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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-09
Captain Kidd, the Pirate.

Lord Macaulay's sketch of Captain
Kidd is SO we'll known that he may be
dismissed in afew lines as by no means
brilliant or successful brigand, although,
IN posthuWous renown, second to none
of the craft. Perhaps his advantage
over others in this respect is due to his
having been hanged instead of killed
in action, or cast away in remote tropi-
cal seas. Kidd was an old privateer in
the West Indies, and, being known as @
prave seaman, was recommended by
Lord Bellamont, then governor of Bar.
BADGES. and several other persons, to
the home government as one admirably
fitted to command kings ship cruising
against pirates, on account of his knowl-
edge of those seas and practice in war
fare. The project met with no favor in
England, and would have fallen through
altogether had not Lord Bellamont and
his friends fitted out the Adventure gal
ley at their own private charge. Kidd
was put in command, and furnished with
the kings commission, charging him to
hunt down pirates, all and sundry, espe-
cially Thomas Tew and others specified
by name. He also held commission of
reprisals, for it was then war time, en-
powering him to take French merchant
ships. in case he should meet any. The
Adventure galley sailed from Plymouth
in May, 1896, carrying thirty guns and
eighty men, and, after securing the
North and South Atlantic, tried the In
dian ocean, picking up a French mer-
chantman or two; but of pirates never a
one. At last the patience of Kidd, who
appears to have meant well originally,
wore out; his crew turned mutinous, and
he became, according to his defense, q
pirate maalgre lui. After fairly lucky
cruise, he sailed for New York, thinking
his offense would be winked at, but was
Immediately seized, with all his books
and papers, sent home for trial, and
hanged with six of his associates. His
career proved an exception to the rule
that it is well to set thief to catch
hhief
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-09
A Dentists Dinner.

We have received toothsome bill of
fare designed especially for the dentists,
and we hasten to publish it. Every one
of the craft will find it very filling for
the price:
SOUP. -.
Gumbo.
FISH.
"Make- 'er-yell Walls.
ENTREES.
The Probe, of course.
t- ... ROAST.
Bear, with Grins. .. ..
VEGETABLES.
Boiled Roots-achers of them.
POULTRY.
"Pull-its."
GAME.
HOwls, with India Rubber Filling, q Ia Bowery.
DESSERT.
81 Scream" (and 30 would any body else).
WINES.
"A Pull Al" a bottle of Tuskany.
CIGARS.
Stumps.
Our correspondent adds that he
thought of this menu while under the
influence of laughing gas, and has re-
membered it all with the exception of
something about "dumplings with mo-
larsess." As it stands it is good enough.
and can scarcely be improved.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-09
A Denial.

Celia Logan denies that New York
women are much given to opium, but
asserts that arsenic eating, for improve
ment of complexion, is a common prac-
tico. She says: ga few years ago cos
metics containing bismuth were in
general use, but were found to yellow
the skin until it became tawny and
created sores and pimples. The family
doctor prescribed arsenical blood puri-
fiers. The patient was told to stop
using these when the eyelids became
puffy and she felt bloated; but it was
pleasant to taste, it rounded out the
form and beautified the complexion.
Therefore the doses were increased in
stead of diminished; and SO prevalent
now is arsenic eating that any one able
to recognize the look it gives can pick
out its victims"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-09
4 Problem Solved,

A COT espondent writes to the Phila-
delphia Bulletin thus "A recent number
Of scientific journal, speaking of re-
lative proportion of the sexes in the
human race, declares that for every $50
men that come into the world 100 72-1OO
women are born. I do not dispute
these figures. I only ask for light. It
appears, according to this, that there
are some women who are only 72-1OO
part of woman. What the remaining
2S-100 are cannot imagire. Now what
L know is this /: If woman of this kind
marries 100 man, and has daughter,
will the daughter be an "a 100 woman or
96-100 woman And what will be the
exact relationship between such daugh-
daughters, especially if the 87-l00 girls
marry the brothers of the 96-100 girl
and so become not only her 98-100 first
cousins, but her 95 100 sisters-in- law,
the aforesaid 76-100 aunt becoming also
the S9-100 mother-in law of her $500
nephews, will the-the-. Let me see
where am IP 1t is an awful subject to
tackle. Oh, yes say if the 76-1O0
aunt -. But, no. The question
can't be solved in any such way as this.
l give it up. The only way to get at it
will be to do the sum in algebra, some
how, making the daughter g, the aunt y,
the first cousin a, and the mother-in-law
b. Then, it seems to me, if you multi
ply the aunt by the daughter and divide
the first cousin by the mother-in-law, in
some way or other, or extract the square
root of the cousins and subtract the
result from the aunt, keeping the daugh-
ter as common denominator, and at
the same time making decimal fraction
of the mother-in-law, perhaps the result
might be satisfactory. But I am not
certain. am poor at mathematics. I
wish the lightning calculator would get
at this, or that Prof. Tyndall would sub
ject it to chemical analysis.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-09
Below Bangor.

1t is related that in a certain town in
the northern part of Maine the people
were holding meeting, when the pas
tor remarked that if any present had
relatives or friends in distant lands,
prayers would be offered in their behalf.
No sooner was the sentence complete
than a simple looking individual arose
and thus addressed the pastor: "I
would like you to pray for my brother.
He went away two weeks ago, and 1
haven't heard from him since. / don't
know just where he is, but you need not
pray below Bangor" - -.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-09
The Lost Whalers.

The New Bedford Mercury prints the
following as the opinion of one of the
most experienced shipmasters of New
Bedford regarding the possible fate of
the abandoned ships and men / have
read the reports (as far as published)
very carefully, and can see no reason for
alarm at all in regard to those men that
stuck by their ships. The ships were
abandoned only twenty miles from the
land, and were drifting slowly with the
pack Ice to the southeast, nearing the
land every day. The heavy gales of
September always blow from the north
east to east northeast, and that is blow
ing on the land from four to six points
OF the compass. There is no doubt in
my mind that the ships, or most of
them, will succeed in getting into
smiths bay. which is only forty or fifty
the shores are lined Will" drift W Wood, and
seal, white bears, deer, and abundance
of sea fowl are to be found. There, 1
think, whales will be plenty up to about
the first of October. The natives are
kind and hospitable, and will help the
men all they can. There is abundance
of provisions on board of the abandoned
ships to last those men twelve months or
more. The only fear that I have for
those men is that they will eat their
usual food of bread, flour, salt provi-
sions, etc., and bring on the scurvy.
They will not suffer for food, clothing,
or lights and fires. Wood and water are
plenty. My opinion is that part of
those ships will be saved Gf not this
year, the next, for they will be in that
part of the Arctic that is least disturbed
by gales and currents. No doubt some
of the officers of the ships are among the
fifty brave men that stopped in the Arc
tic, hoping to bring their ships to port.
The Mercury says, however, that there
are men of experience who differ ma
terially from these views.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-09
Grandmother Gray.

UTdutfuOtHeT UIuys
Faded and fair, in her old armchair,
Sunset gliding her thin white hair
Silently knitting sits Grandmother Gray;
While on M elbows beeide ber lean,
And tell what wonderful things 1 mean
To have. and to do. il can some day:
You can talk so TO Grandmother Gray
She doesn't laugh nor send you away.
see, as I look from the window seat,
A house there yonder across the street,
With fine French roof and frescoed hall,
The deep bay windows are full Of flowers;
They've clock of bronze that chimes the
hours,
And fountain-I hear it tinkle and fall
When the doors are open "I mean, say,
\ To live in house like that some day."
Money will buy it," Gays Grandmother Gray.
There's low barouche, all green and gold,
And a pair OF horses as black as jet,
I've seen drive by-and before I'm old
A turnout like that hope to get
How they prance and shine in their harness
gsyl
What fun 'twould be if they ran away!"
Money will buy them," says Grandmother
Gray.
"To-morrow, know, great ship sails
Out Of port, and across the sea
Oh to feel in my face the ocean gales
And the salt waves dancing under me-!
In the old, far lands Of legend and lay
long to roam-and shall, some day."
Money will do it," says Grandmother Gray.
"And when, like me- you are DID," says she,
And getting and going are done with, DEAR
What then, do you think, will the one thing
You will wish and need, to content you
here ?"
"Oh, when in my chair have to stay,
Love, you see, will content me-" say
THAT, money won't buy" saws Grandmother
Gray.
" Ind, sure erough, if there's nothing worth
All your care, when the years are past,
But love in heaven, and love on earth,
Why not begin where you'll end at last 4?
Begin TO lay up treasure to-day,
Treasure that nothing can take away,
Bless the Lord !" says Grandmother Gray.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-28
Books Received.

The Snlutation. collection Of New Sacred
Music. By L. o. Emerson Boards, 1852 PIP. Bos-
ton: Oliver Ditson & Co. Portland: G. X. Halves.
Poems of Place. Edited by Henry W. Longfel-
low. Ireland. Cloth, 26O pp., price 81. Boston /:
j. R. Osgood g Co. Portland: Bailey & Noyes.
A Long Time Ago. A Novel. By Meta Orred.
Paper, 106 pp., price 80 cents. New York: Har-
per 81 Bros. Portland: Loring, Short s. Harmon.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. By Sam
uel Taylor Colerldge. Illustrated by Gustave
Dore. Cloth, folio, s8 PIP. New York: Harper &,
Bros. Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon.
The Adventures of Captain Mage; or a
PhGnician Expedition d. C. 1000. By
Leon Cahun. Illustrated by P. Philippe teaux,
and translated from the French by Ellen e.
Frewer. Cloth, 337 pp., price $3.50. New York:
Scribner, Armstrong q Co. Portland: Lering
Short q Harmon.
Mountain Adventures in different parts of
the World. Selected from the narratives of eel
ebrated Travellers. With an Introduction and Ad-
ditlons by j. T. Headly. With forty lone ilustra-
tions. One Of the Illustrated Library of Wonders
Cloth, 356 pp., price $3.50. New York: Scribner
Armstrong g. Co. Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmon.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-28
Grimes and Casualties.

The knitting mills at Rome N. Y, were
burned last night. Loss not known.
The bodies of the missing crew of the sch.
Lily. wrecked 10 st. Mary's Bay, have been re-
covered.
A despatch from Aiken, s. c., states that
the Baptist church was burned Wednesday
night.
James Murray was struck by an engine ON
the Eastern Railroad track at Salem last night
and died from injuries.
The body Of Joseph Roche was taken from
the canal in Lowell, Mass, yesterday morning
IL is not known in what manner he was
drowned.
A boiler in -four mill at Marcellus, Ohio,
exploded Thursday, killing outright one man,
and fatally injuring two Others. and scalding
number of persons who were in the mill.
Five incendiary fires have occurred in and
and about Windham, VT, within three weeks
and $500 reward is offered by the authorities
for the detection of the incendary.
John Hill and John Fallen, who were con.
victed of the murder of Geo. Chislett, near Eli
wood, N: j., Aug. 9th last, were hanged yes
terday. About 500 persons,witnessed the execu-
tion.
The trial of Eleanor and Emily Miller, SIS
ters OF Miller, the absconding jeweller of Mon
freal, for completely in their brothers crime, ire
suited 10 their acquttal yesterday.
The only disturbance during the Democratic
procession in New York Thursday night was
On Third Avenue, where the torch-bearers set
tire to large Republican banner, and it was
totally destroyed during free fight
While viewing political procession at
Reading, Pa, Thursday, twelve persons were
injured by the giving way of platform. Sew
eral arms and legs were broken, but no fatal
injuries were inflicted.
a Hartford despatch says that ON Thursday
night as Deputy Sheriff Woodward and Con-
stables Reed and Price attempted to arrest a
desperate named John Donovan for wife beat
ing, he plunge1 knife into PRICES bowels and
narrowly missed Reed. Sheriff Woodward
shot him dead with revolver.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-28

BY BOSTON & MAINE RAILRoAD.-Josselyn &
Co car -four, A L Loring do oats Preble 81 Dun
ton II do bran, Paxton, W 8 Paxton do flour, j A
Creighton do flour, j H Bonney 81 Co do four, ID
W Coolidge edo -four W L Alden do flour, Shaw.
H s. Carney do flour, Howes, Hilton q Co do
flour, Norton, Chapman & Co do -four, G w True
& Co do -four, Waldron q True do corn.D Keazer
do flour, Rufus Deering s. Co do lumber, S W
Tnaxter & Co do bran, Brywn & Washburu 1 do
-four, j Fiske do flour, N Noble do oats,
Kimball & Bates 4 do oats, D True g. Co do
-four, Lothrop q Co do iron, Merrill do corn,
Parrott q Chase do corn, H Steward do corn,
Kensel, Tabor & Co 4 do corn, Blake q Jones 8 do
corn, Andre Mills do cotton, Cabot Maug Co do
cotton, j Kerr Prest do cotton S W Thaxter g. 90
do CORD, Kendall & Whitney do seed, Morton
l do corn, g W Fine do bran. james & Bradford
do corn, E Woodside do apples, j K Blanchard
do apples, Talbot, Rust & Co do flour, Wheeler &
Gunner do eats, BrosbG & Blaney 2 do corn. Bow
doin, & Co do stock S ii Laramie 1 do oats,
Waldron & True do corn, G W True s. Co 2do
-four, G Hunt & Co 2 do -four, S II & r Doten 1
do lumber, Woodbury. & l. do flour, W & c Mil
iken do four, Hathaway & Woods do flour, Stew
ems & Co do corn, Webb & Phinney do oats, A d
Morton do corn, f Randall do corn, Grand
Trunk Railroad 10 do merchandise, Name Central
Railroad 20 do merchandise Portland g. Ogdensburg
Railroad do merchandise, Portland u do merehan-
disc.
BY water conveyance-1Ooo bush cornmeal to G
W. True a. Co.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-28

ST. LOUIS, October 27.-Flour is dull and lower
to seller and scarcely anything done; last quoted
Superfne Fall at 90 q 25; extra Fall at so q
rs; double do 90 az 90: treble do at IS "a 25
Wheat dull and lower, No 2 Red Fall at 23a bid
cash: sales at "a seller November; q for seller
December; No Red fall at 10 cash.. Corn active
and shade lower; No Mixed at 4Oa "a 4O5e cash; Al
seller November; 4Oac do Dec. Oats quiet; No 2 at
800 cash and November. Rye is steady at So a 5si.
at 75c q O5. Pork easier. Lard-new at 90. Bulk
easier.
Receipts 5000 bbls -four, $4,000 bush wheat, 81
900 bush corn, 10000 bush oats, 900 bush barley
10000 bush rye, 0O hogs, 90 cattle.
MILWAUKEE,, October 26. Flour is quiet and I'M
changed. Wheat unsettled at &c decline and closed
at 121 seller November at 25 seller for December
at 14s; No Milwaukee at O5 Corn is unsettled,
opened frmer; No at 40 q 49ac. Oats are steady
mand but lower; No at &c. Barley is scarce and
firm; No 2Spring at S6a "a SIC; No Spring weak at
40 q 4s3c. PROVISIONS are active and nomnally I'M
changed. Mess Pork at 16 00. Prime steam render
ed Lard at 81; kettle 1O4.
Freights quiet but steady; Wheat to Buffalo at 5
@51.
necepts-lO,OOO bbs -four, $4,000 busl wheat.
Shipments-S,OO0 -four, 5000 oush wheat.
DETROIT, October 27:-tlour is steady az 90 a
80 for choice brands of White Winter Wheat Is
dull and lower to sell extra White Michigan 81 bid
milling offered at 80; No White Michigan l rs q
26t bid 26s asked IL milling offered at 22 No
ed at 52ac Oats quiet; No White at Ale asked No
Mixed nominally at 37l q SIC.
heCelptS-lSSo uuIS uOur, 0,lUf bush wheat, 1lZZ
bush corn, 3243 bush oats.
Shpments-l45O bbls -four 1893 bush wheat. 425
bush corn. 625 bush oats.
CLEVELAND, October 27.-The Petroleum market
steady; standard %.
NEW ORLEANS, October 27.-Cotton steady; Mid
ding uplands l0sc.
NORFOLK, October Election is firm; Middling
uplands at I0sc
LOUISVILLE, October 27.-Cotton is firm; Mid
ding upauds 10sc.
GALVESTON, October 27.-Cotton steady Middlng
uplands 1O4c
WILMINGTON, October 81 Cotton nominal; Mid
ding upands at 10 q 1Oac.
SAvANNAh, October 27.-Cotton is firm; Middling
uplaDds 10sc
MOBILE, October 27.-Cotton is strong Middng
uplands 10sc.
CHARLESTON, October 27.-Cotton firm; Middling
uplands at 10sc
AUGUSTA, october 27.-Cotton is easier; Middling
upands at 10c.
NEW YoRK. October 27.-Cotton is steady; Mid
ding uplands at lie.
MEMPHIS, October 27.-CottOn is strong; Middling
upaDds at 10sc.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-28
NEW YORK,

New YORK, Oct. 27.-The Tribune says the
Countess Jeounin will be remembered as Miss
Mary Harrington. daughter of Mr.. Chase's as
sistant secretary of the treasury during the
war; There can be no doubt that she will min
lister with fidelity and zeal, so far as she may
be enabled, to the wants of the suffering people
in Servia. Subscriptions can be cent to the
Tribune as well as to the World office.
Arrest of lhe Board of Excise.
The entire Board of Excise was arrested to-
day on an order issued by Judge Morgan on
complaint of liquor dealer, who is sustained
by the trade, for violation of the excise law in
granting licenses for the sale of spirtuous fq-
uors to proprletors of eating houses, contrary to
law.
The Tammany Troubles.
1t is stated that James O'Bren has with
drawn from the field for the position of sheriff
and that the anti rammany party will prOba-
bly, nominate Major Peter B. Bowe, who ives a
member of the Tammany regiment in the war.
The anti-Tammany conference committees
held stormy meeting tonight. E. B. Hart re
ported that he had conferred with Gen. Ar
thur of the subcommittee of the Republican
would not combine with anti-Tammany unless
they threw Andrew 81. Green and James o.
Brien off their ticket. The resolution was
adopted to hold no further conference with the
Republicans. The anti-Tammany now propos'
es joining the Independent Germans and Citi'
zens' Associations and putting straight ticket
in the field.
Mysterious Murder i'm Brooklyn.
Mr.. Mitchell, private Waterman for citi
zens on Cumberland and contguous.s streets in
Brooklyn, reported at the station house last
evening that number of suspicious characters
were about and suggested that extra policemen
be put in that neghborhood for the night. He
was not seen from that hour-7 o'clock-until
about this morning, whenlhis body was found
in a vacant lot at or near Cumberland street
and Myrtle avenue. There is great excitement
in that vicinity, but no clue to the murderer.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-28
Gov. Hayes at the Exhibition.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. Ex-Governor Hayes.of
Ohio, left the Transcontinental Hotel soon af-
ter this mornidg and spent the day within the
exhibition grounds. He was accompanied by
bis eldest SOD, Webb G Hayes, Col. Z. c. Weir
of Cincinnati, of his personal staff, and Mr..
w. X. Rogers of ST. Paul, Mimi, his former
law partner. The party occupied several hours
in the inspection of the displays in the main
building and machinery hall During the time
they were attended by Director General Gosh
orn. The Governor and his companions then
paid visit to each of the state buildings, arriv-
ing at the Ohio building about IL O'clock His
presence becoming generally known in the vi
cinity, a crowd eager to see him rapidly collect
ed, and at one time His Excellency was threat
eI ed with repetition of the hand-shaking or
deal of the previous day. At half past twelve
o'clock he proceeded to the office of Gen. Haw-
ley, in the judges ball, end afterwards with
other guests took lunch with that gentleman
at the American restaurant. ALTO o'clock
tomorrow forenoon His Excellency will leave
for Coin MINIS
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-28
News and Other Items.

At Moosepath Park, St. John last Wednes
day, moose two years old was harnessed to
sulky and tFotted a mile in 2.20.
"What is heavens best gift to man?" asked
young lady on Sunday night, smiling sweet
1y on pleasant looking clerk. "a hoss," re-
piled the young man. with great prudence.
A cigar contains acetic, formic, butyric, vale.
rio and propriouic acida, prussia acid, .creosote,
carbolic acid,i ammonis. sulphuretted hydro
gen. pyridine, viridine, picoline and rubidene,
to say nothing about cabbagine and burdockic
acid. That's why you can't get good one for
less than five cents.
The report now is that Watterson is to have
the French Mission if Tilden is elected. He is
reported to have bought copy of Ollendorfs
French Method, and is now asking himself,
"Avez vous achete less seven mules de lie far
mer daps PIndiana," and replying, "Oui. ct
nous avouns choise lie Jeane de blue
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-28
Railroad Accident.

PATERSON, Oct 12-This morning as the
freight train on the New Jersey Midland Rail-
road with two empty coal cars in front of the
engine, reached the Hawthorne bridge over the
Erie railroad, one of the forward cars jumped
the track and striking the end of the bridge
pushed it off an abutment when it fell upon the
Erie track over which the Erie passenger train
had just passed. The Midland engine turned
upside down and the tender and twelve freight
cars pitched into the chasm. The engineer and
fireman. crushed and terribly soaded, were in
stantly killed. The conductor was so badly
crushed that he is expected to die. A brake
man had both legs mangled, uecessitating am
putation, which he can hardly survive. The
loss to the Midland road will be about $50, 900.
The Erie road was blocked all day, but the
track will be cleared by 5 O clock. The Mid
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-28

1t showed at jamestown, New. York, last
night.
The Bosons defeated the Hartfords in Bos-
ton yesterday in the third game for the New
England championship by score of II to 4.
Leopold Morse has accepted the Democratic
nomination from the 4th Massachusetts con-
gressional district
AT Fleetwood Park yesterday the deciding
heat for the $4,000 purse was won by Rarus in
22O.
The Boston Herald's st. Albaus special says
preparations are being made in Northern Yer
mont for another Fenian raid this fall or next
sprisg.
Cadet midshipman B. r. Cookie of Illinois,
third class man who refused to testify in the
investigation of the case of Blazers, was Thurs
day dismissed from the Naval Academy.
A Dublin letter to the Herald says the Irish
rifle team feel very sore over the ungenerous
treatment which they received while in New
York.
James J. Brooks of Philadelphia, for long
time employed in the government secret SER
vice has been appointed TO succeed Washburne
as chief of the secret service division of the
Treasury, and yesterday entered on his off cial
duties