The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-10

Read the Auditors settlement"
our leading editorial in this issue.
If you want to live miserable and
die happy because of the relief,) sub
scribe for the Democrat.
Geo. r.. Dixon, County Superinten-
dentent will please accept our thanks
for a copy of the Pennsylvania School
report for 1875.
And now they say that blackboards
should not be black at all. Sea-green
boards are said to be most agreeable to
the eye.
James Mgainnis' new building on
Main Street is now nearly completed.
1t Is one ofthe finest buildings on the
street and an ornament to the place.
Capt Schoening and Lieut. Bailey
have gone to Cory to attend meeting
of the officers of the 18th Regiment n.
G. p. to decide on a regimental uni
form.
Three pounds of hay cut fine will
feed as much as four pounds uncut.
This is u gain of Cne-third, and If hay
is worth S12 per ton, gives you 81 for
cutting.
Chloride of lime will generally re-
move mildew without rotting the
cloth or destroying the colors. Dip
the mildewed article in the lime water
and dry quickly in the sun.
John Campbell son of Thomas
Campbell, aged about % years, died at
Highland last Monday morning ofcon-
gestion of the lungs, after a very brief
illness.
Treasurer McCauley will advertise
the unseated lands sale about the 10th
of march. All persons having un-
seuted lands upon which the taxes have
not been paid will save costs by attend
ing to the matter at once. =, :. ~
We have received lately several new
fonts of beautiful job type, and are
prepared to do letter heads, bill heads,
cards, envelopes, and all kinds of
blanks in a neat and systematic man
ner. go. ~,
Girls, the papers state, and it must
be so, that during leap year the girl
who counts all the gray horses she
sees, until .he gets up to hundred,
will be married within year, to the
first gentleman with whom she
| shakes hands after counting the one
hundredth horse.
The decrease of the national debt
during the first month of the Centen-
nial year amounted to the handsome
sum of one million five hundred and
ninety-nine thousand, ono hundred
aud f1fty-fve dollars. This is not bad,
when we consider the stringency of
the times.
The Milford Herald announces the
death of Mr.. Ripley, a noted hermit of
Greene Township, Pike Co., Pa: He
was formerly Il wealthy merchant of
New York City, but failed in business.
His reverses so preyed on his mind
that he fled to wild, desolatc place,
several miles from any habitation.
There for 35 years he had sustained
himself by fishing and hunting.
The Rhode Island House of Repre-,
sentatives yesterday passed, without
division, Il bill providing that land
occupied or owned by churches, schools
colleges, and charitable associations,
shall no longer be exempt from taxa
ton. This is q rather sweeping bill,
and in some respects an absurd one
The school property for instance, be-
longs to the taSpayers, and was
bought and paid for and is maintained
by taxation. To make it subject to
local and State taxation seems to us
absurd Pittsburgh Telegraph. -.
The salaries of Postmasters were
fixed by the business of the. Office a
few years ago when business was live
lier than now. That put up the oil
town to a bigger figufe than their
present returns will warrant. In this
section they figure thus: Cory, $2,-
800, Franklin $4,000, Erie $500,
Meadville, S3,4OO, New Castle $4,000
Oil City $4,000, Parker's Landing
$4,000, Petrolia $4,000, Pleasantville
$500, st. Petersburg $1,000 Sharon
$500, Tidioute $500, Titusville $4,-
OCJ, Warren $2.5OO.- Warren Mail.
Judge Sterret, of Pittsburg,S rem
dered an important decision on Tues
day relative to the construction of the
law on cumulative voting" as pro-
vided for in the new constitution.
He affirms the general opinion as to
that article of the constitution, and de-
cides that Stockholders III any cor
poration are entitled to one vote per
share of stock for each director to be
elected, and that stockholders can dis
tribute their votes among oil the can
didates or cast them all for the same
person, as they may choose, THUS ,af'
fording the minority means of secur.
ing representatives upon the board o.
directors.
| CENTENNIAL NAIL COSTRACT.-A
Washington telegram of the 9th ult.
says the carrying of the Centen mia
mails, which embraces the carriage o
the mails from the Philadelphia post
| office tn tho Captann urounds ha