The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-28

which was the crock that contained
them. The crime was committed at
about half.past nine or ten o'clock In
the evening, the oysters being on the
platform near the store of the grocery.
The thieves might have had decency
enough to return the tub and crock.
Sneak thieves entered the store of
Robert I. Campbell by the back win
dow, OH Friday night Several boxes
of cigars, one or two new hats, canned
goods, and several other articles to the
amount of $50 were taken No in
surance, but if the thieves attempt the
trick again they will need to be in
sured. 1t is about time the sneak thief
business was ended in this village. A
| dose Of buckshot in the bodies of the
miscreahts would doubtless do much
toward breaking up the nuisance.
| Progress Is the name of new
weekly just issued in Philadelphia by
that veteran journalist and able writer,
John w. Forney, and the work bears
in unmistakable lines the impress of
that master mind. Progress is issued
every week, at $500 IA year, and its
twenty broad pages are full of interest
ing and instructive reading matter for
men and women. Nothing to equal
this newspaper has ever been issued in
this country, and we have no doubt
the enterprise will be, as it richly
merits, a paying one. Send for u
specimen copy, it will only cost you 10
cents. Address John w. Forney, 7th
and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia.
Santa Claus about these days looms
up before the little ones as the father
of all good things, atid they count with
many happy thoughts the long, long
days that are to intervene before the
great Christmas day arrives. What
visions of sweetmeats, toys, sleds,
before them, and yet we all know that
their experience is the experience of
mankind, that there is more joy in the
anticipation than in the taste of the
fruit. Christmas and Santa Claus are
always young to the children, and it is
well that it is so, for do not the re-
membranes of Christmas in time of
youth make us forget harder strife in
m6fs mature years
Thanksgiving day, and all the peo
pie should be thankful for the MANY
good things they have received during
the past year. This custom of getting
together once year to thank the giver
of all good for his mercies during the
past year is very appropriate and
pleasant one, and serves to make all
people little YEster in The year to
come. After all4 holidays. are very
beneficial to morals, and we have, per-
| haps, too few of them. A little relax
alton from the cares and strifes of life
help man to forget his troubles or
1:give him more strength to combat
them. This morning, at 10 o'clock,
there will be services at the Methodist
Church and a sermon by Rev. H. V.
Talbot. Let all attend.
On Sunday night, just as the Meth
odist congregation were going home, n
bright blaze was seen in the direction Of
the lower end of South street. Yeeditor
thought at first that his house was on
fire, and wondered how it would seem
sleeping in the chicken coop. On get
ting nearer the fire our fears were dis
solved, as we saw that the wood shed
at Prof. Dixon's house was in flames.
The shed was within few feet of the
house, and with seasoned wood piled
between the two buildings. In few
minutes the bucket brigade succeeded
in putting out the fire, the amount of
damage being demoralIzed shed, Il
few cords of wood and an ash barrel.
The ash barrel will explain away all
mysteries that might be connected
with the fire a barrel of kerosene
oil was in the shed, which was ablaze
when NJ. S. Kline and B. 1. Tay-
lor rolled it out into the lot, thus
saving the oil, and al the same time
removing a dangerous substance from
the flames. No telling what damage
might have resulted had the oil barrel
exploded, but the likelihood is that
many of the people standing near
would have been seriously injured
The fire was lively for few minutes,
and had there been any wind to speak
of we would now have a tirst-class
local. AS it is, we warn all persons
against having barrels for storing ashes
anywhere hear the house.
The never ceasing tread of the
tramp is enlivened daily by the MUIR
ders, stealing and other crimes the
aforementioned individual is guilty Of.
Unprotected women are his best hold,
and when the man of the house is
away he dictates to the ladies of the
house, if they be timid ones, the kind
of food and the quantity he will have
set before him. What we shall do with
this nuisance is perplexing question,
that even our wise lawmakers are una
BILE to grant satisfactory solution. To
feed them seems to increase their race,
as their instinct leads them in drOves
to the place where they have been well
treated, until they become an alarming
nuisance. OF course, we can't kill
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