ADVOCATE 3i ' VOL 1. RIDOWAY.PA., DEO. 11, 18G9. NO. 9. Wit PUBLISHED WEEKLY, f r 3 i i it t .r .r ir tr . Hates of Advertising. idr-.'r mid lixrs notices, coc, 6 limes, $ 8 00 4uditor's not ire?, each, . 3 00 Ciiu'.ions and Kslrnys each, 3 times 3 00 Transient Advertising per squre of 8 lines or less 3 times, or less 2 00 for each subsequent insertion 60 .)ilicial advertising for each square of 8 liner or less : times or less -2 00 or each subsequent insertion 50 Professional cards, 6 liner, 1 yr G 00 J.oal notices, per tin?, one tune 1 Obituary notices, over 6 lines 10 curly Advertising, one-half column nO 00 real ly Advertising, one column 100 00 Blinks, single quire 2 f0 P.lanl;s, three quire 2 00 liliinks, 0 quires , per quire I iu tll.inks, over I! quires per quire 1 oU for hunk notes, subpoenas, summons, ex coitions warrants, constable sales, mad and school otdois, each per doz.,,25 Handbills, eight sheet 25 or less 1 f0 " fourth sheet 2'iorless 2-00 " half sheet 2"iorless 4 f0 " whole seet i'oorlevs 8 00 Over 25 of each of above at proportionate rates, (fill Ojountn gimlorjj. COUNTY OFF1CHH3. I'rpsidoiit Judge S. P. Johnson. Additiouitl Law Judge Hon. Jho. I' Vincent. Associate Judges E. C. Schultze, J esse ller. District Attorney J. K. P. Hull. Sheriff flumes A. Mulone,. l'rotliotiotary, ka. (r. A. Rathbun. TieaMiier Claudius Vr. (Jillis. I'o. Superintendent Unfits Lucore. Commissioners II. Warner, J. W. Tii lor. Louis Vulltu"r. Auditors (Mark Wilcox, Byron J. Jones, Jacob MeOauU-y. County Surveyor ('co. Wnltnslny. TIME OF HOLDING CoUKT. Second Monday iu January, Last Mondtty in A pril. First Monday in Almost. First Monday in Novi-iuber. fjK OWAi-.lt lF i M A lii.N i.D w.W friivr.vnn (! kvf.uai.'s Oitick. 1 Harri-li.irfc. rviina. Nov. St ii ltWl t In uliidii'iii:i to all Act of Assembly iipjuov cdlheNiediy of .pril, one thousand eight huii'lra! ami sixty nine, you are hereby nuti liud that the Ctniiii.v Laud I.ien Itoekcl,' c.ui- i.-tiniu;' the list ot iinpolen'e I lands for Elk iiiily. pi't'p'ti'cd under the A:t of Assembly u tiir t w cm let Ii in .May, one Iiihismii'I cl'IO bin died and sixty I'., or. and the s'ipplciiii'iit there in, has ihisuny tieen lrwarde.l t Hie l'rollion tary ol llie county, Ht ivli .se ofiiiu it luiiv be examined. The liens can only be liquidated l.y the payment nl'ihc purchase motif v. iiile-. est and lcs. and receiving patents llirwiigl tais dcji rtmelit. JACO'i M. rAMPlf-l.r,. Nov. 11, lHil'.t. Sin vevor licneial. TOW IS Till-: TIME O l'Koi'lKt; CHKAl liurgains in HARNESS. sadm.es, valises TRl'XXS, Will Pi, &0. J. M. HEAlin, l.avinjuM returned from Phil adelphia, h iiere iio has pin chased a largo as sort incut, of the. above goods, along with nearly everything in Ins line, wmilil respectluUy in vitetiie aticuiiiiii of the public to iheni. lie is ,n all times prepared to manufacture lo r nl.-r all kiuus ol harness, or anything else iu lus lino. BOSTON TEAM collars, Th, be?t collar for lumbering purposes, are KEPT COXSTAXTLV ON HAND. I CHALLENGE COMPETITION' AS TO PRICE, STYLE OU QUALIY. Efi-fiivc me a call at try establishment, AUOVE THE CORNER OF MAIN AND DEPOT STREETS, R IDG WAY, PA. novO.'t;;) ly J. M. HEARD. K KlISEV lloi'SE, CKNTtviLe, Elk Co., Va. II. B Leacu, Proprietor. Thankful for the patronage heretofore so liberally bestowed upen h i in, the new pro prietor, hopm, by paying strict attention to the comfort, ar.d convenience of guests, to merit a continuance of the same. vln201y. OU WORK of all kinds ami descri dono at this office. All orders for Stoves and Hardware will be promptly attended to as soon as teceived, at the 12'07 Kt. MAKY'S HARDWARE STOKE. CARD.S, .Dill-Heads, Letter-Heads, Tags, Handbills, to., doue in a neat manner, and at the lowkst puteR, FOU CASH, at the Ellc Advocate Printing Office. JOL'IS 11. GARNER, PRACTICAL MACHINIST. Can be found at bis Foundry at St. Mary's where be is ready to have all shop-work in bis line done on short notice. St. Mary's, Heniiuger 1". O , Elk Co., Pa. myl'tiS'lj 1 ENVELOPES, LA DELS & TAGS ntly 2j printed 1 1 the Advocate Otlioo, H EXUY SOUTHER, Kidgway, Pa. jltlorney-at-Law (,febJ'd'C8), MV BIRD. BT MRS. KMII.T ifDSOS. . Ere last year's moon bad left the sky, A birdling sought my Indian nest, And folded, oh, so lovngly 1 Her tiny wings upon my breast. From morn till evening's pnrple tinge, In winsome helplessness sholies ; Two rose leaves with a silken fringe Shut softly on bar starry eyes. There's not in Ind a lovicr bird ; Broad earth owns not a happier nest ; 0 God, thou hait a fountain stirred, Whose waters never more shall tost I This beautiful mysterious thing, This seeming visitant, from heaven, This bird witb an immortal wing, To me to me Thy baud has given. The pulse first caught its tiny stroke, The blood lis crimson hue from mine; This life, which I have dared invoke, Henseforth is paralel with Thine. A silent awe is in my room I tremble witb delicious fear; The future with its light and gloom, Tiiuo and fcternity are bore. Doubts hopes in eager tumult rise ; Hear, 0 my God, one earnest prayor, Room for my bird in paradise, And give her angel blumage there ! THE TRIBUNE TRAGEDY. The Oriyin of the Difficult Mrs. Mc Farliwl Xuminj Mr. RwJtanhon The Story of a siifferini Wife. From the N. Y. Sun of Saturday we condense tbe following account ol the dif ficulty between Albert D. Richardson, the well-kuown correspondent of the Tribune, with Duutel f. Mc. Farlaud, which result ed, as wo have already &iuiouucel, in. the hooting of Mr RicharJsou on Thursday !i.St. MR.. Richardson's first ixTtioDt'CTroj? Eel 'evtng that she could cotuuiaod a liv ii,.'salcry upon tho stage. Mrs. McFarlaud en Jea"crcd to obta'D nn enganjemeDt. Du ting Let- troubles with her husband she had frequently visited Mrs. Sinclair, the wife of the publisher of the Tribune, whom she reckoned among her warmest firicuds. She informed Mrs. Siuclair other desire to earn a living upon the stage. Oue evening, while Mrs. Sinclair was conversing with Mrs. Mt-Farland, Mr. Richardson Causally dropped in on a visit, ana was introduced to Mrs. McFurland. Mrs. SiDslair told him of Mrs. MuFarland's wishes, and Mr. Rich ardson generously offered to use his influ ence to secure her a postsion. The offer was accepted. A day or two afterword Mr. Richardson called upon Mr. Siduey Howard Gay, then the managing editor ol the Iribune. Mr. Gay was interested in Mrs. McFarland's story, and gave her a letter to Mr. Win. Stewart, of the Winter Garden Theatre. Through Mr. Gay's in. flueuce she obtained position at Winter Garden, at a salary of twenty dollars per week. ' 'i ii THE RK8ID.VCE I.V AMITf STREET. About eight months before this the Mo Farland family had boarded in Beach ptreet with a gentleman named Bunker. Oue of the boarders in that house yesterday in formed a Sun reporter that Mr. McFar. land's brutal conduct toward his wife while at Bunker's occasioned remark, and the borders generally sympathised with the un complaining wife. For some uuexplained reason Mr. aud Mrs, McFarland left 35 Beach street, end went into ths country. On their return they went to either 61 or. 72 Amity btreet, where they boarded at the time that Mr. Richardson was first in troduced to Mrs. MsFarland. Mr. Rich ardson was then preparing his book, "Be. youd the Mississippi." He bad rooms in the vicinity. They were crowded with artists and engravers, who were employed to illustrate the work. Before the labors on this book were completed some trouble arose between Mr. Richardson and bis landlord. Some furniture was broken in the room during Mr. Richrdson's absence. and fhe laudloid demanded a specified sum therefor. Rathei than pay whai he regar ded as an exhorbitant and unjust demand, Mr. Richardson indignantly left the house. Iltf took the first rooms that he could ind, and they were in the house and on the same floor as those occupied by Mr. McFarland. M'r A ELAND'S JEALOUSRY OF3ICHARDS0N. Mr. Richardson does not seem to have paid any particular attention to Mrs-" Me Farlund daring bis residence in Amity street. He apparently aided her In selling manuscript, for she used her pen freely in endeavoring to support herself and family. Mr. Richardson's room was clustered witb papers, sketches, Wood cuts, and manu sciipts, or as one of his friends expressed it, in a state of chronio journalistic disorder. A huge photogragh representing him stand ing in the foreground of a scene in the Rocky Mountains, Was entirely in bis way. It was a present from some San Francisco photographer. Mr. Richardson first pitch ed it in a corner, but it fell on the floor, and was found to be in the way. He then placed it on the mantel-piece, but it be came warped, and again was in the way. One day he asked Mrs. McFarland if she couldn't put it in a place where it would be out of the way. This was while he was busily writing and smoking, apparently quite nervous. Mrs. McFarland smiling said she would take care of it for him. It was nearly ths size of a fireboard, She took it iu her room, and placed it in the boitotn of an old trunk Some time after ward McFarland discovered it. It threw him into a furious fit of jealousy. He ac cused his wife of hiding it in her trunk to Keep it on ins stgut, ana abused her shame fully. She endeavored to mollify him, but in vain. GOIXQ HOME FROM WINTER GARDEN. While she was acting at Winter garden her husband seemed on fire with joualous rage, bo fureious did he become that Mrs. MsFarland was afraid to admit him to the green room, fearing his violence toward some of the actors. She frequently requcs ted her friends to accompany her home Sometimes Mr. Samuel Sinclair and his wife would call at the conclusion of the performance, and walk home with her. At other times Mrs. Lucia Calhoun, a well- known writer of the Tribune, and her broth. er or her husband would go home with her. WUT RICHARDSON DID NOT KILL MC FARLAND. . McFarland had repcktcdly threatened to kill Richardson, and Richardson had been repeatedly warued by his friends. Both men carried revolvers. Mr. Richard son says that ho would havo returned Mc- Farland's fite had he not been afraid of killing some of the boys behind the coun ter. As Richardson is a dead shot. Me- Farlund probably owes bis life to this cir. cumstance. Mr. Richrdson says that if ho could have looked MsFarland In the eye when he drew the revolver, the latter would not have dared to fire. McFarland has re peatedly endeavored to catch Mr. Richard son off his guard. Some time ago Mr. Richardson was walking with some frieuds in thecoiridor ol the Astor House. Mc Farland heard of it, and entered the hotel, with his hand on his pistol. As he ncarcd his victim, Mr. Richaidson looked him full in the eye, and prepared to receive him. McFurland'g head dropped. He sidled away, and began looking out of the window. MRS. M'FARLAND'S STATEMENT. In allusion to the statement of McFarland that he had found her visiting Mr. Richard son's room at their mutual boarding-house, ebe said that sho had simply knocked at his door to give him a manuscript which he had offered to deliver to a publisher. She was writing at the time for the support of herself and two young children, as her hus band contributed nothing towards the fam ily expenses. nr married life of twelve years, she said, bad been a perpetual torture. Mr. Richarason was a witness to a portion of her triuls, and she was naturally grateful for the warm sympathy he displayed for her sufferings. When, at last, she bec&me definitely separated from her husband, she experienced a sense of deep relief and en. tire freedom, and could not realize that she was. not at liberty to receive the visiu of Mr. Richardson or any other ccutleuian, or walk abroad with whom she pleased. THE DIVORCE She obtained divorce recently at Indian apolis, Ind., on the ground of drunkenness, brutal treatment, and a neglect to afford sup. port, and resided in that city a year and a half, to afford full legal time for a citizen ship and a euit. During that period she did not see Mr. Richardson. Four weeks ago she returned to ter parents. MRS.' M'FARLAND WITH MR. RICHARDSON. Mrs. McFarland, who, since her divoroe , has assumed her maiden name of Sage, ar rived here yesterday from the home of her father in Charlestown, Mass., accompanied by ber mother. Both are at the Astor House. They fully expected to find Mr. Richardson no longer living, and, witb other Irienes, am now tuinbteriog to h'm oomfort Mrs. Sage isslighily above the middle size. She has light hair, a fair complexion, and the rosy hue of vivid health. Her head displays fino phrenological developments, aud her wholo aspect suggests a high tone of mental and physical harmony. She is about thirty years of Bge, but looks consid. erabley younger. Her voice and expres. sion denote exceeding gentleness and mod. csty, and she shrinks with pain from the publicity to which she has been subjected . She at once impresses a beholder as posses sing a lovely and interesting character. A Free Passaqb. Among the num. erous passengers on board a Mississppi riv. er Bream boat was a tall, gaunt Yankee. He did not walk up to the captain's office and pay his fare, so the clcik hinted to bira that the money was wanted. The stranger was not disconcerted, but replied : "I'm going np the river a little way jit's all right." The clerk not being much the wiser for this answer, again politely asked : "At what point do you land, sir?" "Don't land at any poiut. It's all righ t though." Here the clerk left our hero and went to consult with the captain, who at once lost his good humor and proceeded to bring the matter to a focus, accosting the Yankee with : "How far arc you going to bear us com' pany up the river, stranger ?" "Oh, I'ai going up a little way with ye but it's a J 1 right, captain." "But, sir,"Baid the captain, "you have neither paid your fare nor given the clerk your place of destination ; and you are old enough to know that when a man refuses to pay his fare or give a good reason for not paying, we put him ashore' immediately." "Well, captain, I s'pose it's your custom, but it's all right." II ci c the captain lost his patience and ordered tho pilot to land a oue of the sta tions, and our hero to make ready to go ashore ; to which he graciously replied : . "It's all right, captain." After gettiug on "terra firm.i," the cap tain gave him a short blessing tor causing tho troublo to land, and threatened him with a thrashing if he ever saw Iwtn again. etc.. to which the stranger reponded again, with an tiir of triumph, pointing to a fine looking cottage just above him on the bank: "It's all right, captain ; that's my house captain; it's all right." Tho captain swore agaiu for a few min utes.. A Good One. A pretty rich occurrence came off at Sandy ville, Tuscarawas connty, Ohio, the other day. Mr. McFarland, the landlord, aud also a farmer, took a lot of sheep from Colonel Black to keep fo- him. The bargain was that if any of the sheep died McFarland was to pelt or wool them, which uifcaus that he was to take the bides off or pall the wool, as he thought proper. A stormy night came sud three of tho sheep died. McFarland had a chunk of a boy iu his employ who was not 4jp to sheep talk, and ho ordered the boy to go and pelt the sheep. He came back in a couple of hours, and McFurland asked him how he got ou to which he demurely replied : "Oh, mid- dlin! I got the most of them, but there was three I could not catch." McFarland went to the sheep pasture and discovered that the boy had "pelted" nineteen of ihe sheep to death, and pretty thoroughly run down the three wild onef. WnAT are Woman's Rights? The following lines set forth more peautifully than all the bo called advocates of "woman'8 rights" have been able to do, the exalted prerogatives nature has bestow ed upon women : The right to wake when others sleep; The right to watch, the right to weep ; The right to comfort in distress ; The right to soothe, the right to bless The right the widows'heart to cheer i Tbe right to dry the orphao,s tear; The light to feed and clothe the poor, The right to teach them to endure ; -The right when other friends have flown And left the sufferer alone, To knecel that dying couch beside And meekly poiut to Him who died ; The right a bappy home to make In any climate for Jesus' sake ; Rights like these are all we crave Until our last a peaceful grave. Not having heard from tne debating socie ties in relation to the conundrum, "Why do hens always lay eggs in the day time?" a cotemporary answers, "Because at night they are "roosters." TUE PHENOMENA OF DEATH. Dr. Richardson says that by the' strict ordinance oi nature death is not intended to be cruel or physically cruel to the body. The natural rule is that the natural man should know no more concerning his own death than his own birth. Born without the consciousness of suffering, and yet sub jected at the time to what in after life would be extreme suffering, ho would die, if the perfect law be fulfilled in Lim, in him, in like manner oblivious to all paim mental and physicrl. At his entrance into the world, he sleeps into existence and awakens in'.o knowledge ; at his exit from the world, his physical cycle completed, he dozes into sleep acd sleeps into death. The true euthanasia, or purely painless, purely natural physical death, is described in its perfection, as among the most won dertulof natural phenomena. The facul ties of mind which have been intellectual, without pain; or anger or sorrow, lose their sway, retire, rest. Ideas of time and place are gradually lost ; ambition ceases ; re. pose is the one thing asked for, and sleep day by day gently and genially wiles away the hours. The wakings aro short, care less, painless, happy awakenings to a busy world, to hear souncs of children at play, to hear, just audibly, gentle voices offering aid and comfort, to talk a little on simple things, and by the merest weakness, to be enticed once again into that Boothing sleep which, day by day, with more frequent repetition, overpowers all. At last the in tellectual man reduced to the instructive, the consummation js desirable ; and with out pain or struggle or knowledge of the coming event, tho deep sleep that falls so often is ho sleep perpetual euthanasia. This as it is described, is the death by na ture; and when mankind has learned the truth, when, as will be, the time shall come "that there shall be no more an infant of day," the act of death shall be as mercifully accomplished as any operation which, on the living body steeped in deep oblivion, the modern surgeon paiulessly performs. From the process of tho purely natura death there are some exceptions. The su preme organizing miud has exposed us to natural accideuts, in which the death, sud den, unexpected, inevitable, is painless also. Lightning stroke, buu stroke, crash ot mat ter, swift burcal iu gieat waters these arc common acts of natuie that kill, and so quickly that the body hath not time to know or to feel. Toexpeiiance pleasure of pain, we have to receive the iraprssion, and it has to be transmitted to the organ of the mind ; here it has to be fixed or regis, tcred; lastly, that the mind has to become aware that the impression is registered, which last act is in truth the conscious act. Time is required for this, although almost inappreciable. Destruction by lightning stroke is so swift that the impression con. vcyed to the body is not registered, and therefore is not known cr felt. It is the same with sudden immersion in water, consequent inseneablity and restora tion. The experiance Df some who have undergone this is, entire loss of all consci ousuess of all that took place from and af ter the immersion. Nature is kind in her determined, unrelenting -action. And even in death caused by the action of the spirit of free will man, which renders the world practically a chamber of suicides for, by want, by pleasure, by care, by strife, by labor, by indolence, by courage, by cowardice, by lust, by unnatural chastity, by debacement, by ainbi'.iou, by generosity, by avarice, by pride, by servility, by love, by hate, aud by all the hundcrcd opposed and opposing .passions in their access, we die, we kill it is ou the whole not cruel or painful. In all the pestilence, tho brain of the stricken unusually loeses its func tions long before dissolution, and to tho sufferer the last act is a restless sleep. Iu extremely violeut death from human causes, the railway oollission, the crush in battle, life is extinguished in a moment without the consciousness of raiu. In cousuuip. tioo, although painful to behold, how many of its victiais live to their final hour in happy planning of the future and die iu the dream. The points on the subject are simply these : Nature, which is to us the visible mani festation of the Supreme ioteligeuoe, is ben- eficeut iu the infliction of the aot of death; that thwarted in her ways, she is still ben eficent, aud that she may be trusted by ber children. The great law and intention of nature, is that in death there should be no' suffering o whatever Whatever there is in death of pain, of ter ror, of unsubdued sorrow to the living, is made pain, made terror, made sorrow, and that to attempt the removal of these Is the noblest and holiest task the spirit of, man can set itself to oarry out and to perfect. It is to give euthanasia to the individual, mil. Ionium to the world, SCENE ATA WEDDING. Near Foster's store, in Cheatham county, resides a well-to-do planter named Kenniff, who is tho father of a beautiful girl of nine teen, tho belle of the neighborhood. Two years ago her heart was won by a young man, and the father opposed the match, the lover being poor. The lover urged his suit in vain, and as a last resort went to Virginia to see a rich aunt, and persuado her to settle enough upon him to enable him to claim the woman of his choice'. Now, there chanced to be another suitor in the person ot a platr's son of considerable mead who resides in the adjoining neighborhood. Him the mercenary father favored. Id fact, he looked with gratification upon the attentions received by his daughter from this source, and besought her to accept the young man's proposals. Several weeks elapsed after the departure of the favored lover, and no letter reached her, pining at home. The young planter, together with tbe father, so worked upon tbe mind of the bewildered girl that she at last acceded to the dcxands of her parent. Aarrangeracnts were made for the wedding to take place at once. The day arrived, and when the party were iu wating for the'clergyman, a young man rode up to the gate, dismounted, and came hurn'dly up to the houso. It was the missing lover, who brought substantial proof of the generosity of his relative in the East. A scene ensued. The girl did not faint, but she gave the waiting bride groom, who stood by arrayed in a splended suit of broadcloth, such startling proof of her af. fection which sho entertained for his rival that he fled from the house. The father stormed a little, but was finally consoled. There was fasting in the bouo that day, and when the next arrived tlure was a wed ding. Nashville Banner. Extreme Delicacy. -'Is there any thing the matter 1 "There is, sir,'' was the host's savage r. "Have I given offence?'' "You havo sir." "Really, I am ignorant of Uh "Well, sir, let me tell you such language won't suit here." "My dear sir what language ? We were only talking of soup !" 'Well sir, but you said ox-tail !" "Well suppose I did?" "Why, sir, it's the vcrv word that sent all the ladies blushing out of the room- it's highly unbecoming language very ini. proper indeed V "But my dear sir, what would you have mo say ? I called tho houp by hs proper name didn't I ?" ' No, sir, you did not ; and whenever you have occasion to speak of that particular soup again, never Bay Ox tail soup 1 Say 1 ly-uispereer soup 1 That'g tho proper word, Btr." An Illinois editor warns parents' atrainst allowing their daughters to sleep in tents at camp-meeting. The exprience of two young girls, residents of Sangamon County, is related In support of tho . warning. It seems that a committee of deacons Was ap poined to investigate the case, and after a long silence, a venerable brother advanced the opinion that the tent was not properly tethered, and that devil crept in. On mo tion, the committee adjourned. . "Which are the uttermost parts of tho earth ?" asked a school teacher of one of his boys. "The parts where are the most woman," answered the head of the class. "What do you mean by that, Brown?" asked the tcreher, "I mean," was the reply, "that where there are the most wo mau, there ii the most uttered." The Syracuse papers have lived for eev cral weeks upon the stone man, and the Journal xxmt a speoial Giant Depaitment. The Vermont Legislature baa : passed a bill holdiug liquor dealers responsible for the damage to person or property done by those obtaining liquors of them. The Bible is read in the public school of Washington daily, by Prote.tont and CatUolio teachers
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