i V IUDOWAY.PA., DEC.4, 1809. NO. 8. VOL 1. ADVOCAT.E.'." THE I Y J PUBLISHED WEEKLY, ji t a p e mi jt jr jr v jrr . 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(Kill Cjountj gircciorjj. COUN'TV OFFICERS. President Judge S. P. Johnson. Additional Lav Judge lion. Jho. P. Vincont. Associate Judges K. C. Schultae, Jesse Kyler. District Attorney J. K. P. Hall. Sheriff James A. M alone. Prothonotury, &c G. A. Hathbun. Treasurer Claudius V. Gillis. Co. Superintendent Uuf'us Lucore. Commissioners H. Warner, J. W. Taylor, Louis Yollinir. Auditors Clark Wilcox, Byron J. Jones, Jacob McCauley. County Surveyor Geo. Waltuslcy. TIME OF HOLDING COUHT. Second Monday in Jauuary, Last Monday in April. First Monday in August. First Monday in November. IO UWMilt- Or' IM'ATKNTMJ LA.NDd SrnvKYou (Ikxrhal's Orm-a. llnrrifibut k, 1'ctiii.i. Nov. 8th ti lPtiO. ( tn uhediencu to an Act of Assembly approv ed the 8ie diiy of April, ono thousand eight hundred and sixty nine, ynu arc hereby not i tied tlmt llio ' County Laud Lien Ducket.' con taining I lie list of unpolented lauds for Elk county, prepared under the Act of Assembly o( the twentieth of May, one thousand eight hun dred and sixty four, and the supplement there to, has this day been t'orwitrded to the I'rotlinn I'tury of the county, at tvhnse othce it may be exrtlttltied. The liens can only bo liquidated by the payment of the purchase money. into, em nnd fees, ami receiving patents tlirough this dep-.rtnicnt. JACOB M. CAMI'ILL, Nov. 1.1, 18110. Surveyor tieneml. N OW IS THE TIME iO 1'HoCUKE CHEAT liiirgaius ill HARNESS. SADDLES, VALISES. TRUNKS, WHIPS, kC. J. M. HEAUD. having just 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 Vile the attention of the public to iheui. II is at all limes prepared to manufacture to order all kiuds of harness, or anything else in liis line. BOSTON TEAM COLLARS, The best collar for lumbering purposes, are KEPT COXSTANTIT ON HAND. I CHALLENGE COMPETITION AS TO PRICE, STYLE Oil QUA LI V. 8fa.Give me a call at my establishment, ABOVE THE CORNER OF MAIN AND DEPOT STREETS III DG WAY, PA. novfi.'UO.ly J. M. HE All I). Ir EKSEY HOUSE, Ckntuivilik, Elk Co., Pa. II. B. Leach, Proprietor. Thankful for the patronage heretofore ao liberally bestowed upon him, the new pro prietor, hopes, by paying strict attention to the comfort aid convenience of guests, to merit a continuance of the same. vlnJOly. JOB WORK of all kinds and descri dotio at this office. . All orders for Stoves and Hardware will be promptly attended to aa soon as received, at the 12 7 St. MARY'S HARDWARE STORE. CARDS, Bill-Heads, LeUer-Heads, Tags, Handbills, &e., doneia neat manner, and at lha lowkst raica. FOR CASH, at the Elk Advocate Printing Office. T 0U13 H. GARNER, PRACTICAL MACHINIST, Can be found at bis Fvaadry at St. Mary's wliera ha is ready to have all shop-work in bis line done on short malice. 8t. Mary's, Benxinger P. O , Elk ., Pa. myl'tSS'ly 1 ENVELOPES, LABELS k TAGS neatly printed k tth Adraaata Offiee. H ENRV SOUTHER,. Attaraey-at-Law Kidgway, i'a. (ieb.UGS), ECLECTICISM. The term Eclectic, 'bj winch a large and growing class of physicians are designated, is derived from a Greek word which signi fi.es to choote ; and they profess to choose that which is good from all sources, rejec ting the evil. The origin of modern Eclecticism dates back only some forty years, and yet there are some six thousand educated physicians of this Bchool in active practice. The Col leges are in a flourishing condition, one, the Eclcctlo Medical Institute of Cincinati, having had an average of 193 students an nually, for the last twenty years. In addi tion they have large. aud well written text books on every department of niediciue, and a medical Journal having the largest circu lation of any in America. The causes leading to this reform in medicine, were of a very grave character. For many years, physicians had treated disease, as if it was something tangible, and only to be removed by the harshest means. The principal medicines were cut omel, the lancet, tartar emetic, and agents of like character, which were employed up on all occasions, even tn the most trival ca ses, rendering disease mueh more fatal than it would otherwise have been. Not only was It the cause of death in many cases, but serious disease resulting from the use of these poisons uot uufroquently resulted, rendering the sufferer au invalid for life. It certain'y was no wonder, th t a reform of a practioo like this should be demanded, und when commenced, that it should be hailed with joy by the people. Indeed so great was the desire for something better, that the system of Samuel Thompson, crude though it was, was taken hold of in all sec tions of the country. Eclectics based their opposition to old school medicine upon two grounds. 1st. To the theory of ejccttice action in disease, and consequent employment of deprewing medicines, reducing the vitality of the pa tient to the lowest ebb. Opposed to tLis. Eclectics took the ground, that all diseased actiou of whatever kind, whether fever or chronic disease, is evidence of eufeebled vitality, cither of the entire system or of a part. And iieccssarly, all correct treat. merit is directed, first, to check tht impair, incut of vitality, and secoud, to restore the system to its normal condition. There In no room lor deliberating or exhausting rem edies, but only for euch as tt nd to change abnormal into normal actiou, and give tone, innervation, and aid to tho uutrative pro cesses. The second ground of oprai-ition was,that the remedies were not only harth and de. bilitatitig, but would produce diseases, sometimes far worse than those they were given to cure. Calomel was the So niton of medical agents, aud there was cot a disease, mild or severe, in wliioh it was not recommended and used. Those acquainted with the old practice know, that when the doctor was called the first thing given in almost every case was calomel and jalap t or blue-pill fallowed by castor oil. Not only was it the first thing, but it was many tituea the last aud with many, nearly or quite all. In the Southern and Westorn States it was used in moderation, t. . from ten grains to a tea or tablespoonful at a dose. Many fol lowed the rulo of Professor. Cook, of Louis ville, that if an apparent effect was Dot pro duced by the remedy the first day, double the dose the next, quadruple it the third and so on, until, aa we have authentio ac counts, one-fourth, one-hulf, or in one case of billious fever, over one pound had been iotrodced. To thinking minds this indis criminate use ot one agent, should have been evidence of the utter futility of em ploying a physician ; and doubtless it wouldj if people bad been permitted to think. It we add to this, the long catalogue of ail. menU directly produced by mercury. Mercurial rheumatism, mercurial disease of the bones, mercurial ubers, etc., it will readily be seen that this fearful weapon should be discarded. Forty years ago yes, tven twenty years ago blood-letting waa the fashion, and both physicians and people supposed that acute diseases eould not be treated without it. Bleeding was so oonimon that it was customary for some to be bled every spring, sometime twi je year, as a prevenliv measure to ward off disease. The evil effects of blood. letting necessa rily vary with the nature of the diseae in which it is employed. In fever and ioflam nations it was employed to subdue excite ment and lessen inflammatory action,' and yet in many catca it is known that it pro duded but a temporary effect' reaction came on and the disease for whioh it was employed was aggravated. The -consequence of this reaction was, that another depletion wasjtgain prescribed for its ro rooval; blood is taken to full syncope again relief is felt again reaction and the local symptoms return, the practitioner continues to bleed, and is astonished at the obstinacy, course and termination of the disease, which under such circumstances generally terminated in dropsical effusion, or in convulsions, or in delirium running into coma, or in a partial subsidence of the original malady, and protracted convales ce nee. Tartar emetic and arscnio were not so frequently employed, yet they were ac countable for a large amount of suffering and very tr.any deaths. They were also very effectual agents for the production of chronic diseases of the stomach and bowels, which would annoy the patient a life time. If to these you add the arrry of cathartics, blisters, etc, in common use, you will won der, not that a reform in medicine was commenced, but that it was postponed so long. We believe that we have given a perfect, ly truthful aud fair statement of the causes giving rise to Eclecticism in medicine, and we may with advantage enquire of what benefit it has buen to the people at large. At the present time, calomel and other mercurial preparations are given by stealth, and there are very few that dare own to their administration. The lancet and blond- letting is ultuost banished from practice, and he who would attempt to revive it would pood find himself without patrons'. Now the sick hove water and food, and are frequently bathed, when in olden titua they were kept in the conditio n of the rich man described in the Biblo They (-imply suffer the minor inconveniences of sickness, without the torture of o'den time medica tion. ' A QUEER WEDD1XG. Rev. D., a Methodist minister stationed at Meaoville sonic years ajjo, one evening received a note stating that a young couple living in thc.suburbs of the city desired to be united in the bonds of matrimony, and requested his services at nine o'olock the next morning. At the proper timo he went to the house designated aud entered. He inquired of a young lady who was busy washing dishes, if there was a couple there wishing to be married. " I am the lady," soid she blushing, " John will be iu iu a uiomeut." The minister was surprised to see no preparations, and stepped to the door to view the surroundings. Two men were hard at work grinding scythes in the yard, and another, who proved to be John, was tending a cow and calf in the barnyard. The young lady camo to the door pretty boou, aud shouted, "John, Joha, hurry up, tho preacher's hero !" John leaped the fence aud rushed to tho house, the girl wiped her hands on her apron, and after joining hands, said they were ready. The minister proceeded, aud had just got thro' questioning the young man when the old lady rushed into the room, shouting, 'John, John, you didn't turn the cow away from the calf ! ' John let go bin sweetheart's hand instantly, and rushed to tho barnyard, put the old cow through the bars, and then returned to the house, again took up his position, when the balance of the ceremony was goue through with. Tho miuister went on his way. Joha went to the hay field, and the lady resumed her dish wash ing. The New York Democrat tells us how one of .he railroad kings of that State trav els: Vice-President Torrence, of the New York Central railroad, has a horse worth keeping an iron horse yelcpt a lo cooiottve. It is a fine one, and is elegantly fitted up, inside ot the engineer's house. The seats are on steel springs, and are richly upholstered, while every appliance is visible to keep out sparks and dust. This engine is in charge of a first. class engineer, whose only business is to run his machine wherever and whenever the Vice President wishes him to. Should Mr. Tor rence cousider that bis presence is important iu Buff alo, the engineer is ordered to fire up, the telegraph conveys the intelligence that Torrence is on the road, and away goes the horse through towns and villages like a streak of lightning, resting not till the destination is reached. Business finished, the return is made, the horse is put in the stable, and not taken out again till the Vice President issues the order for another ride. Subset ibe for the Aivocate. A HORRIBLE MURDER. A murder, equalling in atrocity any known in tho annals of crime, was commit ted near Pleasant Grove, Huntingdon county, between six and seven o'clock, on Wednesday evening, November Ilth. The victims were an old roan named Peightal, and an adopted child named Scott Garner a boy of ten or twelve yeavs of nge. They were sitting at supper when attacked Mr. Peightal and young Garner were shot through the head and instantly killed Mrs Peightal was also shot, but not fatally, and was dispatched with an axe or hatchet. The perpetrators of the crime, after plundering the house and stealing the mo ney belonging to the family, consisting of coin and greeubaoks amounting, it is said, to about two thousand dollars, the fiends covered the bodies with bedding and clothes, which they set on fire and then fled. The fire was at once discovered by some neighbors, who hastened hither and, to their dismay, not only found the liouso on fire, but the whole family murdered. Suspicion at once rested on two men who had been seen in the neighborhood during the day. A messenger was dispatched to Hunting, don, who, upon inquiry, discovered that two persons answering the description had taken the Cincinnati express west. A tel. egraphio dispatch was sent to Altoona, giv. iflg a description of the supposed murder ers, and upon the arrival of the train there the men were arrested, and lodged in the lock-up. On Thursday morning, thpy were token bank to Huntingdon, and recognized at once as the men who had been lurking around Peightel't previous to the murder. It was only through the wise counsel of prudent men that they were not lynched by the indignaut populace. After being taken to the jail they confessed having: com mitted the murder, but the evidence against them is deemed sufficient to con vict them, aside from their conlession. Several hundred dollais in gold and green, backs was found upon them the bulancs they said they had tied up in a handker chief and hid along the railroad, before taking the train. Both the men arc Germans The one gives his name as Alfred Bodeuburg, who was born in Hanover, on the Ilbiuo, Octo ber 183G, and is therefore thirty-six years of age. The other is named Gotlieb Bocer, alias 'Charlie Moore,' alias 'Dutch Charlie,' was born iu Wirtemburg, Germany, and is ubout forty years of age. The latter, it is said, was convicted of larceny in Hunting don three years ago, and served his term in the pcuitentiary. Love of gain seems to have instigated them to commit the horrible crimo tor which they have been arrested. They -w ill be tried at the next term of the Hunting don courts. A Serious Affray in Tennessee. A terrible affair occurred near Tiptonville, Tenn., on Sunday. A party of masked men went to the house of William Jones, a plan ter, for tho purpose of disarming tho negroes working for him. Jones having intimation of their coming determined to resist, as the negroes had been peaceable and well dispo. sed.aud made preparations for their defense, when the raiders came they were met with a destructive fire which caused them retreat, leaving one of their number dead aud two mortally wounded. The dead ono proved to bo Robert Dickinson, living across the Kentucky line. His cousin, Robert Bealohamp, died the next morning. He said he was misled into the scrape. The excitement the next day was intense. Of ficers camo to arrost the negroes, but owing to the excitement Mr. Jones was taken to the river iu charge of the Deputy Sheriff, placed on the steamer Louisville, aud brought here, while the Sheriff, with the the negroes, started tor Troy, but on the way were attacked by a posse, who took five of the negroes into the woods and shut them down. The Sheriff, by hard legging, succeeded iu saving the lifo of the other one, who was taken to Troy and put iu jail The excitement in Tiptonville is iutecso The parties on both sides are well known, and it is supposed that other blood will be shed, even if the matter is settled. Teuneuee Paper. A vast amount of grain in sacks waa ren dered worthless, or greatly injured, by re cent rains in California. The loss is said to amoun to several hundred thousand sacks. The grain was lying on the banks of rivers awaiting shipment. the NEWS IX BRIEF. Seward has gout in the stomach. Detroit complains of too much cabbage. Hog cholera is raging at Peoria, Illinois. Straight drinks mako men walk crooked. Can tho Sucx Canal be callc J a fixed fact ? Boston was windier than usual last week. Savannah has had the first shad of the season. Boston proclaimes itselt proud of Jim Fisk. There are 2415 cotton factories in Great Britain. There are sixty thousand Jews ' in New York City. Mrs. Suratt's ghost drives Stanton all over the country. Tho garrote business has broken out in New Orleans. In Cleveland, Ohio, the Germans do moBt the marrying. An Illinois women committed suicide to of stop a toothache. Portland, Oregon, has a saloon called the As You Like It." The "fifteenth amendment" in Virginia suffer from measels. One Florida planter has shipp-d 89.000 oranges this season. 4,390 immigrants arrived at tho nort if Boston duiinn October. Edwin Bocth cleared $10,00" by eleven performances in Boston. Soldiers' orphans in the Illinois A are barbarously treated. Indiana has 609,302 childern hntwn0n the ages of s:x and twenty-one. A uichniond thief stole a nrpr.Wa watch, but left him his pray. iwocent pieces, "silvered" am hoi passed on the uowary for fives. 1 he proprietor of the Onond .1 (T. of in A giant refuses to take $75,000 for him- Ite childern will be sorrv to Ipi. bf the castor oil crop of tho country is good. cpnugnom, ureene county, Mo., com plains of large population of skuoks. ,est New Yorker celebrated Tb.nt. giving by scalping his wife after dinner. "Udcs aud Poems" on Onr Pt,.j will be in order for tho next three months. wiajotin iJrown is still marh;n He was up in Portland last wPolr ' - , no a fiddler. 713,000,000 pounds of Coffnn nnt vna - j"- ju ia supplied by the coffee.niodueina. Mni.;. of the world. School ma'ams in Cleveland r ,;.. ing up the young 'u)al0 idea" ,n favor "f tcmale suffrage. Mark Twain appears to be the tnnnatanA. hyof two-thirds of the newspapers of the country. An unruly mare threw a Cincinati! . dertakeroutofhisbu-y. Ha Wt dertake 'er again. An Indiana mule butting his head against a wall. Cause disappointed love. The biggest blower in the count t.,.n up at Kansas City. H8 hln fion mches on a blowing machine. Ihe exceeding Kreat briskness f rb matrimonial market is regarded as a a! of a long and severe winter. There are 30,000 more insane onl ; Fratce than there were in 1856, but not so many as there were in 1793. A slight shock of an earthitii.V BJ,1, up the people and things in the neighbor hood of Columbus, Oh., last week. recent high wind in Atlanta. O. blew all the hair Irom off the head of an un fortunate female. She wore ir Bostoniaos dou't like the Janencsa. Then say :he Japs have a "heathenish habit of attending to their own business.'1 A Cincinatti woman, a believer in rights. stole the Sunday shut aud breeches of an uuiortuuate male last week. A new "rights" psncr is to hn stnrtnd in iXew lork to bo called, 2he Woman' Fitu. - iou oei mere II be a mania it. , iNew 1 ork medical students, when done with ther "subjects," deposit the remaius in ash barrels along the sidewalks. Catharine Elderberry, of Danbury, Conn., was recently married to Nehemiah Black, berry, by the Rev. Mr. Cranberry. A Peoria III., slop gatherer became drunk, fell in among the slops in his cart, and his horse carried him home to the pigs. For a new railroad the . Pacifio does re markably well- It can equal any in the country ior smash ups and killings. - The tuelencholy time has come, the sea son of the year, where from the hooks and racks in halls, our great coa's disappear. NEWS AND NOTING S. . The French Emperor' ligtt is foiling. A filibustering expedition baa sailed from the island of Curaooa for St. Domingo, to join the revolutionary loices operating against President Bacz. Quantrel, the leaber of the Lawrenee, Kansas, massacre, was traced to San Fran cisco by detectives, where he enlisted in the army and went to Camp Scott. The order sent for his arrest reached there too late, he and three others having deserted. "Joe, my dear," said a fond wife to her husband, who followed the piscatory pro fession on the bauks of Newfoundland, "do fix up a little, you look so slovenly- Oh, what an awful memory it would be tar me it you should get drowned looking so!" A Ron Vi-iinniurtn n.nor ridinuTaa thn story that eighty Chinese were robbed 1 of their queues by hair thieves in that city. It says that two or three may have lost their queues by the act of rowdies, "but . r.i. - l . f . I l. r - -. i uot iqr me vaiue ui me uair, lur it una none exoept for upholstery, ete., belles consider it too course for ornamcntiug their person." Two Japanese students, in search of nn val knnwInHii-n liava arrived in tlii nrmnti v aud will soon make atiDlication for admin- sion to the academy at Annapolis. An act of Congress extenus to them the cDiir tesy of cadetship, provided it shall cost tho United States nothing. Those two young men are but the van of a detach incut oou to be forwarded. Tt i3 lliiv nrtRnllirnltf enrtnin ttint iha great African traveler, the Rev. David Liivmgstonc, is sate. A telegram from the eovernnr of Romhnv. cnntiiininor th infar. t t - j i 1- - - - mation that he (tho governor) had just re ceived a letter irom Mr. jjivingstone Him self, dated ITiiiL Mav 13. 18li!l Mi. I.iv. ingston was iu good health, and was every- wnere well tucated. In THE Rhode Tsland Kb.te 7nann il convicts observed Thanksgiving day in a somewhat remarkable manner. After two speeches, hy convicts, appropriate to the occasion, several sonog were sung in chorus, such as "America," "Home, Sweet Home." etc. Two burglars then sang a song apiece "My Mother" and Sweet Arabella." After this another prisoner danced a break, down, which elicited much applause, and closed the exercises. The largest saw mill in the ornrl.l id nf. Orongo, Maine. It is 440 feet long, 06 feet wide, has four gang saws, five single saws, five lath machines, ona shingle, and one clapboard machine, ft ( dniU onn 000 feet of long lumber, 200,000 lutbs, 10.000 shingles, and 4,000 olat boards; and by requirement of law burns ur about i on j. 'c . j , '. uuius oi waste wooo per aay. it rents for $25,C00 a year. Slander. 1 CS. VOU nnsa it nhimr n-lmtK er you believe it or not. And that oue si ded whwpcr, against the character of a vir. tioua woman or an honorable man you a ill bear up aud rjass nlnnc St croaturcs ! How many reputations hove been lost bv suvniiae. ITnw mnnu hoiwu have been sorrowed by whispers. How uiauy nave oeen snunnea by a hint. How many craves have been dim Kir clnn- a -fc, j Blun der, let VOU DOSS it alnnir c T T The Italian miniutrtr hna n.i!n.J :n . body. What does this signify ? Is plush nobility offended at a king marrying a gate keeper's daughter 1 Are the right heirs of the throne, after all, the power behind the throne ? It will be hard for Victor Emmanuel, toddling to his grave, to recon struct affairs so as to give stability and har mony to his State. A "duck of a wife" will scarcely compensate him for an uneasy crown, a bitter old age, and a discordant empire. A Constable Sold. A Michigan con stable, from custody a prisoner had escaped with ouly a shirt on while in search of the convict was tcld by oue of his neighbors that there had .appeared at the house cf the latter, during the night, an individual who was stark naked and who refused to give any account of himself. The neighbor further said that the stranger was still in his house, aud might jet be. taken. Tho constable flew around, got his handcuffs, aud rode up to the residence of the infoi uiant, to fiud that the lady of the bousn : had given birth during the night to a very fine baby. Liebiq says that science has demonstra ted that man i fnrmnd ( .-.)... i 7 v tuuuouoeu air , 1 tuat ne V'08 u condensed as well as unoon. ucunou uirjauu ciotnes nimself io condensed . - - vuuvu iii vvuuuouv an ; that be prepares his food by means of ,l,uu 'f i ana oy means ot toe same agent moves tba heaviest weights with the velocity of the wind. , Io faot, that wind . io wau auu a man is wind. The faot is . often demonstrated by conventions, in va rious places, and by numerous people. ' ' ro, now, mat is a oomlort I After ' haviug been brought up under the eonvie-.u tiou that we were made of the dnst of lie,, earth, to have our foundation undrminod anb fiud ourselves "condensed air," add ' that "wind is man and man is wiad.'W; This aoeouuts for the blow in some quarters and the airy nothingness of ."the nsblest work." Query It all men are air, are all women air (heir) este ?
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