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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-03

mile of road they had to pass over to
reach home after leaving the village ron
for the better part through q wood.
Sally was too alarmed to venture there
alone, and couple of men, who had
hastily seized some weapon, accom-
panied her. So excite were they that
every cracking noise in the trees put
them on the alert; and once they ex-
claimed: "There he is p throwing the
poor children into new alarm.
Mr.. Watson was incredulous when
Lot burst out with: "Oh, father, we
have been chased by a bear--no, not q
bear-a dreadful wild thing |" and he
would have thought Sally the victim of
her own fears, had they not told him q
panther had escaped from the menage-
rie; then he was most thankful for their
deliverance.
Dolly was blanketed and cared for,
and they went to supper, Lots tongue
going all the time about the bear"
Sally could not eat, she was still un-
nerved, and Patty could only pity the
poor little pigs. ........0
For long time Sally had an uncom-
Portable feeling in the woods, although
the panther was caught on the next day
and returned to its cage So. Nicholas.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-03
How 1t Would Work.

A gray haired impostor, who has been
in the house of correction time and
again for drunkenness, and who has no
kin in Detroit, entered store on Grand
River street and said to the proprietor
Have you boy9"
I" Yes, sir" was the answer.
"Did he get anything in his stock
ingl"
eyes! 20
"And was he glad p
He was.
"I also have boy" continued the
old man in broken voice, "but he
didn't get anything in his stocking. L
am poor, and many times we haven't
bread in the house, to say nothing of
Christmas presents.
"I can't help that, as see !" said the
merchant.
"Say, see here" whispered the old
man, bending forward, "give me a
quarter and Til buy tin horse and Il
monkey and Noah's ark, and the night
before New Years I'll slip 'em into the
boys stocking. He'll ask me: Father,
whose liberality of heart brought me
those beautiful things2' And L will
answer: Mr.. So-and-So, on Grand
River street,"
81 can't do it" replied the merchant.
"And the boy will say God bless
Mr.. So-and-So forever. ,"
"No-can't do it,
"And 1 will add : Yes, God bless
him for his big heart, and may his trade
amount to $40, 900 per day. ;"
ST can't give you anvthing-come,
clear OUT" said the annoyed merchant.
Z" 1t would work splendidly," whisper
ed the old man.
II say no !" shouted the merchant.
"All right for you'll" said the old
man, as ne got hold of the door knob.
Your conduct has alienated all my af-
fections in one minnit, and I'll never
buy yard of cloth of you in my life 1
was going to ask the price of that yarn
there, but now l won't |"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-03
Fashion Notes.

For trimming evening and silk dresses,
fashion journal says, point duchesse
and fine Valencennes are in great de.
mand; indeed it is difficult to decide
which has the preference. ~
Fancy aprons for home morning toilet
are again popular. They are made in q
variety of ways and of variety of ma.
terials. Among the more desirable ones
With putting, or sa,se1tionG 1-ca t.ibSa ~
and finished with side plaitings and
huted ruffles edged with lace, aud black
silk ones trimmed with velvet and
French lace.
Solid colors are preferred to stripes in
hosiery. Black merino and black silk
stockings are fashionable, and white and
unbleached ones continue to find a good
ly number of wearers.
Undressed kid gloves retain their old
favor, coming for neglige wear in pearl,
gray, wood and buff colors. White ones
are being introduced for more dressy
occasions, and are occasionally worn for
evening.
Black silk suits are more worn this
season than they otherwise would be
with so many new fabrics in the market
because of the low prices of silk. Two
dollars and twenty cents and $3.50
per yard will now purchase fine close
grained pure silk, which quality other
seasons has sold for SO and 81. Very
tolerable qualities onLe costing so and
So. so are now offered at 81. so and Sl.75.
Ready made black silk costumes, trim
med with handsome tassel fringe with
netted heading, or with plaitings, etc.,
are offered for $50, 800 and $100. These
dresses are often made with velvet
sleeves and velvet trimmings when not
worn over the velvet skirt.
Black cashmere overdresscs, with silk
skirts, are considered very desirable and
convenient dresses, and in consequence
there has been a great improvement in
the color and texture of cashmere.
These are made with the cuirasse
basque and overskirt, OF after some of
the many models of the popular pol
onaise. Stout ladies find the latter best
suited to their wants, while those with
trim figures can wear either with equal
fitness.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-03
Santa Claus Appears.

The Louisville Coalrier-J0urpaI tells
this touching little Christmas story |:
Two little twin girls living ON Center
street, wan with hunger and suffering
with the cold and damp of dreary, dis
NAL day, begged their mother for bread.
The poor mother looked sorrowfully
upon her little darlings and told them
there was not a morsel in the house, not
even so much as crust of bread. But
she told them that if the ragman would
come she would sell "the bag of rags, I"
and that would buy them something to
eat. Encouraged with this conditional
promise, the little girls ceased crying
and said they would watch for the rag
man. Accordingly they went out doors
and sat for an hour upon the cold steps
watching for the little wagon which chill
dren know SO well. The little girls were
just large enough to go to Sunday
school, and had learned few verses OF
some songs, which they sang together,
as they sat in the cold, until finally the
wagon and the man who cries out
Rags-ole iarn," came in sight, when
they ran to their mother and repeated
the fact with as much Joy in their counte.
nances as though a fortune had dropped
down into their midst. The mother sold
the rags and the little family had com,
Portable dinner that day. -'.e'
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-03
To n Friend.

By every hope my life hath e'er been weaving,
By all the future holds in store for me-
By every hesrtless method Of deceiying,
By all we trust our lives are yet to be-
I'll not forget thee.
When solemn prayer, upon the soft air breath
ing,
Wakes every holy impulse of the SOUL
When friends my brow with garands bright
are wreathing,
Or sorrows tempests fiercely DER me roll
I'll not forget thee.
And when in chains bright sleep has softly
bound me,
And dreams Of friends fit through nv rest
ing mind,
And guardian angels hover close around me,
To bring me thoughts of one forever kind
I'll not forget thee.
And oh, should some, their truth to me repent
ing,
Take back from me the treasure of their
love,
And some dark angel stand cup presenting
To drown my faith iu Him who rules above
I'll not forget thee.
Should cruel fate keep us forever parted,
Till life's bright lamp is burning dim and
low,
And each shall think of each as one departed,
To clasp the hand Of love no more below
I'll ne'er forget thee.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-03
Propagation OF Disease.

There are few more mysterious travel.
ers than tunes and diseases. A new
tune comes out, and six weeks later it
may be heard whistled by boys in some
obscure and distant village, to which it
has found its way in some manner best
known to itself. 1t is the same with dis
eases, which creep over the country
silently, swiftly and surely, although
their means of transit battle the skill of
the most intelligent members of the
medical profession to divine. A new
theory has now been started, that the
foot-and mouth disease, which is so
prevalent among cattle, is conveyed from
one district to another, Notwithstanding
all the precautions taken against its
spread, by birds. A wood pigeon has,
according to the Elgin Co,irant, been
lately shot near Elgin which has been
declared by veterinary surgeons and
competent medical authorities to have
been evidently affected by foot-and-
mo ,,th disease at the time of its death.
The body of the unfortunate bird has,
it is stated, been sent to an hospital, and
may throw new light on the subject.
Another disagreeable notion has also
arisen that soap is an active agent in the
propagation of disease. The New York
physicians have arrived at the conclusion
that terrible amount of illness is oc-
casioned by the impurities contained in
soap, especially III scented soap.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-03
IdiOcy in the United States.

The number of idiots in the United
States, according to the census of 1870,
was "a, 527, of whom IA, 485 were males
and 10, 042 females 3,188 were colored,
and ], ,645 foreign born. But the number
and their proportion to the population
cannot be ascertained with any satisfac
tory degree of accuracy. The census
statistics are untrustworthy, both from
the different standards adopted by
enumerators, and from the difficulty in
persuading parents, from whom the re-
turns are usually obtained, that their
children are idiots. Some of the worst
cases in idiot asylums were brought
there by their friends, not as idiots, but
as being little peculiar in their habits.
The effort has been made in several
States to obtain returns from physicians,
clergymen and town officers, but with
very moderate success. So far as these
returns go, however, they show a much
greater prevalence of idiocy than has
been commonly supposed; and it is now
generally conceded by competent judges
that the number of idiots is greater than
that of the deaf and dumb or the blind,
and as great as that of the insane, the
proportion being not less than one in
1000 of the population. Assuming this
ratio, the number of idiots in the Uni
ted States would be more than $4,000.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-03

The Housekeeper says the following
bill OF fare is that actually used in
family of nine persons, at weekly out
lay of s25:
BREAKFAsT.-Tea or coffee beefstesk fried
mashed potatoes, fried hominy French rolls
and toast.
DINNER. Turkey, cranberry, stewed toma-
toes, mashed potatoes.
TEA.-Toast, preserves, cheese cake, tea
and coffee.
MONDAY.
BREAKrAsT.-rea or coffee mutton chops
fried, potatoes, boiled oat meal, French rolls
and toast.
LUNoH.-Cold turkey, bakel apples, baked
potatoes, tea aud rolls.
DINNER.-Roast beef, mashed turnips mashed
potatoes, apple ssuce, tea and cake.
TUESDAY.
BREAKFAST. - Pork steak, boiled hominy,
fried potatoes, rolls and toast, coffee or tea.
IUNCH.-Scrambled eggs, baked potatoes,
apple sauce, tea, French rolls.
DINNER.-Cold roast beef, clam fritters,
potatoes, tomatoes tea and crullers.
WEDNESDAY.
BREAKFAST. -Beefsteak mashed potatoes,
fried hominy, tea and coffee, buckwheat cakes,
rolls.
LUNcH.-Soup made from roast meat bones,
baked potatoes, baked apples, rolls and tea.
DINNER.-Boiled mutton with parsley in
butter, mashed turnips, mashed potatoes,
roast apples, rice pudding.
THURSDAY.
characterization chop, potatoes cut up
and stewed in milk, boiled oat meal, rolls and
toast, tea and coffee.
LUScH.-Stewed mutton, baked potatoes,
apple sauce, tea and rolls.
DINNER.-Chickens, baked apples, mashed
potatoes, fried parsnips, tea and cake.
FRIDAY.
BREAKFAST. - Goldfish cakes, eggs boiled,
potatoes, boiled hominy, buckwheat cakes, tea
and coffee.
LUNCH Cold chicken, potatoes, baked
apples, tea and rolls.
DINNER. - Bluefsh, tomatoes, potatoes,
baked apples, tea and cake.
SATURDAY.
BREAKFAsT.-Beefsteak, potatoes fried fried
hominy, rolls and toast, tea and coffee.
LUNCH. H.-Stewed oysters, baked potatoes,
rolls aud tea, apple sauce. -.... -.r
DINSER.-Corned beef, cabbage, mashed
potatoes, tomatoes, tea and apple pie.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-03
A New SWindle.

A new swindle, extensively practiced
through the country, is the sale of al
most worthless dry goods by trickery.
A peddler calls upon farmer and shows
large bundle of assorted cloth, and
represents himself as the agent of a
bankrupt firm in England. He says
that, under a special provision of the
revenue laws, remnants in packages of
not less worth than $3.50 each may be
imported free of duty, thus saving
about seventy per cent. The purchaser
of a lot really pays double instead of
half the value of the goods.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-03
Rats in the somersetshire Floods.

During the recent heavy floods that
laid under water an area of land in
Somersetshire, England, twenty miles
across, the rats were driven from
their haunts in vast numbers. Some of
them found refuge on the trees and
others took possession of deserted
houses. One instance is recorded where
laborer had occasion to visit his cot
tage to rescue some property left be-
hind. He moored his boat to the cham
Der window, and was about to enter,
when he found the room filed with q
swarm of rats, which were SO rayenous
with hunger that they were like pack of
wolves. Their savage demonstrations
compelled the man to beat hasty re-
treat to save himself from being eaten
] alive.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-03

The San Francisco Chronicle described
a performance by child acrobots, in
which boys, aged respectively five and
seven years, We're cruelty compelled to
accomplish difficult feats. The lazy
loafer who lives by their exertions wrote
a letter to say that the frequent falls of
the boys, in the course of the feats, were
intentional, and calculated to heignten
the interest of the spectators. A report.
ar, however, found by investigation that
those falls had covered the children with
bruises, and that whippings were the in
centive to eXertion.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-03

Canon Girdlestone writes: "During
my ten years residence in Devonshire /
induced many farmers, much to their
own advantage as well as to the advan-
tage OF their men, to adopt, whenever it
was possible, system of piece work.
By this, as well as by migration and
other means, the condition of the
Devonshire peasant has been much i'm
proved"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-03

The Mobile Register has made an hon.
orary subscriber of the man who has
read that paper for fifty years.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-03
Family Bill of Fare.

The Housekeeper says the following
bill of fare is that actually used in
family of nine persons, at q weekly out
lay of S25:
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-02-18
FAYETTEVILLE.

The village school closes on Friday
next.
The singing schools close next Friday
night.
Severe colds and sore threats are pre-
vailing here quite extensively.
Mr.. Downs Of this place has been
quite unfortunate, having recently lost a
horse and cow.
An exhibition will begiven at the Union
Hall on the evenings of Feb. 23d, and
oath.
The house and two acres of land, a
little south of the village, formerly the
property of Mr. J. White, was recently
sold to Mr.. Wallins of Brattleboro, for
six hundred and fifty dollars. He has
taken possession.
Thursday last, donation party met
at the house of Rev. Charles Burnham,
where they enjoyed very pleasant time
and left some substantial tokens of their
regard.
/ wish to correct a mistake in your
paper of last week, in regard to the al
legged death of Washburn. He is still
living and is thought to be slowly recov-
ering.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-02-18
GRAFTON.

The receipts at the festival of the la
dies of the Congregational Society, held
on the 7th inst, were some $40.
Mr.. A. d. Fletcher of Chester, an
nounces that he will sell at auction at
the Town Hall, on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, Feb. 23d and oath,
a large lot of ready made clothing, in
Guiding cloths, hats, caps, boots and
many other articles of clothing. The
goods he says are no old stock but bought
last fall, and will be sold at prices named
by that people. Private sale afternoon
and evening.
Francis Phelps, auctioDeer, has sever
al sales ON hand, among them the per-
sonal estate of the late Ephraim WILDER,
t. s. Walker, administrator. A list of
the property will be found in another
column. This sale takes place Feb %,
next Tuesday He has another sale of
Willard Lindsey's property, Feb. 23d,
and on the evenings of Feb. 23d and
24th, he will sell goods at the town hall
for A. d. Fletcher.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-02-18
Pictures of your Friends.

Many in this section during the past
year have seen many of the very fine
pictures procured by Mr.. ID. X. Barry
of this place, general agent, mt II. p
Moore's establishment. at Concord, n
III. Some Of his specimens are among
the finest of the picture art They are
copied by process patented and only
known to the manufacture, being u sill
yer type process first introduced six
years ago. Very excellent pictures are
often made from Oh and very poor cop
les. Among recent pictures Mr.. Barry
has obtained is very nice one of Chas
A. Forbush, Esq, of Springfield gen
tleman well known in this section. The
demand for these pictures is great and
a large number of hands are constantly
employed in their manufacturer. As
general agent Mr.. Barry occupies a
large field and has furnished them in
large numbers during the past year or
two. The Ipswich On. H. Chronicle
thus speaks of them
We learn that over 140 pictures
have been taken in this town to be copied
by the Silvertype process, and are glad
to learn that the people of Ipswich have
awaited themselves of so rare an oppor-
tunity to obtain fine copies at low
price. We saw pictures copied by this
process, on exhibition at the New Eng
land fairs, Manchester, n. H., and were
much impressed with their life-like APP
pearance. How they can furnish a pic
ture so accurately copied and finished
in India Ink, with heavy black wal
nut frame for $3.50, is explained only by
the great sale they have, these pictures
well deserve the success they meet with"
The following is from the Peabody
Press
This is recent invention, and is
introduced to the public as superior to
any other kind of copying in the world.
BY its use old faded-out daguerreotypes,
ambrotypes, photographs and tintypes
cac be reproduced, delineating the fea-
lures in true, artistic manner, combin-
ing breadth of effect, life-like expression,
delicacy and freshness of color, with ar
tistic handling and softness of finish, not
by any other style of pic
ture, at one-half the cost of photo
graph. 1t is made on metallic plate,
and finished in ink and colors, at the
largest gallery in the United States.
as it does, beauty, durabili-
ty and cheapness, it gives better salts
faction than any copy made by photo
graphic process
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-02-18
The Concert Friday Evening.

The selections for the concert to-mor.
row friday evening, at Emmanuel
Church, afford a most excellent variety.
Miss Grinnell will sing, ANGELS ever
bright and fair" by Handel, and Con-
slider the lilies of the field,' by Toplif
Miss Gindrat will play selections from
Beethoven and Mendelssohn, and Mrs.
Elliott will give an "OAertoire for the
organ, by Reed. Mr.. Morawski sings,
80 rest in the Lord from Elijah,
Stradella's prayer" Rocked in the
cradle of the deep" and Verdi's Infe-
lice The choir gives Heavenly
Father and Remember thy mercies,
by Farmer, and Mighty Jehovah" by
Bellini, Mr.. Morawski appearing in con-
nection with them in the last named
piece and singing the great baritone solo
and obligato. There will also be du.
EFT and quartette given by members ofthe
choir.
Reserved seats will continue to be sold
without extra charge, at l.. Amadon's
jewelry store, until seven o'clock of the
evening of the concert.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-02-18
SOUTH WINDHAM.

Dea. Simeon Barrett, whose death is
announced under the usual head this
week, had for long period been one of
the substantial citizens of the town, and
held in high regard, and forty-four years
he had been member of the Baptist
church in which he had filled an active
and useful sphere, and his death leaves a
large place vacant in the circle of his
relatives, and in the community in which
he lived
The winter term in District No. Z, in
Windham, taught by MillieO. B Metcalf
shows the following record Scholars
neither absent or trady- Lizzie Stowell.
Fred Stowell, Mason Jones, Dennis
Jones, Sydney Jones, Earl Howe. Tar
dy but not absent-Henry Hamilton.
Tardy but once-Carrie Clayton, Lydia
Clayton, Bliss Prentiss, Earnest Prentiss
Charles Hastings, Frank Hastings, Alan
son Jones. Not tardy, and absent but
one day-Charles Hamilton, John Ham
ilton, Stephen Dutton, Fred Howe.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-02-18
RRATTLERORo.

Thomas Connors house on Pine street
was burnt last Sunday evening Sup
posed to have been incendiary.
On Saturday "a wood teams were
counted on Main street at one time.
Charles F. Thompson has platform
scale bought of the Fairbanks firm in
1884, and has been in use ever since.
Five persons were baptized at the
Baptist church on the 9th inst, and
nineteen received the hand of fellowship
The reported death of Rev" Tilden
alias Washburne, does not prove true,
and the Phoenix says he is now recov-
ering and is likely to live to do the
state some service.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-02-18
A DMINIsTRATOR's SALE.

of the late kphraim wiiber deceased, about three
miles south from Grafton Village, on the road lead
ing to Iownshend; on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY
following property viz horses. good 70 adsters or
team horses, / Team Wagon. axle trees ~ inch
harness, one good Buggy. one common Buggy,
Sleigh, good Wheel Rake Of the best pattern. OK
Mill Corn Shelter. Grind Stone. Popple Saw,
Flows, Sidehill Plow, Cultiyator, Harrow. Draft
Chains, Tie Chains, Ok Yokes, Stake Chains, Show
els. Forks, Hoes &c. 20 gallons Vinegar
Stock Corn. Hay. &c.-Four cows Steer, 8 yrs
old, Heifer yrs old, Calves. one hundred bush
els Corn. several tons Ray. lot Straw.
Also will be sold at same time and place If not
previously disposed OF, pair oxen, extra beef.
weighing about 1900 lbs - Come in time.
= Il. ). " ALKER. Administrator.
+ PHELPS, Auctioneer.
Grafton. Feb IA, 1876. TT
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-02-18

The holidays are past, and now we
settle down again to the realities of reg.
ular trade. Don't forget that all goods
kept in a well regulated Drug Store are
to be found at Babbitt q Hayes cor.
Westminster st. and the Square, and at
prices that defy competition. Drugs and
Medicines, Perfumery and Fancy Goods,
Brushes and Combs, Soda and Cream
Tartar, Flavoring Extracts, Fine Con-
fectionery, Cosmetics, Cigars etc. Sara
toga and other Mineral Waters in large
quantities. Special attention given to
physicians prescriptions. Experienced
persons always in attendance.
If you hare a physicians prescription
to be prepared don't fail to get our prices
upon the same before having 1t done else
aohere. BABBITT q HAYES.
Cor. Westminster St. and the Square.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-02-18
w EATHERsFIELD.

Thermometer so in the shade Sun.
day.
The scholars of District No. 3, pro.
pose to give an exhibition Friday eve.
All are invited. The school has been
under the charge of E. S. Jackman and
has been a pleasant and profitable term
Geo. Deane, the man who was shot by
Mason at the junction House Claremont
is yet alive (l3th) and some hopes of his
recovery are entertained. Mr.. Deane
was married fouryears ago to Mrs. Elvira
Litchfeld of this town and owns one of
the first stock farms in town.