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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-29
DOmesticated Quail.

Several summers ago S. S. Gibble, of
Mount Joy, this county, found the nest
of q quail, containing fifteen eggs.
Determined to make an attempt to
domesticate these birds he took them
home and placed them under d hen.
He made his first mistake at the very
outset by putting them under Brahma
to incubate. The size of the eggs and
of the hen was of course altogether dis
proportionate. Still she was fortunate
enough to break none of them, and in
due time family of fifteen of these at
tractive and lively birds made their ap-
pearance. A grassy plot was selected
for a nursery, and pen sixteen feet
square was made. This was made per-
fectly tight at the ground and for some
height above it, rendering escape im-
possible, at least until they acquired the
use of their wings. But the mistake of
selecting heavy hen to bring UP these
birds soon became manifest. One after
another of the pretty things had its life
tramped out by the heavy feet of its
foster mother, until only four Of them
remained. These grew until they at
tanned the full stature of adult Bob
Whites. They were released, and ran
with chickens, flying here and there,
but never leaving the premises for
greater distance than the chickens
themselves.
One day the house cat, who was
something of an epicure, thought she
would try quail; so she appropriated
one of them, leaving the once numerous
family reduced to three. These re-
m lined around the house, associating
with the chickens on the most fraternal
terms, carrying the intimacy so far as to
roost close by them in an old apple tree
near the house. Unfortunately, how
ever, the cold weather of winter brought
covey of wild birds to the barn, and
these, coming into friendly relations
with the trio of tame ones, had such a
seductive power upon them that, when
the strangers went away in the spring
they carried with them two out of the
three remaining birds. This left but a
single one on the premises. This one
continued to eat with the hens in the
barnyard and roost with them in the
trees until June, when, no doubt, the
promptings of nature so wrought upon
the companionless bird that it was i'm.
PEELED to leave the hospitable home
where neariya year of its life was spent
and seek the companionship of its kline
in the fields. So ended the experiment
Lancaster (Pa.) Nea0 Era.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-29
The Cow Bows.

The Las Vegas (New Mexico) Gazette
says of COW boys: This class of men
are about as badly abused as any other
set of men that we know of, when they
really deserve but little of the tongue of
reproach. There are many bad men
who hover around the cattle ranges for
the purpose of stealing and who prey
upon the fruits of the labors of the COW
boys. People at a distance, unac-
quainted with the situation, in fact,
greenL Lorns, who hear of the depreda-
tions and crimes of these parasites of the
cattle range, class them rs cow boys
and condemn the whole. This is great
injustice 10 that hardy class of men who
inhabit the pastoral ranges and who, rs
a class, have no equal in all manly vir-
tues. They are honest, brave, intelli-
gent and generous.
"The bravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring"
Their outward life is rough. but they
are of kindly and manly di positions.
They are not class of people to be
dreaded, but on the contrary, their ac-
quaint ance is to be sought, for they num-
ber among them men of high culture
and refinements, while integrity and
high sense of honor is the characteristic
of the common run of cow boys. Com
mend us to ock raisers for true men,
whose lives are not cramped and wor-
ried by the petty dealings and chican'
cry of small trade. but grow big under
the influence of the vast plains and ma
jestic nature wherein is cast the lines t
their daily life. 1t is their constant
and close communion with mother ma
lure, the corrector of perverted tastes
and tendencies, which develops manli-
ness in the COW boy and reduces to a
minimum every inherent meanness
which may pertain to frail human ma
ture. We favor COW boys, cattle men.
sheep raisers and the whole tribe Of
people who Craze their fiocks and herds
on all the mesas and plains from the
mountains to the Indian Territory. and
will ever be ready to give them hear
ing when uuustly assailed by ignorance
and prejudice.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-29
Work In the Time Now.

The world is strong with mighty hope
Ofa good time yet to be,
And carefully casts the horoscope
vi her future destiny;
And poet and prophet, and priest and sage,
Are watching with anxious eyes,
10 see the light of that promised age
On the waiting world arise.
Oh, weary and long seems that time to some
Who under lite's burdens bow,
For while they wait for that time to come
They forget 'tis good time now.
Yes, a good time now-for we cannot say
What the morrow will bring to view;
But we're always sure OF the time to-day,
And the course we must pursue;
And no better time is ever sought
By brave heart under the sun
Than the present hour, with its noblest
thought
And the duties 10 be done;
lis enough for the earliest soul to see
There is work to be done, and how,
For he knows that the good time yet to be
Depends on the good time now.
There is never broken link in the chain,
And never q careless flaw,
For cause and effect, and loss and gain,
Are true to a changeless law.
Now is the time to SOW the seed
For the harvest OF future years;
Now is the time Tor noble deed,
While the need OF the work appears
You must earn the bread of your liberty
BY the toll and sweat OF your brow,
And hasten the good time yet to be
BY improving the good time now.
Ills as bright sun that shines to-day
As will shine in the coming time;
And truth has as weighty word to say
Through her oracles sublime.
There are voices in earth, and air ald sky,
That tell = the good time here,
And visions that come to faiths clear eye,
The weary in heart to cheer.
The glorious fruit on liie's goodly tree
Is ripening on every uough,
And the wise in spirit rejoice to see
The light of the good time now.
Then up nor wait for the promised hour,
For the good time now is the Jest,
And the soul that uses its gilt of power
Shall be in the present blest.
Whatever the future may have in store,
With will there is ever a way;
And none need burden the soul with more
Than the duties OF to-day.
Then up with spirit brave and free,
And put the h md to the plow,
Nor wait Tor the good time yet to be,
But work III The good time now.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-29
A Failing Star.

At dead Of night
A radiant star
Like gem in a monarch's crown
Shone clear and bright
With pale, cold light
Then darting across the heavens altar
Lighting with fire and rapid flight
To the earth came falling down.
1t seemed to glide
Through the upper air
On the swittest wings OF light,
And at my side
As it fickered and died
There ,emed TO come a spirit fair,
And the soft, sweet voice OF an angel cried
"I will lead thy steps Alright"
james Clarence Harvey.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-29

We have rarely seen more touching
little incident than this told by, a New
Haven paper: A widows child re-
ceived reward OF merit in school and
ran eagerly home to her mother, saying.
as she entered her humble dwelling,
(" held il. up to the sky all the way
home, mamma, SO that, papa might see
what good girl am"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-29
TIMELY TOPICS.

The suns radiation is not without its
influence on the comfort of the occupants
cf house, and the influence may be
very differently felt, according to the ex-
posure of houses. In building nu-
affected by any shade, scientist recently
made a series of experiments to deter
mine the relative amount of the suns
heat daily entering the different sides.
He obtained the surprising result that
more heat enters a building through, the
east and west walls than through the
walls facing directly south, although the
south side is exposed to the direct action
of the suns rays nearly twice as long as
either of the others. A considerably
greater quantity of heat is received by
the east than by the west side.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-29

Two new kinds of tea having very pc
culiar qualities have been discovered by
Mr.. E. G. Baber, while exploring the
region west of Kiating-fu, China. One
of the varieties was rare and appears to
have been grown only by some monks
of the monastries on Mount Omi. An
infusion of it tasted like strong congou
to which brown sugar had been added
literally; but its sweetness was nat
ural property. The other tea grew
spontaneously at heights of more than
5000 feet above the level of the sea, 1t
is leafy shrub with stem about four
inches thick, and it attains height of
fifteen feet. In making an infusion every
part of the plant except the root is EN-
ployed. The beverage produced is a
strongly colored but weak tea, having a
patural milky or ratLer buttery flavor.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-29

Suits at law are brought nowadays for
every reason, and no reason. especially
in some of the new States, whose in
habitants are often of a very litigious
disposit ton. Recently a resident of
Crete, Neb., was arrested for non-pay-
ment of a bill long due for groceries,
while he was counting young woman
in her fathers parlor. He was held to
bail, and when he appeared in court to
defend himself, the judge promptly dis
charged him. declaring that he had been
arrested without adequate cause. He
has, in consequence, brought suit against
his creditors, who had the legal process
served on him, and he claims $25, 900
damages. He had, he alleges, borne a
good financial reputation, which is now
seriously affected; he has been disgraced
by his arrest in the parlor OF his sweet
heart, injured socially and morally, and
on account of what had happened then
and there, he has never had the courage
to visit his iady-love since, and considers
his connubial prospects, so far as she is
concerned, forever blighted. He thinks
that $25, 900 would be moderate sum
for the shock to his sensibilities and the
harm to his good Rame, and AYERS that
he will have justice, if there be justice
in the land. 1t is possible that his arrest
may have saved him from an unhappy
marriage, but he fatty refuses to look at
that side of the question.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-29

Fifty years ago Commodore Patter-
son, commander of the naval forces of
the United States in Louisiana, led an
expedition against Jean Laftte, the
chief of Barataria Island, attacked the
500 men found there, and captured the
seven small vessels which were drawn
up in miniature battle array. 1t has
been thought in New Orleans that La
ftte was freebooter and pirate, and
many sensational stories.of his adven-
lures have been published. The Plea
yune has discovered among the
dusty records of the United States dis
trict court an account of the libel pro :
ceedings brought by Daniel I. Patter-
son and George T. Ross, the commanders
of the naval and military forces of the
United States, containing evidence that
Lafitte made his captures under the Car
thagenian flag, and was in communica-
tion with Carthagenia.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-29

ought to have felt content; but the mel
ancholy smile which crossed his coun-
tenance rather belied his efforts as he
gave a last survey of his neat, but not
altogether stylish toilet, sighed over the
last letter from home, which he put
carefully away, and then, unfolding a
dainty note, re-read the conditions of
the invitation, in the graceful chirog-
raphy of Kate Ormsby:
NECK-TIE PARTY.
Under auspices of the Y. L. L. Y. Club,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-29

at shall be the last-positively the
very last. Tomorrow will write to
mother and girls-how have neglected
them land will throw aside this folly,
and endeavor to keep my mind upon
my duties more than it has been of
late.
A virtuous resolution, truly and, if
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-01
THE DRAMA.

Miss Agnes Leonard ut the Opera House.
Last evening Miss Agnes Leonard, 4
new aspirant for histrionic fame, made LEI
bow before an audience of somewhat
mea9re numbers assembled in the opera
house whittier they had been attracted by
q liberal display Of highly colored post
crs and Autographs advertising the pro-
ductiOn of the romantic drama OF
Woman's; Faith" Miss Leonard may
have some dramatic talent, quite probably
she has, and it is in Difference to that pre-.
sumption that extended notice of last
nights performance is omitted for the
play is one fearfully and wonderfully
made, without plot, devoid of the
first element Of dramatic construction,
natural incidents, in whose arrangement
the work Of prentice hand is quite rs
manifest as in it's rendition, for with per-
haps single exception the entire cast of
the troupe are iliy-trained amatures. Miss
Leonard will know that it is kindly meant
when we advise her to drop "WOman's
Faith - and to drop it quickly. The most
dazzling talent would be impotent to see
its way through the impenetrable mass of
stupidity which makes up this alleged
drama with whici, our young
seeker after fame and fortune
i'll the profession has entered upon
her career of conquest If Miss Leonard
shall have the good sense to promptly
dismiss from her catalogue this piece
and adopt play which will allow
j reasonable opportunity for ordinary dra-
matte effect she will stand better chance
of meeting with just judgment as to her
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-01
TIE electoral college of Pennsylvania

THE electoral college of Pennsylvania
meets in Harrisburg to-day and the &C.
casion has been made one for the assem-
bling at the state capital Of a great
many of the Republican politicians OF
the state. There has been a good deal
of discussion among them about the
United States senatorship. The under
currents of sentiment from all parts OF
the state were carefully gauged. Enough
was developed to satisfy the opponents OF
Mr.. Grow that the field is stronger than
he is and that he cannot be nominated.
The movement in behalf of electing
Grant from Pennsylvania is stronger
than was expected and the Cameron
people may attempt to make it success
full.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-01
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

The monthly conference meeting of the
Microscopical society was held last even
ing. ''The Spectroscope-what it is-its
uses.' was the subject treated by the Rev.
c. +. Honpt in a very interesting way.
The speaker explained what it was, tic
use to which it is put, and how it has been
improved, until the prism by which New
ton dissolved light into its primary colors
has grown into an instrument with which
we are able to tell what the sun, stars and
other heavenly bodies are composed Of
After the essay had been read a number #
objects were shown through the micro
scope, among which We mention the fol-
lowing:
G.. A. Locller, chrysis i.nita J. F..
Reed, weevil e. A. Locher, scales Of
moth Rev. e. Z. Houpt, part of small
mirnow f. W. McCaskey, sting and
poison bag Of bee Miss Annie Burrowes,
mosquito lances ; E. Albright, section of
human tooth {; c. Wall, sections of rock :;
Walter King, scales Of diamond beetle and
lobelia seeds J. E.Snyder. spores of fern
]. Davidson, saw OF saw-hy, and section
o. lung of turkey: J. P. McCaskey, pollen
Of abutilon, parts Of flowers, etc ]. G.
Burrowes, potato cell.
After the audience had examined these
they departed, and thus ended one of the
largest and most interesting meetings yet
held.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-01
PERSONAL.

The National Republican Of Washington
urges Secretary EvARTs as United States
senator from New York.
At special election in the Nineteenth
Ohio district Judge E. B. TAYLOR, elected
in October to be Garfield's successor as
representative, was elected to fill the va
cancy in the present Congress.
Mr.. MURAT HALsTEAD is in favor of
electing president evey two years. As
an Ohio man he likes to see the fun 60 on,
but he must be informed that the way the
thing is running the rest of the country
isn't enjoying it SO much.
The congressional committee, board of
state commissioners of Virginia, and York
town centennial association, of which,
John Welsh is chairman, will meet in
Washington on December 10, to arrange
for tine Yorktown celebration. ROBERT
C. WINTHROP. of Massachusetts,, is pro
posed for orator On the occasion.
Rev. DR.. JOHN P. NEWMAN is greatly
beloved by the Grant family, and visits
them almost every day at the Fifth Ave
nue. hotel. Some one is assured that ht
frequently plays seven-up with the general
and the only clerical aspect Of his side of
the table, to distinguish it from the other
is the absence of a glass of whisky ant
water.
General Grant was asked the other da!
by Henry Ward Beecher whether in the
course of the rebellion lie had ever received
any aid from Washington in the way of
information as to the enemy's movements
''Only once," ," said Grant, ''and whodo yos
think gave it: OF cours, no one cou X
tell. "Well," said Grant family smiling
it was CHARLES A. DANA. He sent m,
a dispatch once which contained most i'm.
portant Information, and which saved the
lives Of many men. That was one goo'
thing Mr.. Dana did,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-01
DETERMINED TO DIE.
Mrs. Cora DalrymPle's desperate AttemI
at Suicide.

Mrs. Cora Dalrymple's Desperate Attempts
at Suicide.
A desperate attempt at suicide, which
will prove successful, was made last We'd
nesday by Mrs. Cora Dalrymple, Of Mar
shall township, Allegheny county. The
lady, who is only twenty-three years of
age, was married in Allegheny, where her
friends reside. three years ago. She has
always been considered as a remarkably
bright, attractive and intellectual young
lady.
At the time mentioned above she pro-
cured her husbands revolver from a bu-
reau drawer, and placing the muzzle just
over heart, fired. The ball missed the
heart and passed through the body, frac-
turing one Of the ribs. She then obtained
two-Ouncc vial filled with laudanum,
which was in the house ut the time, and
swallowed the whole Of it. Until Sunday
it was thought she would recover, but
since then her case is considered hopeless
and she will die. There are various rumors
afloat concerning the melancholy affair.
but the lady's friends assert that the only
reason known TO them for SO rash a deed
was the loss by death Of her two little
babies.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-01
GOODSELECrlONS
The County Committee Appoints its Rel
rOsentatlVeS ON the Peace Commission

The County Committee Appoints it's Rep
rosentatlVes ON the Peace C0mmiss,on
The chairman of the Philadelphia Dem
ocratic county committee yesterday ap-
p Dinted the special committee of ten to
represent that body in the peace commits
sion. which is to prepare rules for the
guidance of the party in Philadelphia.
The gentlemen named are Thomas
May Peirce, chairman Geo. NJ. Dallas,
attorney.at-iaw Gen. Isaac J. Wistar.
president canal companies of Pennsylvania
railroad Gillies Dallett. president Penn
national bank Jas. E. Gowen, attorney
at-Iaw; VIM. Ayres, merchant Henry
Donahue. liquor dealer Geo. Harrison
Fisher, attorney-at-law Hugh p. Kenne
dy, plumber, and Frederick Gerker, rail
road manager.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-01
Sales of Real Estate.

Yesterday B. T. Rowe, auctiOneer, sol,
1T public sale for the executors of the es
tate Of Daniel Lefever, decd, OF DrumorC
township, the following real estate:
No. a farm containing 100 acres more
or less near the village Of Quarryville, with
imprOycments,t to the widow Of deceased,
Mrs. Susan Elizabeth Lefcver. for 500
per acre.
No. 9, tract of land containing 3!
acres with improvements, known rs the
"Ark'' property, in the village Of Quarry
vile, to same for Sl43 per acre.
No. ;, 1 tract of land in DrumOre town
ship containing 201 acres with improve
ments. to Henry II. Lefever and Jacob
Keen for 433. so per acre.
Quarryvillc, sold to Samuel Wilmer OF
West Lampeter, 225 acres of the property
known as the Scotchman farm, in Cole
rain township. near Wesley NJ. E. church.
This tract is improved land and has a
Hess having put them up within the last
four years. The price paid is $50 psr
acre.
Last evening Michael +. Steigerwalt
sold at private sale to Philip DOersOm the
property NOS. l~O ituu 10 EiSt NI1lcn
street, now occupied by Mr.. Doersom Us a
carriage factory, for s11, 800. The prop.
erty has front on East King street OF
about 81 feet and extends in depth 245 feet
to Mifilin street, Oh which are erected Oh
the East King street front two story
dwelling and on Mifilin street a large car.
riagc factory.
Mr.. DOersom offers for sale his private
residence, No. 42 South Lime street. as
will be seen by advertisement in another
column.
AT Montery yesterday J. NJ. King auc-
tioncer, sold at public sale for BENJAMIN
kreider, of Upper LeacOck, his farm of Y
acres Oh the banks Of Mill creek, in said
township, to Jacob Herr. Of Leacock, for
s219,31t per acre. The farm is one Of the
best in the township in good repair, con-
tanning large barn and other necessary
buildings.
The properties Of John A. Boring all
vertised for sale at public sale few days
ago were all withdrawn. but are still in
the market and may be had at private
sale
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-01
COURT OF COMMON Pleas.


In the case Of Isaac Roland s. Go. VS..
A. Bates Grubb, the jury found in favor
of the plaintiffs. for :l1S.2l.
Hanover junction Il SusIuehann rail-
road company VS.. Michael and John Moore.
This is an action brought by the plaintiffs
to recover the amount of twenty-five
shares of stock, which is alleged to have
been subscribed by the defendants to the
plaintiff railroad company. After the
case was attached and the opening was
made the jury were taken to view tho pro-
perty Of the defendants. through which
the railroad passes. The case will be
taken up i'll the morning again.
I;efore Judge Patterson.
In the case Of Henry G. Hauser vs.
David G.. Swartz, the jury rendered vcr-
dict in favor Of the plaintiff, for 3317.3G.
Henry Weiss vs. Philip Bernard, action
on a promis sory note. This note was given
by Philip Bernard to Charles Doll, Sd
perintendaDt in the employ OF the plaintiff,
who is u cigar manufacturer rcsidining in
Quakertown, Bucks county. 1t was en-
dOrsed by the plaintiff and Charles Doll.
1t was for $500 and three months and it
was given OH May 1G, 1878. The note was
paid by plaintiff when it became due.
The defense is that Doll and Weiss
were partners in the cigar trade although
they claimed that Doh Was merely su
perntendent. Mr.. Bernard was then
doing business in New York and bought
cigars of them. Ga the 10Th o: May he was
at their manufactory Weiss wa, away
from home and Doll asked Bernard to give
him his note for 1900, in order to raise
some money to pay for something connect
ell with the business, Is he could not get
any in his own name. Doll ,then drew up
another note for the same amount and
gave it to Bernard. He dated it May
18th AID said he would give him that
as 4 sct-o!f for the other one. This
note was never paid when it became due.
MIR. Bernard never received anything for
the note on which this suit was brought
1t was not to pay for anything bought by
him. Il was merely given to accOmmo-
date Doll. On trial.
Divorced.
Catharine Thomas WIS divorced from
Ahram l.. Thoms. on the grounds Of dur
ess in procuring the El.rriasc--p,rticu!ars
reported elsewhere.