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RIDGWAY, PA., JULY 11, 1878.
Rainy weather first of the week,
All kinds of printing at this office.
Plant your turnips on the 25th of
July.
Get registered If you want a vote
this fall.
The crop of cow bells Is about
ready to pick.
A new platform in front of Ma
son lo Hall.
The crop of Ice In town is said to be
somewhat limited.
Raspberries are ripe and will soon
be in market.
The new dog and sheep law will
be found In this Issue.
BeTeral places In the sidewalks
about town need repairing.
The fantastic parade was a funny
feature of the Fourth.
The weather is hot, and with good
prospects of being hotter.
The smoke stack of the new plan
ing mill has been raised.
The worst field of potatoes In Elk
county is owned by ye editor.
The old pinning mill is not much
of an ornament to Centre street.
Paris green and rye flour, twenty
five to one, is the medicine for potato
bugs.
That new style of script is just the
neatest thing for visiting cards yet
out.
The organ-grinder is now busy at
his haying, but he'll blossom bye-and
bye.
Letter-heads and note-heads we
make a specialty and do them remark
ably cheap.
Some fighting in ourstreets on the
Fourth, otherwise the day passed
quietly away.
One hundred and one tickets were
sold for the dnuce at Hyde's Opera
House on the night of July 4th.
A bad piece of sidewalk on the
west side of depot street. The Super
visors better look a leetle out.
All in favor of having Ridgway
Incorporated into a Borough will say
aye. The ayes have it- Let her in
corporate. Correspondents to the Advocate
are increasing. Glad to hear from you
all, gentlemen, and hope you will
write often.
The streets make splendid pasture
fields for all manner of stock, from the
little calf with a tinkling bell to the
old cow, too old and tough for beef.
School Treasurers will please take
notice that we have a neat form of no
tices to those who pay school tax
Specimens sent by mail on applica
tion. Repairing done cheap for cash at
Bowers' furniture store. Besides, Joe,
has a large assortment of chairs, tables,
bedsteads, lounges, etc. Give him u
-.call.
-)Vhen the rain rained on July 4th
tlue piu-nlo dancers escaped to Hyde's
iw mill, where the dancing was con
tinued, and quite a bull-room the old
saw mill mukes.
We feci in no bousting mood, but
when our subscription list is gradually
on the increase, we are convinced that
such substantial tokens are worth
oceans of empty words.
But for the rain which destroyed a
large amount of provisions, and soaked
the ladies who were In charge, the
Catholic pic-ulc on July 4th would
have been a grand success.
A terrible rain and M'ind storm
at tills point yesterday, which resulted
in lodging a great deal of grain, and
lopping potatoes, tomatoes, etc., etc
One of the apple trees In Frank Dill's
lot, on Centre street, was broken off'.
State Superintendent Wickersham
has appointed the following named
gentlemen to represent the State Nor
mal School at Lock Haven : Hon. A.
G. Curtln, Bellefonte; Hon. William
Bigler, Clearfield ; H. L. Dieffenbach,
Esq., and Hon. S. B. Peale, Lock
Haven ; Hon. A. C. No-yes, Westport,
and Hon. C. R. Earley, Bidgway.
The bridge on the Osterhout road
across Elk creek is about completed.
That stone abutment, the work of
Flynn & Maloney, is an excellent
piece of work, anil looks as though
destined to last for ages, and how
striking the contrast between that and
the wooden abutment at the other end
of the bridge, which looks as though
the first flood would sweep it away.
The wretches, whom It were base
flattery to call sneaks, who broke the
tables and seats, and otherwise defaced
the pio-nlc ground before the Catholic
plc-nic took place, should have a repri
mand administered to them that would
last them all their lives. Boys or men,
guilty of the acU they were guilty of,
deserve to be banished from decent
society. That they may be caught and
punished as their misdeeds entitle
them to be punished, is the wish of
every law-abiding citizen.
July 6th Charley Cody built a big
fire in Main street, opposite the Walker
block, out of the tar roofing which he
had taken off that building. The fire
created a dense smoke. E. C. Wood
was driving his horse and buggy up
street, when the horse became fright
ened at the smoke, and shied off in the
direction of Powell & Kime's store,
bringing up against the Advocate
sign post, breaking one thill. Mr.
Wood jumped out, and escaped injury.
Pat. Malone's horse was also scared by
the smoke. It is decidedly wrong to
build fires in the street where the lia
bility to such accidents as we have
mentioned are so great
mt 1
Persenal Kota.
Joe and Nellie Jackson are home
from school.
James McAfee's baby Is sick with
cholera Infantum.
Bend In your little I. O. U.'s to the
Advocate office.
Mrs. Michael Sheehan has been
sick for some time.
Misa Aggie Barrett will teach the
Whisttetown school.
Crayston, the miller, Is raising a
great number of bees.
Jas. D. Fullerton and wife are now
at Brookvllle on a visit.
"Dingle" has a secret cigar pocket
In the lining of his coat.
Dickinson Bros, have an excellent
five acre piece of potatoes.
Mrs. Paine has set out upwards of
four hundred cabbage plant.
E. M. Rogers and A. W. Gray
paid us a vlst the past week.
Rathbun gets up early In the morn
ing and works in the garden.
James Penfield has been confined
to his room for several days. I
Hard times do not seem to prevent
people from getting married.
Frank Dill has hoed his potatoes,
and Charley Healy helped htm.
Jos. Holseybrook seems to be doing
a good business with his mall route.
Will. Cuthbert has the job of
painting the Sheffield school house.
Never stop a man to haul you a
keg of beer when the editor is along.
W. C. Healy recommends ashes
as a substitute for flour to mix with
parts green.
Robt. Kime Is having his fence
painted. Cos. Kime and Ed. Powell
are the artists.
Besides a new tin roof, Doctor
Earley is otherwise improving the old
Walker building.
Prof. Dixon's little girl fell off the
back stoop on Saturday, and was in
jured considerably,
Nellie Grant, Florence Osterhout,
Willie Geary and Alton Chapin are
home during vacation.
Doctor M. J. Early accidentally
broke several bones in his foot while
playing bail last week.
Hank Wensel is cutting the grass
in the court yard. White dasies are the
prevailing feature of the crop.
Clark Dickinson and his youthful
bride returned to Parker City yester
day morning by way of Weedvllle.
Mrs. Chos. Holes and two of her
children were out rospberrylug on
Tuesday, and gathered in about ten
quart.
Jim. Rhines is extremely fond of
cayenne pepper. He put a dose in
McAfee's tobacco, and took the first
chew himself.
Grant & Horton have, without
doubt, one of the best, if not the best,
barn in Elk county. It is worth one's
while to see this structure.
L. A. Brendel has a neat and
pleasant ice cream saloon, and the
quality of the ice cream is excellent.
Try It once and be convinced.
Mis A. P. Taylor has two cats,
one named Gumption Cute, and the
other Conscience Its not every
Gumption Cute that has a Conscience.
Sheriff Oyster has put up a waxed
eud telephone from the Ridgway
Bunk to the jail. For a short distance
this beats the new-fangled ones all hol
low. W. F. Mercer and family have re
turned from Baltimore, and have
moved into Ben. Dill's house, on Cen
tra street, next west of the old planing
mill.
Michael Sheehan has between five
and six acres of splendid looking
potatoes on Powell's flats, at the lower
end of South street, and near the
Clarion river.
Harry Head and Geo. Woodward
claim to have caught thirty pounds of
trout in Mill Creek, starting at this
place at one o'clock one day and re
turning at seven o'clock the next.
Mrs. M. T. French accidentally
fell Into Hyde's race, which runs hard
by her home, the other day, and but
for John Curtis, she would have
drowned. He waded In and pulled her
out.
M. E. Lesser has left at this office
a stock of rye ninety-three inches in
length, which he raised on his lot
across the creek, and he thinks there
are stocks in the lot that will beat this
one.
Clark Dickinson has taken unto
himself a wife, a Miss Dunkle, of
Parker's Landing. Clark intends go
ing there to live, and take charge of
Dickinson Bro.'s lumber yard at that
point.
Mrs. Derby also has a nice rose
bush much nicer than Mrs. Ross',
that we praised up in our last Issue.
And don't you think Mrs. Ross never
took the hint about the bouquet busi
ness. W. C. Geary has one of the most
sightly residences in Ridgway, a fine
view of the town being bad from the
front parch of his house. After a deal
of hard work he has succeeded in nice
ly terracing the ground about his
house, and with the addition of stone
steps the full length of the front porch,
and numerous other improvements his
residence is indeed beautiful.
. married.
Tompkins Tebwilliger. At the
Riley Hotel, St. Mary's, Pa., on
Saturday, June 29th, 1878, by Rev.
H. V. Talbot, Mr. Leroy Tompkins to
Miss Alice Terwilliger, all of Dagusca
honda, Pa.
Dickinson Dunkle On Thurs
day, July 4th, 1878, at the Mouth of
Clarion. Pa., by Rev. Sackett, Mr.
Clark Dickinson, of Ridgway, Pa,, to
Miss Mary Dunkle, of Mouth of
Clarion.
Fox Tewnshlp Notes.
John Trumbull had two sheep
killed last week by dogs.
As Mrs. John Myers and Mrs. Silas
Moyer were returning from a visit to
J. S. Chamberlin's, on BrandyJCamp,
one day last week, the thill strap broke,
frightening the horse, who commenced
kicking, and ran the buggy off of the
road, over a stump, and threw both
ladies out of the buggy, hurting Mrs.
Moyer considerably. Mrs. Myers es
caped unhurt. Stub.
Earley, Penh., July 1,'78.
a correction.
Mr. Editori In the publication of
the essay, " My Ideal Teachers' Meet
ing," I notice two or three typographi
cal errors, which you will please allow
me to correct. Instead of ' but for the
form of truth In theirmidst," It should
be "the Form of the Fourth," Act
"involved during the session " should
read "evolved," Ac, and "genders in
One" should be "centers In One," etc.
Writer.
Greenville, Pa., July 878.
H. Parsons, Jr., Esq.,
Editor of the Elk Co. Advocate s
Dear Sir For reatona, the North
ern Conference of the Pittsburg Synod
of the Lutheran church, which had
resolved to meet In your town, changed
its base, and met in Saegertown,
Crawford county, Pa., on Tuesday,
June the 25th, and continued in sess
ion two days. The usual routine
business was relieved by an excellent
paper on the question, " Who shall be
Appointed Officers and Teachers in
our Sunday-schools? " read by Rev. A.
H. Bartholomew, pastor loci. The
reading of the essay was followed by a
discussion of the question; most of
the members gave their views. The
prevailing sentiment was that church
members only should be appointed to
positions. " Inducements to Sunday
school scholars" was discussed, also
" Church Services."
An interesting item was a document
from Ridgway, signed by thirty-one of
the most worthy citizens of the place,
testifying to the character of Rev. I.
Brenneman, as citizen and clergy
man ; that his self-denying labors were
both acceptable and successful, and
that he is peculiarly adapted to the
work in Ridgway. Conference was
glad of this testimony, and made a
record of it upon its minutes, and re
turned the paper to Rev. B., who
prizes It highly.
Many members of Conference had
been whetting up their appetites for
the enjoyment of your mountain trout,
and regretted the change of base. But
the handsome way in which they
were entertained at S. ought to be a
full compensation for the loss of the
trout. At another time these " fishers
of men " may meet in your place, and
" for a season " become fishers and
eaters of trout. Yours,
Dodry.
Jail News.
Jail, Ridoway, July 10, '78.
The boys are all well and praying
for butter to fall and beafsteak to get
cheap.
We miss our old friend and joker
Mick, who was up for any kind of
fun during the day, and when it came
to killing rats at night he was a good
hand, but it would take a whole com
pany of such men to keep one cell
clear.
Our Dutchman is all right again,
and is harvesting for the boarding
boss this week. He wouldn't say ' ish
dot so " now for a whole barrel of Bauer
kraut
Will. Emmett took his departure
on the th ; he was bound for Toby
to thrash pumpkins this summer.
Lumber would have been very
dear this fall if G. W. Newton did not
buy a pair of shoes. Newton la a bird
we caged two weeks ago. I have heard
better singers, but a more willing one,
never. Call and see him he is tame.
Ladies, you have heard the song,
" Kissing through the Bars," but you
can experience It if you call here, the
boys are always willing.
Call and see us ; we can entertain
you with a good song or an Irish jig.
We are a jolly crowd.
Pat. Goodman is the happiest boy
in town. He is busily engaged at
present composing a song about our
two weeks old bird. It is comical,
and Pat is the boy to sing it.
I can never look a pig straight in
the face again. Happy Boy.
Notes.
Delicious ice cream at L. A. Bren
del's. To be as cool as a cucumber were
happiness this hot weather.
Potatoes sell here for $l,2oabushel,
and they have been scarce at that.
The recent rain will be bad for
trout fishers, although a good streak
of luck for the trout
Dance programmes, invitations
and tickets a specialty at this office.
Send for specimens and prices.
The Advocate office is turning
out first-class work at low rates. Call
and see our list of prices.
The Eighth Semi-annual Session
of the Bennett's Branch Union Sun
day-school Association will be held In
the Mount Zion Cburch, Elk county,
Pa., beginning Friday, July 19th, '78,
at 2,15 r. M., and continue two days.
A cordial invitation is extended to all
Sunday-school workers to attend.
Church Directory.
catholic church.
Rev. M. Meagher, next Sunday at
the usual hours.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Rev. H. V. Talbot, next Sunday,
morning at 11 o'clook, and evening
at 7 o'clock.
Hjres Opera HmM,r
Evenings July ,1st. 2d and 8d, '78.
Wood's Philadelphia Farce and Bur
lesque Co. gave three entertainments
on the above evenings. On Monday
evening, July 1st, the performance
was not op to the standard, and the
audience left the ball in anything but
a pleased condition of mind. Mr.
Wood appeared before the curtain and
stated that the Company had traveled
from Philadelphia, being op nearly all
the night before, and were In a tired
and exhausted condition, but prom
ised better things the remaining
nights.
Tuesday evening the programme
called for the burlesque on "School,"
and two farces, "Same as Last Sea
son," and " Smith's and Browu the
company adding the "Black Statute,"
an amusing farce not on the bills.
The audience were kept In an almost
continual roar of laughter from the
time the curtain rose until It fell, and
even then it seemed as though all were
ready to break out again at the least
provocation, and when the curtain
rose again the provocation was ample.
At the close of the performances the
audience retired In the best of humor,
and all voted the evening's entertain
ment a success.
On Wednesday evening " A Kiss In
the Dark," "A Quiet Family" and
"Helen's Babies" were the three very
amusing farces, to which those who
attended were treated, and if laughing
makes one fat, the audience that list
ened and laughed on this evening
must have taken on a very large
amount of corpulency, for they nearly
killed themselves laugning.
Although the general performing the
three evenings was good, and excellent
on the lust two evenings, that of Mr.
James Howard must be tet down as
entitled to more than ordinary men
tion. His Dutch scngs and funny say
ings received hearty applause, and
again and again was he recalled before
the footlights by a more than delighted
audience. Mr. Howard has signified
his intention of organizing a troupe to
visit Ridgway this full, in which event
we have no doubt he will be greeted
with large audiences.
State Notes.
Joseph Sch wein, an Intemperate
German, of Erie, committed suicide
by hanging on Tuesday.
David Harman.of Lut I more town
ship, Adams county, nineteen years
old, weighs 861 pounds.
Mrs. Owens, keeper of the Swan
hotel, of Luzerne county, accidentally
shot herself through the heart with a
Fourth of July pistol;
Walter Bechtold was shot and fa
tally wounded at Pittsburg on Thurs
day afternoon by another boy the re
sult of a quarrel.
The Cosmos oil works, just outside
Pittsburg, were struck by lightning
and almost totally destroyed on Thurs
day. The loss is $100,000.
Thomas L. Mull, while working
in a field in Mifflin county, fell dead
while filling a hay wagon. Death
was caused by sunstroke.
David Jewell and Miss Annie
Hildebrand, both of whom belong to
families of high standing, eloped in
Mercer county a few nights ago.
Fifty pounds of dynamite, accord
ing to the Oil City Derrick, have been
discovered hidden under the stairway
of the Bradford Exchange building.
Franklin Sawville, aged thirty-
seven yeurs, committea suicide near
GraefTs Landing, Lancaster county,
on Tuesday, by cutting his throat with
a razor. He was partially insane and
unmarried.
Rev. George Dillinger, of York
county, plowed around a field several
times a few days ago, after which he
took a drink of water from a spring.
Soon after he returned to the plow he
dropped down dead.
The opening of a portion of the
new Lake Erie railroad was celebrated
on Wednesday at Beaver Fall by an
excursion to that point of a number of
people from Youngstown, Ohio.
Mrs. Israel Stringfellow.orCarllsle
made two attempts to commit suicide
lost week. She first tried to drown
herself in a cistern, and afterward to
haug herself. The disobedience of a
daughter is said to have made ber in
sane. While walkiug along the canal
near Bethlehem on Wednesday after
noon, in company with his wife, Wil
liam Wambold unexpectedly jumped
into the water and committed suicide
by drowning. Poverty ' caused the
deed.
Recently Mr. Clark Stillwell,
a prominent citizen of Daggett's Mills
Tioga county, disappeared from his
home under circumstances leading to
the belief that he had destroyed his
life, and since that time no trace of
him has been discovered.
An attachmeut was Issued recently
against A. P. Spinney, a prominent
lawyer of Schuylkill county, based on
the claim of a client named Emanuel
Bast, for money collected by Spinney
on a judgment recovered against Nel
son Brandon. The lawyer is In jail. J
A daughter of D. A. Beck ley, of
Bloomsburg, arose in a dream recently
and leaped out of a aeaond story win
dow, alighting on the pavement,
distance of twenty-five feet In her
descent she struck a fence and knocked
off two pickets. " She w&s , seriously
bruised, but not seriously hurt
Herman Hest, an inmate of the
Lehigh county hospital, while walk
ing along the unfinished floor of the
new hospital building, fell through an
opening to the cellar below, a distance
of about seventy feet, breaking his
back and dying from his injuries about
twenty minutes after.
To the Editor of the Elk Ooanty Adtooati i
The members of the Institute voted
that this Essay be published in the Elk
Co. Advocate i
Written fur the Sunday-school Institute,
held at Little Toby Church Jan IS sad IS.
As I had partly prepared my essay
before I received the given subject,
cares numerous and time limited, the
thoughts will not be as well connected
as they would otherwise have been. I
would that I were competent to do
Justice to my subject, which Is,
How shall we IJnlUit the Whole Church
in tKe Sunday-school Workt
We are convened to-day In a most
glorious cause; one In which all the
people of the earth should take part
I will endeavor to give few reasons
why all should engage in this good
cause t
We read la the Bible In the days of
the Mosaic dispensation, that direc
tions were given to Instruct the chil
dren when they should ask the mean
ing of the Passover, also in Isaiah, 54th
chapter and ISth verse. And all thy
children shall be taught of the Lord
and great shall be the peace of thy
children. Bo on, we might follow
line upon line and precept upon pre
cept, to convince all the church how
necessary It has been, and is, to care
for the children.
A great many good and eminent
men, such as Luther, Oberlin, Kinder
man n, and others in Europe, and the
Wesleys, Strieker, and others in
America, felt the need and exerted
themselves to found a Sabbath-school
upon both continents ; they partially
failed for lack of system, while the
honor of founding the Sunday-school
was conferred upon Robert Raikes, of
Gloucester, England, In the year 1782,
who began to systematize the work.
A little more history seems appropriate
to show that Christian ladies may do
much for the cause even originate a
good work. Sabbath-schools are now
an important appendage of every
church, and have been a benefit to
millions of Immortal souls ; but it de
serves to be mentioned that Hannah
Ball, a young Methodist lady, had a
Methodist Sunday-school at High
Wycombe, fourteen years before Robert
Raikes began his at Gloucester, and
that Sophia Cook, another Methodist,
who afterwards became the wife of
Samuel Brad burn, was the first who
suggested to Raikes the Sunday-school
Idea, and actually marched with him,
at the head of his troop of ragged
urchins, the first Sunday they were
taken to the parish church.
At about this same time a good man
by the name of William Fox, of Lon
don, seeing the Ignorance and degra
dation of the poorer classes of that city
established a school throughout Eng
land, in which poor children might be
taught to read the Bible.
It seems, as we read the history of
this blessed work, that the happy
combination of circumstances that
brought the knowledge of the united
efforts of different persons to each
other, that it was a plan of Divine
Providence to give to the world, next
to the church, a means of doing the
greatest amount of good.
If a few can do so much for the
cause, why not the majority unitedly
take part in this blessed field of labor.
I love to see the children gather in
on a Sabbath morning, with eager
looks and sweet voices, their little
hearts ready to receive the seed of the
Gospel of Christ. I would Bay, send
the little ones; do not fear they will
annoy and trouble us. We expect to
exert ourselves to interest and please
them; It being the uppermost thoughts
of our hearts to simplify the lesson to
suit the tender minds. Remember,
kind friends, "early Impressions are
lasting," and all who desire their ctail
dren to have principles of honor
formed within, which shall redound
to the glory of God and the salvation
of their souls, will send the children
early to the Sabbath-schooL
When we compare fifty years ago
with the present, we find there is a
great contrast and a vast difference.
The progress and improvement Is visi
ble to all, yet there are a few people
to-day thank God the number is
limited that object to the present sys
tem, who think the spelling-book
should be taught as in days of yore.
The Sabbath-school Is bo well es
tablished at the present time that we
can proclaim with united voices
Tbe great work U well begun.
Which will not cease beneath tbe sun.
To do God's will we all will try.
For tbe end of our Journey is drawing nigh.
Were we to observe more holidays I
believe it would be both interesting
and beneficial to all concerned, besides
it might be a means of increasing our
numbers.
I like the Episcopal form of cere
mony for the children, especially their
Palm Sunday, Floral Sabbath, decora
tion days, and the like. There are
many ways lu which precious souls
may be saved.
It is impossible to say the amount of
good accomplished in this efficient
way. I know a young man who had
never attended the Sabbath-school
persuaded by an influential friend to
do so, and through this means he was
converted, together with an aged
father and mother, who would proba
bly have remained sinful through
their lives had it not been for the In
fluence of the Sabbath-school.
There is surely not a parent in this
land but that desires their children to
make a mark in the world, or live
good lives. If you do not wish them
to spend their Sabbaths in idleness, or
lounging about the streets, hunting,
fishing, etc, persuade them to join
you in the Sabbath-school. Let no one
say they are not needed in the field of
labor. Do not say, pray have me ex
cused, I cannot go. There is no time
to be lost, for now is the accepted time
To those who have never made i
practice of attending this precious
means of grace I would say, come
three Sabbaths, Interest yourselves In
teaching, or In tfie lessons. After the
trial Sabbath Is passed you will no
doubt sayj surely this is a good place-
strange I did not enlist sooner. .
There are some who feel incompetent
and unable to promote the cause. If
this is your case to-day brother, sister,
hearer, do what you can, though it
should be but little. " Many a little
makes a mlckle." It Is not the great
things that fill this earth of ours, but
it Is the mites and atoms; we are
taught never to despise the day of
small things ; and though we may
have but one talent, we should im
prove the one that more may be added
unto.
There are men of wealth In our
church that do not care to attend this
precious place to cultivate the little
immortal minds; they can assist in
clothing and fitting out poor children
to attend the Sabbath-school. Do this,
and your Influence is felt for this good
cause. Cast your bread on the waters,
and not many days hence It will re
turn to you.
There Is a class I will not forget to
mention those that sleep awny the
precious morning hours of this blessed
day. What a pity there are any so
selfish that they cannot give one day
out of seven to the Lord. May we one
and all arouse from our dreamy slum
ber, put our shoulders unitedly to the
wheel, and help this work along.
This is a part of the Lord s vineyard,
where there is a place for all to work ;
the rich and the poor, the young and
old, the great and small. We need
none of us fear that wo are not wanted
here, for all ore called to do something
for the Lord. This is a soul-paying
business, in which nil should engage,
as the responsibility of the children In
our midst rests upon us in a great meas
ure. If our Saviour, while upon eurth,
could take little children In his arms
and bless them, this certuinly must
have been an example to imitate. You
that have never made the Rubbath
school a specialty, enlist next Sabbath
in this God given cause, attend faith
fully to tiiis means of grace, and ut the
close of the year, if you can say you
have not enjoyed pleasant hours in
this capacity, it will convince nie that
your profession Is an empty bauble,
like sounding brass and tinkling sil
ver. Parents, if you wish your sons to
shun the barroom and its associations,
and your daughters to choose chaste
and refined companions, exhort, en
treat and hold out every inducement
for them to attend the Sabbath-school.
Last, but not least, can any of us
say we have performed every known
duty in the fear of the Lord, when we
have neglected this part of worship?
May God help ui all to do His will,
And every duty to fulfill,
That when our labors all are o'er,
We'll dwell with God and sin no more,
Mrs. Hattie ItAuaiir.
Four prisoners in the Lebanon
jail that escaped lost week by scaling
the wall were recaptured.
Edwin F. Quinnett, the Renovo
train robber and another prisoner in
the Lock Haven jail, escaped last week.
-Conrad Young, a stonemuson of
Allegheny, has been arrested for the
murder of his wife, who died under
suspicious circumstances.
Henry Lynch, convicted In Al
legheny county of forgery, was sen
tenced to eight years' imprisonment in
the western penitentiary.
George M'Cormlck, who resided
near Lock Haven, died from the ef
fects of drinking carbolic acid a few
nights since. He took the acid by
mistake, supposing It to be liquor.
Mrs. Margaret Wolf, of Indiana,
widow of Rev. Jacob Wolf, committed
suicide by taking paris green. She
had been a charge on the taxpayers of
the town, which weighed on her
mind.
On July 4, 1877, two persons were
killed and twenty-nine injured In
Philadelphia, through powder and
pistol practice. On the recent 4th the
victims were forty-two, one of whom
was killed.
Freddie Grosmlth, of Luzerne
county, climbed a cherry tree on Frl.
day morning, and fell from it head
foremost, breaking his left arm and
producing concussion of the brain and
paralysis of the right arm and left leg.
He died In the evening.
Mrs. E. E. Wood, of Wayne
county, while laboring under a fit of
insanity, threw a can coutuiniugabout
three pounds of powder into a stove.
The explosion damaged the house and
furniture. Mrs. Wood, though not
killed instantly, was badly burned and
mangled, and to add to the "horror of
the scene, she frantically tore the flesh
from her body and arms. She died in
a few hours.
The safe containing the $27,000 In
cash, bonds, etc., which was stolen
from Michael Richards, living near
Top ton, Berks county, a few nights
ago, was round secreted in the woods
about one mile from the house. The
thieves had dug a hole in the ground
and burled it, and covered the place
with leaves. None of the contents hud
been disturbed. Several parties living
in the neighborhood are suspected, and
are being closely watched.
At an early hour on Wednesday
morning the house of Michael Rich
ards, In Berks county, was entered by
three robbers. Richards Was severely
burnt and bruised by the runluns, who
afterwards took a safe which contained
cash, notes, bonds and other papers,
aggregating $27,300, which they loaded
on a wheelbarrow and wheeled about
one mile from the house to a woods,
where the safe was put into a wagon
and driven towards Reading, since
which time there has been no trace of
the robbers.
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GEO. A. RATHBUN.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Main street, Kldgway, Elk Co., Pa.
HALL . M'CAULEY.
ATTORNEY8-AT-LAW.
Office In Mew Drlck Building, Main Street,
Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa. YiaM.
J. O. W. BAILEY.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Ridgway, Elk County, Pa. Agent for the
Traveler's Life and Accident Insurance Co.,
of Hartford, ConuetlcuU Vln25yl.
LUCORE HAMBLEN.
ATTORNEYS AT-LAW.
Ridgway, Elk County Pit. Office across
the hall from the Vkmockat establishment.
Claims for collection promptly attended to
Jue.lA-187(l
E. Q. FAY.
LUMBER AND INSURANCE COMMIS
SION BROKER.
And General Collection Agent, No. 208
Walnut Place, (318 Walnut Street.) Philadel
phia, Pa. n-ly
G. G. MESSENGER.
DRUGGIST AND PARMACEUTI8T.
N. W. corner of Main and Mill streets,
Itidgwny, Pu., full assortment of carefully
selected Foreign and Domestic Drugs. Pre
scriptions carefully dispensed ut all hours,
day or night. vln3y
T. S. HARTLEY, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON.
Office lu Drug Store, corner Broad and
Main Streets. Residence corner Broad
Street, opposite the College. Olllco hours
from 8 to 10 A. M. and from 7 to 8 P. M.
vlnityl.
J. S. BORDWELL, M. D.
ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Has removed his office from Centre Street,
to Main Street, Ridgway, Pa In the second
story of the new brick building of John a.
Hull, west of the Hyde House.
Office hours : 1 to 2 1. M. 7 to 0 P. M.
MRS. N. T. CUMMINGS.
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF NEW
STYLES SPRING HATS JUST RECEIVED
at (Mrs. N. T. Cummings, also ties, collars
cull's, liolscry, gloves, and a general assort
ment of Ladies' funcy goods. Remember the
placo in 11. S. .Thayer's Building, Muin street.
Cull and examine before purchasing else
where.
HYDE HOUSET
W. II. SCHRAM, Proprietor,
Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.
Thankful for the patronage heretofore so
liberally bestowed upon him, the new pro
prietor, hopes, by puying strict attention to
the comfort and convenience of guests, to
merit a continuance of the same,
oct3u'0
MILLINERY AND DRESSMAKING.
MRS. J. R. KELTZ, Kersey, Elk Co., Pa.,
takes this method of announcing to the citi
zens of Elk county, that she lias on hand an
assortment of fashionable millinery goods
which will be sold cheap. Also dressmaking
In all its branches.
Agent for Dr. J. Ball & Co's Patent Ivory
and Lignum Vitus Eye Cups. Send for des
criptive' circular.
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PEDIA.
Vol. 8 of this udmirablo work is Just out
making It half complete, as there are to be IS
in all, of 800 pages each, one being issued in
two months. It makes a complete library,
and no one can afford to do without it who
would keep well informed. Price $0,00 a vol
ume in leather, or 87,00 inelegant half Tur
key. C. K. Judson, Frcdonla, N. Y., controls
the sale in Elk county. Address him for
patlculurs. scp 17-tf.
E. K. GRESH.
DEALER lu all kinds of cabinet ware,
wood and cane seat chairs, kitchen and ex
teutlou tables, wood and marble top stands,
wood and marblo top bureaus, whatnots,
looking glasses, wood and marble top cham
ber suits, mattresses, spriug bed bottoms,
bed steads, cribs. Laforty's metal lined
wood pumps, &.c, &e. Cane scats replaced
with perforated wood seuls. Weed sewing
machine reduced from 05 to 15, the best ma
chine in the market, and picture frames
made to order. Alsoa lurgo assorted stock of
ready made coffins constantly on hand and
trimmed at shortest notice. All the above
goods aro sold at panic prices. Ware Rooms
in masonic building, Ridgway Pu,
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BANKERS AND JJUOKERd,
No. 42 South Third Street.
Stocks and Bonds Bought aud Sold ou
Commission.
Philadelphia, June 1Kb, 1878.
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