RIDGWAY, TA., AUG. 1, 187S,
Kotest
Rainy weather beginning of tbe
Week.
Call at this office fof writing paper
and envelopes.
Blackberries are selling In this
tnarket at 8 cents a quart
' A musical treat at Hyde's Opera
House to-morrow evening.
Centre street Is much Improved by
the razing of the old planing mill.
The weather Was too cloudy on
Monday to see the eclipse at this place.
Another batch of new subscribers.
Bring on your scales, Mr. Democrat.
Blackberries are ripe, and will
commence pouring into town in a few
days.
Get registered In time to vote.
Two months before election is the time
1-equlred.
One more month, and then Sep
tember with an " r" will bring forth
the retired oysters.
Note paper and envelopes for sale
ftt this office. A sheet of paper and an
envelope for a cent.
The N. O. L. Party Elk County
Convention next Tuesday at Rhines'
Hall, commencing at half-past one
o'clock.
The trout-fishing season is at an
end, so the law says, yet the facta in
the case warrant us in saying that the
season is still at hand
The railroad project is not yet ripe
for the plucking, but we hope to lay
something of a definite character
before our readers ere long.
Joe. Bowers has just the piece of
furniture you want, especially if there
be a baby In tbe house. It is his
Wheelbarrow rocking cradle.
Sickness among children to an
alarming extent in this village at
present. The sudden changes in the
Weather is no doubt a prolific cause of
the trouble among the little folks.
At the quarterly meeting held at
Keystone, Jefferson county, charge of
Rev. Burns, were baptised twenty
three persons, twelve by emersion.
The ordinance was performed by Rev.
l)ilo, presiding elder.
The primary meetings of the N.
G. L. Tarty of Elk county will be held
in the several townships and boroughs
on Saturday evening next, August 8d,
for the purpose of electing delegates
to the county convention to be held at
Rhines'Hall, Ridgway, ontheTuesdny
following, Aug. 6. Each township
and borough are entitled to two dele
gates. Mrs. Ernhout's Concert.
Vein iuf,.ntioii of the lovers of
Jnusie to the proposed concert of Mrs.
A. O. Ernhout and her pupils, to be
liuld in Hyde's opera house oil Friday
evening, August 2d. This lady has
labored hard in the instruction and
preparation of her pupils for this en
tertainment, and the success of a re-
tcent concert given by lier at Wilcox so
captivated the admiration of her many
friends in Ridgway that, at their earn
est solicitation, she Was induced to give
one here, so that we may feel assured
of an excellent intellectual treat, and
that'in our patronage we are placing a
' premium upon the efforts of our chil
dren and friends, and giving a benefit
to a worthy lady who is now assiduous
ly striving to raise the musical stand
ard of our town.
Programmes will be distributed,
giving a list of the courses of this
musical feast. Come! Cornel Comet
Vf. H. Osterhout, W. H. Hyde,
1). C. Oyster,
E. J. Miller,
H. M. Powers,
Grove Messenger,
J. H. Hagerty.
E. M. Gresh,
Geo. R. Dixon,
Will. Dickson,
O. B. Grant.
Jos. Penfleld,
C. E. Holiday.
Mastodon Remains.
Stahucca, Penn., July 29. It hav
ing been announced that the fessil
remains of a mastodon bod been found
In a cave near tbe railway station at
Mt. Aroat, on the Jefferson branch of
the Erie road, hundreds of persons,
both on foot and in carriages, visited
the scene.
It seems that some workmen, while
excavating at the point named, came
upon what they first thought to be
part of the tuak of an elephant. It
waa taken to a naturalist who lives in
the neighborhood, and he pronounced
it the tooth of a mastodon. The work
men at once returned to their task,
and under the direction of the natur
alist and an antiquarian whom he
summoned from Carbohdale, the
search was prosecuted until nearly
midnight, by which time nearly the
entire skeleton of the monster was
unearthed, and is now on exhibition
at the opening of the cave.
The jawbone Is four feet long and
thirteen Inches thick ; knee-cap eigh
teen inches in length and nine and a
half inches In width at the narrowest
point; thigh bones six and a quarter
feet long, and the bones from the knee
to the foot seven feet In length. The
skeleton will be boxed and shipped to.
the Smithsonian institute.
Mary Medill, a comely white girl
of sixteen, was on Thursday of last
week stripped to the waist, tied to the
Elizabeth City, Va., court house Whipping-post,
and given twenty-five lashes
with a raw-hide, the master of the cat-o'-nlne-tails
being a negro constable,
big, burly, and accustomed to hard
knocks. The girl had stolen a pair of
shoes, ine constable barely touched
in his strokes, but it is said that all
concerned in the whipping were mis
erable at the time, only executing the
law under protest.
Personal Kotos.
Horace Warner is In town.
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. McCrocken
have again gone west.
Tom. Noon's garden was last night
Visited by the cow fiend.
Mrs. Patton, formerly EllaFatinln,
is still visiting in this village.
Horace Little will have the
McNulty lot fenced In a few days.
Tom. Noon has a new pump, but
It don't work worth a darn cent.
Jacob McCauley has purchased the
mail route from Ridgway to Brook
ville. Mrs. Judge Horton has almost en
tirely recovered from her recent sick
spell.
Messrs. Bryant A Euwer, extensive
owners of timber lands in this section,
are in town.
Salyer Jackson was In town Sat
urday and Sunday, leaving for Shef
field on Monday.
Charley Healy has a solid piece of
corn on his two-acre piece, next west
of the old school-house.
Miss Ella Gould, daughter of the
Cameron Press editor, spent several
days In town last week.
RidgWay has a dramatic society
at least we are so informed but Charlie
failed to hand in the list of officers.
G. L. McCracken is once more in
his native health, looking well for an
old man. Glad to see George, any way.
Ridgway Wanderer's "Curiosity
Box " is very interesting. Hope he'll
wander often, and report to this office.
John Curtis is Buffering from a
lame foot, the result of failing to take
his foot from under a falling bar of
iron.
Geo. Rhines has cleared the broken
plank and other rubbish from Main
street, under a contract with the Su
pervisors. A large number of the Masonic
fraternity from this place attended the
funeral of Mr. Sweazy, of Empprinm,
on Tuesday.
There is one thousand square yards
of painting on the outside of the Shef
field school house, and Cuthy covered
it in five days.
Cal. Luther is sweating and work
ing on the roof of J. S. W. H.
Hyde's store, with paint pot and brush,
putting on a heavy coat of paint.
He made a pair of boots both for
the same foot, the next day a pair of
shoes without counters, and still per
sists in trumping his partner's ace.
Who stabbed John Flynn'scow?
is the question wo would like answered.
At any rate a person guilty of such
meanness deserves a coat of tar and
feathers.
John Cosserly has worked several
-" " "lake the stone marks in the
are set, one near the east wing oi
the court house, the other iu the
southeast corner of the yard, for the
purpose of having a fixed guide to
set compasses by.
Rattlesnakes are numerous on the
line of Joe. Holseybrook's stage route,
utid large as to size, Joe. bringing one
up last week which lie killed, meas
uring four feet in length, and seven
inches in circumference. Mate Laugh
lln and Nick George assisted at the
killing of his snakeshlp.
The band house Is once more put
to some use, instead of standing a
monument of the defunct S. C. B.
For several evenings the band have
assembled In their house, and dis
coursed sweet music to the passers by.
Under the tuition of Prof. Brack the
organization continues to rapidly im
prove. Mrs. Geo. A. Rathbun sends Us a
beautiful bouquet, with her compli
ments. The tasty arrangement of
white and red, single and double geran
iums, White, purple, red aud variegated
verbenas, many-colored, large-sized
pansles, together with the beautifully
tinted phlox, sweet-scented mignon
ette, geranium leaves and other
beautiful little flowers in profusion,
Interspersed with lovely yellow rose
buds, make this delightful souvenir
of summer's beauties a "joy for
ever,' and seems to us a bright oasis
in the arid desert of every-day editorial
duties. Mrs. Rathbun will please
accept our thanks.
Chnrch Directory.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Rev. H. V. Talbot, next Sunday,
morning at 11 o'clook, and evening
at 7 o'clock.
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Rev. M. Meagher, next Sunday at
the usual hours.
Benezette Hotes.
Kyser makes good harness,
and
between times, bobs for eels.
He didn't go to Texas, and is now
clearing up land.
C. H. Wlnslow's little four-year-old
boy is sick of cholera Infantum.
A large turnout at the Greenback
meeting here on Tuesday evening,
You can get a good, square meal at
the Benezette House, of which Henry
mesh is the proprietor.
Mrs. Stoll, about fifty years of age,
wife of Joseph Stoll, fell down stairs
on Monday evening. A child of
Esquire DeHass, about six years old,
fell down stairs, and in her indeavor to
save the child, Mrs. Stall also fell
About midnight Isaac Hammill
rode up to John Angelas' farm house,
a few miles south of Jacksonville, 111.,
and asked to see Angelos' daughter,
Angelos refused permission, at the
same time ordering his son Jason,
aged 14, to shoot Hammil. The son
took down an old shotgun loaded with
slugs, and discharged its contents into
Hammll's bead, killing him instantly,
Father and son were arrested.
Curiosity Box.
Ridgway, July 81, '78.
Rollers at Osterhout's tannery on a
strike for want of beer.
I wondef If Charles Holes received
that clock from Whlstletown. I mean
the one he spoke for to a certain gen
tleman on the street. Charles, do you
remember his reply ?
Our friend Ben. Dill complains
Very much of the musical entertain
ment given by Hall & Co., in the band
house, on the night of the 27th Inst.
While whistling the same tune, and of
course not knowing the notes, Ben.
could not follow Without the band fur
nishing the tune. Who made the
break, Hall or Shoettlng? Boys, re
member your theatrical performonces.
We think this is one of the best
Ashing grounds in Western, Pa., and
Bro. G. is considered one of our most
successful fishermen, notwithstanding
the alarming frequency of "snake
bites" and the delay occasioned by ad
ministering the "antidote." He usually
returns from one of his piscatorial ex
cursions with a goodly number of the
finny tribe."
In strong contrast with the past
few weeks, we are having the most
beautiful weather Imaginable rather
hot, but we knew it was coming. In
the midst of the rain and mud and
general misery we consoled ourselves
with the absolute certainty that the
glorious sunshine would soon re-appear
to gladden our hearts, and cause
all nature to assume her usually serene
aspect. In fact, we have an unfailing
barometer in our very midst a sort of
local "OldProb." in the person of
Mr. P. T. Bunkum, our worthy water
commissioner, who, when not in con
sultation with the clerk of the weather,
enlivens our street coiners with his
rubicund visage and genial laugh,
the very impersonation of "Old
Hilarity." If this should meet his eye,
he will probably drop you a line in
quiring whether ho owes you or not.
The individual who got the shot
gun at Dr. Hartley's drug store will
please return it immediately.
What a beautiful road Dr. Hartley
has in front of his residence.
The side walk in front of Charles
Holes' is in a very bad, dilapidated
condition. Charles, why isitthusly?
Ridgway Wanderer.
State Xotcs-
The people of Pittsburg have be
gun to hold immense meetings to de
nounce ring rule.
A painter's wife eloped witn a
blacksmith at Renovo a few days ago.
Both have families.
Mrs. Catharine Bender, of Holli-
daysburg, was so seriously burned by
the explosion of a coal oil can that she
is expected to die.
The people of Elkland, Tioga
''r. nro not, snMafipil with their ptc-
are going to bore further.
It appears that the three-cent beer
people are about to get the upper hand
of the nickel ones in Pittsburg. The
brewers have agreed to sell to the
former.
Some agitators in Luzerne county
have started a movement to abolish
the office of County School Superin
tendent, and propose to ask legislation
to that end.
An eleven year old daughter of
Abraham Fisher, of Berks county, fell
from the loft of a barn to the floor, a
distance of thirty feet, and received
supposed fatal injuries.
Pennsylvania Coal Company
miners have decided that the agree.
ment that their Wages Were to be in
creased as the price of coal increased
has not been lived up to.
On Friday afternoon Lizzie Files,
a nine-year-old girl, living in Kerliu
street, Chester, was enticed from home
by a tramp, who gave her ten cents,
Search was immediately instituted, but
she has not been found.
Miss Caroline Forney, of Berks
county, fell from a pear tree thirty five
feet In height on a picket fence, one
of the pales of Which penetrated the
fleshy part of her thigh. The woman
bled profusely, but she is expected to
recover.
James Carb, better known as
"Rory O'Moore, the scissors grinder,"
has made application to be placed in
the Allegheny county poor house. He
is seventy-eight years old, and says he
has been a tramp since he was ten
years old.
Within the limits of York county
there lives a man who has never been
outside of house since some time
during the war. He reads most of the
time and does odd jobs about the
kitchen, but he will not step into the
yard even for fear of being drafted iuto
the army.
It is printed in a Clarion county
paper that one day last week a man
knocked at the door of a wealthy man 's
house, and wanted something to eat.
The owner of the house recognized in
him a former oil prince, whose busi
ness capital was nearly $ 200,000, and
he is reduced to beggary.
Augustus Hench, of Blair county
several years ago sold a farm and de
posited his hand money in the Lloyd
bank, which subsequently failed. He
secreted the balance in a strong chest,
and put the key in an old boot. A
few days ago, while he was gathering
berries, some one found the key and
stole the money
Mrs. Simon Reiss, living in Lower
Saucon, aged one hundred and five
years, worked in the harvest field last
week. She bound up ten sheaves and
then retired, not exhausted. This aged
lady is in good health, and has in
formed several of her friends that she
expects to attend the county fair next
fall. Her equal can certainly not be
found.
Notes from Exchanges. -
BY couKTitfSi .
CLEARFIELDi
from the Brddkrllle Republican.
Although they hate not struck oil at
Penfleld, they haYe something better,
at least as long as oil refuses to rise
above ninety-five cents per barrel, and
this great natural resource Is ginseng,
for Which the1 Chinese have a tooth
some relish, and give la exchange the
root of all evll.'fegardless of cost.
Ginseng Is only found In Asia and
America, and the species F, quinque-
foliurn u an article of export from
America to China. . The root When
dry Is of a yellowish-white color", with
a mucilaginous, sweetness In the taste,
something resembling that of licorice,
accompanied With a slight Jircmiatic
bitterness. Therefore, as it does not
grow in the "Flowery Kingdom,'' and
as the roote are not long enough for
the Celestials to pull through ffom this
side, it has to be gathered here and
taken aroudd, and Fenneld being the
centre of the ginseng district the Pekln
folks will! naturally be interested in
that direction. It is gathered there by
tons and sold In the green at thirty
five cents per pound, Messrt. Coryell
& Co. being the principle buyers. An
other natural production of that fav
ored district lsspeckl'ed trout, of Which
one hundred to one hundred and fifty
is not considered any great shakes as a
day's catch.
Edward A. Fleming, a boy eight
years old, died in Clearfield on the 0th
lust., from lock-jaw, produced by a
wound received on one of hi$ feet while
bathing in the rivCT at that place. His
foot struck on an old tin can, inflicting
a severe cut In the heel, but gave him
no trouble for several dtys, when in
flammation set in, resulting in his
death as slated.
CLINTON.
From the Lock Haven Journal.
-A. W. Stabley, '.who was injured
Friday morning in alighting from the
Erie mail train, diedjn the evening at
half-past six at the residence of Mr. H.
VanDyke, W;efi-M-iRcn soon
after the accident' occurred. His body
was removed to his late home at
Wayne that night. The burial will
probably take place at Milton. Mr.
Stabley had beou freight agent at this
place for many years, and was regarded
by the railroad company as one of the
most efficient agents on the line of the
road. He. was always courteous and
obliging to the public, and by his uni
form kindness under all circumstances
had won many warm friends and the
respect of everybody who had deal
ings with him. Our statement yester
day as to the cause of the accident was
in accordance with the facts. The en"
gmeer usually slackened speed to let
Mr. Stably off near the freight depot,
but yesterday a new engineer was
running the engine, who was not
aware that Mr. Sfabley.was on the
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ran at an unusual rate of speed through
town some say its high as twenty-five
miles an hour. Mr. Stabley was seen
on the car steps at the Bald Eagle
street crossing, and it was thought he
would get off at the old depot site, but
he seemed to bu afraid to jump there,
and waited until the train was opposite
the round-houe, where he made the
fatal leap i
A few nights ago, about 11 o'clock,
a person In female attire appeared at
the door of Ml. Hutchinson, near Mill
Hall, set a basket on the ground with
the remark, ' Here's a basket for you.'
and then turned and fled. On exami
nation the basket Was found to con
tain a little babe, scantily clad In a
hastily made garment. The person,
supposed to be a man in woman's at
tire, was pursuftL but could not be
overtaken, Tbe little Waif was taken
in and kindly cared for, and we learn
that it will be kept and raised as one of
the Hutchinson .'.household, if its life
be spared. Its parentage is developed
in profound mystery.
From the Renovo Record,
A little ' daughter of Mr. John
Stringfellow, aged about two years,
living at Shlntown, Was severely bit-,
ten in the foot by a copperhead snake,
last Friday, while playing near a pile
of railroad ties. .. The father happened
to be working near by. He heard bis
child cry, and, discovering the trouble,
at once killed the snake. He then
sucked the poison from the wound in
flicted by the snake, gave her all the
sweet milk she could drink, and sent
for a physician. Dr. A. P. Meloy
then administered to her relief, and we
hear the little one is iu a fair way to
recover.
POTTER.
From the Enterprise.
On Saturday evening last a severe
storm, accompanied with heavy thun
der ana viviu nguting, passea over
Genesee township. About eleven
o'clock the lightning struck the house
of John Pye, located on the road be
tween Elllsburg and Oswayo and only
a short distance from the former place.
It is supposed the lightning passed
down the stove-pipe to the first floor,
where several persons were sleeping,
including three of Mr. Pye's sons a
young man about twenty-one years of
age, another about sixteen, and the
third about twelve years of age who
were all sleeping upon a bed made
upon the floor, the oldest one sleeping
between his two brothers. The crash
awakeued some of the family, who
called to the eldest sou, who answered
them that he thougnt there was no
harm done, and that the lightning
must have struck something else be'
sides the house. A closer inspection
revealed the fact that the two younger
boys had heed Instantly killed by tbe
lightning, while the one sleeping be
tween them was not only uninjured in
the least, but did not even realize that
the building had been struck. Other
persons in the room did not feel the
shock. One of the boys had three Or
four dark spots on the side where the
electric fluid had passed, While the
other showed no marks Whatever. It
Was a very singular and sad affivir.
LYCOMING.
Ffoiri the Gazette And Eulletlm
Yesterday afternoon a little daugh
ter of Philip Lehman, Hepburn town
ship, this county, had her hand caught
between the pulley and rope of a hay
fork, tearing off her third finger and
otherwise seriously injuring her hand.
Her wounds were dressed by Dr. Ed.
Lyon,
tt'KEAtf.
From the Miner.
Art old woman known at Jamestown
as Granny Ryan has been an Inmate
of the county poor house for nearly a
year, and had a strong desire to re
visit JamestoWrt. Escaping at night
from the county house, she cattle to the
residence of tt farmer, Alexander
Cook, and endeavored to get in at the
windows and doors. Mr. Cook heard
hef ttlid thought she was a burglar,
stole out the bock way, and coming
around tbe corher of the house found
her Oh the front steps and shot her in
the back of the head. He soon dis
covered his mistake, and she was con
veyed to the poor house, where at last
accounts she was Hot expected to sur
vive, being 80 years Old. Altogether it
is fl most sad and painful occurrence,
and should teach people hot to be too
hasty in firing upon supposed burglars.
State Notes.
Two farmers irt Tioga Were at
tacked by an infuriated bull, one of
whom has died from his injuries.
Mrs. A. J. VariAlstine, of Star
ubca, Wayne county, has been ar
rested for poisoning her husband, who
died recently.
Aaron Blttner, of Brothersvalley
township, Somerset county, lost two
children and his Wife, bis entire fam
ily, from diphtheria, last week.
The Bath Railroad has been ex
tended to the Wind Gap, a distance of
about fifteen miles, and about twenty
five miles from Bethlehem, Its origin.
Rosa WeaVcr, aged about ten years,
attempted to hurry up a fire at Pitts
burg by pouring coal oil on it. The
can exploded and the child was fatally
burned.
Dr. William H. Egle, Of Harris
burg, had the pleasure of cocking his
feet up against his own vine and fig
tree the other day and reading his
own obituary in a Pittsburg paper.
At Highland, near Baldwin Sta
tion, on Saturday, Mrs. William Flow
erfield, fell into a newly-made well
twenty-four feet iu depth, sustaining
injuries that will probably prove fatal.
A tramp knocked down James
McAnally, of White Horse, Lancaster
county, with a club, aud robbed him
of fifty dollars, while the latter was
night.
A Cambria county man named
Free stuck a plug of tobacco in a hole
in a bank the other day, and when he
put his hand in a half hour after
wards it was nabbed by a copperhead
snake.
Slow Go, a trotter whose best time
is 2:18, was sold in Pittsburg on Sat
urday for $2,500. Ten thousand dol
lars had been refused for him several
years ago. The purchaser was Jonn
Noble.
Two children of Mrs. Ann Eliza
beth Wills, of Lock Haven, were run
over by a Bald Eagle Valley railroad
train. One child had his head cut off,
and the other lost both legs. The
children were aged two years.
The Democratic papers are glee
fully passing around this political
straw i " In the races at Gettysburg
on Tuesday and Wednesday 'Andy
Dill ' Won in three straight beats on
both days, distancing all his competi
tors."
Charles, a ten year old son of
Charles P. Limber, of Sheakleyville,
Crawford county, was thrown from a
horse, and the boy's feet becoming en
tangled in the harness, he wus drag'
ged through the streets of Meadville
by the frightened horse until his
brains were dashed out against the
sidewalks and fences.
Dispatches received at Pottsville
from Mahanoy City, Shanandoah and
other large towns, report that no
meetings have been held or talked of
to discuss the question of a strike of
the miners. The prevuilingopinlon i
that there will be no strike at present,
the men not being iu a condition to
stand out any length of time,
When Scheppers Brothers, the
large worsted manufacturers of Phila
delphia, failed not long since, they had
outstanding obligations to the amount
of $800,000, a considerable proportion
of Which was held abroad. The credi
tors'were offered forty per cent, in five
annual installments, to be assured by a
second mortgage on the mill property,
the holders of the first mortgage re
ducing their claim. Seven-eighths of
the creditors have signed this agree
ment, and work at the mills will be re
sumed very soon. As this establish
ment employs over sixteen hundred
hands, the resumption of operations
will have an important effect on the
labor market.
i-The Portsmouth (N. H.) Times
tells this one I At llye Beach, a few
days ago, a young man who Was smok
ing had considerable difficulty in
making his cigar burn after it had
been partly consumed. He picked the
weed to pieces and found inside the
wrapper a 22-caIlbre pistol cartridge,
with the bullet-pointed toward the
mouth-end. The cartridge Was beated
and would soon have sent Its lead
somewhere around, possibly down the
smoker's throat.
From the Philadelphia Timesi
Dollars by Malh
The more the subject of the trans
portation of its own moiiey by the
government is discussed the more im
portant it becomes. Facts ore coming
out constantly Which go to shoW that
there is not a bigger abuse in the gov
ernment than the amount annually
paid express companies for carrying
money from point to point us it may
be needed. One of tbe highest Officers
in the Treasury Department has said
that dUrlrig the past ten of more years
the government had paid to express
companies alone, for tfansportating its
gold, silver and currency, front a half
million to a million dollars a year.- In
the old days of the Printing Bureau,
when a portion of the work on the
bonds and currency was done in New
York, the express companies would
receive an immense percentage on the
Bums carried, even though the bonds
and currency were only printed Oh one
side, and therefore Valueless. It is said
that the express companies a few years
ago, finding that the revenue stamps
which they ftlsb carried for a percent
age, were too bulky to make the trans
portation of them profitable, had a
clause inserted in a bill and passed
both houses requiring stamps to be
sent through the mails. A thousand
dollars in gold weighs four pounds,
and there is no reason Why gold aud
paper money might not go as well by
mail as by express at an immense cost.
Friends of the express companies say
the money will not be so safe as it
would be In the companies' hands, but
it is hard to see why the government
cannot transport its money as well as
an express compariy. The Secretary
of the Treasury, under section 3,640 of
the revised statutes, has the discretion
of sendirtg the mohey in any' safe man
ner he deems best. Should ho then
order the Treasurer to send it through
the mails the latter would be obliged
to comply, but tbe express men say
the Treasurer's bondsmen would then
be responsible for the money in case
of any loss by robbery or otherwise,
whereas the express company makes
good all losses. Since the new move
ment in silver began orders for more
than a million dollars have been re
ceived at the treasury from the various
banks designated as depositories. It is
found that gold is accumulating very
fast in San Francisco, there being now
there between $0,000,000 and $7,000,000
in the mint and sub-treasury. Mer
chants and business men take their
gold to the sub-treasury, receive silver
for it, then deposit the silver dollars
and receive silver certificates for them,
which latter they send East to pay
customs dues or other Indebtedness,
and thus save the large cost of trans
portation of gold three thousand
miles. Thus this expense is trans
ferred from the individual to the gov
ernment. This Is a state of things not
contemplated by the silver men in
Congress.
Mixed Babies.
From the Waco (Texas) Register;
Some time ago there was a dnnpiwg
party given in a certain neighbor
hood in Texas, and most of the ladies
present had little babies, Whose noisy
perversity required too much atten
tion to permit the mothers to enjoy
the dance. A number Of gallant
young men volunteered to mind the
young ones while the parents indulged
in an old Virginia breakdown. No
sooner had the women left the babies
in charge of the mischievous devils
than they striped the babies, changed
their clothes, giving the apparel of one
to another. The dance over, it Was
time to go home, and the mothers hur
riedly took each A baby in the dress of
her own and started, some to their
homes, ten or fifteen miles off, and
were far on their way before daylight.
But the day following there was a tre
mendous roW in the settlement. Moth
ers discovered that a single night had
changed the sex of tiieir babies, obser-
vation disclosed physical phenomena,
and then commenced the tallest female
pedestrlanism. Living miles apart, it
required two or three days to unmix
the babies, and as many months to re
store the mothers to their natural
sweet dispositions. To this day it is
unsafe for any of the baby mixers to
venture Into the neighborhood.
The Sun's Eclipse.
Philadelphia, July 29. Reports
from all over the country show that in
the most Important places where the
eclipse was total the weather was fa
vorablo for observation. At Little
Bock, Arkansas, Fort Worth, Texas
and Piko's Peak the observations were
entirely successful. At Forth Worth
five photographs were taken. At
these aud other places in the south
west corona cuspis, moon limbs and all
contacts were duly noted. During
total eclipse artificial lights were
necessary. A halo ringed the moon,
the surface of the latter looking like
blueish steel. The animals, such as
dogs and cats, seemed undisturbed by
the eclipse and remained during the
darkness lying in the shade where
they had been when the '.eclipse began,
and the cattle continued to browse
quietly iu the fields. In most of the
places in the east where the eclipse
was only partial observation was hin
dered by the clouds.
New Orleans, July 29. Tbe board
of health reports the total cases of yel
low fever at eighty, with thirty-three
deaths.
Boned Chicken, Turkey, Ham
and Tongue, splendid for Lunch or
Fishing Parties, at the WEST END
Laura Elliott, a woman living on
Elk street, Buffalo, attempted to start
a fire with oil when the can exploded
She was terribly burned about the
head and breast, and can not possibly
i live.
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Transient advertisements per square o
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Jl.fitl, three Insertions 1.
Business wirds, ten lines or loss, per year
5.
Advertisements payable quarterly.
Business Cards.
OEOi A RATHBUN.
ATTOHNEY-AT-LAW,-Walrt
Mreet, tlidfway, Elk Co., Pa.
HALL & M'CAULEY.
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
O'mce ln New Brtcli Building, Main Street)
RidKway, Elk Co., Pa. v3n2tf.
4. O. W. BAILEY;
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.-Rfclgtf'ay,-
Elk County, Pa. Agent fbt tn'B
Traveler's Life and Accident Insurance Co.
of Hartford, Onnetlcut. vlu25yj.-
LUCQRE At HAMBLEk.-
ATTORNEY8 AT-LAW.
Ridgway, Klk County Pii. Office across
the hiill frorfi the Dbmookat establishment!
Claims for collcctloti proinptly attended to
Jne.15-1876
E. G. FAY.
LUMBER AND INSURANCE' CO'MMIS
HION BROKER.
And Gcnoral Collection Agent, No. 208
Walnut Place, (316 Walnut Street.) Philadel
phia, Pa. n-U-ly
G. G. MESSENGER;
DRUGGIST AND PAHMACEUTIST;
N. W. corner of Main and Mill streets,
Ridgway, Pa., full assortment of carefully
selected Foreign and Domestic Drugs. Pre
scrlpthms carefully dispensed at all hours
day of nighti vln3y
T. S. HARTLEY, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office in Drug Store, corner Broad and
Main Streets. Residence corner Broad
Street, opposite the College. Office hours
from 8 to IU A.- M, aud from' 7 to 8 P. M.
vln'2yl. ,
J. S. BORDWELL, M. D.
ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Hus removed his olllce from Centre Street
to Main Street, Ridgway, Pa., In the second
story of tho new brick building of John Qi
Hull, westof the Hyde House.
Olllce hours:! to 2 P. M. 7 to 9 P. M.-
MBS, N. T. CUMMINGS.
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF NEW
STYLES SPRING HATS JUST RECEIVED
at ,Mrs. N. T. Cummlngs, also' ties, collars'
cuffs, hoiscry, gloves, and a general assort
ment of Ladies' fancy goods. Remember the'
place in II. S. Thayer's Building, Main street''
Call and examine before purchasing clstf
where.
Hyde house
W. H. SCHRAM, Proprietor,
Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.
Thankful for tho patronage heretofore so1
liberally bestowed upon him, tho now pro
prietor, hopes, by paying strict attention to
tho Comfort and convenience of guests, td
merit a coutlnuunce of the same,
oct30'69
MILLINERY AND DRESSMAKING.
MRS. J. R. KELTZ, Kersey, Elk Co., Pa..
takes this method of announcing to the citi
zens of Elk county, that sho has on hand an
assortment of fashionable millinery goods'
uit-Miimnuig
In all Its branches.
Agent for Dr. J. Ball & Co's Patent Ivory
and Ltgnnm Vita) Ey CnM, Hend for dea-
nlTyl.-
APPLETON'S AMERICAN CYCLO-'
PEDIA.
Vol. 8 of this admirable work la just out
making it half complete, as there are to be 18
in all, of 800 pages each, one being Issued In
two months. It makes a complete library
and no one can afford to do wltltoirt It whd
would keep well Informed, Price J,fl0 a vol
ume In leather,- or J7.00 In elegant half Tur
key. C- Ki Judson, Fredonla, N. Y., controls'
the salo in Elk county.- Address him for
putlculai's. sep 17-tf
E. K. GRESH.
DEALER tit all kinds of cabinet ward
wood and cane seat chairs, kitchen and ex-
tentlou tables, wood and marble top stands,
wood and marble top bureaus, whatnot
looking glasses, wood and marble top cham
ber suits, mattresses, spring bed bottoms(
bed steads, cribs.- Lafcrty's metal lined
wood pumps, &c, dkc. Cane seats replaced!
with perforated wood seats. Weed sewing
machine reduced from S05 to $45, the best ma
chine In the market, and picture frames
made to order. Alsoa large assorted stock of
ready made coffins constantly on hand anal
trimmed at shortest notice. All tho abovd
goods are sold at panic prices. Waro Rooms
in masonic building, Ridgway Pa.
v7n51t.-
QUOTATIONS
WHte, Powell & Co
bankers AND BROKER;,
No. 42 South Third Street.
Stocks aud Bonds Bought and Sold on
Commission.
Philadelphia, June 11th 1878.
BID.
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do do '67 do ,..108
do do 'C8 do ,...1101
10-40, do coupon 107
do Pacifio 0's oy 119
107J
110
107?
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100
New 5's Reg. 1881 105
" V. 11 lODt
4J, Reg. 1801 103J 103j
' c. 1891 ...,.....103i 108
New 4's Reg. 1907 ,......,..1001 100l
0. I'M! .,....,.101 101J
Gold 1001 100
Pennsylvania. ........ w... wb 30
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Reading 15
Philadelphia & Erie 7 J
Lehigh Navigation..- 161
15
8
do Valley..... 87i
88
123
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Pittsburgh, T. Buffalo R. R ..... 5
Northern Central ...ex. div 14
16
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Central Transportation 88J
NeBquehoning 46
North Pennsylvania......... 8a
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Health and Happiness,
Health and Happiness are prloelesg Wealth
to their possessors, and yet they are within
the reaeh of overy one who will use
WRIGHT'S LIVER PILLS
The only sure CURB for Torpid Liter,
Dyspepsia, Headache, Sour iStomaobe,
Constipation, Debility, Nausea, and all Bil
lious oouiplaints and Blood disorders. .
None genuine unless signed, 'Wn. Wright,
Pbila-'' If your Druggist will not supply
Bend 26 eenU for one box to Barriek, Row
ler A Co., 70 N. 4lb Bt. Phila
n750yl.
At Hagerty's will be found a fresh
lot of canued goods which he sella
I cheap.
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