The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-20

81 wish you happy Centennial" is
the latest way Of expressing the compli-
ments of the new year.
THE stamp tax on bank checks,
matches etc., will not be repealed.
We have received from Z. w. Gray,
the Democrat carrier, a very neat ad-
dress, printed in purple and gold.
When you see married man loafng
around, you can wager your last ollar
that his wife has to support him,
Judge Whitmore keeps a good sup
ply of wood on hand for the amuse Il, eut
of tramps.
Four tramps took up lodgings in the
p. e. Z. water tank for a few days
recently.
Gov. JOHN f. HAkTRANFr vii! ac-
cept our thanks for copy Of hi, mes
sase,
A large stock Of fine turs ,cere ac-
ceiced last week at the NeW York Store
Sold at remarkably lOw prices.
In Bradford county, the other day a
father aged ninety year, boxed his son s
ears severe for abusing his wife. The
boy is about sixty years old.
Mr.. Jacob McCauley has had the old
AJvocute Office in the Court House
neatly papered and painted, making a
very neat and attractive office.
Il is stated that over Is 900 tracts of
land embracing 100000 acres, remain
unpatented in Pennsylvania, upon
which there is Cue the commonwealth
three. quarters Of million dollars.
The grass grew, wild pigeons few and
balmy zephers blow, while the centen-
nial year was new. Just keep these
wondrous facts IN view, as the like may
ne'er again be seen by you Oearfeld
Republican.
"Gu1Ever's Taucls," Mark Twaia's
Sketches New and OM," DR.. Hayes.
"Open Polar Sea-" PrescoWs "Con.
quest Of Nerico," and Eoing's "Lye
Of COhm6us," all JeastJu's illus.
tra:sd, for safe at the NeU York Store
ASSISTANT AssEssoRs,-Next year
being the time for making the triennial
assessment it should be borne in mind
that two Assistant Assessors should be
elected in every borough and township
at the approaching February election,
on the third Tuesday of the month a
The Leap Year Party d, Company
HIS armory last Friday evening was a
decided success. The ladies connected
with the party have the thanks OF
Company H, for the handsome amount
turned over to the Treasurer, for the
purchase Of a flag.
OIL CREEK AND RIDGwAY.-This
road, which has, until lately, been
known as the Cranberry, is seven miles
long from Oil City southwark to Gran
berry coal mines. The narrow gague of
the road has been changed TO the stan.
daid ieet 8. inches. 1t is intended
to exiend the road eastward through the
oil region aud TO Ridgway.-Railpqy
World.
a man tied up his boat with a rope
made fhay. A COW go into the boat,
ate the rope in two, and the boat foateG
off with the cow. Now the legal mind
inquiries whether the owner of the boat
shall sue the owner of the COW for the
loss of his boat or the owner of the COW
sue the owner of the boat for the loss of
his COW. Which?
K. w. Sheets, Lawrence county
youth, was the successful competitor of
his Sabbath school class committing the
greatest number of verses in the New
Testament, in three months. He re-
peated, so local paper says, 300, and
was presented with copy of book en-
Titled "Cast Adrift." A society for the
prevention Of cruelty to children, is sadly
wanted in that county.
Recently at Petroleum Center, fifty
five hundred barrel tank, in which five
thousand two hundred barrels of oil
were placed five years ago was emptie d
of its contents after rest since 1870.
Thirty-seven hundred barrels of mer-
chantable crude was obtained, showing
that fifteen hundred barrels had been
lost by evaporation, sediment, water
and a. s., a decline of nearly twenty nine