The Elk County advocate. (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, November 20, 1869, Image 1

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Ill HO WAY. PA., NOV.aO, 18G9.
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or less 8 times, or less ..........2 00
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cHit ajjoimtg gircrtor.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
President Judge S. P. Johnson.
Additioual Luw Judge Hon. J ho. P.
Vincent.
Associate Judges E. C. Schultze,
Jesse Kyler.
District Attorney J. K. P. Hall.
Sheriff Juinos A. Malono.
Protlionotary, &c. U. A. Rathbun.
1'reasurer Claudius V. Uillis.
Co. Superiutendeut l'uf'us Lucore.
Commissioner H. Warner, J. W.
Taylor, Louis YoHtnr.
Auditors Clark Wilcox, Byron J.
Jones, Jacob McCaulcy.
County Surveyor (Jeo. Walmslcy.
TIME OF HOLDING COURT.
Second Monday in January,
Last Monday iu April.
First Monday in August.
First Monday in November.
J VOU WA.NT TO BUV
tXOTHM'G for the Million
Go to A. DUltLACilKR,
bi'Ai.ta in
CLOTHING ! CLOTHING
GENTS' FUBNISHING GOODS,
llATS, CArS, BOVTS, SltOKS. TRUNKS.
TRAVELING HAGS, &c.
ST. MARV8, ELK COUNTS', IT.NNA
JanSlSflSlypd VDJi UolSE, '. '
RinnwAT. Ki.a Co., Pa.
W. II. SCIIUAM, Proprietor.
Thankful for the patroiMge heretofore so
liberally bestowed upon him, the new pro
prietor, hopes, by paying strict attention
lo the comfort aud convenience of guests, to
merit a continuance of tha same.
Oct 80 18li'.t.
f10 OWNER OK L'M'ATKtNTED UANDS.
SuBVKVOR fllKKRAt,' Ot'FICF. 1
Harrisburk, Penna. Nov. Kill. 1800.
In ohedience to au Act of Assembly approv
ed the 8te day of April, one thousand eight
liundred and sixty niue, you are herehy noti
fied that the County Land Lien Docket,' con
taining the list of unpotented lands for Elk
County, prepared under the Act of Assembly of
the twentieth of May, one thousand eight hun
lircd and sixty four, and the supplement there
to, has this day been forwarded to the Protlion
otary of the county, at whose office it may be
examined. The liens can only be liquidated
by the payment of the purchase money, inter,
tst and fees, and receiving patents through
this depirtmenl;
JACOB M. CAMPBELL,
Nov. 13, 18(10. Surveyor General.
N" 0V IS THE TIME TO PROCURE CHEAP
Bargains in
HARNESS. SADDLES, VALISES,
TllUNlW, WHIPS, &C.
J. M. HEARD, havingjust returned from Phil
adelphia, where he has purchased a large as
sortment of the above goods, along with nearly
everything in his line, would respectfully in
Vitc the attention of the public to them.
He is at all limes prepared lo manufacture Id
order all kinds of harnoua, or anything else in
his line,
BOSTON TEAM COLLARS,
The best Collar for lumbering purpose, are
KEPT CONSTANTLY ON HANDi
I CHALLENGE COMPETITION AS
TO PHICE, STYLE Oil QUA LI Y.
BEQuGWa ma a call at my establishment,
ABOVE THE CORNEH Of MXlN
AND DEPOT STREETS,
RIDGWAY, PA.
novCyuOly J. M. DEAfel).
' mt darliao.
My darling la the sweetest maid '
That ever lived on marmalade
Or wanted wings, to make he
The angel that she ought to bo j
But then unluckily for me ;
I'm five and forty, and, you aee,
She's only twelve deuoa take her t
Why, I was over thirty-three
Itefort! she had begun to be
That B you aee leads me to D,
Because the fates miscarry.
To letter her be my wife a bar
They prove nor suffer letter R
To make my M.at marry !
Her hair is gold in wavy cutis.
Her eyes are stars, her teeth arc pearls,
Her boota ara bronze and lace up,
Her cheek is bloomy like the plum,
Her breath is sweet as niajurum ;
But poetry is weak to sum
Her figure and her face up.
j
Alas, the truth I must aver
My nephew Dick's in love with her.
While Prudence says I should prefer
Her aunt, who's plain and heavy,
O, would but why ask Fate to grant
A boon which I'm aware it can't
O, would that she had been her aunt,
Or I had been my nevvy.
A TEAM'S WORK.
Sitting beside the casement
In the chill October day,
Whiie Twilight, wrapped in her misty veil,
Was sobbing her life away ;
Hearing the tinkle of the berk.
And the chirp of the lingering bird.
And tha whistle of the homebound hind,
And the low of the distant herd ;
Watching tha red leaves floating down
From the branches one by one :
Thinking of a'.l that a year could do,
Of all that a year had done.
Sweet as an April morn it rose.
The love lhat had tailed so soon.
Strewing her path with bright May flowers,
Brilliant and warm as June.
It droiiped in Augt st's fervid smile.
It fell like the year's last rose ;
She will scarcely trace its resting place
'Neath December's coming snows.
The blossoms will bloom into life again
At the call of the summer sun.
But no time nor tide ran undo for her
What a tingle year bas done.
Sitting beside the casement
Till the stars gleam through the firs.
The large tears dropping, slow and cold,
On tlio'e folded hniids of hers.
They glitter as hright in the red firelight
As the diamond that she wore
Ere she drew it off, the mocking pledge
Ufa troth whose truth was o'er.
The hollow darkness around her creeps;
The day's long work is run ;
And all that they swore but death could do
A little year has done.
itUtt ftisftllang.
TBI-; GRIZZLY.
A CALIFORNIA TALE.
Sitting in the luxurious apartments of my
noble mansion on Fifth Avenue, I often
recall a scene in iny life the very thought
ol which GUs me still with terror.
I was not born to riches. I was well
educated and extremely poor when I com
menced life. At that time, just when I
was seriously debating whether I ehould
teach sohool or open a retail grocery store
out West, the startling tidings camo of
great gold discoveries 1 California, which
set on fire the brain of a world. I yielded
to the potent influence of the gold-fever at
once, and was one of the very first who
went ont to the new "El LVrado." I sailed
out in a vessel which from the hold to the
cradles, was litterlly crammed with human
beings, and landed on the streets ot the em
bryo city of San Francisco with scarcely a
a rag on my back.
I hurried off at onee to a place just then
discovered, and whither a large crowd of
human beings the representatives of near
ly every nation under heaven had already
assembled. Desperate characters they were
to be sure I Convicts recently escaped
from prison and broken-down lawyers;
tieket'-of-leave men from Botany Day and
Norfolk Island, with impoverished clergy
men retired organ-grinders, With gradu
ates of European universities all were
there. I marvel now at the coolness with
which t Ventured into the midst of euch a
crowd of desperadoes. But t myself was a
desperado.
I chose, after, a long search, a place in a
remote canon as the scene of my labors,
flere I made my rudo hut and proceeded
to dig. There were neighbors around me.
In fact it was difficult to avoid neighbors,
even if it had been desirable. No matter
where a loan might go, some one would be
sure to track him. So I made the best of it,
and put up with the presenoe of otherst
Take them all in all my neighbors were
about as villanotts looking M set oi men as I
hat! ever seen out of jail. One waa negro
of enormous proportions, thick as a eoal,
with the expression of an untamable savage
in his brutal features. Another was a long
thin, cunning, treacherous miscreant, who
(as I afterward learned) had been confined
for twelve years in the Sing Sing prison for
an atrocious crime. Another was a short,
thick-set man, with heavy beard which
almost concealed his features, but added
to his ferocious expression. Among all the
wild adventurers whom I had encountered,
nono were altogether so repulsive as these
They went respctively by the names of
"Niggar," "Sing Siug" and "Pirate."
I tried to get away from the neighbor
hood of these men, but fatality seemed to
attend my efforts. On three different occa
sions I moved to new places, and actually,
each time, I encouutered these men, who
had moved on before uie. It looked as
though I was actually following them. So
I tried to get rid of my aversion, and turned
myself to work.
At the lust place to which we came there
was a very remarkable man who had been
living there for some time. He was a
Spaniard, was tall and well formed, with a
wonderful expression of resolution and
during in his face. His lace was pole, his
eyes dark and his general appearance
commanded involuntary respect. He lived
in a hut above a cavern ou the side of a
neighboring bill. This place he had se
lected fur a residence some time previously.
He was never seen digging an) where in
particular, and it was generally surmised
that he had some mysterious diggings in
the immediate neighborhood of his cavern.
1 dug on patiently for some mouths, and
gained barely enough tc "Vpply the neces
saries of life. I biigan to be very greatly
discouraged. One evening I sat moodily
uear the place where I had been working.
I had lost all hope. For three days I bad
gained absolutely nothing.
'Buenos dias, Senor.'
Looking up 1 saw the Spaniuid. I bow
ed and was silent,
. 'You have a deep hole there,' he said.
'I should think so,' 1 replied.
'Are you encouraged, Scnor T Purdon
uie, but you look disheartened, I think.'
'I have reason to be. I have gained
nothing. I must leave this place.'
The Spaniard's eye lightened up. 'No,
Senor, do not.'
Do not ? why should I waste my time
longer ? '
' 'One must be patient, Senor.'
'Yes, but patience has its limits.'
The Spaniard gave me a look of the
deepest meaning.
Senor,' he said, 'if you ate wisa you will
wait and work yet longer.'
I looked inquiringly at him, but he
tnrned away, and before I could speak had
gone. As I looked up I fcaw close beside
me the trio before mentioned. Tbey had
evidently overheard our conversation. They
were exchanging glances. I turned away
and began to whistle. In a few moments I
was at my work again and they had gone.
I had scarcely given more than a dozen
blows with my pick belore I heard a loud
cry. I recognized the Spaniard's voice.
It was in the direction of his hut. To
teize my two revolvers, and to bound for
ward in the direction in which I heard the
voice, was but the work of a moment.
There stood the Spaniard with the three
men around him. He held a keen
knife iu his hand, and stood at bay. They
were all araied with ales.
'Help, Scnor 'shouted the Spaniard.
'Back, you infernal fool ! cried 'Sing
Sing,' waving me off.
'You murderous villains !' I exclaimed,
leveling both revolvers. 'If you don't make
tracks double quick you'll never leave this
place alive 1 '
The men fell back, cowed completely by
my terrible revolvers. The Spaniard smil
ed sarcastically, bowed to me, turned away
and disappeared among the trees. The
men Walked off, scowling add muttering. I
too turned away.
A week passed. I woiked on. At last
the hour came. Great heavens ! can I ever
forget that time the moment when the
hopes of years, the longings of a lifetime
lay fulfilled before me !
It was sunset The cloud were all
aflame. The river rolled gloriously by.
The trees tossed Up their branches in the
evening wind as though bidding the day
day farewell j from the forest eame a burst
of melody. .
There I stood, rough, ragged miner,
in the bottom of deep, wet, muddy hole.
There I stood with thrills of ' raptire run
ning through me. All my tout entranced,
all my gaze riveted on one glittering mass
at my feet
I was master of wealth untold.
After the first Burst of my joy a levolu.
lion came. I had found my treasure, but
how could I secure it ? How could I se
cure it f How could I cairy it away un.
sepn ? Where should I take it ? Or. if I
did not cairy it away where should I hide
it?
These thoughts flashed with the rapidity
of light through my head. I was overconio
with perplexity
It was lonely place. There wore the
trio and the Spaniard no other neighbors
weaenear. The first were dangerous, the
latter helpless. My strength lay in myself.
My resolution was soon formed. I would
bury as much of my treasure as I could
carry into my tent, cover up the hole, and
watch all night.
It was ten o'clock before I had buried
all that I wanted in my hut, and covered up
the hole to my satisfaction. The intense
excitement of the occasion, already began
to havo its effects. I fancied I heard foot
steps. A moment after I reached forth to
get my revolvers, which, in my hurry and
agitation 1 had left iu my tent some hours
before.
The weapons were gone.
A cold sweat burst out upon me. I rush
ed back to the bole hoping to find them
there. A tall figure ssood there. He had
my pistols in his hands, displaying them
with a triumphant gesture to two others.
It was Nigger, with Sing Sing and
Pirate.
'I am lost !' I groaned. To stay here is
death, to go buck to my hut is destruction.
I am unarmed. These men would think
no more of killing me than of crushing a
fly.' These thoughts came and passed in a
moment.
Where should 1 go.
I could only think of the Spaniard.
Without giving another moincut's thought
I tuaued and fled. My movements were
seen. I was discovered. With a loud and
savage shout they run after roe. Six bullets-whistled
past my head, but fortunately
none touched me. If ever fear lent wings
it was at that moment. I bounded along
the path and down the hill and up on the
other side toward where the Spaniard lived.
1 heard them call on me to stop.
"Never mind," cried out another voice
whith I recognized as that of "'Pirate j"
'we'll get them both together this time !''
On, on I ran. The clatter of fDotstcps
was close behind.
With the frenzy of desperation, I rattled
at the Spaniard's door. My pursuers were
close upon me.
"Let me in ! Save me !" I Bhouted.
Hurried footsteps souuded within. The
bars rattled. I heard a heavy sound, I was
pulled violently inside, the door was banged
to and secured just as the eager blows of
my pnrsuers fell upon it.
"Just in time!" he murmered,bi,eathless
ly. '"Up stairs, quick !"
He held a lantern in his hand. By its
light I saw a rude ladder which aeceuded
to an opening above. I clambered up as I
was directed. The Spaniard came up after
me.
"All right'" said he, as he gave me a
meaning glance.
The men below had dealt some trernen.
dous blows at the door, which yet held on,
however. ' I heard them eagerly shouting
to one another. They said not a word to
us. "No quarter" was their motto.
A few minutes of silence elapsed. They
had gone off. They soon returned, howev
er. I heard their heavy steps.
"This '11 fix 'em, "said one.
A moment after a terriiio blow, as if dealt
by some huge beam, struck the door. The
hinges yielded. But in a moment a tre
mendous growl sounded out and drowned
every other sound. It was a wild, deep,
terrific roar. My blood ran cold within me.
I had beard the sonud before, but never so
near. Then there arose to heaven shriek
after shriek, end pitious calls for mercy.
The only answer waa . the terrific roar
which had first sounded, and sounds as of
breaking, crushing bones. ' In a few min
utes all was still. The Spaniard descou
ded. He was not gone long.
"It's kll over I" he said, returning.
I descendedt There on the floor lay the
mangled bodies of the wretches, and in the
corner Was the glgantio form of the fierc
est and largest grizaly bear that I ever
saw.
I left the hut and never saw the Span
lard again. In a few weeks I had my gold
ill safe in San Francisco, and was prepa
ring to return to the Kant.
Subscribe and pay for the Advocatk,
Charlotte Temtle. We belie7e our
young readers as well as those older ones
to whom the story of Charlotte Temple is
familiar, will be interested in thoffollowing
sketch, coppicd lrom Appleton't Journal:.
"Among the countless throngs who daily
pass and repass Trinity Church, how many
know that within a tew feet of the crowded
thoroughfare of Broadway, is a grave which
covets all the remains of a once beantiful
and fascinating woman, the record of whose
sorrows has dimmed thecye9 of thousands?
No date of birth, no indication of. family,
and to date of death appear on the stone
that covers the grave of Charlotte Temple,
whose tragic story, once the theme of every
circle, is probably unknown to the greater
number of our young readers. The most
beautiful girl in New York so it is claimed
she attracted the attention of a young
officer, a monr.ber of one of Kogland's old.
est and proudest families, who with his
irgiment entered the city when the British
occupied New York, after the battle of
Long Island. Charlotte, then only seven
teen year of age, was wooed and won by
the dashing young officer. He descited
her, and then the old story she soon af
ter died of a broken heart, A littL-daugh
ter which she was left was tenderly
cared for, at a proper age was taken
to England, and a fortune of one hundred
thousand dollars settled upon her by the
head of her father's family, the lute Earl of
Derby, grandfather of the present Lord
Stanley. She, like a true daughter and a
true woman, returned to New York and
erected the monument which now marks
the mother's grave. The inscription upon
it was engraved on a solid tablet of bras9,
an inch in thickness, heavily pluted with
silver, and thus it read: "Sacred to the
memory of Charlotte Stanley, aged nine
teen years." This filial duty performed,
she returned to England and lived a life
of unobtrusive piety and usefulness. The
plate placed upon the stone that marks the
grave was supposed to be of solid silver,
and tempted the cupidity of certain vandals,
who, with hammer anJ chisels, succeeded
in prying it from the slab. They were
never detected. Many years afterward,
some good Samaritan caused the simple
name of Charlotte Temple to be cut under
neath the excavation. There it may be
seen, within a few feet of Broadway, by any
one who will take the trouble to look through
the iron railing. The last time we glunced
at the slab, now almost embedded in the
ground, we saw several sparrows taking a
bath in the water which had collected in
the excavation frern which the villians took
the plate; u requiem over her grave near
which we were glad to observe a forget rue
not, doubtless planted there by some kind
heart who, in childhood bad wept over the
sad and romantio stor of the blue-eyed
girl."
A luw court in Suutiago, Chili, is puzzled
by a remarkable suit. The plaintiff has
married a woman and sues for a divorce,
founding her application on the simple fact
that her husband is of the same sex as her
self. The court can easily separate hus
band aud wife, but the questions of the prop
erty are an enigma. The lady who under,
took the part of husband married the other
for her money and her-prospects. Madame,
the husband, in all the pride of manhood.
employed, herself busily in making pur
chases and contracts in her wife's name and
with her wife's marriage portion. Now,
the question arises whether the wife should
be responsible for the debts incurred by the
husband While managing her affairs. Also
what puuUhiucut ehould be inflicted on the
husband for contempt of law and forjrery
committed iu signing the marriage contract
aud other documents under an assumed sex.
The learned magistrate of Santigo will
doubtless find some solution for this matri
mouial riddle,
The editor of the Hartford Times is vis-
iting California, and observing the Chinese
He thus describee barber shop scene :
In a little room six feet square I saw one
Chinaman ehaving another. The razor was
two inches long, an inch and a half broad,
and half an men thick, and square at the
eud. It looked like a meat cleaver, Tht
barber shaved his customers head, all round
leaving the tuft and queue. Then he shaved
his face and his forehead with the back of
the razor, Then he shaved' off one.half of
eacn eyebrow as clean as a bone, leavin
littlo tufu next to his nose ; and then he
shaved bis cose all over carefully, and pol
ihhed that. What next ha Hid itb il.i
Sun Child, as be sat upright upon a little
stool, both feet coiled under him, I know
not. for f pm awav U'k. I,. ,V..J .u .
. i uj up pimvcu iuv
creature at all I Could not tell, as he had no
beard. Perhaps he slushed bim with pork
tat as a noisn. it so unaog Wo Was read
tor Dusiness, ana would go through you
a trade.
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BOYS, READ TII1S.
A few years ago a large drug firm in
New York advertised for a boy. Next day
the store was thronged with applicants,
among them a queer looking little fellow,
accompanied by a woman, who proved to be
his aunt, in lieu of faithless parents, by
whom he had been abandoned. Looking
at this little waif, the merchant in the store
promptly said :
Can't take him ; places all full ; be
sides he is too small.'
'I know that he is small,' said the woman,
'but he is willing and faithful.'
There was a twinkle In the boy's eyes
which made the merchant think again. A
partner in the firm volunteered to remark
that he 'did not see what they wanted with
such a boy he wasn't bigger than a pint
of cider.' But after consultation the boy
was set to work.
A few days later a cull was made on tho
boys in the store for some one to stay at
night. The prompt response of the little
fellow contrasted well with the reluctance .
of the others. In the middle of the night
iiiO JJierchant looked in to aee if it was all
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ngtit in tne store, nuu presently discovered
his youthful protege busy scissoring lubcirf.'
'What are you doing V said he, 'I did
not tell you to work at nights.'
'I know you did not tell me to, but I
thought I. might as well bn " doing some
thing.' In the morning the cashier got orders to
'double lhat boy's wages, for he is willing.'
Only a few weeks elapsed before a show
of wild beasts passed through the streets,
and, very naturally, all handd in the store
rushed to witness the spectacle. A thief
saw his opportunity, and entered at a rear
door to seize something, but in a twinkling
lound hiuiselt nrnily clutched by the dimin
utive clerk aforesaid, and after a struggle
captured. Not only was a robbery prevent,
ed, but valuable articles taken from other
stores wore recovered. When asked bv tha
merchant why he stayed behind to watch
when all others quit their work, his answer
was :
'You told mo never to Ieare the store
whrn others were absent, and I thought I'd
stay.'
Orders were immediately given 'once
moro : 'Double that bov'a VP Anna n a a
willing and faithful.'
To day that boy is getting a falary of
$2,C00, and next January will become a
member of tho firm.
How to Make a Town. The true se
cret of the growth of any place is, the in
ducement and enco-jrigenient held out to
strangers to settlo among them. Encour
age active and worthy men, whether they
have any money or not. Their labor alone
ts worth money. Stimulate every legiti
mate enterprise by giving it all tho friendly
aid in your power." Cultivate a Dublio
spirit, and help your neighbor. If he is
in aanger ot breaking down, help him. If
he gets fairly down before you know his
situation, set him on bis feet again. His
misfortune is to be pitied, not blamed, and
his talents and labor are worth money to the
community. Besides, it may some day be
our turn to need a corresponding sympathy.
us spean well ot our neighbor. Talk
well and encouragingly of our town, of its
growth, its prospects, its advantages, and in
short, everything likely to advance its wel.
tare.
One day lately, a prisoner was beiug con
veyed from Carbondale to the jail, at
Wilksbarre", in a train on the Lehigh and
Susquehanna liailroud, which wai then
making about thirty.five miles per hour.
While crossing an embankment the priso
ner suddenly jumped out a car window, and
rolled dewn the steep bank, with the ve.
locity of a cannon ball. The train waa
stopped as soon as possible, and backed
back to pick up the ' mangled remains,"
which everybody expected to see. But on
reaching the spot the lively oorpse was dis
covered maki ng a bee line across a field, at
2.40 speed, and apparently uniig ired.: Tha
r 11 :
leiiow escaped.
Over four hundred thousand dollars a
month have been saved to the Government
iu the administration of the Navy depart,'
uient siuce the election ofLGenera! Grant.
We trust this fact will be fully noted by ,
Demooratio joumaluta.to the disparagement .
of Republican rule. Keep the facta before
the people, that they may see the vin
dication of their choice for the offices of tha
Government.
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