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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-17

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E9tice.

All persons are hereby forbidden
selling goods to, or trusting any person
on my account, without my written
order, as ] will pay no debts thus con
tracled after this date.
NJ. T. FRENCH.
Ridgway May 2, 1877.-1y
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MILLINERY AND DREssMAETNG,

MFRS. J. r. KELTZ, Kerscy, Elk
w Co., Pa, 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 be sold cheap. Also
dressmaliing in all it's branches.
Agent for DR.. J Bail & Cos Patent
Ivory and Lignum Vite Eye Cups.
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OFFICE or THE PRESIDENT.
1l27 GIRARD STREEs,
PHILADELPHIA, October 1871, 1877.
Notice is hereby given that the EN-.
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preparatory to It's dissolution as a Cor
poration.
JOS. D. POTTS, President.
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Elizabeth A. Nc
Enerney.

Elizabeth A. Nc In the Court of
Enerney. Common Pleas of
VS.. ELK Comfy Sent
John M'Enerney Term 1877, No. 92
DIVORCE.
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Topeka, Kansas.
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Times, N. Y.
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yTTo p+oI to cure a case of CATARRH in
w olll GCu each neighborhood, with Dr.
karnser's hemedy, to Introduce it. sample
free. j. c. Tilton. Pittsburg, Pa.
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TERMS OF SALE.

The following must be strictly complied
with when the property is struck of (:
], All bids must be paid in full, except
where the plaintiff or other lien creditors
becomes the purchaser, in which case the
costs on the writs must be paid, as well as
all liens prior to that of the purchaser. aud
duty certified list of liens shall be furn-
ished, including mortgage searches on the
property sold, together with such lien
creditors receipts for the amount of the
proceeds of the sale. or such portion thereof
as he shall appear to be entitled to.
2 All sales not settled Immediately will
be continued until six o'clock p NJ. ct
which time all property not settled for will
again he put up, and sold at the expense
and risk of the person to whom it was first
struck off, and who, in case of deficiency
at such resale, shall make good the same,
and in no instance will the deed be pre-
sented in court for coDfrma tion unless the
bid is actually settled for with the Sheriff
as above stated.
d. C. OYSTER Sheriff.
Sheritf's Office, Ridgway Pa.
January 2, 1878.
*See Purdon's Digest, 9th edition. page
446; Smiths Forms, page 3S4.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-14
In discussion before the British Asso-

In discussion before the British Asso-
citation of Science, on the steering of screw
steamers, it was agued that the effect of
the rudder depends on the direction of mo-
ton of the screw rather than on the diree.
ton of the boats motion-that is, when
the screw is going ahead the steamer will
turn as if she were going ahead, although
she may be going astern, and, when the
screw is reversed, the rnider will act as if
the vessel was going astern, although she
may be going forward at the time; the
more rapidly the boat is moving in the op-
posite direction to that in which the screw
is acting, the more nearly will the two eff
fects on the rudler neutralize or destroy
each other, when not breaking the surface,
the screw will not exert much tendency to
turn the ship SO long as the rudder is
straight, but, when breaking the surface,
the screw will tend to turn the stern of the
boat in the opposite direction to that i'll
which the tips of the lower blades are
moving; when the boat is going ahead, the
effects of the screw will be easily confer
acted by the rudder, but, when starting
su ldenly, the effect of the screw may be
greater than that of the rudder.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-14

The device recently invented by Prof.
Wander Weyde, after several years appli-
cation to the purpose, for taking photo
graphs by means of artificial light, and
which is found to work with the utmost
degree of perfection attainable by the use
of sunlight under the most favorable cir
cumstance, is highly spoken of in the varl-
Gus scientific journals at home and abroad.
The light employed in this operation, is
the electric beam, produced by dynamo
electric machine, worked by gas engine
in the basement of the house, and resemb-
ling in its general arrangements the
Siemens light for light houses. According
to the opinions of the inventor, one of the
future uses of this convenient process will
be the lighting of places, such as the opera
ting rooms of hospitals, where. surgical
operations of emergency may be performed
at night; and he has specially exempted
this mode of employing the invention
from the operation of the patent, Sc
that, for surgical uses, it is free to the
world.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-14
SCIENTIFIC.

IT is announced that want long felt
as in the construction of dry meters, &c.-
of good elastic material, impervious to
water and to burning gas, and at the same
time unaffected by hydrocarbons condens-
ing from the gas, or impurities in it, has
now been met, and will doubtless find
many applications. 1t ia stated that dry
meters, in which it has been employed,
have been noticeaby affected by use for
half year; dry pressure regulators made
with it have also proved very superior to
the wet ones generally in use, and it is
also claimed that, by means of them, the
temperature of an ar or oil bath can be
regulated so that the highest variation will
not exceed two degrees. The substance
in question consists simply of woven ma
terial, impregnated with an article that
precipitates in the pores, and which COM
bines high degree of elasticity with the
requisite strength, without being rendered
sticky, nor does it lose in imperviouspess
or elasticity under the influence of the
hydrocarbons present in burning gas.
Thus, a sample was not impaired in any
of these particulars by an immersion of
three days, at constant temperature of
104 degrees, in hydrocarbons extracted
from gas by cooling it at four degrees be-
low zero.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-14
MAIL CARRIERS.

Between two of the remote towns of
Michigan the mails are carried by means
of dog teams. The sledge is simply a thin,
flexible board, six or seven feet long, and
a foot or more in width, turned up at
one end to enable it to rise over obstacles
in the path, Along the edge, on either
side, is a low rail, to which the load is
securely bound with cords, The burden
carried usually consists of the bags, a
few blankets, rarely tent, provisions
for few days, small axe, and few
other articles essential to the primitive
mode of locomoton, The driver never
rides, as his weight is too much for the
strength of the animals and the frail
sledge. The dogs are not noble looking
animals, by any means. The truth is
they are NANCY ours, which are driven
by being called on by the driver in ad-
vance, stimulated to some degree OF
speed by furnishing process and vari-
GUS ingenious kinds of torture, and occa'
sionally helped along by propnlsive aid
from behind. Their weekly advent in
Marquette is still the source Of wonder.
ing curiosity and intense admiration Of
large group Of dirty urchins, who have
lingering love of the antique. One Of
the mail attendants usually precedes th'
train on snow shoes, either to eneour
age the dogs to a greater speed, or tt
break the path and remove obstacles, a.
the road is narrow and circuitous.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-14

CHE contest for seat in Congress be-
tween two brothers named Wood in the
Troy, N. Y, District, brings to mind a
very notable political campaign that took
place in Montgomery County, Pennsyl-
yania, in 1865 or '66. The county was
very close, and few votes changed either
way was liable to change the result. The
Bender family was numerous and intlu-
entail, and the Democrats thought to
capture it by nominating for Judge the
head of law firm of Bender & Son. The
Republicans, however, nominated as his
opponent the son, and the contest opened
with the Bender family divided The
son was elected by two or three votes
utter very spirited contest, especially
among the female members of the fam
lily.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-14

DR.. KLEIN of Cologne has discovered on
the moons surface great black crater on
the Mare Vaporum, and little to the
northwest of the crater Hyginus. He says
it is about three miles in diameter, deep
and full of shadow. Having frequently
observed this region during the last twelve
years, DIR. Klein feels certain that nc
such crater existed in this region at the
time of his previous observations. On
subsequent occasions he obtained further
observations of this new crater. He found
it to be either without wall or with a
very low one, but to be . deep, comical
depression in the surface. So far. the
English observations have been in accord
with those of DR.. Klein, and, If the exist
ence Of this new crater he confirmed, 1t
will form the strongest possible evi,
dence Of volcanic change on the moons
surface.
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Drifting Away.
Drifting away from each other,1
C;lanflr H.; r;Fktro, a.,o,t

Drifting away from each other,1
Silently drifting apart, K
Nothing, between bat the cold worlds .scresa
Nothing to lose but heart.
Only two lives dividing
More and more every day;
Only one soul from another soa.
Steadily drifting away.
~
Only mans heart striving
Bitterly hard with its doomt
Only hand, tender and bland.
Slipping away in the gloom.
Nothing Of doubt or wrong.
Nothing that either can cure;
Nothing 10 shame, nothing TO blGR
Nothing to do but endure.
4he world cannot stand still,
Tides ebb, an 4 women chang :;
Nothing here that is worth a teSr,
One love less nothing strange.
Drifting away from each other,
Steadily drifting apart
No wrong to each that the world can reach.
Nothing lost but heart
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-14

EXPERIMENTS made in Berlin with differ
ent kinds of phosphor-bronze present ad.
ditional evidence of the great endurance of
that material. One bar of the substance
was tested under tensile strain amount
ing to ten tons per square inch, and it ap-
pears to have withstood no less than 40S,-
$50 applications of this prodigious strain
Defore fracture, while bar of ordinary
bronze failed to withstand the application OF
Il stain of ten tons per square inch at all.
A second bar of the phosphor bronze was
tested by repeated strains of twelve and
oue-half tons per square inch, and actually
withstood 147, $50 applications of this i'm
mense load Other experiments were made
by placing bars of the metal in a machine
in which they were subjected to transverse
strains, 49, 600 deAections or applications
of load taking place per day. In this ma
chine, bar, while subjected to strain of
ten tons per square inch, withstood 872,
$50 dehections, while similar mass of the
best quality of gun metal failed, un,
der the same test, after 102, 60 dedec
tions.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-14

LAWRENCE STEENE said q hundred
years ago that "they order things better
in France" Quite recently thirty or
forty tradesmen in Paris were brought
before the Tribunal of Correctional Police
for selling by false weights and measures,
and for adulterating their goods. Among
the number were coal dealers for cheat
ing in weight, grocers for selling articles
Of poor quality, inn-keepers for adulter-
ating liquors, milkmen for watering and
skimming their milk, &c. Some of them
were fined merely, while the most aggra-
waited cases took short term of impris-
onment. Even England of late years
furnishes some degree of protection to the
people against the frauds of dishonest
tradesmen. We have comparatively
none in this country. Whatever legis.
lation has been had in the different States
is imperative from the technical diff
cultios of enforcing it. The fact is the
American is rather fond of being cheated
Custom has hardened him to the usage
It furnishes him with a never failing ex
cuse for the luxury of grumbling II
this land of freedom freedom to cheat il
specially secured by law and custom.
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SENATOR VOORHEES, friends think there
is scheme in the wind to defeat his cleo
tion as United States Senator from In
diana Mr. English, banker of Indian
apolis, is the man whose ghost rises up
before the "Tall Sycamore of the
Wabash.N
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-14

WE believe County Clerk Bernard will
do the square thing all around. This be-
lief is founded upon his course in the
past when wonderful stories were told of
outrages that he contemplated.
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If there is doubt the party that does
the counting takes the benefit of the
doubt and the other does the indignating.
1t has always been so and will be as long
as elections are run by human beings.
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keep pace with her everchanging, ever
increasing demand for fashionable gar
ments, will be a hero worthy of the
name
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ONE of the most serious problems of
the present generation, the overthrow of
polygamy, is likely to be solved in an
unexpected manner. Fashion, which
rules the civilized world and regulates
society, has invaded the homes Of Utah
with flying ribbons and rustling silks,
and the women of that territory, who but
few years since were the patterns of
simplicity in dress, have had their giddy
heads completely turned. Their love for
personal adornments and elegant COS
tunes has increased to such an extent
that very few men are able to support
more than one of them in their extrava-
giant notions; while those who are bur-
dened with numerous wives are at their
wits ends to keep them even with the
changing styles. What makes it more
provoking is the fact that no one wife in
Mormon family will submit to be ex-
celled by any other in the matter of
dress, 50 that the unhappy husband is
forced not only to compete with the pre-
vailing fashions as they are imported
from the East, but with the rivalries in
dress which arise in his own lit
tie feminine community. The host OF
daughters, the natural outgrowth of a
polygamous marriage, are never behind
their mothers when it comes to the fash
ions, and all these are combining to make
Mormonism more odious to the men thar
any arguments hitherto brought to beal
against it. These facts suggest the wises
course for those interested in the down
fall of what they regard as barbarou
institution. Let the fashions be encour
aged in Utah. Instead of sending mis-
sionaries for the conversion of Mormon
dom, enlist an army of milliners an'
dressmakers, equip them with tape meas
ures and dry goods and send them fortl
to conquer. Instead of mailing tracts
ship to them in immense quantities tn
latest ladys magazines and fashio1
plates. The result will be disastrous +
po'ygamy, and the man who will hav
the courage even to wed one woman an