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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-21
Clarion County Oil DEVELOPMENTS.

From the Clarion Jacksonian.
Within the last decade the develop
ment of the territory of this county
for petroleum has assumed gigantic
proportions. From few wells scat
tered here and there over the county
for the purpose of testing the territory,
wild-cating,n as operators call it,
the number of wells now pumping,
and being drilled, has reached hun
dreds, and Clarion is at present the
leading county of the Union in the
production of the oleaginous fluid.
Many of the owners of farms, who
were baJely able to make living on
their lands few years ago, have un-
expectedly realized immense fortunes.
without leaving their homes to seek
gold on the Pacific slope. Many of
our former citizens who disposed of
farms here at a low figures, some
years ago, and sought to better their
condition by removing to the west,
now regret the steps they have taken.
Towns, (some of them of mush.
room growth, 1t is true,) are springing
up all around us. and at almost every
point in the county the evidences of
prosperity and progress are manifest.
The perlnanency of some of the older
towns, which have received q new
impetus through the oil development,
is unquestioned. The population Of
our county, instead of being dimin-
ished, has increased three-fold during
the last decade. Merchants and
Laborers. who have come from all
parts Of the country to our midst,
have found employment. Business
men with small capital, from a dis
tance have made profitable invest
meuts. All classes of our citizens
have been benefited in various de-
grees by the discovery of this great
commodity in our comfy.
There are other resources in Clarion
county which are attracting lhe at
tention of capitalists and when the f.
d $. r. r. is completed to Clarion
borough, the large bituminous coal
fields near the borough will be opened
and coal exported by railroad to Il
ready market.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-21
Issue of Silver Coin.

Washington, June 16'-The following
was issued this afternoon
Treasury Department, Washington, June
IA, 1S71-To 4. IT, JTyndn, Treasurer
United States SIR: 1t appears from the
report of the treasurer of the United States,
the comptroller of the currency and the
chief Of the bureau of engraving, dated the
9th inst, that the amount of fractional cur
rency lost or destroyed and which, there
fore. cannot be presented for redemption is
$s, ,OS3, $3.50. The attorney general, in
his opinion of this date, holds that in as
certainihg the amount of fractional cur
rency outstanding within the meaning Of
the third section of the joint resolution Of
July %, 1877, there sh oud be deducted
from the amount of such currency issued
and not redeemed the amount lost and de-
deemed on May 81, 1877, was $21,2l6,-
$780, and deducting the amount, as
above stated, will leave Sl1, ,123, ,416.S3, the
amount of fractional currency which, ac-
cording to the opinion of the attorney gen.
eral, was then outstanding You are
therefore directed to issue. according to law,
| from time to time an amount of silver coin
which. including the amount issued since
| the date of the re sumption act of January
| Ia, 1879, and the amount of fractional cur.
rency outstanding, will equal $50,000,000.
Very respectfully,
JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-21
Great Pacific Circus.

On Saturday last Hillard & Hunt
ings Great Pacific Circus gave an eX-
hibition, on Dickinson's ground, in
this place. The performances were in
every respect first-class, and it was
generally remarked that the horses
and entire outfit were in better shape
than any other circus that ever
before exhibited here. There was
that lack of rowdyism usually seen
with travelling circus, which seems
to indicate that the managers are
gentlemen and keep none but gentle
men in their employ. TO attempt the
enumeration of the many feats per-
formed would be useless here, as all
were good, but we can say that should
this circus pass this way again they
will receive liberal and merited pat
ronage.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-21
NATIONAL BANK NOTES,

AN OFFICIAL DENIAL OF THE ALLEGED con-
TRACTION SCHEME OF CERTAIN NEW YORK
BANKS.
Washington, June II In order to COR
rect various published misstatements in
reference to the amount Of additional cir.
culation recently issued to national banks
in the city OF New York, the Comptroller
of the Currency furnishes the following /:
"The total amount of additional circulatio n
issued to all the national banks Of the
country since the passage of the act of
January IA, 1875, to date, is S27 81 1926.
Of this amount $3 4O2, 40 has been issued
to the banks in the city of New York, as
follows: From January IA, 1875. to
January, 1876, SlSG, $50; during the year
1876, 81, ,223, 200; from January /, 1877,
to June 10, 1877, as follows, monthly
January, 1881, 40; February $40, ,040
March, S387,720 April, 1868, 500; May,
S423, 600; to June IL, SAC, 100. The
greatest amount issued to any one bank
during the year ending June l, was $675,
600, which amount was issued in install
ments during the six months previous to
the months of April, 1877. By reference to
the published reports of the Comptr oller o.
the Currency it will be found that the circu-
lation of the national banks in New York
city was in October, 1872, $4,000, 900
in October, 1873, $27, 900; in October
1874, S25. 900; October, 1875, SIS,
900, 1000; October, 1876, s14-s32, 900.
The circulation on January l, 1875, wa,
100000, and April II, SIG, 23S, 900, 81
that the circulation of the New York city
banks will need to be increased eight mil
lions or one-half the present amount, il
order to equal The amount outstanding a
the date of the passage of the act o
January II, 1875. There is no foundation
whatever for the statement that nationa
bank in New York city has had issued to i
$1,0O0,000 of additional circulation thre,
different times during the past few weeks
as the whole amount issued to all of the
banks of the city of New York, during tn
present year has been but slightly in ex
cess of two millions Of dollar.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-21

A pack of tip-top good envelopes
any color, can be obtained at this
office, ever Powell d Kime's store TO
eight cents.
Go to POWELL & KIME for your
flour, feed and pork, and everything
else in the provision line.
Go to POWELL & KIME of the
Grand Central Store, Main Street, for
your groceries.
The M'Kean Miner came to hand
last week in new dress, enlarged, and
printed on new power press, all of
which we are pleased to note as an
evidence of prosperity.
See Jones township school state
ment and jay township Auditors
statement in this issue. We will
again remind the Auditors and School
directors in several townships in the
county that by reason of a neglect to
publish statements as required by law,
they are liable to heavy fine.
CORRECTIoN.-We should have
stated in our article last week in refer
ence to the accidental poisoning OF
Mrs. John Ross that the poisonous in
gredient was Extract of NuX Vomica
instead of NuX Vomica also that Mr.
Colegrove first administered warm
water and mustard, instead of warm
water alone. We make these correc
tions with the purpose of making ouI
statements, as we intended, perfectly
! accurate.-McRean Miner.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-21
Indians Numbering Whites.

San Francisco, June IA dispatch re-
ceved to-day from Lieutenant Wilkinson,
now at Wallua, conveys the startling news
of an upraising of Indians and states that
they were numbering the whites at Mt.
Idaho, which is situated sixty miles from
Leurson. He asks to have u boat dis.
patched at orce from Walla Walla to con-
vey soldiers to Leurston. The order has
been complied with and all available troops
at Walla Walla will be dispatched at once
TO the scene of the difficulty. Another dis
patch says several settlers living on Cot
tonwood creek have been massacred by In
dams and the messenger who brought the
intelligence to La Pivai was entrapped and
wounded by savagos. General Howord,
who is beyond walla walla, has just tele-
graphed TO Adjutaut General Wood in this
city to forward all available troops without
delay to the scene of trouble. Great OK
citement prevails. 1t is however thought
the reports have been exaggerated.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-21
Township Officers.

Judge of Election-Will Dickinson.
Inspectors-James Penfield, p r.
Smith.
Justices of the Peace-Charles Mead,
Jas. ID. Fullerton.
School Directors--O. B. Grant, Jas.
Gardner, G. n. Wheeler, N. IT. Cum
mings, w. 8. Service, Eug. j. Miller.
Supervisors-O. b. Fitch, Jas. Riley.
Treasurer-W. H. Hyde.
Assessor-M. S. Kline.
Assistant Assessors-Geo. Dickinson
John Walmsley.
Auditors-J. H. Hagerty, James Pen,
field, j. S. Powell.
Clerk-M. S. Kline.
Constable-Geo. D. Messenger, .Jr.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-21

Barosma is a stimulant, diuretic,
anti-spasmodic and tonic; is pleasant
to the taste, and can be used in all
cases with safety. 1t is given chiefly
in complaints attended with an in
creased flow of uric acid, for gravel,
catarrah of the bladder, morbid irri-
tation of that organ, for retention or
incontinence of urine. Also in
cutaneous affection and dropsy. 1t is
prepared by f. X. fThompson, whole
sale druggist, Titusville, Pa.
Price, 81. .0G per bottle,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-21

John Bush, treasurer of a building as
sociation in Allegheny county, has msap-
propriated about $40 600 of the associa
tion's money.
John Ide was killed on Friday morning
at the Fort Bowkley mines, Luz erne county,
by a fall of rock. 1t was his first expert
ence in the mines.
There will be no meeting of the Pennsyl-
vania Reserves this year. The times are too
hard and so many members are out of en-
ployment.
About $4,000 were disbursed to The
shopmen at. Altoona on the last pay day.
The pay next month is not expected ta be
more than $4,000.
McGhee the preacher who has just been
convicted of fe-poisonng in Illinois,
formerly lived at Lock Haven, and married
the daughter of Daniel Kicker, of Jersey
Shore.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-21
BrOOkyille and Buffalo Railway.
AN IMPORTANT ENTERPRISE FOR JET.
FERsoN, ELK AND FOREST COUNTIES


A corps of engineers have for some-
times past been engaged surveying a
railway from Brookville to Buffalo.
A Derrick correspondent interviewed
Col. Caldwell the other day, from
whom he learned the following facts
concerning it.
The above road is to connect at
Brookville with the Low Grade divi-
sion of the Allegheny Valley railroad;
thence through the town of Brook
vile, and up the North Fork of Red
Bank creek to the summit between
the Red Rank and Clarion rivers I;
thence down Gathers Run to the Clar-
ion river, crossing it about two miles
below Cooksburg or at Hemlocl>
Island. The bridge at this place across
the Clarion will be eighty feet high and
probably three hundred feet long. 1t
will then extend up the Clarion to
Cooksburg, continuing up Thom's
Run to what is known as the Big
Level. 1t will cross Tionesta creek
somewhere below Foxburg, Forest
county, and from there follow
Tionesta creek to Sheffield.
Engineer Caldwell informed me
that the maximum gradient is only
fifty-one feet per mile, and the min
imum is two feet and six inches per
mile. The heaviest grades are on the
northern slope and the lighter grades
OH the southern.
The object of this road is to facilitate
the shipment of heavy goods and coal
from eastern cities and mines. Coal
shipped from Reynoldsville via Drift
wood to Buffalo has either to be taken
over the st. Mary's summit on the
Philadelphia g. Erie railroad, or Keat-
ing summit on the Buffalo New York
to Philadelphia railroad. If shipped
from the same point via Red Bank,
the freight amounts to more than the
coal is worth in Buffalo. If this road
he rut in operation it will undoubtedly
open up a trade for the counties of
Jefferson, Elk Forest and Warren,
thatis now not thought of. The coal
mines at Shawmut and Centreville
and Little Toby, in Elk county, will
again be put in operation and good
road built down the Clarion to connect
with the above at Coollsburg. The
bark resources of Forest and Warren
will be better developed.
Colonel Caldwell gave it us his
opinion that the Philadelphia d; Erie
and the Allegheny Valley roads
would oppose this enterprise to the
bitter end-O. w. S. in oil city Der
rick.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-21

w. II. Little, of Philadelphia, has
been doing some good work in the
lettering line in this place the past
week, as witnessed by J. $. Powells
new curtins, G. w. Rhines' billiard
room windows, and a small sign for j.
S. Maginnis on card board. Mr.,
Little has several orders for signs, etc.
on hand, and is prepared to do all
work of this kind that may be furn-
ished him. We believe from the work
already done, and which he considers
common work, that he is first-class
workman in his line, besides he does
work very cheaply. A nice neat sign
looks like business, and those. wishing
anything of this kind, from a show
card to large sign, will do we'll tC
employ Mr.. Little.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-21

Memphis, June lS.-A storm last even
ing broke loose from their muorings all the
steamboats, at the levee, and blew down the
smoke stacks of the Osceola Bell, damaging
lie boat to the extent of about 81 500.
the other boats were uninjured. The Cum
berand Presbyterian church, on Cour
street and several residences were reduce d :.
New York, June 1S.-Wlliam Loith and
william Henry Lcith, father and son, con-
victed of forging four checks on the Mcra
chants Exchange national bank, amount
ing in the aggregate to $4,000, were SEN
fenced to-day. Leith the e lder got ten
years and Leth the younger seven years.
New Orleans, June 1S.-A New Orleans
letter to the Herald says; "Gentlemen
who have just returned from the border
counties of Texas say that stock raisers and
other people Of these counties, au d even as
far up as San Antonio, are making sworn
statements of their losses during the last
ten years by the Mexican raids, " and doing
so at the instigation of the authorities in
Washington. 1t is asserted that these
sworn clnims are sent to Washington and
that the state department is taking them in
hand.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-21

PBTERsoN's MAGAZINE for July is
on our table, ahead as usual of all
Others. The principal steel engrav-
ing Cherry Ripe" after Meyer Van
Bremen, is one of the most beauti full
we have ever seen, even in this maga-
zine. Then follows mammoth col
oredsteel fashion plate, with five fig
ures miracle of loveliness. In addi-
tion to this, there are some twenty
other engravings of fashions. There
are also colored patterns of butterflies
and flowers for applique embroidery
besides dozen or more other patterns
in crochet, embroidery &C., &C., for the
work table. Mrs. Hooper begins a
powerful novelet, "Blue-Beard' S
Closet :" Mrs. Stephens continues her
dependent Cousin" story which
is alone worth the subscription price;
and in addition, Frank Lee Benedict
and the author of "The Second Life y
have thrilling tales while all the rest
are far above those usually found in
periodicals. Peterson" in fact, is
celebrated for its stories. This is un-
doubtedly the cheapest and best lady's
book and it combines more attrac-
tions than any other. \ new volume
begins with this number afiording an
excellent opportunity to subscribe
Price, two dollars Il year, with great
deductions to clubs, and premiums to
persons getting up clubs Specimens
sent, gratis, to those wishing to get up
clubs. Address CHAs. j. PETERSON,
306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-21
Glk Adroeate,
THURSDAY, JUNE 81, 1877.

The weather is warm.
Strawberries are delicious.
Subscribe for the ADVOCATE
There seems to be no steps taken to
celebrate the 4th at this place.
Elk County needs a new court
house.
j. S. & w. H. Hyde have COM
menced moving into their new store.
J. S. Powell has put up some neatly
lettered signs in his shop windows.
Doctor M. J. Early is limping about
town with lame knee.
Horses and cows should not be per-
mitted to pasture in the court yard.
James McAfee continues to make
those cheap suits and good fits.
d. w. Baldwin, Photograph, will
be at Centreville next week.
j. NJ. Tewilliger has been appointed
postmaster at Daguscahonda this
county.
a new culvcrt has been put in on
Centre Street west of the Thayer
House.
The Editor of the Democrat had the
misfortune to lose tYo vests during
the prevalence of the circus last week
II. j. Burke and Jerry Mecum, of
st. Mary's, have announced them
selves as candidates for the Dem o.
cratic nomination for Sheriff.
A. G. Cuthbort fell distance of
eight or ten feet in Hyde's new store
on Tuesday and was seriously in
jured.
You can find at this office a large as
sortment ofenvelopes of different sizes
and quality which will be sold in
quantities to suit purchasers.
The Ridgway Oil s. Pipe Line Co.
are putting up derrick at Grant
Mills, about fifteen miles from this
place, and will soon commence drill.
| ing.
"He who lays hand on woman
save in Kindness, is Il wretch whom il
were base tlattery to call a coward
All of which is dedicated to those who
wish to wear the shoe.
Joseph Holsebrook has been
awarded the sub-contract for carrying
the mail from Ridgway to Tylersburg
He will commence about the Sd OF
July.
Mrs. w. c. Healy, daughter, and
Mr.. :. A. Rote have returned from
Jacksonville Florida. Mr.. Rote was
in our office the other day and gave
an interesting description of some o
| the manners and customs of the peo
pie in that section of the country.
Ridgway can boast of some hand
sonlely laid out grounds, among which
we notice those of w. II. OsterhOut
l.. X. Gresh, c. r.. Farley, George
Woodward, and very many more. In
the summer time Ridgway is Il place
of beauty.
4 full attendance of members o
Ridgway Silver C3rnet Band next
Thursday evening DIST inst, ut
O'Clock, at Baiey's Office, is requested
Important business to transact.
NJ. :. KLINE, Sec'y.
Five hundred and twcnty-nino
thousand, five hundred and forty
eight is the number Of pupils, and six
thousand one hundred thirty-uwO the
number Of schools reported to be in
this State at the late session of the
sunday School Association ut Harris.
burg. The number of officers and
teachers is eighty-one thousand three
hundred and eighty-five.
County Commissioner Weidert' 8
mother, aged about ninety years,
walked from her residence, in Jones
township, to st. Mary's, distance of
fourteen miles, for the purpose of at
tending church. Although the road
is very rough one, and a team of
horses accompanied the party. she re-
fused to ride saying that she was
Nrn mo- nlnutr1 tp >rn1l- l,t Il
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-21
Caution Notice,

All persons are hereby cautioned
not to purchase, or in any way NEEDLE
with, the following described property
now in possession of Michael Fearn:
One sewing machine, one shop
stove and pipe, two chairs, one table,
dishes and tinware, as purchased the
same at Sheriff's sale and have left
them with the said Michael Fearn for
a time only
ROBERT MANETT.
Wilcox, Pa, May "a, l877.-nl5t3.