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fresding, mm; fini Wood Cut Illti-lra-ttoos,
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copiet, $5.00.
Viok'i Flower and Vegctublo Garden, 50
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1. .
VloV'a Catalogue 800 Illustrations, only
2 eenti. Addreit, JAME3 VICK,
Rochester, N. V.
FLOWER AMD VKOETABLE GARDEN
ia the moat beautiful work of the kind in
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hundreds of fine illustrations, and six
Cbromo PUtes of Flower, beautifully
drawn and colored from nature, Pnoe CO
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Printed in Get man and Engliib.
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82 pages, fine lllualrations, and Colored
PUte a In erery number,
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2 cents. Addrers, JAMES VICK,
Rochester, N. Y
"VICE'S
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SEEDS are planted by a million people in
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32 pagn. fine illuxtrni Ion, nut Colored
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year; Fife mipies, $" .00.
Vick'n Flnwi-r and Vegetlle Uaiden, 60
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cover 1 0.
Addre-e. JAMhS VICK,
UotheMer. S. V.
OF
P. B. WACHTEL,
St. Mary's, Pa.
The largest agency iu either Elkor
iu adjoining counties, representing
through his Geueral Agents about 80
responsible and prompt loss paying
companies, among the principal ones
Are the following:
NOUTH URITISH A MEIU'AXTII.E,
Gross rssett $32,533,612,
.ETNA, OF HARTFORD. CONN..
Acsok over $7,005,000,
P1UF. ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA
AzsaU l,w0.oou
NIAGARA, OF NEW YORK.
AsS3tS $l,U0,OU0.
tHAWMPT, BOSTON. MASSj.,
Capital SjOO.ow.
OSnMAS AMERICAN, NEW TORK.
Assets $2 500 ouo.
TRAVELERS. (.Life and Accident, CONN.,
A s3ts $t,m') ouo.
30y 1 .
Kim'allutMiiKlmli H ill toiuorrrw even
lnr. huclHl ilanou after the performance.
f orviccn In the Lutheniu cliurch next. .Sun
diiy iiiorntnttln German, and In tha evening
lCutfllvli by Kev. I. l)renniun.
Patrtc' fi'KjUunwi . itJ rh.irle llliey es
caped from the county Jail on Frid:iv nlu-lil
last. uHium.m vn conmieu inr mm:i u j l huh
Vwtlery.BiiJ Kiley fir larceny. Tliei-sc-iipe whs
iiiuite by uuttiiiK a iimv U.Ssi'i'a. tlirousli t lie
trim b tra. wiikuli wm e iwu iiicbe wide by
one-u tlf Inch tniok, and which gunnled the
iall wind Then, hy imikluK a ropi of the
i (! clothe, they sculifd the wall. No tidings
ui I he w uidertTs,
En. AnrovMTJ. Dear Sir : In your Imuo
oflart ylc you say that Tci'ane McCubc,
uiKhtWHtuhmait M irvsnV:rj, has tri.v.!ed
o i foot lnca Jan. Ikt, Km, the enormous di
luiive of ten thournml kcvi-ii hundred ai.d
Jlfty miles, which W very pood, but wc have
K man In llldnw y thntcuii bent your OreenK
lmr n:m. Jtr. Jmws l'uiry tins been em
ployed an day-watch .a.ui on this section of
the P. mid K. 11. It. Kmc November, Ibul, and
h i wallc:d ttvelve milei per day up to Jan
uary, 187S, (und W still walking:;. Ills travels
during the p;ut thirteen years will reach lifi
six thousand nine hundred und seventy-six
miles.
O.ilr 2 a Year.
Pomkroy's Dhmocrat, In Chicago,
111., "Iiru-lc" Poiueroy editor and pro
prietor, i-t Bti'iding ahoud faster than
ever. It lia.s been reduced in price to
$'J a your, $1 for Ix month. It hay a
hew heading, a beautiful new dress,
und is printed ix-i clean us buruibhed
ilverwure. It in now regularly illus
trated each week ; in the official organ
of the Independent Greenback party
if the United States, and contains
more sharp, hard hits, more news
Items, and more original thoughts
than any other paper in the United
Ktates. Each number this year will
eontuiu one of Pomeroy'a Saturday
Night Sketcl.es, and a chapter of
"Brick's" very eventful life, as writ
ten by himself. These chapters are
very interesting reading for the inci
dents and history they contain. How
such a beautiful paper can be furn
ished for $2 a year is a mystery, for no
other publisher dare attempt such a
paper for less than $3 or $4 a year.
Indeed is Pomeroy's Democrat a
most remarkable, powerful," popular
and deeply entertaining newspaper,
No wonder its circulation exceeds that
of any other political paper in the
United States. It is so greatly im
proved its old friends would scarcely
know it. Subscribe for it. Sample
copies sent free to all who apply. Ad
dress M. M. Pomeroy, P. O. Box 523,
Chicago, 111.
Titusville, Pa., April 15, 1876.
I take pleasure in certifying that
the Sweet Worm Powder has worked
wonders in nay family. My girl, four
years old, was taken with convulsions,
rolling up the eyes, and straightening
out of the limbs, and seemed to be al
most lifeless, when I borrowed some
of the Sweet Worm Powder made by
E. K. Thompson, Titusville, Pa., giv
ing ber two doses, when she was re
lieved at once. I also gave some to
toy other children with the same ef
fect. Geo. M. Herring,
Kerr Hill. Pa.
Prepared and sold by E- K. Thomp
son. Titusville, Pa. Price, 26 cents.
bold by Dt. T. 6. Hartley, Rldgway
Pm.
T7IB8T ANNUAL STATEMENT OF ItlDGWAY TOWNSHIP 6HOW
JL; lug the assets, nature and character thereof, and the indebtedness and
nubilities, eto-, and amount of taxable property up to January 21, 1878 t
ASSETS.
By amount due tho Township from various
...
lax oi i7urm unaeated Lands
due from J. W. Morgcster, Coll
" " 1S77 on Unseated Lands,
" " " due from Geo. 1). Messens;er,lr.,Col.
" ' 1873 " " 11. U. Wensll, Coll
" " 1S74 " " " ;
Tho above taxes subject to exonerations and
commission.
Due from W. H. Hyde, Treas., 1S77,
" " Hoi ton Township,
Total taxes collected, levied end In course of
collection,
Judgment of Kidgway township vs. W. 11. bcuruiu and V. a. V heeler, and Interest
thereon to January ill, 1S7S, -
Excess of Liabilities ...
Judgment of Township vs. Patrick Malont and
uucollectable
. MABIMTIE8.
Judgments against the township. Interest thereon to January 21, 1878, and costs $12,793.05
Outstanding orders
Probable ttinouutdueMupervlsorsand sundry
person
Total Liabilities
Taxes livied and Expenditures up to
McGovern, Supervisors Of said township for
Total ain't of taxes levied Unseated,
" "Beuted,
Total of funds,
Deduct cash tux to be applied to paymentof
Total road, poor and side-walk taxes $3.iX7.8S
Deduct probable exoneration and costs of collection - iKn.uo
EXrENI I
Paid by orders
Amount of tax worked seated
" " unseuted,
Probable amount due supervisors and sundry
porsons,
ToUl expenditures,
Excess of funds
Amount of taxable property In Rldgwny
Real KstMto
Personal Property
Uccupullons
Attest:
M. 8. KLINE,
Township Clerk.
THURSDAY, J AX. 31, 1378.
LOST.
A wild rose by the wayside hung,
Dw-glitterlng ou the morning air,
A pure, scarce conscious perfume filing;
I looked and found tho flowret fair
So fair I soight with sudden rest
To wear Its beauty ou my brenxt.
The trembling petals ut my touch
A sweeter, subtler fragrance shed :
'Tis strange I loved that flower so much,
And It was diad.
In the hUh mood whon thought hath wings,
And finds alone lis speech in song,
I struck uu old harp's slumherlug strings
And drew nn Idle hand alon ;
Nor deemed the careless cords hal caught
The life note that my spirit sought,
Till sudden on my startled ear.
Its ilroam -created occeuts wok
Alack ! I bought the rapture dear
The string had broke.
I heard a wild bird on the shora
Hinging a wild song to the sen ;
And bold the burden thnt It bore,
And sweeter than all else to me
Hit sweet I ciued the bird t heir
His mnsile minstrelsy more near.
Untamed, the captive's swelling throat
fi r.no sd song his wholesoul cast,
Too well I know his loveliest note,
Hud been his last.
And yet, while memory hath power
To count the hours to.) vainly spent,
Tue fragrance of that fadod Jlower.
That harp's last dying uiu:Ic bli.tit;
With tho wild bird's welid deuth-sotig will
Haunt every waking injinent still.
Teaching niy heart the bitter cost
(if all tho eyeof hope hath seen,
if all that life hat h won aud lost
Thnt wUbt hnvo been.
TiNsL':y's Ma-vazike,
The attendance on court this week
is small.
The Advocate is a littlu late this
week by reason of "ye editor" being a
juryman.
Hon. L. A. Mackey, will please
occept our thanks for valuable public
documents.
. . .
there is talk of organizing a
Greenback Club in Bcnczette and Jay
townships.
The Greenback Club in Horton
township embraces a very large pro
portion of the voters.
An tin forseen event makes it im
possible for Kev. V. L. Riley to
preach in the Methodist church, next
Sabbath, as announced from thtt pul
pit last Sabbath.
Licenses were granted In all the
cases with the exception of Geo. W.
Rhines, and. John McCready k W. A.
Derby, both of Kldgway, and both for
eating house licenses.
The Adjutant General of Pennsyl
vania, in his report of the inspection of
the Seventh Division at Pittsburgh,
returns Company H,"RJdgwny Rifles"
of the Seventeenth Regiment as very
gooil
Just received at this office a fresh
invoice of Centennial Note, Letter,
and Legal-Cup. This paper we will
sell cheap, and we guarantee it to be of
of good quality. Call and satisfy your
self. We have had more calls for extra
copies of the Advocate than we have
been able to supply. We suggest to
those gentlemen, who failed to get
copies, the propriety of sending in the
money for a year's snbscription, as
thereby they will prevent a like oc
curence for one year at least
The township election will be held
on Tuesday Feb. 19. 1878, being the
third Tuesday of the month. The
following officers are to be elected :
Assessor.
Constable.
Town Clerk.
Town Treasurer. '
Two Supervisors.
Judge of Election.
Two Inspectors of election.
Two Auditors, one for the full term
aud are to fill a vacency.
Shipping tags are printed cheap at
this ofllce. Ct.ll on u.
bod roes, vizi
cash. hoad,
POOR. SIDI-WALK.
Sl.724.17
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808.US
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615.61
21ti..1
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74.07
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171.40
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f7,B02.43 2,177.44 82,(W7.I1 r.W.46-12,475.40
85T.rVi
e.uju.uu
81.1.1
405.14
Interest thereon to;.Iauuary 21, 1H7S,
no ai.
&l,tii9.Ul
other
210.08
POOH.
SI,S71.9
181.03
HltlR-WALK.
SITil.Ott
81.78
4W.4V- $ 6.589.46
, 4,000.29 2,052.72
S19.S3.n
.Tnntuiry 21, !h78 of John Oulnack anil Daniel
11 - 77.
CAit. noii. poor. siik-wi.k.
....$I..W,40 Xl,2"i.74 Sl-.H.U
..... l.KM.M) 1,5I.U9 bli.'Jt loO.tJI
3,47.:I4 2.772.S.S
judgments
l.e-M.-
iM.tti-- 7,4fll.e9
3,407.31
3,6OT.35
t'l'RES.
noAP. Poor.
$1,UU.12 $745.70
02.r..iH
2lH.ll
other
'Ml.il Jrt.u
SinC-WAI.K.
0127.31
5.39
2.245.0J 92H.79
1:12.70 3,301.51
- Ml.
-t,t07.35
township for the year 1878:
3,OS9.on
fi.99U.00
18,425.00
JOHN GULNAfK,
DANIEL McUOVERN.
Supervisors.
Opening of Hjdc'j 'ew Opera House.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was the opening
performance in Hyde's Xew Opera
House, b.v Connolly & Wood, of Phila
delphia l.otig before the hour for
upt'iiin. the doors u large und eager
crowd had congregated before the en
trance to the hull, all Impatiently
awaiting the opening of the door, ami
when the doors were at last opened
the crowding and pushing made it
very undesirable for ladies to attempt
to enter. The Messrs. Hyde ceased
selling tickets when all the scuts were
taken, and would sell nn more until
the ticket-holders were seated, when a
number purchased tickets with the
distinct understanding that they
would be compelled to stand during
the performance. We have only time
to say that the piny was well received,
and, with slight exceptions, well ren.
tiered, On Wednesday night "Three
Yeara in a Man Trap" was played.
This "evening 'Octoroon" will be
played. In our ii"xt wo wi!l endeavor
to inor? fully describe th plays.
In the perjury case of Patrick
Simelltic, growing out of the charge of
fornication, a verdict of guKty was
rendered and tho prisoner arraigned
and ftcntenccd to pay a fine of $10 and
cost ot prosecution, and undergo im
prisonment in the Western Pent ten
tiury in solitary confinement at labor
for the term of one year and three
month;-!. This young man eloped with
Kvo Cook's wife, and was arrested
and bound over to court, aud a true
bill found ngasnst him for fornication
and ujalnst Mrs Cook for adultery.
In both cases a verdict of guilty was
rendered. In the cuse of fornication
toe sentence or tne court was
suspended, Mrs. Cook has not us yet
received her sentence.
Persons interested nre notified
that we will print tickets for township
election ut very reasonable rates.
Muke your nominations say a week
before election, and send us a list of
the names, and we will print and
send the tickets, the price to be regula
ted by the number of tickets the town
ship may need. It is a great advan
tage to have printed tickets as they
save time, and are not as liable to
errors us written tickets. Send In your
orders.
Xotice is hereby given that a peti
tion will be presented to the present
Legislature of Pennsylvania to reduce
the wages of Road Supervisors in Fox
township, Elk county, from $2.00 per
diem to $1.25. J.J.TAYLOR,
R. T. KYLER
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Leijgek, is truly remarkable. Since
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six years ago, Tuts Ledger has
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the kind in the country. Its circula
tion is national, and lias been ob
tained through the efforts of its pub
Ushers to produce a paper of high
moral character, and at the same time
sell it at a price consistent with the
present hard times. That they have
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Oregon to Florida will bear testimony.
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a great variety of information Interest
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The Ledger, Chicago 111.
Our 161b bill-beads are just th
ting you sjritt.
RIDOWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Principal's Report for month end
ing January 17th, 1878.
9l
55
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n
a
V FT V
2K
TEACHERS.
a p
3 sr
a r
8
Mr. and Mrs. J. B
Johnson.
MissS.B.Kinnier
MissB. E. Wilcox
78
65
81
214
.68
80
17
11
31
"59
421
t!S
82
89
Summary.
173
84
The highest average "class standing
obtained by any pupil for the month Is
00 ; and tho lowest 64 ; the best general
average 99, and the lowest 77.
HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
SENIORS
Carrie V. Luther
Helen M Little
Julia Flynn
Tillie Cunningham
Minnie M Service
Thos J Malone
Katie Callahan
Charles Olmsted
100
100
100
86
90
97
80
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
97
97
97
0
100
98
100
92
4.r
45
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100
100
Ida Luther
Katie G resit
Rose Miller
"A" GRADE
Daniel Irwin -
100
100
90
25:100
100
100 100
0'
Chas Median
37
100
85
53
100
97
Emma E Ross
Agnes Barrett
Dorle M Irwin
Katie O'Connor
Ida M Olmsted
Emma Olmsted
Rhoda Wilcox
Allice Toomey
Chas Johnson
"B" GRADE
Lwis Lesser -Maggie
Flynn
Michael O'Connor
98
80
97
100
100
100 !
Ml 100
100 ioo!
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97
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100
92
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90
100
100
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lot)
Clvde Jvime
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9'
Annie M Irwin
Jack E Barrett
E J Luther
Michael May
Xellie E Schram
Patrick Holland
Marv Horning
Ella Wicks
Florence StafFord
Fred Fitch
Taylor Swartz
Adelbert Avery
Jennie M'Cready
Seneca Bcnn
Fred Ely
"C GRADE
Ellie Kimc
Henry A Paine
Amanda Liudgreu
Jennie Hall
Willie T Xcill
Willie Mecuau
Maggie Sheau
Edward Paine
Viola Xcili
GO Kline
Willie ft'ehram
Arthur Horton
Addie Bordwcll
' D" GRADE :
Johnnie G Whitmorc
Josie Messenger
Rollnn Cook ,
CliHuneev Wilcox.-
Wiilie Luther
Annie Kiine '
Minnie Kline
Rosepha Meyers
Sadie Lanioreaux
Eddie J'oweil
John Luliv
Kiltie VVhitniote
John Xichols
Ret O Fullerton
John Healey
"E" GRADE
Katie Meenan
Guasie Woodward
Eddie Horton
Adah Malone
Eddie Laymon
Flora Irwin
Allice Xeill
Ellle Lubv
Charlie Miller
Lizzie O'Bricu
Mack Kline
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INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMENT. ;
Names of those who excelled at the
examination. '
E GRADE: Coryell Ross, Nellie
Jackson and Nellie Olmsted.
F. GRADE: George McFarland,
Warren Irwin and Bruce Kime.
G GRADE :--Euglne VVillard,
Emma Geary aud Lena Hempkey,
PROMOTIONS : Coryell Ross,
Glenni Johnson and Hannah Ma
loney were promoted from Interme
diate to High School Department, and
BennleP. Little, John Neill, Frankie
Oyster, Freddie Hartley, Willie Cun
ningham, May VanOrsdall, Annie
McGovern ami Belle Hartley, from
Primary to Intermediate.
VISITORS :-Rcv. W. II. Swartz.
Mrs. Chapin, Mrs C. E lloladay, Mrs.
T. S. Hartley. Miss Hattle E- Hinds.
We are under many obligations to
the following named persons for assist
ing us in decorating and beautifying
our school rooms by bringing house
plants, picturee, mottoes, fern-baskets,
dto, Carrie V- Luther, Ida Luther,
Emma Olmsted, Hattie E. Hinds,
Katie Gresh, Agnes Barrett, Nellie E.
Schram. Rosepha Meyers, Mattie
Healy, Jennie Hall, Addie Bordwell.
Minnie Kline, Annie . Kline, Tillie
Cunningham, Josie Messenger, Viola
Neill, Kittle Whitmore. Willie
Schram, Mrs. W. F. Mercer, Adah Ma
lone, Minnie Service.
J. B. Johnson, Principal.
New Heat Market.
Mercer Brothers have moved their
meat market from D. D. Cook's, build
ding to W. S. Service's hardware
store, where they invite all wishing
beef, pork, veal and sausage to give
them a call. i .
v7n47tf. . .
Shipping tags, with or without
strlugs, at the Advocate office-
For a nicely fitting suit of clothes
call on M'Afee the tailor.
Groceries, fresh and good,' and the'
beat crackers at Hagerty's, .
Notes from fcxeuauges.
BY COUNTIES.
Jaffarton.
From the Graphlo.l
If electricity will travel along the
Atlantic cable at the rate of 6,125
miles a second, how long will it take a
Brookville man to go ten rods for a
swig of creosoto to cure the Jumping
toothache?
During the alisence of one of our
school teachers the other day, some
scholar more gifted with talent for
"divlltry" than for learning, spiked
the lock in the door, compelling the
teacher, to remain outside for a con
siderable length of time. We would
advise that boy to mend his ways, or
he will go to that place where tho
doors are aleady spiked.
Clarion.
From the Republican.
One tltousand and fifty-five wells
completed iu the Clarion district for
the year 1877, with a production of 13,-
044 barrels. Number of dry holes 178.
Good progress is being made by the
Clarion Coal Company. Their mines
are being put in good working order,
and a considerable amount of coal has
already been shipped. This coal finds
a ready market in the oil country.
The only difficulty at present is that
the consumers can't get as much of it
as they want. The management are
doing all they can to supply this defi
ciency, and we hope in a week or so
will be equal to the emergency.
Cameron.
From the Independent.
; The drillers at the Hughston fc Co.
well on North Creek are having re
markably good luck thus far, not hav
ing had a single mishap since their
commencement. They are now down
a little more than 700 feet and steadily
going on.
At the Taylor, Akin k Peet well,
drilling was resumed on Saturday af
ternoon and continued without inter
mission until noon on Sunday, when
another of their unfortunate mishaps
occurred, iu the breaking off the pin
and collar from the jars, leaving them
at the bottom of the well, some 900 feet
below the surface at terra fir ma.
They were got out on Tuesday after
noon and a new set of jars attached,
and they are now on their way again
in search of tho oleaginous deposits,
which they are sure to find after going
down about 600 feet further.
Lycoming.
From the Willlomsport Gazette A Bulletin.
Register and Recorder Hess is said
to be the father of 8 children, tho uncle
of 60, aud the great uncle of 23. And,
as might be expected, lie Is one of the
most obliging and jolly men iu the
court house. Three cheers and a tiger
for Hess I
Blaukets one hundred years old
were sold by the executors of Samuel
Shade, deceased, at their recent sale
in Northumberland county. The
blankets were woven in the neighbor
hood, aud bore the weaver's name and
the date 1778. They sold for $11.50
per pair.
Dr. Levis, the eminent Philadelphia
surgeon, was here on Saturday last.
He operated on six or seven patients
successfully. In the morning he re
moved a cancerous tumor from the
body of Mr. F. Hunt, and in the after
noon he operated upon a bulged or
dropsical eye of a thirteen year old
daughter of Mr. Reuben Weaver. He
also attended to a young lady who had
what is called a "staring eye,"
another young lady, Miss Anthony, a
grand-dauuhter of the late Judtre An
thony, and a niece of Dr. Charles
iyon, wno was amicted with ptosis,
or drooping eyelid, and a young man
who was cross-eyed. These however
were of minor importance compared
with an operation on a young man
about twenty years of ago named
Tommy Cassclberry. of Upper Fair
field township. Tommy was the
owner of two noses, one of them hav
ing teeth. But the worst feature in
Tommy's case M'as that he had no
foundation for a moustache no upper
up. In order to secure this it became
necessary to dispense with one of the
noses, the under one possessing suffi
cient material to make as much lip as
any man should desire. After Tommy
was ethered into a pretty sound sleep.
Dr. Levis took possession of him, and
slashed into the extra nose right and
left and upauddown till about a quart
or oioou spread itself out on the floor,
and Tommy's phiz, from his natural
nose to his chin, looked like a shop
wherein fresh meat was sold. The
ether worked off of him before the
operation was over, but tho large
amount of blood flowing from him for
bade the use of more ether, and he in
consequence suffered greatly. The
doctors in attendance did all they
could to console him and cheer him
on in ids desire to make himself look
like a human being. One said he
would soon haveu foundation whereon
to raise a moustache; another said
they were making a good whistle of
him ; another said he could go aud see
the girls, but that he must not go too
soon, for if he should laugh there
would be a brcak-iu, which would be
sure to destroy all the labor of razeeing
that nose. All this consolation, how
ever, did not seem to have much effect
upon Tommy, as he was suffering ter
ribly and did not feel as if he was in the
happiest mood for partaking of faceti
ousness. Nevertheless, he displayed
pluck and "accepted the situation"
gracefully, taking everything into
consideration. After the doctor was
done with him he presented an appear
ance quite different from that he wore
before the knife went Into the un
natutfctno&e. Taper Rags taken iu exchange for
goods 42 Main (Street.
jiules of Mews,
The New Jersey Legislature has
passed to third reading the bill to re
duce the rate of interest to six per
cent-
A widow in Xenia, Ohio, gave birth
to twins a few days ago one black and
one white. Ail were doing well at
last accounts.
riatt Hubbell A Co., tho largest
mercantile firm of Monticello, III.,
have failed. Their liabilities are $86,-
000; assets not known.
A new morning newspaper, to be
conducted in the interests of tho
Greenbock Labor party will be started
in Pittsburgh in March.
An " intoxicated shoemaker at
tempted to pass under a train of the
Chicago and Alton Railroad, at Car-
llnville III., and was instantly killed.
Drawing straws to sec whether or
not they should convict a man of
murder, was tho plan hit upon by a
Cairo, 111., Jury and they convicted
him.
A couple on their wedding tour fell
into the hands of three-card monte
men on the cars near Delaware, Ohio,
and wero relieved of $250 and their
watches.
To work hard all day picking cot
ton, and then be sent seven miles to
drive cows, was considered an outrage
by a Columbus, Tenu., boy, so ho
hanged himself.
J. J. Jones, a wealthy farmer and
stock raiser of Western Missouri, has
made an assignment. His indebted
ness is $50,000 assets less than onc
third of that amount.
Henry Blackburn, of Royal Oak,
Mich., killed his mother and sister
and set fire to the house. He la now
on trial at Poutiac. A plea of in.
sanity has been set up.
Jobh Blake, aged twenty-two,
jumped from a fourth story window
in New York city, to avoid arrest,
while intoxicated. His lelt arm was
broken and right ankle dislocated.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Andrew
K. Long, United States Army, Depot
Commissary of Subslstance, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself
through the left breast. Temporary
insanity is assigned as the cause.
Foot-pads are plenty near New Rich
mand.'.Ohio. John West was.waylaid
by two men but a fleet horse saved
him. An attempt was made to rob a
wealthy cattle dealer, but was frustra
ted by the robbers getting the wrong
man.
A respectable young miss of fifteen
bright summers committed suicide at
Marshall Illinois, on the 22d, aud at
last accounts was in a critical condi
tion. Her wardrobe was all arranged
as well as directions for burial. No
cause for the act.
Colored tramp at North Vernon,
Ind., burglarized the store of Henry
Meyer, while he was at breakfast, and
escaped. The villian showed the
goods to another tramp who squealed.
He was afterwards arrested and in de
fault of $ 50:i ball was committed.
Edward Donnelly, farmer, near
Danville, 111., accidently shot himself
with a rifle. He cannot recover. Two
sons killed Within fifteen months;
one thrown from a horse; the other
met his death last August by being
crushed between a st ump and a wagon
hub while a team was running away.
The Iowa Legislature, at Dcs
Moines, Tuesday elected Win. B. Alli
son United States Senator from that
State. In the House a resolution Was
adopted instructing Iowa's Congress
men to endeavor to secure the passage
of a bill for the equilization of the
bounties of soldiers iu the late war.
At St. Louis last week Grace Mac
queen, aged thirty-three, wife of Wil
liam Macqueen a prominent packer,
hanged herself to a rafter in the gar
ret, passing the rope four times round
her neck to raise her feet from the
floor. Her corpse was still warm
when found. Mrs. Macqueen's mind
has been slightly derauged for some
days.
A shocking accident, by which
little nine-year old girl by tho name of
Barbara Ziltier, was horribly mangled
happened at Middletown, Ohio. The
child had gone to the planing-mill
connected with the Middletown
Foundry to gather shavings and while
thus engaged her clothing was caught
by the revolving wheels, aud her body
whirled violently and rapidly a num
ber of times and then hurled away
fifteen feet, mangled and torn in a
frightful manner. One leg was torn
off, and the other left hanging only
by the sinews aud cords of the limb.
Fernando Houck, stenographer,
New York City committed suicide in
the Sulphur Baths Hotel, The de
ceased was found lying upon tho bed
in his room, on the second floor, with
a pistol shot wound In his breast. He
was a native of Baltimore, aged
twenty-three, but had been a resident
of New York a number of years. He
left a letter saying: 'Terhaps I may
find out that there is a hell, though I
think we have hell enough on earth
without manufacturing one for the
hereafter. At any rate, if there is a
hell, it is a comfort to know that there
will be no more winter there."
Locomotive No. 4, of the Cheaspeake
and Ohio Railroad Company, exploded
on the track at Charlottville, Va.,
completely wreoking the engine. The
steel rails upon which the engine
stood were sunk between the ties
from the downward pressure. About
twenty twenty feet of the adjoining
platform was torn up, telegraph wires
were broken, and several frame build
ings near were pierced in their iddea
ana roonng dv portions ofnvinsr iron
as If they had been subjected to a can
nonade of grapeshot. The bell has
not yet been found. The engineer
and fireman weaned and nobodv wau
hurt.
PeUllsjlVUIIJl iOHUaa
Mr. Agnew, the postmaster at
Agnew's Mills, Clarion county, uas
been iu office forty-five years.
The daily production of the Brad
ford oildistrict is otiy about 9,000 bar.
rels. The Derrick intenaeu 10 De un
derstood as saying thai 80,003 barrel
could be produced if the price went up
enough to encourage it.
Nearly six million cigars were made
at Wrightsvillc, York county, last
year. The amount paid by the manu-
factureru of these cigars for stamps
alone was $35,680 60.
Eddie Smallcy. a boy aged seven
teen, was accidently shot in the bead
andkillfcd, at Erie, last week, by the
careless handling of a pistol iu the
hands of a playmate.
The ousted Sheriff of Butler county,
on Thursday of last week delivered up
the ofllce to the Coroner. Wm. Conn,
Esq., who will execute the duties of
the office until Governor Hartranft ap
points a man to take his place.
A four-year-old daughter of John B.
Schaeffer of Mount Airy, several miles
west of Pottstown, Pa., died from the
effects of illness produced by tho blto
of a rabid dog last December. Her
sufferings have been terrible forseveral
weeks past.
In Erie county, during the past
. . . Alt
year, warrants to tue amount 01 v
99835 were issued in paymentof sheep
killed by dogs. The tax on dogs at
tho rate of 60 cents per head, yielded
$1,913.50 leaving $2,084.85 to be paid
out of the surplus fund on hand.
By arrangement of the Franklin
County Commissioners, and under
the new jail administration, Justices
of the Peace commit tramps or va
grants Idly wandering about, for
thirty days, and they are required to
break stone in the jail yard during
their incarceration.
Mr. John E. Lentz, of Allentown,
some years ago had the front of his
property on Hamilton street, that
city, badly damaged by imperfect
drainage. He demanded $2,400 dama
ges. The city refused to pay them.
A jury on Friday gave a verdict
agalust the city for $2,101.96.
The daughter of B. F. Wilson then
of Towanda, but now of Lock Haven
strayed or was kidnapped from her
home on the 11th of December. Her
name is Mattie. She is thirteen years
old, small fcr her age, dark eyes, hair,
and complexion, spare face, and was
dressed thinly in every-day clothes
when she left-
John Carroll, In the right of tho
widow and children of William Car
roll, who was killed by an explosion
of fire-damp at the Pine Ridge colliery
in 1873. instituted a suit at Wilkes
bari'e to recover damages for the death
of the hitter against the D. and H. C
Company, and the case was tried and
a verdict obtained recently for $4,000.
Bradford, Pa., January 24. A
company has been organized in the oil
towns in western New York and in
this vicinity to ship oil in bulk, via
the Genesee Valley and Erie Canals,
to Buffalo, Rochester and New York.
This movement will doubtless revolu
tionize tho oil transportation, Which
hitherto has been monopolized by rail
ways. Dr. Richard A. Robertson, of Titusville,-
went to Scotland last year to
claim some property said to have been
lett him by a relative, since when
nothing has been heard from him. A
few weeks ago Mrs. Robertson went
abroad, and she has endeavored to
trace her husband, but as yet without
any result. When Dr. Robertson left
home he was in possession of a con
siderable sum of mouey and a large
quantity of jewelry.
Says the Williamsport Gazette :
Chief McKcan married a couple on
Thursday night at police headquarters,
and read to them their duties toward
each other from a copy of the Wallace
law. After he had concluded, it waa
discovered that the wrong woman had
been wedded that it was the brides
maid Instead of the bride. Samuel
informed them that it was too late to
make a correction, and they left,
threatening to go somewhere else and
get unmarried,
Reading, January 23. Henry Dif
fenbach, William Malloy, James Kel
ley, Charles Banks and Frank Heise
man pleaded guilty this afternoon to
rioting in July last and wero sen
tenced to pay a fine of one dollar and
costs and to an imprisonment of six
months, to be computed from the time
they entered prison. The prisoners
have beeu in confinement since July
and will consequently bo released In a
few days. The Court said light sen
tences would be imposed in conse
quence of the defendants having
pleaded guilty and having already
served a considerable time in jail
awaiting trial. There are still about
twenty-live to be tried. A jury was
empaneled this afternoon.
The tribunal to which was submit
ted the judicial contest between
Church and Henderson for the Com
mon Pleas Judgeship of Crawford
county has been decided in favor of
Pearson Church as lawfully elected,
the contestant withdrawing his
petition. Church was the Demo
cratic candidate and was returned
elected by a small majority, when Mr.
Henderson, the Republican candidate.
contested. The court, from th
records of the election in the Pro-
thonotary's office, declared that
Pearson Church had received the
largest number of votes, and tbecertifl.
cate, signed by all three judges, Wit
more, Galbralth and McDermott, waa
at once forwarded to the Governor.
Ihe contestant's counsel gave as their
reason for withdrawing from the con
test that they did not wish to take tho
responsibility of delaying the business
of the courts until the contest wa de
cided. Governor Hartranft fra iwo.
a commission to Judr Church.-