to
great temptation. They must, however,
keep their hands from "picking and
stealing," or rather from sticking and
stealing, for justice in this country is adj
ministered very indiferently, and its
mill wheels occasionally "grind exceed
ingly small" A case heard a few days
ago at tae st. Martins, Stamford, petty
sessions ought to be warming to
"sticllers. -Four women were summoned
for sticking in Cliffe forest on the 10Th
of February, and doing damage to the
underwood to the extent of sixpence.
1t appears that the forest is the property
of Lord Exeter, and heavy penalty was
pressed for, as considerable damage, it
wood by stickers. The magistrates
thereupon fined all the defendants Gl
9s. Cd, including damages and costs, or
a months hard labor. This Judgment,
according to the report in the Stamford
Mercury, appeared to stagger the poor
women, who pleaded piteously for
mitigation of the sentence, declaring
that they had been compelled to go out
sticking to get firing, as they were I'M
able to buy coal at Is. Cd. hundred
weight. After awhile tho magistrates
relented so far as to allow fortnight
for payment. This act of mercy did not,
however, satisfy the offenders, who
urged that they should never be able to
pay the sum demanded, and would have
to go to prison, and two of the defend
ants, an old woman and young girl,
actually surrendered themselves in Gus
tody on this absurd plea. Another old
woman, who said she had only los. in
the world, that her husband was i'll in
bed, and had been so for three months,
and that she only went to get a few
sticks to make fire to warm him, got
her penalty at last reduced to e1, but
her money was exhausted. So evenly
are the scales of justice balanced in this
country that an old woman who picks
up stick and a ruffian who knocks an
old woman down with a bludgeon are
mulcted in about the same penalty.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-22
Saving is Wealth.

One great cause of the poverty of the
present day, wisely says an exchange, is
failure of our common people to ap-
preciate small things. They do not re-
alize how daily addition, be it ever so
small, will soon make a large pile. If
the young men and women of to-day will
only begin, and begin now, to save a
little from their earnings and plant it in
the soil of some good savings bank, and
weekly or monthly add their mite, they
will wear happy smile of competence
when they reach middle life. Not only
the desire but the ability to increase it
will also grow. Let clerk and tradesman,
laborer and artisan, make, now and at
once, beginning. Store up some of
your youthful force for future contin-
gency. Let parents teach their children
to begin early to save. Begin at the
fountain head to control the stream of
sxtravagance-to choose between poverty
and riches. Let our youth go on in the
habits of extravaganza for fifty years to
come as they have for fifty years past,
and we shall have nation of beggars,
with a moneyed aristocracy. Let gen.
Grafton of such as save in small sums be
reared, and we shall be free from want.
Do not be ambitious for extravagant
fortunes, but seek that which it is the
duty of every one to obtain-indepen-
dence and comfortable home. Wealth,
and enough of it, is within the reach of
all. 1t is obtained by one process, and
one only-Saying
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-22
The Source of Salt,

The sea depends on the disintegration
of rocks on land for salt. 1t doesn't orig
mate in oceans and seas. Rains wash it
and hold it a solution as particles are
liberated by violence, decomposition,
forces. All streamlets and rivers, there
fore, are constantly transporting salt to
the sea. If there is more than can be
held in solution, then it accumulates in
masses at very deep points. Thus the
salt mines of Portland and the vast hori-
zontal beds of pure salt in Texas, as well
as that mountain of rock salt in st. Do
mingo, were collected at the bottom of
ancient seas, which are now dry land, re-
mote from water. There are places in
Africa where the process of disintegra-
ton Of salt from rock is regularly going
on, but there is not water-power enough
to force it onward to the sea. Hence the
particles are spread abroad and mixed
with the soil. The negroes of Northern
Africa having discovered its distribution
where there is no water to dissolve in
the ground, leach it. In that way they
separate the salt. Salt pervades the
earth. 1t exists in the grasses and most
vegetable products on which animals
feed. In that way they derive enough
in most countries to meet the demands
of their natures. They require as much
as civilized humanity. With them salt
is necessary, MS with ourselves, for keep
ing the organs of vision in good condi-
ton: Stop the supply, and blindness
would ensue.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-22
Blessings on the Boys.

Blessings ON the boys. Not the
young, healthy, rosy-cheeked male saw
ages of thirteen or sixteen years. They
cannot help being boys, and deserve no
special credit or condemnation for it.
But blessings on those hale old boys of
forty or forty-fve or even sixty, who
bend their broad shoulders to the bur-
uens of life, but who do not let those
burdens crush their hearts; whose eyes
are quick to catch the light of merri-
ment over droll story, and quicker to
fill with tears of sympathy for a friends
distress; who retains boyish love and
reverence for all that is womanly; whose
boyish confidence in humanity, as a
whole, though often shocked, never
dies; who watch eagerly for the bright
spots of sunshine on ifes carpet, and
seat themselves where it falls brightest
and warmest. They rarely grow very
rich, for their boyish generosity is too
careless forthat; they may not command
the awe of admiring crowds; they are
not always systematic enough to be safe
ly trusted with important offices; but
the nimble feet of childhood springs to
them, manhood trustingly extends to
them wide open hand, women greet
them with a confiding smile, and all
through life they live and receive great
treasures of pure love. God himself
is very tender to these boys.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-22
The Florida Orange Groves.

A Florida correspondent, describing
both the attractions and drawbacks of
the peninsular State, goes into ecstasies
over the orange groves which abound
there. The most celebrated of these is
the property of Colonel Hart, his being
the largest grove of bearing trees in the
country. 1t has $50 trees, varying from
four to eight inches in diameter, all
set at equal distances from each other,
in straight rows each way, and so thick
together that among the largest trees
the ground is completely shaded. The
old crop of oranges has been nearly all
picked, and the trees are budding very
thickly and beginning to blossom. The
trees now blossoming will have fruit in
the middle of September next, from
which time they will be picking all the
fall and winter until all are harvested.
Heretofore they have allowed them to
hang on the trees until the first of May;
but it has been found better for the trees
and they get larger crop by not letting
the fruit hang on so long. The oranges
keep perfectly sound as long rs they
hang on the trees, and one frequently
sees a single tree on which are buds and
blossoms, green, half-grown oranges and
ripe oranges. The fact that Florida
oranges are far superior to any others,
and that both climate and soil are
specially favorable for the cultivation of
this fruit, makes it certain that their
culture is destined to become one of the
most important, if not the chief of pro-
ductive interests in the State. Florida's
chief element of attraction is unques-
tionably her climate, which, when COM
pared with the climate of Northern
States at this season, is, indeed, agree
BILE; but at present it is almost the only
source of enjoyment to be found there.
To make it a really desirable country for
a winter residence it requires very
large influx of Northern enterprise and
caDital
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-22
A Father Playing Indian.

AT Louisville masquerade the pro-
cession was witnessed by large crowd.
Among the motley host who perambula
ted the streets, in the procession, was a
long, cadaverous-looking fellow repre-
senting Comanche Indian. His face
was painted red, his suit was
well made up. Upon his pom
derous feet were pair of new
moccasins, and hanging from the beaded
girth that encircled his body were half a
dozen "hoss pistols" and as many
scalps. Inside this belt stuck cheese
black hair was banded with brass hook,
from which stuck about dozen of tur-
key and goose feathers, and in his right
hand he held with an iron grasp toma-
hawk, red with some victims blood.
Everybody saw the wild Indian, but no.
body knew it was Skinner.
While the procession moved through
the various streets, Skinner would get
dry, and break ranks by lodging into
barrooms and taking his usual dose of
"fre-water. As the procession passed
his house new idea struck Skinner. He
would go home and scare Mrs. Skinner
and all the little SINNERS. He cut loose
from the procession, took another dose
of " fire-water," and by the time he
reached his front gate, he was the most
reckless looking Comanche the world
ever beheld. Picking up new courage
he rushed into the front room where the
little SINNERS were "playing circus"
IIis appearance was accompanied by
wild yells and fancy dancing, while he
made that tomahawk fly around the
room over the children's heads as if he
meant business, the little SINNERS
shouting, "Oh, Mr.. Iniin, don't !"
mother!' "murder ~ i" fire !" and
there were such screams as would have
made any sure enough" Indian run.
Skinner was just in the middle of his
fun, when the screams of the children
and the war-whoops of the Comanche
brought Mrs. SkinL er to the scene, arm
ed with an iron skillet. She slipped up
behind the playful Indian" drew a
bead on his nose, and landed that skillet
with the force of sledge- hammer and
the rapidity of lightning against it. The
hand let go the tomahawk, the feathers
flew, the belt bursted, and the scalps,
pistols and knives fell to the floor There
was fesh-and blood spot in the middle
of his face where that nose was a mo-
ment before the skillet mashed it. There
was groan, fall, somersault or two,
and all was quiet. That Comanche had
found the happy hunting grounds. !"
Skinner has an Indian masquerade suit
for sale
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-22
RIDGWAY, COUNTY, THURSDAY, April. 22 1875
Proverbs.

Home is home be it ever so homely.
Hope is o good breakfast, but a bad
supper
Have your cloak made before it begins
to rain.
Idle folks have the least leisure.
Live not to eat, but eat to live.
Let not your tongue cut your throat.
Liars are not to be believed when they
tell the truth.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Never split wood against the grain.
Never light your candle at both
ends.
Never make mountain out of q mole
hill.
None are SO deaf as those who will
not hear.
One is not so soon healed as hurt.
One eyewitness is better than ten
hearsay.
One bad example spoils many good
precepts.
One hours sleep before midnight is
worth two after.
Praise n fair day at night.
Patience and time run through the
longest day.
Quick at meat, quick at work.
Reckless youth makes rueful age.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Temperance is the best physic.
Short reckonings make long friends.
IT'S the second blow that makes the
fray.
The best physicians are DR.. Diet, DR..
Quiet and DIR. Merryman.
Welcome is the best cheer.
Where there is q will there is n way.
When the will is ready the foot is
light.
What may be done at any time is
never done.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-22
Very Bad Writing.

Talking of spelling and writing, the
New York Herald says: Bad writing is
productive of cursing, and who can tell
how much Horace Greeley, Rufus
Choate and Colonel Forney, public men
with extensive correspondence, have
done to make swearing a national vice ?
Every letter these great statesmen wrote
went forth as an evil one to promote
profanity. Colonel Forney, on the oc-
casion of one of Mr.. Choate's great
speeches, wrote him complimentary
letter, in which he said, in his poetiaal
way: "You sum an heather heaven in
yourself, and top high crowned Olym-
pus." Mr.. ChOate read the sentence
thus: "You seem an heather in heaven,
you wretch, at top fly blown pumbus, y
and in fit of anger wrote most abu-
sive ,eply, which Colonel Forney still
keeps ia his album as cordial invitation
to dinner.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-22
His Conscience,

One of the most conscientious shcriffs
on record has turned up in Iowa. A
railroad WAS to be sold at sheriff's sale,
and friendly agreement was made by
which this model official was to receive
three hundred and fifty dollars in pay
ment for his part in the transaction,
which required two hours, perhaps, of his
valuable time. But after the sale he
happened to look at the statute which
fixed his fees, when he found to his
horror that he had been transgressing
the laws of the State, which declared
that he should receive no other fees than
those legally assigned him. So he re-
fused the liberal sum offered him, and
said he would take nothing but his law
full fees, which in this instance, it seems,
amounted to 81, 900. The railroad men
endeavored TO hold him to his original
bargain, but he was too conscientious
to violate the laws he was appointed to
uphold, and, the case going to the courts,
his integrity was rewarded by verdict
il his favor.