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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-06-26
DEADY FOR SUM NJ ER.

H. BRRNHLE'5
ICE GKEAM PARLORH.
King street,
Have baon raliltad and arranged in tho most
approved style Of comfort and ease; and he
promises during The prosont aeesnn to meet tho
wants of his patrons in the saina acceptable
lnanror rs for yosrs past
ass- fee Groam, Wator less Soda Water,
Cakes, Plos, Fruit and Confectionery always "n
hard.
FROZEN CUHTAKD mSls to order and de-
livarad To any part Of the city.
TONIC BEER. "t my own Manufacture.
supcrior article, drawn from fountain always
on hand.
ms-Ordors promptly attended to and families
supplied my z-eotl
TCE COLD SODh, VICHY, KISSENGEN
BEDFORD WATERS.
FIVECENTS PER GLASS
Cream,
Tea and
Caisaya Syruph
AlJANNEY IL CO.'S. Branch Store,
sp25 II. w. cor. King and Royal streets
UNCu ham and TONGUE. for travellers
,,,I,. 1 Hho haat md
cheapest luncheon offered to the public. For
sslo by ,
TvOLHLERS IMPROVED BUTTER
~ TUBS, with coolers and removable leo
chambers, for transporting buttsr.
jo4 MCLEAN s. UHLER. l07 King st.
TNTKA CHOICE CLIPPED and FAMILY !
IL ROE HERRING, spring catch, 1877, 10
"Irl mysi "si''' GEO. M, BURNEY SON.
THE VEST POCkETDYSPEPSIA Gu RE,
l. "5 cents por bottle, Just received aud for
salo by IANNEY 4 CO., Druggists,
ia7 Nos. - u l45 klngst
r UNCH TONGUE and HAM. in ono pound
IL packages, . delicious article for travellers
ic6 Il. w. AVERY. 20 King st.
VXyORSTED FIRING ES-Another supply
w lust received ut
FERGUSON 81 BROS,
mv3 ST King street
ECEIVED this day large stock Of Doors
IL Sash, Blinds, Builders Hardware, Leads
Uils. &c., to which we call especial attention.
NH ~ 3. F. PEAkE s. co.
4 F,OUkED CORN BEEF Wilson's cello
" hrsied brand. for sale nj
"a M RAASAY'S
MOCHA COFFEE just received by
M ie lG ]. G. & E. MILBURN.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20
Laws Relating 10 Newspaper Subscrip
tioGs and ArrearaseS.

l. Subscribers who de- not give express
notice to the contrary, are considered wish
ing to continue their subsc iptiOn
2 If subscribers order the discontinu
arion of their periodicals, the publishers ma y
continue TO send them until all arrearages
are paid
3. II subscribers neglect or refuse to
take their periodicals from the Office where
they are directed, they are held esponsi-
bic until they have settled their bills, and
ordered tn EN- discontinued.
!. II subscribers move to other places
without informing the publishers. and the
papers are sent to the former direction
they are held responsible.
5. The courts have decided that ''refus
ing to take periodicals from the office, or re.
moving and leaving them uncalled f1r is
primd .tacie evidence of intentional
fraud"
&. Any person who receives a newspaper
and makes use of il. whether he has
ordered it or not, is held in law 70 be sub
scriber
7. IF subscribers pay in advance, they
are bound TO give notice to the publisher al
the end of their time, if they do rot wish to
continue taking it otherwise the publishers
are authorized to send it on. and the sub
scrlbers Will be held responsible uu:il au
express notice with payment of all arrears,
sent to the publisher.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20
Piano and Organ Dealers and Agents

Will certainly find it to their great
advantage to examine the immense
and beautiful stock of leading makes
of Pianos and Organs just received for
the holiday trade, comprising the most
elegant assortment of new and upioue
designs ever brought to this market,
and having bought for cash, and in
large quantities, will guarantee lower
prices than can possibly be secured at
the factory. Our stock of over 200 in
struments of Decker Brothers, Dun
ham q Sons, Bradbury, Wheelock d;
Emerson Pianos, and Estay Cottage
Organs, Shoninger Organs, Pelubit
Pelton d Co., and George Wood Or
gans we intend selling off before the
Holidays, until which time the most
extraordinary low figures will be
given to insure the disposal of it all.
Please write or call at once, as first
come will be first served. Address. s.
Hamilton, 81 Fifth Avenue, retail
store; or 26 Wood Street, Wholesale
StorerOOn1S.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20

SAD ACCIDENT.-Yesterday, about
noon, an accident befell Mr.. William
Steele, of Union township, while un
| loading a load of straw at the stable of
Mr.. John Mills, on Cherry alley, in
| this place, that resulted in instant
death. There was no one present to
see the occurrence, but from the ind-
cations he was standing with one foot
on the wagon and one on the sill of
the window of the stable, and his foot
slipping Off the wagon he was thrown
to the plank on the alley, his head
and neck striking first, dislocating
the latter, with the result indicated
A break in the plank just at this point
leaving an opening some two feet
deep, and in which he seemed to have
struck, may have caused the fatal re-
suit. A daughter of Mr.. Mills first
discovered him lying on the alley,
and communicated the fact to others,
when he was promptly taken up and
removed TO the house of Mrs. Furley
telligence of the terrible accident con-
vcyed to the friends at home ; and
soon afterward the grief stricken wife
was with him, and the scene of the
meeting was sufficient to have touched
heart OF adamant. During the af
ternoon hundreds of our citizens, and
persons in attendance at court, called
to see the deceased, and a general eX-
preston sympathy and coincidence
was given, Mr.. Steele having been a
favorite with large circle of acquain-
tances.
A. Craig, Esq, in the absence of a
coroner, summoned a jury, and after
hearing all the evidence in the case
rendered decision in accordance with
the above facts.
Later in the afternoon the body was
removed to his home, and tomorrow,
at 10 o'clock A. NJ, it will be followed
to the grave. He leaves a family of
eight children, three of whom are
married and have homes of their own,
and the remaining five, together with
a wife and aged mother, who has ar
| rived at her ninetieth year, constitute
| the home so suddenly and uneXpec-
tedly thrown into mourning for one
they so dearly loved.-BrookUiH Re
| publican.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20
Counterfeit Notes.

AN EASY METHOD OF DETECTING
THEM-CoUNTERFE BLUND-
ERS.
Washington, December ia list
of counterfeit national bank notes, ar
ranged by Receiving Teller Under
wood, of the National Bank Redemp-
ton Agency, will soon be issued. An
examination of an advance copy re-
veals the following facts
The counterfeiters have so far neg
lected to pay any attention to the
name of the Register op the genuine
notes. All the twenties ON the Mar.
kct, Merchants, National bank of
Commerce, Shoe and Leather and
Tradesmen's National Bank of New
York city bearing the name of l.. f..
Chittenden assRegister, are counter.
felt. The genuine notes on these
banks all have the name of S. B
Culby as Register This is also the
case with the 20 on the Oneida Ma
tional Bank, of L tica New York. All
five dollar notes of the following
banks, bearing the name of S. L
Colby as Register, are counterfeit:
First National Bank OF Aurora.
Illinois; Canton, Illinois; Chicago,
Illinois; Paxton, Illinois, and North
ampton, Massachusetts,. All the
genuine fives on these banks have the
name of l.. +. Chittenden as Register,
with the exception of the First Ma
tional Bank of Paxton, Illinois, OH
which is printed the name of John
Allison rs Register. The counterfeit
ten on the Muncie National Bank OF
Indiana has the name of Allison as
Register and Spinner as Treasurer,
while all genuine issues have either
the name.of Colby and Spinner or Al
lison and New, All tens on the First
National Bank of Lockport New
York, aud First National Bank OF
POughlleepsie, New York, having the
name of $. B Colby, as Register, are
counterfeit. The genuine notes beai
name of L. e. Chittenden.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20
Wilc0x Notes.

Wilcox, Pa, Dee. 18th, 1877.
Well No. s is not pumping. They
are cleaning it out and drilling out the
sand pump. While doing so they are
bailing out, on an average, about five
barrels day.
Ernhout s. Taylor have a rio up
and will be drilling next week. They
are going to start two more wells soon.
Several thousand acres of land has
been leased and half dozen wells are
to be started at once.
y quantity of nitro glycerine is
stored in box near the road lust ont
OF town, and the boys are stoning it.
expect some day their parents will
be raking the ground with a fine tooth
comb to find some pieces to bury.
But, then, what is the use of having
an Oil town unless you have all the
modern Improvements?
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20
Wholesale Poisoning.

TwENrY-THREE PERSONS TAKEN ILL
AFTER EATING PUDDING.
Wilkesbarrc, Pa, December 10 -
The borough of Whitehaven, in this
county, was this morning thrown into
fever of excitement by a startling
event. On Thursday last q farmer
named Fairchild, completed his fall
slaughtering, and, as is customary,
remembered number of his friends
and relatives by sending them liver
puddings made in the usual manner,
from portions of the slaughtered ami
mails. After these gifts had been sent
to the various friends in question the
members of Mr. rFairchild's family Give
in number) We're taken suddenly i'll,
ana as soon as possible q physician
was summoned. who pronounced the
general malady to be the result Of
poison, occasioning in all the patients
fits OF vomiting and terrible contor-
tions. The physician investigated the
matter aud came to the conclusion
that the family had been poisoned by
the liver puddings. In the absence of
all chemical examination he could not
tell The nature OF the poison.
AS soon as it was ascertained that
the poison was contained in the pud-
ding, word WAS sent to the parties to
whom donation had been forwarded.
but in many cases the intelligence
came too late, as it was discovered
that no less than twenty. three persons
III Nhitchaven were suffering the
most intense agOnies as the result of
eating the poisoned dainty.
Late adEices tonight from the ex-
cited community lead to the belief
that several persons will die. Two
Well-knoWn physicians of this city
went TO Whitehaven this afternoon
on special calls. The bciefis that the
poison originated in the copper kettle
used i'll preparing the pudding.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20
State Notes.

The School Directors of Carlisle pro-
hibit the scholars making Christmas
presents to the teachers.
Franz Becker, aged 2l, who has been
living near South Bethlehem, has
been missing since Sunday. He is
not of sound mind.
Sharles S. Speakman a student at
Lafayette College and q member of
tie Easton Grays, has been appointed
a cadet at West Point.
About forty persons have just left
York, Mifflin. Huntingdon and Blair
counties to settle in Kansas. They
went under the direction of colonial
ton agents.
Hon Joseph Nicely. of Dewart, the
last Associate Judge of Northumber-
land county, and a man of unexcep-
tionable character and integrity, died
on Tuesday evening.
DR.. A. p. Heichold, of Jefferson
county, special agent of the Treasury
Department, is having hard struggle
to keep his seat. He has been re-
moved and reinstated twice within
six months.
At the opening of court at Norris
town yesterday Adolph Stribo lslli
pleaded guilty as an accessory after
the fact in the Elm Station murder,
and was sentenced to pay fine of
$500 and undergo an imprisonment OF
one year at labor in the Montgomery
County Prison, to be computed from
the Goth of August last.
Shenandoah, December ia terri
BILE mining accident occurred at the
West Shenandoah Colliery, owned by
the Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron Company, to- day A young
man named Martin Hannessy and his
father were working in the same
breast, when ton of coal fell from the
roof upon the young man. crushing
him into shapeless mass. His
father was not injured. The accident
occasioned a suspension at the collieIy.
A gang of eight robbers, who broke
into the store at North Star, in Allie
gheny county, and carried off nearly
all the contents in wagon, having
pleaded guilty, were sentenced in the
Criminal Court at Pittsburgh yester-
day. Six of them were given six
years and nine months in the peniten-
tiary. Two boys, fifteen years old,
were given two years each in the
workhouse. When the robbery was
committed the citizens and officers
pursued the gang, who were armed.
They showed fight, and took refuge in
a coal mine. They were smoked out
with sulphur. Most of them are from
the eastern part of the State.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20
Died.

CoNRAD.-At the residence of Geo.
Walker, on Monday, December,
llth, 1871 Mrs. Mary Conrad, mother
of Mrs. Walker, aged 75 years and s
months. Mrs. Conrad, was born on
the 10th day of March 1902 in Sand.
hausen, Alsace, then under the
French government, and came with
her family to the United States in ls47
and settled at Warren, Pa, where her
husband died in 1853. She had onlv
two children one of whom died some
yearsago. She leaves seventeen grand
children and nine great grand child
ren. She was buried last Thursday in
the Ridgway Cemetery.
Warren papers please copy.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20

Our readers who may want to
learn about the Far West are referred
to the advertisement of the Kansas
Farmer, an old established and popu-
lar journal in the West. 1t is pub
lished at the Capitol of the State.
We have just received new in
voice of bill-head5, note-heads, letter.
heads, tags, and envelopes. Our new
Centennial note is superior to any
thing we have had before for business
note heads.
The Christmas Tree Festival OF
the Sunday School of Grace Church
will be held Oh Monday. Christmas
Eve, at o'clock. Also Gu Christmas
Day there will be service and sermon
at / o'ciorl; \. u. Al! are cordially
invited 10 attend.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20

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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20
Tie Story of a Baltimore Tramp.

"At Perryville l went to house
with brick in my hand, and asked
the lady if she would please be so kind
as to put some butter on it, The re-
quest excited her curiosity, and she
asked: "Why do you want to put
butter on a brick ?'' l told her l was
going TO eat it. Surely she said you
are not so hungry as to eat buttered
brick? Come into the house and /
will give you food bagged square
meal, for which l had set SO slick a
trap. In the western section of the
State / asked for something to eat at
house and was refused. ther begged
for a looking-glass. which aroused
curiosity to know what L would do
with the mirror. l replied, Il want to
see myself starving to DEATH They
then gave me what / wanted. -
Mduch Chunk Gazette.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20
Glk Aarorate,
THURSDAY, DEC. 90, 1877.
Notes.

Fresh beans at J. III. Hagerty's.
Read our Wilcox notes this week.
There will be no paper issued from
this office next week.
-Robbing hen roosts is a low busi-
ness, and yet there are people who do
it.
We are informed that there is u
case of diphtheria at Osterhout's tam
merry.
Who rung the court house bell at
halfpast twelve o'clock last Saturday
night?
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20

See the Caramels, Cocoanut and
Tatfy Candies, at w, L. store.
Don't forget the Company II,
dance on Christmas Eve. Tickets
two dollars including supper at the
Hyde House.
We do all kinds of job printing
cheaply and neatly. Give this office
call and get our estimates before
purchasing elsewhere.
We copy an article from the
Brookville Republican containing an
account OF the sudden death of VIM.
Steel. Mr.. steel was brother of
Mrs. N. l.. Ross, oftbis place.
The oil excitement at Wilcox still
continues and without doubt oil will
be found at that point in paying
quantities. The land is being leased
by spectators as rapidly as possible.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20

Parents, you do your children an
Injustice when you allow them to run
the streets nights, and were some
parents aware of the manner in which
their boys amuse themselves, as for
example like the performances of last
Friday night in front of the "ADyo-
CATE building" they would keep a
close watch over them.
The Brookville Graphic comes TO
our table greatly improved and en-
larged to a seven-column sheet. We
wish the Graphic success, as it de-
serves, being one of the spiciest ex-
changes ON our list, and as it is printed
on the old ADVOCATE press the paper
seems to be relative of ours, q sort of
half'cousin, you know.
We notice, in our State notes, the
death of Hon. Joseph Nicely the last
Associate Judge of Northumberland
county, and a man highly esteemed in
that section. The funeral was one OF
the largest ever witnessed in Nor
thumberland county, upwards OF
eighty carriages being in the process
sion. Deceased was an uncle of d. c..
Oyster, Esq. of this place, who att en-
ded the funeral.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20
Township Officers.

Judge of Election-G. r.. Dixon.
Inspectors-M. Il. Lesser, H. H.
Wensel.
Justices of the Peace--Charles Mead,
Jas. ID. Fullerton.
School Directors--O. B. Grant, Jas
Gardner, G.. T. Wheeler. N. r. Cum
mings, w. s. Service, Eug. j Miller.
Supervisors-John Gulnack, Daniel
MGovern.
Treasurer-W. II. Hyde.
Assessor-M. S. Kline.
Auditors-W viii Dickinson, James
Penfield, J. S. Powell.
Clerk-M. S. Kline.
Constable-Geo. ID. Messenger, Jr.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20

the West End Store.
"A new line OF dress goods at J. II
Hagerty's. Call and see the elegant
new stock.
-The new bree Unloading gums for
Company II are expected to be here
in q few weeks.
"A little daughter of Peter Irwin
died at Osterhout's tannery last Tues
day evening of diphtheria.
Christmas and New Years are like
wise hard on the turkey family, and
the knowing ones roost high
Monday evening next, Christmas
Eve, Company Ii, will hold a dance
at Maginnis' Hall. supper at the
HYDE House.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20
MILLINERY AED DnEssMAKsJss.-,

MILLINERY AID DHESSsxAK stgts.-s
RGRS. J. II. KELLY, Kersev, Fix
ISE Co., Ia, takes this method of an
nOuncing to the citizens of Elk
county, that she has on hand an as
sortment of fashionable millinery
goods which Will he sold cheap. Also
dressmaking in all it's branches.
Agent for DR.. J Bail & Co.'S Pstent
Ivory and Lignum Vite Eye Cups.
send ior descriptive circular.
nl7yl.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20
TO CONSERVATIVES.

Tie advertiser having been per inanently
cured Of that dread disease, Consumption,
by simple remedy. is anxious to make
known to his fellow sufferers the means of
cure. To all who desire it, he will send a
copy of the prescription used, free Of
chargel with the directions for preparing
and using the same, which they will find
SURE CURE for CoXsUYPrIoN, ASTHMA,
BRoNCHITIs, &C.,
Paries wishing the prescription will
please address. Rev. Z. A. WILSON, 194
Penn, Williamsburgh, N. Y.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20
"A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF

LADIES CLOCKS, at Mrs. N. Il.
Cummings, also ties, collars, cuffs,
hosiery, gloves, and a general assort-
ment of Ladies' fancy goods. Re-
member the place over r. l. Camp
bells store, Main street. Call and ex-
anime before purchasing elsewhere.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20
Excellent prunes at Haeerty,s,

Excellent prunes at Haperty's.
Eggs are scarce community in
this market
This has been an exceedingly
open season for successful deer hunt
ing in this section.
There is oil at Wilcox, and un-
doubtedly in paying quantities, and
why not here? We believe there is
and we hope to chronicle the COM
mehcement Of preparations to
horo ugly test the Ridgway oil fields.
CAKE.
Iced, Pound, and Sponge, Black
Fruit Cakes, also, Mince Pies. All
Elegant goods at the West End Store.
-Tramps are numerous about this
place. 10 make them earn their
Dread before they eat it is true charity.
a convenient wood pile and con,
venient AK, together with an invita-
ton to the lazy galoot of a tramp to
indulge, is good recipe for the
tramp nuisance.
SHOES.
Ladies will remember our full line
of shoes all sizes and qualities-at
The West End.
Christmas and New Years dav
are legal holidays.
-Buckwheat flour sells at four
cents pound.
Mud abounds in our streets, and
were it not for the plank road they
would be well nigh impossible.
Daniel Scribner is building ON an
addition to the barn Oh the old BURNS
place.
This moderate weather has made
aperceptible difference in the matri-
monial market, but the first cold snap
will show decided improvement.
The concert given by M'Collin, on
Saturday evening at the court house
was attended by large audience and
all seemed to be well pleased.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20
VASES.

Select useful as well as attractive
presents See The Handsome Vases
dc. at the The West End Store at very
low prices.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20

Note paper and envelopes at this
office. A sheet of paper and an en-
velop for a cent.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-20
DRESSED GH;cgEWs,

Fine Large Cornd Fattene Dressed
Chickeds for the Holidays, at the
West End Store.