The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-05
Company n at Meadyille.

| Meadviile, on Tuesday last. The
troops were TO have been reviewed by
Governor Hartranft and Governor
elect Hoyt, bit neither of those dis
tinguished citizens put in an appear
ance. The inspection took place in an
old woolen factory, and was cfedtable
in every respect. The dress parade
and review, which was to have taken
place at half past two clock, owing to
the inclement weather was dispensed
with. The Fifteenth regiment of this
division was inspected at Greenville on
the day before.
Company H, Seventeenth regiment,
of Ridgway, left home at 2:S3 on Mon
day, arriving in Meadville at about
o'clock, being the first company to put
in an appearance. At half-past {
o'clock Tuesday morning an election
was held for first lieutenant. in place
of J. o. w. Bailey, deceased, which
resulted in the election of First Ser
geant w. S. Horton, without dis
senting vote; deserved tribute of re-
spect to an efficient officer. After the
exercises of the day, the company left
Meadville at about 5 o'clock, making
due connections with the Warren ac-
commedation at Cory, reaching Kane
about half past or O'Clock. After
stopping for more than an hour to rest
on side track, a seventy-car freight
train came along, and landed us at
Ridgway at half past one Wednesday
morning, all safe and sound.
NOTES OF A Personal CHARACTER.
Il. d. r. kicked that poor fellow
until he saw stars, and thought himself
a flying machine. At any rate he
flew.
Sergeant M. looked for Diamond
square, but every one knows it to be
hard work to find square diamond.
C.E. L. lost half dollar, and only
got small piece of pie at that.
A certain lieutenant, and not the
newly elected one either, didn't want
to go to sleep for long time. His
sins appeared in a very unfavorable
light.
George had bad looking shirt, the
corporal a bad looking nose. Selah.
Will G. knew all about Meadville,
but he found a jumping off place all
the same.
James r. has such bad headache
he couldn't sleep.
Sergeant B. coulun't make stack if
he did carry the regimental colors.
1t was no twenty-five cent watch
either.
The Clarion county company had a
man seven feet high. To see him in a
crowd one would swear he was stand
ing on "a box.
S-h-o-u-l-d-e-r H-r-r-o-u-p-s. Re-
spectfplly dedicated to the captain.
DIR. Bordwells colts got considera-
bly, excited on Monday last, and made
a run through the back streets of our
village that caused all the people on
the line of the route to wonder and
feel much alarmed at the Doctors
prospect for getting off without broken
bones. The doctor cut the blinds off
the harness, and the colts became
frightened at seeing the buggy behind
them and started off at breakneck
pace Doctor Bordwell held on tight
enough to break off the dashboard of
the buggy, and when James McFar-
land stopped the runaways he was
sitting down in the bottom of the
buggy. 1t is very fortunate that no
further harm was done.
TheCOngressional Vote of the State.
The returns of the Congressional
vote in the State, as computed by the
county return judges, show the follow
ing vote: Straight Republican, 274,-
O7s; Republican-Greenba combina
ton in three districts, 80, ,210; straight
Democratic, 1852 Democratic
! Greenhack combination in one district,
l1,S17; straight Greenback, 99,631 ;
Independent Democratic, Columbia
district, S,345; Prohibition and scatter
ing, 1876. Total vote, 696, 1928. In the
three districts in which the Republi-
cans and Greenbackers combined the
latter only furnished about 1000 votes,
so that the real Republican vote for
Congressman is about 100000. Hen
drick B. Wright drew nearly half his
vote, II, ,733, in Luzerne county, from
the Democrats, and the vote cast for
Brockway in the Columbia district
was almost entirely Democrat. Giving
the Democrats credit for these votes,
their total vote is about 275, 900 The
Greenback vote, with the 8, 900 cast fol
Yocum in the Centre district, 1000 in
the two Philadelphia districts, in
which there were combination tickets,
and 5000 for Wright, is 100000. The
decreased vote for Congressman in
comparison with the Governors vote,
7O2,O 900, is mainly attributable to bad
nominations by the Democrats in sew
eral districts. This also contributed
largely to the increased Greenback vote
for Congressman over that of Cover
nor.
During the ten months ending Oc-
tOber 31st, 1878, the excess of exports
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