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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05
Varieties in Fashions,

Among late novelties is Doves lever
buckle. This buckle is made self. at
taching by means of a lever, and is ca
pable of supporting q weight of ten
pounds. It is applied to various articles
with very good effect, such as garters
and stocking supporters. An improve
u1ent i'll stocking supporters is to have
r u suspending straps from the waist
instead OF one. The same principle OF
the lever clasp is also applied to but
tons, which are thus attached to the gar
ment without being sewed, and are,
therefore, very convenient fer gentle
mems clothing.
New belts of velvet and of leather
are wide girdles pointed behind and in
front, and laced with silk cord. Straight
belts are ornamented all around with
square clasps of silver.
Purses for carrying specie are in fash
ion again. They are made of fine silver
wire, and are suspended from the chate-
laine.
New fichus or kerchiefs of China Grape
are of delicate colors, blue, rose, or
cream, or else dark blue or cardinal red,
and are trimmed with white silk lace
woven on the popular Smyrna lace de-
signs.
Basques of new dresses have vests in
front, and the back is elongated to rep
resent polonaise back, and join with
the trimming on the back of the skirt.
New braids for trimming dresses are
OF woolen twills, through which are
threads Of chenille. The fringe used
with these has chenille threads also.
The colored nets for the hair are fast
becoming popular with young ladies.
The hair is not now braided before be-
ing put in the net, but is tied in u
straight loop, which is called the Cato
gan loop.
English calicoes are brought out in
| foulard patterns, with soft finish that
makes them resemble the fine French
foulard cambrics. They are shown in
stripes, dots, cross-bars and in damask
patterns in the stylish gray-blue, brown
and navy blue colors. They cost TWEEN
ty-eight or thirty cents yard, and are a
yard wide.
The fashion of cutting the edges OF
overskirts and polonaises into squares is
much followed for plain costumes OF
silk, cashmere or alapaca.
The "Newport wrap is the name
given to a pretty woolen shawl with
white ground, wrought with blue OIL
scarlet stars or circles.-BaSar.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05
The Child Slayer.

The Boston Transcript says: N W
that the question of the Communication of
the death sentence of Jesse 81. Pomeroy
ia settled, an item of news that we have
refrained from publishing OIL account of
the injury it might work to the one
whose life was pending before the ex-
ecutive council, may as well be made
public. 1t has been announced that
Pomeroy once attempted to escape by
working the bricks from his cell with
the wire taken from the rimo his wash
basin, and that he asked the assistance
of his mother, whom he wrote to send q
file in banana, but that Jesse Pomeroy
has since his confinement in Jail made
four desperate Jack Sheppard attempts
to escape is not generally known. The
last attempt was while his case was
being considered by the governor and
council, and was not made public be-
cause it might bring too strong preiu-
dice to bear upon the authorities. On
the fourth of July last, Jesse's mother
sent him some ice cream in tin pail.
Had it been any other article it would
have been placed in another dish. He
had this tin, perhaps, two hours, and in
that time he ingeniously drew the wire
from the rim and turned down the edge
again 30 that to the officer the article
appeared all right. Itof course required
much strength to do this, but Pomeroy
is powerful man now, with large bones
and powerful muscles, much above the
average of full grown men. With this
wire he took from the wall near the floor
and under the ventilator flat. sharp
piece of brick, about the eighth of the
size of an ordinary brick, which he
broke into other pieces and wrapped in
his blanket. The doors of the jail cells
are made of heavy round bars intersect-
ed with a few fiat bars. 1t was Pom
eroy's custom to sit at his cell door
reading, with his feet on the lower bar.
Sitting in this posture, with his head
bent over book in his lap, he would
hold q small brick in his hand and saw
upon the round bars under one of the
fat cross bars, In this way, in two or
three days, he cut one bar half off and
another bar three-quarters off. But in
the thorough search which he had been
subjected to every day these proceed
ings were discovered, and he was re-
moved to another cell. It was the Gus
tom to change the cell every week, but
since tEen he has been rem we'd from
one to another every day.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05
Poor Humpty Dumpty.

The New York Dramatic NesOs tells
a sad story of the condition of Geo. l..
Fox, He is harmless, and sits for hours
in one place lnumbling to himself. At
times he has lucid intervals, and spoke
sensibly of the past, but these are
growing rarer, and his mentality is be-
coming sapped further week by week.
He is also gradually failing in physical
power, particularly in his limbs, which
he is almost unable to make use of. He
needs little or no watching, and is al
lowed to go about of his own free ac-
cord. But he never wanders far from
the house. His occupations are eating,
sleeping and talking to himself. When
he becomes sensible he asks abouc his
wife, and expresses hope of being able
yet to return to his old vocations. This,
however, is a delusive hope. DIR.
Brown-Sequard, one of the most emf
nent of our authorities on brain troubles.
says he can never appear in public, and
any attempt to put him on the stage
would only result in failure and hasten
the end. 1t is q very decided and in.
durable case of softening Of the brain.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05
Sleeping.ROOnls,

A goodly part of our lives is spent in
sleeping, and there is reason in the
thought that our sleeping-rooms should
be regarded with good deal of care.
To be healthy they should be large and
we'll ventilated. We do not think of
putting vile things filed with decaying
material in our stomachs; much less
should we take poisonous substances
into our lungs, and still we do this every
time we are confined in such manner
as to breathe over and over again the
same air. We require fresh air in abun-
dance, and if more people would look
well at the amount of it which they can
get during sleeping hours there would
be smaller number of people who need
to seek the heights of Colorado for new
life, from the buoyant atmosphere.
Our air is pretty good if we only insist
upon taking it fresh instead of breathing
so much of it that contains the poison
breathed out from our bodies as result
of the disintegration of tissu s. Covti
up warm but sleep where the air can cir
culate fully and become purified,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05
The English New. paper.

Here is town, says Louis Jennings,
writing of Guilford, Eugland, of, L be.
lieve, some ten Thousand inhabitants,
and yet it has only one weekly newspa-
per, and that is picayune affair, with
nothing more exciting in it than some
police news, and the records of such
local events as little Bobby Tucker cut
ting his finger with bit of glass and
old Mrs. Fusby slipping down on apiece
of orange peel. No local editorials" I"
mo smart paragraphs. What dust
sharp and active man, like some Ameri-
can editors, would soon kick up here.
should very much live to see one of
them lying around loose in newspaper
office at Guildford for few weeks. He
would soon strike light, or I am much
mistaken. A meeting of the board of
guardians is quite startling event in a
place like this, and, rs a general rule,
the editor of tho local paper takes good
care not to make any comments which
would be disagreeable to any of his GUS
toners. His articles on national politics
are written in London, by some accom-
plished scribe who keeps about half a
dozen country newspapers informed as
to the latest doings in aristocratic circles
and the most prominent topics of CONVEX
sation at the "clubs."
The scribe turns out "Conserva-
tive" or "Liberal article with equal
facility, and is busily engaged to-day in
denouncing Turkish atrocities while to-
morrow he will quite as successfully de-
fend them. Of all the methods of earn
ing a livelihood known to mankind,
surely that pursued by some of our
worthy journalistic brethren is the hard
est and most melancholy. How many
men 1 can remember even in hy time,
who have tried to earn their bread at
"the press" and have gone down sor-
rowfully to their graves amid black dis
aster and failure And yet the numbers
who flock to it as means of occupa-
ton increase every year. London is
overrun with them, and every editor re-
ceives hundreds of applications for en-
ployment in the course of single
month. All the sucking barristers make
use of the press as long as they can, or
as long as they need it, and then, as
your London namesake said not long
ago, take good care to abuse it the rest
OF their lives. In the country, the pro-
prietors of newspapers are sometimes
able and experienced men-in large
towns they always are; but am now
speaking of only third and fourth rate
places, inferior even to Guildford; there
the proprietor is usually small local
nobody, with no education, no princi
pies and no ideas but think l have
heard of newspaper proprietors of that
type elsewhere. And certainly they
seem to get on very well in the world
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05
The Burial Cure.

In 1S48 there lived at South Shields
(England) q laboring man named Dick
lnson, native of the village of Conis-
cliffe, near Darlington. He was afflicted
with paralysis, which for some years had
crippled his limbs, and deprived him of
the use of the left side of his body. One
day, as he was slowly crawling along
the street, he met with an elderly, well
dressed man, who stated that he was a
physician from Edinburgh, and he, or
hearing of Dickinson's case, advised
him to return to his native village, and
have himself covered up with earth,
which operation would cure him. The
poor fellow, nothing doubling, dragged
himself on foot to Coniscliffe, where he
persuaded an old acquaintance to assist
him in temporarily burying himself.
They proceeded to the Tees side, where
Dlckinson's friend, with his spade, dug
a hole in the ground, in which the pa
tient was to lie for four hours. Dickin-
son stretched himself in the excavation,
with his head only at the outside, and
soil was heaped upon him TO the depth
Of two feet. At the expiration of q quar-
ter of an hour the patient broke out
into profuse perspiration, and an in
tense pain at the same time attacked his
left side, loin and leg, Notwithstanding
the agony he endured, lie remained thus
till the expiration of the allotted time.
The man who buried him, seeing him
tnru black in the face" and fearing he
should die, would have released him
sooner, but Dickinson would not con-
sent. The sick man, when the earth
was taken off him, arose and walked
away with an active step. cured of his
disease. This remedy for sickness is an
old one; and Dampier, the voyager, at
tackled by illness in the East Indies,
was, at his own request, buried to the
neck in tho earth until his pain abated.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05

ASSOCIATION OF IDEAs.-Eddie, chap
OF three and half years, was sent to the
corner store to get two wicks, but he got
into the store minus a knowledge of
what his mother wanted. The kind
keeper, to help out the little fellow, be-
gan naming several articles, and at last
mentioned the herb thyme; "That's
it,! exclaimed he, "somefng about
time. fink she told me to buy fort,
night" "Buy fortnight Why, my
little man, fortnight is two weeks. b
"That's it calculated the little mes.
senger, in high glee, "mamma told me
to get two wicks-two lamp wicks."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05
The Man to Live Long.

He has a proper and we'll proportion
ed stature, without, however, being too
tall. He is rather of middle size and
somewhat thick set. His complexion is
not too forid; at any rate, too much rud-
diness in youth is not a sign of longev-
ity. His hair approaches rather to the
fair than the black His skin is strong
but not rough. His head is not too
big. His shoulders are round rather
than fiat; his neck Is not too long; his
abdomen does not project; his hands
are large, but not too deeply cleft; his
foot is rather thick than long, and his
legs are firm and round. He has a
broad, arched chest, strong voice, and
the faculty of retaining his breath for a
long time without difficulty. There is
harmony in all his parts. His senses
are good. but not too delicate: his pulse
slow and regular; his stomach is excel
lent; his appetite good and digestion
easy. The joys of the table ere to him
of importance; they tune his mind to
serenity, and his soul psrtakes in the
pleasure which they communicate. He
does not eat merely for the. sake of eat
ing, but each meal is an hour of daily
festivity. He eats slowly and has not
loo much thirst, the latter being always
a sign of rapid self consumption. He is
serene, loquacious, active, susceptible OF
joy, love, and hope, but insensible to
the impressions of hatred, anger, and
avarice. His passion never becomes
violent or destructive. If he ever gives
way to anger, he experiences rather a
useful glow of warmth, and an artificial
and gentle fever, without an overflow OF
the bile. He is also fond of employ
ment, particularly calm meditation and
agreeable speculations. He is an Opt,
mist, friend to nature and domestic
felicity. He has no thirst after honor
or riches, and banishes all thought OF
tO-morrow. -
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05
The Boomerang.

A writer says: The boomerang, still
the deadly weapon of the natives both
of Australia and Central America, has
been discovered in the hands of the
sculptured Nimrod at Khorsabad and of
hunters represented in basso relieve
at Theoes. 1t may have been the
crooked weapon of Saturn; 1t is sup
posed to have been the club of Hercules
iand, we may add, the hammer of Thor,
which is said to have returned 20 his
hand when thrown), and if the matter
were properly investigated it would per-
haps be shown that it was not unknown
to the ancient Celtic nations.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05
Mankind's Belief.

John Stuart Mill was of opinion "that
as mankind improve, they will more and
more recognize two independent prov
inees-the province of belief and the
province of imaginative conjecture;
that they will become capable of keep
ing these apart, and that while they
limit their belief to. the evidence will
think it allowable to let their imagina-
tive anticipations go forth, not carrying
belief in their train. in the direction
which experience and study of human
nature shows TO be most improving to
the character, and most exaliing and
consoling to the individual feelings"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05

The END OF THE LINE.-A romantic
pair, not more than 1000 miles from
New York, were blessed with number
of daughters. The eldest was called
Caroline, the second Madeline, the third
Eveline, the fourth Angeline, when 10 |
the fifth made its appearance and no
name could be found with the desired
termination. At length mamma, who
had been reading of the fashions at Sara
toga, pounced upon a name very popular
at that place. and forthwith the baby was
baptized Crinoline.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05

WHAT IT CosTs. Bishop Whipple
gives a striking illustration of the cost
of the Indian war. He says If fen
soldiers were placed in line, with an
Indian at one end, and the American
people could be brought to understand
that in order to secure the scalp of that
one Indian it would require the sacrifice
of the ten soldiers and an expenditure
of $500, 900 in money, they might be led
to inquire whether the scalp was really
worth the outlay.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05
A Printers Poem.

TO MISS CATHARINE +, OF U. T. x.
An S A now mean to write,
2you, sweet X TJ,
The girl without n,
The belle Of UTK.
L l der il you got the 1
l wrote to you B4
1 sailed in the RKDA,
& sent by L N Moore.
My M t head will scarco conceive
l calm 1 D A bright,
But s I miles from you must
M - this chance to write.
& 1st, should NENvU
b E z, mind it not,
Ii any friendship show, B sure
They 8 lall not be forgot.
But friends and foes alike d X,
AS U may piainjyC
In every funeral h A,
Our uncle's LEG.
From virtue never DVS,
Her influence B9
Alike induces 1Oderness
Or 40tude divine.
IL if you cannot cut a.
Or cause an
1 hope U'll put a.
PIP.
r q for an Xation2
My cousin, heart and cJ- /?
He offers mas
A broad of land.
He says he loves U to Ks,
U're virtuous and Y's,
in XL UXL
All others in his Is.
This s A until UIC,
pray you to Y Q's
d do not burn in FIG
My quaint and wayward muse.
Now, fare U well, dear TT,
trust that r true,
When this U G, then U can say
An S AIOU.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

HAYES AS A DEMONSTRATING
his career of FIVE years as Governor
Of Ohio, Hayes has failed to recon-
mend single reform in State ad-
ministration. Governor Tilden has
practical claims as q reformer in his
past record-so practical that they
amount to six millions saved to the
State in single year, but Hayes has
nothing but bare promises to offer,
and very indefinite ones at that,
while his career in the past as q
salary. grabber, the advocate Of
doubtful claims, a shirker of his
obligations as taxpayer, not tc
speak Of his recent action as 6
prevaricator and deceiver Of The
American people, absolutely mega
tives any Elusive hope that h {
might by some miracle favol
reform.
As President, he would simply b.
tool in the hands Of the machin,
managers, and the slave of bad men
and Of the system, to the wors
developments Of which he owes BIZ
election.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25
The Democrat.
TERMS:

THE DEMOCRAT is published Week
~, at Four DOLLARS per annum-
Two DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS for
ak months, PAY ABLE IN AD-
VANCE,! No subscription taken
for a less period shan six months.
ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the rate
of ONE DOLLAR per square for tue
first insertion and FIFTY CENTS for
each subsequent one.
EtsHr lines or less, (BREviER) consti-
tute o square.
ogruARy Notices, Marriages, Public
Meetings, Cards Of Thanks, etc., to
be paid for as advertisements.
w PERSONAL CARDS, when admis-
tible, charged double the usual adver-
sising rates.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

ALL the monopolies with which
our distressed people are burthened
are the outgrowtb of Republican rule.
The Republican party has never al :
ated monopoly. The Democratic
has never creaed one. The Republi-
can party always multiplies legis q
tion. The Democratic party persis-
tently removes bad laws from the
Statute book.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

The TYLER FRAUD.-Me Mon,
stroats Cheat Chandler perpet'ated on
the american People. In reply to
the proof Of Hayes acceptance of
the nomination of the American A :
lance and his membership Of that
proscriptive organization, docu-
ment was published signed IL. S.
Tyler" and purporting to be written
by the Secretary Of the American
Alliance. This document eods dated
October 6, and was efectually dis
posed of by the reply ofthe Hon. D.
Mapone, Jr.. Chairman of the New
York State Democratic Committee
on the same date. 1t is now proven
that not only Tyler did not write the
letter, BUT THAT HE WAS NOT EVEN
SHE SECRETARY OF THE ALLIANCE al
the time, and was not even in the
United States when his name wat
signed to the document.
He resigned his position as Secre
tary of the American Alliance OF
August 25th, and sailed for Europe
tue same day.
The Republican National Com
mittee have been guilty of base ane
deliberate forgery, and their lyins
and libelous organ, the New Yorl
Times. was the appropriate yehicl
for the PRONUNCIATION Of the lie.
In this campaign Of lies the Radical
have been guilty of nothing NOR
atrocious than this bare faced forgcr,
and deliberate Justification. = Nc,
York Express.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

SOLDIERS MEETlNGs.-The DEM
ocrats are much encouraged by this ,m-
mense success Of the soldiers meeting
at Indianapolis, which has so far out.
shone the affair of the Blue Boys there
as to make the radical demonstration
sink intoinsignificance.
No such elaborate preparations were
made for the Democratic gathering as
for the other; but it is noticeable fact
that the Democrats tnrn ont with nl0r6
enthusiasm for Tildcn and Heudricks
than the Republicans do for Hayes aud
Wheeler.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25
Tilden reduced f

GOVERNOR Tilden reduced the
tax of the State of New York the
first year of his administration, 81,
52O,s01 AT; in the second year the
reduction was more than 100000
over the first, and the whole reduc.
ton from the last year of General
Dix's administration is 81, 1913, 307, 76
or nearly one-half the total tax.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

In the year 1871, the War De-
partment sold, without warrant of
Congress, $,2sO,OO0 worth of arms to
the French Government, to enable it
to war against the German Empire.