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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-08

Buckley's sister knew enough of Nor
monism to suspect who hnd murdered
her brother, and the tragedy preyed
upon her mind till she became a lunatic
and one day destroyed her own life.
In the summer of 1868 one OF the
wives of Mormon, named johnson, a
ranchman, fled from his home on horse
back, leaving the place early in the
morning. Word was sent to the city,
and Case and five other " angels" were
detailed to overtake the fugitive and
bring her back. The woman had made
considerable trouble for the Church one
way and another, and it was the inten-
ton to put her out of the way after she
had been recaptured. The "angels :"
found her just at dark in the camp of
four hunters, where she had taken
refuge about noon. A demand was made
for her, but the borGerers refused to give
her up, having promised her that she
should be taken to one of the forts in
Colorado. Arguments and threats were
of no avail, and the avengers drew of
and began an attack on the hunters.
They soon discovered, however, that
they had more than they could handle.
Two of them were killed and third
wounded. and when they drew off and
despatched a messenger for reinforce
ments the hunters broke camp and made
a safe escape.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-08
Words of Wisdom.

In being angry we punish ourselves.
The only way to make friend is to
lie one.
Men are like words when not prop
erly placed, they lose their value.
Let no one descend so low as to con-
sitler money to be the chief good.
Men are never so ridiculous by the
qualities they possess as by those they
affect to possess.
"Live on what you have live if you
can on less do not borrow, either for
vanity or pleasure the vanity will end
in shame and the pleasure i'll regret.
Universal love is a glove without fin
gers. which fits all hands alike, and none
closely; but true affection is like glove
with fingers which fits one hand only
and sets close to that one.
The reason why great men meet with
SO little pity or attachment in adversely
would seem to be this The friends of
q great man were made by his fortunes
his enemies by himself and revenge il
q much more punctual paymaster than
gratitude.
Every man stamps his value on him.
self. The price we challenge for our
selves is given us. There does not live
ON earth a man, be his station what il
may, that l despise myself, compared
with him.. Man is made great or little
by his own will.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-08

he was impatient to meet the dread de-
stroyer. On the 9th of October the old
man took his wayt to High Bridge, and
walking to the centre gazed for time
over the parapet. The distance below
was nearly two hundred feet, but it
seemed to have no terrors for him. He
carefully laid his cap upon the stone,
and as carefully mounted and stood upon
the parapet, his white hair streaming in
the wind. A moment and he was over,
and splash below announced the re-
ception of his corpse by the river.
Charles Martin, a Frenchman, forty
five years of age, lived for the nine years
Immediately preceding his death, which
occurred on the oath Of September, in a
small back room in the house No. 156
Forsyth street. He lived as hermit,
and for living made children's toys.
He had 10 friends and made no acquaint-
ances, and the sole desire of his life
seemed to be alone. His business was q
good one, even during the financial
troubles, and after his death orders for
hundreds of dollars worth of toys were
found on files in his rooms. His was
certainly one of those cases where
unknown might be Justly answered
when the question as to the cause is
asked. He was found dead with bullet
wound in his head with the pistol on the
floor beside him. He died as silently as
he had lived.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-08
New York Fashions.

The princesse dress, with waist and
skirt in one, is the popular style for
wedding dresses. Newer than this is the
empress dress with the brocaded back
and train, having side cores added TO
the waist that extend upward to the neck,
while the plain satin or gros grain front
is made to represent vest and apron
drapery.
The black silk house dresses are in
the new empress style, partly of brocade
or of embossed velvet, or else satin. If
they are entirely of silk they are made
dressy by having plastrons or vests and
sleeves of jet or OF clair dc tune beads.
Embroidered gloves are o cred, but
the refined choice is for plain, untrimmed
gloves without ornamental stitching and
with the long wrists that make the hands
look slender. Those fastened by three
or four buttons are most used for the
street. Old-gold-colored gloves are the
dressy choice for wearing with black and
dark dresses. Undressed kid gloves are
more fashionable than at any previous
season.
! Bonnets are chosen with reference tC
each dress, but there is more latitud,
and less strict matching of bonnet anC
dress than formerly.
Coronet bonnets are suddenly re
stored to favor. The coronet is YER
high in the middle, very plain and yer,
close ON the sides. The jet aud clair d
lune coronets with dropping fringe O
the edge are very handsome for blae
bonneisi
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-08
The Sequel to an ElOpement.

A tine-looking, middle-aged lady of
Philadelphia recently called upon the
overseer of the poor at Newark, n. j.,
and told the following story "Eight
years ago my daughter eloped with n
married man named Giese, and her
whereabouts I was unable to ascertain
until few days ago, when ! was in-
formed she died in the poorhouse of
this city," Inquiry was made, which
resulted in finding that the young lady
had died year ago at the hospital, and
at the time of her death Giese was an in-
mate of @ city prison on a charge o..
drunkenness. Further, that she had two
children. The eldest child was found at
the orphan asylum supported by the
German residents of that city; the other
was found in the possession Of woman,
who had had the child since it was six
months old Gt is now two years of age),
and implored the oyerseer to permit her
to retain the baby, as she had become
much attached to it. Notwithstanding her
tears and exhortations the little girl
for such it was-was torn from her and
giv,n, with the other, into the keeping
of the grandmother, who returned to
Philadelphia.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-08
Items of Interest.

The young Prince Napoleon resembles
his father, in the ends of his mustache.
A man in Hartford, KY, has a watch
three hundred years old that is still
good timepiece.
A woman in New York recently drop
ped dead on hearing of the arrest of her
son for burglary.
Won Moltke says that it is not possible
to form any Just estimate of the German
army. because it has not been beaten
yet.
1t has been discovered that the higher
up you go the further you can see down
into body of water. Victims OF the
last steamboat explosion will please write
out their observations.
The way we see now to get rich, is
To follow the style in vogue, which is
Peculate with prOpriety,
Till you're bounced from society
There's where the only real hitch is.
A newspaper thus heads the report OF
fire "Feast of the Fire Fiend-The
Forked- -Tongued Demon Licks with its
Lurid Breath Lumber Pile Are the
Scenes of Boston and Chicago to be Re-
peated 2-Loss, $3.50"
A farmers wife in Jay, Vermont,
awhile ago became displeased with the
hired man of the place, and while her
husband was away discharged him and
did all the household and farm work her.
self, digging fifty bushels of potatoes in
day.
A New York jeweler, from whom
stranger ordered $500 worth of watches
in the name of o well-known man in
Stamford. Conn, took the goods to
Stamford instead of sending them, be-
cause he feared q swindle. He found
his suspicious verified, and felt 80 good
to think he had not been cheated that he
got drunk and was robbed OF his $500
package by thief.
AS near as we can ascertain, there are
in the States of Maryland, Virginia,
North and South Carolina and Georgia
10000 more females than males in a
total native population of 5000, ,O00, and
| in New England like overplus OF 10
coo in native white population OF
| 2,5OO,OOO. These facts indicate that we
shall, perhaps, by the time we write
1900, have two per cent. surplus OF 1e-
males as an aggregate of the whole pop
ulation (in 50,000,0 200, 1000, ,OOO).-Ctn-
cinnati Commercial
There have been fifty-three steamers
and seven hundred men engaged in
porgy fishing on the Maine coast this
season, but fewer fish than usual have
been caught, as the fish have been
smaller and have escaped through the
net meshes. The largest school seer
was five miles long and a mile wide, and
was estimated to contain millions OF bar
rels, but the largest single catch was
fourteen hundred barrels. There are
sixteen porgy oil-factories in the State,
each employing from twenty-five to sixty
men, and involving capital OF over one
| million dollars.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-08
A Sisters Devotion.

Never have we been called upon to
chronicle a more htart-rending accident,
nor one which has enlisted more gen.
eral and genuine sympathy with the af-
ficted family, than that which occurred
at Union Mills on last Friday afternoon,
says a recent issue Of the Nicholasville
(Ky.) Jessanaine journal. Misses
Blackford, Misses Bourne and Charley
Bourne composed O party at Mr.. Clai-
bourne Rutherford hat day. In the
morning some of the company attended
the protracted meeting in progress at
East Hickman, but they all met at the
dinner table, when one of the young
ladies proposed to 60 to the the Touring
mill, stating that she had never seen one
working. Consequently the party named
above, with Miss Julia and Miss Annie
Rutherford, went down to Steele & Bro
naugh's mill. and Captain Steele, with
his usual urbanity, was showing them
around. They had been looking at the
shipstuff. Miss Annie Rutherford shook
her skirt to rid it of the dust which had
| adhered to it, when it caught in mitre
0og-wheel, about one foot from the floor,
which drew it into the machinery, and
| there was q similar wheel about three
feet higher, in which her left arm was
caught and was taken clean off, together
with the flesh and bone off her breast.
Clinging to the shaft, her skirt fast in
the bottom wheels, she was whirled
round at the rate of fs,irty-four reyolu-
tions per minute.
Frantic with excitement, Miss Julia
Rutherford rushed to her sisters assist
ance. Charley Bourne did his best to
keep her from the danger she was ex-
posing herself to, and at the same time
doing his utmost TO extricate Annie, but
Julia persisted that she could not stand
to see her sister in such a place, and
putting her arms around her, had her
right arm taken off by the same wheel.
Annie's clothes were so twisted that il
was impossible to pull her away until
the engine was stopped by Captain
Steele, which took about one minute to
10, and Mr.. Samuel Gosney, perceiving
there was something wrong, instantly
lowered the stones. The scene now
batfied description. There were the cogs
filled with flesh and bones. An arm
lying on the floor, the glove still ON the
hand, two lovely girls PROSTATE in then
blood, Charley Bourne with his left
thumb cut off, from which he has suf.
fered intensely, and was threatened with
lock-jaw, but is now probably out OF
danger. Mr.. James Bronaugh, Jr., took
Julia home in buggy, and Mr.. Steele
fixed Annie on board and presented
her to her distressed parents. Thus the
company who, few minutes before, were
happy and joyous, were plunged into
inexpressible grief by a shocking and
deplorable accident. Drs. Jasper
Welch and Skillman have been indefati
gable in their attendance ON the suffer
ers, and at last accounts they were i'm
proving.
Miss Annie did not rally from the eff
fects of the shock for forty-eight hours
but since reaction has taken place fully
she bids as fair to recover as Miss Julia
whose arm was amputated ON Saturday
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-08
SANDER.

Anybody can soil the reputation Of an
individual however pure and chaste, by
uttering suspicion that his enemies
will believe and his friends never hear
of. A puff of the idle wind can take a
million of the seeds of thistle and do a
work of mischief which the husbandman
must labor long to undo, the floating
particles being too fine to be seen and
too light to be stopped. Such are the
seeds of slander, SO easily sown, SO diff
cult to be gathered up, and yet SO per-
nieious in the fruit. Tho slanderel
knows that many mind will catch up
the plague and become poisoned by his
insinuations, without ever seeking the
aptidote, and the mischief is done
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-08
A Wild Pigeon Roost in Missouri.

Timid and harmless animals become
formidable and even terrible when con-
gregatcd in great numbers. They take
no notice whatever of man, and in their
congregated capacity become his foe. A
herd of buffalo on the plains is terror
in its march drove of rats in North
ern Europe attacks all living things that
come in its way, and even flock of
pigeons, if big enough, becomes great
nuisance, If not danger. pigeon
roost is a big thing, and they have big
pigeon roost on the Auglaize river near
Dodson's camp-ground, Camden county,
Missouri. 1t is an annual roost, and
disturbs the quiet Of the people OF the
section. The newspaper man finds it
difficult to edit and print his paper i'll a
pigeon roost. Millions OF pigeons cover
the trees and sometimes break them
down. There is frightful confusion OF
noises in this pigeon pandemonium-the
crashing of limbs, the roaring of multi
tudinous pigeons, and the cracking OF
shot guns sweeping the birds down by
hundreds and thousands, all night long.
Nobody can sleep in such an uproar any
more. than they could amid the thunderi
of q raging battle. Besides this, there
is a darkening of the air by tht
birds in their flight, which makes
continual cloudy weather. But the peo
pie of this pigeon rOost are making the
best of the situation. The pigeon has
become leading article of commerce il
the country. Last year over 0,00(
pounds of pigeons were shipped from
Stoutland, and the pigeon yiel,. this yea
promises to be as good. But everything
else stops in the pigeon-roosting season
except the newspapers Louis Dem
| OcrQt
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-08
A Robbers Wife Suing a Sheriff.

The wife of J. M. Berry, the Union
Pacific Railway robber killed by Sheriff
Glascock, of Fayette county, NO., has
brought suit against that officer for S20,-
600 damages. Sheriff Glascock, after the
wounded robber had been brought into
the town of Mexico, where he died,
stated that he first called upon Berry to
surrender, and only fired when he at
tempted to escape, thus committing an
excusable homicide by the fact that it
was committedln the lawful discharge of
official duty. IT is stated that the real
fact is that Sheriff Glascock crept up on
Berry while he was asleep in the brush,
and fired both barrels of his gun without
calling on him to surrender. This state
ment is made the more plausible by the
significant circumstance that eighteen
buckshot entered the robbers leg just
above the knee, ranging upward, and
lodging in or going ost through the hip,
thus showing that he must have been in
recumbent position, with his feet
toward the sheriff when the gun
was discharged. 1t is furthermore stated
that the sheriff, and one OF two of his
posse admitted this to be true, and iusti-
fed the act by the fact that Berry was a
desperate of the most dangerous and
savage type that he had sworn never to
be taken alive, and that, being dead
shot, he would certainly have killed one
or more Of his pursuers had he received
moments warming. 1t is also charged
against the sheriff that he permitted the
wounded robber to bleed to death /; and
that with timely medical assistance,
which WAS available he WOuld have nm
doubtedly recovered from his wounds.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-08
Hotel Rents in New York.

Fully score of hotel failures have
occurred in New York since the panic,
writes q New York correspondent.
Among the principal hotels which have
changed hands from this cause are the
st. James, the Astor House, the New
York, the Grand Union, the Winchester
and the Coleman. The Rossmore may
be added, with the explanation that the
lessee, Mr.. Leland, surrendered it to the
owner because he could not make it pay,
not in consequence of actual failure,
for he has not failed. The transfer of
the Metropolitan and the Rossmore took
place on the same day. In almost every
instance of hotel failure within the time
named the chief cause has been exhorbi-
tant rent. Managers have tried to push
on under leases made at war figures, and
many have finally had to succumb. The
rents still paid by the principal hotels
are decidedly steep. The Fifth Avenue
Hotel property, including the six stores
fronting on Broadway, brings an annual
rental of 100000. The rent of the
hotel proper is about $150,000. The
rent of the stately Windsor, which had
just been brought up to a paying point
when the owner, Mr.. DAILY, wandered of
to desolate spot near Cavalry cemetery
and committed suicide, is 1925, 900. Next
to this in steepness was the rent of the
Metropolitan before the late reduction,
namely, $4,000. The proprietors OF
the st. Nicholas have been paying $780,
600, but I understand the figure has
lately been cut down somewhat. Mr.
Breslin pays $40,0 for the handsome
Gilsey. The Lelands pay the same 70!
the Sturtevant, which, though not SC
stylish in its structure, is considerably
larger than the Gilsey, and the Hoffman.
about the same size as the Gilsey, also
rents for $40, 900. The New York and
the st. Denis are each $35, 900, and hal
dozen others, including the Coleman
Albemarle, st. Cloud, Grand Contra
and Continental, range from $40, 900 tC
$40. 600
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-08
Bide q Wee, and Dinna Fret.
Is the road very dreary2

Is the road very dreary2
Patience yet
Rest will be sweeter if thou art aweary,
And after night oometh the morning CHEEKY.
Then bide wee, and dinna fret.
The clouds have silver lining,
Don't forget
And though he's hidden, still the sun is shining
Couragel instead Of tears and vain repining,
just bide Vice. and dinna fret.
With toll and cares unending
Art beset?
Bethink thee, how the storms from heaven de-
scending
Snap the stiff oak, but spare the willow bending
And bide wee, and dinna fret.
Grief sharper sting doth borrow
From regret;
But yesterday is gone, and shall its sorrow
Unfit us for the present and the morrow?
Nay bide wee, and dinna fret.
An over-anxious brooding
Doth beget
A host Of fears and fantasies deludng
Then, brother lest these torments be intruding,
Just bide wee. and dinna fret
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-08

A man near Winsted, Conn.,, while
hunting recently, saw gray squirrel
high on the limb of tree. As he was
about 10 fire hawk pounced upon the
squirrel and yas bearing it away, when
the man tock second aim and brought
them both down.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-08

Never tell man he's fool in the
first place he won't believe you In the
next you make him your enemy,
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1877-04-20
TO The Public.

believe it was in the summer of
1870, that my wife and | went to the
house OF nv cousin. August kieck-, on
= visit. While there he told me that
his sister; who was also my counsin.
was u widow and had 10 make her liv-
inx by hard labor. On the Gath of D,-c
1870, my wife died. We had always
lived peaceably together. When she
took sick | sent for two doctors. ut her
suggestion. but they could not save her,
she died, leaving me @idower with
one child seven years of age. became
convinced that | cuuld hot raise the
child properly myself, 81 | wrote TO
NV cousin in Europe TO come over here
and KEEP house for me, under her name
o. mine, as she might chnose; she came,
and we agreed to got married; before
we married, however, we went 10 both
OF her brothers, and told them TINT we
hud agreed 10 make a marriage contract
in tlIefr presence. Agreeable tn an
understan:iin. her two brothers, Mr..
Prrdg-l and Mr. Holmy, came To my
house on CERTAIN day, aud in the pres
ence OF These iour witnesses an agree
ment was ade;; stipffiating that was
to paw the daughter of my afiianced
vile $500, and 10 her my st!iancrd vile,
$3.50 per AMMAN after my death, and
fur her that they were to sign an m
slrunreut binding them to quit all
CLAIMS they mig In have to my PROF crty
in case i,iie;>>6eforc my wiic. And IL
was further agreed that she was to
raise uyschild. Alter this ARA agenient
waS made, NJ. Ho,my said tat We
could not sign it before we we're mar
rird, ils such an instrument would be
illears,l. After We were married SHE
refused TO syn the instrument until
in the summer of 1914, about sew
mouths before she lett me. She then
sci that she was willing to 81 Il the
lnstrum Mt. but that she would like to
Accordingly gave them notice 10
come u my hou-v Tor this purpose, and
they came one Sunday and everything
passed Oh eacably and quietly until
dinner knew by experience that
she would like 10 have u .nnversa' inn
with them about the matter. 30 | told
them | would oandt take rest and
give them IL opportunity To- tax the
matter over. After came back to
thein..I asked what conclusion she had
come TO. Fer b OH + August then
said TO me, had better pay her what
YOU owe her" rreplied that ] didn't
think that owed them anything before
she signed the ntrnct. Her broih-r.
Christoph then said to me, ''you are n
miserable fellow Alter these words
we passed went L, Fritz Schulz aud
told hiix To come To my house, that
WAS afraid to stay there with those
three alone. Schuz and returned To
my hbus and went into n room to our
serves. My wife and har brothers, at
the time were on the gallery. from
wh-rs + heard MY wife say several
times, murderer" "robber," 'ihis ;"
"swiudler." etc, etc. l THEN told htr
in the presence OF her brothers. that if
she didn't quit using such words TO-
wards me that felt compelled to slap
her over !; that wife that acted hae a
I child sloaitl,rot WI, der wi, sl,p vss
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1877-04-20
From Fritsxy's Daily.

MIR. G. P. KILLouaH, road
overseer OF Ward No. I, has
designated next Monday, as the
day for commencing work IN
alleys, streets and roads in his
road district. .
The Brenham Council U. r.
T. resolved at their last regular
meeting that it would be for the
benefit of the order to divide
the State into two divisions,
each division to have Grand
Council. The resolution passed
by close vote, and encountered
much opposition
If yosfare to marry a delicate
pale and sickly lady, make her
take j. II. McInan's Strength
ening Cordial and Blood Puri-
ficr;- it vitaiizes and purifies the
blood strengthens and invigo-
rates, causes the rich blood to
the cheek again. DR.. j. H.. Nc
Lean, 3l4 Chesnut street, ST.
|, Louis, No.