The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-01-16
Notes.

Ihe House elected IL. NJ. Long Ute
publican), of Allegheny county,
Speaker, and w. g. Shurlock Chief
Clerk. The Democrats voted for
Daniel Sherwood, of Northumberland,
county, for Speaker.
BY the decision Of the post office
department matter printed by the
photographic process, the electric
pen and type writer cannot pass
through the mails except on payment
of letter postage. AS much of this
matter is in the nature of personal
correspondence there is no good reason
why it should not pay letter postage.
Business of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company for eleven months
of 1873, as compared with the same
period of 1877, shows al. increase in
gross earnings of 1856 ,6s5, and decrease
in expenses of S591, ,047, ain increase in
net earning of l,346, ,732. All lines
| west of Pittsburgh and Erie for eleven
months of 1878 show a surplus over all
liabilities of S47, 800, being an increase
over the same period in 1877 of $685.
34S.
Charles Sharpe and JAMES McDon-
| nell, two Mollie Maguires were hanged
at Mauch Chunk, on Tuesday morn
ing, at 1910 a. m. They both asserted
their innocence of the crime for which
they were convicted. A telegraphic
reprieve arrived about one minute too
late, and at the minute the rope was
cut loud knocking was heard at the
door, which proved to be the tele-
raphic operator with reprieve from
Governor Hartranft until next Mon
day.
Says the Warren Ledger Last
winter the Legislature passed bill
making Titusville legal place for
holding Court. The Constitutionality
of the bill was tested by bringing it
before Judge Church's Court in Mead
vile, and his decision was against the
bill on the ground of unconstitution-
ality. 1t was carried to the Supreme
Court, where the decision of the lower
court was affirmed. And so Titusville
is compelled to go to Meadville with
all her legal business.
An exchange says: The correct
view, which experience brings to each
man, is that advertising should be in
Guided in the general estimate of eX-
penses, as regularly as store rent, clerk
hire ard insurance. 1t is often said
that a good stand at a high rent is
better than poor one rent free. Well,
sir, advertising brings a man before
the public in a way that makes any
"stand" good. The best stand you can
have is to be in the newspapers. These
are facts brought out in fall trade
Most of our business houses should be
so extensively engaged in advertising
that it could be made q special depart
ment. The great question with every
firm is what does the public know
about us, ami the proper rcisly-i -is-5si.St
what we tell them, That is the true
view Of advertising.
The Brookville Republican fur
ther remarks that, on Monday after
noon last, the 9th inst, Mrs. Henry
Chamberlin, Of Richardsville, Pa,
committed suicide 6y hanging herself
to II rafter in an upper story of their
house. On the afternoon mentioned
she secretcd herself froin the other
~ Al, of l,. f.,, NH,
Il rope placed it around her reck, and
having fastened the other end to the
rafter, jumped from the bed breaking
her neck. She was a lady of many
good qualities, loved and respected in
the community III which she lived
but of late her mind had been consid-
erah'y impaired through religious eX-
element, which was doubtless the
cause of her rash act. Mr.. Chamber
lin is one of our Test citizens, and has
sympathy of the entire community in
his sad atfiiction.
The Titusville Herald of Jan. 6
says that the intense cold and pressure
develops paraffine in crude petroleum,
and thus we find that the pipe lines of
the oil region have become so clogged
with prraf1ine since the advent of the
Arctic wave, that they cannot trans
port oil in sufficient quantity to keep
pace with the production. 1t is
claimed that in the northern oil field
alone from five to eight thousand bar
rels of oil are going to waste daily
from this cause. In some cases the
freezing is not so great as il others.
This is owing to the oil being pumped
through pipes sunk in the ground.
The drilling and pumping wells have
also in many cases been brought to a
stand still, partly because the streams
which feed the boilers are frozen dry,
partly because the men cannot stand
or work in the derricks with the ther-
mometer at or below zero.
When young fellow gets too ''sickn
on the girls, says an exchange, it has
often been difficult task to find a
remedy for the sickness" But one
young lady has at last discovered a
perfect cure, and a few evenings since
had occasion to use it. She gave her
fellow q vial, telling him not to open
it until the next day. 1t was labelled
''for heart disease-take three times a
day." and it looked as if it contained
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