The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-02-21
THURSDAY, FEB. 81, 1873.
The sleigbing is getting thin.

lie SlelgDlng Is gettlhg lnlh'
Election day pissed off quietly.
The snow is fast disappearing.
Call at this office for note paper
and envelopes.
Go to J. H. Hagerty's for choice
groceries.
Our Wilcox correspondent sends
an interesting letter this week.
Sheriff Oyster has sold his horse
morgan" and purchased neat black
pony.
The Pennsylvania railroad COM
pany employees 1000 men in Blair
county, to whom 100000 are paid
monthly.
Isaac Avery will build house in
the spring on the lot at the corner of
South and Elk streets, west of the
Printers" property.
That interesting story "Auditors'
Settlement" will be discontinued after
next week, when we will be prepared
to give more reading matter.
The bill before the Legislature to
fix the pay of jurors proposes to re-
duce the pay from three dollars to two
dollars per day and mileage.
The communication from Dry Saw
Mill is too much of the nature of mis-
cellaneous matter to appear in our in
side. We hope to receive more items
from the same correspondent.
We want a correspondent in each
township in the county. All COM
munications, or items of interest sent
us will receive our attention, and for
such favors we will stand ready at any
time to recipocate.
The Rev. A. J. Mcfarland, will
preach in the NJ. Z. Church the first
Sunday in March, morning and even
ing, and OH the Monday following will
deliver lecture in the same place on
National Reform.
There will be a festival next
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
evening at Rhines' Hall. The object
is to raise funds to assist the Lutheran
Sunday school. All are invited to
participate.
Mr. G. Z. Lyman, of Lock Haven,
addressed the citizens of Ridgway last
Friday evening. at the court house on
the principles of the Greenback party.
The Court House was crowded, and
the audience seemed well pleased with
the speaker.
The silver bill has passed the Sen
ate by the decided vote of forty-eight
for to twenty-one against. The bill
now goes to the house for concurrence.
The free coinage section was omitted.
Senators Cameron and Wallace of this
State voted in the affirmative.
Charles Woods who committed an
outrage on girl eleven years old, in
Oswego City, n. Y, on Sunday last,
was indicted on Tuesday, plead
guilty, and was sentenced to twenty
years, imprisonment in the Auburn
prison. Which we would call quick
justice, and pity it is that the men
who rob poor people of their hard
earned savings, can not receive their
just deserts as speedily.
Mrs. Adam Herman, of York,
was burned to death on Monday.
While she was engaged in preparing
O linament over a stove for the purpose
of bathing the throat of her son Will
liam, a bottle of turpentine caught fire
and exploded in her hand, scattrring
the burning fluid over her person and
Immediately her in flames from head
to foot. Her husband ard son William
were badly burned in trying to extin-
quish the flames.
The officers of the Post Office De-
partment most familiar with the sub
jeat estimate that the revenues of the
department are now suffering at the
rate of not less than quarter of a mil
lion dollars per month by the food of
stamps sold by postmasters at small
country offices, at discount, for use
in cities and towns. The Postmaster
at st. Louis alone shows conclusively
that his Office is defrauded of revenue
to the amount of SlS0,000 per annum
in this way, and a special agent in
Maine reports that postmaster there
has confessed to having peddled one
thousand dollars worth,
Alexander Wilson of Clarion
county, will be hundred years old if
he lives till the 4th of next June. He
has lived in the county since 1901,
and was among a party who went to
that part of the country to take up
land. He received two hundred and
sixty acres at sixty cents an acre, and
lived below Curlsville for three
months without seeing white mans
face. The gentleman is hale and
hearty yet and goes about visiting his
children, of whom he has ten. All
are alive but one. His eldest son is
seventy-two years old. while the baby
is nearly fifty;