The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-04
Notes.
Rainy day last Sunday.
w. B. Smith is in town.

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w. B. Smith is in town.
The jury list is published in
another column.
Special meeting of Co. FL on
Saturday evening next.
Adjourned term of court last
Saturday. See proceedings in another
column.
Money is and per cent, on call
in New York. Ifit wasn't SO far we'd
holler for some.
The bell punch may be very
fine punch, but give us the old fash
ioned kind with little sugar, if you
please.
Princeton College must be a
healthy place now. Very like the
Irishman's free fight, 'if you see a
head hit it,"
How the devil must ache to get
hold of Beecher and Ingersoll, and
teach them by actual experience that
their no hell theory is a snare and q
delusion.
1t will be lawful to catch trout
after the 1st of April. Prepare yonr
.-BrookviNe Rpublican.
Thank you, our boys take theirs
strait.
AT the First National Boot and
Shoe Store, j. S. Powell Proprietor,
you will find a new and large assort-
ment of ladies' and gentlemen's shoes
and CATERS, of the newest styles and
lowest prices.
Timber dealers are happy
Harrisburg Telegraph. Why should
they pine e?-PubAc Opinion.-You
ought to be ash -amed of such silly
pun. Cameron Press. Oak long with
your cu-cumbersome cherryness.
Butter 2S cents Il pound. Eggs
16 cents dozen. Potatoes so cents a
bushel. Beef steak 10 cents pound.
Flour 81. so to $500 barrel. Onion
sets s to 10 cents quart. Good white
sugar ten pounds for dollar.
The New York Herald is becom-
ing very enterprising. The other day
that paper started a hurricane, causing
the loss of the English training ship
Eurydice with three hundred persons
on board, and shook London up so
badly that she thought the world was
at an end.
The people Of Bergen, N. j., were
mad the other day because dog bit
and horribly mangled a child, and a
party of masked men, armed with re-
volvers, began an indiscriminate
slaughter of the innocent dogs, until
Bergen didn't contain enough dogs to-.
swear by.
The cost to Elk county for the
maintenance of the boys at the Penna-
sylvania Reform School is So and 450-
1000 cents day. VIM. Malone, VIM.
Hartman, and Wilson Greenawalt are
the boys now there from this county
and the cost is little less than four
hundred dollars year to the Elk
county taxpayers.
Eugene Lawrence takes up several
columns in Harper's Weekly to prove
that the silver dollar is worth only
ninety cents; but with beans at ten
cents a pound, We'll take our silver
dollar and buy just as many ten
pounds as Eugene can with his gold
dollar, and if he isn't convinced of his
error, Wen count beans with him.
BrOOkUiUe Democrat.
Keep your boys home at night.
The practice of allowing boys to con-
gregate on the street corners at night,
where swearing and obscene language
is INDUCED in, besides any amount of
improper actions, is only allowing
them privilege that must in time
give to the world a worthless, and
wrong-headed set of men. If parents
remember that boys make men there
would be fewer boys on the street at
night. The Apostle Paul says "evil
communications corrupt good man
ners" and we all know that the nightly
Of the worst boys in
town is but an association of evil
doers.