The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-03-09


duction in price. Call and see cuts of
moulding.
D. w. BALDWIN, Photographer.
ALL justices of the peace chosen at
the February election are required by
law to hetify the prothonotary in writ
ing of their acceptance of the position
"within thirty days after the cleo
tion;" in default of which no commits
sion will be issued TO them.
AT Hawkinsville, Ca, recently, one
of the two convicts in the Pulaski
county Jail tore out part of the wall
and escaped, and the other complained
bitterly next. day to the Sheriff That
unless the walls were mended, so that
he would be kept warm, he'd go too.
The German Emigrant Society of
New York in its annual report shows
the receipts for the past year 10 be
500, ,494 O6, and expenditures, $50, ,73l-
So. During the year l 1,425 persons
were pccuniarily relieved, 31S patients
treated, and 140, 1852 immigrants sent
to different parts of the country.
By the law of Massachusetts, there
are seventeen relatives which = man
is prohibited from marrying in that
State, eight of whom are merely rela-
tives, in law, viz: stepmother, grand
f,,tI fn a. ~
wife wife's mother, wife's grandmother
wife's daughter and wife's grand
daughter. The Boston Globe thinks
that this is circumscribing a mans
choice too narrowly.
"BANTAMn MILLER in his last issue
don't even squeak at us. What's the
matter "Bantam?n don't you like
your own medicine and does it sit hard
on your, little stumich and make you all
sickey, sickey, sickey? or was the
Kedive oyster too big for you? Per-
haps you felt as Thackery did when
he swallowed his first large American
oyster, he said he felt as though he had
swallowed a baby. Never mind
"Bantamn wait till warm weather
comes and you shall have on youl
circus clowns uniform and play ball
with the rest of the little boys.
Readers of newspapers often meet
with the term ''car-load," but few OF
them know Just what or how much il
is. The Saint Louis Times has taken
the trouble to learn, and says, as /
general rule, 10000 pounds, or 20 bar
rels of salt, 20 of lime, 80 of -four 90 o
whisky, 2G0 sacks of -four, cords o
soft wood; Is to 20 head of CATTLE 80 tC
go head of hogs, so to 100 head of sheer
8, 600 feet of solid boards, 1000 feet o
siding, $4,000 feet of flooring, 40,O0t
shingles, one-half less of hard lumber
one-fourthlless of green lumber, one
tenth of ioists, scantling, andall othe
large timber, $40 bushels of wheat, 30
of corn, $50 of oats, 400 of barley, $50 o
flax seed, $50 of apples, 430 of Irish po
tatoes, 800 of sweet potatoes, 100
| bushels OF bran.
WilFesbarre, March 7.-An cxplo
sion OF gas occurred at Prospect shat
last night, by which Jacob Glat2
watchman, and Chas. Nolan, boss
were seriously burned. The mine ha
been flooded to put out fire som
weeks ago, AMI the water was bcin
pumped out when spark from til
watchman's lamp fell into the nioutl
of the shaft. The explosion was in
Simultaneous and terrific, and blew th
timbcrs around the top into pieces. A
AS fast as the gas accumulated an
arose to the mouth another explosion
wouldfollow, and some of them shool
the earth for some distance like a
earthquake. The shaft is three mile
from Wilkesbarre, but the flash {
each explosion lit up the city and tn
country for mile around. The eXplo'
ions were about fifteen minutes apal
and lasted for over three hours. Th
fire is out, but the loss to the works
not known.
The New York Times calls attentio
to the fact that the mere delay. of I'll
Democratic House of Representative
, in acting on Secretary-B ristow's II
: quest to be authorized to issue four an
: a-half per cent. bonds, having thirt
years to run, has already cost IL
country one-fourth, of three month
interest OH $500, 900, 600 of six per cen
bonds; that is to say, nearly two mi
5 lion dollars. Meanwhile, the presel
splendid opportunity for selling fou
and a-half per cent. stock is slowl
! but surely slipping away, and soon,
or later it will not be possible to sell
at par. 1t is known to those who a
familiar with financial operations, {
with the laws which govern then
I, thatthe present high price of all frs
class securities is the effect of the han
l times. Had our capitalists the san
contidencein putting out their none
2 as they commonly have, they nev,
would accept four and a-half per cen
interest from the government. 1t
, absurd, moreover, to suppose that 70
| eigners will ever consent to hold Il
: entire funded debt of this nation, an
, while our own citizens hold any pc
ton of it, the rate of interest pa
, must be the rate of the United Stat