The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-09-13
Glk Aarurate.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 13, 1877.
Notes.

j. y. w. Bailey has been appointed mem
Der of the Republican State Central COM
mittee.
Read the Republican platform in another
column.
The election will be held on Tuesday, No
vember 9th, 1877.
. The Grangers have nominated Clinton
Bundy for Sheriff.
Court week commences Sept. II. Come pre-
pared to pay "the printer his dues
The "dolar of the daddies" is less thought
Of In some families than Daddys dollars.
A girl in the eastern part of the State was
struck by lightning and married the same
week.
We print envelopes and note-heads cheap
call and see samples. Prices furnished by
mail.
]. NJ. Schram is in town on visit to his
boy. Mert don't look any older by reason of
his new degree.
Good fits guaranteed by McAfee, Merchant
Tailor, room over Powell e. Kimes store,
Main street. Suits made cheap.
Thos. J. Burke and Geo. Evarts are an
nounced in the Gazette as Independent cam
didates for Sheriff But, by the way, who is
Geo. Evarts?
The cold winter will soon be here, but we
will not heed It's storms. when we have on
one Of McAfees warm and elegant overcoats.
Call and see samples of fovercoatlng.
Saturday. Sept 18th, Is the day for holding
the Republican primary meetings. Let every
township and borough be fully represented
by good men in the County Convention.
Thirty years ago, says the Remove Record,
Gen. ID. II. Jackson went to Lock Haven a
poor man. Recently he died in New Hainp-
shire worth 100000. His life was insured
for $4,000.
AWAY TO SCHooL.-Misses Ella Grant and
Florence Osterhout, and Alton Chaplin and
Willie Geary, at Lewisburg; Miss May Little
at gainesville Ohio, Arthur aB. Little, at
Philadelphia.
A girl who can put n square patch on a pair
of pantaloons may not be SO accomplish ed
as one who can work green worsted dog on
a yellow ground, but she is gilmore real value
| in the communicable.
Some bad boys broke into Doctor Farley s
deer park and cudgeled one of the deer sc
badly that 1t died from the injuries received
Boys who would be guilty of so mean an act
will one day repent Of it in the penitentiary.
Parsonssays that flour is sellingin Ridgway
| for 80 and $3.50 per bushel? let's see-that 9
| about S2S to $50 per barre.-Gazette.
Let's see, how many bushels in BARRE
| Mr., Gazette? We give you one more trial.
Georgia and South Carolina alone raise
100, 900 bushels OF peanuts but this year the
| crop is u failure, and "the nice fat peanut q
| square meal in every one" so much spoken
| n t1yp pi fpI
| baser fruit,
There is said to be virtue in whistling, ant
we almost believe the story, but to have @
! chap whistle "Fisher's Hornpipe" or tn,
"Irish Washerwoman," under your bedroom
| window is not calculated to awaken chris
tan sympathy in the heart of the audience
| John Mann has been very successful II
digging wells in Irishtown. He dug one fol
Mrs Cunningham about twenty feet deer
and found five feet of water, and one for John
| Flynn, eighteen feet deep and found eight
foot o".~~t--, e,.o roOV',... vlie wen DeIng IL
| solid rock.
| The convention of the Workingme MS party
held at Baltimore on tho 9th inst, nominated
| Joseph Thompson, MS their candidate fol
| Mayor, by acclamation. Mr.. Thompson is {
successful blacksmith, plying his trade
| There was full attendance of delegates from
each ward of the city.
| In another column we publish the adver
| tisement of =. b. Wachtel Insurance Agent
| Mr.. Wachtel represents, as will be seen
some of the very best companies in the
| country, and as he Is an energetic and accom-
modating man, and gives rs low rates as pos
sible consistent with absolute safety oul
citizens will find 1t to their interest to call OF
| him If they think of effecting insurance OF
their property.
| "Bible Wines" o long-winded discussion
has been running in tho Warren papers 70
several weeks, and Is. now about closed. Th
only thing gained was according to tn,
| Ledger, "each of the contestants having
| high regard for the talents and purposes O
| the other. "Perhaps the readers of the Ledge
and Mail have different opinion of the con
testants which the word "bosh" would fitl,
express.
|. ]. s. Hyde will bring water, in three-incl
iron pipe, from the big spring on his Rougl
| and Ready farm, for the use of his new stor
| and boarding house, and we believe the In
tention is to supply all those, on the line O
| the pipe, who desire 1t. The spring will fur
nish all the water necessary for town mucl
larger than Ridgway. The distance from tn
| spring to the store is something over thre
thousand feet and the cost of the pipe abou
! 5000.
| Better put your trust in an old stoclin.
than In savings bank" is motto that vii
soon be regarded as one of the essentia
things to teach our children. This will b,
made clear, as, day after day. we read of thu
| failure of these institutions where poo
| people have placed their hard earned pennie
| and how rascally president has swindlet
| the depositors and left for Europe. Tn
| latest case is that of the State Savings Insti
| tuition of Chicago.
| PAYMENT OF STATE TRoops-A meetins
was held recently, at which the AdJutan
| General, Auditor General and State Treas
| urer were in consultation in reference to tn
| payment Of the State troops called out to sup
| press the late riots. There was a doubt ex
pressed as to whether the State Treasurer ha,
| authority to pay the troops without q specia
| appropriation by the Legislature, but the At
| torney General is under the impression tina
the act of 1854 confers the necessary authority
A decision will be given to that effect in
few days.
Thomas Campbell, Jr., was seriously in
jured last Friday night by the upsetting c
his wagon on the road from the depot +
Osterhouts store. After dark he started, II
company with his driver, for Osterhout'
store, intending to get some goods and driv
to his home in Highland the same night On
his return to town the horses made a misste
in steep part of the road, the horses, wagon
and all going over the embankment wit
Mr.. Campbell under the wagon and load, an
he only escaped being killed outright b
| falling close to big rock which preyente