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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-27
County Clerk

WYE ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE
w A. HARDWOOD, as n candidate for re-
election to the Office Of County Clerk OF Dallas
County,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-24

the part ofthe angel without knowing
it, and my one chancellor romantic
adventure spoiled forever. 1t was
shameiul-abominab and then my
plans for Adelaide and Ned, OF course II
was clear they never could succeed
now. And yet felt delighted.
| went home leaving Ned at No. 54.
What heavenly change for, Mrs;
Graham! How different from that OF
the morning looked the sunlight OF this
afternoon. Her home intact-her little
ones safely near--the prospect OF the
lonely garret faded away like fright
full dream. And Ned, happy as q clam,
for having remembered the widow and
the fatherless. had them all to dinner
that night. Mrs. Graham is charming,
1 will say it even if Adelaide dies an
old maid.
There will be wedding soon at No.
81. l have already received as present
a sideboard much handsomer than Mrs:
Graham's. Barney will be provided
for, and we shall all bless the day that
Cousin Ned went to the auction and
bought up the entire establishment
including widow and two children
not on the list.
1t is time for me to look after the din.
ner; but thought / must write to you
this little romance of my humdrum
life. AS ever your old chum,
EMMA.
-Ehrich'S QUARTERLY.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-24
A Lover Of Shakespeare.

One of the most noted characters on
the border twenty years ago was old
John Bridger, of Fort Bridger, in
Utah. On one occasion he came to
New York. He did not like the
narrow down-to streets with high
buildings on each side, and COM
planned Ithat he had once lost his
way in ''Dey Street Canon" and been
rescued with difficulty by the police
lie like the theaters, and expressed the
utmost delight at a performance of the
" Midsummer Nights Dream. He had
no clear idea WHO Shakespeare was,
but conceived and developed the most
extravagant admiration for him.
Returning to the fort, he sold stock
and supplies to emigrants and other
travellers as in times past. One day a
man wished to buy some oxen. and i'm
said he could have any except one yoke,
which lie had madeup his mind TO keep
at all hazards, in the morning messen-
ger came to say that the man wanted
tnl syoke, and none other.
He can't have 'em," said Jim.
There's no use talkin'."
"Well, lie wants them, and is just
awaiting for them," said the messen-
ger. He's a-settln' there, readin' a
book callcl Shakespeare"
"Eh?" yelled Jim, jumping to his
feet. Did you say-ShakspeareP Here,
you, give me my boots.n
He ran to the corral.
Stranger" said he, "jest give me
that book, and take them oxen"
"Oh, no." said the man. - only
bought the book to read on the way.
will give it to you"
Stranger" sail Jim, resolutely
"jest you take them oxen, and give mt
that book" And so the man did.
Jim hired reader at fifty ollars pei
month, and listened to Shakespeare
every evening, All went well, unit
one night, as the reader came to the
proposed murder of the princess in tn,
Tower, jim sprang from his seat, will
blazing eyes, and yelled, in thunder
tones, Hold on there! Jest wait til
git my rifle, and I'll shoot the scoun
drel!'
AS one OF his old "pards" justly re
marked, sincerer compliment wa
never paid to Shakespeare.-Harper'
| Mlgdztne.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-24
An Adventure at Lacbine Rapids.

Canadian tourists, or those familiar
with the river St. Lawrence, need not to
be told of the picturesque danger of the
Lachine rapids. Many traditions and
some authentic stories are preserved of
lucklCss persons who have been engulfed
there, and the Shooting of the rapids
even by skillful pilots is always an anx-
ious and delicate piece of work.
Another Sad example was recently
added to the record of calamities at this
celebrated locality. In this case, as in
Others, the presence and exertions of
famous pilot-named Dai.lebout in the
present instance-failed to avert the
catastrophe. Ten lumbermen, under Dahl
lebout's command, started early in the
morning from Caughnawaga village to
make the descent of the Lachine rapids.
Another raft under Baptiste, also well.
known pilot, set out at the same time
from the same place; and those who
were on board the last raft saw all that
happen to the crew of the first one.
1t seems that, by some mischance,
Daillebout swung his raft out of the
right channel at a critical moment. Be-
fore he and his men could retrieve their
error their control of the raft was gone.
In few moment they were driven with
awful velocity into the vortex of foam
ing waters that the tourists steamers
pass through when running the rapids.
Those steamers, steered with matchless
dexterity, and having their engines to
steady their course, get through habit
ually in safety. But with raIt, having
nothing but human strength to shape
her course, it is, of course, far different.
In this case the lrail structure was rolled
over and over and hurled in every direc-
tion. She had to go through a mile OF
tumbling, seething waters-for the most
part indeed halt a cataract-before she
or any fragments of her could emerge
into the smooth safety OF the river below.
The spectators saw a moving and extra
ordinary sight. Logs sixty feet long
were tossed in the air like so many
twigs. Piece by piece the raft broke
asunder. No power on earth could aid
her wretched crew, and it seemed newt
able that they must perish to u man.
But it was otherwise decreed. Despite
this amazing ordeal, and despite most OF
their number being frightfully bruised,
eight of the eleven occupants of the raft
went through the rapids alive. Not
only that but they managed to cling to
portions of their shattered bark so as to
be rescued at last by their brother lum-
bermen who had seen without being
able to aid them in their peril. The re-
naming three raftsmen perished; and
the wonder is, according to the reports
that have reached us, that there should
have been any survivors at all from 8
catastrophe which in former cases ha:
usually been fatal to every man con-
cerned.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-24
Try A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
Consistency.

There time to wake and time to sleep,
A time to SOW, time to reap;
There's time for work, a time for play,
A time for haste, time Tor delay;
There's time to rejoice, time to weep,
A time for the living, time for the deep;
There time for hope and expectations,
time for fulfllment and realizations;
Poor mortal, whatever thy lot may be,
Cultivate flashes of consistency.
Ihere's time Tor love and a time for hate,
A time to augment, q time to abate;
There's a time to adhere, a time to secede,
A time o wound and time to bleed;
There's time to endure, a time to forbear,
A time to do and time to dare;
There's a time for silence, time to unfold,
Poor mortal, whatever thy lot may be,
Cultivate flashes OF consistency.
There's time to abide, a time to aosterge,
A time to caress and time to scourge;
There's time to intrust, time to decry,
A time tor decoy and time to espy;
There's a time for justice, a time for right,
A time for pity and time for might;
There's a time for the noble, the good, and
the true,
A time to gather and time TO strew;
Poor mortal, whatever thy lot may be,
Cultivate flashes OF consistency.
Charles a. Fischer.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-24
IS Wrecked.O

Few men can hear of the loss of gal
liant ship without touch of sadness.
Lite has been compared to the great
ocean, and men to ships which sail
thereon. When a bark which has
braycd the tempest OF strange seas comes
nome with rusled hull and tattered sail
men welcome her back just as they do
one of their own kind who has jour-
neyed afar and passed through peril 10
benefit his race. 1t is when we come
upon the wreck of once noble ship that
men try hardest to remember how well
she served her builders. 1t is when we
hear that some gallant bark is missing,
leaving no sign nor trace, that men are
awed as they speak her name.
There is nothing that will touch ana
soften the heart like the sight OF the
wrecks which drift here and there on
lite's ocean-once grand ano gifted men
now blown hither and thiJher. now
going with currents, now hidden from
sight by the mantle of night or the
mysterious fog. He who visits an asy-
lum for the insane will gaze out upon
an ocean which is ever changing lts
surface and its shores. one moment tne
waters will be calm and peacelul-tne
next there will be the roar OF storm
and the growl OF breakers. Before him
some moving slowly out of the fog
some drifting into it-some sklrtlng the
shores on which stand fearful friends 10
wave arewells-others being carried py
unseen currents afar to sea. IL is an
ocean without harbor OF refuge. once
a wreck upon its bosom and there Is no
! landing. Day and night, tor weeks ana
months and years, the dlsmasteu anu
dismantled hulks weave In anu out Oh
| the fog-in and out of the sunlight
Whirl slowly about in the eddles-calcn
on the shoals and go driving further out
upon the troubled waters. Storm anu
rust and time are silently at WORK, ana
one by one, as the years creep on, olu
wrecks sink silently into the sea anu are
heard of no more forever.
When men die we forget that tney
were like those who still live on. we
orget all that was bad in them and re-
member all that was good. We know
that they are dead, and the busy World
closes up the gap and marches along.
But when men sail out upon LIES ocean
to become Wrecks-to be dead in all but
name-to drift in the darkness without
chart or beacon-to feel the sh res 60
ing further and further away from
them, there is something so pitiiul that
ewes fill with tears and hearts grow
tender. They are not dead, yet then
faces are never seen on the streels
They have no tombstones, yet men reae
their epitaphs and forget them. In
battered hulk drifts skeleton crew
drifting, driving, swirling, plunging
and there is no help. The END Is
darker night, a stronger gale and CT.
of despair as the waters close over al
and roll ON as before.-Detro't IRE
Press.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There are 10000 gypsies in England.
There are 10000 German in st. Peters,
burg.
The iron horse has but one ear-The
engineer.
A five-cent fan makes as much wind
as $50 one,
The mortality in London is only
twenty in 1000.
There are 3,50O,O00 watermelons in
single patch in Georgia.
A bottomless pit-The one inside OF a
cherry. y.-MdrGtton Independent.
English farmers are liable to arrest
for killing hares on their own farms.
Authors are spoken of as dwellers in
attics, because so few OF them are able
to live on their first story.
Where New York pays an average
salary of SS14. II to public school teach
ers, Philadelphia pays S4S6.lO.
Montreal is acknowledged to have
about the finest wharves of any city in
America. The harbor is lighted with
the electric light.
The rentals of grass land in England
this wear show a considerable increase,
while those of corn land show CORES
ponding decrease.
The uses OF adversely
May be sweet as honey's wing,
But we'd rather have some other chap
Than ourselves to test the thing.
-SteubenvilLe Herald.
A Connecticut man has made walk
ing canecontaining 649 pieces of wood,
no two being of the same kind. 1t is
almost as good to club dog with as
cudgel all of one kind OF wood.
Denver is Dragging about resident
who is gradually turning into stone
while he is yet alive; but he is nothing
compared to lots of chaps who turned
to brass soon after they were born.-De-
trOIt Free Press.
One thousand dollars is large sum OF
money to pay for little piece OF floating
wood, but if it is found and can be
shown to be part of the missing ship
Atalanta, British admiralty will pay
that amount to the finder.
A writer in the Scotsman AYERS that
out of 35 900 hams imported into Ham,
burg last year, 297 were found to con-
tain trichin@, while of l4,000 sides OF
bacon eighty. five were found to be more
seriously infested.
The Philosophical society, of Glasgow
is to hold an exhibition of gas ap paratus
on Il large scale next autumn, and 1t is
intended also to make display at the
same time of the apparatus which Will
illustrate the progress made in electric
lighting, in telephone communication,
in the manufacture of mineral oils, in
water measurement and regulation, in
hydraulic engines, in heating and venti-
lation, etc. There can be no doubt that
this exhibition, taking up, us it means
to do some of the most important prob
lens to which mans attention is given
at present, will prove of great service to
those who have to deal practically with
sanitary appliances.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-24
A iilaSS Mountain.

Another marvel recently brought to
light in the Yellowstone park, of North
America, is nothing less than noun
tam of obsidian or volcanic glass. Near
the foot of the Beaver lake band of
explorers came upon this remarkable
mountain, which rises in columnar
cliffs and rounded bosses to many hun
dreds of feet in altitude from Kissing
hot springs at the margin of the lake.
AS it was desirable to pass that way,
the party had to cut a road through the
steep CLASSY barricade. This they eff
fected by making huge fires on the glass
to thoroughly heat and expand it, and
then dashing the cold water of the lake
against the heated surface so to suddenly
cool and br ak it up by skrinkage.
Large fragments were in this way de-
tached from the solid side of the noun
tain, then broken up small by sledge
hammers and picks, not, however, with
out severe lacerations OF the hands and
faces of the men from flying splinters.
In the Grand canon OF the Gibson river,
the explorers also found precipices OF
yellow, black, and banded obsidian
hundreds of feet high. The natural
glass of these localities has from time
immemorial been dressed by the In
dians to tip their spears and arrows.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-24
What Is't Endures.

This trifling Jewel which maiden wore
In her pink ear thousands OF years before
This time in which look ut it--this toy
fs here; while she to whom to breathe was
Joy
In the dark earth part Of it has lain.
No record OF her lie, no name, no word
remains.
Aud who feel such rapture on the earth,
To whom existence is thing OF worth,
Must soon resign it with regrets and iears,
And this lead thing 1 write with stay
thousand years.
M Il. Marshall, in Independent
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-24

An exchange is responsible for the
statement that more people lost their
lives in this country by the burning of
hotels in 1879, than by the accidents
of travel on railroads and steamboats,
on all the rivers, lakes and sounds COM
mined.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-24
TIMELY TOPICS.

1t is now tolerably certain that by
the year 1883, when the New York
words fair is to open, the Brooklyn
bridge and the Hudson river tunnel will
both be finished and in constant use.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-24

Jefferson Davis plantation at Hurri-
cane, Miss, is leased by Montgomery &
Sons. This firm is composed of four
negroes who were formerly owned by a
brother of the ex-president of the CON
federacy. They own plantations worth
$75, 200, hire several more, and do a
large mercantile business at Vicksburg
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-24

Lyman Beecher, ON returning home
from church one Sabbath, said that he
had done very poorly. Said one of his
boys: Why, father. l thought you
were never in better trim; you just
shouted it out to 'em." AYE, aye, re.
piled Mr.. Beecher, chats it exactly /;
when I'm not prepared l always holler
at the top of my voice."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-24

Little Wolf, who was sixteen years
old when the declaration was signed,
but who, nevertheless, never saw Wash
ington nor acted as his body servant,
died recently in his wigwam, near where
he was born in 1850, on the st. Croix
river in Wisconsin, five generations
being present at his death.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-24

Goods at half price," said the sign.
"How much is that teapot" asked the
old lady who lad been attracted by the
announcement. Fifty cents, num-"
81 guess I'll take it then," she said,
throwing down II quarter. The dealer
let her have the teapot, but took in his
sign before, another customer could
come in.-Boston Transcript.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-24

The Hindeos are initiating the mis-
sionaries in circulating religious tracts.
heir tracts are devoted to accounts OF
exploits of their gods.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-24


but who, nevertheless, never saw Wash
ington nor acted as his body servant,
died recently in his wigwam, near where
he was born in 1850, on the st. Croix
river in Wisconsin, five generations
being present at his death.
A list of the railroa lines either di-
rectly or indirectly under the control of
Mr.. Jay Gould has been publish ed, by
which it appears that he now operates,
under the Wabash consolidation, about
8, 1858 miles, or nearly one-tenth of the
entire mileage of the United States. 1t
is safe to say that, as far ae
u ileage is concerned, this is the largest
combination of roads in the control of
any one individual or corporation
in the world.
Some years since cluster OF women
in association with Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe, founded society whose purpose
was to bring the influence of women to
bear in the promotion of peace. Their
annual meeting recently took place in
Boston, and addresses were made by
Mrs. Diaz, Miss Selma Borg, Miss Jen-
ME Collins, Miss Horatia Ware, and
others. One of the speakers illustrated
the blight of war by mention of the
single article of gunpowder, of which
the annual production for military use
was stated to be one hundred million
pounds, which would be equivalent to
ten million pounds of fertilizing nitro
gen, again equivalent in productive ca
pacity to five hundred million pounds of
bread.
The origin of the familiar abbrevia-
ton S., so often seen in legal docu-
ments, has caused not a little discussion.
An exchange says that the received
opinion that IS. is an abbreviation for
scilicet is correct in substance. 1t stands,
however, not simply for sciIicet, but for
three repetitions of the word. The court
crier prefaces announcements by :" Hear
We, hear ye, hear ye," and in like man.
ner writs and memorials of courts are
prefaced. in contemplation of law, by a
thrice repeated "Be it known" or
Know ye." The initial S of scilicet
is doubled to express the repetition, in
analogy with the familiar use of the
double initial as all abbreviation for
plurals and superlatives.
The little busy bee commits murder
more often than is generally supposed,
and the danger of keeping hives, espe-
cially in cities, has recently been pointed
out by M. Delpech, speaking for the
hygienic council of the department of
the Seine, to whom the question had
been referred by the police, great incon-
venience having arisen from bee culture
in the department. NJ. Delpech cites
many cases of fatal results from the
sting OF the insect. 1t appears that
esuecial danger attends such wounds
changed in character by the poison, can
no longer excite the motor nerve and
asphYxia rapidly supervenes.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-24

Russia is afraid of American grain
competition.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-25

A T.. McCANN, ,AUCTIONEER OF REAL
N. Estate and Personal PrOperty.-Orders
left at No. IS Charlotte street. or at the Black
Horse Hotel, A and 46 North Queen street. will
receive prompt attention. Bills made ont and
attended to without additional cost. O27-ly
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-25
FOR SALE OR RENT.

EOR RENT.
L Union Hotel, East Chestnut street, oppo
site Penn'a Depot. Apply at the
jl6-tfd INTELLIGENCER OFFICE.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-25
Amusement Notes.
What the Players are Doing.

W nat the ilayers are DOHlS.
The 1.-TWO Orphans is in rehearsal at
the Union Square. to succeed the g False
Friend at an early date.
One of the leading tobacco manufacture
ing firms of Louisville, Kentucky, has just
patented new brand of tobacco,
which has been named after Manager j.
IL. llaveriy.
Gilbert and Sullivan have promised to
write new comic opera and Gilbert to
turn out new comedy beside for Abbey
and Schoetel. These new pieces are to be
among the attractions at Booths next
fall.
Gilbert and Sullivan suDerintended a
performance of " The Pirates - at Buffalo
last Saturday afternoon, spent Sunday at
Niagara Falls and then visited the govern
or general and the Princess Louise at Otta-
wa. 10y whom they were received with great
cordiality and consideration.
Annie Pixlcy played a remarkable good
engagement in Philadelphia last week.
The houses were packed nightly. She is
doing an immense business this season, and
will be in this city on Monday evening
next in her charming impersOnation OF
M liss, Child of the Sierras.''
With their usual enthusiasm in the cause
Of charity. the amusement managers of
Philadelphia. have prepared an entertain.
ment of colossal proportions for the matt.
nee in aid of the Irish relief fund. This
entertainment. which will take place at the
Academy of Music on Thursday afternoon,
will comprise an overture by a grand or.
chostra under the direction of Simon Hass.
Ter; the second act of "The Pirates OF
Penzance - recitation by MIR. Hardie OF
the Chestnut street theOtre an exhibition
drill by detachment of the State Fenci-
hles the screen scene from "The School
for Scandal with Fanny Davenport as
Lady T6azle "The Skidmore Guards, -
by CancrOSS' minstrcls, and the second act
of THE Princess TOto'
Among the contributions from the ladies
and gentlemen in the dramatic and musical
professions to the Irish relief fund, are
John Mccullough $500; E. A. Sotherl
$500; Dion Boucicault 500; Lawrence
Barrett 500; John T. Raymond s1OO
BARLEY Campbell 800; Frank Mayo 500
and 10 per cent. of the receipts of the
Olympic fora month p. L. Barnum 800
J. G. McCollom 500; Edward Harrigar
500; Tony Hart 500; Mary Anderson
500; Fanny Davenport 500; Gilmore's
band 800: Rose Coghlan $50 Arthur
Wallack $50; Harold B. Wallack, $50
Edwin Price $50 Mrs. E. L. Davenport
500. and many other smaller sums. Every
manager in New York, Philadelphia anC
brooklyn, will give the proceeds Of one
performance, either regular or special, tC
the fund.
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