The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-31
The Washington correspondent of

dead In the next six months. Every
one is talking about the wonderful
change that is noticeable i'm him.
His elastic step and general springi-
ness is gone, and he is now a bent
shouldered, overworked and tired.out
man.
General Benjamin Lincoln was
the first Secretary of War. He was
appointed in 1881, The last Secretary
of War is Robert Lincoln, appointed
in lSSl-just one hundred years diff
ference between the dates of ap-
pointnent. A picture of the first
Secretary hangs upon the walls of the
department and n picture of the pres
ent will be placed alongside it. There
is no relationship between the two.-
Washington Star.
The War Department at Wash
has for several days been rendezvous
for large portion of the colored popu-
lation of the District and surrounding
country. In addition to the regular
number of office-seeker5 Secretary
Lincoln has one hundred co|ored
people who want to shake hands with
him to one who visits the other men,
bers of the Cabinet for that purpose.
They simply want to meet the son of
the man who issued the Emancipation
proclamation. All grades, from the
nitx Stxpn tO tt,n r..
"Old Virginny," make Mecca of the
War Department.. Mr.. Lincoln re-
ceives them all and gratifies them not
only with hand-grip, but with few
cheerful words of greeting. Some
times in the case of an old-fashioned
col0red man or woman he will talk
for some little time with them.
An exchange sensibly remarks:
I'm all towns where a newspaper is
published, everybody who does a
business should advertise in it, even if
it is nothing more than Il card stating
the name and the business he is en-
gagged in. 1t helps to sustain paper
and lets the people at a distance
know that the town is full of
business people who take pride
in their town, if not in the sentiment
of the paper. No matter how small
the business, an advertisement will
extend it. Show US person who is a
constant advertiser in his local town or
county paper, and we will point to
you man of public enterprise and
spirit, and a town made up of such
material will never be outstripped by
neighbor rivals. Men of capital in
vest in it and help build it up. Do
you ever think how new town is
built? Never without well-tiiled
newspaper"
Cheyenne, Wy, March % -
George Parrott, alias big Nose
George" one Of the Elk mountain
murderers, and an infamous road
agent, who is sentenced to be hanged
on April 2, attempted to break Jail
last evening ut Rawlings. He man
aged to get the shackels off, with
which he attacked Jailer Rankin
when he entered the corridor to lock
the prisoners in their cells for the
night. The jailer's wife, hearing the
conflict, had the presence of mind to
lock the outside door, locking the
jailer in with the prisoner. An alarm
was then raised, and a number of
citizens fastened to the Jail, released
the jailer, and secured the prisoner.
He will be double ironed and strictly
guarded until the day Of his execution.
A later dispatch to the Cheyenne
Leader states that big Nose George"
was taken out Of Jail by a party of
masked men at ten o'clock last night
and carried to IA telegraph pole oppo-
site the railroad machine shops, when
a rope was thrown over the cross arm
of the pole. George was then made
to climb up II ladder, when a rope was
placed around his neck and the ladder
pulled out from under him. His last
words were: II will jump off, boys,
and break my neck"
Only one Democratic newspaper,
80 far as we have seen, ventures to
commend the Hon. Ben Hill for his
late'great effort in discovering Malone.
That one speaks of it as Every adrOit
speech" " by which Malone Every un-
wisely permitted himself TO he drawn
out,o We confess it had not occurred
to us before in precisely that light; but
if HIPS object really was to draw
Malone out, there's no doubt that he
succeeded beyond his fondest hopes
"If them's bees" said George, "we'lI
get lots o. honey" YES" said
Thomas, "but let's find out about
'em by going round 'em kinder as
though we was minding our own
business and didn't care what they
was. Then we won't get stung ""Oh,
shol" said Benny, lets find out now.
Who's afraid? shouting "Hallo
there! What be ye? What We doin
there?" he pumped stone into the
nest. That night while Benny lay
with his eyes swollen so that he could
nOt'see and his head all wrapped up in
bandages, the boys talked it over,
agreed that it was not the kind of nest
they could expect to get honey out of