The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-06-20
Editorial Notes.

THE Congress of the great powers
now in session at Berlin is likely to
break up in a row, and then war.
CHICAGO will have monster parade
of the red flag communists, without
arms, but if molested they will shoul-
der their muskets.
WAsHINGToN's monument, that
eye-sore of generation, is at last to
be completed, Congress having appro-
priated 100000 for that purpose.
CHRISTIAN X. Ross Gather of
Charley Ross) has been appointed
Master Warden of the port of Phila-
delphia, by Governor Hartranft.
INSANITY is proved by statistics to
be on the increase, owing, no doubt,
to the pressure on the mind of people
genererally in this fast age of steam.
A GENERAL uprising of the Indians
and costly Indian war seems emil
nent. determination really seems to
be the only medicine to give the red
devils.
WILL General Grant be the Repub-
lican candidate for President in 1880 q?
His chances seem to be good as that of
any other man, and stranger things
have happened.
IN the Hungarian exhibit at the
Paris Exposition is a monster tun,
eighteen feet in diameter, and eigh-
teen feet long, and capable of holding
$1,000 gallons of wine.
THE Crown Prince of Germany, re-
turns thanks to President Hayes, and
the American people, for the hesympathy
manifested on account of the recent
attempted assassination of Emperor
William.
A WOMAN in Muncie, Ind, threw
red pepper in the face of the editor of
the NeaOs, and then administered a
brutal horse whipping, all for an al.
legged slanderous article. The woman
was arrested.
A CARD written by James Gorden
Bennett removing the seal of secrecy
from the seconds in the Bennett-May
unpleasantness has been published.
The only question that suggests itself
to our mind in this connection is, who
cares?
CONGRESS at last has adjourned, after
an eight-months session, in which
nothing hasbeen done, either good, bad
or indifferent, and the prospects Of an
extra session to provide for the pay
ment of the Canadian fish award, is
more than possible.
JUNE 17TI has come and gone, and
no car wheels are stopped, as was
threatened by the communists. Law
and order will be preserved at any
cost, and the sooner all evil-disposed
persons understand that, the better for
them and the country.
TIMES are hard, and the commonest
necessities of life are denied thousands
of honest, hard-working men and
women. And yet to see the style of
dress, and the extravaganza indulged
in by the favored few, one would think
this land of milk and honey.
THAT the present season will bean
abundant one is foreshadowed by the
encouraging reports from the crops O
the West. In Michigan the only
thing to be feared from the growing
wheat is that it may attain too rapid {
growth to enable the straw to obtain
sufficient strength to prevent lodging
THAT great political reformer ant
postmaster, Petroleum V. Nasby, i
now in Washington assisting in con
Quoting the Potter investigation. H
says they will surely succeed in un
seating the "yooserper, and that they
are bound that Tilden shall have tn,
Presidency, as he bought and paiC
for it.
THE true story of the assassination
of President Lincoln has been told b.
the manager of the theatre where tn
deed was accomplished. From this i
appears that Booth did not contem
plate the crime, but did it upon sud
den impulse. The assassination o
Julius Caesar by Brutus furnished tn
model.
THE appointment of Gen. John c
Fremont to the governorship of Ari
zona territory is one that will b
sanctioned by the whole American
people. This man who once SCENE
destined to be President of the Unite
States, now, in his extremity, accept
the governorship of territory. Yet
such is greatness.
DEATH removed from the world
busy throng one of the brightest an
best men when he called hence VIII
liam Cullen Bryant, and, although h
is gone, his name will live foreve
among the immortals. On Wednes
day, June IL, 1873, he breathed hi
last. He was born at Cummington
Hampshire county, Massachusetts
November 8, 1894 In his nineteent
wear he wrote "Thanatopsis," and 6
the age of eighty 1.-The Flood
Years. These two poems alone bein
sufficient to secure for their author
fame more enduring than marble.