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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-14
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THURSDAY, JUNE IA, 1877.

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Wait for the circus next Saturday.
There are several Murphyites in this
place.
We came near having frost last
Sunday night.
Daniel Scribner has put up neat
fence on the old Burns lot.
A PARTY in which there is good
deal of back sliding-a skating party.
CHEAPER THAN DIRT.-two good
envelopes for cent at the ADvoCAEE
office.
The candidates for Sheriff are be-
coming numerous. t Mary's will
furnish five or six.
POWELL & KIME have II fine lot
of dress goods, also all other kind Of
dry goods ut low rates.
Charlie Cody painting, and other
wise improving, the house recently oc-
cupied by Daniel Scribn er.
REMEMBER that p. & X. keepa full
line of ladies' childrens' and Misses
shoes, slippers, and gaiters.
The saddest moment of boys life
is when the circus music strikes up,
and he hasn't any ticket to go in.
WRITING paper for sale at the AID
voCATE office by the single sheet or
ream, and cheap, all we ask is trial.
Catch your potato bugs and pour
boiling water on them, and we will
warrant them to be of no further use
as potato bugs.
\ CHILD being asked what were
the three great feasts of the Jews,
promptly replied: breakfast, dim
ner, and supper"
JAS. 5 CHAMPION, and wife, aged
respectively between sixty and sixty
five years, walked from Milestone to
this place, about twenty-five miles
to see the circus last Tuesday.
The old wooden water pipes through
the court yard have been repaired. ~
new tin dipper has been provided and
fastened with Il chain to Ross PEN
stock, and since the logs have been
fixed the water supply is abundant.
TIE Great Pacific Circus will eX-
hibit in this place next Saturday, and
promises to be Il circus worth going to
see. Husbands take your wife. Par
cnts take your children, and young
men take your June Bug and go and
see the circus.
WE haveCn hand upwards of fifteen
thousand envelopes which we are de-
tcrniined to sell, you can have them
either with or without being printed
and in any quantity from single en-
velopc to any number you wish, any
size, style, or quality.
There are some township officers in
Elk county that have laid themselves
liable to prosecution. The law re
quircs township accounts to be pub.
ilSileu Ill tWo papers, ana Il ncaNy
penalty is attached for Il failure to
comply with the law.
Fishing parties are the rage now
and are formed of various sizes, all the
way from the "bare-footed little man
with II pin hook, to the "lazicst man
in all the town. with six or seven
other fellows with nothing else to do
and Il bottle OF "cual-Cil" to keep tho
punkics away.
The bridge over Elk creek opposite
the grst mill, and long ago condemned
by the Supervisors, fell with II crash
one day last week. Not twenty
minutes before the bridge fell II party
of ladies, consisting of Mrs. rs. Hart.
ley and sister, Mrs. Dixon and daughter
passed over the rotten structure. We
have been expecting good local from
that direction for some time, and are
glad that we have the local without
having to record the death or serious
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HOW HE GOT OUT OF IT.

The following candid statement is
from the post master of n orth Clymer,
n. Y. After reading it will any one
undertake to say that it would be pos
sible to find language wherewith to
express the value of remedy pos
sessed of capabilities for renovating
the human system and benefiting the
community? Yet in point of fact,
this is only a representative express
sion of the grateful souls that day by
day voluntarily add their testimony.
Still there is II feeling that whatever
may be advertised as proprietary
medicine must have more or tess cX-
aggeration attached to it, whereas
the exact fact is that, generally speak
ing, there are no medicines in exist
ence made with so much care and
pains and with so little regard to ey-
pense in order to insure precision of
action and general effectiveness.
North Ciymer, ". Y. Dec. 81, 1875.
DR.. Nj. NJ. Fenner, Fredonia, n. Y.--Dear
Sir--About one year ago my health was so
poor that / was hardly able to do business at
all. Had no appetite could not sleep nights,
coughed a great deal, and had in fact, got into
that state of decline when began to contem-
plate the necessity of going to different
climate for my health. l had tried most
everything recommended for such cases, but
found no relief. AT last l tried your Blood
and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic
thought the first half bottle stirred me up to
feel worse, but before the first bottle was all
gone began to improve. l continued the
remedy until had used five (5) bottles dur
ing whicfi time l gained twenty-five (25)
pounds in weight and felt myself as sound as
ever. know there is no better remedy in
existence for fixing up ones system when
| out ofrig than your Blood and Liver Remedy
and Nerve Tonic. Yours truly
j. ii. NEWELL.
Sold by dealers in medicine
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A Treed Fox.

Several days ago party of young
men and q dog started a fox, some
where above Dickinson's orchard, and
in a short time succeeded in freeing the
sly chap. One of the boys climbed the
tree, which was tall old hemlock and
endeavored to capture his foxship but
received for his trouble several severe
scratches. The fox then jumped to
the ground and was chased by the
young men and dog until he was again
freed, and shot by one of the party.
He was was cross fox, and no won
der.
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Don't fail to attend the circus.

Go to POWELL & KIME for your
-four, feed and pork, and everything
else in the provision line.
A pack of tip-top good envelopes,
any color, can be obtained at this
office, ever Powell & Kime's store for
eight cents.
REV. WIN. l.. REILEY will deliver q
cree lecture at the M. T.. Church this
evening. Mr. Kelley is a fine speaker
and well worth going to hear.
G.. r. Slade wishes to inform the
public that the West End Gallery will
be reopened on or about the 18th inst,
he having made arrangements with
Messrs Rote d; Harling to conduct the
same.
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CUSTODY OF TWO CHILDREN
Quite an interesting case was before
Associate Judge Warner last Friday.
Samuel McGath, of Cameron. wants
the custody of his two children. In
March, last, McGrath and his wife
unable to live together in harmony,
agreed to seporate and made disposi-
ton of their children, one boy about
three years old and the other an infant
Martin Gallagher taking the boy
and Martin Burke the babe. A paper
was dawn up by Justice Alderfcr and
signed by both parents of the children
relinquishing all claims to the little
ones, and giving the above named
parties the sole and exclusive control
ofthem until the children became OF
age. McGrath and his wife have
agreed to live together again and
want their children, which are re.
fused them. 1t is alleged by the
parents that they are entitled to their
children, and the paper signed by them
has no effect in law. They claim they
are able and willing to provide for
them, which fact they can show by
competent witnesses. On the other
hand, Gallagher and Burke claim that
the parents made lawful disposition
of the children, and are unfit and
unable to take care of them, that
when the parents had the children
they neglected and ill-used them, and
now they are well provided for, and
in every way better off than with the
parents. The case was decided in IA
vor of the parties holding the children
and another hearing will be had be.
fore Judge Ross, next Tuesday,
! Cameron Press.
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NJ. j. rARLEY, ND. w.B mAutMAN. NJ. D,
l.. Il. &RESH,

Dealer in all kinds of cabinet ware,
woodland cane seat chairs, kitchen and
eXtenti0n tables, wood and marble top
tands, wood and marble top bureaus,
what nOts, looking glasses, wood and
marble top chamber suits, mattresses,
pring bed bottoms, bed stcads, cribs,
Laferty's metal lined wood pumps,
&c., DC. Cane seats replaced with
perforated wood seats, Weed sewing
machine reduced from $50 TO S45, the
pest machine in the market, and pic
ture frames made to order. Also Il
large assorted stock of ready made
collins constantly on hand and trim
med at shortest notice. All the above
goods are sold at panic prices. Ware
Rooms in masonic building, Ridgway
Pa. v5n49tpdapr27'77.
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a HAIR-PIN EXpLoSIoN.-We fire.
quently observe persons handling
pistol cartridges, and many carry
them loose in their pockets as though
there was no danger. The Lewisburg
Journal, of last week, records the re-
suit of one of these cartridge explo-
sions in this way.
ION Friday last Mr.. Joseph A Nc
Clellan of Pittsburgh, (who has been
employed on several of the bridge con-
tracts on the l.. c. d $. G.. Railroad)
was handling the cap portion of Il
cartridge for Il revolver. He had car
ried this i'll his pocket for months and
thought there was nothing explosive
about it. On Friday he was visiting
at Mr.. John Nandine's in this place,
and in course of conversation with
several ladies he drew this cap from
his pocket. The ladies had it in their
hands and tried to break it. Mr.. Nc
Clellan then took it and with hair
pin struck it Il number of times, when
it suddenly exploded, taking off por-
ton of the thumb and first finger of
his left hand, injuring the second
finger of the same hand and the first
finger of the right hand. 1t also in
jured his face somewhat and damaged
the ceiling. The wounds were
promptly attended to. This is another
warning to be careful ofanything per-
tanning to fire-arms.n
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Railroad Train Boarded by Bandits.

New York, June 16.-The owl train
OH the Pennsylvania railroad due in
Jersey City at o'clock this morning
was boarded by n band of bandits.
who robbed and nearly beat to death
Thomas Downing of 1876 Sixteenth
street, New York. The conductor
and brakeman, who attempted to res
cue Downing were driven away with
revolvers. They then locked the car
with the ruftians inside and tele-
graphed to the police at Jersey City to
be ready at the depot. While the
train was running at the rate of thirty
miles an hour three of the ruffians es-
capped by jumping out of the windows
The fourth man, who describes him
self as John Williams, q sailor, of 45
Washington street, New York, was
arrested by the Jersey City police
Downing says that he is New
Yorker but has been living in Phila-
delphia for over year and was COM
ing home in visit.
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POOR ACCOUNT.
County Officers.

President Judge-Hon. l.. ID. Wetmore
Associate Judges-Hons. Geo. Ed.
Weis, aud Julius Jones.
Sheriff-Daniel Scull.
Treasurer-Jacob McCauley.
District Attorney-C. H. M'Caulcy.
Co. experimentation. r., Dixon.
Prothonotary, &c-Fred. Schening.
Deputy Prothonotary-W. S. Horton.
Commissioners-Michael Wedert, W.
H. Osterhout, George Reuscher.
Commissioners Clerk-W. 5. Horton.
Auditors-W. III. Hyde, r. l. Spang-
Ter, George Rothrock.
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The Hillard and Hunting circus

The Hillard and Hunting circus
which exhibits here on the 10th is the
only exhibition travelling that has
legitimate claim to the title of circus.
This establishment is circus only, the
proprietors clam nothing more moth
ing less. Relying upon the attractive
qualities of the arenic talent engaged,
they attempt to make no outside dis
play; they adopt no high sounding
title as their nomenclature, they do
not possess and therefore do not adver-
tise cages of animals with Jaw break
ing names but they do claim to
have "a circus and the best on the
road.
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Married.

RHINEs-K Pittsburgh,
Pa. sunday, June 10th, 1877, by Rev.
Mr.. Pearson, Mr.. c. II. Rhines of this
place to Miss Mary A. Kady of Pitts
burgh.
Ross-LoGAN.-On Tuesday, June
5th, 1877, Mr.. James Ross to Miss Lib
bic Logan, both of this place.
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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.. II. Wheeler, N. II. Cum
mings, W. +. Service, Eug. j. Miller.
Supervisors-O, b. Fitch, Jas. Riley.
Treasurer-W. II. Hyde.
Assessor-M. S. Kline.
Assistant Assessors-Geo. Dickinson,
John Walmsley.
Auditors-J, II. Hagerty, James Pen
field, j. S. Powell.
Clerk-M. S. Kline.
Constable-J. w. WORCESTER.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-14

Barosma is the name of a medicine
that has cured more cases of infama-
ton of the kidneys, bladder and
gravel than any known preparation
extant. We have a great number Of
certificates from both males and
females who have been cured, ex-
periencing almost instant relief, in
cases of back-ache, strain or cold. 1t
has no equal. 1t is prepared by L. X.
Thompson, Titusville. Ask any re-
spectacle druggist, who will get it for
you ifhe has not got it in his stock.
Price 81 90 per bottle.
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The Norristown Herald says:-Two
daughters ofa farmer in St. Lawrence
county, n. Y, desired to pay the debt
on their homestead, but they preferred
not to do it by hard work. They hit
upon an idea that suited their pur-
pose, and have made enough money to
remove the debt. They had a large
quantity of porous stones sawed into
small pieces and thoroughly soaked in
an odorous preparation, which i'm
parted to them adurable scent. These
they have peddled throughout the
State, at twenty-five cents each, repre-
senting that they were cut from the
rock of wonderfully perfumed cave
in South America. The girls are so
demure and pretty, and tell their lie
with such an appearance of simplicity
that the sales are very large. They
have just put a fresh lot of stone in
soak, preparatory to a Western tour.
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Saturday, June 16, is the day to go
and see, the Great Pacific Circus.
Save your so cents until Saturday and
then go and see the great show.
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ERRORS OF YOUTH.

A GENTLEMAN who suffered for years
n from Nervous Debility, Premature De-
cay, and all the effects of youthful indisere-
tion will, for the sake Of suffering hu.
manity, send free to all who need it, the
recipe and direction for making the simple
remedy by which he was cured. Sufferers
wishing to profit by the advertisers ex'
per;ence can do so by addressing in perfect
confidence.
JOHN B. OGDEN,
AZ Cedar St., New York.
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SUGARS AT POWELL AND
KIME'S are high to be sure; but still
are little cheaper than at any other
store in town.
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Boston, June 8.-Another case of
child killing by child has been dis
covered in the Charlestown district,
the victim being a boy named Charles
Fagerstrom, aged three years, and the
slayer boy named WEIGH, aged two
years and six months. Whether the
children were in the habit of quarrel
ing does not appear, but a sister of
Mrs. Welch instructed her daughter
Lizzie to drive away young Fagers.
from whenever he came there. This
display of hostility towards the Fa-
gerstrom boy doubtless made a strong
impression upon the Welch boy, and
last Wednesday evening the latter
picked up fragment of brick having
a sharp edge, and going up to the Fa-
gerstrom boy struck him on the head
with it just above the left eye, fractur-
ing his skull from which he died. No
inquest was held on account of the ir-
responsible age of young Welch.
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FLOUR, PORK, FEED, CORN
Meal, Oats, always on hand at
& KIME'S az bottom pri-
ces.
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STATEMENT OF THE AUDITORS SET
- ELEMENT OF THE ACCOUNTS OF
1879.
o; b. Fitch and James Riley, Supervisors
and ex-officio overseers of the poor of Ridg-
way township, in account with the several
funds.
ROAD FUND.
To amount tax levied on unseated
To amount tax levied ON seated prop
ertY.... 1921 IL
SO76 "a
Excess of expenditure, y73 6l
$3.50 2S
BY amount expended building and re-
pairing roads &c.".......................3 1923 fS
BY supervisors service 1SIG................ 326 80
$500 2s
POOR FUND.
property 52U "a
To anountta tax levied on seated prop
erty... ................ 6s5 Is
To amount received for rent for house
on south IL 90
To amount received from Horton Tp.... 81 Sc
sl225 s5
By amount paid for keeping and sup
plying paupcrS. 9S5 81
By amount paid for Keeping and trans
porting tramps 4s "a
BY amount paid o. Il. Fitch's bill for
Il OO
1865 81
Excess of levy of tax l7o OF
1925 So
SIDE WALK FUND.
Toamount of tax 3l4 36
3l4 80
BY amount expended building and re-
pairing side walk 29l SO
BY supervisor q. b. Fitchs services. 90
3O1 43
Excess oflevy oftax II 93
S34 36
We. the undersigned, auditors of Ridgway
township, for 1877, having met ON the second
Monday of April 1877, for the purpose of set
tling the accounts of the several township Of
1ccrs, do hereby certify, that in the presence
ofO. b. Fitch and James Riley, supervisors
and eX-oflicio 0verseers of the poor of said
township for 1876, we settled their accounts
with the several funds thereof for 1876, and
that the above statement is the result of said
settlement
Witness our hands this 18th day of May,
\. ID. 1877.
JAMES PENFIELD.C A,ditors
J. =. POWELL. <N"''i''i''
Attest, NJ. :. KLINE, Clerk.
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A NICE LOT OF NEW PRINTS
Mt POWELL & KIME'S, only eight
entsper. yard.
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Go to POWELL & KIME of the
Grand Central Store, Main Street, for
your groceries.
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ASSETS : AND LIABILITIES,

LIABILITIES.
Amount road orders outstanding. 79S
Excess of assets over liabilitics........... 377
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-07
RETURNED.
Pete MoDtges Opens "A New en,eon
on adams street

eeio Montges Opens "a New enicOa
ON adams street.
Sometime since the lager beer saloon
of Peter Mentges was a popular place of
resort, but he retired from business and
engaged 10 agricultural pursuits in the
country. The lie Of a granger did not
suit him, so he concluded to return TO
the city and again entertain his friends.
To-day the opening of his new saloon
takes place, aud tonight be will set q
fine luach for his patrons at No. Is
Adams street. Pete invites all his old
customers and friends to the opening,
aud they will DO received in a right hos
pitable manner by him and his polite
corps Of attendants. The coolest and
best larger, the finest wines, liquors and
cigars that can be purchased are kept
for sale. Do not forget t, call and see
Pete Mentges new saloon on Adams st.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-07
The New vance street Park.

The new park, adjoining James park,
on which c%ommodious baildings are be.
ing erected by Mr.. Vredenburg, has been
leased by Mr.. r .Meister, who will take
possession and open it by the first of
May. Mr.. Meister will open it as a con-
cert park for the entertainment of the
respectable portion of the community.
Arnold's band will play on the grounds
every Wednesday and Sunday. Ladies
and gentlemen and children can visit
the grounds during the week, and be
supplied with cold lunch, cakes, ice
cream, etc. Mr.. Meister will keep lager,
wines, liquors and cigars, and will enter
tain none but respectable people. No
dancing will be permitted on the grounds
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-07
BOlted meal I'm sacks,
w. j. Chase e. Co,
IS2 kaain.
BLUE GLASS lamp chimneys.
27f f. j. TURYBULL, 234 Main st.
Amnsementa.


memphis THEATER Next Monday the
sale Of reserved seats fos the Barrett en-
gsgement will commence at Hollenherg's 8.
Mr.. Barrett and company will appear at
the theater next Wednesday night in
Bulwer's fine play entitled Richelieu.
Since Barrett's last engagement in this
city, Two years ago, be has filed two en-
gagements in New York and one in San
Francisco, besides others in the remain.
ing chief cities Of the Union, by which
he has increased his fame and elevated
himself still higher in the esteem oil
theater-goiug people and critics as an
ambitious, studious aud pains.taking
artist; an actor with when the art.
motive is an instinct impelling him for
ward and sustaining him in the closer
interpretations Of character which he
gives US each recurring season. During
Mr.. Barrett's engagement in our city be
will present a round of five characters
as follows: Wednesday, Richeliou;
Thursday, Hamlet; Friday, Merchant Of
Verice and David Garrick; Saturday
matinee, Money; Saturday night, Rich
ard III
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-07
Equity and Law IN Tax Comec,,ur.

Equity and Law In Tax Collecting.
The city sergeant alarms is out With
warrants after merchants, saloon-keep-
ers, etc., who have failed to pay up
license Tax. Some half a dozen old
widow women who, ia order 10 support
themselves aud families, keep a little
stock Of whisky and groceries valued at
about twenty-five dollars, have been ar
rested for not paying license, which tax
amounts to twenty-five dollars per an
mum. This is carrying out the law to a
ridiculous extent; but owing to the red
tape system in Memphis, as in other
cities, it seems no relief from this enor-
nous tax a De afforded. The mayor,
tax collector, sergeant alarms, recorder,
or police authorities, by law have no
right to remit the tax, and the general
council has repeatedly refused to do so,
claiming that they had no right to do so,
so the poor old women have to be ar.
rested and locked up at the ststion.house
for inability to pay the tax. 1t would be
better to ignore the small ten.cent bust
ness those widow women do than to ar
rest them and break them up, because
then the city may have to support them
during life at its public institutions. The
general council should remit the license
taxes in all such cases. 1t has the power
so to do.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-07

Hundreds of people continue to visit
the establishment Of Martin Cohen, No,
2l9 Main street, under the Worsham
House, and purchase hats at e%xtraordi-
narily low prices. Mr.. Cohen has a large
stock, and sells hats at a much lower
price than any halter in the city. His
hats are guaranteed to wear'woll and to
be Of the latest styles Of fashion.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-07
Attachment Notice.

No. l;S7-Before j. NJ. Coleman, j.. P. for
Shelby county. Tenn.-W. j. Booker & Co.
TNTHIS CAUSE AN ATTAOHMENTHAV-
i ing been sued out under section S455 of the
Code Of Tennessee. and returned levied upon
having been made that defendant is indebted
to the plaintiff in the sum OF forty two doll
lars and sixty-eight cents. due by account,
and that the claim is just, and that defendant
is o nonresident of the State Of Tennessee;
make his personal appearance before me on
the 18th day Of APril, 1877, at 10 o'clock a. m,
at my office, No. 294 Front street, Memphis,
Tenn, and defend said attachment suit with
in the time prescribed by law, or the anne
will be proceeded with ex parte; and that a
copy of this order be published once a week
for four weeks in the Public Ledger.
This the 21st day Of March, 1871.
1S-2i-9O-Se j. NJ. C0LENAN, j. P.