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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-04-11

Tho war nows is moro pacific. The i'm
preston is gaining ground there will be nc
war between Russia and England. So moto
it bc.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-04-11
Notice to Creditors.

LOWS Jaynos as Administrators Of G. III. Spears,
deceased, Plaintiff, against Joseph G. Spears
and others, ofendants-CoMrLAINr FOR Re-
LIEF.
DURsUANT TO tho judgment rendered in tho
1 above stated action in the Probate Court, on
tho 9th Of February, 1873, notice is hereby
given to tho creditors of tho said G. ii. Spears
to como In and, provo their demands on or be-
fore tho first day Of June noxt, or oso they will
bc barred of all benefits undor tho aforesaid
judgment. '.iN
Given under my hand and official seal at Wal
halla, s. c., on the Sd day of April, 1875
- n,onn ,,,
LIS. RICHARD LEWIS,
49, Judge Of Probate Oconcc County.
April4, 1878 2O-Gt
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-04-11

Cardoza, ex-freasurer, has boon released
on an SO 5000 bond.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-10
SIXTH WARD.

Wangler, R. c., 17O Sycamore. ...... 500 $16 0
Wilder & Horton, 2Sl Sycamore 1910 III a
Wolf, Chas., 295 Main n............ 1900 81 4
Wamsgalz, j., 43O Main............... 30 i
Werning, H. N. Seventh and
Walnut. lfbb 90
Wits, j. f., ID T. S sixth ............... $50 III
Winters, J. t., II L. Sixth ......... 80 6
Wurmh Sol, Seventh and North 2l0 6 7
Williams, Wm.. Cuvet east f
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-10
FOURTH WARD.

Total Tax
Name and Residence. Value. and Penalty
Hosmer, H. B., Sc Eastern av.S1O0O SIG OIL
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-10
NINTH WARD.

#t Total Tax
Name and Residence Value. and Penalty
Randolph, I. f., .67 W. sixth.....ss3JoO $50 o.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-10
THIRTEENTH WARD.
FOURTEENTH WARD.

Weller Lenora 1856 MrMicken.... $1eG $3 10
Wuest, Adam, 96 Liberty. .......... 80 so
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-10
NINETEENTH WARD.

Washburn, T. W., 428 West
Fourth. -. 500 s6 Al
Wertheim, D.. 43l West Fifth ~ 60 93
Whitlaw, NJ. NJ, 433 West Fourth $50 u II
Weber, Anton, 8 Ramsey .............. SO 61
Wallis. j., 435 West ,th h..........., 1l6 8 ID
White, George j., ass West Fifth. 100 32l
Wertheiner 1. H., 272 Long
worth. $50 II 81
Warren, C.. H., go Longwo tn ...... SO 6l
Weatherby james, 105 Park........ $50 a 81
Weir, L. c.. 406 West Fourth....... 766 "a So
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-10

Building Assocaton.... S2oS " 55
And notice is hereby given, that
if the several amounts, as stated
above, are not paid on or before
the 1st day of December, A. ID.
1873, the Treasurer will collect
the same by distraint or other
wise, with extra penalties.
BY direction Of the County Com
missiOners.
W. s. CAPPELLER,
county Auditor:
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-10
FIFTH WARD.

Walker, Hiram & Sons, 68 Z Pearl 500 1922 Al
Wade p j.. 101 L. Pearl....,....,,... so ! 81
Worst, ?. A.. 4 and Sc T. Pearl e. 1856 4O q
Wa ker, j. w. Bros. q Co., 81
Broadway ay............................- 1875 6S u
Win he'll. Chas. c. g. Co., Front
and Lawrence ee..............--...... 1874 l08 vi
Withers. Elijah, 80 Ludlow . go 6 Al
Williams, Robert, llS Butler ...... 70 22l
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25
Singular Phenomenon.

There was once found, says the Inyo
(Cal.) Independent, pair of field glas-
ses in the desert near what is known as
Death Valley. The glasses are supposed
to have belonged to Hahn, a lost guide
of Wheeler's expedition. They were
brought into one of the interior towns
by an Indian, and purchased from him.
The most singular fact connected with
them is that every object within range
of where the glasses had been lying for
a wear Or moreis distinctly photographed
upon them. We have heard of such
phenomena before, but this is one of the
most remarkable instances we remem-
ber. Both object glasses are covered
with perfect and beautiful photographs
or etchings Of desert shrubs, stems,
branches, leaf. stalks. Leaves and leaf
let's are distinctly marked, as if laid on
by master hand. There is no mixture
or confusion of one plant with another,
each having clear border of unmarked
glass, rendering it probable that the sun
or lightning photograph, or whatever il
may be, was received through the eye
glass. These pictures seem to occupy
a position about in the center of each OF
the obiect-glasses, but little nearer the
plane than the convex side.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25
,o,v.,. or tho f,roxvr of sco,Inpd.


At Edinburg, Scotland, some years since, the
Jewels of the Grown were locked in box, that
box in another, and so on, until they were sup
posed to be burglar-proof. They were then
locked up in the vault of the castle, there &,
remain for one hundred years, the keys being
placed in q mortar and fred into the sea.
Scsrce fifty years passed by, and the modern
lock-picker opens the vault and boxes without
trouble. So the science of medicine, when
studied with the aid of chemistry and the mi
croscope becomes plain and simple, and dis
eases that we're regarded as incurable genera
ton ago, now readily yield to remedies employ
ed by the modern and progressive physician
A decade of years since, and women were
taught to believe that their peculiar diseases
and weaknesses we're incurable but now hun
dreds and thousands Of once bedridden womer
in the United States will testify to the fact thai
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription has effected
their perfect and permanent cure.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 9Th 1876.
DR.. r. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y.
Dear Sir About five years since my wife
was taken sick, and though we employed thu
best physicians in our city, yet she gradual,
grew worse 30 that she was confined to the bed
Every remedy have tried, or could find, failet
to cure or even give relief. At last procured
bottle of your Favorite Prescription and t.
my surprise it gave almost instant relief, ant
with little perseverance, an entire cure wa
effected. Ever gratefully yours,
GEO. BODENMILLER.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25
The Cat.

The cat was the animal selected in
the middle ages of superstition and
witchcraft, to represent the familiar
companion in which was embodied the
evil spirit supposed to attend all those
who practiced the black art in former
times. Long before this time, however,
as some people are probably aware, the
cat was one Of the most highly favored
animals living; petted, pampered, care
fully protected, and actually worshiped
by the then most civilized people in the
world, the ancient Egyptians. How
this reverence came to be paid to the
cat in particular by this extraordinary
people it is quite impossible to deter
mine, but by some it is supposed to
have originated from the benefits con-
ferred on mankind by its destruction OF
vermin and reptiles; at any rate, if the
Egyptian cats were as useful as they are
represented to have been, the care of
them is easily accounted for. Though
it seems somewhat difficult to understand
how the sportsmen of the Nile trained
their cats, not only to hunt game, but
to retrieve it from the water, the hunt
ing scenes depicted on the walls at
Thebes, and on a stone now in the Brit
ish Museum, afford proof of the Egypt
ian cats services in this respect.
1t is generally supposed that nothing
will induce q cat to enter water /; brt
this is clearly fallacy, like many other
popular notions about the animal world.
The tiger is an excellent swimmer, as
many have found to their cost and SO
the cat, another member of the tiger
family, can swim equally we'll if it has
any occasion to exert it's powers, either
in quest of prey or to effect its escape
from some enemy. AS cats are exceed
ingly fond of fish, they will drag them
| alive out Of their native element when
ever they get chance. They have
even been known to help themselves
| out of aquaria that have been left un-
covered, and on moonlight nights they
may be seen watching for the unwary
occupants of O fsh-pond, during the
spawning season especially. Again, q
cat will take to the water,,in the pursuit OF
rat, fact that was proved by friend
of ours few years ago.
Diana or Pasht, as that goddess was
called in Egypt, was the tutelarS deity
of cats. Various reasons are assigned
for this curious selection of the cat as
the animal worthy of being dedicated to
the moon. We find that according to
Plutarch, the cat was not only sacred tc
the moon, but an emblem of it; and that
a figure of a cat was fixed on sistrum
to denote the moon, just as q figure of {
frog on ring denoted man in embryo
AS before stated, the Egyptians treat
ed these animals with unusual care aut
attention during their lifetime; hence i
is not surprising to find that the deatl
of cat was regarded as family misfor
tune, in consequence of which the house
hold went into mourning. The willfu
destruction of a cat in Egypt is looke'
upon as very serious offence even now
but in the good old days Qor cats) q
Bubastis the offence, even supposing
to have been accidental, was punishe
with prompt severity.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25
Saved for Greatness.

Madame de Maintenon, who became
the wife of Louis XIV. of France, and
for the last thirty years of his life exer-
cised a controlling influence over his
opinions and policy, had narrow es-
cape from premature burial in childhood.
Her parents migrated from France to
the Isle of Martinique when she was
ten years old. On the voyage she was
taken i'll, and the sickness ended in ap'
parent death. The funeral rites were
over the last look taken of the body
about to be dropped into the sea 3
cannon was loaded to be fred over the
corpse when the mother, ordinarily
unloving, insisted on seeing her child
once more. To her surprise, she found
the heart still beating, and in delirun
of Joy, declared that the child was no
dead, but would recover. The hope
born of rapture, proved true prophecy
and the little girl, 30 nearly given t.
burial in the ocean, was spared to be
come one of the most distinguished
women in French history.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25
San StefanO.

San Stefano, where the peace negotia-
tions between Russia and the porte were
conducted, is under the shadow of the
old walls, which have not been besieged
for four hundred years. Close by are
the Seven Towers, within whose massive
keep a Russian ambassador has often
been imprisoned, and the walled-up gate
through which the Moslems expect that
the Ch. istiaus will re-enter Constantine
pie when they recapture it. Here, too,
according to a London Standard CORES
pondent; is the chapel in whose dovoutly
worshipped wells live the miraculous
fish which jumped out of the frying pan
on the day of the taking of Constantine
pie, and have lived on until now with
one side cooked, and the other waiting
until, in the fullness of things, it can in
it's turn be submitted to the fire. Dur
ing the massacre of Chic, a humber OF
Greek children who had been carried of
by the Turks were ransomed and after
ward educated by philanthropic socie.
ty. One of the boys who was ransomed
and educated by Americans, has become
wealthy householder at San Stefano
1t was under the roof of this Chiote
exile, who had been trained by Ameri
can missionaries, that the conqueror O
Turkey, the Grand Duke Nicholas
received shelter while the Idipiomatists
were chattering over the conditions O
peace.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25
Curious Discoveries.

The old question, where do all the pins
go to =? is not near so interesting as this
conumdrum: How do things get where
they are found ? The poems of Propertus,
a Latin poet who lived half century be-
fore the Christian Era, were found in a
wine-cellar. The discovery was made
in the nick of time, for the mildew and
the rats had begun their destructive
work on the parchment manuscripts.
But how came these poems in that wine
cellar Did some bother, lover Of the
muse. carry them down to read during
intervals of rest, and then, overcome by
the fumes of his own wine, forget to
carry them away2
1t is said that one of the cantos of
Dante's Inferno was found, after be-
ing long mislaid, hidden away beneath
a window-sill. Who hid the precious
manuscript? Did he hope a reward
would be offered for its recovery?
We can understand how Luther's
Table Talk" came to be hidden in the
foundations of an old house. Pope Gre
CORY XIII ordered its suppression, and
so it became dangerous for any one tc
be found in possession of the book
When discovered, it was "lying in G
deep obscure hole, wrapped in strong
linen cloth, which was waxed all owe
with beeswax within and without. Thu
man who hid it was determined that thu
book should be read by somebody whel
better days had come.
An old cabinet held for time forgot
ten manuscript which the world is glat
til author found. 1t was the first vol
umc of Waverly." 81 had written,
says Scott, "the greatest part of tn
first volume, and sketched other pas
sages, when mislaid the manuscript
and only found it by the merest accident
as was rummaging the drawer of a
old cabinet, and took the fancy of finish
ing it,"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25

noise and no obstruction whatever in the
street. The motive power was to pro-
ceed from stationary engines placed be-
low ground one mile apart and acting
upon shafting through iron pillars. In
stead of an endless chain, friction-rollers
were to be used, and each of the engines
was to have one-third more power than
necessary, which was to be utilized by
the others when one became disabled.
The very novelty of the project evoked
the derision of the untechnical public, but
at least one competent engineer avowed
his belief in its practicability; and,
though Mr.. Speer may be disappointed
in the discouragement he met with, he
has the silent satisfaction that belongs
to all real inventors, of nurturing 0
bold, well-meant, and picturesque de-
vice, the failure of which takes from the
profits but not from the honor of his
efforts.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25
Exercising in Old Age.

At eighty, says writer in Hdrper's
Magazine, a gentleman in New York
city commenced trying to walk up the
stairs of the Evening Post building,
and there are eleven flights of them,
of which there are nine from the street
to his Office. Any of the elevator men
will tell you that, when the elevator is
at all full, of he will 60 cheerily up all
the nine flights, seemingly none the
worst for it. Within year he has told
the writer that he still continued dumb
bell and club work before breakfast
daily, and simply because it pays and
he is certainly still wiry, active man,
even though it is sixty.two years since
Re wrote Thanatopsis. Palmerston,
fox-hunting when past eighty Wander.
bilt, no youngster, without groom or
companion, urging his blooded trotters
over Harlem Lane at slashing pace ;
Gladstone, at sixty-eight, telling
Hawarden trees by the hour, and for the
benefit the exercise brings are but q
fewinstances of what old men can dc
when they try. None of these are more
surprising than, in an intellectual field,
the learning of German by Caleb Cush-
ing after hehad passed seventy, or Theirs
activity at nearly eighty, or, in all ways,
than Moses doing the forty years best
work in his life after he had passed
eighty, and yet with eye not dim nor
natural force abated. If some men, by
oiling their joints daily-for, as Mac.
laren says, "they are oiled every time
they are put in motion, and when they
are put in motion only can keeI
those joints from grating and creakine
and moving stiffly, even into ripe ole
age, why may not others as we'll? Ano
which Of these things which man can
if he will, do 80 readily, cannot wo
man do as we'll 1t needs no money
very little time, little or no presen
strength. One thing only it does need
and that is perseverance. One.third o
the time often given to the piano viii
more than suffice. One less study a da,
of those which are to-day overtaxing 81
many school girls, and instead judici
Gus, vigorous, outdoor exercise aimee
directly at the weak muscles, and takeI
as regularly as ones breakfast, and Ii
there any doubt which will pay the bet
ter, and make the girl the happier, th'
filter for all her duties, and the more at
tractive as we'll We trust that the da
is not far off when no boy or girl will b
sent to q school where care is not take
to develop vigorous healthy bodies, an
when that vigor and health will be til
rule and not the exception among me
and women alike, and in every walk i
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25
FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE.
Nerves.


You tell me your nerves are go fragile,
And probably, Lucy, you're right;
But that seems fine way of saying
You're easily thrown in a fright.
Did nerves make you shrek with such Ioudness
When Carlos tooth bruised you in play,
Declare you would have hydrophobia,
And cry nearly all the next day?
Do nerves make you rush for the pillows,
Whenever q thunderstorms near,
And stop both your ears with your fingers
And act almost frantic with fear?
Do nerves make you fly from beetle,
And yell II snakes within sight,
And not for million of money,
Dare sleep all alone in the night
Well, Lucy, your nerves may be frsgile
don't contradict you, my dear;
But know a good definition
For people who won't conquer fear.
It's better to give thing, always,
Exactly the name it deserves;
And if ones an out-and-out coward,
laugh when hear about " nerves."
Edgar Fdrceu.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25
's Ishpo.''

The old red barn had stood at the end
of the lane for years, even before the
academy had been built at Greenville.
It was in ruins now; it's days of useful
ness had gone; it was the home of rats,
and sometimes shelter for stray tramps
who might venture down the lane. II
had once been the Saturday play house
Of the academy boys, as the sides aud
corners could well testify; and all the
loose boards were we'll whitfield with the
iack-knife-that most wonderful of all
knives in the eyes of an American boy.
But the old barn had stood the storms
and sunshine of many years, and was
likely to stand in ruins for many years
to come. Here and there were patches
of different boards from the original
red, and the one window was boarded
up with an old door that had once been
painted green.
But the most curious patch on the
barn was directly over the door, where 9
board had vanished, and an old black.
board with white letters taken its place.
The letters were old and faded, and oc.
cupied all of the opening. The letters
looked like this:
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25

Russia has wonderful Swedish gun
for use in it's feet. 1t is worked after
the manner of pianoforte playing, moves
to and fro in section of o circle and
sweeps all the ground that it covers in
a most marvellous manner. 1t is some.
thing like sweeping lawn with water
from the jet of a garden hose moved
right and left by the operator, and can
be carried up into the maintop for firing
on the enemy's deck and inside fortifca'
tions. In close quarters it would sweep
the enemy's decks of combatants.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25

The Greatest Discovery of the AGe is DR..
Tobias celebrated Venetian Lniment 30 years before
the public and warranted to Darrhea, Dysentery
Ooic and Spasms taken internay and Group, Chronic
Rheumatism, Sore Tbroats, Outs, Bruises Old Sores
and Pains in the Limbs, Back, and Ohest externally
1t has failed. No family will be without II
after once giving it fair trial. Price, 40 cents. Dr.
TOBIAS VENETIAN HORSE IMMINENT, in Pint
Bottles at One Dollar, is warranted superior to any
ther, or NO PAY, for the Of Ooo, Outs, Bruises
Old Sores. etc. Sold by all Druggists Depot-1 Pari
plaza New York
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25

WAR DECLARED. .-Veterinary susssons all
over the country are ferce!y denouncing toe
parties who put up extra large packages OF
worthless trash and sell it for Condition Pow
ders. They say that Sheridan's Cavalry Con.
dition Powders are the only kind now known
that are worth carrying home.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25

"Use great prudence and circumspec,
ton in choosing thy wife," said Lord
Burleigh to his son; :" for from thence
will spring all thy future good or evil;
and it is an action of life like unto a
stratagem of war, wherein man can
err but once"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25

In 1916 Joseph Nicephore invented
photography. He succeeded in securing
picture printed by light in the camera.
A view of Kew Church. taken by him in
1927, was the first photograph from
nature taken in England. 1t is in the
British Museum.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25

Eighteen thousand men are now en-
gagged in the express business. Express
companies cover go, 900 miles of railroad,
and it is estimated that their messengers
daily travel 100000 miles. Three
thousand five hundred horses are en-
ployed, and over 5000 offices are re-
quired to transact thsir business, and an
amount of capital III invested not less
than So 0,0O0, 900.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25

Mothers, Mothers!! NIothers!!! Don't
fail to procure Mrs. Winsow's Soothing Syrup
for all diseases incident to the period of teeth
ing in children. 1t relieves the child from pain,
cures wind collie, regulates the bowels, and, by
giving relief and health to the child gives rest to
the mother. 1t is an old and well-tried remedy
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25

Where are you going to Stops
This is a question often asked by the friends
of those who are about to visit New York CITY.
To thoae who have not decided, we can say that
there are few hotels that give the satisfaction,
both in rates and accommodations, that charac-
terize the Grand Central Hotel, New York.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25

Johnson's Anodyne Liniment is richly worth
ten dollars bottle in certain cases. For in
stance, in cases OF diphtheria, Group and asth-
ma when the sufferer is almost dead for want
of breath, and something is required to act
instantly. 1t costs only thirty-five, cents
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25

Do not buy yeast powder or baking. powder
of short weight. A manufacturer that defrauds
by short weight will not hesitate to make adul-
terated goods. You can always rely on Dooley 3
Yeast Powder being full weight and strictly
,o,,ra
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25

Several fine buildings are going up in
New York. A number Of large banks
have gone up there lately.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25

A Miserable Being
ia onei that il bilious. Get from your druggist
a package Of Quirk's Irish Tea. Price 20 e.s. /,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25

IA Farmers Son or Daughter" See Adv