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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-02-06
4. 8. B0RDNELL, N. D.

ELECTIC PHI fStCIAN g. SURG'N,
Has removed his office from Centre
street to Main street, Ridgway, Pa. in
the second story of the new brick
of John G. Hall, west of the
Hyde House. .D,.
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q. G. MESSENGER.

DRUGGIST & PARMACEUTIST,
n. w. corner of NTaih aid Mill streets.
Ridgway, Pa, full assortment of care
fully selected Foreign and Domestic
Drugs. Prescriptions carefully dis
pensed at all hours, day or night.
Nln2N
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r. s. HARTLEY, m. o.,

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Office in Drug store, corner Broad
and Main streets. Residence corner
Broad street, opposite the College.
Office hours from 8 to 10 A. M. and
from to p. M. v1n2yl
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NOTICE is hereby given that a pc.
tition of citizens of Ridgway township
will be presented at the next Court Of
Quarter Sessions Of Elk comfy for the
incorporation of Borough of the town
of Ridgway.
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INHE SOCIETY STORE.

THE SOCIETY STORE.
A new store started in Ridgway un-
der the auspices of the ladies of Grace
Church, with
MISS A. z. MKEE.
as Agent and saleswoman,
A fine assortment of goods on hand
and selected with great care.
EMBROIDERIES.
LACE EDGE.
PRINCES,
HANDKERCHIEFS.
LADIES TIES.
TOILET SETS.
LINEN SUITS.
CHiLDRENS SUITS
SAMPLE SILKS.
Machine silk, thread and needles
Also fine lot of Dress Goods. Fancy
work of all kinds. Framed notices
DC, &C. All cheap as the cheapest
and goods Warranted first class. Call
and examine OUR stuck.
MISS A. f. MKEE,
Agent for the Society.
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APPLEToN'S AMERICAN CYCLIC
PEDIA.

Volume 16 of this admirable work Is
just out, making it complete. Each
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complete library, and no one can
afford to do without it who would keep
we'll informed. Price $500 a volume
III leather, or $500 in elegant half Tur-
key. G. X. Judsoh, Fredonia, n. Y;
con trolls the sale In Elk county. Adj
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LUooRE & RAMBLER
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,

Ridgway, Elk county, Pa. Office
across the hall from the Democrat es-
tablishmeht. Claims for collection
promptly attended to. jnel5, 1875
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THE most useful present
FOR YOUR WIFE

in nded wife, mother or sister is one
OF our Nickle Plated and Polished
Fluting and Crimping Irons. 4 irons
on one handle and at greatly REDUCED
PRICES. King Reversible Fluting
Iron, $3.50. Home Fluting and Crimp-
ing Iron, Se.75. SENT PREPAID on
receipt of price.
Hewitt Manufg Co., Pittsburgh, Pa
p. o. Box 86S, or l66 Penn avenue.
An Agent Wanted in this County.
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Office in new brick building, Main
street, Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa. vS2tf
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millinery ANp DREsSMAKINo:

MRS. j. r.. KELTZ, Kersey, Elk
couhty, Pa, takes this method Of an
nouncing to the citizens of Elk county
that she has on hand an assortment of
fashionable millinery goods which will
be sold cheap. Also dressmaking in
all its branches.
Agent for DR.. J. Bail & Co.'s Patent
Ivory and Lignum Vitae Eye Cups.
Send for descriptive circular. n17y1
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HYDE HOUSE.
w. H. SCHRAM, Proprietor,


Ridgway, Elk county, Pa.
Thankful for the patronage hereto.
fore so literally bestowed upon him,
the new proprietor hopes, by paying
strict attention to the comfort and con-
veniehce of guests, to merit continu-
ance of the same. oct30'6e
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Hides, Sheep Pelts, and Cali
Skins wanted at AZ Main street.
FRANK SETTELLF
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For very low prices for organs and
pianos write to d. S. Andrus & Co.,
city music store, Williamsport, Pa.
Organs and pianos to rent by the month
or year. Sheet music sent to any ad-
dress. Second hand instruments for
sale. Pianos from S75 to sos; organs
from $40 to $50.
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PENNSYLVANIA RAIL ROAD
Philadelphia & Erie r. r. Div.
WINTER TIME TABLE.

On and after SUNDAY, November
OlO 1878, the traits on the Philadel-
phia & Erie Railroad Division will
run ts followsi
WESTWARD:
ERIE sAIt leaves ,Phila: ......1l IS p. IN.
" Renovo....1l 90 a. nj.
Emporium.1 Tsp. m.
" st. Mary's-2 07 p. m.
q" Ridgway....23 SO p' m.
Kane.......:.3 As D. M:
" arr. Mt Erie...........7 40 D. m.
EASTWARD.
xktH MAIL leaves Efie. ........il 20 a. m.
Kane......".3 55 p. IN.
- Ridgway....5 90 p. M.
= st. Mary's-5 26 p. M.
=. Emporium.6 90 p. m.
RenOvo.....8 Be p. nj.
arr. at Phila........;7 90 a. M.
WIN. A. Baldwin. General sup't.
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GEO. a. RATHBuN


ATTORNEY -AT-bAW.
Main street, RidgWay, Elk Co., Pa.
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amt paid J. X. P. Hall for
work Id Benzinger tp i,346 As
amt paid Hall & McCauley,
general find 10 90
amt pa Bond No. 80, Ridg-
way township 1895 90
1O,1S0 66
balance due fund 3,704 IS
1885 81
BY amt due for work done Oh
road and not yet paid for ~.
Bill of III. M. Rolfe, lumber % 30
Bill of Wilcox Lumber Co.,
for lumber $50 60
work i,4ls SO
Amt due ]. McCauley, late
treas, for overpaymcnt of
funds $50 43
2,2S5 "a
The Commissioners of the Ridgway
and Brookville State Road In account
with the funds of said road for the
year ending Jan. l, 1879.
To bal. due last settlement l1S 30
amt tax reed from co treas. 1899 %
a,5l7 So
BY bill Of H. Carman for
work dol $40 80
bill of Geo. d. Messenger,
ir., for work done 1,Os6 rs
bill of C. H. McC CAuley, SER
vices as secretary 20 90
bill Of Geo. d. Messenger,
jr., building bridge and
si bill of J. g. Hall, services
rs treas. for eight years zoo Oo
3,252 81
balance due fund 264 65
3,517 SO
We, the undersigned, auditors OF Elk
county for the year 1879, having met at the
commissioners office in Ridgway, in said
county on the first Monday OF January, A.
d. 1879, being the sixth day OF the month. and
adjourned to Tuesday, January 4, 1879, Mt
which time we proceeded with the settlement,
and do hereby certify thatwe have carefully
examined, audited, settled and adjusted the
accounts of the commissioners OF the Kane,
Ridgway and st. .'Mary's State road, and OF the
commissioners Of the Ridgway and Brook
willie State road, and find them severally
correct as set forth in the foregoing report.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set !
our hands the 2Sth day of January, A. ID. 1879.
SSAbhsS }5i 4. H4S5S$ii ASaS$i S%$iirrnH, Co. Aoa'rs.
Attest-N s. KLINE, Clerk.
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The Commissioners of the Ridgway
and Brookville State Road In account
with the funds of said road for the
year ending Jan. 1, 1879.
To bal. due last settlement llS 80
amt tax reed from co treas. 1899 %
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amt paid J. X. P. Hall for
work iii Benzinger tip
amt paid Hall & McCauley,
general f,ind
amt pa Bond No. 80, Rldg-
way township
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Court Proceedings.
JANUARY TERM 1879,

Hon. L. d. Wetmore, presiding.
Hons. Geo. Ed. Weis and Julius
ZONES associates.
Little Falls transcript., 1879-08-07
The First Sewing Machine in India.

In the days when the sewing-machine
was in its earliest infancy, lady resid-
ing in India imported one, and for a long
time kept its mysterious workings hid
from the ken of her native tailor. This
functionary was the very slowest of his
proverbially slow "cast," and wasted no
end OF time drawling overhcm and stitch.
One day his mistress comes to him arm
laden with yards upon yards Of dress fab
rlc. "Dirzce," says she, show long will
it take you to run these breadths togeth-
er?' "Trec days, missis," replies Dirzee.
"Missis, please, plenty too much work. :"
''Thrce days? Nonsense! Three hours,
you mean. You are very lazy man,
and LII cut your pay. Give me the stuff;
I'll do it myself Then the lady retires
to her boudoir, from the innermost pene-
tralla OF which sharp and continuous
click and whirr reaches the tallor's ears.
He can't make out what the sound is, and
is much too lszy to speculate on it. He
continues to 'chew betel," and yawning-
ly to ply needle and thread. After an
hour or two Missis'' comes back, and
throwing at Mr.. Dirzee's feet the raw ma
eOAA"A AAOH ANolCACO l4CO d COlt1
skirt, says: "There! See! You wanted
three days, you sleepy fellow, to finish
this, and I have done it alreadv.'~ As.
tonished, Dirzee turns over the drapery,
examines the seems, scrutlnizes the stitch.
and satisfies himself that all is proper
and according to tailors rule He is CON
founded. It passes his understanding
There lies the ork done and no mistake,
But how? He springs up from the mat
on which he had been squatting; he kicks
over the little brass vessel u hich holds
his drinking water; he scatte1s right and
left thread, needles, thimble; he stops
not to put on, his sandals or to adjust
loosened turban and waist cloth. Scared
and ~bewildered, he runs for very life in
to the bazaar, shouting as he goes along:
"Shitan shitan! CThe Evil one! the Evil
oneD He do tailor business that Mems
house. listen! hear! He cry "Cleek,
cleek, cleekp Two hours time Re neber
stop cry. Den! Plenty too much true
dis word ] tell. Ebery bit true. All
work, done tinished!i i not 90 back to
dat bungalow And he never I'D. IL.
Little Falls transcript., 1879-08-07
Society.

There is probably no word in the Eng
llsh language so perverted from it's orig
inal significance as ''society." In its
primitive meaning. there was a holy
sweetness surrounding it that was capti-
vatlng. It1mplied the gathering together
after toll or separation of the. old and
young, and when young lady ''entered
society," then, it meant that she left the
nursery to1associate With the Older heads
of the family. When young lady "en-
ters society it is, in most cases, an ad-
yertisement Of new arrival in the matri-
monial market, to which all wealthy bid
ders are invited, and If purchaser is not
found and she becomes shelf worn and
yellow, fate labels her 'Old stock, and
casts her aside among the rubbish to
make room for new supply Society
is now one polished horde, formed Of two
mighty tribes the beres and the bored"
In t"e olden times, society people were
estimated at their true worth; in the
modern by their looks, and the most
sterling articles, if in faded wrappings,
are passed by for the shoddy genteel in
Little Falls transcript., 1879-08-07
YELLOW FEVER.

MEMPHIS, July 29.-Eight new cases
of yellow fever and four deaths were reported
today. COL Cameron, with his detail of col
ored soldiers, took quiet possession of the
grounds that had been selected for the estab-
llsment of camp, and by 6 o'clock this morn
ing had 125 tents erected. The policy of the
authorities to furnish rations only to those
who are in camps will be strictly observed
All mail matters leaving this city is thorough
ly disinfected under the personal supervision
of inspection officers of the national board Of
health. At Cincinnati a refugee from Mem
phis is in the hospital, sick with the yellow
fever. Montgomery, Ala, and Vicksburg,
Miss, have. established quarantine against
New Orleans. A Child from Memphis died
from yellow fever at the quarantine, 81. Louis.
July 49, - M. :<sss s7sss IL. !
MEMPHIS, July 80. Fourteen new
cases of yellow fever reported to-day six of
them colored. No deaths reported but many
are in dying condition.
At Memphis August i, nine new cases
ct ct yellow fever were reported, among them
two Catholic priests, and five deaths. $500
was received from John B. Drake, proprietor
OF the Grand Pacific hotel, Chicago, for the re.
lief fund. The committee of safety are having
trouble with the colored population. The
ship Templar arrived at San Francisco August
I, u days from Rio JaneirO She had yellow
fever on board, and there had been several
deaths: Two new cases of yellow fever in
New York city have been sent of from vessels
arrived, to the yellow fever hospital
i At Memphis August 8, there were
Little Falls transcript., 1879-08-07
PARROTS.
Slight Difference Between Animals and
Children+-Learningt to Talk.

Slight Difference Between Animals and
Chiltren--Learning to Talk.
London Lancet.
The interesting sketch Of the ''Historv
of my Parrot" which Doctor Wiks con
tributes to the current number of the
Journal, of Memphis Science deserves a
passing notice. The comparative study
OF the facts Of the intcrcommunication
among men and among animals necessi-
tates the admission that animals possess
language: and the mechanism and appa-
ratus tor articulate speech in those ami
mails which possess it do not differ from
those of man. A bird learns to speak
by imitation, through the organs of hear
ing, and in a manner never similar to
that IN which Chi -dren learn words and
sentences, and the bird speaks on special
occasions in consequence of some asso-
citation or suggestion, 1.-The usual provo
cative for set speeches at all periods OF
human life A new expression, after
having been repeatedly uttered before the
parrot, is practiced by it spontaneously,
lndefatlgably working at the sentence by
itself. At first it is only able to get out
the first word Or two, then more and
more, until it has the power of uttering
the whole. In just the same way child
will learn French sentence A sentt nee
is soon lost by the parrot if not frequent
ly uttered. and the last words are lost
first: the first words-those most readily
acquired are lost last Speech of the
bird on any given occasion is due to sug-
gestion-thc presence of the person or
object with which the words were first
associated. Of this Dr. Wllks gives sew
eral striking instances of ''half- past two'
whenever the coachman comes for orders.
'go to sleep" when approached after
dark, ''givc me bit'' when dinner an
pears, and '.'cheese' when the cheese is
put upon the table, sound like water
being poured out whenever a lug O
water is brought in. Thus the bird as
soclates words or sounds with objects,
and, where the right names have been
taught it, may be said to know their
names; more, the bird invents names,
making a particular sound, which adj
never been taught, whenever nuts were
brought upon the table, The sight of
cat makes the parrot say ''mew," as the
sight OF a train makes child say "puff:
puff: DR.. Wilks concludes by remark
ing t at the difference between animals
and children are much slighter than are
the explanation which, on the assump-
tior of instinct in the one case and rea-
son in the other, we put upon them, and
that the chief difference be-
tween man and animals is to he found in
the smallness of knowledge of the fine
arts possessed by the latter.
Little Falls transcript., 1879-08-07
TRUST.

Searching for strawberries ready to eat;
flndlng them crimson and large and sweet,
What 90 you think found at my feet
Deep in the green hillside?
Four brown sparrows, the cunning things,
Fcathered on back and breast and wings.
Proud with the dignity plumage brings,
Opening their our mouths wide
shopping lower to scan my prize,
~ atching the motions with curious eyes;
Dropping my berries in glad surprise,
plaintive sound heard.
And looking up at the mournful call,
L spled on branch near the old stonc-wall
Trembling and twittering, ready to fall,
The poor little mother bird.
With grief and terror her heart was wr,,np.
And while to the slender bough she clung
She felt that the lives her birdlings hung
F On still more slender thread.
An, birdie! l said, if you only knew
NY heart was tender and warm and true!
I Ut the thought that loved her birdlings, too
Never entered her small brown head.
And SO through this world of ours we 60,
Bearlng our burdens of needless woe,
Many heart beating heavy and slow
Under its load of care.
But 0, If we only, only knew
mat God was tender, and warm and true,
AND that he loved us through and through,
Our hearts would be lighter than air.
Little Falls transcript., 1879-08-07
Price Of Early Vegetables.

A man with basket on his arm
pushed his way, says the Cincinnati En-
qusqer, to fruit stand and ash ed:. .Cx
"How do you sell cucumbers?"
The dealer Informed him.
:"Why man alive, do you suppose, 1
want whole onc?'' -
Il don't know what you want, but
that's the price of cucdmbers," replied
the dealer.
you don't want it all down: do you?"
Il do, for a, fact; :; Ir.i-t
Suppose I give you one-third cash,
balance in yearly payments?"
The dealer shook his head
,f"Ill pay you big interest,"" persisted
the man with the basket. :
Another shake of the head. r7e
:''Give you the best Of security" urged
the customer; first mortgage on unen-
numbered real estate" ...,.y,
The dealer you'd only shake his head.
"Well, then, how do you sell straw
berries?'
The reporter did not hear the price.
but the man with the basket tainted
uedo away. - =, s-r,E~ 49, ~
Little Falls transcript., 1879-08-07

twelve new cases Of yellow fever, six of them
colored, and two deaths. According to the re-
port OF j. H. Edmondson, superintendent OF
nurses Of the Howard association, they have
sixty-fve on duty attending 70 sick people,
death rate to date has been 331hs per cent.
Memphis, shut off from the outside world
stands alone in her misery. Without any
known cause upon which to predicate it The
list of new cases and deaths continue to Keep
up above what it was predicated would be the
case at the end of last week. There is no es-
cape from, Memphis. Those who are in the
city have no avenue of egress They arc shut
off from the outer world The last regular
passenger left the city last night by the Louis
vile & Northern railway. *5a.lE
At Memphis August 2, fourteen new
cases Of yellow fever were reported, and seven
deaths. Last week the total number of. deaths
was II Yellow fever 81, other causes 81
The board of health still refrain from declar
ing the disease epidemic. Physicians are
sanguine that the maximum death roll
has been reached, and a decrease in the nun
Der of deaths can be reasonably expected. At
New York two yellow fever patients were
sent to the quarantine hospital from ship
from Havana. At Rome, Italy, quarantine
is imposed on vessels from the United States
because of yellow fever. "...
Fifteen new cases Of yellow fever were
reported at Memphis, August 4, and two
deaths. The enforcement of quarantine at st.
Louis is still more stringent. Nonew cases OF
yellow fever reported. There were several sun
strokes August T.. The thermometer ranged
from "a to9S in the streets. The brig Stephen
Bishop is detained at quarantine, at Boston,
with yellow fever on board. AT Chicago Au.
gust 4, George w. Cunningham, from Mem
phis died, with suspicion of yellow fever
Advices from Havana of August 4, state the
deaths from yellow fever this last week at 1877,
an increase of twenty over the previous week
Total number Of deaths from yellow fever dur.
ing July, 587, against 504 last year, the same
month. Since the beginning of the year s57
deaths have occurred, against sl3 the same
time the previous year.
Little Falls transcript., 1879-08-07

tinsel and gilt. Caste, with its merciless
scalpel, now dissects the whole social
body, and as it ostracises the poor, robs
it of its muscle and its brains, destroys
its symmetry and leaves it q mass Of
heartless, proud and cankered flesh. The
influence of modern society, instead Of
enhancing what kindly germs may he in
the heart, blightsi them and makes of its
devotees stoics and pilgrims to the shrine
OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Erery Saturday