The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-03-16
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WE are prepared te do all Kinds Of
job work.
G. b. GOULD Of the Can,eron Coaaty
Press paid us visit asst week.
THE 22d of February is now d Ma
tional holiday by act of Congress.
fHE sleighihg this winter has been
very poor.
MEN that own empty ice houses
commence to look blue.
PkoF, Gro. II. Dixon will MOVE
next week Into the rooms over Conn
pany HIS old htmory.
IF bttb has sold his blacksmith
shop and lot on Main street and his
old house and lot accioss the creek to
M. E. Lesser for S1100
AS we go to press beautiful snow'
is coming down in quantity sufficient
to warrant the prediction that we will
have run of sleighlre
THEattention of our readers is called
to the Special Tax Notice in another
coltiinh. e. Cowan, Warren, Pa, is
Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue
for this district.
THE H6GsEhohb published at
Brattleboro Vt. is Oh our table for
March. No family cai afftrd to do
without the Household. Subscrip-
tion price 81 90;
GENE wants leap year party. The
fellow is so bashful thtt he dafe not
ask one of the fair sex himself. 1t
will never do Gene "f,int heart never
won fair lady"
WE publish in another column an
article which proves that Relknap
was Democrat and has always been
Democrat. The artfle only showes
that you can't make agood Republi-
can of poor Democrat
THE dwelling house occupied by
Mrs. Crow on Main street below
Houk's store was destroyed by fire
last hight together. with nearly all its
contents. The fire broke but about l
o'clock; cause unknown
"Since BellInap resigns
And Morrill, Declines"
TheiPresident said, as he laughed,
Between me and you,
There's but one thing to DO,
So nominate you, Mr.. Taft"
THE State of Georgia exempts from
taxes cottoh and wooen mills and
machinery for ten year, from the time
the mills are started. There is one
mill in operation in Augusta contain
ing 23,O 900 spindles, which has made a
dividend of twenty per cent. among
the stock holders.
EVEN the potato bugs respect the
centennial epoch. Instead of wearing
the black and yeli6# stripes usual, to
thein, they are this year arrayed In
alternate stripes ofred, white and blue
So says an exchange.
The Philadelphia Times editorially
commenting on the Presidency says:
"But while managers are studying
their nanipulations for Cincinnati let
them not lose Sight OF a pftsidehtial
constellation in this immediate Sec
ton. True, it's not as radiant as those
which flash. and fade and have to sub
NIT to periodical eclipsss in Wash
ington, but it's steady and increasing
slowly in lustre, but keeping all it
gathers. When the clans meet in the
Queen City Of the West; let them be
prepared for the name of Hartranft to
appear before their Visions in bigger
letters than they now dteani Of He is
the kind of a candidate Wh5 advances
with but moderate strides, But he ad-
vances to stay, and it may yet tax all
the powers of the Washington Repub-
lican leaders to prevent the national
christening from pr0claiming the
name of John F. Hartranft to the null
titude." ..
REsroNstBitiTY For RAISED
CHECiis.-A decision of wide interest
regarding the responsibility of max
ers of checks that are raised, or notes
that are altered, has just been rem
dered by'Judge Sharswood, of the Su-
preme Court. He holds that maker
who makes note or check in such
way as to make alteration easy, or in
vite it, is liable to a bOna-fide holder
who takes 1t before maturity for value.
But If the ifiaker had used the 0rdin-
ary PrecatttiOn he would not be so
liable; any more than for downright
forgery. Omitting to ''scr6ll' the
blank places after the words and fig-
ures of the Instruments, and signing
or other documents in such
away that they could be severed, and a
perfect negotiable note obtained,
would be instances of negligence that
would render the maker liable. The
question whether proper precautions
had been taken was one for the jury to
decide.
The New York ffntss publishes din
interesting report ON the tbfiditio1i of
the labor market in that city, both for
skilled and unskilled labor, showing
that the mechanical Industries have
not recovered from the depression
caused by the financial pahit Of 1873.
The number of hands employed seems