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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-07-18
A Tunnel Costing Four Million Dollars.

The Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicle
says: Ground was broken for the Sutro
tunnel on the 10Th of October. 1869.
The work has, therefore, required eight
years, eight months and ten days to
complete. The progress was very slow
at first, all drilling having been by hand;
but in the spring of 1874, experiments
with Burleigh drill having demon
strated the advantages to be derived
from the use of that machine, carriage
capable of supporting six of those drills
while at work was made, and on the 22d
day of June, 1874, four were started.
The progress was now much more rapid
than ever before in the history of tun-
neling in the world, and on August 7,
in the same year, two more drills we're
put to work. This made six altogether.
From that date the average progress
was over 300 feet per month up to April,
1877, when, the header having entered
the broad Comstock mineral pelt, the
heat became SO intense that two drills
had to be taken off the carriage. From
that day the average monthly progress
did not exceed 250feet Work has been
continued uninterruptedly from the
time that ground was broken until to-
day. but at times only two men were at
work in the tunnel. The greatest pro-
gress was in December, 1876, when the
heading was advanced AIT feet, and the
least in October, 1870, when it was only
advanced nineteen feet. The total
length of the tunnel, as stated in the
official chart published last September,
is 20, 40 feet. The tunnel being con-
nected with the Comstock workings, the
next move of Mr.. Sutro will doubtless
be to start north and south drifts to
connect with all the mines on the lode.
The work has cost nearly 100000
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-07-18
The Palace of the Doges of Venice.

We visited the Palace of the Doges,
writes correspondent from Venice, and
found it the most interesting historical
structure that we have yet visited. Here
are the council chamber and the trial
room of the Council of Ten, and the
passages leading to the Bridge of Signs,
from the trial room, all 80 perfect and
we'll planned as to need no explanation.
There is also the anti. chamber of the
three Inquisitors of the Republic and
the series of cells, or rather stone dun
geons, where political prisoners were
confined and secretly killed. There are
at least twenty of these dungeons, some
of them underground, narrow passages
leading from one to the other, and there
is also in these dark and dismal holes
the place where prisoners were executed,
with drain pipe to carry off the blood
to the canal. What human misery there
must have been in these dungeons
The various rooms are decorated very
elegantly and the walls and ceilings
covered with paintings, by all the great
Venetian artists, most of them repre-
senting battles of the republic. The
library in this palace is famous all over
the world, consisting of 220, 900 volumes
and AZ, 200 manuscripts. They fill sew
eral immense rooms, and some of them
have marked on their backs the date of
publication as far back as the twelfth
century. The interior of the palace is
immense and the rooms are all large.
with lofty ceilings and the most elegant
ornamentation. They are evidently Just
in the condition that they were left
when the first Napoleon took Venice and
broke up tha Inquisition, dismantled
the prisons and did many other good
things for Venice, though he was not
generally in the habit of doing well for
those he conquered.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-07-18
HydrOphObia. or Fright

We clip the following from recent
Paris letter. A frightful death, attrib-
uted, and prima facie rightly, to hydro
phobia, has befallen young, amla-
BILE, and accomplished gentleman, who
seemed entering on life with the world
at his feet. NJ. Cheri Montigny, son OF
M. Montigny, manager OF the Gymnase
theatre, and the Incompatible actress,
Rose Cheri, who, twenty-one years ago,
sacrificed her own life and saved that of
her infant by sucking his neck when he
was attacked with Group, has died in
terrible agony after the bite of a dog.
He lived with his father in a handsome
villa with large garden, at Is Rue de
la Pompe Passy. A play of his, " Une
Innocente," was in the bills for perform
ance this week; M. Montigny, seventy
wears old. was about to make over the
theatre to him.
A fortnight ago, M. Cheri Montigny,
coming home late, received, as usual, q
deep-mouthed welcome from two pet
dogs in the courtyard, one Danish
coach dog, the other a large terrier.
He was wont to encourage them to bark
and Jump upon him. On this occasion
the terrier, pushing his caresses only a
little further than usual, slightly bit his
nose. He perceived little blood, and
on going to bed wiped his face and
thought no more of it. Next morning
it was ascertained that the dog had bit
ten several other dogs, and he was taken
to veterinary surgeon, who did not
suspect hydropbobia, but reported his
death, which took place in three days,
from internal inflammation.
M. Cheri Montigny became uneasy
He concealed the matter from his father,
but bought several medical books, and
waited with anxiety the fifteenth day,
when he read that hydrophobia would
declare itself. Last Wednesday he dined
with Madame Judic. looked well and
gay, spoke of the dog biting him, but
showed no uneasiness. On Thursday
he went to the review, and returned with
headache and fever. Next day he was
treated for sunstroke, but on Saturday
he said he knew he was going mad, and
asked an old servant to kiss him for the
last time, begged to have straight
waistcoat put on, that he might harm no
one, and died soon after in horrible con-
tortions.
It is very remarkable that he had no
symptom of illness before the review,
and the question arises whether his i'm
agination, acting on brain disordered
by sunstroke, did not make him fancy
he had hydrophobia. There is no re-
port of mad dogs at Passy, and nothing
is said about the Danish companion OF
the terrier. The France indeed reports
that groom, who was also bitten, is at
deaths door, but this is not confirmed
by the latest papers.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-07-18
Not n Case of Suicide.

There was picnic in Eby's Grove.
near Dayton, Ohio, one day recently.
Some of the young men wandered down
the river. In secluded nook they dis
covered pile of female clothing, They
looked into the river for signs of life or
death but saw nothing. A newspaper
reporter of the party took down all the
surroundings, rummaged among the
clothes, and found there were several
sets OF suits of them, little and big. IN
one of the pockets love letter was
found, written by Hal to Julia. The
clothing was tenderly bundled up and
taken to the picnic camp, stuffed unde
buggy scat, and the party started
home feeling very sad. 1t did not occur
to them at once that it was little
strange young woman and two or three
little girls should commit suicide all at
once. 1t was perhaps Julia and her lit
tie sisters who had thus plunged into
eternity. 1t was n very sad case all
agreed - disappointed love perhaps
and on the theory of suicide the love
letter would be good thing for the
account. The clothes were taken to the
police office. The reporter was salts.
fed that he had good thing. The
account was read evidently, for early in
the morning an angry father came rag
ing into police quarters demanding the
clothes. His daughter had taken walk
on the river bank with two or three lit
tie neighbor girls, and the place being
secluded and thetemperature warm, and
the water inviting, they concluded to
take bath, Soon they heard voices in
the woods, and hid themselves in the
bushes. They huddled together as
quiet as mice until the intruding young
men had come and gone-gone with
their clothes. The only thing they
could do was to remain quietly where
they were until after dark and then steal
to their homes in the kindly shadows OF
night.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-07-18
VOL. VIII.
A Word to the Wise.


Love hailed a little maid,
Romping through the meadow;
Needless in the sun abe played,
Scornful of the shadow.
"Come with me, whispered he;
"Listen, sweet, to love and reason"
"By and by" she Knocked reply,
'Love's not in season."
Years went-years come,
Light mixed with shadow;
Love met the maid again
Dreaming through the meadow.
mot go coy,' urged the boy, ....
'List in time to love and reason"
by and by" she unused reply,
Loves still in season."
Years went-years came,
Light changed to shadow;
Love saw the maid again,
Waiting in the meadow.
"Pass no more, my dream is DER,
/ can listen now to reason
Keep thee coy" whispered the boy,
"Loye's g,tite ont of season."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-07-18

It is not generally known that in the
oil region of Pennsylvania many of the
engines which pump the oil wells are
run with natural gas instead of steam.
The gas is conveyed from the we'll to
the engine through an iron pipe, being
forced from the we'll through the pipe
into the cylinder.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-07-18

The " British interest which has the
largest representation in the present
House of Commons is that of the soldier
and sailor. There are two hundred and
thirty nine men in the present House of
Commons who are either active or retired
members of the army or navy.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-07-18

A rat weighing fifteen pounds is exhib-
tied in Philadelphia beer shop. It is
a foreigner, coming from South America.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-07-18

A strange manifestation of affection
occurred recently on the farm of Aaron
Sutton, in Coffin's Summit, N. Y. A
kitten, several days old, hnd become
separated from its companions, and was
adopted by hen. The kitten was
found under the shelter of the hens
wings, and, when taken away, the hen
flew at the person who took it and show
ed every sign of displeasure.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-07-18

The cruelty of which a Wisconsin
wife complains, in her suit for divorce,
is that her husband tied her securely
and shaved her head. The defence is
that she bleached her black hair to
lemon color by the use of acid, and that
he, deeming such thing highly scan-
dalous, took the only means of undoing
what she had done. He says that he
bought a wig for her, initiating her nat
ural hair, so that her bare head might
be concealed while nature was remedy
ing the disfiguration.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-07-18

Statistics have lately been published
in Germany of the rate of mortality in
different European armies. From the
tables given it appears that the average
yearly deaths per 1000 We're in the
Prussian army, in the years 1863, ga !;
in the Saxon, 1869, also GA in the
English, 1874, S-4; In the French,
1924, 81; in the English, 1860-7O,
9.5; in the French, 1929, 1O.1 in the
Belgian, 1904, 1917; in the italian,
1906, 11.6; in the Portuguese, 1857,
1877 in the Belgian, 1879, 1913; in the
Russian, 1s71-4, 14.7; in the Austrian,
1870-73, 1853; in the Russian, 1927,
15.4 (; in the Italian, 1864-9, 1853 and
in the Belgian from 1862 to 1865, 20.3.
The comparatively small mortality in
the Prussian army is attributed not only
to the favorable climate, but also to the
care taken with regard to the food,
clothing, and general we'll being Of the
soldier,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-05

litical death warrant. 1t evidences that the
organs of the conspirators are getting ready
to hand in their checks. Their stock of i'm
pudence is about exhausted. They no longer
play bravado. The bloody shirt does not
terrify. They are confronted with terrible
facts which they can not beat down, obscure
or modify. This the Journal virtually con-
fesses when it says:
1t is, OF course, to be regretted that Mr.. Sher-
man had TO have any dealings with such
disTeputable fellow as Anderson, and especial
ly that he was Obliged to hold out TO him the
promise of political reward to induce him to
do his duty, but, repeat, If this is the ez-
tent of the case against Mr.. sherman II is con-
tempubly weak.
The radical party may as well get ready
for its winding sheet, for the investigation
is not only killing John Sherman and other
conspirators, but the radical party as well
AS matter of course we shall have more
drool from the Journal, but it will not pro
duce anything thinner than its defense of
sherman
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-05
POTTER AND HIS LETTER.

What is wanted Just now, as the Sentinel
has set forth, is nerve, pluck, will, power of
the most indomitsble type, an inhexible
purpose. an answering adherence to the
right, lofty disdain of threats and an ever
increasing detestation of fraud, no matter
by whom perpetrated. The democratic
party has had thrust upon it by circum-
stances it did not create, and that it can
neither control nor evade, the solemn duty
of ascertaining all the facts connected with
the frauds, treacheries, forgeries and PERU
ries employed by the radical conspirators to
reverse the will of the American people.
The performance of this duty has been COM
menced in strict consonance with law, the
constitution, right and justice. The pro-
ceeding challenges investigation and de-
fies criticism, and therefore requires
neither apology nor excuse No letters from
Mr.. Potter nor from any other man are
required to impress the public mind with
the importance of the patriotic work upon
which the investigating committee has en-
tered. The New York Sun, in commenting
upon Potter's letter, says:
Is il possible that this weightiest of matters,
in this grand undertaking of preserving un-
shaken our precious free institutions, we have
a leader who--not at the sound OF the first
gun, bat at the fist fiash-in-the-pan from the
side of the enemy-halts To parley and explain?
Woe, woe, worth the day, when the chairman
of the committee appointed to unearth frauds
which put an unelected man in the Office of
president, has to stop, and bow and scrape to
the partisans of fraud, and TO palter in a
double sense about the purpose of the investi-
gationl
There are not one hundred we'll informed,
honest men in the country who entertain
doubts with regard to the truthfulness of the
charge that Hayes obtained the office of
president by frauds that are without par
allel In history. To set them in order, to
know who were their perpetrators, and the
means by which they were consummated, is
work of no less dignity than relaying the
foundations of the government upon which
the superstructure of our liberties rests. Let
us be done with apologies and go forward
with the work of rebuilding the battlements
of freedom.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-05

donned the prison garb, that its stripes can
never be removed. The clergy say TO the
murderer on the scaffold, that he is eligible TO
the bliss of heaven and the company of the
just made perfect: but 10 the man who, In sore
tehmPtsdion has taken some portion OF am
says you can not wash out the stain; you
must wear the brand TIL the grave hides your
infamy."
II this is to be the treatment of convicts,
then society may as well make up It's mind
first as last that as fast as penitentiaries are
depOpulatsd it will be the sufferer. The
army of thieves, burglars and criminals of
still darker hue win be recruited, and the
safety of life and property still more imper-
illed. ''lf the man." says the Post. from
which we have quoted, "who emerges from
'aprison, where he has faithfully paid the pen
atty of violated law, is still to be regarded
and treated as a criminal; if he is to find no
helping hand, to hear no cheering word; if
his efforts to elevate his social condition are
TO be heartlessly repressed; if he is CON
'tinually to be reminded of his sin, his
prison stripes, and his old associations;
If all the vileness of his past is TO be
hurled in his teeth whenever he dares to
look aloft or try to climb a single step in the
social ladder; if in short, he must always
be kept down in the depths to which he fell,
is it wise or benefcent to let him live at
all? Would not death be more merciful
than such cruel mockery of life? Why
open the prison door TO one who is to have
mo chance in life; one who, having slipped,
must not be permitted again to stand erect
among menu"
If such is to be the fate of ex-convicts, and
1T seems to be assured, then let us have an
end to all the bosh about reforming GRIM
inals, for it is worse than Dead sea fruit
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-05
JUDGE CAMPBELL,
Three Good Lessons.
TNIoravian /

Zone of my first lessons" said Mr. Sturgis,
the eminent merchant, was in 1913, when
was eleven years old. My grandfather had
fine flock of sheep, which were carefully
tended during the war of those times. 1
was the shepherd boy, and my business was
to watch the sheep in the fields. A boy who
was more fond of his book than the sheep
was sent with me, while ne lay under the
trees and read. l did not like that, and
finally went to my grand ather and COM
planned of it. l shall never forget the kind
smile of the old gentleman as he said:
Never mind, Jonathan my boy; If you
watch the sheep, you will have the sheep"
"'What does grandfather mean by that?
/ said to myself. 4 don't expect to have
sheep My desires were moderate-a fine
buck worth hundred dollars. 1 could not
exactly make out in my mind what it was.
but had great confidence in him. for he
was judge and had been in congress in
Washipgton's time; so | concluded it wGs all
right, and went back contentedly to the
sheep. After got into the field could not
keep his words out of my head. Then /
thought of Sundays lesson: Thou hast been
faithful over few things; 1 will make thee
ruler over many | began to see through
it. Never you mind who neglects his duty;
be you faithful, and you will have your re-
ward
~ received a second lesson soon after
came 10 New 1Ork as clerk 10 the ldOe Ly-
man Reed. A merchant from Ohio, who
knew me, came to buy goods and said, Make
yourself so useful that they can not do with
out you. / took his meaning quicker than
did that of my grandfather.
"Well, / worked upon these two ideas un-
til Mr.. Reed offered me partnership in the
business. The first morning after the part
nership was made known Mr.. James Geery,
the old tea merchant, called in to congratu-
late me, and he said: You are right now.
have only one word of advice TO give you.
Be careful who you walk the streets with
That was lesson number three.
"And what valuable lessons they are
Fidelity in all things; do your best to
your employers; carefulness about your as
sociates."
Let everybody take these lessons home
and study them. They are the foundation
stone of character end honorable success.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-05
BUSINESS AND INVESTIGATION.

The senseless howl of the president al
fraud conspirators, their aiders, abettors and
organs, that if few distinguished radical
Williams are caught and punished business
will be greatly disturbed is all gotten up for
the simple purpose OF frightening the
country, confuse the investigating COM
mittes, and if possible, defeat the great
object the committee has in view. The New
York Sun, in commenting upon the subject,
saws:
The Potter resolution has had no unfavora-
BILE influence, and il will not have any such
influence upon the business of the country.
No immediate consequences of this kind will
flow from it. How can IT injure trade? What
has 10 to do with ordinary transactions? There
has seemed 10 be "a great effort on the part of
the republicans to use il as a scare; but there
is too much intelligence in the community for
such an effort to succeed.
The importance of the investigation is its
effect upon the preservation of our free insti-
tutions and form OF government, and in this
respect we can not overestimate its influence.
Its mere adoption settles the question that the
American people will never submit content
eddy 10 the rule OF a president whose title to
the office has been disputed upon strong evil
dence, without having the matter looked into.
Its mere adoption was a long stride toward
securing genuine elections and true returns i'm
the future. IL was the first peal of the death
knell of fraud in our national elections.
The period fixed for another presidential
campaign is near at hand, and whatever
may be the fate of Hayes, the perjured re-
turning board scoundrels and fraud plotting
conspirators, ii is the purpose, it is the ire
vocable purpose OF the democratic party to
create barriers which radical scoundrels, no
matter how deep may be the foundation of
their criminal plans, will ind. it impossible
to overcome. All the legitimate business of
the country will go forward without regard
to the investigating committee-the great
obstacle being the vicious policy of John
Sherman, who, besides being aShylock and
a'conspirator, is. according to Gen. Boynton
of the Cincinnati Gazette liar.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-05
A Sad Case.
lDes Moines (Ia.) Register

lDcS 14Olncs kAe.J DC6ASbCA.l
The Fort Madison Plain Dealer, in its
penitentiary notes for the past week, says:
Graham, the man who has served
twenty years sen teDce without committing
the crime charged, goes out on the Sth inst. !"
This refers to sad case, and one that has
been a standing disgrace to the state OF Iowa,
and especially so to the county of Dubuque
This man was sent TO the penitentiary on
the perjured evidence of his second wife and
step daughter who, to get rid of him so as to
go to keeping house of ill-fame, trumpet
up the charge that be had attempted to out
rage the person of the girl (the step daugh-
teri, and had him arrested, and swore 1t
through in court. Yet afterwards, oveftaken
with remorse the women confessed the per-
Jury. But still, and for the twelve years he
had been known to be innocent, the man has
been kept lncarcerated. Stung TO despera-
ton by the injustice of his sentence, the
man doggedly refused to work at hard labor,
and ID avoid il held up one of his feet till II
nearly touched his back, and kept it so con-
stantly in that position as TO contract the
muscles and tendons and make him lame
permanently. Next his mind was affected,
and for years the visitor to the penitentiary
has been panied by the sight OF this man, so
terribly wrecked, wandering about the cell
room catching rats and introducing himself
to all corners as General Death Bell" He
was an intelligent, honorable mechanic when
he was trapped into the penitentiary. Now
he is an imbecile and wreck, to whom it is
reserved for death alone to be kind. IL Is
understood that the reason he has not been
pardoned out long ago is, that, being an
imbecile, he could only go to the poor
house, and be an expense to the county"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-05

MR. POTTER personally is an honorable gem
tlemaR, and because he is incapable of any sort
asked to believe that every political move
ment TO which he lends his support must also
be honest and reputable.-New York Tribune.
To have man at the head of a'committee
for the investigation Of fraud who is Inca
'pable of any sort of rascality in his private
transactions will add immensely to his
conclusions, and will prove the best possible
guarantee that in every political movement
integrity will guide his acts.