The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-07-27
LOCAL NOTES.

PEACHES are now in market.
SUBSCRIBE for the ADVOCATE.
THERE are four parrots in Ridgway.
FROST at Kane on the night OF the 2sd.
OUR postmaster is great bird fancier.
THERE are several brevet-Mrs. in town.
THE crop of corn this year will be excellent
THE streets are still used to pasture cattle in
LAST Sunday the weather was comfortably
cold.
THE school house yard is growing up tc
weeds.
NEW potatoes are in market at sixty cents
peck.
LAST Tuesday morning was cold enough
for fire.
WHEAT bran is said to be remedy for the
cabbage worm.
LINEN busters were at discount the frs
part of the week.
six cents quart.
EIGHT cents a quart is the price now ask
for huckleberries.
THE time for county nominating conven-
tions is soon at hand.
LAST Thursday the thermometer marked
"a degrees in the shade.
THE silver trade dollar is circulating quite
extensively in this village.
EVERY Republican and every Democrat
should take the ADVOCATE.
WHY don't some of our subscribers bring
us some wood on account?
THE foot-bridge that crosses Pops run, on
Centre street, needs repairing.
THE County Treasurer's and Commission
ers' office are kept open every day.
WE have noticed the venerable Judge Gillis
on our streets for several weeks past.
The adjourned Treasurer's Sale of Un-
seated Lands takes place August 26th.
A MAN killed nineteen rattlesnakes, on
Boon's mountain, one day last week.
LADIES wishing visiting cards neatly
printed will do well to give this Office call.
THE silver dollar is worth at present only
eighty cents in gold or ninety cents in green
backs.
AS teachers of penmanship some of our
prominent men would not prove very sue
cessful.
THE postage rates have been changed so
that you can send an ordinary newspaper for
one cent.
WE are under obligations to VIM. Walker
and j. d. Parsons for nice lot of "speckled
beauties"
WE understand that ]. L. Brown will be a
candidate for the Democratic nomination for
the Assembly.
NEARLY all the the boys, from ten years
and upwards, in Ridgway are addicted to the
use of tobacco.
LOOK out for mad dogs-any dog that
wouldn't be mad at this kind of weather de-
serves to be shot.
WE have some some very desirable SPACE
for town advertisers to occupy; please make
q note of this fact.
TAME pigeons are very plentiful about
town, and devote much of their spare time
to raising" vegetables,
RIDGwAY will be we'll represented at the
Centennial. Many of our citizens have been
there and many more are going.
THE fun of catching ball on the street when
the thermometer marks 95 degrees in the
shade is not apparant to the ordinary mind.
OUR heart goes out in pity when we see a
young lady tied back SO tight that she is
unable to go down three steps without
falling.
SIX1EES dollars a month and board is the
wages paid to many of the mon in this Sec
tion. This seems much like anti-bellum
prices.
There has been a few cases OF scarlet fever
in town, and several cases that were reported
as scarlet fever have turned out to be some-
thing else.
THE chances are in favor of the nomination
of Hon. Jno. G. Hall, by the Democratic
party of this district, for the Office of State
LIVE and let live" is good motto, and ap-
plicable TO those persons who write their
hand-bills in preference to patronizing the
printer.
WE were surprised, the other day, to hear
a lddy wish that the eold-fashioned plain dress.
sans fiounce, sans hustle, sans pull-back,
sans everything, would again come into
G. w. BARRETT's youngest child came very
near dying last week from an overdose of
paregoric. The paregoric was said to be
nearly pure ladanum.
WE noticed some tobacco plant growing in
a garden at the corner of South and Elk
streets, the other day. This, we believe. is
The only tobacco raised here.
Now the diminutive boy puts both hands
)n his stomach, and rolls his eyes in sorrow,
rs he thinks of the sinfulness of this wicked
world and the indigestibility of green apples.
ON Monday evening last the last section of
Empire freights east was thrown from the
rack, near Scahonda siding, by a broken
'xle; sixteen cars were demolished. Mail
'ast was delayed here some time by the acci-
lent.
LAST week Wednesday Miss Clara Brooks
lad her left eye badly injured by stone,
brown by boy, while she was sitting ON
he stoop in front of her fathers residence.
The practice of throwing stones, INDUCED In
~ small boys, should be stopped.
IT should be known to every person taking
Up an estray that the same must be immedi-
ltely advertised by publishing notice in the
manner prescribed by law. A person who
Ieeps an animal without advertising it is
liable to be indicted by the Grand Jury and
punished accordingly.
MR.. UEIAH RODGERS, of Fox township,
elk county, can boast of nine children
evenly grand children, and forty great
rand children. Mr.. Rodgers is IS years old
S hale and hearty, and can relish good joke
ret as well as any other living man. He
hould, by all means, be represen ted at the
acknowledgements.
A NEW test well will be put down at once
lot far from the Schultz well near Wilcox.
Mr.. Schultz presented the new company,
composed of laboring men, with his engine
md other fixings, and transferred to them
us siX-thousand-acre lease. The Schultz