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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27
General Notes.

The pension appropriations this year
amount to S20,783, 800.
American refneries are now supply
ing Canada with sugar.
a Reformed Episcopal church is to
be established in Boston.
Switzerland possesses 10S cotton
mills, running 2,059,35C spindlcs.
The resl-estate sales in Chicago DUR
ing the past year foot up s53,OO0,000.
Boston is going to introduce a new
sewerage system at cost of S6,500,0O0.
Gas in Brooklyn and New York will
cost S2,75 per thousand feet after Feb
ruary l.
Colonel T. B. Ellis offers to pay the
expenses of sending regiment of Ar
kansas Guards to the Centennial,
Our leather exports to Europe last
year served to keep stocks dowu aud
prevented large decline in price.
The receipts from taxes, in France,
last year exceed the Budget by ST.
100000.
Brooklyn is to be divided into small.
pox districts with physician in charge
of each.
A large number of Scandinavians
have colonized near Falls City, Wash.
ington Territory
Richmond, Va, is growing steadily
and solidily. 1t now claims a popula,
tion of 72,500.
There are strong indications OF
heavy produce shipments from the
West during the next few weeks.
The New York station-houses are
crowded nightly by many who have
been brought up in refined society,
Regular trains are now rnnning on the
New York Elevated Railway from the
Battery to Central Park.
The receipts Of the New York city
street railroads sixteen in number, feet
up over S8,OOO,OOO for last year,
A remarkable feature of Mount
Shasta, in California, is a collection o.
hot springs 200 feet below the sum
NIT.
The Sing Sing Prison laundry is in
juring the washing business in New
York city. Even All sing can't com
pete with Sing Sing,
Fifteen years ago the business O.
Kansas City amounted in round mum
bers to S3,1S0,0O0. Last year it ag-
gregated s455,S32,OlS.
A petition signed by two hundred
and sixty-fve women of Fayette county
has been forwarded 10 the Legislature
asking that the prohibitory law be not
repealed.
The Sharon Methodists lack only 81,
500 of enough to build a new $4,000
church. They are making a strenuou;
effort to raise the full amount with a
view of commencing work in the spring
Mayor Evans, of Reading, recon-
mends Councils to repeal the ordinance
requiring the registration of dogs, fol
the reason that only about one-third oi
them are taxed, no attention being paid
10 the remainder.
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Daily, is printed from clear new type, and
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Address, O'NEILL & ROOK.
Publishers Daily aud Weekly Dispatch,
Fifth avenue. Pittsburgh, Pa.
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APPLEToNs AMERICAN CYcLoPKpIA
that the revised, and elegantly illus
tratsd edition of this work, now being
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State, publishing from thirty-six to forty
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Elk County Directory.

President Judge-L. D. Wetmors.
Additional Law Judge-Hon. JsCF
Vincent.
Associate Judges-Chas. Luhr, ] V
Houk.
District Attorney--J. X. P, Hall.
Sheriff-D. Scull.
Prothonotsry @c.,-Fred. Schoning.
Treasurer-Joseph Windfelder.
County uperintendent-Geo. R. Dixsu.
Observation-Disclosures Weidert, Julius
Jones, Geo. Ed. Weis.
Auditors-Thomas Irwin N. g. Bundy,
County Surveyor-Geo Walmsley.
Jury Commissi i,ners.-Phillip Krsighls
Ransom I. Kyler.
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The Weekly Sun.

A large eight-page Independent, honest
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especially designed for the fsrmer, tho me,
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man, and their wives and children. We
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of entertaining and instructive reading Of
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27

A DvERTIsIYG: CHEAP. GooD, SYsTEMA-
~ TIc.-Al persons who contemplate
making contracts with newspapers for the
insertion of advertisements, should send
25 cents to Geo P. Rowell g. Co., Al Park
Row, New York, for their PAMPHLET
BOOK ninety-seventh edition. containing
lists of over 2OOO newspapers and estima-
tes, showing the cOst-Advertisements
taken for leading papers in many States at
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27
Private Tuition.

Pupils wantisg to receive instruction in
Greek or Latin, or desiring 70 prepare for
College can have opportunity of doing so
by applying tsthe Rector of Grace Church.
He having made the necessary arrange
ments will be glad to receive q limited
number of young ladies and gentlemen for
instruction. For information as to terms
&c apply to
REV Nm. JAS. MILLER, A. n.
Ridgway, Pa.
Aug l9, 8m
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27
PAY AS YOU GO.

lfyou pay for goods when you buy
them, you will never be troubled with
the nightmare Of debt, your sleep will be
sweet your dreams pleasant, and your
wife and children will greet you with a
smile in the morning. Go to Powell
& Kime's model store with your cash,
get more than its value and go home
satisfied. They have adopted the cash
system, and say it is working charm
ingly.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27
Bakers Sweet Chocolate
POWELL 4 KIMES,

Young man if you want to add
greatly to your appearance go at once
to POWELL & KIME'S Grand Gen.
trail Store, and get youself a new white
linen bosom SKIRT. You can get.a good
fitting white clean shirt for $l.25 and
from that up.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27
a q o O % VI O r x .

A Startling Cause of Debility and Sick
ness fully explained in large octave Trea'
tise by DR.. o. PHELPS BROWN, 2l Grand
Street, Jersey City, N. J. EVERY MAN
AND WOMAN who is ailing in any way
should send aud get copy at once, as it is
sent free, prepaid by mail. Address the
author, as above. y5n3Syl
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27

Those Hamilton Corsets at p 4 X
are the most durable, and the cheapest
in market.
Over Goats? from s5 to S25 a large
and splendid stock. Step in and get
one at ?. t. KS.
Rosted coffee a genuine article, at P.
4 KS.
Summer Clothing, for those Boys
and children, Linen, Alapaca and sum-
mer Cashmer at p & K's
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27

New goods, every day in the year
except Sundays and legal holidays at
the great mammoth Grand Central
Store of p. & KS. No Dragging
around. Call for whatyou want.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27

THE death of the widow of ex-Presi-
dent Johnson, is announced. She
died on the night of the 18th inst, at
the residence of her daughter, Mrs.
Patterson, in Greenville, Tenn. She
had never recovered from the shock
occasioncd by the sudden death of her
husband.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27
Vick's
Flower & Vegetable Garden

is the most beautiful work of the kind in
the world 1t contains nearly $50 pages,
hundreds, of fine illustrations. and four
Chrome Plate, Of FloWers, beautifully drawn
and celored from nature. Price 80 cent
in paper covers; 65 cents bound in elegan
cloth.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27

Give the ADVOCATE office a call for bill
heads, letter-heads, cards, shipping tags,
and ifyou are going to get married leave
us an order for your cards
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27
SEEDS .aTD PLANTS.

SEEDS .4.TD FLsAsuI'S.
G. G. The True Cape Cod Cranberry,
G. best sort for Upland, Lowland, or
Garden, by mail prepaid, 81 per 100, IS
per 1000. All the New, Choice Straw
berries and Peaches. A priced Cata.
logue of these and all Fruits, Ornamsn-
tai Trees Evergreens, Shrubs, Bulbs;
Roses, Plants, &C., and FRESH
FLOWER & GARDEN SEEDS, the
choicest collection in the country, with
all novelties, will be sent gratis to any
plain address. 25 sorts of either Flower,
Garden; Tree, Fruit, Evergreen, or
Herb Seeds, for S1,00, sent by mail,
prepaid. WHOLESALE CATA-
rLOGUE TO THE TRADE. Agents
Wanted.
B. NJ. WATSON, Old Colony Nur.
series and Seed Warehouse, Plymouth,
Mass. Established 1842.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27
VII c ks Floral Gui de

This is beautiful Quarterly Journal,
finely illustrated, and containing an elegant
colored Frontispiece with the first number.
Price only 25 cents for the year. The fret
number for 1867 just issued. Address
JAMES WICK, Rochester, n. 7.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27

TOBVEToRK.-We are now prepared
y w to do all kinds of JOB WORK,
Envelopes, Tags. Bill-heads, Letter, heads
neatly and eheaply executed. Office in
Thaysr & Hagerty's new building, Main
street RidgVay, Pa.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27

If you want bag Of feed, or a
bushel Of potatoes or barrel OR sack of
bour or even small sack of Graham
-four, it will pay you to step into P Il
KS for it
If you want any bpcbed or sbrown
muslins, from I to l0.4 wide any
qualify, 80 to ead.quarters, Powell &
Kime's-and select to your taste.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27

Millinery goods, hair switches, jewelry.
fancy goods, notions, ladies & ehildrens
cloaks, dresses & undergarments: Whole
sale & Retail at MAY & SILVERMANN'S
opposite the court house, WillIamsport, Pa
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27
Vick'S
Flower & Vegetable seeds.

are the best the world produces. They are
planted by million people in America,
and the result is, beautiful Flowers and
splendid Vegetables. A Priced Catalogue
sent free to all who enclose the postage-a
2 cent stamp.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27

The first railway in China is about to
be built.
In the Minnesota Legislature all the
members were born out Of the State.
In the Maine Legislature all but four
teen we're borne in the State.
An ordsr has been issued by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company for
fifteen "consoldated" engines TO be
commenced at the Altoona shops at
once.
The new furnace at Orbsonia, Hunt
ingdon county, is doing much better
than was expected. She will not reach
her full capacity for several weeks yet.
There is decided feeling growing in
favor Of the removal, or rather of the
building, Of new prison to serve the
wants Of Chester county.
Among a crowd fmen committed to
Jail for vagarancy in Reading was one
who few years ago filed a profess
sor's chair in one of the leading col
leges ol New England.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27
State Notes.


An ak factory is being erected in
Huntingdon.
The question of paid fire depart
ment is being agitsted in Meadville.
THE Clinton Mill, South Side, Pitts
burg, resumed operations day or two
ago.
Governor Hartranft sold span Of
horses of his own raising the other day
for 81 600.
The Sligo Mill, on the South Side
Pittsburg, started up six boiling furna-
ces during the week.
A Carlisle man has been offered S5,-
600 for "Romeo," the largest bullock in
the country.
A Blair county deafmute killed a
bear weighing two hundred and twenty
pounds with an ak last Sunday.
The Rockhill Iron and Coal Company
Huntingdon, have payroll of almost
700 hands A small army.
The sewing machine works now in
course of erection lin Downingtown will
bring over one hundred families into
that borough.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27

A full stock of fresh Family groceries,
such as Teas, Cofees, Sugars, Rice,
Syrups, Spices, R. B. Powder, Baking,
and Sweet Chocolate, and every thing
in that line, at p. & K's.
A general stock of winter clothing,
at very low prices at p & KS.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27

Transient advertisements per square of
eight lines, one insertion 81, two inser-
tions, $3.50, three insertions, 81.
Business cards, ten lines or less, per
year So.
AlvsrtissA eats payable quarterly.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27

MADAM DEMOREST PATTERNS.
We are agents for madam de morest pat
terms, catalogues free, send for one, pat
terms sent by mail MAY & SILVER
NANN'S Williamsport Pa.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27

Wedding and Mourning outfits for Ia
dies at MAY & SlLVERMANN'S, opposite
the coart house, Williamsport, Pa.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27

CHEAP! CHEAP! CHEAP!
Goods marked down to astonish the
world. Call and see us. MAY s. SILVER.
MANN, Williamsport, Pa.
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a complete stock of ladies misses and
chi!drens shoes, light, medium and
heavy at P. & KS. Now is the time to
buy.
Alpacas eheapsr thaa evse bsfor
ksowH at ?. s. Ks.
Sth.
Hats and Caps complete assortment
at ?. & KS.
Hunting RubberS! with and without
heels,-a large lot at P. & Ks. All
other kinds of rubber boots and shoes.
Goldfish boueless and skiuless. Also
some Of the old fashioned in full dress,
at p. & KS.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27

"King Bee" and many others kinds
of chewing tobacco. Also smoking Of
all the popular brands at P, & KS.
Those new style prints, at p Il KS
are the general talk Of the town. Go
and see them.
Paper collars the nobbiestl with turn
down corners also the good old Byron
STYLE at z. 4 KS.
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c. Euery subscriber for 1876 ,oiU be
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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1876-04-07
THE BULLION TAX.
Counsel ssr the cssasy cosndsns si
WinatsE the Gaze.

Suit was entered and papers served in
the contested bullion tax case last Satur-
day. Mr.. Lindsay has associated with
himself in the case. n counsel for the
county, lIr. Dickson. Messrs. Lewis K
Deal and General Il. NJ. Clarke VI Car
sou. All Of these gentlemen express
themselves entirely confident OF ui.i-
mately~ succeeding before the courts, al.
though the crse will be delayed by the
defense as much rs possible, and viii.
no doubt. extend through n period OF
two or three years.
The defendants will carry the matter
TO the Supreme Court Of the United
States, to determine whether or not the
statute Of this State. imposing the tax
on the proceeds OF the mines Ii uncon-
siitutional. and void as being In con.
flict with the Federal Constitution.
They, the defendants. claim that It IL,
and reason in thin way: By q provision
OF the Federal Consultation. all legisla-
ton Is prohibited which imps'rs the OBJ
legations Of a contract. Now. defend.
ants claim that the Cons.i, ,tion OF our
State Is In the nature OF q Contract be-
tween the people Of the Siste anu each
individual, and that the statute above re-
fsrred to is in violation Of the Consti.n-
ton Of our State; therefore IL impr'rs the
obligation Of q contract. a,d hence Is in
violation Of tho Federal Constitution
and void for that reason.
The Supreme Cour; OF Nevada has
passed upon the question once. in the
case Of The State ". KIa.. -ehnltt, when
tho statute imposing the Tux was de-
clared legal and constitutional.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1876-04-07
Convietion Of the Tar Flat Hood.
lsnis Fatal Accident ea y Navy
Yard Schooner Raising Funds
for the Centennial.

San F~nAxcsco, April 7-1:3O P. NJ
O,Leary completed his 373d mile at
II 80, and since then has rested. There
Is no appreciable change in his appear
ance or gait. The last mile was walked
In II minutes, 6 seconds.
John Booker. John Fletcher, Richard
Morrissy and Ed. johnson. the Tar Flat
Hoodlums. who a few days ago assaulted
local police officer Downio on First
street. while hs was conveying a drunken
woman to the city prison. were convict.
ed in the police court this morning. not.
w~ithstandipg the fact that numerous
dsnizens Of Tar Flat testified in behalf
OF the crowd. They will be sentenced
on Monday.
Al 4 O'Clock yesterday afternoon, as
tho Navy Yard schooner Freda was com.
ing alongside the Portsmouth, aer mast
fouled an carried away the main top
gallant studdingsail boom, which In
falling. struck and instantly billed Maj.
w. @. Root, who was standing upon tho
Freda's deck. Tho schooner was at
onc dispatched back to the Navy Yard.
Lieutenant Moore Is in charge Of the re-
mains. Major Root was widely and fa.
vorably known. and had been for many
years In charge Of the dry dock at Mare
Island.
At q meeting OF the Centennial Com.
mittss yesterday, the sub.comnittes ro-
ported a division Of tho city for tho
collection Of subscriptions into districts.
The solicitors will meet this morning TO
begin work. The offer Of Msssrs Nc
Cullough & Hull to give benefits for the
Centennial Committee at the California
Thsatsr next Wednesday afternoon and
evening was accepted.
Tho Republican Committee met last
evening. but adjourned. without action.
until next Wednesday. Meantime II Is
proposed TO attempt to obtain the CO.
operation OF the Independent Commit.
tee.
The Board Of Health met this morn.
ing, and Health Officer Gibbons and DR..
Lawlor, Physician at tho Almshouss,
were turned out to mako room for Dem.
ocrats.
Body era IsnE Missing Merchant
Rsund.
PRINCETON. April 1.-THE body Of j.
Blum OF San Francisco. who disappear
Oh March Esd. has been found In the
Sacramento River. near here. lie was
o well.known merchant, formerly OF
Solano county. The verdict oil the jury
was accidental drowning.