FRIDAY, JULY, W ISO.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR.
Q EN. JOHN IK. GEARY,
Of CVHBEBLAND.
JUDGE OP THE SUPREME COURT.
EON. II. W, WILLIAMS.
OF Att.HOnKST.
A " LAND OFFICE" BC3INE83.
An item is going the rounds to tho effect
thntthe Land Offico at Salt Lake City filed
883 declaratory statements (covering 140,
000 acres of land) under tho pre-emption
act, timing the fir.:t two weeks of Jut.o.
This certainly revives tho memories, hut
surpassed the facts, of the old times in the
Mississippi valley when the enormous sale
of Government lauds to emigrants made
tho tnrm land office " the svnonyru for
all that was colossal and gigantic in busi
ness. But after all it is not so extraovdl
nary as it seems; It has, all along, boen
one of tho complications of tho " Mormon
Question " that tho Saints were not allowed
to pre-empt their land. A largo city has
crown up in the wilderness, and tho sur
roundins territorv is dotted with villages
a
and farms along all tho water courses, and
yet neither farmers nor villagers nor citi
zens have hitherto technically owned a
foot of tho soil they .had transformed from
n state of desolate wilderness to one of
fertility and civilization. The Mormons
have possessed their domain only by virtue
of "Squatter .sovereignty. . this was
not from an unwillingness on their part to
pro-empt the land according to law, and to
pay their a dollar and quarter per acre, but
from the unwillingness of the United
States authorities to give them a chance.
Tho land was never put into the market.
No land offico was ever established in the
territory until this spring. Tlio rush,
therefore, which we have recorded means
sinmlv that tho Mormons, as soon as the
Salt Lako office was opeucd, proceeded to
legally pro-empt the lands on which they
havo been squatting for twenty years.
We hear a great deal lately about tho
Mormon Church holding the title deeds to
all tho real property of the Saints. Mr
Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, now on an
excursion to California, speaks of this atrd
wonders at tho infatuation of the people in
thus deeding away their property to
Brigham Young, without any seourity
whatever. His wonder would probably b
less, if he would consider that these " title
deeds aro not worth the paper they are
written cn, and that tho true and only titles
aro tho pre-emption papers which the
Mormons are now taking out for theni'
selves. Tho title deeds professed to trans
fer property which in reality belonged to
the United States, and therefore aro null
and void. The pre emption alone add in
the Saints' favor the tenth point of law to
the niue points of possession, which are
already theirs. Many a shrewd old Saint
has reasoued before giving the deed re
ferred to, thus : " it the United States
never interferes here, and the Church be
comes the State Brigham will own my
property any how, so I may as well give
this deed to please him. And if the
United State prevails and gets Brigham
under control the lands will be pro erupted
and this deed will not be worth anything.
Therefore, I'll give it." If tho Mormons
haod their pre-emption papers over to the
Churoh, (or Brigham, for ho is the Church
holding all its funds in his own name as
" trustee in trust") then will they truly
exhibit that fanatical devotion which their
former act obtains them credit for. Some
cf them will do this, if asked, but a groat
many of them will not.
Asa Packer, whom tho Democrats of
Pennsylvania have just nominated lor Gov.
ernor would hardly do to run on the 3arao
ticket with Gen. Rosencrans, whom tho
Democrats of the next State Westward-are
trying to support with a show of cheerful,
uess. Ileisaman reputed wise because
of a faculty of looking wise and keeping
quiet. In Tammany Hall last Summer
the Pennsylvania Democrats tried long to
persuade the Convention that ho was a fit
man for the Presidency, but with very ir
different success. They aro not now
likely to have any better luck in trying to
persuade their own people of his fitness for
tho Governorship. Wo are inclined to
think that they have not made the most of
their opportunities. Oen. George W.
Cass, who fell only 10 votes behind Mr.
Packer on the first ballot, would have bo'cu
a much stronger candidate. Tho Platform
. is of the old sort. We read that tho
Negro should not have the ballot, that our
finances are in a dreadfully bad way, and
will never be better until Democrats handle
the money, that tho Reconstruction policy
leads to Imperialism, and that our taxation
is tyranny. On the whole, the oandidate
and the platform fit well together, and both
are exceedingly well adapted for defeat.
N. Y. Tribune,
Tns analysis of the common apple tree
shows its wood to contain from forty-five to
fifty per cent, of lime. Sand is sificia, of
which there is very little in the apple tree.
Hence a toil to grow the common apple
well, must contain lime, which clay soil
does to, a large extent. .Clay is therefore,
the soil for an orohsrd. .
Bo j i " Learn a Trade."
James Parton snys tho following in a
late"nuinbr.r rt Parkard's Monthly,
Few persona havo looked into tne lives
of bo many romarkable men as I have
vet I cannot oall to aiind one of tho
80-
knowlcdgcd kings of business who did not
in eurjy life serve a long, rigorous oppren.
ticesmp to some oooupation akin to that
which he altcrward exercised, and in which
his great success was made.
Vanderbilt, for example was a boatman,
sloop captain and steamboat captain, for
nineteen years before he set up nr himself
in the business of building and running
steamboats, in which ho goined more
money, than was ever before trained m n
single lifetime, except by plunder. There
is not to day in tho whole world a man who
knows as much about steamboats and
steamships as this same Cornelius Vandcr.
bilt.
Astor is another illustration. He learned
tho fur business from tho very rudiments.
He used to beat turs from rooming till
night in his muster's back shop, and afier
doing this awhile he used to take a basket
of trinkets and nicknacks, and go around
among the sloops and markets, driving
hard bargains with boatmen, Indians and
marketmen, for such skins as they hnd
brought to town. By-and by he shouldered
bis pack and tramped tho country for pel
tries, and extending his tramps at length
he became tamiiiar with every place, every
tribe cad every person coancoted with the
fur trade in North America. Then he went
to Europe, and Icarnodall about the market
for furs and their prices in every part of
tho world. Few men have ever understood
a thing so well as Mr, Astor understood
tho business of collecting, curing and sell
ing turs. He knew it. not as a clerk
might have known it ; ho knew it a.', a
man knows the trade to - which he has
served a long apprenticeship under a watch
ful and exacting master.
Another caso in point was the first
Rothschild, who, from bis twolveth to his
twenty-seventh year, caborously acquired
a knowledge of mouey, first as errand boy,
and money. counter to his fpthcr, and alter -wards
as a banker's clerk.
Giraid.too, was a thorough sailor before
he ever Owned a ship, and was personally
familiar with most of tho counirrciul ports
long toJorc lie ever consigned a cargo to
one of them.
John Gorharu, of Providence, the bead
of the largest manufactory of silver ware
in the world, did not go into his father's
counting room as a clerk, but into his
father's shop as an apprentice J and ho
learned how to do with bis own hands
whatever be has since had to direct others
in do'ng
But such examples aro numerous. All
my acquaintance with business men teaches
me that the fundamental secret of success
in'business is knowledge real knowledge
such knowledge as is ouly acquired by
bceomiug piactically familiar with methods
and process such knowledge, in laet, as a
man guts by taking hold of the work, and
doing it uutil he can do it easily and per
fectly. There is & noble establishment in Broad,
way, New Yoik, where many of us go, oc
casionally, for the rehabilitation of the gutcr
man. It was in the grand upper room of
this palaco like Etorc, while I was being
measured for a coat, that I conceived tho
idea of wiiting this article. Ia well con
ducted establishments of every kind, you
will notice tho same faces year after year ;
for able men naturally gather able mcu
around them, and employers and employed,
ty reciprocal justice and courtesy, become
attached to ouo another, and havo neither
motive nor desire to sever the connection.
And yet, on that occasion, seeing around
me the same skillful and obliging persons
that I had seen there ten years before, I
could not but reflect how little chance they
had to advance from clerkship to partner,
ship."
"Suppose," said I, "a lad sixteen or
seventeen should propose to himself as an
object in life, to become tho proprietor of
an establishment like this what would bo
tho shortest and likeliest path for him to
strike into ? "
CnAitcoAi. on Flowers. A corres
pondent of the Revue Horticole says that
not long ago ho made a bargain for a rose
bush of magnificent growth and full of
buds. He waited for them to blew, and
expected roses worthy of such a noble
plant, and of the praises bestowed on it by
the vender, but when it bloomed all his
hopes were blasted. The flowers were of a
faded hue, and he discovered that he had
only a middling multiflora, stale colored
enough, lie therefore resolved to sacrifice
it to some experiments which he had in
view. His attention had been directed to
theefl'uets of charcoal as stated in somo
English publication. He then covered the
earth in the pot in which the rose-bush
was, about half an inch deep with pulver
ized charcoal, borne days alter ho was
astonished to see those which btoomed of
as fiuo a lively rose-color as ho could wish.
Ho determined to repeat tbo experiment,
and therefore, when the rose-bush had
done flowering, he took off the charcoal
and put fresh earth about the roots,' and
waited for tho next spring impatiently to
see the result of this experiment. When
it bloomed the roses were al first palo and
discolored, but by applying t!ie charcoal as
before, they soon assumed their rosy red
color, lie theu tried the powdered char
coal in largo quantities upon petunias, and
round that both the white and violet col
ored flowers were equally sctifiitivo to its
action. It always gave great vigor to tho
red or violet colors, and the white petunias
became veined with red or violet tints ; the
violets became covered with irregular spots
of a bluish or almost black tint. Many
persons who admired them thought they
were choice new varieties from tho seed.
Yellow flowers appear to be insensible to
the iufluence of charcoal.
The friend that lightly flatters thee is
an enemy j the enemy mat justly reproves
thee is a friend.
Speculators are buying the Delaware
peach crop on the trees.
How Smith Asked the Old Kan.
Smith had just asked Mr. Thompson's
daughter if she would give him a lilt ont
of bachelordoin, and she had said " Tea."
It therefore become absolutely necessary
to get the old gentleman's permission, so,
as Smith said, the arrangements might be
iT- i .u. - :.. I -.:
lllHUe lO IH IIIO VIMIJ lljltl l"l
Smith said he'd rather pop the interro
gatory to all of old Thompson's daughters,
and bis sisters, and his lady cousins, and
his aunt Hannah, in the country, and the
whole of his feinale relations, than ask old
Thompson. But it had to be done, and so
he sat down and studied out a speech which
ho was to disgorge at old Thompson tho
very first time he got a shy at him. So
Smith dropped in on him one Sunday
evening, when all the family h&d mcniiderod
around to meeting, and found him doing a
Itim in beer measure.
" How are you, Smith ? " said old
Thompson, as thu former walked in. white
as a pieoe of chalk, and trembling as l! he
had swallowed a condensed eailbquake.
Smith was afraid to answer, 'eanse he
wasn't snsc about that speech. He knew
he had to keep his grip cn it while he hnd
it there, oi it would Blip from him quicker
than an oiled eel through an augur hole.
So he blurted out
" Mr. Thompson, sir : Perhaps it mny
not bo unknown to you, that during r.n ex
tended period of some five years, 1 havo
been busily engaged in tho prosecution of a
commercial enterprise ''
" Is that so, and keepin' it a secret all
this time, while I though you were tendin'
store T Well, by George, you're one of
them now, ain't you ? "
Smith had begun to think it all over
again, to get the run of it.
" Mr. Thompson, sir : Perhaps it may
not be unknown to yon, that during the ex
tended period of -five years, I have been
busily engaged in the prosecution of a
commercial enterprise, with tho determina
tion to secure a sufficient maintenance
" Sit down, Smith, and help yourself to
beer. Don't st;md there holdiu Tour hat,
like a blind beggar with paialysis. .1 never
have seen you behave yourself so uueer in
all my born days."
Siur.h had been knocked out again, and
so he had to wander back again and take a
fresh start.
" Mr. Thompson, sir : It may not bo un--knowu
to you, that during au extended peo
riod cf five year, I have been engnged in
the prosecution of a commercial enter
prise, with the determination to procure a
suuicicnt maintenance .
" A which anco '( '' asked old Thorn p.
son ; but Smith held on to the last word as
if it was his only chance, and went on :
" Iu the hopo that soma day I might
enter wedlock, and bestow my earthly pos
sessions upon one whom I could call my
own. I nave beon a lonely man, sir, and
have felt that it is r.ot good for man to be
alone ; thercforo I would "
Neither is it, Smith ; I'm glad you
droppcein. How's the old man ? "
'' Mr. Thompson., sir," said Smith, in
despairing confusion, raising his voice to a
yell, " it may not bo unknown to you that,
during the extended period of a lonely
man, I have been engaged to enter wed.
lock, and bestowed all my enterprise on one
whom I could determine to bo good for
certain possessions no, I nicp.n that is
that 5Ir. TJioirpson, sir: It may not bo
unknown "
" But, theu, again, it may. Look hero,
Smith ; you'd better lay down and take
something warm you ain't well.''
Smith, sweating like a four. year old cplt,
went in agaiu.
"Mr. Thompson, s: It may not be
lonely to you to prosecute me whom you a
fricud, for a commercial maintenance, but
but eh dang it Mr. Thompson, sir :
It"
41 Oh, Smith, you talk like a fool. I
never saw a more first class idiot iu tho
course of my whoie life. What's tho mat
ter with you anyhow ? "
' Mr. Thompson, sir," said Smith, in an
agony of bewilderment, " it may not be
known that you prosecuted a louely mau
who is not good for a commercial period of
wedlock for some five years, but "
" Seo here, Mr. Smith, you'ro drunk,
and if you can't behave better thnn that,
you'd better leave ; if you don't, I'll chuck
you out, or I'm a Dutchman."
" Mr. Thompson, sir," said Smith
frantio with despair, " It may nut bo un
kuown to you that my earthly possessions
are engaged to ente? wedlock five years
with a sufficiently lonely man, who iA uot
good for a oommcrcial maintenance "
" The very duco ho isn't. Now you
jist git up end git, orTU knock what little
brains out of you you'vo got left."
With that, old Thompson took Smith
and shot him into tho street as if he'd run
him against a locomotive, going out at tho
rate of forty miles an hour. Bulore old
Thompson had timo to shut tho front door,
Smith collected his legs and one thing and
another that wcro lying around on tho
pavement, arranyd himself in a vertical
position, and yelled out :
" Mr. Thompson, sir : It may not bo
known to you "which made the old man
so wretched mad that ho went out aud set
a bull terrier on Smith before ho had a
chance to lift a brogan, and thero was a
scientific dog-fight, with odds iu favor of
the dog, for ho bad au awful hold for such
a small animal. .
Smith afterwards married the girl, and
lived happily about two months. At tl.e
end of that time ho told a confidential
friend that ho would willingly take more
trouble and undergo a million, more dog
bites to get rid of her.
The editor of the Wisconsin Banner
says : Wednesday's mail brought to us
a letter addressed 1 Rev..' another ' Hon.,'
another Col.,' and one ' Mr.,' and the last
' Esq.' On the way to dinner we acci.
dently stepped on a woman's trail, and sho
addressed us thus : You brute.' "
" No, Josh, I was neher drunk, tut. I
was toxicated once on ardmt spirits, an' du't'g
enuff for dis nigger. De Lord, it my head
didn't feel as if all de niggers in de world was
splitten wood upon it." '
W . S- SERVICE.
000,000 CUSTOMERS WANTED.
At the now Masonio Hall Building.
STOVES at prices that witl ploase of all de
sirable kinds.
TIN-WARE cf ever kind on hand at all
times.
Special attention given to Wholcsalo orders.
Trice list furnished to dealers on application.
ST1 LET- TIN AND COPPER WARE.
House furnishing goods a great variety.
STEAM AND WATEIt FIPEING, (
PUMPS, FISHING AND HUNTING
TACKLE, such as RODS BAS
KETS, SEINES, FLIES, HOOKS,
CAPS, TOWDER, &o. Jo.
BIRD CAGES A NICE VARIETY.
ROOFING, GUTTERS, SrOUTS.
of Tin, Galvanized Iron and Copper and every
kind of
HOUSE AND JOB WORK
done on short notice and warranted,
AGENCY of Henry Disslons celebrated
saws. Orders for saws at factory prices so
licited, also for repairing. Information and
price list furnished on application.
PAPER RAGS, OLD ROPE, OLD
COPPER, BRASS, PEW
TER, LEAD, IRON,
BEESWAX, HEAVY HIDES, DEAKON
SKINS, SHEEP PELTS, . GREEN
BACKS, NATIONAL BANK .
NOTES, U. 8.
BONDS &o.
taJcm in exchange for Goods or Work.
vlnSOtf. W. 8. SERVICE.
Special Notices
1.
10 CONSUMPTIVES.
The Advertiser, hnvinjt been restored to
health iu a few weeks, by a very sinipto
remedy, after having suffered several years
with ii severe lung affection, and lhat dread
disenso, Consumption is anxious to make
known to his fellow-sufferers ihe means of
cure.
To all who desire it, he will send a oopy of
the description used, free of charge, with the
directions for preparing and using the same,
which they will find a sure Cure for Consump
tion, Asthma, Bronchitis, etc. The object, of
tho advertiser in sending the Prescription is
to benefit the atllicted, and spread information
which he conceives to bo invaluable ; and he
hopes every stilfcrer will try his remedy, as it
will cost him nothing, and may prove a blessing-
rartieg wishing the prescription, will please
address. RKV. EDWARD A. WILSON,
Williamsburg, Kings County, N. Y.
vln2Cyl.
JRRORSOF YOUTH.
A Gentleman who suffered for years from
Nervous Debility, Premature Decay, and all
the effects of youthful indiscretion, will, for
too nuke or eiiuering humanity, send free to
nil who need it, the receipt and directions for
tunning the simplo remedy hy which he was
cured. Sufferers wishing to profi. by tho ad
vertiser 8 expericneo, can do so hy addressing,
in perfect confidence. JOHN B. OGDKN,
vlnJ'iyl. No. 42 Cedur street, N. Y.
COURT PROCLAMATION. Whereas, the
Hon. S.P.Johnson, President Judge and
Hons. t. U. echuuie and Jesse Kyler, Asso
ciates Judges of Ihe Court cf Quarter Sessions,
Orphans' Court, Oyer and Terminer, and Gen
eral Jail delivery, for the trial of capital and
other offenses in tho county of Elk, by their
preecipts to me directed, have ordered the
aforesaid named Courts to be holden at Ridg
way, in and for tho county of Elk, on the
First Monday of August it being the 2d
day of the month, and to continue one week.
Notice is hereby given to the Coroner, Justices
of the Peace, and Cons' ables of the said county,
that they are by these presents commanded to
bo then and there in their proper persona at
ten o'clock, A. M., of said day, with their
rolls, records and inquisitions, and other re
membrances, to do those things which their
offices appertain to be done, and that all
Justices of sitid eouuty make returns of all
rccoguixanocs entered into before them, to the
Clerk of the Court, as per aot of Assombly of
.uai'oii 4th lOiSi. Ana those who are nounu to
prosecute the prisoners that are or shall be in
tho jail of the county of Elk, and to be then
and there to prosecute against them as shall
Dejust.
JACOB MoCAULEY, Sheriff.
Ridgway, July 16, n'25to.
DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Letters of Administration, on the Estate of
CLARK EGLESTON late of Hon on Township,
deceased, bavins been granted to the subsori
bors : Notice is hereby given to all indebted
t o said Estate to make immediate payment, and
all having claims against the same to pre
sent theu. to the subscribers forthwith for ad'
justment.
HIRAM EGLESTON,
HORACE LITTLE.
Administrators.
Ridgway June 22, 18G0. 32t6.
TANNING & LUMBER CO.
K
EY STONE STORE YVILCOX PA-
ATTENTION EVERYBODY
SPRING OPENING 1
The largest store fn North Western Pa., fit-
tcrally filled to overflowing.
WINTER GOODS closing ont regardless of
value.
We are opening the spring campaign with
the largest and most attractive stock ever
offered in this market.
We shall endeavor to keep every depart
ment well assorted the year round, Our
DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT
will always oontain a large and well selected
stock of Cloths Cassimers & Cloakings, Black
and Colored Silks. Seasonable dress goods in
great variety. Table Linens, Napkins Towels
&o., white goodsof every description, bleached
and brown sheetings all widths.
GLOVES & HOSIERY
TRIMMINGS and NOTIONS
CARPETS and OILCLOTHS
WALL and WINDOW PAPER,
BOOKS AND STATIONERY, CLOTHING,
HATS and CAPS, BOOTS & SHOES.
DRUGS & MEDICINES,
PAINTS, OILS &
DYE STUFFS,
LEA7I1ER, it- SHOE FINDINGS,
HARDWARE,
SIO VES fe TIN WARE,
IRON A STEEL,
NAILS & BUILDERS
IIARD WARE.
NUTS & WASHERS, HORSE SHOES
& NAILS, WAGON SPRINGS
PATENT AXLES & BOXES, CROCK
ERY and GLASSWARE,
STONE WARE, FLOUR,
FEED & MEAL, CORN, and
OATS, FURNITURE
OF . ALL KINDS,
SASH & DOORS
COFFINS,
MATRASSES,
BEDDING,
&o.,
TOBACCO & CIQARS,
TRUNKS, VALISES & CACPET BAGS,
RUBBER BELTING.
CLOCKS in GREAT VARIETY
Agents for Hoyt Bros. Celebrated Leather
Belting.
With our superior facilities for obtaining
heavy goods, in large quantities, from first
hands we defy competition in
Groceries '& Provisions
We invite particular attention to our choice
brands of extra and double extra flour, we get
direct from mills at the west thus saving to
eustomers the profits usually pocketed by
middlemen. Our flour is always fresh ground
and we guarantee entire satisfaction with
every barrel
TANNING & LUMBER Co.
l21tf. . . ffilcox r
POWELL & KIME.
QOODS FOR f HE MILLION.
POWELL & KIM E,
A their capacious stores both in
BIDGWAY
AND
CENTREVILLE,
Have on hand, splendid assortuienU of
all seasonable Goods adapted to t"io want
of the people ff Klk and adjoining
counties, which they are suKii);; at j-rice?
that .defy competition. They would pimply
state hero, that being very large dealers,
their facilities for purchasing ore un
equalled by any estoblishment iu thft
county. Thoy buy directly - from manu
factures ad on the
GROUND FLOOIL
Another advantage. You can always
sot whiit you want at their stnros, houon
you will savo time by going tiireclly to
them and TIME. IS MONEY. Wo
havo no space horu to enumerate all the aJ
vantages you will have in patronizing these
itstablishnients. But cill and seo, and
reap the advantages for yourselves.
Vmong their Goods you will find
DRY GCOD3 in oniless varieties,
GROCERIES choice and fresh
CLOTHING of host material superior
cut and finish,
BOOTS & SHOES of the leet
stock and make,
CROCKERY for newly married,
middle aged aud elderly.
DRIED FRUIT,
BUTTER, EGGS,
PORK, HAMS,
LARD, FLOUR,
CORN MEAL.
AND EVERYTHING ELSE
Also mo? I other kinds of country p0
duce taken at the market vaW
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