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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07
TEAMING.

The undersigned having providep
himself with a team of horses, wagon,
etc., is prepared to do job teaming OF
all description. A large stock OF sea.
soned hardwood on hand, and for sale
at reasonable figures. Your patronage
is so icited.
w. A DERBY.
Sept. 2ls 1876 9m.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07

POWELL & KIME have special de-
partment for Boots and Shoes, in
which you can find anything YOU
want for Ladies, Misses, Children,
Gents and Boys. You can find any
thing you want there.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07

SUGAR, Tea, Cofiees, Canned goods
Everything in the Grocery line cheap
at Powell e. Kime's.
CALL at the corner of Main and
Mill Street for your Stoves and Tin
Ware.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07
onf niecfs
S,792,600
S3,066,205

a gentleman approached Governor
Hayes at Toledo, and shaking him
warmly by the hand, said: Governor,
allow me to congratulate you, IL
guess, on being elected President
"Tbat reminds me" said the Governor
smiling "of a congratulation another
gentleman rendered me the other day.
Il congratulate you, said be 'on your
going into the White House., if elec-
ted; and if not, allow. me to tender
you my congratulations on your mar
row Cspapc'p
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07
Arrival and Departure Of Mails.

Eastern-Daily except Sundays; ar
rives at 1922 p. M, leaves at 5:18 p. m;
Western-Daily except Sundays;
leaves at 2:22, arrives at SIG p. m.
B'ookville-Daily except Sundays
arrives at IL M, leaves at 2:S0 p. IN,
Spring Creek-Arrives Tuesdays and
Thursdays at II a. M; leaves Wednes-
dnys and FRIDAYS at 9 q, IN.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07

WELL, A. d.,

Eclectic pnyrioiau and Surgeon, has rsmov-
., his .,.oce from Centre street, to Mali st.
n,dsnas pa,, in the second story OF the
ne z h,.cy ru,ld,ng of John @. Hall, oppo'
site Il g 80 .:"ra
05is3 t,a-,.--t to2P ii to 9P NJ
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07

BELLEFoNTE FLoUR.-A splendid
article at Powell & Eime's for 81 per
bbl.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07
The Niint,s Nosember Work.

Ex-Governor James Pollock, super
intendent of the Philadelphia Mint,
has Just submitted his November
statement which shows the total COIN
age to have been s8,O6s, ,205 in value,
embracing8, 1926 pieces. a recapit-
ulation of the coidage shows the fol-
Iou,;n,-
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07

Do not forget to call at w. B..
SMITHS, corner of Main and Mill SITS
before purchasing stove.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07
Glk 9Arurate.
&
THURSDAY, DEC. 7TH, 1876.
Rates OF Advertise

Transient advertisements per square of
eight lines, one insertion 81, two inser.
ions. S1.60, three insertions So.
Business cards, ten lines or less, per
= yea S5
Advertisements PAYABLE quarterly.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07
NEW TIME TABLE P. & E. r. r.

BEAUTIFUL Dress Goods at Powell
& Kime's.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07
liID., no. Sc,

RIpawAy, ELK Co., Pa
" Il SCHRAM, Proprietor
Thankful ior the patronage heretofore
90 lieerallr bestowed upon him, the new
or.yv.ct.r, hopes, ty paying strict a.
.arti.. p ',e comfort and convenience
cuesLs g. -a.-.. rcnt'nuauoe o '"
s47sc.
90. IL, SOS.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07
RAILROADS.
PENNSYLVANIA RAIL ROAD
Philadelphia & Erie R. r. Division
WINTER TIME TABLE
TIME TABLE

nN and after SUNDAY, NOV. % 1876,
" the trains on the Philadelphia &
Erie Railroad will run as follows:
WESTWARD.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07

The lower house of the Vermont
legislature has finally passed a bill for
filling the vacancy in the Electoral
College by 129 to 10. The act is
especially designed to meet the case of
II. n. Sollace, said TO be ineligible.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07


A fearful accident happened to
James Hines, of Brooklyn, Thursday
afternoon at Bethlehem, on the
Lehigh and Susquehana Railroad.
Hines and another man attempted to
jump on moving coal train, when
the former fell under the cars and had
both feet cut off-seven cars passed over
them: He was taken to st. Luke's
Hospital and had both limbs amputa-
ted. He suffered the most excruciat-
ing pains and it is feared he will die.
Hines is young man about twenty
two years of age, and being out of
work, he was travelling the country in
search of employment. This sad acci-
dent should be a terrible warning to
those who are in the habit of jumping
Oh moving trains. Coal Gazette.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07

Attorney-General Taft takes very
sensible view of the question raised by
the Democrats as to the eligibility of
posmasters who have been appointed
electors. He says they can make
themselves eligible by resigning their
commissions before they receive
certificate of their appointment from
the Governor. They are in the same
position as that occupied by Gov.
Hayes or Gov. Tilden. Neither OF
these gentlemen is eligible to the
Presidency as long as he holds the
governorship, but either can become
eligible by resigni ng the state office.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07
KERSEY HOUSE,
CsNrRsvrLLE, ELK Co., Pa.

JOHN COLLINS, Proprietor.
Thankful for the patronage heretofore
60 liber lilly bestowed upon him, the ne"
pro rietcr, hopss, by paying strict at
seut:sa 10 the corifor aLd convenience
OF guests. merit continuance OF inc
same.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07
CHARLES HOLES,

Matchmaker, Engraver and Jeweler
Tnip street. Rdgway, Pa. Agent for the
Howe Sewing Machine. and Morton Gold
Pen Repsiriug Watches, etc, dorewith
ie same accuracy rs heretofore. Salts.
fact guaranteed. vlnly
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07
RADIENT Home at
w. B. SMITHS.

SUBSCRIBE for the ADVOCATE.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07

Sept. 2ls 1876 SIN.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-07-06
NATURAL AGE OF TREES.

1t seems to be the common, belief that
there is no limit to the natural age of apple
trees. But this is certainly a mistake. We
all know that the peach tree usually fails to
be profitable at ID or l5 years of, age, and
the cherry and plum average only 20 to 30
years; the pear, in favorable circumstances
40 to so years-in rare cases a much longer
time so, also the apple tree has its natural
limit, and although like mans life, the du-
ration of the period of health and vigor,
varies greatly, according to constitution,
nurture, climate, &C., it's approaching ter
mination is indicated by signs of debility
and diseases. On very deep and favorable
soils, and, where the trees are not damaged
by the severity of climate, apple orchards
are occasionally found bearing fair crops of
fruit at so to 100 years of age, out these are
nearly as rare as for their owners to live so
long. Very few soils are OF the best kind
for an orchard, and everywhere our climate
is too warm or at times too cold for the best
health of the trees. Injury by severe cold
bl%ackening all the wood, we are convinced is
a very common cause of the premature fail
IRE of orchards but starvation in conse-
quence of exhaustion of the soil, is still more
common, and this is q more difficult matter
than most OF the people suppose, especially
when. the trees have attained %full-bearine
size. e Wta
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-07-06
THE no M I CIR CL +,
THE DREAMER

: & & AxAG y
All day the White-haired woman sits
Beside the open door and knits;
No living thing her dim eye sees,
AS busy with old memories,
She dreams her dreams of what has been,
And knits her old-time fancies in.
She thinks of those who long ago
Went out across the threshold low.
How MANY times her listening ear
Has thought familiar footsteps near,
And she has started up to find
A dead leaf rustling in the wind. tfsss.
But never as of those who lie
Beneath the wide and tender sky,
With folded hands on quiet breast,
AL wrapped about with peace and rest,
She thinks of them. For her they tread
The green earth with her. None are dead.
Though years have fallen like the leaves
Above the graves where summer Weaves
Her grass-fringed ~coverlct, to keep
Safe hid from us the ones asleep,
She sees them all. Not grass nor mold
Can hide the ones she loved of old.
She talks with them. When brown-winged bees
Make merry in the locust trees,
She thinks he comes and sits with her
Whose voice was loves Interpreter.
O dreamer! young again to-dhy, rs #
What matter il your hair is gray?
Sometimes she thinks that round her knee
Her children play in happy glee,
And when they tired and sleepy grow
She sings some song of long ago,
And on her loving mother-breast '{
She rocks her little ones to rest.
0 dreamer knitting all the day
Your dreams in with your stitches gray,
Yours is q happy, happy heart
A haunted world from ours apart.
The years that turned your tresses gray
Have given you back your youth to-day.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-07-06
G0LDEN SH EAvES.

Inc lives OF great men all remind lis,
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind lis
Footprints on the sands oftime- 3A
Footprints that perchance another
Sailing ore life's beauteous plain,
A wayword thOughtless BROTHER ,9a8f
Seeing, shall not then disdain.', E
The best friends are i'll the purse.
The chief end of man is not to get mon
ey. 5t#s
The most lasting monuments are made
of paper.
Gods grapes of blessing are not gather
ed from thorns of wrong, nor the figs Of his
abiding peace from the thistles of evil.
God is never better pleased than when
people importune him in his own words, and
urge him with arguments taken from his own
promises. lie that spared. not his own
Soul, but delivered him up for us all, how
shall he not with him also freely give us all
things" s 4
Real prayer is joyous, because the
promise is sure. The sense of want is more
than balanced by the assurance of blessing.
The Spirit recognized this when he coupled
$ thanksgiving y with :. snpplication." The
reason of such a union Of acts springs from
the union ~oftacts. There is alwaysand nec-
essarily,a great joy in conscious want if
attended by strong faith that the supply is
more than enough to meet it. If we prayed
to a selfish, cold-hearted, sordid God, the
shadow of despair would chill our suppli-
cations /; but the wealth Of love and generos-
ity which we know our Father exercises
us-ward, casts a rainbow over the soul, and
drops rays OF gladness into its depths, maxi
ing our prayers SO nearly praise that it is
impossible to divide between them, or tell
where the former begins, or the latter ends.
ASK and receive is a sweet sentence.
Not that the Lord always gives the precise
thing we ask he gives that or something
better. If we misjudge, he judges for us.
so that we have the benefit of his infinite
wisdom as well as the wealth OF his love-.
Faith ~rejoices in this. Doubt is anxious
about the thing we desire faitil ~relegates
all to God, and rests rejuiciag thai Divine
wisdom supervises and ecrrects our wishes.
Thus prayer is praise.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-07-06
DRESSING FOR THE HOME.

What strangers think of us is ofahe small
est possible consequence compared with the
estimate placed upon us by our children and
those With whom we are brought into in
innate association. If they love and believe
in US, and find in us all things worthy Of adj
miration and imitation, of how little COM
parative value is the approval of strangers!
All true refinement in dress, in manner,
in character. is the result of an interior
worth and genuineness. A lady arrayed in
simple calico is often more attractive and
graceful and winning than another in
silks and satins and yelvets. These do not
create refinement Or taste in the Wearer;
they are the merest framework of the pic
ture, which may be a plain chrome, or a
Wretched daub, ORA masterpiece. With
the pretty calico at six and ten cents a yard
there is no excuse for untidiness in our
women at home. With the present styles,
c%alicoes may be made simply, with little
work. and so as TO be washed and ironed
with very slight trouble. 1t is mere folly
for a woman who expects to wear daily the
dress she makes up, to make it in three stories
skirt, overskirt, and basque, with ruffles
and pufffs and trimmings. A plain wrapper
or a saque and skirt, with bias folds for trim
ming, is vastly prettier for colico fabrics
than more elaborate styles Of making, es-
pecially for those women who have little
children and who do their own work. For
such, calico is the only sensible and service
able home dress. Every time it is washed
it is as clean and sweet and fresh as when it
was new. and, With a linen collar in the neck,
such a dress is good enough for every day
wear, better far than a shabby wooden dress
with soiled and draggled f%ounces, with tori
and tangled fringe, with dirty sleeves and
dust grimed into it everywhere. We must
live with ourselves all the time, as well when
at home as when abroad, and she who re-
spects herself and would keep on good terms
with herself, morning, moor and night. cam
not. SO far as she is honest and genuine hat
er ofshams, neglect to keep her person ano
dress tidy without injury or suffering OF
some sort, either in herself or those around
her. E&N
After all that may be said about it, tidi
ness is as much the result OF training anC
habit as of interior necessity, and unless on
is careful not to relax the sinews of deter
mination in this respect the eXigencies O
every day lite and the natural tendencies tt
lower the tone below concert pitch will
little by little, cause negligences to creep II
until Indifference to externals gradually in
creasing, flntidy dress at home will be TIL
rule and not the exception. - la3e
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-07-06
INFLUENCE OF WOMAN.

1t is by the promul cation OF sound NOR
ais in the community, and more especially
by the training and instruction of the young
that woman performs her part towards the
preservation of a tree government. 1t is
generally admitted that public liberty, the
perpetuity of a free constitution, rests on
the virtue and intelligence of the commune
ty, which enjoys it. How is that virtue to
be inspired, and how is that intelligence to
be communicated? Bonaparte once asked
Madam de Stael in what manner he could
most promote the happiness of France. Her
reply is full of poetlcal wisdom. She said !:
/" Mothers are, indeed, the affectionate and
effective teachers Of the human race. The
mother begins her process of training with
the infant in her arms. 1t is she who directs,
so to speak, its first mental and spiritual
pulsations. She conducts it along the inn
pressible years of childhood and youth, and
hopes to deliver it to the rough contest and
tumultuous scenes OF life, armed by those
good principles which her child has received
from maternal care ana love.
If we draw within the circle Of our contem-
plation the mothers of a civilized nation,
what do we see? We behold so many artif-
icers working. not on frail and perishable
matter, but on the immortal mind. molding
and %fashioning beings who are to exist for
ever. We applaud the artist whose skill
and genius presents the mimic man upon the
canvas we admire and celebrate the sculp-
tor who works out that same image in en-
during marble but how insignificant are
these achievements, though the highest and
the iairest in all the departments of art, in
comparison with the great vocation of hui
man mothers! They work, not the canva
that shall fail, or the marble that shall
crumble into dust, but upon mind, upon spir-
it, which is to last forever, and which is to
bear, for good or evil, throughout its du-
ration, the impress of a mothers plastic
hand. L
Our security for the duration of the free
institutions which bless our country depends
upon the habits of virtue and the prevalence
of knowledge and of education. KnoWl.
edge does not comprise all which is contain.
ed in the larger term of education. The
feelings are to be disciplined; a profound re.
ligious feeling is to be instilled. and pure
morality inculcated under all c%ircumstan
ces. All this is comprised in education
Mothers who are faithful to this duty, viii
tell their children that neither i'll political
nor in any other concerns of life can MAJ
ever withdraw himself from the perpetual
obligations of conscience and of duty; tina
in every act, whether public or private, HI
incurs a just responsibility and that in M
conditions is he warranted in trifling with
important rights and obligations. It is il
the incubation of high and pure morals
such as these, that, in a free country womer
performs her sacred duty and futile he1
destiny. ts M oaa aFt
Prussia has $4,000 common schools. !"
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-07-06
HOW WASHINGTON BECAME ENGAGED.


The. story of Westinghouse first interview
with the widow Custis, and his subsequent
engagement to marry her, is briefly told in
the following paragraphs: .7-'~
1t was in 1853 that Col. Washington,
attired in a military undress, and attended
by u body servant, crossed the ferry called
Williams, overthe Pamunky, q branch Of
the New Kent side, a gentleman invited him
to partake of his hospitality. Col. Washing
ton declined, as he had important communi-
cations tor the Governor, at Williamsburg.
Mr.. Chamberlayne, the gentleman on whose
domains he had landed, would hear of no
excuse. Col. Washington was a man and
character so dear to all Virginians. that his
passing by without calling and partaking of
the Inequalities of the host was ont Of the
question. But it was not until Chamber
Jayne intimated that he would introduce
him to a charming young widow, then be-
meath his roof, that the soldier capitulated to
dine-only to dine. H@FaY
The Colonel was introduced to the charm
ing widow. Tradition relates that they were
iAuotftlAy plCASCA ~ UllCl ulSO 1AUCl wv SSO
much so that Washington's servant was Or
dered to put up the horses for the night.
The sun was high in the heavens when,
on the following morning, the soldier
spurred his charger, and speeded on his way
to the seat Of government. Having tfis-
patched his business, he retraced his steps,
and the engagement took place.
sAE ~
JUPITER's SpoTs.-F1ammarion publishes
some interesting observations Of Jupiter,
made in 1874 and 1875, and sums up his
work substantially as follows: These OBJ
servations fix the principal aspects Of the
planet during these periods Of opposition.
They show that the visible surface Of this
globe is very changeable, but that, never
theless, some of the spots persist for entire
weeks; that these spots are accompanied
by shadows, diffuse and nebulous that the
shadows Of the satellites are sometimes
gray and sometimes black and that the
tints of different portions Of the planet not
only differ from each other, but change
tone and intensity from time to time.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-07-06

DIVING IN THE OCEAN FOR FRESH WATER.
One of the hottest regions Of the earth is
along the Persian gulf, where little or no
rain falls. At Ballrein the arid shore has
no fresh water ; yet a comparatively nu-
merous population contrives tosexist there,
thanks to copious springs which burst forth
from the bottom of the sea. The fresh wa
ter is got by diving. The diver, sitting in
his boat, winds a great goatskin bag around
his lett arm. the hand grasping its mouth !;
then he takes in his right hand a heavy stone,
to which he attaches Il strong line, and thus
equipped he plunges in and quickly reaches
the bottom. Instantly opening the. bag over
the strong jet of fresh water, he springs up
in the ascending current, at the same time
closing the bag, and is helped abroad. The
stone is then hauled up, and the diver, after
taking breath, plnnges again. The source
ofthese copious submarine springs is thought
to be in the green hills of Oman, some 500
| or 600 miles distant.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24
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A Scalping Incident.

Among the hot weather stories there
is one Of a woman who had been stay
ing some time at Long Branch with her
husband until the latter had been sum-
moned by telegraph $50 he said) to
Washington. The next day pretty
widow and near neighbor of the first
lady received telegram from Pitts.
burg that her brother was dangerous
ly i'll in that city. So the widow de-
parted, and our city friend was discon.
solate. The land breeze at Long
Branch makes that famous resort as
hot us Philadelphia, 50 the disconso-
late woman brought her son back to
the city. The next day she was invit-
ed to the matanee at the Olympic,
where the Indians were to appear in
war dances, etc. With her lady com.
paniOn she started, and on entering the
vestibule a lively scene occurred. The
wife was astounded to see her husband
just ahead of her with the pretty wild
ow (who had gone to Pittsburg) lean
ing on his arm. Her anger was in.
stantly aroused, and, forgetting ev-
erything save revenge, she reached
out and grasped the hair of the widow
in such vigorous style as to produce
a scream Of agony from it's wearer
(which showed that some of it at least
was really. The man turned pale, but
rapidly recovering, said, ''Let us have
no fuss here. l can easily explain
this" and calling carriage the party
of the first part with her lawful hus-
band drove away, while the widow
sought retirement elsewhere. The
explanation has not yet reached the
puhlic.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24
Ihe Fathers of the Republic.

''The fathers'' were not old men.
The average age of the signers of the
the Declaration OH the 4th of July,
l776, scarcely reached forty.five years
John Hancock, the president, was
but thirty.nine years old. The six
oldest representatives were Benjamin
Franklin, aged seventy; Stephen Hop.
kins, aged sixty-nine Francis Lewis,
aged sixty three: James Smith, aged
sixty-three Matthew Thornton, aged
sixty.two; and George Taylor, aged
sixty. The seven youngest were
Thomas Lynch. Jr., of South Carolina,
aged twenty seven; Thomas Hayward
of South Carolina, aged thirty; Ar
thur Middleton, Of South Carolina,
aged thirty-three; Elbridge Gerry, Of
Massachusetts,, aged thirty-twO; ThOs.
Jefferson, Of Virginia, aged thirty
three; Benjamin Rush, Of Pennsyl.
vania, aged thirty-one. The difference
of age between Franklin, the oldest
member, and Lynch, the youngest,
was forty-three years. Youth, middle
and old age were fairly represented
so were nationalitics. Two members
were born in England, two in Ireland,
two in Scotland, one in Wales and the
rest in the colonies. The composition
of this Congress, whose deliberations
and conclusions from the first COM
manded the admiration of the greatest
living an-Chatam-ande event
ually the respect. love and plaudits of
the world, cannot be too closely
studied.