The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-03-21
Notes.

cents pound.
Buffers is selling in this market
at 2s a. 80 cents a-pound.
j. s. Powell will start a branch
harness shop at Benezette soon.
Charles Mead, had an eye injured
by falling limb while trimming an
apple tree a few days ago.
Births, Marriages, and Deaths are
published free in the columns of the
ADVOCATE. Send in these little items,
You can't come your greenback
dodge on John Sherman. 1t takes a
gold dollar to buy one of the new shin
ners, with the partridge.
Pigeon pot pie is so nice the way
to make one is first to catch your
pigeons, or shoot them, or buy them
from some other man.
Thomas Neill has sold his pron-
erty on Zion's Hill to ]. S. Hyde for
fifty acres of land near the upper end
of the Eagle Valley pond.
On the fourth page of this issue of
the ADVOCATE will be found a picture
of the new "dollar of thesons.n That
partridge is "purty Bird" don't it?
You desire to see all the news in
the paper, and yet you would stop in
the middle off good story, if we Editor
happened around for fear it might be
published.
Two or three professional pigeon
hunters have made their appearance
in "these diggings," they conclude,
that the pigeons have taken Greeley,s
advice and gone west.
Next thing to having the seven
year-itch is to have the candidates
flocking through the county, like an
army of turkey-bHzards, seeking
whom they may eat up somebody.
-Squires Painter and Maybee.
landed boat on Monday, with pro-
visions, etc, for down the creek.
This is a cheap mode of transporta-
ton and beats the P. & E. r. r. hol-
low in the matter of price.
--"ThanksgiYng Sermon by Rev.
j. M. Gillette, with Remarks and
Criticisms by "A Catholic as pub
lished respectively in the Elk Demo-
crdt and ADVOCATE" is the title of an
eighteen page phamrlet, which we
have for sale at this Office for % cents
a copy.
Most people, when the panic
strikes them Fright smart" hard,
economize by stopping the county
paper, three or four cents week
saved is better than six or eight cents
earned, you know. Therefore, when
you economize be sure and stop your
paper first.
1t don't make hurra's differ
ence to us whether you pay for your
subscription in Gold, Silver, or Green
backs, and we have been known to
take cord wood, apples, and cabbage,
and apple butter, but Just now we are
more in need of money than garden
sass"
-Luzerne county is rightly called
the mother of 'great' men. There is
Beamish, and Coon, and last but not
least, the mighty Gaines, Serrgeant-at-
Arms of the House, who could imag-
inc just what men were to be sub
penied in a certain case and the
length of a time each witness had to
serve. Such talent is happily rare.
The spectacle of a member of Con-
gress being on the floor of the House
too drunk to stand was witnessed last
week, Wednesday, the Hon. Beverly
Douglass of Virginia being the men,
ber who thus disgraced himself. In
justice to himself, the reputation of his
State, and the dignity of the body he
has disgraced, he should promptly re-
sign.
The Minneapolis Lunabern,an
and Manufacturer publishes a table of
the amount of lumber on hand at all
the lumber points in the United
States on the first Of January, which
sums up a total of 2,l63, ,O57, ,776 feet.
On the first of January, 1877, the total
stock on hand was 2,434, ,059,7 feet,
which has been decreased 271 ,OO1 ,997
feet in one year. The stock on hand
at the beginning of the present year
has been very materially decreased
during the past two months.
Will the following apply to our
town: "The wise daughter is the
pride of her father; yea, her mother
also delights in her, but the foolish
maiden bringeth sorrow. She bang
eth her hair over her right eye; she
tippeth her hat on the back of her
head. When evening cometh she
walketh on Main street, and with her
left eye she glanceth at the patient
youth, who coughed on the curbstone
and wipeth his nose with red ban
dana. Her handkerchief also is seen.
Then the youth smileth to himself
and followeth in her footsteps. She
setteth snare and scoopeth the way
farer in. Selah."
"A correspondent of the Erie
Gazette in Bradford has the following
about the railroads; The three rail-
roads do an immense business. The