The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-03-11
The days are growing longer.

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The days are growing longer.
Snow still falls, and sleighing cOutin-
ues good.
Adjourned term Of Court on April
ID.
Mail West @as FIVE hours late on
Monday.
N. 7. Cummings has commenced
rafting in,
The Civil Rights Bill don't affect
business in Ridgway very much.
Sheriff Scull has plenty Of business
on hand.
Plenty off here, several of our citi-
zsns were filling their ice houses on
Monday.
Elmira Sunday y-school teacher to his
pupil: "Now my little nau, Can you
explain to US the cause of Adams fail?',
Lttle man (erphatically;) "Ies sir
cause lie hadn't any asnes to throw on
the sidewalk"
The Clea,fed Republican says:-
The "oldest inhabitant" is putting on
his spectacles aud cgerh auling his re-
cords, to sec nov the present Water
compare, in point Of severity with for
,por years.
ID. G. Oyster, has parchascd B. +,
Ely's property at the corner OF Court
aud Centre streets, and intends making
some Improvements as soon. as spr'ug
opens. We are glad that the ex sheriff
has decided te settle dowu in our viii
ltge.
Our State Senate has passed bill
f,r the pay Of Juigas in the State. 1t
provides that the chief justice shall re-
ceiye $500, the associate judges So,,
900 the judges of Philadelphia aH d
Allegheny $1,000, the county Judge
iexcept the judge OF She Dauphla d''
!. srict, who ia to receive S. ,900,l s. ,0JV
The attention of our readers is called 10
the advertisement On our fo2rth page
headed "S5 Cash" The n. Y. Saturday
Journal, the Great Literary Weekly Of
America for one year, with S. cash to every
fifth subscriber, for the Regula Subscrip'
ton Price So. The Saturday Journal is a
large eight-page paper, and we'll worth the
subscription price, and then chance to
get five dollars besides, ip something worth
boxing after.
The Williamsp ort Ge=ete and Ballca1
tells this; On the evening of the 24th inst.
Wm 7 Elder aud Joseph Mann, of Coga
Station, caught an eagle that measured
eight feet and one inch from tip to tip o
its wings 1t was caught in field neal
that place foundering in the snow, on &C
count of wound in one of its legs 1t i
epresented as a savage looking bird snt
attracts much attention. We have no
learned what disposition its captors pro
pose to make of it, but we would beg leav
o suggest that they should keep it for ex
hibition at the centennial, as a specimen o
what we have in Lycozing county.
An exchange says: Chapped hand
and skin cracks are entirely unnecessar.
even in the coldest weather if propeI
care is observed. Most of the so.eallet
toilet soaps are caustic, or iull of ley
aud act very injuriously upon the skin
Genuine CASTLE soap is almost who'll.
neutral and is the best for washing with
BY rinsing the hands entirely iron
every trace Of soap, and wiping ther
thoroughly before going out chaps ma
be avoided; any that 90 appear can b
cured by rubbing the effected part
with cold cream, or, what is the sam
thing, common lard, before retiring.
We learn from the Gazette, that ST
Mays has lost one of its oldest an
most highly esteemed citizens in tn
person of Bernard Eckel. Mr.. Eck'
was a Bavarian, and came to TIL
country in 1874, and in January la'
took trip to Europe for tie benefit
his health. He landed at Hamburg. 0
the 2Sth, and wrote letter to his Iau
lily, dated on that day, that his trl
proved very beneficial. How deceptive
A relative informs the friends that b
died on the 30th, and was buried on th
3lst. This was shocking news to tn
family at St.Msrys.