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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-24
WOman's Curiosity.

A man was yesterday pushing an iron
lawn roller around yard ON Woodward
avenue, when an old lady came along,
leaned up against the fence and watched
him for awhile and then called out
"Say, mister, what are you pushing
that around for ?"
"To roll the lawn" he answered.
"What do you want to roll the lawn
for"
"To make it level"
"What do you want to make it level
for ?" she continued.
"That's what / was ordered to do, "
he answered, as he wiped away the pers-
piration."
"But what did they order you to do
it for?"
Why, they think smooth lawn
looks the best, suppose.
"Why do they think a smooth lawn
looks the best ?" she persisted.
81 haven't time to talk, he said as
he started up again.
"Why haven't you time to talk ?" she
shouted.
"Go'n ask the boss |" he yelled.
"Why shall go'n ask the boss ?" she
screamed.
He disappeared behind the house to
get rid of her, and after waiting five
minutes for him to reappear she slowly
sauntered off, muttering:
"Some folks are 80 smart and stuck
up that you can't get within a mile of
'em onless you blaze all over with dia-
monds. detroit Free Press.
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A Singular Fact.

A recent traveller in Mexico, who visit
ed the mines there during his journeys,
says that he was much astonished at see
ing the men who carry the ore come out
of the mine each with one eye shut. The
foreman, seeing his surprise, explained
the matter. He said the candles be-
longing to the tarateros (who drill and
blast), do not give sufficient light in the
drifts, where it is consequently quite
dark. but where, nevertheless, the
taraterOs see we'll enough not to run
their heads against the rocks. But on
emerging into daylight they would be
blinded did they not take precautionary
measures. For this reason, as they APP
proach the mouth of the shaft, at the
point where they catch the first glimpse
of light, they drop the eyelid of one eye,
and keep this down while discharging
their ore, and until they have redescend-
ed the shaft. When they are again in
the dark, they open the eyekept hitherto
in reserve, and at once they see every
thing distinctly while the other eye,
previously open and blinded somewhat
by the daylight, perceives nothing
at all.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-24
More Mormon Troubles.

Whatever credence may be given to
particular rumors from Utah, says the
New York Tribune, it is sufficiently GER
tain that in various parts of that Terri
tory an uneasy feeling is existing among
the Mormons, which Brigham Young is
doing nothing to allay. Indeed, his
public utterances, if they are correctly
represented, are anything but pacific
He is said to be preaching crusade,
which the Gentiles of the Territory natu-
rally regard as preached against them
selves. Of course, compared with Nor
mon population, they are mere hand
full, and they may well indulge in some
apprehension of violence. In Salt Lake
City especially they are greatly outnum-
bered. We are further informed that
the military preparations of the Nor
mons are considerable; that drilling is
going on continually, and that arms have
been shipped in great numbers from the
East
Brigham Young and his more unscru-
pulous devotees are doubtless laboring
under great apprehension. The vigor
displayed in the trial and execution of
Lee has proved conclusively that the
temporal power in Utah is no longer in
the hands of the Latter Day Saints. We
do not know precisely what they may
have to fear, but their record, as they
know better than anybody else can, is
quite enough to make them anxious.
Their power and authority, once so great
and almost unquestioned, are gone.
Assassination will not help them, while
they are no longer, as they once were,
defended by distance and great deserts
from the weight of the governments S
hand. 1t is hard to see what they can
hope ultimately to accomplish by COM
plete defiance of the Federal power, or
by resort to the madness of massacre.
But there is an unreasonable because it
is fanatical element in the Mormon
population, which has not been sufi-
ciently taken into account. It is lust
possible that Young himself NAV have
been made reckless by term SO pro-
longed of irresponsible authority.
Greater men than he have lost their
heads under difficulties comparatively
less.
But whatever may be impending, we
may be sure that the beginning of the
end is near. If the Mormon leader, con-
tenting himself with a spiritual despot-
ism, shall finally yield obedience to the
laws, he may die quietly in his bed, and
his sect may peacefully disappear after
him. If he permits himself to be mis-
led into sanguinary acts which will be
sheer madness, he will be summarily and
sternly dealt with. His vanity may mis-
lead him into an exaggerated estimate of
his resources and of his local advantages;
but to those who consider them with in
difference they do not seem great enough
to be alarming. The United States
wants neither the will nor the power to
deal strictly and summarily with the
Mormon strength, such as it is; and we
believe that it will do so.
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A panacea, or ''cure-all, is one of the myths
of the age of superstition. DIR. r. V. Pierce
does not recommend any one or even his whole
list of standard remedies as adequate to cure
every disease. For severe lingering coughs,
bronchial, throat and chronic lung diseases, he
believes his Golden Medical Discovery is un-
surpassed, but it will not cure you if your lungs
are half wasted by consumption. The Discovery
not only exercises potent influence over pull
monary affections, by reason of its pectoral
properties, but possesses also the most valuable
Alternative, or blood cleansing properties and is
therefore q sovereign remedy in blood and skin
affections. But while it will cure scrofulous
and other ulcers or sores, blotches, pimples and
eruptions, it will not cure cancer nor does its
manufacturer claim any such merit for it as is
done by proprietors of other blood cleansing
medicines, who dishonesty try to decisive the
afflicted into the belief that their preparations
will accomplish impossibilities. By reason of
its real intrinsic merit it has sale surprising
that of any other blood and cough medicine.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-24
A Buffalo i'm a Back Yard.

A Sioux City man, who had full conf
dence in the theory of domesticating the
buffalo, brought one home with him the
other day and turned it loose over night
in his back yard. Next morning he
found the family cat perched in terror
on the summit of clothes post, his
faithful dog lying lifeless corpse ON
top of the wood shed, the chicken house
gored into kindling wood, his peach
trees and currant bushes trampled in
the dust, and hole in the back fence
big enough to drive an army wagon
through. All this-but no buffalo.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-24
The Wise Course in Rheumatism.

Rheumatic patients who have been induced
to submit to depletion by blood letting, or to
take colchicum and other drugs of an equally
pernicious character, will consult their well
being by abandoning such insane procedure,
Bitters, which will infallibly afford them the
much desired relief, and is absolutely safe.
This benign vegetable depurent cools the blood
by expelling from it the inhammatory elements
which give rise to maadies of rheumatic and
gouty type, and rectifes disordered conditions
id OF the stomacn, nervous system al and bowels
has a tendency to attack the heart. the desira-
bility Of an early resort to these bitters is
obvious, since the danger is increased by every
moment of dclay
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-24
A RUSSIAN DEFEAT.
The Russians Repulsed With Heavy Loss
Gallantry of the Turks.

Gallantry of the Turks.
The correspondent of a London paper
describes reported Turkish victory
near Batoum ON the Black sea, as fol-
lows: /: About five o'clock in the morn
ing the Russian forces, which had been
largely augmented for the purpose, ad-
vanced with batteries of field artillery
and made q furious attack upon the
heights defending Batoum on the land
side, which were occupied by Bashi-
Bazouks. The Ottoman troops were
intrenched in the usual effective manner
upon the slopes and lodges of these hills,
and upon the advance of the enemy they
opened on his columns terrible and
well-sustained fire of cannon and
musketry which literally moved the
Russians down in swathes. They fell
by scores and hundreds on the plain
below the Turkish positions. During
their attempts to make way against the
fire body of Turkish horse and foot,
taking advantage of thick forest, broke
forth upon the flank of the Russian
column and effected great slaughter.
The Muscovites being upon ground per-
fectly open, and having no choice but to
fight OF fly, in short time the spot which
WttS bCtno VI tlllS uiONtItllt
became covered with dead and dying
Russians. But the enemy quickly
brought up reinforcements, and the
battle was renewed with much determin.
alton. For many hours the efforts Of
the assailants were desperately main.
tanned, but toward midday their artil-
lery fire gradually slackened and they al
length withdrew after suffering very con.
siderable losses. ! myself was an eye.
witness of this important engagement
from first to last, and can testify that the
Ottoman soldiers behaved with gal.
lantry which was most admirable. They
had, however, during great part of the
action, the advantage Of entrenchments
on high ground, and it is due to this
fact, no doubt, that their losses, com
pared to those inflicted upon the enemy,
were insignificant. The victory was
won by the extraordinary courage of the
Bashi-Bazouks. The dead and wounded
on the Russian side will exceed A, OOO
The engagement lasted over eight hours
actual fighting. The last of the Rus.
slams did not withdraw until near mid
night. The Russians lost many guns.
The only Turkish officer of note killed is
Khalim Bey, major of irregulars.
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From the Troy Times, March 1s. 1s74.l

From the Troy Times, March 10, 1974.l
Peruvian Syrup is standard remedy for
building up and renewing broken-down or
nervous constitutions. For dyspepsia, debility,
liver complaint, kidney and bladder diseases, or
part of the many Irregularities of the various
organs of the human frame, it is sovereign
remedy. 1t is a tonic without alcohol. This
medicine is too well known already to require
any commendation from us. 1t is only neces-
sary for us to say to those who have never
given it trial that it will accomplish all that
is claimed for it. Now is the time to tone up
the system before the hot months of summer
fairly set in. Sold by all druggists.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-24
Horseshoeing in Russia and Turkey.

Travellers in Europe describe two diff
ferent ways of shoeing horses in Turkey
and Russia, which may seem very awk-
wark compared with the simple method
of American smiths. In Turkey and
Servia the horses head is held by one
man, another holds the leg on his arms,
while third operates on the foot. In
Russia the horse is placed in square
cage made of rough planks of wood, and
is strapped around the belly with wide
leather straps attached to cross bars Of
the framework; his head is also tied safe
ly; the foot is fixed to stake in the
ground and held by an assistant while
the smith places the shoe on.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-24
While Other Hotels

Are complaining of the hard times and lack OF
business, the Grand Central Hotel, New York,
continues to receive the same liberal patronage
as heretofore. The chief reason for this, how
ever, is no doubt the fact that the Grand Cen
tral has always been liberal in return, and re-
duced its rates to suit both the times and its
guests. The last reduction was from S4.00 to
-. SO and SO. 90 per day.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-24

AFTER an experience of over twenty
five years, many leading physicians acknowl-
edge that the Grdefenberg MdrshdUs Uterine
Cdtltolicon is the only known certain remedy
for diseases to which women are subject. The
Grdefenb,trg Vegetable Pills, the most popular
remedy of the day for bliousness, headache,
liver complaint and diseases of digestion. Sold
by all druggists. Send for almanacs. Graefen-
berg Co., New York
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-24

have sold Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup
for five years. During that time 1 have sold
more of it than any other cough remedy. Many
of my customers will have nothing else. All
who use it speak in its praise, as safe, effec-
tual and pleasant medicine to take. 1t is
claimed to be unfailing for Group
Z IL Ontario N Y
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-24

You SHALL HAVE TIFF your grocer or store
keeper does not keep and will not get, Dooley's
Yeast Powder for you, send 20c for quarter
pound, 35c. for half pound, or 6Oc. for one
pound can, direct to Dooley & Brother, New
York, and you will receive it, postpaid, by re-
turn mail. 1t is absolutely pure and every
can full weight.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-24

Information worth thousands to those out of
health Self-help for weak and nervous suf-
ferers. Facts for those who have been dosed,
drugged and quacked. The new Health Jour
nal teaches all. Copies free. Address, Elec-
trio Quarterly, New York.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-24
Neuralgia for Six Years Cured
by DIR. Quain'S Condition Pills.

LUNENB UhG, VT, NOV ., 10TH.
Dear ST:-I have been troubled with Neuralgia
for six years; have taken every medicine could
hear OF; found none that gave any relief until
ceived package of your CONDITION PILLS, which
have cured me. HARRISON STOWELL.
A package of DIR. Quain's Magic Condition Pills
sent 70 any address on receipt of fifty cents by
American Medicine Co., Manchester, N. H. For
sale by leading druggists. Geo. C. Goodwin g. Co.,
50 Hanover St, Boston, Mass, John +. Henry
General Agents.
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If you wish to save yOur hair and keep it
strong and healthy Use Burnett's Cocoaine.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-24

SOur stomach and Heartburn
are signs of bilious attack; Quirks Irish Tea
will remedy all these Price 25 cts.
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rTNUE Cheapest, Most Complete and Reliable Fashion
Il Paper ever published-The DEMoREsT QUARTERLY
JOURNAL; Single . cts; Yearly 10 cts post-free
Street. New York Summer Number Now Ready,
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Since bread is going up it might be
well to feed tramps on cake.
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Neuralgia and rheumatism,
Liver and Kidney Complaint
for Twenty-Five Years Cured
by Quain'S Condition PfllS.
DANyERs, MASS, July 10, 1875

AMERICAN MEDICINE Co. For the last twenty
five years have suffered terribly with Neuralgia
and rheumatism, also Liver and Kidney Com
plants, causing severe pain in the back and hips,
often unable for months to stoop to pick up any
small article from the floor. have had several
doctors, spent great deal for medicine, which did
no good, and finally concluded must suffer the
rest of my life. l happened one day to see your
advertisement in the Congreg ationa!ist thought
the medicine was just what needed, and sent to
taken eight felt like new person. Can sleep well
nights, eat well, and have no Neuralgia pain. can
stoop as well as ever. My friends are astonished
at the change in me. My sister has suffered from
Inflammation of the Bowels, and Constipation, and
wishes to try your medicine. intend still to take
them, and would not be without them if money
ing to thousands who will be induced to try them.
Enclosed you VIII find Sl.00; please send two pack
ages. Yours respectfully,
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G6 MATCHES. A Great Sensation. Sample
nMaN watch and Outfit free to Agents. Better than
S@S ~ Gold. Address A. COULTER a CO., Chicago
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Soap eouDed cat Ask your GROCER for iasss free
in the trade wsnted.SHkMDEN MANUFACTURING
CO., 414 GREENWICH STREET, NEW YORK.
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BOSTON WEEKLY TRANSCRIPT.

fNMIl A6LES Best in Use Balls Cloth Cues
AiL~FS md everything appertaning to
'fT.-HSS Billiards, at Lowest Prices. Hav-
'il ~ MSA ing the largest stock and finest
le==LA-sys~- 81 facilities for manufacturing,
! II . -.--SS--l orders can be promptly filled.
kINT7r-t-t:rr-lC Good second hand Tables cheap
| NN\SA Ei/liI THE BILLIARD CUE, an illus
~ E3] NJ trated newspaper sent free
IA IN Y Gzz2 - application.
| ~ AsAAHszz Fl. w. COLLENDER,
- 738 Broadway, N. Y.
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OFFICE COR. MARKET & PATRIOT SHS

IEEE-COFFINS. - An ancient
bnIlai-place was discovered in
Shelby, Eng, in 1857, aud, at a
depth OF six or seven feet. several
collins, formed of the trunks Of
trees, split in two and followed
out, were eXhumed. One of these.
now preserved in the museum ar
New York, contained the skeIe
ton OF a woman; and near the
neck were lying seven beads, os
graduated sizes and oval shane.
In the center of the skull a small
round hole Was detected, resem~
bling the perforation in the skull
ola Roman lady recently discov.
cred in al old cemetery at York.
In the summer of 1876, on the
rebuilding of a house 10 Shelby,
some fifteen or twenty other tree
collins were disinierred. They
were closely packed together at a
depth of from five to eight feet;
and, at the head Of several, an
upright oaken post, three feet
high, was standing. In four out
of seven eoffins examined, hazel>
rods or twigs were fou nd in the
right hand of the corpse. There
is Il record of similar rods having
been found in a cemetary at
Oberfact, Suabia.
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STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION. ~
From the officers of the steamer
st. John. Capt. +. Bergeron,
which arrived here on Thursday
evening from Baton Rouge, we
learn that On Thu sday evening
last the ferryboat Jones, while
making a trip from Bayou Goula
to Plaquemines, exploded her
boiler, killing six persons. The
names OF the lost, as far as could
be ascertained, were Mr.. Edwards
Leon Sydney, Mr.. Suares and
Mr.. Jones. The boat was owned
by the latter. The Jones was
about 40 feet in length, was build
at DonaldsonviIle some two years
ago, and intended as ferryboat
at that place. At the time of the
explosion there. were eight per>
sons on board, and of the two
survivors one was a white man
and the other c0lOred man.
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THE NEW LOUISIANA RysHo1

The NEW LOUISIANA BISHOP.
The Rev. f. x. Leray has just
been appointed bishop of the pa
rish of Natchitoches, La Many ex
Confederate soldiers will remem-
ber the unwearing services of this
good and pure man. Wherever he
could do the most service among
the sick and wounded soldiers,
Father Leray was always to be
found, administering to the tempo
raj as well as spiritual comfort of
the suffering. During all those
four yeas Of trying scenes end vi.
clssititndes, he was a father and
friend to the soldier, inspiring all
with whom he came in contract
with courage and patriotism
Mobile Cycle.
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Notice to Sugar Planters.

7 BEG TO ANNOUNCE To MYFRIFNDS
L in the Country and to the Sugar Plan
tiers IN general that am now prepared to
carry on the Sugar Factorage and Comnls-
on Business on an extensive scale and |
take pleasure in offering them my services
y Liberal advances made on Crops.
Country correspondence solicited.
LEON GODCHAUX,
81 and 50 Canal street,
New Orleans.
n 9nl,a
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SUCCESSION SALE.

Pursuant to a comnlisslolvtO me directed
by the Honorable the Parish Court sitting
in and for the Parish Of Lafourche. l will
offer for sale at Public Auction, ON the pre-
misses near the town of Thibodaux, Oil
Saturday, March, 17h 1877.
between the hours of 10 O'Clock A NJ. and
1 o'clock T. NJ, the following described
property belonging to aforesaid Estates, to-
wit:
lst A certain sugar plantation situated
in this parish, on the left bank of the Bayou
Latourche, at about one mile below the
town of Tlibodaux, measuring tour arpents
and a half, more or less front by eighty ar
pents in depth, the lateral lines opening as
they recede from said Bayou, bounded
above by the lands of A. Collins Il Co and
below by those of the estate Of Urbain Po-
che.
And another certain tract of land situa-
ted in the Parish of Lafourche being the
South East quarter of the South West guar
ter of Section I9 in Township No Ia, South
of Range IL, East, in the South Eastern
Land District Of Louisiana West of the
Mississippi river, Containing forty acres,
being the same property acquired as per
act before Adolphe Boudousquie, Notary
Public OF New Orleans Oh the 9th February
1856 from Antoine A. Lafarest. who acquired
same from the State of Louisiana, on the
18th of January ls35 as per patent No. 255
Recorded in Patent Book, Vol ,, p. 46, for
ming together one plantation known as the
Morning Star Plantation together with all
the buildings and improvements thereon.
I'd Together with all aud singular the
! movables upon or attached TO said planta
ton, consisting of One carriage, One horse
Two mules, One saw mill, saw and carrier,
| Six cows, &c, &c, &c.
3d. One lo. of Household furniture, con
| sisting of Beds, Tables hairs, &C.. &c.
TERMS AND CONDlTlONS.-The lands
to be sold for One third cash, One third at
twelve months. and One third at two years
credit. Credit instaimeuts to be represent
ed by notes uf purchaser. drawn to his own
order, and By himself endorsed. bearing
Eight Per Cent Interest from maturity,
and secured by special mortgage, and veu-
dors privilege under the Pact de n0x, alien
do, and Five Per Cent Attorneys fees in
case of suit.
For the movables, all sums Of Twenty
five Dollars or less. payable cash, and all
sums oveI that amount. one hall cash and
the balance at twelve months from date of
sale, represented by note of purchaser with
approved security.
Sale of lands will be made subject to
rights Of occupancy, OF Ulysse Bourgeois,
as per recorded agreement.
WILLIAM WILTON. =
| Sheriff.
February 10, 1877.
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Large and Complete
Blacksmith, Wheelscright
and Carriage Shop.
III. Tetreau. Proprietor.

ENFORMS his friends. ard the public in
general. that he is prepared to under
take all kinds of work in his line at advan-
tagcous conditions and ,nu,ierate prices.
He has secured the services of first class
workmen of recognized ability. He has laid
in a full and varied supply OF spokes and
ielloes Of first choice, for carriages, etc.
Also an assortment of patent carriage
wheels, steel huhs--a new article.
Grand olening Of large and small, sized
new style Cotfins with glass;, imitation rose
wood. black walnut and ash.
a Choice aud select stock of ready-nlakc
shrouds, for men, women and children, all
article of luxury. new style. at very moder
ate prices.