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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-03
Items Of Interest.

Fail ures in England have been heavie
this year than last.
"These are the days." says the Phila-
delphia Chronicle, "when the man with
two hands goes out hunting, and comes
home without any game, and with only
one hand"
GLOW long are you going to stay
here?" "Why, my little dear?"
"Cause I'm hungry; and mamma says
we shall have dinner as soon as that
dreadful nuisance goes away"
The captive balloon, which is one OF
the attractions of the Paris Exposition,
is said to have cost nearly $3.50, 1000, and
the proprietors pay a ground rent of
$4,000. The price for q twenty minutes
ascension is 81 head.
An inquiring man thrust his finger
into q horses mouth to see how many
teeth he had. The inquiring horse
closed his mouth to see how many
fingers the man had. The curiosity of
each was fully satisfied.
This is how James Ferguson, of De-
troit, came to swim for twenty-one hours
among the perilous billows OF Lake
Ontario Ferguson Was second mate of
the Bay Leaf, lake schooner. One
night recently he was knocked over
board and, though he shouted Justify
| for help, the vessel left him in the dark
ness. One by one he divested himself
| of coat, vest and shoes. A soft light in
| the horizon told him where the east was
and that the moon was rising. Two
hours later, when nearly exhausted, he
saw piece of board floating in the
moons glitter. After long swim this
was reached and he got partial rest. He
buffeted the waves all night. Next day
but Ferguson never gave up his plank,
working toward what he knew must be
the blue line OF the shore in the distance.
He landed safely, but much used up,
near the village of Niagara.
Henry Faxon, of Buffalo, is said never
to have recovered from fright that
Blondin gave him, his nervous system
receiving a lasting shock. Blondin was
about to start on one Of his walks on a
rope across the cbasm below Niagara
Falls. Faxon stood laughing and Jest
ing on the edge OF the precipice over
looking the river 40 feet below. Blon-
din, motioned to the bystanders for
silence, seized Faxon under both arm
pits from behind, and held him for a
second or two over the verge. Faxon's
codntenance when Blondin laid hold OF
him was irradiated with mirth. When
Blondin drew him back and dropped
him on the green sward, he sank in a
heap, horror stricken. In the next
instant, Blondin, graspipg his heavy
balancing pole, danced out on his rope
beyond the precipice, and, turning to
enjoy the effect of his maneuver, saluted
his collapsed friend with comical ges-
ture.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-03
Most Wonderful Railroad in the World,

The Callao, Lima and Oroya railroad,
generally known as the Oroya railroad,
now the Transandine railroad, is prob
ably the most wonderful railroad in
existence, according to so good an au-
thority as the RailaOay Age. 1t was con.
tracted for by Henry Meiggs in 1869,
at cost of S21, ,SO4, 900, or $27, ZOO, 900
in bonds. Work was begun in January,
1870. Ballasted with cobble.stones. no
dust arises; trains every half hour /;
fare forty cents four separate depots
accommodate different parts of the city.
No one who makes round trip on this
road ever repents it, and seldom desires
second. The heights and distances are
80 great that few heads are not affected.
From San Mateo to Anchi the road
passes through the Inferrillos Lit
tie HilD. Nearly perpendicular walls
from two to three thousand feet hem in
the river Rimac, having width of from
two to four hundred feet. At first, it
was proposed to make cut in the side
of these mountains, but, fearing the
falling of loose rocks, it was decided
to tunnel. Miners were let down with
ropes, one-quarter and one. half mile
long, to certain indicated points on the
rocky wall every 500 feet, more or less,
and, after they had entered few feet,
began working to the right and left,
using the entrance as a place from
whence to throw the excavated material.
About midway bend in the river made
it necessary either to make dangerous
curve or span the chasm. The latter
was chosen, and now bridge unites the
tunnel about four hundred feet above
the river bed. Emerging from the Sec
ond of these tunnels at Anchi, the
Rimac is recrossed, and the road follows
up the river Blanco few miles, which
it crosses, and then enters mountain,
where it turns around in curved tun.
mel, and, emerging a few hundred feet
above. recrosses the river and returns,
passes Anchi and continues up the river
Rimac. At Chicla, few miles further,
the road passes the town, crosses its OWL
track and the Rimac, turns and passes
again, and, reversing, turns and again
doubles on itself, having passed Ohicla
five times. oo
The view from the summit, 10, ,56e
feet. at the entrance to the Galera tun'
mel, is not so imposing as at other points.
A plateau of few miles square, with
lakelets and patches of snow ana sur
rounded by peaks, many covered with
snow, is all one sees. But the oppression OF
of breathing, the quickened pulse 10y
TO i4O per minute, the dull, dizzy mead,
the cold, frosty air, make an impression
one never forgets.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-03

Philadelphia's permanent exhibition
is still open, occupying the main build.
ing of the international exhibition OF
1876. Concerts and balls are the chief
attractions, and the receipts for year
have reached within about 80, 200 of
expenses.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-03

The Mennonites are increasing rapidly
in Nebraska, Kansas and Minnesota,
owing chiefly to the immigration of the
Russian Mennonites, who are allowed by
the Russian government until 1880 to
leave Russia to avoid military enlist
ment. There are about 10000 of this
sect in America, about one-tenth of them
being in Canada.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-03

As an illustration of the prevalent ex
travagance of dress in our day, it is said
that bonnets are selling in Paris just
now at incredible prices. A lady can
easily procure one for $1,000. They
are made in imitation of lace, but carved
in mother-of-pearl and decorated with
Jewels. Such figure as 81, $50 is esti-
mated as comparatively cheap.
American cigars have recently been
advertised in London at very low rates.
They have proved to be the cabbage
leaf and brown paper brands not un-
known this side of the water. Says a
London newspaper "These precious
commodities are known to be largely
formed of apeculiar description Of straw
paper stepped in tobacco Juice, which is
manufactured in the United States for
this express purpose, and largely ex-
ported to the Cuban and other markets. !"
M. D. Conway writes from London
that Frank Millet, who, from being a
drummer boy in the late American war,
became an earnest art student at Ant
werp and at Rome, has charming lit
tie chalet near Honheur, from whose
summer house in the garden he can
gather figs and cast their rinds into the
sea. Millet had enough interest in the
battlefield left to lay down his pencil
for time and so off as war correspon-
dent in the East with poor MacGahan,
and he has brought back captive fine
specimen of that region--a certain
| Greek-Turk, one Paulo, who, having
been his guide out there for time, re-
fused to leave him, and follows him
wherever he goes. Paulo is matchless
servant, is able to do anything at all
already since he has been in France he
has mastered it's best culinary art, and
the way he makes up seaside delicaciet
for Millet's table is such as might in.
spire even French cooks with envy.
An incident OF a recent food in Texas
is thus described by the Austin Reueille.
A man was carried down by the food,
but managed to get up swiftly -dissolv-
ing bank of earth. He called to his son,
who was on high ground above, to bring
q rope, and the boy hurriedly obeyed
the request, and when he arrived at the
edge of the bank and threw the rope
over to his father the old man took it in
his hand, and in cool tone said to the
boy: "Now listen to me, and do as
tell you. If you find you can't hold on
when 1 commence to climb, let go.
There's no use in both of us being
drowned; I'm here in the water, and
You are safe up there on the bank, sc
don't let me pull you down. If you find
you can't hold the rope, drop it, ani
| run down on the fat and grab for me q,
I float by" The boy braced up firml.
on the ground and told his father t.
come on, and the old fellow went up th'
rope like cat going up q backyard
fence with bootjack in pursuit
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-03

were called upon for an opinion. The
cause of his death is believed to have
been due to nicotine, taken into his
system in poisonous quantities through
the process of smoking.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-03

"When there's will there's a weigh, {"
as the pig said when it broke out of its
pen and upset the slop barrel. "When
there's swill there's a weigh" as the
farmer said, three months afterward,
when he sold his pork.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-03
TIMELY TOPICS.

Wisconsin's bounty of $5 for every
wolf scalp cost the State $16, 900 last
year, as the wolves are increasing, and
It is suspected that the wolves are raised
for their scalps.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-03
Petition to Time.

Petition to Time.
Touch MS gently, Time!
Let us glide adown thy stream
Gently-as we sometimes glide
Through quiet dream.
Humble voyagers are we,
Husband, wife and children three
One is lost-an angel fed
To the azure overhead
Touch us gently, Time
We've not proud nor soaring wings;
Our ambition, our content,
Lies in simple things.
Humble voyagers are we
Ger nfe's dim, unsounded sea,
Seeking only some calm cline;
Touch us gently, gentle Time
..- Barry Corn,odu.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-02
Bayou LafOurche.

From the New Orleans City Item of
the 18th inst, we copy the following
article
Mr.. Drury of Assumption yester-
day presented in. the House a joint
resolution, to instruct our Representa-
tives TO oppose bill which has been
introduced in Congress, providing for
the close, by locks, of the mouth of
Bayou Lafourche; also, to ask for an
appropriation to remove the Obstruc
tions placed at the head of the bayou
by United States forces in the war
of 18l2-14; and an appropriation for
the clearing and dredging of Bayou
Tecle, from it's mouth up to Breaux
Bridge. 1t was referred to the Com
mittee on Lands and Leyees.
About one year ago Congressman
Darrall of the Third District pro-
voked by the presentation OF a bill
for the closing of the Lafourche, a
spirited discussion of the subject
within the parishes through which
the bayou passes from the Mississippi
to the gulf. There was a strongly
expressed protest against the inter-
position of any obstacle to the free
navigation of the bayou. 1t was in-
timated that the Morgan railroad had
an interest in the bill, for, if the head
of the bayou were closed, planters on
its banks would be compelled to ship
and receive freights and supplies to
and from the Crossing by means of
fatboats. This would subject them
to great Inconvenience, and perhaps
ruinous system of freights; hence
an open bayou was stontly contended
for.
The strengthening of the levees is
a question on which few engineers
will agree. Some will favor the out
let or canal system; others control
of high water by lock and levees. The
Lafonrche is deep and rapid stream,
and not unfrequently breaks through
its levees. An overflow near Lock
port last year was disastrous to plant
ers i'll the vicinity, and an expensive
affair to the Morgan railroad. Mr..
Morgan is pardonable if he desires ad-
| ditional locks to curb the stream.
But it may be alleged by the advo-
Gates of an open bayou that more per-
feet levees would prevent a repetition
of the disaster, and they should not
be made to suffer because of the neg
lect of the State to perform her duties
in the premises.
The planters on the Lafourche have
invested their all on the assumption
that water transportation would be
available, and the extent of their
| commercial relations with this city
invokes warm sympathy for their
wishes on the bayou question.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-02
GROWING UP,

Oh to keep them still around us, baby dar-
lings, fresh and pure,
Mothers smile their pleasures crowning,
mothers kiss their SORROWS cure.
OH to keep the waxen touches, sunny curls
and radiant eyes,
Pattering feet and eager prattle-all young
life's lost paradise.
One bright head above the other, tiny hands
that clung and clasped,
Little forms that, close unfolding, all of
loves best gifts were grasped.
Sporting in the summer sunshine, gIanclnS
round the winter hearth,
Bidding all the bright world echo with their
fearless ,scareless mirth.
Oh to keep them How they gladdened all
the path from day to day,
What CAV dreams we fashioned OF them, as
in rosy sleep they lay;
How each broken word was welcomed, how
each struggling thought was hailed,
AS each bark went floating seaward, love-
bedecbed and fahcy-sailed.
Gliding from our jealous watching, gliding
from our ciinging hold,
Loi the brave leaves bloom and burgeon,
lol the shy sweet buds unfold.
Fast to lip and cheek and tresses steals the
maiden's bashful joy;
Fast the frank bold mans assertion tones
the accents of the boy
Neither love nor longing keeps them. Soon
i'll other shape than ours
Those young hands will seize their weapons,
build their castles, plant their flowers
Soon fresher hope will brighten those dear
eyes we trained to see;
Soon a closer love than ours in those waken-
ing hearts will be.
So it is, and well it is so. Fast the river
nears the main,
Backward yearnings are but idle, dawnmg
never glows again.
Slow and sure the distance deepens, slow
and sure the links are rent;
Let MS pluck our autumn roses, with their
sober bloom content.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-02
DoNALDsoNyIIIE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

applications of electricity, and ex-
plain the principles upon which the
devices You enumerate work.
Is. What is the specific gravity of
block of fine wood weighing nine
teen pounds in air if, when attached
to mass of iron weighing twenty
four pounds in air and twenty lone in
water, the wood and iron together
weigh only nine pounds Z Give full
solution.
is. Name such machines as you
have in mind in which some part has
a rectiline or reciprocatory movement
directly functional in the accomplish
ment of the result; and state the part
and the object of the movement in
each machine.
IL. What is invention, as distin-
guished from other modes of arriving
at improvements SENTINEL.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-02

LIBERAToR BILL.-A queer looking
craft sailed into the port of Bayou
Sara on Thursday morning last, and
cast anchor at our wharf. Upon
making inquiry we found that she
bore the colors of VIM. johnson, the
celebrated Yellow Stone Scout, better
know as q Liberator Bill - Accept
ing an invitation to partake of bis
rude but open hearted bospitalities,
We followed Bill into the cosy cabin
of his little boat, in which he has
trayersed so many miles of inland
sea, /" and from him We learned the
history of his voyage.
johnson started some time last
September from point on the Yellow
Stone river, and when he finishes his
voyage at New Orleans, he will have
travelled near 5000 miles. He is TAX
ing sketches as he proceeds, and in
tends writing and having published
history of his voyage, together with
the thrilling events connected with
his previous history. He was a scout
in the command of Gen. Miles and
was about Is miles from the scene of
the Custer massacre at the time of
its occurrence. He is a native of Gal
weston Texas, and will proceed to
that place so soon as he completes
his trip to the Crescent City.
-Feliciana Sentinel
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-02
Weekly News Summary.
Foreign.

Earl Derby is not well.
War with a native chief In British
India is threatened.
Wi,ldin is completely invested by
Servians and Roamanians.
The British bark Prince Albert was
abandoned at sea; crew reached land.
The Russians have appointed
Greek archbishop governor of Adrian
ople.
The Earl of Carnaryon, colonial
Secretary, has resigned from the
British Cabinet.
Two French war ships have been
ordered to Constantinople to protect
French residents.
Defence of the line of Bular; across
the neck of the Gallipoli, has been en-
trusted to Suleiman Pasla.
The Montenegrins captured, after
violent bombardment, three forti-
fed islands i'll Lake Scutari.
Forty-seven prisoners confined In
Havana fortress were released on the
day of King Alfonso's marriage.
The whole district of Bourgas was
devastated by Bashi Bazouks aud Cir
cassians, who slaughtered the inhabi-
tants and burned the villages.
The American ship Barring Bros,
and Spanish steamship Porce collided
in the Mersey river, off Liverpool.
The steamer sank and two of her
crew were drowned.
A report of the conclusion of peace
created great excitement at Constan-
tinople. A large crowd which paraded
the streets, making demonstrations in
favor of war was dispersed by the
troops. Several policemen were in
jued by stones.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-02
LOUISIANA NEWS.

I Columbia Herald: Mr.. Geo.
Pearce's drug store on Main street.
was destroyed by fire Tuesday night.
The building was insured.
g IberviIle South: A change of
venue to East Baton Rouge has been
granted to Arthur Boitteux, who
murdered Alfred Renaud and Walter
Slack. The trial will take place in
March.
x Pointe Coupee Pelican Chas.
Maturin, colored, aged IS years, com
mirted suicide by drowning himself
in about two feet OF water, in pond
on Mrs. Fanny Ritcher's plantation.
Cause, insanity.
II Claiborne -Gadrdian: A col
ored man named Bill Grigsby was
killed on Mr.. F. q. Aliens place,
north of Homer. Bill Thomas, another
colored man, is under arrest charged
with the murder. Deceased had been
living with the wife of the accused.
F st. Mary Enterprise: We are
informed by the Secretary of the Su
gar Refining Company that $4,000
have been subscribed for the purpose
of putting up a Sugar Refinery at
Franklin. Another colored man was
shot at collation. on Cypremort a
short time. ago.
<w Bayou Sara Sentinel: While
the steamer Centennial was discharg-
ing freight at the wharf boat, col
ored deck-hand in attempting to jump
ck1. % h. hnr
slipped and fell between the two boats
and sank Immediately. The body
was not recovered.
w Lake Charles Echo: In an af-
fray in saloon here last Monday, a
u. s. soldier named Bailey was shot
and dangerously wounded by Mat.
Ligon. In attempting to make his
escape Ligon shot and wounded JEFF
Touchy, colored man, and fired two
or three shots at the Sheriff, but with
out effect.
0uacllita Telegraph: Bob Brant-
~, a freedman imprisoned for stealing
an auger, escaped from the custody of
the Sheriff on Sunday. In re-arrest-
ing Bob the Sheriff, DR.. Richardson,
shot him with a rife, and from the
wound the prisoner died. The Coro-
ner's jury acquitted the Sheriff Of any
blame.
~ Shreveport Times: A lad about
thirteen years of age-nephew of w.
L. Robinson, who lives twenty miles
from Sbreveport-was driving mule
team on his way home, when the
mules became unmanageable and he
was thrown from the wagon under
the wheels, both of which ran over his
head. The unfortunate boy died with
in few hours.
v st. Charles Mirror: An old
colored man was found dead in tile
attic of Mr.. J. B. Gassen's residence.
He had been with Mr.. Gassen for
many years and was employed abont
the house doing odd jobs. ION the
morning of the Goth, as the steamer
st. Francis Belle was en- route to
Westwego, white man fell overheard
and was drowned. When the boat
was returning, another white man,
named VIM. Sullivan, met similar
fate.
v Terrebonne Progress: Monday
night fire broke out in the crib of
Alphonse Bonvillain, on Bayou Black,
and before discovered it had made
such headway that it was impossible
to put it out. The stable adjoining
soon caught, and in few moments
was enveloped in flames. To get the
mules out, Mr.. Bonvillain was COM
PEELED to tear down one side of the
stable. Tho sugar house, some two
hundred feet off, was saved with the
utmost difficulty. A new draining
machine. worth $1,000, was burnt with
the stable and crib.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-02

Transient advertisements 81 per square
6rst insertion; each subsequent insertion,
rs cents per square.
Official advertisements 81 per square first
insertion; each subsequent publication 5o
cents per square.
Editorial notices, first insertion, 20 cents
per line; subsequently, 10 cents per line.
Brief communications upon subjects OF
public interest solicited.
No attention paid to anonymous letters.
The editor is not responsible for the views
Of correspondents.
Address: CHIEF, Donaldsonville, La.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-02

At fire in the convent at Limoges,
France, on Nov. 10, 1888, it was sud
denly discovered that one of the
children of the girls school there had
not been rescued. She was in dis
tant room, and doubts were expressed
of the ability to save her. A young
lady said: % 1 will try, and rushed
between the flames ou each side of
the entrance. She was regarded as
lost, but finally appeared with
the child in her arms. King Louis
Philippe sent her a gold medal, aud
q young captain in the army, who
witnessed her act, married her. The
captain is now presidentof the French
Republic, and the lady is Nine. Mac
Mahon.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-02

Agriculture is the one floulislliua
pursuit in this country Today. Ma.
tional prosperity depends on tia.
surplus prndactionsnf the tillels of
the soil. Even in California and
Colorado, the percentage of profit
from progressive, systematie fnfmine
exceeds that of miBing.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-02

Hawk shooting forms quite bnsi-
ness in Custer county, Colorado. Six
ty cents per head is paid by the
cougty Treasurer. One man re-
Gently brought in sixty.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-02
[To BE CONTINUED ]


The law compelling jurors living
within five miles of the court house
to serve without compensation is un-
just aud unreasonable in fact, it is
an outrage on the eitizen-and ought
to be repealed = Richldnd Beacon.