The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-08-12
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Williamsville this county and Michael
weidert has been appointed postmaster.
Losr-A pair Of silver mounted specta-
cles and, leather case. The finder will be
literally rewarded by leaving the specta,
cles at this Office.
Next Thursday an excursion train will
leave Kane for Niagara Falls. The fare
from Ridgway to the falls and return will
be $500.
| Give the ADVOCATE office o call for bill
heads, letter-heads, cards, shipping tags,
and you are going to get married leave
us an order for your cards
The Emporium Indpendent says
A baseball nine came down here from
Ridgway one day last keek to play a
game with our boys. The weather was
warm and our chaps used their visitors
little roughly, making them run the
bases fortr-nine times, while our boys
only run nineteen times.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has on the New York division estab.
lished novel system to prevent, as they
think, peculation on the part of passen-
ger conductors. Each conductor is
supplied with a leather satchel or box,
suspended from the shoulder by q
broad leather strap with buckets and
slides. The satchel has two compart-
ments, one for tickets, the other for
books, blanks, etc. The first is locked
at the starting terminus has an aperture
for the reception of tickets, and is not
accessible to the conductor. The pas
senger drops his ticket, when directed
by the conductor, into the bag. New
uniforms are being made for the con-
ductors. The coats will button to the
chin, having standing collars with p.
R. R. thereon, and will have no pock
cts.
A few drops of carbolic acid in a pint
of water will clean house plants from
lice in very short time. If mosqui-
toes or other bloodsuckers invest your
sleeping rooms at night, uncork bottle
OF the oil of penny-royal, and these in
sects leave in great haste, nor will they
return so long as the air in the room is
loaded with the fumes of that aromantic
herb. If rats enter the cellars, little
powdered potash thrown into their
holes, or mixed with meal and scattered
in their runaways, never fails to drive
them away. Cayenne pepper will keep
the buttery and store-room free from
ants and reaches. If a mouse
makes an entrance into any part Of your
dwelling saturate rag with cayenne in
solution, and stuff it into the hole,
which can then be repaired with either
wood or mortar. No rat or mouse will
eat that rag for the purpose of opening
communications with a depot of sup
plies.
The death of Andrew johnson,
seventeenth President of the Uuited
States, leaves the nation without a soli-
tary ex-President living. This has not
happened since the demise of Washing
ton during the term OF the elder Adams
When John Quincy Adams was inau.
gurated in 1925, all the Presidents tor
the preceding seven terms (twenty-eight
years,) were living, viz: the elder Ad-
ans, Jefferson Madison and Monroe.
When James X. Polk was inaugurated
thirty years ago, the incumbents of the
previous five terms, (twenty years.
were living, except Harrison viz: John
Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren,
and Taylor and when Lincoln was inau-
gurated fourteen years ago, no less than
five of his predecessors survived-Van
Buren, Taylor. Fillmore, Pierce and
Buchanan. In the above list of Presi-
dents there were two that accepted Off
cial positions after retiring from the
Presidency, viz: John Quincy Adams,
as Representative, and Andrew John.
son as Senator i'll Congress from their
respective States.
The Lake Shore Visitor, speak ing
of the new Catholic Cathedral, at Erie
says:-The building is designed by Mr..
G. G. Kelly, of Brooklyn, and is of the
gothic style of architecture of the 18th
century. The extreme length is 213
feet and the extreme width 128 feet.
The height of the main roof is 96 and
the spire 232 feet. The main audience |
room will be including the chancel. 100 |
feet in length by 73 feet 2 inches in |
width, and a height Of 72 feet. On the |
main floor there are, in one course |
around the building, 40 openings, in
,luding the elegant double entrance