i GEO. A. RATHBUN,
Attorney-at-Low,
Main Street, Ridgway, Elk Co., Ta.
II ALL & MUAVLEY,
Attorneys-at-Lw.
Office in New Brick Building, Main St
Ridgway, Elk Co., Pft. 3n2lf.
L UCORE & HAMBLEN.
Attorneys-at-Law, Ridgway, Elk
County Ta. Office across the hall from
the Dkmochat establishment. Claims
for collection promptly attended to
Jne. 16 '70.
CHARLES HOLES,
Watchmaker, Engraver and Jeweler
Main street, Kidgway, Pa. Agent for the
Howe Sewing Maohine, and Morion Gold
it. Repairing Watches, eto, dosewilh
le tame accuracy as heretofore. Satis
taction guaranteed. tlnly
J. 0. If. BAIL EY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
vlnioyl. Ridgway, Elk County, Pa.
Agent for the Traveler's Life and Aoci
Jent Insurance Co., of Hartford. Conn.
JAMES D. FULLER TON,
Sitrgoon Dentist, having permanently lo
cated in Rigway, offers his professional ser
vices to the citizens of Ridgway and sur
rounding country. All work warranted.
Offioe in Sorvioe & Wheeler's Building, up.
stairs, lirst door to the left. 73-n-82-ly
G. G. MESSENGER,
Druggist and rarmaccutist, N. W. cornet
of Main and Mill street?, Ridgway, Pa.
full assortment of carefully selected For
eign and Domcst io Drugs. Prescriptions
carefully dispensed at all hours, day or
night. vlnGy
T. S. HARTLEY. M. O.,
riiysician ana Surgeon.
Office in Drug Store, corner lirond and
Main Sts. Hesidonce corner Broad St.
opposite the College. Office hours from
8 to 10 A. M. and from 7 to 8 P. M.
vlntyl.
J. S. UORU WELL, M. D.,
Eclectio Physician and Surgeon, has remov
ed his office from Centre street, toMair st.
u:.in.n,. Pn in tliA nonnnd storv of the
new brick building of John O. Hall, oppo-
sue nyae s mure.
Offieo hours: 1 to 2 P M 7 to 9 P M
HYDE HOUSE,
RinowAV, Elk Co., Pa
V. II. SCIIRAM. Proprietor.
Thankful far thn natronaee heretofore
o liberally bestowed upon him, the new
proprietor, hopes, by paying strict at
tention to the comfort and convenience ol
FiiAuta. in ninrit a continuance oi the
& -
same.
Oct 30 1869.
E. G. FA 1.
LUMBER AND.INSURANCE COM
MISSION BROKER,
AND
GENERAL COLLECTION AGENT
No 216 Walnut Place,
(310 Walnut Street,)
PHILADELPHIA. PA.
n 4t-1y
l W. HAYS,
Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries-
and General Variety,
OX. ELK CO., PA.
Ear ley . .
'Int7tf.
NEW STORE
IN RIDGWAY.
SILVERMANN & Co's
BAZAAR of WILLI AMSPORT.PA
have opened a largo stock of Millinery
and Fancy Goods, Notions, Gents
t urnislun uoods, netureaiui Jioito
Frames, Hair Switches, &c., which
they will sell at prices within the
reach of all.
Don't fail to call and examine their
full and complete stock before purchas
ing elsewhere. Remember the piaco
next uoor to the rost-ornce. n lomd
N":
EV LI V FRY STABLE
IN
RIDGWAY .
DAN SCRIBNER WISHES TO
inform the citizens of Ridgway, and
the public generally, that he has
started a Ljvery Stable and will keep
GOOD STOCK, GOOD CARRIAGES
and Buggies to let upon the most
reasonable terms.
BSfHe will also do job teaming.
UfnKIa rr "Hrnn 1 utrppt above Main
All orders-left at the Post Office will
receive prompt attention.
Aug'201871tf
"F YOU WANT TO BUY
GOODSCHEAP
GO TO
JAMES II HAGERTY
Main Street, Ridgway, Pa
DBY GOODS, NOTIONS, BOOTS
SHOJiiH, tlATo AJU lAro,
GLASS AND QUEENS
WARE, WOOD AND
WILLOW. WARE,
TOBACCO AND CIGARS
A Large 'Stock of
Groceries and Provisions
Th TfFST HRANDS of FLOUR
Constantly on hand, and bold as cheap
aa the CHEAPEST
JAMES 11 HAUttKTY
"ZT.T.. .......
IllUJlSDAI, JUJNii US, 1877.
Pvnkiks are plenty.
The weather is warm,
No "doings" here the 4th.
The days are growing Buorter.
Bark peeling is progressing now.
Strawberries are on the wane.
G. G. Mksskngkr has a good look
ing rye field.
Call at this office for all kinds of
ob work.
S. A. Rote has brought out the New
York Store.
Flour still sells at a good round
figure.
See our new sign, and then give us
an order for job work.
No paper wilt bo 'Issued from this
office next week.
Cherries are now selling In this
market
The potato crop gives promise of
being an excellent one.
The 4th will be celebrated at St.
Mary's In a becoming manner.
"Pete," our Wilcox correspondent,
records two fatal accidents this week.
The new time table on the P. fc E.
R. R. will be found in another column.
Next Wednesday Is the 101st anni
versary of the declaration of indepen
dence. We are informed that Fox township
has again been visited by a heavy
frost.
Dr. C- R. Earlky has again placed
us under obligations for the "Second
Geological Survey of Pennsylvania.
The road between this place and
Whistletown is said to be in a fright
ful condition, in fact almost impassible.
D. W. Baldwin has gone on a
traveling tour with his photograph
gallery.
Trot out your candidates for Sheriff.
Don't be afraid gentlemen, but re
member Elk county has only one
Sheriff at a time.
Rkmemker that Chas. Holes sells a
?0-5 sewing machine of any make, for
being only ten per cent advance
on manufacturers' prices.
Oi-R friend Arthur B. Little has just
returned from Philadelphia after an
absence of several months. We give
Arthur a hearty welcome.
Last Thursday was the longest day
in the year, and witnessed the execu
tion, for murder of six Mollie Maguires
at Pottsville and four at Mauch
Chunk.
The Murphy temperance wave has
struck Forest county, and the Cobbs,
John, Barrett and Holland have been
enrolled in the grand army that is
now marching to victory.
We invite correspondence from dif
ferent MoetioiiB of tho county. KonU in
the local news and we will agree to put
them in its good shape as possible for
publication.
Du. J. S. BoumvKLL's little son
aged about two and one-half years ac
cidentally took a dose of ammonia lin
iment a few ilnys ago which made the
child very sick, but no serious effect
is feared.
When will the new court house lie
built. It could be put up this year at
very low figures besides giving em
ployment to a large number of men,
and besides the present rat-trap called
the court house is a disgrace to a
county with the wealth of "Little
Elk."
Sewixo machine have comedown
to a reasonable price, and Chas. Holes
will furnish machines of any make at
tea per cent, advance on manufac
tures' wholesale rates, for cash, that is
he will sell you a machine that for
merly sold for $03 for $22, and other
machines in the samo proportion.
The following time table lias gone
into effect on the P. & E. R. It. for
this place.
Erie Mail West
2:11 P.M.
7:45 P. M.
t::l0 A M.
4:49 P. M.
ti:")0 A. M.
3:45 P. M.
Niagara Express West
Local Y est
Erie Mail East
Day Express East
Local East
Dickinson lino's, new barn is a
model for Elk county farmers. It is
arranged so as to allow the teams to
drive to the upper story on an inclined
plane, when the load of hay can be un
loaded into the pit, thus saving the ex
pensive work of raising hay into a loft.
The foundation is of stone, and we no
ticed some that would measure ten or
twelve feet in length.
The wheat crop in this section
looks well. Dickinson Bros, take the
lead in a splendid field of wheat on
the flat, which was brought to its
present state by a liberal use of fertili
zers, John Kime lias a good looking
field of wheat iu the south-west
corner. John G. Hall's wheat also
looks well, and we are told that J. S.
Bordwell has a splendid wheat field
although we have not seen it. We
write this article to dissuade those
people who laugh at the idea of raising
wheat in this section. When the
times comes that we are able to raise
all the cereals that we use then will a
lasting prosperity dawn on this com
munity.
Basket Picnic and Dauce.
At Dickinson Bros, new barn on the
clorious 4th will bo held a basket
nicnio and dance. Tables will be pro
vided on which the dinner is to be
served at 12 o'clock M. after which
dunciuer on the 16x08 feet -barn floor,
will be In order, giving all those who
wiub on nnnorturiitv to "triu the light
fantastic toe," without any danger of
being crowded. Dickinson iiros. wish
us to extend a general invitation to au
thu oiHvona nf lii.lirwiiv to attend.
No doubt the occasion will be one of
much enjoyment, theretore.iei s an b
aua have a goou time.
Wilcox Jiotes.
June 25, 1877.
Hard frost Saturday morning killed
buckwheat, corn, potatoes, &c.
Last Thursday, while a young man
by the name of Plumiiier Attlebarger,
was running out boards at the Lum
ber Co's sawmill on a hand car lie fell
from the top of a high pile of lumber,
the car falling on him in such a man
ner as jo completely crush his skull,
nearly nil over his head, causing in
stant death. The young man was
raised in this place, consequently had
many friends, and acquaintances,
who deeply mourn with tho fumllyi
in this, their terrible affliction. Thus
it is in a moment, iu the twinkling of
an eye, one is taken from life and
blends to that unknown world never
more to return. A vacant seat in the
home circle; an aching, void in the
hearts of dear ones. Such is the great
mystery of life and death. PETE.
Tuesday, June 25.
Nils Nilson Waun, a young married
man, living near this place, was killed
this morning by a limb falling on him
while peeling Imrk near Whistletown.
Pi'TE.
"Elk Co. Advocate Printing
Office" is tho wording on our new t en
foot sign raised yesterday over the
side walk at the foot of the stairs lead
ing to our office. The plain black
letters, with light blue shade on
white ground, makes a neat and at
tractive sign, of which we have reason
to be somewhat proud, and which
attests more than we can write to the
ability of W. II. Little as a llrst-class
sign painter.
Language from Mr. Sherman S.
Jewctt, president of the American
stove makers' association: "The
newspaper is universally the best
medium to open our trade. The most
liberal and expertadvertisers testify to
lis value, and in the employment of
its columns wo would find means of
escape from wasteful,' undignified and
Ineffective methods, to which so many
now resort in their eager desire to
sceureattention and patronage." Cin-
vimiutl Time.
The Postoffice Department has es
tablished 220 additional money order
offices to go into operation July
The following is the list of new offices
of the kind in Western Pennsylvania:
California, Washington county
Cardville, Washington county, Drift
wood, Cameron county ; Lundy Lane,
Erie county; Mill Villnge, Erie
county; Mitllinsburg, Union county ;
Spring-dale, Allegheny county ; West
Springfield, Erie county.
The commissioner of internal reveue
has just issued an impoitant circular
to collectors authorizing the removal
of fusil oil from distilling premises in
quantities of not less than 2u0 gallons.
Fusil oil must lirst lie purified by
washing in the tank, and, before
withdrawal, must be inspected by the
collector or deputy- rlk:.tor,- -t-nd
tested by washing iu a glass tube con
taining three measures of water to one
of fusil oil. If not more than ten per
cent, of fusil oil is taken up by the
water it will be considered merchan
table, and may lie withdrawn.
The Nation refers to the four per
cent, bonds us follows, which is a very
clear statement of this last financial
project :
The most important financial event
of the week has been the sale of h-'),-
noo,(K)(i lour percent, thirty-year bonus
by tho l, lilted States treasury to a
syndicate of bankers, including -most
of the members of the syndicate
which had charge of tho sale of the
four and a half per cent, bonds. The
four per cent were sold at par in gold
less the commission of one-lialt ot one
per cent, and with the sale was given
the privilege of unlimited subscrip
tions on the same terms for the next
six months. Tho treasury imposed
the condition that the public should
have the chance to take these bonds at
pur in gold for thirty days. Before
the sale of the four per cents the old
syndicate, subscribed for $25,ul0,00u of
four and a-halt per cents, which
makes the total amount of these bonds
sold $200,000,000 or $100,000,000 less
than authorized. By reserving this
100,000.000 the treasury lias a fund to
use lor resumption purposes, or, it not
needed, the bonds can lie issued as
four per cents which would make the
entire amount of four per cents au
thorized 800,000,000. Of the $25,000,-
000 four per cents sold, the proceeds of
?-,000,ooo ure to be devoted to prepar
ing for resumption in 1870, and of the
$2,000,000 of four ami a-half per cents,
sold, 10,000,000 are to be implied ; so
that out of the proceeds of the sale of
$.o (H)O INK) bonds !l.. (100 O'.IO in to he
used for the improvement of the cur
rency and i;!o,0ou,000 for the reduction
of the interest on the six per cent,
funded debt. It is understood to be
Mr. Sherman's policy to accumulate
$1,000,000 per month for the purposes
of resumption, either by holding the
gold or, under his construction of the
law, by selling the gold for legal
tender notes, and then either (one)
holding, them as a special fund, or
(two) crediting them to the sinking
fund or (three) cancelling then as new
national bank-notes are issued, $80 of
the former to $100 of the latter. Mr.
Sherman may not have done the best
possible thing, but iu giving us $5,000,
000 contraction per month ho has
done better than any of his predeces
sors. Whether the four per cent, bonds
will sell readily is a question. They
run thirty years, and in this respect
are the best bonds yet issued. It can
not be expected that they will at pre
sent sell at par in gold in Europe, and
should the war there become general
their chance of a market on that side
the water would for a time wholly
disappear. The reniondti.ation of the
old silver dollar would prevent their
sale cither here or in Europe, unless
the price of silver should advance so
that the dollar would bo the equal
of the gold dollar in which all the
bonds should be paid if gold faith is
to be kept. Legally, however, all the
bonds of the government could be paid
in il2 grain silver dollar, if that coin
should be remonetized. At the close
of the week a 412J grain silver dollar
would have been worth $80 5.0 cents
gold, and a paper dollar Do cents so
that now a bond payable principal and
interest iu greenbacks would be a bet
ter bond thau one payable in silver.
Negotiable Paper.
an important opinion by the su
preme COURT.
Following is the opinion of the su-
prcme court (Judge Sharswood) in the
case of Woods vs. North error to the
court of common pleas of Hunting-
don county!
It Is ft necessary quality of negotia-
ble paper that It should be simple, cer-
tain, unconditional, notsubjectto any
contingency. It would be a mere nf-
fectation of learning to cite tho ele-
mentary treatises aim too decided
cases which nave established this
principle, it is very important to tne
commercial community mat it should
bo maintained in nil its vigor.
Applying it to the note sued upon
In this case, we are of the opinion that
it violates thin rule. If it had been
payable at sixty days, with five per
per cent, it would have been objec
tionable as usurious on its face. It
would not, however on that account
have invalidated the note or destroyed
its negotiability. A negotiable note
may be made payable with interest
from its date, and if more thau lawful
interest is stipulated for, it docs not,
in Pennsylvania, make the contract
void, but only the usury. Hence such
a note is sufficiently certain. It is
payable at maturity with lawful in
terest. But in the paper now in ques
tion there enters, as to the amount,
an undoubted clement of uncertainty.
It is a mistake to suppose that if the
note was unpaid at maturity the five
per cent, would be payable to the
holder by the parties. It must go
into the hands of an attorney for col
lection. It is not a stun necessarily
payable. The phrase "collection fee"
necessarily Implies this. Not only so.
but this amount of per ccntage cannot
be arbitrarily determined' by the
parties. It must be only rhat would
be a reasonable compensation to an at
torney for collection. This, in reason,
and the usuage of the legal profession,
depends upon the amount of the note.
Five per cent, would probably be con
sidered by a jury as a reasonable com
pensation upon the collection of a note
of three hundred and seventy-seven
dollars. But if it were three thousand
dollars they would probably think
otherwise, and certainly so if it were
thirty thousand dollars. Now, then,
can this note bo said to be certain as
to its amount, or that amount un
affected by any contingency?
Interest and costs of protest, after
nonpayment at maturity, are neccs-
sary legal incidents of the contract, and
the insertion r f them in the body of
the note would not affect its negotia-
bility. Neither does a clause waving
exemption, for that in no way touches
the simplicity and certainty of the
paper. But a collateral agreement as
here depending too, as it does upon its
reasonableness to be determined by
the verdict of a jury, is entirely
different. It may be well character'
i.cd, like an agreement to confess a
judgment was by Chief Justice Gib-
tMnr -wi -"liif?Kiigc" -whloh negotiable
paper, riding us it docs, on the wings
of the wind, is not a courier able to
cany.
If this collateral agreement may he
introduced with impunity, what may
not be? It is the first step in the
wrong direction which costs.
These instruments may come to be
lumbered up with all costs of stipula
tions, and all sorts of difficulties, con
tentions and legation results. It is
the best rule obsta nrino.htie. Judg
ment reversed.
The eil'eet of the above opinion by
the supreme court will bo to relieve
endorsers of notes on which there is
the printed stipulation that five per
cent, collection fee shall be allowed.
The supreme court holds that this
clause destroys the negotiability of
the paper so far as the indorser is con-
U-erncd. The Incorporation of the
clause in mortgage and bonds lias
been held to bo legal, and in view of
this fact it lias been supposed by bank
ers and others that negotiable notes
would not be impaired' by having it
introduced into them. Thousands of
these notes have been given the past
few months, and the decision of the
supreme court (reversing the judg
ment of the Huntingdon county court
in a case raising tho question of the
negotiability of such paper) will, in
numerous instances seriously affect
the interests of those who have loaned
money on these notes. It is said that
several millions of this kind of paper
are held by bankers ond other busi
ness men.
"It Won't Go." Such was the re,
mark that we beard repeatedly last
ThurscLiy a week, made by eighteen
and twenty-flve-year-old pilots, while
standing on the river bank surveying
the prospects of a flood. These ma
ture navigators surrendered at cnee
"It's no go; tho water is too low."
Finally, Judge Clyde, aged 77, who
resides about three miles below town,
came on the ground aud exclaimed
"Halloo, boys; I am going to pull
out." The undertone remark was:
"Well, he will not go far until ho will
find the bottom of a riffle nearly to
the top of the water, and then he will
tie up good and mad." The Judge
"pulled out" on Thursday afternoon,
about 8 o'clock, run 6,140 feet of tim
ber to Lock Haven, sold it, and re
turned home on Saturday evening ;
while a number of the new model
pilots and their rafts are still "tied
up" along the shore. Had they un
tied and manifested the pluck that
tho veteran Judge assumed, they too
could have had their rafts in market,
anTj now lie is ready to engage in
dressing corn, making hay, and kiss
ing the babies. Clearfield Itepubll
can.
A pack of tip-top good envelopes
any color, can be obtained at this
office, ever Powell & Klme's store fo
, eight cents.
Regular Uprising of the Indians Re.
ported.
Rnn Francisco. June. 22. The fol
lowlnir disnatc.h has hist been re
ceiVed from Portland : "A special just
reCcivcd here from Walla Walla is to
tlie fibct thut a messenger has arrived
there who lives on the Alpown river
fifteen miles below Lewlston. He re-
jlora that Urn Morton murder was led
i,v Hushuseut. chief of the Wawawi
Ln,i p01ouso Indians, and says there
wcre nmny more killed than have
ucen reported.
jje Bays a ,nftll stopped at his place
nmi told him Chief Joseph had dc
careu thnt ne had warriors enough to
whip all the soldiers at Fort Lapwal
and Walla Walla if they were at one
post, let alone at two.
The people of Lewlston, the mes
senger says, blame General Howard
aud Indian Agent Monteith for the
whole trouble. There were more
killed than named in the dispatches
sent, and the difficulty is far worse
tinn reported. Tire trouble did not
originate about a horse trade, but Was
a regular outbreak.
A press dispatch from Walla Walla
reports that Dr. Don, of that place, has
received a letter, dated Lewlston, June
20, which says :
The Indians have killed every man
on Salmon river, but have not hurt
the women and children. A company
of cavalry and Jim Lawler, an Indian
and forty of his men came to Lewlston
to-day, with all the employees and all
the whites ofthe Karniah reservation,
at Lapwal, which lias been abandoned.
I have just returned from a scout to
the Grand Rondo river, on the south
side of Snake river, upon a party of
warriors numbering about fifty. They
appeared to be making their way to
Wallowa. The Indians have got the
best of the soldiers so far. They have
killed about thirty and driven them
back from tho White River creek to
Mount Idaho.
The killed and wounded, so far,
number fifty persons. Troops from
Walla Walla cannot get to theKaoias
prairc. It will take 500 soldiers to
whip Joseph's band.
Winnemucca and his band are en
camped and armed near Cow creek,
in Idaho. They claim to be peaceable,
but the governor telegraphed to Sil
ver City instructions for Winnemucca
to return and he refused to do so, say
ing he would fight first. About
twenty-five or thirty Indians from
the Malhcni reservation passed Wal-
hem village on Monday with a hand
of horses, going in the direction of
Weiser county. It is reported that
the Indians at Canyon City expressed
themselves that the government had
better take Agent Rineliart away or
he might be killed. There lias been
considerable dissatisfaction existing
among the Indians iu regard to Mr.
Rineliart.
A Venerable Inhabitant.
The "oldest inhabitant,'' at least in
this neighborhood, lias just been dis
covered. A little daughter of Peter
Riley tenant on the farm of A. H.
Hagerman, Old Lycoming township,
recently found a land tortoise on the
farm of William Porter, deceased.
which bears evidence of great age. Its
she'd bears a number of Inscriptions.
On the back are carved the word
"Liberty" and thirteen stars. On the
face appear the initials D. M. K.
representing David M. Krisher, now
of Muncy and the date July 18, 1S51.
On the under shell the figures 1777 are
carved, ond a number of other figures
and letters which arc now very legible
now, apparently having been put on
many many years ago. Evidently
this is an aged specimen of its class,
and a curiosity such as is but seldom
met with. It is at present in the pos
session of a gentleman of this city, to
whom it was presented by Constable A.
Cassady. G. & D.
Killed in the Bark Woods.
We regret to learn that Mr. John
Goetz, an old resident of Benzinger
township was killed in the bark
woods of Andrew Kaul, situate about
three miles north of this place on
Tuesday last. He had cut a tree and
it lodged upon another tree, and in
dislogingit, when it fell came in con
tract with a sappling which struck
him on tho back of the neck, killing
him Instantly. Mr. G. moved to this
vicinity in 1847, and has borne the
reputation of being a hard working
man. He leaves a wife and six chil
dren to mourn his sudden death. The
remains are to be buried to-day in the
Catholic cemetery in this place.
Gazelle.
County Officers.
President Judge-Hon. L. D. Wetniore
Associate Judges Hons. Geo. Ed.
Wels, and Julius Jones.
Sheriff Daniel Scull.
Treasurer Jacob McCauley.
District' Attorney C. 11. M'Cauley.
Co. Superintendent Geo. It. Uixon.
Prothonotary, &c Fred. Schoening.
Deputy Prothonotary W. S. Horton.
Commissioners Michael Wedert. W.
II. Osterhout, George lteuseher.
Commissioners' Clerk W. S. Horton.
Auditors W. II. Hyde, It. I. Slum if -
icr, ueorge wotnrocK.
Township Officers.
Judge of Election Will Dickinson.
Inspectors James Penliehl. P. It.
Smith.
Justices of the Peace Charles Mead.
Jas. D. Fullerton.
School Directors 0. B. Grant. Jas
Gardner, G. T. Wheeler, N. T. Cum-
mings, W. 8. (Service, Eng. S. Miller.
Supervisors 0. 15. l itch, Jas. luley
Treasurer-W. H. Hyde.
Assessor M. H. Kline.
Assistant Assessors Geo. Dickinson,
John Halmsley.
Auditors J. H. liagerty, James Pen
field, .J. 8. Powell.
Clerk-M. S. Kline.
Constable Geo. D. Messenger, Jr.
POWELL & KIME have a fine lot
of dress goods, also all other kind of
dry goods at low rates.
Oil News.
From the Warren Lodger,
With the exception of a new strike
on tho Holt farm in North Glade,
producing about seventy-five barrels,
there lias been nothing in tho War
ren district worthy of being, called
news. The old wells are doing about
as usual, and two or three are being
leisurely drilled, and it may be truth
fully said that but little interest is felt
hereabouts concerning oil, or oil de
velopments. The great Gusher at
Bullion, rightly colled "Big Injun,"
caused oil to drop down to fl.71 yes
terday, which is twenty-six cents
lower than it was one year ago yester
day. All business feels the effect of the
present depression is the price of oil,
and trade lias fallen off from one hun
dred to five hundred percent, within
the last fifteen days.
Warren oil is selling to-day. (Wed
nesday,) at the $1.20 for Glade, and
f 1.00 for North Warren.
The well belonging to Tew A Co.,
of Jamestown, on the lot west of
Hoffman's well, at North Warren,
struck oil this (Wednesday) niorniiij-.
It has made two nice flows and has
the appearance of being at least a fifty
barrel well.
EXHILARATES ALL THE VI
TAL FUNCTIONS.
Dr. Fenner's Capitol Bitters in
creases the appetite, warms up the
stomach and promotes digcstion Re
lieves dullness and flatulency. Tones
up and regulates the whole digestive
tract including stomach and bowels,
Exhilarates all the vital functions,
Increases the strength and vigor of
the system.
When all other medicines disagree
with a delicate stomach, this mild but
efficient Bitter will act kindly. It so
Invigorates the system as to ward of
disease, guarding against Agues. Fe
vers and bowel disorders in the sum
mer, colds und inilamations in the
winter, and all epidemic diseases at all
seasons of the year. No laboring man
or woman should pass through the
vicissitudes of spring or tho trying
summer season without guarding
themselves agains exposure and dis
ease, by taking one or more bottles of
Capitol Bitters. It is not a vile coin
pound of bottled Hastiness," but
beautiful in appearance and flavor,
and certain in its health-giving, appetite-producing
strengthening and in
vigorating effects.
From J. J j. Bugbee, late Supervisor of
the town of Stockton, N. Y.
Stockton, N. Y., July 21, 1R73.
nr. 51. M. Fcnner, Kreclonin, N". Y. Dear
Sir I linve Iipch testing the merits of your
Copltol Hitters, and And them in every re-
speet equal to the recommends so freely
made by others. They seem to bo com
pounded on scientific principles, giving tone
to tho stomnch and a healthy action to tho
blood, digestive organs and general system.
Yours truly
J. L. HUCiBEE.
For sale by dealers in medicine.
One bottle of E. K. Thompson's
Barosma cured my wife of a back
ache and kiduey difficulty, which has
troubled her for over threeyears, and I
have expended large sums in doctor
ing her, with little or no benefit.
heard of the Barosma and purchased
a bottle, which I am happy to testify
has cured her entirely.
Cassius Carman.
Enterprise, Pa. Feb. 19, 1870.
For sale by E. K. Thompson, Titus-
ville, Pa., and druggists generally.
Price, $! ,00 per bottle.
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Advertisements payable quarterly.
Administrators' Notice.
Estate of John McLauchlin late of
M. juary's uoro. J-;ik (Jo., Ph., de
ceased. Letters Tcbtamcntar)! unon
the above estate have been granted to
the undersigned, all persons indebted
to saiu estate are reciuesteit to make
payment, and those having claims to
present tne same without delay to
ALK'i'j M'LAUGHLIN 1 A ,
PATlilCK M'LAUGHLIN
imr's
nr.tu.
Kotlcc.
In the matters ofthePcti-l In Elk
Hons of Joshua Jfcivis (a C ouiiti
creditor &c ,) for the ap-I Common
poiutment of an Auditor to Picas No
state an account of the as- 8 Sept em
sets of the M'Kean p:ik ber Term
and f orest State Jiotid. I 1877.
To all whom it may concern
Notice is hereby given thiiTtheiin
dersigned Auditor, appointed by the
uouitoi common neus oi j-.ik County
to state an account of the assets anc;
liabilities of the M'Kean, Elk, and
Forest State Eoad. and distribute the
funds of the same, will attend to the
duties or His appoi ntnient ut his office
in Kidgway. 1MK Co.. l'a.. on Tuesdav
the 17th, day of July 1S77, at 9 o'clock
A. M. at which time and place all
panics interested can attend or not
as they may think proper.
j. u. w. jsaiiy, Auditor,
Kidgway, June 27, 1S77.
Appletan's American Cyclopedia.
Vol. 8 of this admirable work is just
out, inaiving it nan complete, as then
are to be 10 in all, of 800 pages each
one being issued in two months. It
makes a complete library, and no one
.uu annul iw iiu niiuuill It WHO WOUKI
keep well informed. Price $0,00 a vol
ume in leather, or $7,00 in elegant
uuii lurivcy. j. i.. j udson, r redonia,
r . 1 ., controls the sale in Elk county
Address hinifor particulars.
sepl7-tf
AT POWELL & KIME'S, YOU
pay cash for goods, and get more than
the worth of your cash
Go to POWELL & KIME for you
flour, feed and pork, and everything
else iu the provision line.
State Notes.
An Allegheny county grocer run a milo
tho othor any .iu four minutes ana imriy
fiv seconds on a dollar bot.
Scrnnton, June 22. An old man namoJ
Patrick Golden has becij brutally murdered
In Ids own home at Nicholson. Ha was
Bitting with his wife when a masked mn
entered the house with a double barreled
gun and fired' two shots ot Golden. The
latter, who was 80 years ,old, died shortly
afterwards. The murderer made his escape.
There seems to be no cause for tho fearful
crime.
On Monday afternoon Mrs. Julia Ann
Juul, a widow lady, Maiding in York com
mitted suicide by hanging herself with a
clock cord to a rafter in the garret of her
house. 8he had become greatly depressed
by the death of her husband. The day sho
hanged hcrscir was the lime fixed for the
payment of the amount of on insurance
policy on her husband's life.
Thomns Morrow, a mail agent on the
Pennsylvania railroad, fell off his train
near Pittsburgh the other day while it was
running forty miles an hour. He was
severely but not dangerously hurt He was
unable to give the particulars of tho acci
dent stating t'jat ho recollected nothing
until he found a physician utau ding over
hira treating his wounds.
Tho exchango bank, Titusville, has
closed its doors and will probably go into
liquidation. The Courier says : "Tho
liabilities amount to nearly $1-50,01)0. Tho
bank has 100,000 iu assets immediately
available, and other assets which con be
realized on in time. Mr. 11. W. Mackey,
cx-stnti treasurer, is a stockholder in tho
bank. Mr. Win. II. Kemble, of Philodel-
Pl
ia, was one of tho original stockholders.
He has never published his withdrawal
from tho partnership. Both these men are
wealthy, and they will be required to pro
tect the depositors."
Joseph Keener who had been sentenced
to twenty-one years tn the western peni-
cntiary for killing an old man and par
doned after serving eleven, was discovered
on Sunday lust with over 500 worth of
ilver ware which he stole from the rcsi- -
ence of Simpson Horner, of Allegheny.
Keener got out of tho penitentiary last
March, the governor having pardoneJ him
the rccommendatieu of the board of
pardons. Hib accomplice (who is ot large)
is a discharged convict, who served seven
ears for killing a policeman of Johns
town.
A tramp persuaded Tcter Hehn, residing
at Selinscrovc, that FwO.OOO had been
buried on Helm's farm during the re
volutionary war. The tramp required a
silver watch and 35 to unearth the money,
and the ignorant farmer complied with his
demand. Tho tramp pretended to have
locked the watch iu a chest and cautioned
Helm not to open it until nine days had
passed, as there might bo death in the
family, After the farmer had been given
certain instructions ns to the finding of tho
money, the tramp-left, ond Mrs. Hehn bo
ng less superstitious than her husband, ex
amined the chest into which it was sup
posed the watch had been placed and
found o stone wrapped in a woolen cloth.
The buried treasure has not yet been found.
Almond T uttle, a son of Hiram 15. Tuttle
living about two miles south of Mansfield,
committed suicide last week by sliootiug
himself through the heurt with a shot-gun.
He had been afflicted several years with
fever-sores from which he suffered severely.
One afternoon last week he told his mother
thnt he bad i.ever suffered so much in all
his life, and ho woull stand it no longer.
She asked him how he could help it, and he
replied that he would kill himself. After
wards ha went up stairs, and soon a report
of a gun was heard, and ho was found ly
ing on his bed. It is supposed he sat on
the bed with the breech of the gun on the
floor and tho muzzle at his heart, and tired
the weapon with the ramrod. Ho was
about sixteen years old.
The devices of the confidence man and
swindlers ore multifarious. The latest
gentleman of this kidney of whom we havo
heard is one White, hailing from New York
city. This operator is in (ho habit of Bend
ing innocent country gentlemen by express
packages of stuff that he calls medicine,
warranted to cure half the ills that flesh is
heir tu. At the same time he sends the
victim a letter telling hiin, he has been se
lected as agent to sell the medicine, giving
him prices tor each particular kind, and
stating the generous commission he is to
receive for his trouble. If the victim is
foolish enough to take the package from
the express office Mr. Sharper sooa pre
sents his "little bill' and generally en
forces its collection. Even ia some cases
where men havo refused to receive the
"medicine" they have been harassed by
law suits set on foot by the swindlers under
the pretense that they had ordered the
goods. As a matter of course the medicino
's worthless if not harmful, ond it is hardly
to be regretted if oil those who undertake '
to peddle it out to their neighbors do get
bitten. The only wiso and safe course in
all such cases is to let the rascals and their
little traps entirely alone. If there wcro
not so many men iu tuo country ready to
hito at the gilded bait, tlio race of city
sharpers would soon die out Wellsboro
Agitator.
Cincinnati, Juno 120. Reports havo
been received here of a bloody light
that took piaco on Monday in tho
Kin u iconic Mountains, between two
well armed bands of men, headed by
George W. Stamper and George Un
derwood, respectively. Stamper sus
pected Underwood and his followers
of stealing his horses, and organizing
a company of twenty-five men, went
in pursuit. The battle took place on
Laurel creek, tho, scene of numerous
act of lawlessness during the war.
George Underwood Jr., a notorious
diameter, was shot, and several
others were killed or wounded. One
report says that not less than nine
men wcro killed. The affair has
created great excitement in Lewis
county, but so far, no action has been
taken by the State authorities. Tho
friends of the Uuderwoods claim that
they are relatives of Lieutenant Gov
ernor Underwood, who will see that
no harm come to them. . The Lieuten
ant Governor, however, denies rela-
tionsnip. The lirst reports are eon-
n,l''e"y me who have come from
S "uu U'UcUlu1'8 of the al1uir