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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-29
RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA, THURSDAY,
A Criminals Career.

Looking at the picture numbered No.
1876, in the New York police court gal
lery, says correspondent, careful OBJ
server would at once pronounce it to be
that of talented man. The high fore
head, finely shaped head, and general
contour of the features denote intelli-
gence and firmness. 1t is that of Charles
IL. Bullard, alias Piano Charley"
one of the most expert bank robbers in
the country. In company with Ike
Marsh and Mark Shinburne he effected
the famous robbery of the Ocean bank,
In New York city, by which nearly $780,
600 was carried off by the burglars. Then
came, in 1868, the equally daring rob-
berry of the messenger of the Merchants
Union express company, on the New
York Central road, between New York
city and Buffalo. Bullard, Marsh, and
one Thompson entered the express Car,
bound and gagged the messenger, and
stole 800, 900 from the safe. They fed
to Canada, but were extradited and
lodged in White Plains Jail for trial
Ex-Recorder Smith was hired by Mrs
George Roberts to defend the prisoners
and was paid 81 900. After the exami-
nation, which resulted in their being
COIululuuel lOE Glltl, oh0 SunB Weuu
through the ex-recorder on his way
home, and stole back the 1000. Then
party of notorious burglars, headed by
Billy Forester, of Nathan murder ce-
lebrity, perfected plan for freeing
Bullard, Marsh, and Thompson. They
went to White Plains and dug into the
jail while the prisoners assisted them
from the inside. The men were freed
and were lost sight of until the robbery
of the Boylston (Mass.) bank in 1869.
The bank was plundered of S540,00O.
1t was then learned that Bullard,
under the name of Judson, hired the
house next to the bank, and with his
companions cut through the wall into the
bank vault. Bullard at once fled to
Paris, taking his wife with him, and
under the name of Charles II. Wells
opened an American drinking saloon
under the Grand Hotel, on the Boule-
ward des Capucines. A faro bank was
carried on in private room at the rear
of the saloon. The place was continually
thronged with Americans, and Bullard
did thriving business for over year.
Bullard was finally arrested and the
place broken up. Bullard was tried at
the Palais de Justice on charge of
keeping gambling house, convicted,
and sentenced to one years imprison-
ment. His wife came to this country
and was robbed of a quantity of valuable
furniture and her money by woman
keeping boarding house. When Bull
lard was released he came to New York,
joined his wife, and took up his quarters
in house kept by a noted burglar
known as Dutch Dan" This man
informed the police of Billiards. being
in the city. He was at once arrested,
taken to Boston for trial, convicted, and
was short time ago sentenced to twenty
years in State prison. Bullard is man
of very good education, speaks French
and German fuently, plays the piano
finely (whence his alias of Piano Charley,
and is one Of the very few burglars who
can open a combination safe with his
hands alone.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-29
Pauperism and Crime.

According to official returns provided
by several departments under the Brit
ish government, it would appear that in
the year 1864 there were 1,009,289 per-
sons who had received relief from the
poor rates in England and Wales. In
Scotland the number was 120, 705, and in
Ireland.69, 217. Ten years later, which
brings us to last year, the number of
persons who had relief in England and
Wales was only S29, ,2S1, and in Scotland
ILL., 1886, both countries therefore ex-
hibiting marked decrease. In Ireland
the number was 1903. Here there is
an increase, but it is more apparent than
real, due to the better administration of
the poor laws and to the more careful
collection of statistics. 1t is notorious
that the condition of the Irish poor is
vastly better than it was even in 1864.
All,the returns from the large cities, and
especially from London, have also for q
long time past shown steady decrease
in paupcrism.
Again, the number of convictions for
crime in England and Wales in 1864 was
IA, 726, in Scotland 1850, and in Ireland
5000. Ten years later such convictions
were reduced in England and Wales to
11,0S9; in Scotland to 2,230, and in
Ireland to 2,542.
There is, therefore, an actual decrease
in both pauperism and crime. But that
decrease is much greater than these
figures seem to show. We must not
forget that the population has greatly
increased. In 1865 we have not the
returns for the previous year at hand
the population of the United Kingdom
was 29,861,9 1908. But in 1874 it had in
creased to 80, ,412,010; and it is calcu,
lated by the registrar general that it is
now increasing at the rate of LIB every
day, or 428, 145 annually.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-29
Training a Child.

The very first lesson q parent has to
learn is that whatever he attempts to
teach child he must himself first prac-
tice. Whatever he wishes his child to
avoid, he must make up his mind to re-
nounce, and that from the very earliest
stage of existence, and down to the
minutest things. In young children the
initiative faculty is so enormous, the
reasoning power so small, that cne can
not be too careful, even with infants,
to guard against indulging in a harsh
tone, brusque manner, a sad or angry
look. AS far as is possible the tender
bud should live in an atmosphere of
continual sunshine, under which it may
safely and happily unfold, hour by
hour, and day by day. To effect this
there is required from the parent, or
those who stand in the parents stead,
an amount of self-control and self-de-
nial which would be almost impossible
had not Heaven implanted on the one
side maternal instinct, on the other tina
extraordinary winning charm which
there is about all young creatures,
making us put up with their endless
waywardness, and love them all the
better the more trouble they give us.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-29
TIMID SIMS,

"Timid SIMS" as he was called, was
- held in very inferior repute among the
boys at Texas Bar, because he had back
ed down before a six-shooter. A man
on Texas Bar might be lacking in many
qualities, but if he had "the sand," it
covered multitude of sins. "Sand "
was the joc1llar translation for "grit. "
Sand, in locality possessing but little
law and IS order, was an absolute es-
sential to good standing in Texas Bar.
Sims had one merit. He was an inde-
fatigable prospector. and at last struck
gravel diggings on Bixel's Flat. Had he
been "smart," he might have monopo-
lized the entire lead. He contented
himself with a modest slice ut one end.
Then down came the ablo-bodied cutting
and shooting men of Texas Bar. jim
Freemantle had worked bank claim
facing the fiat two years previously,
without suspecting the diggings which
existed an eighth of mile back. No
matter. On the plea of possessing a
prior claim ON Bixel's, he and his com
peers argued that they had the right of
"running the first boundary lines. I"
Sims had already run his own, which in
cluded, so far as he could judge by ex-
ternal indications, fair slice of the lead
supposed to exist underneath. This
Fre6mantle Il Co. coveted. So they ran
their lines, which clashed with those of
Sims. Sims found Freemantle's notices
posted in the heart of his claim. He ex-
postulated with him. He renewed his
own notices, which had been torn down.
These We're again snatched off, and his
boundary stakes kicked over. This was
accompanied by a threat from the pro-
priotors of the "Conquer We Must "
claim, that "any more of that sort of
thing would leae to bullets" SO Sims
took water" and was obliged to take
up with the fragment of the ground he
had discovered
Wang Chu kept "China store a
little above Bixel's Flat. Wang Chu
dealt principally in gin, salt fish, tea and
opium. In his leisure hours he had con-
structed a boat for transporting parties
of his countrymen, who, from time to
time in their immigrations about the
country in their search for diggings,
might desire to cross the river. 1t was
built after the Chinese style of marine
architecture. 1t was cumbrous, heavy,
lop.sided and unmanageable in the most
quiet waters. One aim in its construc-
ton had been to use as much old tim
ber as possible. When Wang Chu had
finished "The Ark" as the miners
termed it, he painted two great eyes in
the bows. Thereby he had deemed he
had made it rational, living, seeing
creature. When it was first set afoat,
there was a dedicatory burning of crack
ers, joss sticks, other pow-wowing and
an increased consumption by Wang Chu
and his contemporaries of gin and
opium. After this the ill-starred and
ungainly craft hoated in its crippled and
lop-sided fashion in little blight of the
river. Its passage over the Stanislaus
at the lowest stage of water was accom-
p lished wit vast amount of loud out
C ries and gabbling on the part of Wang
Chu and his crew, who mingled their
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-29
Thoughts for Saturday Night.
Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.
Self trust is the essence of heroism.
Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
When all else is lost, the future re-
mains.
Hope is light diet, but very stimu-
lating.
The innocent seldom find an uneasy
pillow.
A foe to God was never true friend
to man.
We read the book of experience only
backward and find it punctuated as God
willed.
Had we not faults of our own, wo
should take less pleasure i'll observing
those of others.
Man without religion is creature of
circumstances religion is above all
circumstances, and will lift him up above
them.
Every man has in himself continent
of undiscovered character. Happyis he
who acts the Columbus to his own soul.
There is no dearth of charity in the
world in giving, but there,is compare
lively little exercised in thinking and
speaking.
If we look upon life as gift of days,
only one to be used and improved at
time, all its duties can be done, all it's
burdens borne.
Everything that tends to emancipate
us from external restraint without adding
to our own power Of self-government is
mischievous.
Many persons are judged harshly by
the world because they allow no eye but
Gods to see into the inner sanctuaries of
their hearts.
The most civilized are as near to bar
barism as the most polished steel is to
rust. Nations, like metals, have only
superficial brilliancy,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-29

The BEER CAPITAL OF AAIERIoA.-In-
ternal revenue reports show that the
city of Milwaukee, with its one hundred
thousand inhabitants, consumed during
the month of June 28,327 barrels of
lager, making 14,050, 1872 glasses, at a
cost of $702, 509.60 to the consumers.
AS half of the population may be as
sumed to be minors below the beer
drinking age, the remainder must have
taken ten glasses each per day.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-29
4 Brutal Fellow.

James Brown, of st. Giles, London,
claims to be reckoned among the noble
band of vivisectionists, his trade being
the catching of cats and skinning 'em
alive. "The simple fact is" he says,
81 get an honest living by skinning cats,
and because skins taken from the live
cats are worth sixpence apiece more than
those taken from the animal when dead,
| skin the cats alive whenever / can. "
AS the court did not believe in Browns
cruelty, he was sentenced to twelve
months Imprisonment.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-29
VOL. ".
The District School.

The district schoolmaster was sitting behind
his great book-laden desk,
Close-watching the motions of scholars, pa
thetic and gay and grotesque.
As whisper tho half-loallcss branches, when
autumn's brisk brcezes have come,
His little scrub-thicket of pupils sent upward
half-smothered hum
Like tho frequent sharp bang OF n wagon,
whom treading forest path DER,
Rcsounded the feet Of the pupils, whenever
their heels struck the floor.
There was little Tom Timms on the front seat,
whose face was wthstanding drouth,
And jolly Jack Gibbs just behind him, with a
rainy new moon for amouth;
There were both Of the Smith boys, as studi-
GUS as if they bore names that could
bloom,
And Jim Jones, a heaven built mechanic, the
slyest young knave in the room,
With countenance grave as horses, and his
honest eyes fixed on pin,
Queer-bent on deeply laid project to tunnel
o Joe Hawkins skin.
There were anxious young novices, drilling
their spelling books into the brain,
Loud putting each half-whispered letter.
like an engine just starting its train;
There was one fiercely muscular fellow, who
scowled at the sums on his slate,
And leered at the innocent figures look of
unspoakable hate
And his white teeth close together, and gave
his thin lips Il short twist,
AS to say: "I could whip you, confound you !
could such things be done with the fist ~
There were two knowing girls in tho corner,
each ono with some beauty possessed,
In whisper discussing the problem which one
tho young master likes best;
A class in the front, with their readers, were
telling, with difficult pains,
How porishcd brave Marco Bozzaris while
bleeding at all of his veins
And boy on the floor to be punished, statue
of idlencss stood,
Making faces at all of the others, and enjoy
ing the scene all he could.
Around were the walls gray and dngy, which
every old school sanctum hath,
With many a break on their sulface, where
grihned wool-grating of lath.
patch Of thick plaster, just over the school
masters rickety chair,
Seemed threat'ningly DER him suspended, like
Damocles sword, by hair.
There were tracks on the desks where the
knife blades had wandered in search Of
their prey;
Their tops were as duskily spattered as if
they drank lux every day.
The square stove it pufred and it cracked, and
broke out in rel-faming sores,
Till the great iron quadruped trembled like
dog fierce TO rush out-o'-doors.
White snowflakes looked in at the windows !;
the gale pressed his lips to the cracks
And the childrens hot faces were streaming
the while they were freezing their backs.
-IVM Carlton.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-29
Population,

Chicago and st. Louis have been try
ing the "Smith method" of calculating
the population of cities. 1t is claimed
that in the United States there is one
Smith to every $40 persons. The st.
Louis directory shows 906 Smiths, and
calculations by the above suggestion
give 4S9, 240 as the result for st. Louis.
A Chicago editor succeeds in finding in
his directory 1890 Smiths, and forty
eight Smyths, Smits, Schmidts, etc,
making in all LABS. Multiplying this
number by $40, he makes Chicaeo's pop
ulation loom up to 776,520. 49,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-29
Cost of Burial.

The New York Tribune says: From
facts given in editorial, the following
schedule of the cost of first-class funeral
on the American plan may be adduced /:
Rosewood coffin, lined with velvet . $500
Coffiu-plate (name and all the virtues
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02
AsEal,aine Caused. by Rats.

The Burmah correspondent of the London IE9aes mentions that the Karens are suffering from ,a famine caused by rats. The dispute between the British and the King of Burmah is in respect to the boundary lines of the district of country inhabited by the Karens. The correspondent sends a circular of relief,
 as follows: The Tonghoo Relief Com mittee appeal to the public on behalf of the distressed rKarens inhabiting the hills on the east of the Tonghoo district,
 British Burmah. Their harvests for two or three years past have been consumed bya plague of rats, which have spared nothing in their widespread devasta- tions. Atpresent the people are entirely destitute, their accumulations have long been exhausted, and they have no occu- patton but that of husbandry to depend upon for their daily subsistence. The scarcity extends sover.angarea of at least six thousand square miles, with a popu- lation aggregating ten thousand souls. Though great portion of these are both Protestants and Roman Catholics, lected will be wholly effected by mission agency. The local government have all ready expended upwards of forty thou sand rupees in. assisting the afflicted villagers, but as it will be necessary to support the greater part throughout the rainy season, this sum represents but g small proportion of the actual amount required to save them from sickness, suffering and death. It is hoped that this appeal will be speedily responded to, as when once the rains have commenced, all communications with the region ot scarcity will be difficult in the extreme.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02
The Celebration.

The New York Graphic says that Boston has disproved the current saying that Americans do not know how to celebrate. Her centennial was a brilliant success in every essential respect. The civic and military procession, seven mi es long, in which all the trades were represented and abundant scope was allowed to the grotesque hun1ors of those who were willing to make themselves ridiculous for the general amusement, was a magnificent spectacle. The speeches, the music, the fraternal feeling the excellent order, and, above al, the thorough sympathy with the spirit of the occasion were admirable. and deserve emulation.s In. fact 1t seemed as though every one of the half million who poured through the streets was determined to contribute something to the pleasure of the occasion. The hearty welcome ex- tended to the Southern visitors was one of the best signs and results of the oc- casion, and the twining of the palmetto and the pine in Music Hall was happy augury for the future of the Union. It is impossible to overlook the part the literary class took in the festivities, and the Bunker Hill literature was one of the marked features of the occasion.
 The good people who were afraid that the centennial excitement would burn itself away before the Philadelphia cele- bration may as well calm their apprehen- sion on that point. There is too much Declaration of Independence in the American character to let such an oc- casion as the coming national Centennial fail of proper observance.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02
1t was an Ancient Custom

Of the ,Spartans, in order to inculcate among among their youth an abhorrence of intemperance and its kindred vices, to make their slaves d unk with wine in the public market-places,. so that the rising generation, upon whom would some day devolve the honor and safety of the Lacedemonian republic, might see before them all the glastly details of the drunkard's disgrace, his loss of reason, and of physical strength. 'Twere we'll, perhaps, to-day, could some of our young men contemplate a similar in structive lesson drawn from life,
 showing them, by sharply drawn con trast, the advantages and true loveliness of abstinence and virtue. For such as appreciate these, Vinegar Bitters is the beverage best adapted, it being purely 8 vegetable draught, devoid of alcohol or mineral poisons, and possessing all the virtues, but none of the damning curses,
 of the different poisons which year by year are sweeping away thousands of dollars and lives.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02
A Pennsylvania Horror.

A report comes from Norristown, Pa., of a horrible circumstance connected with suicide near that place. A farmer having occasion to go to an unfrequent- ed field to see about his fences, was hor- rified to find the body of a 4colored man hanging in a tree. He informed the coroner, who impaneled jury and wis tied the remains. They found that in- stead of colored man it was @ white man, who had hung in the winds and rains so long as to have become dis colored. The body was fastened by a chain around the neck, and the suicide had pieced the chain by tying with his handkerchief. The corpse was too much decomposed to handle, and so the coro- ner cut the connecting link of handker- chief, when the body fell to the ground, and inlsAediately such a stench arose as to drive every one from the vicinity. The jury refused to go near the remains, and the inquest was held on an over looking hill short distance off. The chain with which the hanging was done was identified by one of the farmers as belonging to his harrow, and had been missed about. two months, which was the only clew as to the length of time the body had been hanging. It was sup posed some tramp, tired of life, stole the chain as the only thing suitable for his purpose he could find, and thus com mitted suicide. It being necessary to bury the remains, box was procured, and the cover laid on the ground close to the body, which was then turned over on it by means of long poles inserted under the extremities. The box was then placed over the cover, and the whole arrangement again turned by means of the poles, and so the handling of the body was dispensed with.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02
Fond of Quackery.

In an article on "quackery," so ac- ceptable to the American people, If 1t only comes under sounding title, an exchange says The man who suffers from dyspepsia, although he may be under treatment by his family physician, no sooner sets eyes on the quack's glar- ing yellow letters on the fence-rail or the curb-stone than he makes up his mind to try 8 bottle or so. In the meantime he discontinues taking the prescription of the family doctor, and argues himself into the belief that the quacks stuff is doing him good. There is doubtless something in it which stirs him up, and to his mind any change seems for the better. Some years ago, well-known firm got out medicine for weak lungs which the victims thought was rescuing them from the verge of the grave. It consisted of ex- tract of onion and liquid salt, and was put up in rosewood cases of such fine workmanship that each one seemed to be worth the five dollars which was de- handed for medicine and all. A glass tube accompanied set of bottles, and the directions were that the liquid should be applied by pouring it through the tube into the ears and eyes and upon the scalp of the sufferer. The reader can imagine the effect which would be produced upon the eyes by extract of onion and salt. 5 But, of course, the greater the pain the more person with weak lungs would persevere, and the more hopeful he would become. We are not prepared to say that some cures had not actually been effected, when a quarrel among the members of the firm caused an exposure of the trick. For if anything could keep up the head of a weak lunged man, and give him thorough exercise, salt and onion extracts in his eyes might be expected to do it. The tricks of the clairvoyants are still more attractive to the credulous. The fum- mery of the trance has enough of the mysterious element in it to make many believers. It is only necessary for the clairvoyant to assure ladies that their physicians have been treating them for other diseases than those, which affiict them to bring thorough conviction to their minds, and to induce them to swal- low compounds made up from the most expensive patent medicines.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02
A Boy with a Lineage.

The blood of Warren and Putnam is united to-day in Warren Putnam New comb, boy of sixteen years of age, now in the Hartford high school. The death of General Warren's wife preceded the battle of Bunker Hill, so that the slaughter of that day left his four chil- dren orphans. The two sons died un- married; the elder daughter died child less; one son survived the second daugh- ter. His name was Joseph Warren New comb, and he was therefore the sole sur viving grandchild of General Warren. He lived until within few months, and was present at the last celebration of the battle of Bunker Hill. His son married at Hartford, Conn.,, lineal descendant of Israel Putnam, of the same genera tion, and some years ago passed away, leaving the son whose name is given above. This boy is therefore the only male descendant of Joseph Warren now alive, and is also the great-grandson ot Israel Putnam. .E -sfs