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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-21

Really now it is too bad that Henry Watterson
should have dislike to Mr.. Hewitt. and should say
such unpleasant things about our Lexington-ave
statesman Couldn't Mr.. Watterson obgs the
country by fixing the date when this violent dislike
beganf Wouldn't he kindly mention, for instance,
whether it came anywhere near the time, last Win
ter, when he himself made momentous night jour
ney from Washington to New-iork, and
paid an early visit, before breakfast, to
Gramercy-sqIarei Does Mr.. Watterson remem-
Der bringing over with him on that occasion an i'm
portant document, which he hastily presented to Mr..
Tilden for signature intended to commit that astute
gentleman to the hundred thousand armed kentuck-
ian policy IL the genial Watterson can recall so
much, wont he initiate Mr.. Hewitt by contributing
n little unwritten historyf Let him tell of the
earnestness with which Governor TiIden impressed
upon him the fact that breakfast waiting and of
the urgent invitations to partake. Let him describe
once more how every time he talked signature,
1ldcn talked breakfast, and how. at last when the
breakfast had been finally disposed of the wary old
gentleman explained to the good Watterson that it
was too dangerous to sign that paper, since 'you
might happen to lose it on your way back, Mr. Wat
terson and if you should, and those newspaper peo-
pie should get hold of it, think what trouble it would
mako for you!n II Mr.. Watterson will only tell
this story in his own inimitable manner, with the
proper descriptions of Mr.. Tildcn's earnest alarm
lest his Kentucky friend should be unable to get the
document safely back to Washington. with the la
mentable sequel that he did get it back entirely
SAFE but also entirely unsigned. he will beat Mr..
Hewitt all to pieces in the matter Of unwrtten his.
tory.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-21

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-21

The Virginia Senate seems to stand firm in
resisting reputation. While it has passed the
House bill, it has materially altered it, and
has inserted proviso that the bill shall not
interfere with the rights of bondhOlders or
be regarded as requiring compromise OF the
debt.
The free and unfettered Indiana Democracy
want unlimited silver infatiOn-and low rate
of interest; the immediate repeal OF the Re
sumption Act-and rigid economy in public
expenditures unlimited Greenbacks-and re-
ductiop of the salaries and fees OF all public
officers. The Indiana Democracy know just
what they want, and evidently know just how
to get it.
Controller Olcott has laid before the Cover
nor a Understanding impeachment of Superin-
tendent Smyth, and the Governor will, no
doubt, promptly transmit it to the Senate. Then
Mr. Smyth will have an opportunity to meet
his accusers, and, Judging from the promptness
with which he has already made public all the
facts relating to this matter in his possession,
that opportunity is not likely to be neglected.
Even Custom House broker, it seems, may
he misrepresented. The rumOr that the repre-
sentatives of this agile branch of industry
were opposed to the labor-saviDg system which
Secretary Sherman has introduced into the
Custom House, is pronounced campaign lie
All they ask for is an increase in the number
of entry clerks, and a very modest request
that seems to be.
1t cannot be said that Collector Simmons, in
his grand charge on Washington, has violated
the letter Of the Presidents order to Office
holders, unless the Administration is "po-
ethical organization" or Congress " caucus"
both of which offce-holders were forbidden to
manage" But in that forgotten document,
the ice-holders' right to express themselves
on public questions was not to be allowed to
"hterfere with the discharge Of their official
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-21

The city entered judgment against Tweed yester-
day for another million. or. to be exact, 81 0OO,-
O22 II. The million is the judgment; the $50 IL is
for COSTS Now let Tweed prove the sincerity of his
repentance. The million is too mnch to expect. but
if he would pay the 500 IT we should know that
he was indeed reformed, aud in fair way to be q
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-21

There is no authentic record that any one of the
one hundred and one Legislatures Of New-Jersey
which have passed into history was more disorderly.
more densely ignorant, or more impudently indf-
ferent to public opinion than the one which Is now
making spectacle of itself at Trenton. As this body
does not seem to improve with age, 1t is not safe to
hope that 1t has done ts worst. and yet 1t Is Diff
cult omagine how II can manage to get down under
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19
Yellow Fever YisitatiOns.

Speaking of the yellow fever vista
tion, a New York paper says In 1853
the scourge was much worse. In New
Orleans, for example, the maximum OF
deaths per day SO far attained has been
103. August 22d of that year there
were 254 deaths from the pestilence, and
on no day Of that month were there less
than ITO deaths, while most of the time
they averaged at least $50 daily. The
resident population was not then, it is
estimated, over 80, 900, and of these 49,
600 died that season compared with
which the present mortality, distressing
though it be, is small. In 1922, when
the yellow fever prevailed here, there
was a great panic the city was fenced
in below the City Hall park-ihe IN
fected district was in the three lower
wards 1.-The merchants, bankers, profes-
sional men and the municipal govern
ment moved to the village of Greenwich,
now one of the upper wards and yet,
despite the alarm, barely 200 persons
died. Just before the close of the last
century the fever here destroyed $500
lives, and then New York had not more
than $4,000 people-a mortality of one
in every twenty inhabitants. We hear
now much more of the fever in 1922
than of the fever in 1898. How fortu-
nate that We so readily forget both our
sorrows and our calamities.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19
Farming on a Grand Scale.

The Napa (Cal.) Register says: John
Finnell, one of Napa's princely farmers,
has recently purchased $4,000 acres OF
land in Tehama county, at cost of
$3.50, 900. The property is known as the
Thomas estate, and has on it a $25, 600
residence and about 800, 900 worth of
fencing. With the land and improve
ments, Finnell gets 2,200 head of cattle,
1,240 hogs. and a lot of horses, mules,
etc. This entities Mr.. Finnell to place
in the front rank of the great farmers of
California. His home place in this val
ley, comprising 1000 acres, and besides
keeping 800 of it in high state of culti-
vation, he has for the past four wears
been paying $35, 900 per year rent for a
large tract of farming land in Oolusa
county, from which he has derived a
handsome income. We understand it to
be the intention OF Mr.. Finnell to re-
move with his family to his new place in
Tehama county next spring. The new
property has never been put under the
plough and it is thought will prove very
productive
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19
Yellow Fever.

Yellow fever is q most mysterious, and
in many respects an incomprehensible
disease, says New York paper. The
few general facts that seem to have been
learned about it, after close and varied
observation, are not infrequently con-
tradicted By new experience. One of its
widely-supposed peculiarities is that it
cannot live at certain elevations, 800
feet above sea-level being sufficient, it
is thought, to exclude it completely.
Yet, long before Cortez invaded Mexico,
the natives of the country suffered ter
ribly from an epidemic which was, be-
yond all rational doubt, identical with
what is now known as yellow fever.
This epidemic-it was called mataiza-
hautl-prevailed repeatedly, with great
virulence and mortality, during the six.
teenth and eighteenth centuries, on the
table lands of Mexico, from 1900 to
1890 feet above the sea. If it has ragged
at that height, it may rage at an equal
height again, and thus the favorite and
now universally accepted theory be over
thrown. 1t is surprising how very little
is known of the yellow fever as to its
symptoms, consequences, general course,
and treatment; for, while it has been
recognized only about 200 years as a
distinctive disease, it has been fearful
scourge at least since the beginning of
the fifteenth century. 1t used to be
called the plague, and it is little less
hideous and destructive than that fright
full pestilence, now happily confined to
the hot and filthy East.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19
London Houses.

The houses of London, says a corre-
spondent, are mostly built of yellow
brick; but those of a more pretentious
character are of yellowish sandstone,
which soon becomes blackened with the
smoke that enshrouds the city. Iron
buildings are not known here-at least,
we have not met with any in our wan
derings over the city, they being an en-
tirely American institution. A stranger
in London is astonished at the appear
ance of most Of it's public buildings and
churches. They are built mostly of
white marble; but the smoke has black
ened them to such an extent that were
it not that their bases and sometimes a
portion of their cornices are white, they
might be supposed to be of black mar
BILE The columns in front of st. Paul's
Cathedral are densely black; and so is
most of the vast structure. If pot of
black paint was poured over the mag
nifcent statues of Queen Elizabeth and
her four maids of honor, which stand in
front of the cathedral, it would scarcely
be noticed, SO black have they become.
The National Gallery, on Trafalgar
square, is decidedly black, and the
grand old church of st. Martin-in-the-
Fields, on Trafalgar square, is, if pos
sible, blacker. The walls under the
portico and most of the columns in front
would never be supposed to be of pure
white marble. AS there is scaffolding
being erected around it, the purpose is
possibly to clean it of the accumulated
smoke of ages. They probably think
with the gamin, who, when asked why
he did not wash his face, replied,
" What's the use2 1t will only get
dirty again."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19

till they ragged with redoubled fury, as
if seeming to realize that their power
would soon be gone. Then came the
blessed rain; not in gentle showers, but
in heavy torrents, that poured incessant-
ly on the kissing, steaming forests, till
they lay drenched beneath it.
John Ward drew his family close under
the rocks to keep them dry, but caught
in his hat the cool drops to quench their
thirst. AS the night wore on and the
violence of the storm passed by, they all
found some rest save the father, who
mourned for his mother as he kept
watch over his poor little homeless flock.
The next day dawned clear and beauti.
full, the air washed pure from the blind
ing smoke, and as soon as they had risen
and thanked God for their escape, they
started to make their way back to the
settlements.
It was tedious, difficult journey.
When almost back to the site of their
old home they heard voices approaching.
Ward shouted and was answered by a
loud cheer. In few moments, a dozen
of his old companions gathered round.
congratulating him on their escape, and
anxious to hear their story. They,had
just started in search of them; but as
they saw the wide sweep the fire had
taken, their fears for their safety were
greater than their hopes.
John Ward and his wife now found
that the kind acts done for these neigh
bors in the past were returning, "after
many days." "'like bread cast upon the
waters" The men lifted the children
in their arms, and all proceeded to the
homes that had escaped the fire. Here
each We'd with the other in making them
welcome. Money and clothing .had
been sent from larger towns to those
whom the fire had made destitute. Mrs.
Ward found her baby and Mrs. Stacey
safe and we'll; the latter full of ioy, as
she had just received the glad tidings of
her husbands safety.
The burned houses were soon rebuilt,
and but for the dear old mother, whom
he had been SO cruelty forced to leave to
the flames, John Ward could, after all,
hardly have been called sufferer from
the loss that had befallen him.
This is not fancy sketch. The act
ual facts of the terrible disaster have
family pictured are more narrowing
than I could bear to describe. Lam
guage cannot adequately depict the awful
scenes that were witnessed in that terri
bic fire of 1876 in Northern Pennsylva-
mia, that destroyed whole villages, and
brought great losses and suffering to
scores of fa;nilies.-O. NJ. Cornwall in
Youths Companion.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19
Items Of Interest.

The flower for young fathers-the
poppy.
An old saw new set-a miss is as good
as smile.
Shakespeare was wondor, but Queen
Elizabeth Tudor.
The grape crop of California is
unusually small this year.
"Love is an internal transport |" exc
claimed an enthusiastic poet. $50 is a
canalbeat," said practical old forward
ing merchant.
The difference between ladies and
ducks-if there is any differences
that ladies are often dressed to kill,
while ducks are killed to dress.
1t was thought to be big thing in
ancient times when Ajax threw off his
ulster and defed the lightning, but now
almost any man raises thunder if his
dinner is cold, and the poets never say
word about it.
Mrs. Mackay, wife of the bonanza
king, has over $3.50, 900 worth of jew
elry, but when she gets the toothache
she suffers just as much as the woman
whose bracelets and diamonds came from
the ninety-nine-cents store.
Colonel Baker, of Texas, Commits
there are only four new things on exhi
bition-the phonograph, telephone
microphone, from the United States
and swimming doll-baby, a French
invention.
This country is becoming so crowded
with marksmen, athletes, swimmers and
oarsmen wearing medals on their breasts,
that the ordinary man will soon have to
return to blue coats with brass buttons,
in order to keep from sinking into utter
insignifcance.
A Wisconsin dentist recently received
the following from a patient writing for
advice: "My mouth is three inches
across, FIVE -eighths through the jaw.
Sum humoky on the edge. Shaped like
hoss-shoe, toe forrard. If you want
me to be more particular, I shall have
to come thar"
While Mr.. T. Fl. Kellogg, of Center
vile, Iowa, was eating twenty cents
worth of rib roast the other day, bur-
glars lifted $500 worth of watches and
chains out of his jewelry store. 1t was
luxurious dinner, that even kings
nlBnG DOdSb Vi, Dub uhr. hellOSS uOW
feels that he could have better spared a
better dinner. What shall it profit
man if he eat pound of liver and on
ions and watermelon, and lose about
half of his iewelry store?
Extraordinary phenomena have been
observed in connection with the "Cor-
pupa" volcano in the Province of
Castillo, Peru, which have caused great
alarm among the population. The
immense banks of snow which have
crowned its summit from time i'm
memorial have suddenly melted away
with such rapidity as to cause torrents
to rush down the sides of the mountain,
washing out immense quantities of
stones and earth. Tho river below,
being unable to contain the great body
of water SO suddenly added to it,
overfowed .its banks, causing great
damage and distress. A great chasm or
lateral crater next opened on one side,
throwing out volumes of smoke and
steam, as well as tongues of flame,
which were distinctly visible at night,
accompanied with loud subterranean
rumblings. It had never been supposed
that the Corpuna was or could be
volcano, and there is no tradition that it
was ever in a state of eruption. Nor
within the memory of man has its crown
of snow ever been absent.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19
The other day a visitor surprised

The other day visitor surprised
Richard Grant White saying to his baby:
"Oh-ny, no-ny, mussy tick hick he
little footsy tootsies out FUN undy zis
banky wanky OF catch coly woly an
have re snuffles." Just then he caught
sight of the visitor, and said to the in
FAINT /: "No, no, you must not expose
your pedal extremities by extending
them beyond the protecting cover of the
blanket, or you will lay your system
open to attacks of catarrhal affections. "
And the astonished child shrieked as
though some one had winged it with a
defective safety pin. Burlington Ha,Ok-
eye.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19
Sunbeam and 1.

We own no houses, no lots no lands,
No dainty viands for us are spread
By sweat OF our brows and toll Of our hands
We earn the pittance that buys us bread,
And yet we live in nobler state
Sunbeam and I-than the millionaries
Who dine off silvern and golden plate,
With lveried lacueys behind their chairs.
We have no riches in bonds or stocks,
No bank books show our balance to draw
Yet we carry safe key that unlocks
More treasures than Cresus ever saw /;
We wear no velvets or satins fine,
We dress in a very homely way;
But o, what luminous lustres shine
About Sunbeam's gowns and my holden
grey.
No harp, no dulcimer, no guitar
Breaks into singing at Sunbeams touch
But do not think that our evenings are
Without their music there is none such
In concert halls where the lyric air
In palpifant pillows swims and swoons;
Our lives are as psalms, and our foreheads
Ine calInS OI INC uetrts VI perlect Juues.
When we walk together Eve do not ride,
We are far too poor), it is very rare
We are bowed unto from the other side
or the street-but not for this do we care,
We are not lonely ; we pass along.
Sunbeam and land you cannot zee
eve CAM what tall and beautiful thron
or angels we have for company.
When cloudy weather obscures our skies.
And some days darken with drops of rain.
We have but to look at each others eyes,
And all is balmy and bright again.
All ours is the alchemy that transmutes
The dregs to elixer, the dross to gold,
And so we live on Hesperean fruits,
Sunbeam and land never grow old.
Richard Real.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19

An artesian well $3.50 feet deep has
been bored in Posth, Hungary. It is
the deepest in the world, being nearly
twice the depth of that in Paris. 1t
sends by jet of nearly boiling water
forty-two feet high.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19

The ammonia of the commercial fer
tilizers manufactured in the suburbs of
Augusta, Ga., has completely driven
out the chills and fever and other NAL
aria that used to infect the locality.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19
Total. 81, $40, ,9s7, ,l6s Total. .....si S,

Total 800 BOT l65
Since the 18th of March last, the capi-
tai has decreased so, 959, IT'S, the circula-
ton $50, 400: the profits on hand
SO, 1872 I'll, the loans $17, 7,S74, 512, and
the specie 1875, 297, 233. The deposits
have increased $40, 800, ,O4O, and the
United states stocks and other securities
$26, 1886, ,033.
The number of banks throughout the
Union is 2,056.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19
The Burning Of the Martyrs.

The following is from Strype's account
current of the expenses incurred at the
burning of Cranmer, Latimer and Rid
ley: In the Oxford edition we have the
items for Ridley and Latimer:
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19

Then you'll remember me-" as the
fellow with one leg remarked to the man
ufacturer of artificial limbs.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19

Minnesota is engaging in frog culture,
which consists chiefly in protecting the
eggs and young from their enemies by
wire screens. The product 80 far has
been about 5000 dozen legs quoted in
st. Louis at twenty cents dozen.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19

iolai'' '............''''' ....tl los I'd
This small sum was the expense of
burning at Smithfeld three of the most
prominent churchmen of the age.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19

Capital. .... .S470, 1913, ,336 Notes, bills of
Circulation.-. 9l ,2lS, 160 exchange, etc,
Deposits. s52 2sss, ,Ss2 etc. $685., ,e24, ,240
Fronts on hand lac, SOC, $50 IS. stocks and
other securi-
ties. ......... 452, SIT, ,966
Specie. ....... 29,25l, ,46s
Real estate.... 46,16S, 400
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19
The Banks of the United States.

The following statement exhibits the
condition of the banks of the United
States on the 29th of June, 1878:
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19

A blazing meteor which fell during a
recent storm near Beaufort, s. O., was
picked up and.found to be an irregularly
shaped rock, weighing about twenty
five pounds, and having thin coating
as if of lava. More remarkable was the
finding of fallen @rolite on the Cali.
fornia desert, near San Bernardino,
which weighed $50 pounds and contain
ed gold, silver and copper.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19

Stanley, the African explorer, is
claimed by his mother. A Mrs. Easta-
way, of Liverpool, England, writes to
Euery Saturday, Baltimore literary
journal, that she is Stanley's mother,
and that she can identify him by pecu-
liar India-ink marks upon his arms and
q mole on his neck. He was born, she
says, in New York, on October 26, 1943.
His father was sea captain, and died
fifteen years later.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19

Victor Hugo has habit of working
upon four or five subjects at once, rarely
knowing which he shall finish first. In
the morning he begins with which ever
subject first takes his fancy, and after
devoting himself for few hours to
verse, turns to his novel after luncheon,
and finishes the day by writing on some
theme utterly unlike that which he took
up in the morning, He has now in
preparation six prose works and four
poems.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19

In 1920 the best trotting time was a
mile in three minutes. In 1880 the time
was reduced to 2. 40; in 1910, to 2.28; in
1850, to 2.26; in 1860, to 2.192; in 1870,
2.171; in 1876, the best record was made
by Goldsmith Maid, who made mile
in 2.14. Practically, the limit Of trot-
ting speed may be said to have been
reached, though it is by no means i'm
probable that phenomenal animals may
decrease the time of Goldsmith Maid.