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Alabama Frauds.

The free vote and fair COUNT of
the Democracy was fully illustrated in
the Alabama election. The Republi-
cans on fair ballot have at least 20,-
600 majority in the State, yet it is put
down at some 10000 Democratic. The
Republican State Committee have is
sued an address showing how it was
done. The following from Wilcox
county is fair sample.
Before the election the leading Re-
publicans of Wilcox county, fearing
they could not get fair count in the
eastern end of the county, concluded
tn advise the Republicans in several
precincts not to vote, and then the
Democratic steal would be more pal
pable. Republicans posted themselves
near the polls and took down the
name of every colored man who voted.
At Snow Hill seven colored men
voted. The Democrats gave them
selves, in their official return at this
precinct, 500 votes. But according to
the census returns of last June, there
are only 1872 whites living in the pre-
cinct over twenty-one years of age.
Add to the white the seven coiored
votes, and we hAs total of l39 votes
polled at this precinct, AGO less than
the official return. At Allentown pre-
cinct two colored men voted. The
Democrats gave themselves 347 votes.
The last census SHOWS but siXty-two
whites in the precinct over twenty-five
years of age; total, sixty four votes,
283 less than the official return. 1t
was the same at Pine Apple. In Bon
ham's S precinct the returns gave the
Republicans twenty-five votes and
the Democrats 476, making the total
vote 49S, or l42 more males twenty-one
years of age than reside in the pre-
cinct, according to the census.
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Republican Primaries and County Con-
yentiOn,

THE REPUBLICAN electors of Elk
county are requested to meet in theil
respective election districts at the place
of holding their last election, on Sat.
urday, September 4th, 18S0,at o'clock
p. NJ. for the purpose of choosing the
usual number of delegates to which
the district may be entitled, to attend
the county Convention for the nomin.
alton of county officers to be held in
Ridgway, September 7th, 1880, at
o'clock p. M.
The manner of choosing said dele.
gates will be that heretofore recon-
mended. 1t is very important that
each election district send their full
number of delegates to which it is ell.
titled that the Convention may fully
represent the party interests in the
county.
II. NJ. POWERS, Chairman.
August 25th, 1880.
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PENSIONS!

Bounty, pay for rations, new and
honorable discharges, and increased
pensions obtained.-Newla laws higher
rates of pension. The slightest dis
ability, from wound, injury or disease
of any kind entities you to a pension
Widows and heirs, fathers and moth
ers are now entitled.
Land cases promptly settled, Pat
ents obtained All kinds of govern
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NOV PLANT
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THE SYRACUSE
CHILLED Steel PlOW

Itswelght will be eighteen pounds less than
our present styles.
a first-claSS Steel Plow, made in the Or
dinary way, full rugged, retails for twenty-five
dollars. Inferior steel PlowS retail from six
teen to nineteen dollars.
The price of our new Plow will be but
Seventeen Dollars, and it will be the
cheapest Agricultural Implement ever sold
Its mold board will outwear three Of the
very best kinds OF the ordinary steel mold
boards.
1t Will scour in soils where all steel plows
and all other plows have hitherto proved
failure.
With this Plow will be introduced CORFU
gated Plow Point and Jointer Point on which
we have also obtained Patent, and which is
also a great Improvement both as regards
strength and wear.
The Jointer can be shifted 50 as to take
more or less land, and also more or less pitch,
and it can always be kept on a line with the
Plow.
The wheel will run under the beam or one
side Of 1t as desired, and always kept in line.
The beam Is adjustable for Spring or Fail
Flowing, and also for two or three horses.
The handles can be adjusted to accommo-
date man or boy, on the same Plow,
1t is perfect Plow.
Wooden beams are going out of use because
they shrink, swell and warp, and never run
two seasons alike.
Iron beams are too heavy.
Ma1eable beams become demoralized ano
bend, which is much worse than to break.
A Steel beam is the necessity Of tie day. 1t
isthree times as strong and very much lighter
than any other style.
When ace say Mold board is chilled, tho
farmers know it is so.
We do not palm off on them composition
of various metals and call It chilled metal.
We want agents for this new Plow in every
town in this State.
We can give but very small discount 20
them, but we will pay the Railroad Freight.
We propose to place this Plow in the hands
OF Farmers as near the cost OF manufacture
as possible.
1t will be the best Agricultural Implement
ever sold.
1t shall also be the cheapest
Persons therefore who are not willing TO act
as agents on the principle that Z" a nimble six
pence is better than slow shilling" need not
apply for an agency.
No Plows on commission. All sales absolute.
aB- This is the only Steel Chilled Plow ii
the World.
Steel costs several times more than Iron.
But this Plow, full rugged, by giving small
discounts, can be sold for Seventeen Dollars.
Compare this price with thatof any Iron Plow
ever made.
1t is cheaper than any other Plow now
made would be at five dollars and half.
Where there are no agents we Will, on re-
ceiptof Seventeen Dollars, send Plow to any
Railroad station in the State and pay the
freight. Address,
SYRACUSE CHILLED PLoW CO.
or Syracuse, h.V'
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ESTATE NQTsGE,

! Estate of isaac Coleman, late of Fox
AtoWnship, Elk Co., Pa deceased.
Notice is hereby given that letters tcs-
tamentary cam tcStin1cat0 dlacGO have
been granted to the undersigned, upon
the above named estate. All persons
idcbtci TO the said estate are requested
to make immediate payment, and
those having legal claims against the
same 10 present them, without delay,
in proper order, for settlement.
JOHN MOYEB, Administrator.
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GSTaEy NOTICE,

NAME to premises of the subscriber
I ] on or about June 1st, 1880, a light
red COW about l2years old, with white
belly. Any person or persons, own
ing or having any claim on said cow
will come forward prove property, and
pay charges, or said COW will be dis
posed Of according to law.
CHARLES BAGLEY.
Daguscahonda, Elk Co., Pa, Aug.
%. 1880.
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ESTATE NOTICE.

.LNstate of Mary II. Gillette late
Lof Ridgway township, Elkcourty,
deceased. Notice is hereby given
that letters of administration have
been granted to the undersigned, upon
the above named estate. All persons
indebted to the said estate are request
ed to make immediate payment. and
those having legal claims against the
same to present them, without delay in
proper order, for settlement.
ALBERT NJ GILLETTE, Admit
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EaticG.

Notice is hereby given that an ap-
plication will be presented to the
Court of Quarter Sessions of Elk Co.
at september term, 1850, for the in
corporation of the village OF Ridgway
as Il borough, under the style of the
Borough Of RidgWay.
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following account will be presented ut
the next court of Common Pleas for
confirmation
l. Account of VIM. ID. Robbins, as
signee OF Henry NJ. May.
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Louisiana capitolian., 1880-03-13
HOW THE WIFE FELT.

A man at whose house l was .
guest, told me that he had been .
hard drinker and cruel husband
had beaten his poor wife till she had
almost become used to it.
"But," said he, the very moment
l signed the pledge l thought Of my
wife--what would my wife say to
this 7 Strange that l should think Il
my wife the first thing, but l did
and as was going home, l said to
myself: "Now,, if | go home and tell
her all Of sudden that | have signed
the pledge, she'll faint away, or she'll
up and do something /; and l must
break it to her by degrees, Only
think of it Why, the night befoee
I'd have knocked her down, just as
like as not, ,ifshe n'tlookcd to please
me and now was planning to break
news to her for fear it would upset
her.
81 found my wife sitting over the
embers, waiting for me. As l came
into the house, ! said {: ~
"Nancy, | think that
"Wcll, Ned, what is it 2
"Why, l think shall-tlat isl
mean--
"What's the matter, Ned 7 Is
anything the matter 7
eyes, said l, the matters just this
I've signed the temperance pledge,
and, so help me God, I'll keep it,
"She started to her feet, and she
did faint away. / was just in time
to catch her; and as she lay in my
arms, her eyes shut, her face SO pale,
thinks l, She's dead, and I've done it
now." But she wasn't dead. She
opened her eyes, and then put her
arms around my neck and | didn't
know she was so strong, as she pulled
and pulled till she got me down where
l had not been before for thirty years
lon my knees. Then she said, %
God help him! and l said, 'Amen =
and she said, 0, God help my poor
Ned, and strengthen him to keep his
pledge and | hollered 'Amenr just
as loud as could holler. That was
the first time we ever knelt together,
but it was not the last.''
Louisiana capitolian., 1880-03-13
ANOTHER HORRIBLE MURDER.

On Monday night last, at the store
of Lipman Kahn, at the Indian Vii
lage, in this parish, q drunken broil
occurred between some Irishmen,
when two or three closed upon one of
the number, actually beat and kicked
him SO badly that after being put in
cart and brought to this place he
died. Coroner Schwing held an in
quest and a verdict was rendered in
accordance with the above facts.
Three Of the parties in the fight
have been arrested and accused of
murder-James Farrell, Tom Welsh
and Timothy Tracy. The two for
mer are in Jail awaiting preliminary
examination, Tracy has been turned
out of Jail OH his own recognizance,
for examination before the parish
Judge failed to show that he was q
party to the murder, although pres
ent at the time.
This was a most brutal murder, and
the murderers should suffer condign
ment.-Plaquemine South.
Louisiana capitolian., 1880-03-13
A STORM At THE SEASHORE.
Adown along the pebble shore
I watched the sea-gulls flying;
While way off in the distant fore
The western sim was diving.

Adown along the pebble shore
watched the sea-gulls flying;
While way off in the distant fore
The western sun was dying.
The ashen hue-Aecked clouds o'erhead
Swift through the air went cleaving,
While on the oceans placid bed
The waves began upheaving,
Full soon the ebon hugh of night
Began the sky o'erwreathing,
And nature seemed filed with fright,
Marked by her labored breathing.
Anon, bursts forth the dolcful sound
The harbors awful moaning;
And earth, and sea, and sky--all round,
With agony seemed groaning.
Quick through the pail hung DER the sky
The lightuing's dart is flashing;
While gainst the beech, the rocks SO high,
The waves are madly dashing.
Hark! what sound breaks on the air!
The thunder's loud complaining;
While with force that comes but rare,
In torrents now-'tis raining.
The morning mists begin to break
On shores so whitley cleaning;
While oceans stormy crested wake
With placid smiles is beaming.
Above, the sun pours dowy eachray
Through clouds of snowy whiteness;
While here below perfect day
Assures us of its brightness.
Louisiana capitolian., 1880-03-13
OLD DUBLIN, DUBLIN

/ Z 4 set ttfs
Tradition tells how Fighting Fixger.
aid, an exquisite and duelist Of the
last century, dealt with, tho .bucks.n
a plague then infesting the street Of
Doblin, and, indeed, the streets Of
every town in Ireland. These bucks
were half.bred young fellows Of seme
means and high animal spirits, whose
sole occupation consisted In making
town-life intolerable to quiet people.
Parliament was more than once COM
PEELED to frame penal enactmepts with
the view ofrestraining their peculiar
ruffianism j but ~ there was NJ
properly constituted police to enforce
them these statutes were Of ANAL
effect. '''9. s.'siVss
Among the tricks Of the Dublin
bucks was this !: One of them would
take his stand tn the middle Of .
crossing on q dirty day, and, drawing
his sword, thrust everybody who
wanted to pass into the mud. It was
q common thing to see half : dozen
Or more Of these unpleasant sentries
lining leading tlioroughfare I'll
ready to afford each other support.
Nor were they content with merely
obstructingthe passage. They knock
ed of. hats, ripped up garments and
pricked the limbs Of the wearers with
the points Of their weapons, and bsoke
ribald jests on them the while to the
vast amusement Of the ragamufIins
who used to collect in the vicinity.
If anybody turned on one of these
bullies the rest would rush up and
form q circle round him then seizing
him by the collar and the arms they
would prick him about the legs until
they considered him punished suffici-
emily. ef
Fitzgerald proposed to some Of his
brother exquisites and fire-eaters that
they should clear the streets Of the
metropolis Of these pests. It was
just the sort Of proposal to suit such
daring spirits, and an ASSOCIATION was
Immediately formed to cary it out.
Like their leader, they were consum-
mate swoldsmen and dandies of the
first water-tl,e Dandy being in all
essentials the antipodes Of the Buck
"a distinction which people who
write about the Irland of the past
are very apt to forget.
The association set to work most
heartily and in this way: Whenever
fine afternoon followed . showery
morning they would sally forth in
knots Of four or five, each being
followed by a lusty valet carrying an
oak sapling. On reaching the haunts
Of the bucks the servants kept the
rabble off while the exquisites did the
work they had undertaken. For .
couple Of months few days passed
without three or four affrays between
the bucks and the dandies, in which
the formerinvariably came off second
best. Erclong the mainstay Of the
bucks, the mob. turned against them,
too. This meant that defeat was sure
to be followed by hooting and pelting
with mud and stone. Then the
pleasant pastilne Of blocking the
throughfales in broad daylight was
abandoned.
Louisiana capitolian., 1880-03-13
A REMARKABLE CASE.
Feliciana Sentinel.

From a gentleman visiting the town
of Jackson, a few days since, we learn
the following particulars Of a remark
able case Of hpdrophobia: A strange
dog was seen to rush down one of
the principal streets, and in its pro-
gress overlook a goose, and biting
the same, passed on, and before being
checked by gun-shot, bit some half
dozen other animals, among whom
was very fine specimen belonging
to Mr.. Guy Rogillio. The remarkable
part of the proceeding lies in the fact
that almost Immediately on being
bitten, the goose as well as the dogs
became rabid and proceeded to snap
and bite at every creature in sight.
A hog in the streets was also bitten
and became rabid. cit was queer, y
says our informant, "to notice the an
tics Of the goose, especially in its
wild endeavors to bite every crea-
ture in it's course" The hog, goose
and some half-dozen dogs we're killed
by the frightened inhabitants.
Louisiana capitolian., 1880-03-13

FATAL ACCIDENT.-On Saturday
evening last some three or four young
men from the neighborhood of Down
vile, in this parish, started for the
pigeon-roost, some five miles from
this place. When mile from town
a flock Of pigeons passed over their
heads, and one Of the boys, David
Rainey, in drawing his gun from the
wagon, with the muzzle towards him,
accidentally discharged it, the con-
tents lodging in his left side. He
fingered in great pain for about an
hour and half, when he expired.
The deceased was about nineteen
years of age, and the son of widow
ed mother. Another sad warning to
those who handle firearms in a care
less manner.-Farmerville Gazette.