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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-10-11
ELK COUNTY, PA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER H. 1877.
4" could not be the tlilv maid of

could not be the lily maid of
Astolat if I did not smile on Lancelot. I"
"But cannot paint you, for have
rarely seen you smile-have never once
seen you look glad and care-free. And
yours" he added, in lower tones. "is
the face of all in the world that I most
wish to see happy and bright"
Involuntarily the listener started at
the words, and quick heart-thrill dis
turbed the even answer.
"Like most of the race, am neither
very happy nor extremely miserable"
"But is not happiness possibls9 Let
me make you happy by the effort of my
whole life. Miss Cuthbert, why will
you not understand me? I want to tell
you that 1 love you"
The last leaf of the blossom she had
ruined fell on the grass. The hand that
had held it was prisoned in two others.
and the moonlight shone on the earnest
dark eyes that were trying to see her
face. Amy Cuthbert's resurrected
romance, warm and glowing with life,
stole back into her heart and fred her
pale cheeks with bushes. Half incred-
ulous, she listened, as the voice went on
passionately:
"I love you. My darling, my rose of
life, what will you say to me because
love you?"
Reader, what do you think Amy Cuth-
bert answered? On the one hand Law
the desert of life, unsunned and Jun
varied on the other waited love, Joy,
light, and beauty. Gould she turn away,
when
"From lands of bliss enchanted, over wastes
Of sunset sea,
Snowy-sailed and crimson-tinted sped a WON
drous argosy?"
In the waning moonlight, amid the
dying year, she read another page of her
idyl-an idyl destined to grow fairer
and dearer through many coming year.
So ended Miss Cuthberts birthday
Hnr7le7.'S Bnznr
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-10-11
School Population of the United States.

White males, 1854 ,635, colored males,
Sl4, 576; total, 6,0S6, ,S72, white females,
5,l57, 929; colored females, SO6, ,4O2; to-
tai, 5,96S, ,56l; grand total, 12,O55, 443.
Attending school-White males, 3d.
326, 797, colored males, Ss, ,594; total, g.
1881; white females, 3,0S7, ,943, col
ored females, 9l,77S; total, 3.179, 721;
grand total, $685., 112.
Not attending school-Whites, 4, ,0O7,-
S24; colored, 1880, COG; total, 8, 45S, 977.
From the above it appears that of the
white children of the whole country, be-
tween the ages of five and eighteen
years, thirty-eight per cent. are not at
landing school; of the colored children
eighty-eight per cent. are not attending.
while an aggregate of forty-five per
cent. of both classes are not under in
struction.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-10-11
Japanese Proverbs.
Better avoid blame than seek praise

Better avoid blame than seek praise.
A beaten soldier fears reed.
Great men are spoken of for seventy
five days.
The lower part of the candlestick is
black. CThe nearer the church the farther
from God).
There are people who have read Con-
fucius and still have not read him.
The skill of poor man is not much
believed in.
When there are too many boatmen the
boat Climbs mountains.
Until polished the precious stone is
not brilliant,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-10-11
The Home Concert.
BY MARY d. BRINE.

Well, Tom, my boy, must say goodbye.
I've had q wonderful visit here;
Enjoyed it, too, as well as 1 could
Away from all that my heart holds dear.
Maybe I've been a trife rough
little awkward, your wife would say
And very likely I've missed the hint
OF your city polish day by day.
But somehow, Tom, though the same old rooi
Sheltered us both when we were boys,
And the same dear mother-love watched us
both,
Sharing our childish griefs and joys,
Yet you are almost a stranger now;
Your ways and mine are as far apart
As though we had never thrown an arm
About each other with loving heart.
Your city home is palace Tom;
Your wife and children are fair to see;
You couldn't breathe in the little cot,
The little home, that belongs to me-
And am lost in your grand large house,
And dazed with the wealth on every side,
And hardly know my brother, Tom,
In the midst of so much stately pride.
Yes, the concert was grand last night,
The singing splendid; but, do you know,
My heart kept longing, the evening through,
For another concert, so sweet and low
That maybe it wouldn't please the ear
or one so cultured and grand as you;
But to its music-laugh if you will
My heart and thoughts must ever be truc.
l shut my eyes in the hall last night
(For the clash Of the music wearied mel,
And close to my heart this vision came
The same sweet picture always see:
In the vine-cad porch of a cottage home,
Half in shadow and half in sun,
mother chanting her lullaby,
Rocking to rest her little one.
And soft and sweet as the music fell
From the mothers lips, heard the coo
OF my baby girl, as with drowsy tongue
She echoed the song with "Goo-a-goo."
Together they sang, the mother and babe,
My wife and child, by the cottage door,
All that is the concert, brother Tom,
My ears are aching to hear once more. ,ss
So now goodbye. And wish you well.
And many year of wealth and gain.
lou we4 born to be rich and gay;
lam content to be poor and plain.
And go back to my country home
With love that absence has strengthened
Back to the concert all my own
Mothers singing and baby's coo.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-10-11
Wheat Production.

The. following table gives the annual
production of wheat in the United States
for twelve years, together with the an
nual exports and the home consumption,
seed and wastage:
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-10-11

The money presented to the Pope by
pilgrims during the jubilee amounted to
$500, 900. OF this sum 81, $40, 900 was
in gold the remainder in paper.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-11

The Canal Break.-At an informal meet
ing OF the Committee on Water-Powar last
night, held at the City Council, Socrates
Brooks lthe chairman) stated that tie con-
dition OF the break in the canal was
worse than on Sunday morning. The la-
Dor thus far has been for nothing, and seems
to increase rather than diminish the damage.
Last night, by direction of the committee,
A. l.. johnson, City Engineer, assumed
direction Of the work OF repair. 1t is trusted
that every available means will be used to
forward the work to speedy completion.
By the suspension Of all the factories on the
line hundreds Of dollars are daily lost to the
honest industry or the city. One OF the
best appropriations that can be made to the
poor is to stop this break aud start the
looms, spindles, and other mach inery. At
II O'Clock last night no force was at work,
but it will be pushed ahead to-day.
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No. Quorum. was no quorum at
the called Council meeting last evening.
At roll-call the following members were
present: Socrates Brooks, N. A. Eubank,
Thomas M. Fendley, A.. Monteiro, and e.
Morrisette. At s:18 P. H., no one else, ,ap-
pearing, these gentlemen reluctantly dis
persed. A majority OF them went down to
inspect the break in the canal.
The reasons for these repeated failures to
have meeting are obvious. Friday night
was dreadfully inclement. Neither OF the
last two meetings have been properly called,
and the absent members are aware of it.
The President of the Council, or in his abb
sence the President pro tenn, are alone au-
thorized to call meetings. In case OF the
absence or refusal OF both to issue the call,
then, and not till then, can any three menl-
bers issue the call. When applied to in the
proper form President McRae lwho is in the
city, will doubtless issue his call for meet
inc
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noted for the most desperate attempts at
escape, and who, In this city, have not failed
ION several occasions to infiet painful iniu-
ries ON certain policemen who have at
temped their capture; and ne, have never
needed more than now q good police force,
and TO hase,suci we. must pay them.
!; There iss another fact (which speaks
strongly against the reduction Of their pay I:
Their constitutions cannot stand many years
the exposures to which they are subjected !;
rand when they have been shattered md
wrecked In our serviee would II be eight to
return them in this condition to their fami-
lies, probably TO want the rest Of their lives
There is such thing as false economy,
which some OF our: :fnancIers seem never to
have heard Of. Away with the fdea OF re.
duction in the pay OF policemen; and
those who would reduce it'll simply ask to
put themselves in their place. 3.
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LIZZIE JoHNsoN-DEATH FROM NATURAL
CAusEs.-Coroner Taylor held an inquest
at the Morgue yesterday over the body OF
Lizzie johnson, the negro woman who died
suddenly on Tuesday morning at No. l419
Franklin street. -g;
The Coroner stated to the jury that aPost-
neortem examination revealed the fact that
the deceased came to her death from con-
gestion of the brain. After all the testimony
had been heard the jury returned verdict
that the deceased came to her death from
natural causes. .4-s a.,
Peter johnson, the husband of the de.
ceased, was arrested Tuesday as her sup
posed murderer. He was present-at the in
After the verdict OF the jury he was set at
liberty by order OF the Coroner.
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SuPREHE CouRT, OF. APPEALS, "WEDNESDAY.
Alexander Hamilton, Esq, OF Petersburg,
qualified as an attorney in this court. 4.
Gibson as. Gibson and ais. e Fully argued
by George is. Bernard, Esq, for the appel
liant, and Alexander Hamilton, Esq, for the
appellees. and submitted. ~, Il
The Attorney General having returned,
the. court win commence the Common
wealth 's docket TO- day, and win dispose OF
the following cases id the order in which
they stand on the docket-yiz: r.
K Andrews, &C., os. Pay ylor, Auditor; Com
monwealth Us. Andrews, &C.; !: Roussell Us.
Commonwealth Haunstein, .us. Lynham,
escheat0r; Hoback US. COMMONWEALTH I;
Fay Us. CONNIE cath; Royal lys. Thomas ;
Taylor, &C., Us. Commonwealth. 49,,
+ As soon:as the Commonwealth s, docketis
disposed Of the, Court will commence with
the priuileged docket, and Except Mills Us.
neaster, which is fixed for the 1st OF Feb
rnhry on. account; Of the large number of
counsel engaged, it will dispose of for the
term each Of. The cases, as they. stand thereon
in the following order-Fiz..: Reynolds Us.
Hatcher and tGls !, .McAden vs. Keen, &c. !;
Utterback,s administrator Us. Cooper, &c. !;
Patteson, &C., u.s., Horsley, &C.; Blair &
Hoge Us. Wilson; Dinwiddie county Us.
Stuart, Buchanan & Co.. Bank OF Old
Dominion Us. NcVeigb;; George, &C., Us.
Pitcher and ais. 49,. -, 49,,
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[For the Dispatch.]
The Police nnd Their Pay.

Messrs. Editors,-For retrenchment and
reform ii has been deemed necessary, in the
general proposed reduction In the pay Of
the officers and employees Of the city, to in
clude the already poorly-payed policemen.
This ia too much on the "penny-wise and
pound.foolish /" system. These men are
entitled, by their welEp performed duties, to
every cent they receive, and, In my humble
opinion, to more than they are now paid.
The police OF, the city Of, Richmond have
more extensive beats and certain extra
duties which the police Of no other city OF
the same population have. The members
of police force should be men OF undoubt-
ed character, and presumang that the hon
orable Police Board have. given no other
sort. we should not be willing to exact from
them duties we are not willing TO pay for.
The task Of lamp ighting is almost worth
the amount they now get. In fac, they
should not have this TO do; for while the
policeman Is making his round to light and
extinguish his lamps aIy amount OF crime
might be done and he be In total ignorance
az Il. There Is nothing easier than Tor per-
sons who do not have certain duties 70 per-
form to, he very, loud -mouthed In express
inr how easily those duties can be done,
|and for how. little, knowing at the time they
could NOT be induced to perform this MDor
for ten times the amount they are. now re re
ii NAV Sc well 10 remind oil concerned
In this movement thar the police fores
is no larger now than II was when the
city had apppuiation OF ten or fifteen thou.
sand less, and quite ID 1umber less o.
lamps to- light, IS it not; that these men
are not only the protectors Of our ptoperty
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concerning the ship GaIatea.

WEST POINT, VA, January 8, 1871.
Messrs. Editors: Your paragraph in the
issue OF the 9Th instant relating to the ship
"Galatea' is not quite correct. Though
there was considerable quantity Of ice in
the York river and its tributaries, yet it is
not true that it was the cause OF the deten-
tion,o the ship. The fact seems to be that,
owing to strong westerly wind prevailing
at the time and the too great length OF the
tow-line In use by the tug which had the
ship in tow, she driited from the channel OF
the river on to the flats, where she remained
until change OF wind (and in consequence
a higher course OF tides prevailed) on Satur-
day, when she was readily fioated and tow
ed to the dock.
Very respectfully, q WEST POINT.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-11

RAILROAD DISASTER IN FLORIDA. PensG-
cola, Fla., January 10.-The south-bound
mail train on the Pensacola railroad was
thrown from the track last night by a mis-
placed rail. MsButler Fireman was fatally
and Steve Ledbetter (engfneer1 was badly
injured. Two trains had passed the scene
Of the accidentone hour betore-just before
dark-when all was fright. The engineer
saw the misplaced rail, but too late TO stop.
Everything shows it was deliberately ms.
placed, and the company has offered $l,0Oo
for the apprehension OF the guilty party.
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LOCAL MATTERS. 4, |. .

The REVISION OF THE CRIMINAL LAWS
DISTRIBUTION or LABOR Joint special
committee of the two houses OF the General
Assembly for the revision of the criminal
laws (Senator Gffmsley; Of Cnfpeper, chair
man, have divided off their work and APP
pointed subcommittee as follows
/. Crimes and Punishments: Messrs.
Hubbard, Bland, strother, Gray, and Gayle.
5fi2. Criminal Proceedings: Messrs. Daniel,
Critcher, Taliaferro, Lacy, aud Ronald.
la3. Criminal Charges Mess. 81. C..Allen,
Johnson, Brooks, Edgar Allan, and Ball.
+ Judge Allen has been elected chairman OF
this last-named subcommittee. The other
subcommittee have not yet elected.
Judges, attorneys. and members Of the
bar generally viii be invited by the com
mittee to give them the benefit of their sug-
gestions. Work will bel commenced at
once. - - 81
I II is probable that no very material
changes will be made I'M criminal pro-
cedure, which includes nll stages Of prose-
cution from arrest to conviction. J,
p The most important notifications, prob
ably. will be made by thes subcommittee
on punshments and expenses. ~ =" @t,s}
There are indications that punishments
will be so arranged as to prevent SO many
conricts being sent to the penitentiary.
This may be done by an extension Of the
punishment of whipping, and in some in
stances leaving the judges no discretion
aboutit and sentencing smaller offenders to
work on public roads in the counties. 1t is
Esuggested that the minor offenders he bound
out for term to persons who will take them
to work on farms or elsewhere. i2'fa 1,
The criminal expenses will Undergo a
sharp examination, and sturdy effort be
made to reduce them. 81 -'", "."l'.
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INVOLUNTARY MANsLAUGHTER.-The case
OF William Brown, charged with the muir
der of George Smoot and. Isaac Howell by
carelessly allowing the boiler Of an engine
at Carbon Hill coal-pits to explode, was con-
cluded in the Henrico County Court yes
terday. The Jury found the accused guilty
and fined him $50, and the Judge added
thirty days. Imprisonment in the county Jail.
When the case was given to the jury
Judge Minor gave them the following in
structions:
1. In order to conflict the accused Of vol
untary manslaughter the jury must believe
from the evidence that he was guilty OF
gross negligence in the performance OF some
duty imposed upon him, and that by virtue
of such negligence the explosion occurred
which caused the death. They must also
believe that the accused knew that the re-
suit of such negligence might cause the ex-
iured or endangered thereby.
2. That the accused was guilty Of negll-
gence in the performance OF his duty on the
particular occasion must be proved by the
Commonwealth, and cannot be presumed
from his having been guilty OF negligence
on any former occasion.
8. In order to convict the accused Of in
voluntary manslaughter the jury must be-
lieve that he was guilty of the same neglect
of duty that would justify a conviction OF
voluntary nanslaughter, and that he knew
that such negligence might cause the ex-
plosion; but they need not in order to con-
vct be satisfied that the accused knew, or
might be presumed to know, that such eX-
plosio1 would injure or endanger any one.
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THE MOZART THIS EyEN1NG.-The usual
weekly musical treat is promised the MEM
bers Of the Mozart Association this even
ing. The orchestra will render the over
lures Semiramls and Fra Diayolo, and
Recollections OF Wiesbaden waltzes, by
Parlow; Mr.. .Kessnich will play violin
solo, Miss Kate Mera will play piano solo,
Miss Wyatt will sing Flowers OF the Alps,
and Messrs. Watkins and Cardozo will sing
solos. The orchestra will be full, and no
doubt the entertainment will be highly en-
iouad y..-
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MARY STUART.-The Richmond audience,
happily for their reputation, have not been
educated to that most false practice OF call
ing actors before the curtain in the entire
acts. 1t is thing which conveys compli-
ment but breaks the unity of effect, and
must jar on so artistic an ear as Madame
Janauschek's, even coming in so questiona-
BILE shape. The compliment was, there
fore, all the greater when at the fall Of the
curtain on the third act last night the
applause was so unanimous that the star
came out and bowed her acknowledgements.
The scene with Elizabeth had been grandly
acted, and many times in the pauses Of the
dialogue the applause was hardly re-
strained. This play is superior to Schiller's
other great work, Elizabeth, in that the
main character, 80 full OF romance, can
carry the taking features Of a play so much
better than the terrible virgin Queen.
The splendid dialogue between Leicester
and Mortimer, and the subtle construction
Of the double conspiracy, show the im-
fmense genius OF the man whose boyhood
brought forth the "nRobbers," and how
even the background Of the picture shows
the highest touch Of art. The author. could
not have dreamed Of a more perfect rendi-
tion OF the beautiful captive Queen-her
ambition, her proud spirit, and the CO
quetry which survives even penitence and
love-than Madame Janauschek gives.
The genius Of the author creates, but the
genius Of the actor finds methods of ex-
preston which the author did not dream
of; and it is here that Janauschek shines
50 preemincnt. If we read the play, and
then note how immensely we are lifted up,
so to speak, from our own conception,
when we see her act it, we can then appre-
ciate what the true histrionic art is. .
Tonight Macbeth will be performed.
The Theatre has been better filled this week
than we have seen it this season, and doubt
less there will be another good audience to
see Madame Janauschek in the spirited role
Of Lady Macbeth. '.''.' - e
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POLICE CoERT, WEDNEsDAY-Justice Je-
seph j. White presiding. case of Jesse
Spain (colored), charged with having in his
possession one silver watch the property OF
some person unknown, was continued till
to-day.
The case Of Thomas James (colored),
charged with selling policy-tickets, was con-
tinued till to-day! 90
+ William Nuchols (colored), charged with
obstructing the police III tie discharge OF
their duty t(siying warning to Ball and
other policy-men to escape), was committed
to Jail for sixty days in default Of security to
be of good behavior.
George Gossey (colored), charged with
assaulting Carter Page (colored), was fined
S5 r...r
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4irtll,olld 4ispatth.
THURSDAY. JANUARY II, 1917.
ss-THE CIRCULATION OF THE DISPATCH
IS LARGER. THAN THE CONFINED CIRCU-
LATIoN OF ALL THE OTHER DAILY NEWS,
PAPERS OF THE CITY 81
WEATHER REPORT.

IMPLICATIONS F0. TO-DAY Washington,
January 10.--For the South Atlantic States,
rising followed by falling barometer, vest
erly winds shifting to warmer southerly or
southeasterly, and generally clear weather
will prevail.
For the Gulf States, Tennessee, and the
Ohio Valley, stationary and rising followed
by falling barometer, generally warmer,
cloudy, or partly cloudy weather, increas.
ing southerly to easterly winds, and from
the southwest to the last section, probably
succeeded by rain. 3. safa r. 80: o' =. =
For the Middle States, stationary or rising
followed by falling barometer, westerly
winds gradually shifting to southerly or
easterly, warmer, clear, or partly cloudy
weather, and in the latter occasionally light
SHOWS ss.-#y :
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Election Of 0ticers.-At regular meet
ing of Friendly Division, No. 2, Sons Of
Temperance, held Tuesday night, the fol-
lowing officers were elected: W.. p, Lewis
Baptiste; w. A., Cyrus Nelson; r. s.,
Samuel Logan; a.. r. S, ----; Treasurer,
R. Morton; Chaplain, Lewis Clarke; Con-
ductor, Henry Jones; Assistant Conductor,
Jacob Jones; I. S., Ned Edmondson; 0. s.,
William Morton; Local Deputy, Charles
w Logan.
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Committees Appointed.-C Chancellor Com
mander Lithgow, of Friendship Lodge, No.
20, knights Of Pythias, has appointed the
following committees: Finance-O. B.
Sims, John r. Cogbill, William B. cCrary !;
Supervision-F. c. Weisiger, Fl. c. Fergus
son, William Archer, b. A. Gary, B. T.
Moss Education-A. Gary, S. Brooks, A.
C. Atkisson; Visiting-A. A. Waugh, &.
p. Smith, A. G. Harding; Relief-Rey. G..
C. Vanderslice, j. T. Boyle, William r. Lee.
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:PRocEEBINes OF THE HUsrNGs COURT
YEsTER1AY.-In. the Hustings Court yester-
day, Eliza Epps, charged with feloniously
entering the house OF Martin Quarles and
.forcibie stealing from the person Of Harriet
johnson clothing and iewelry amounting ii,
value to $23, was tried and convicted and
sent to the penitentiary for five years. A
motion for new trial was made, and con-
tinued until to-day.
The case OF Paul Jasper, charged with
murder, was continued until Friday on ac-
count Of the absence of witnesses. 4