The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-08-26
GRACE CHURCH.
Car Time at IeidgtUau.
The foundry will be raised nert week.

The foundry will be raised nert week.
Attention is called to the advertisement mt
"Private Tuition" in another column.
A new switch has been built at the de-
pot, to hold five cars, for the accommoda-
tion of our lumbermen.
The man Lawless, just tried at Sunbury
on the charge of killing his wife, has been
convicted of murder in the second degree.
Don't hold pins in you mouth, Harris
burg woman died from the effect of one
she acciden:ly swallowed.
The sheriff of Tioga count advert;ses
eighty,two properties for sale on the 10th
inst. An unusaly large list for that
county.
Work on the normal school bull lding at
Lock Haven is progressing slowly. The
officers want but 81, AGO to secure $4,000
from the state
The Taylors and Campbells Of Erie
county held joint family picnic at Edn.
boro on the 18th inst. at which l75 bear
ing those names were present.
All is vanity. Many young men and
woman Of Reading are habitual eater of ar
senic, using the poison to produce clear
compilations.
Hunters should remember that an Act of
Assembly of 1874 limits the season for deer
hunting to three months instead of four as
formerly, viz:-from the first day of Sep
tember to the first day of D,cem )cr.
A tornado with path about four hund-
red feet in with on Wednesday passed over
the northwestern part of Philadelphia,
About a dozen houses we're unroofed, trees
were torn up by the roots, fences over
thrown, and horses attached to wagons
thrown to the ground, but no one was
seriously injured.
Among the delegates TO the Democratic
county con vention, held at Franklin Ven,
ango county, recently, was GHlbreath Nc
Mullen, sr., oil Trepchcreek township, who
is ninety-two years old and the Spectator, of
that place, remarks thrt he seems good
for hundred years more" That no doubt
is badly mired.
1t has been decided that the driver of
vehicle on the highway his the right to
pass another travelling in the same direc-
ton, but at n slower gait, that the latter is
bound to give the former half the roAd to
enable him to pass, and tina; if he does not
he will be liable for any acid ent that may
happen.
The Warren Mail suggests that slate be
hung in the vestibules of the churches in
that town 10 euasle the young ladies to
register their names on entertaining for
evening services. If this plan is adopted.
the young men won't have to wait outside
until church is out TO see If their charners
are present.
Near Knoxville, the other night, young
girl, who WIS unexpectedly interviewed b y
the family as she was al out clipping with
the object of her virgin affections, knock ed
the old man down, laid out two brothers
with cistern pole, kicked the hired man
in the stomach, aud got away with her
lover; and made the rifle
The state fsir at Lancaster will begin
on Monday, September 27, and continue
through Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday
and Friday. The books of entry will be
closed one week before the time for open,
ing the fair, and all entries are free ex-
cept those Of horses entered for speed,
which are charged the usual per cent No
premiums will! be awarded to reaping,
moving or sewing machines or musical
instruments,
The Secretary of the Treasury has de
cided that the notes of National Banks
shall in future be printed upon the same
kind of paper as the Unitel States notes.
The notes are also to be executed with not
less than three plate prinrings of which no
company shall execute more than one.
This order will not only prove public con-
venience but will prevent cOunterfeiting.
The two kinds of paper often give rise 10
suspicion where none should exist.
Sebastian T. Weston some time since
mail carrier at Mauch Chunk, who was ar
rested the IL of June last, on a charge Of
embezzling letters from the mails, was tried
on Tuesday last in the U. s. District Court
before Judge Cadwalder. The Grand Jury
had found true bill, which the Judge
handed him to read for himself, instead of
being read publicly. After reading it,
with his father, who was present the Clerk
of the Court asked him whether he was
''guilty or not guilty of the charge prefer
red against him." to which he replied in a
clear voice, IL am guilty" The Judge
then asked the prisoner whether he had
anything to say before sentence should be
pronounced, and he replied in the negative
U. 8. District Attorney Valentine then
made plea to the Judge for lenniency, ask
him to take into consideration his youth,
that he was the only son of his parents,
and that he had heretofore born q good
character-testimony to which fact could be
produced. The Judge very charitably pro-
nounced but half the full sentenced re.
quired by law. viz: two year and six
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