(Kill ountg gjidpoipte
IIenby A. Parsons, Jn. - - Editor
THURSDAY AfRlL 8, 1873.
The PinsMO Lands Wo learn
from official reports that during tie
year 1872 over ton million seven hun
dred thousand acres passed from the
dominion of the government into pri
vate hands. This would make nearly
seventy thousand farms of one hundred
acres each, eqoivalcnt to two States the
size of Massachusetts. In Kaunas and
Nebraska alone, over fifteen thousand
entries were made within tin year un
der the Homestead law. These entries
represent a population of fifty thous
and added to these two States on lands
i'recly presented by the government,
besides a large number who acquired
their homos by purchase.
Soldiers' Homesteads. There
seems to bo (says the Pittsburgh Cotn-
msreial) a general niisnudei-standiiig ro
garding the amendments which passed
Congress last session in regard to the
Soldiers Homestead law. The act sim
ply provides that whcieas the law of
1872 permits soldiers to entrr home
steads cn what are called "double mini
mum lands," or lands within the limits
of railway grants, and whereas many
soldiers had euteved eighty acres each
thev aro now entitled to enter a whole
quarter section, or one hundred and six-
tv acres of such lands. The amendment
simply doubles the quantity of land that
may be entered under the law. All
other propositions to niuciid the law, or
confer bounties of lauds, lailed to pass.
The Salary Grab Several of tho
Congressmen who have conscientious
scruples against receiving the fivo thous
and dollars extra pay for the past ser
vices voted by the last House, have made
over the amounts to certain schools, and
charitable institutions. J his is much
better than if the said members had put
the money in their pockets; but it is
perfectly clear that it' they have a right
to transfer the sum to a bcncvoleut object
or to a school, they have an equal right
to use it lor their own person! needs.
The popular opinion is that the money
is not honestly tl e property ol any mem
ber of Congress, thut the bill by which
it was appropriated was grossly unjust,
and that the man who removes the
money from the Treasury is, morally at
least, guilty of fraud. The peuplo do
not object so much to the loss ot a mill
ion and a half dollars, as to tho estab
lishment of the piinciplo that a Congres
man may vote himsolf any sum for work
that has been done. Tho principle is
maintained as well by him who gives his
share nway as by him who uses it to pay
his bills. I ho man who has an honest and
real objection to the principle, will cot
touch the monev uudet any circumstan
cos. It belongs to tho people and it
should bo permitted to remain in the
treasury, even il it cannot bo used by
that department I litlmlclphia Even
ing JSulleMn.
Expenses of Govenment A Cor
rection.-A paragraph copied from the
Washington Mar, giving the appropna
tious nt the last session of Contircss for
the expenses of government, which
reach a total of 198,310,080, and stat
ing that they exceed the amount appro
priated at the previous session 54,000,
000, has been widely circulated throw -h
the press. The VTashingtiori F.epublcan
pronounces the stat2Eje.it erroneous, s.nd
aorrect it by giving the r.iproprintions
for the current year, ending Juno i'0,
l!?78, and those lor thy nest fiscal year
ending Jura 30, 1874 by which it
apnem-s tint the former amount to 170,-0-.'4,44S,50,
and the latter to ?17S,f:59,
S74,2G: so that in fast the appropria
tions at the last session of Congress, in
stead of being 854,000,000 in excess of
the appropriations at the previous, ses
sion, v7ere cearly a half a million less.
This statement (tho Republican says)
does not include the amount appropri
ated lor the increased compenr-ation of the
Presdent, Judiciary, Congress, &c,
amounting to $1,233,967, oi the seventy-five
per cent, to retired naval officers,
which is uncertain; but it does include
tho appropriation ot 3,200,000 for the
eight new war vessels, as well as the
annual appropriation for publio buildings
throughout the Unintcd Stairs, amount
ing to 5510,493,053,9(3 of which a large
part is changeable to tho appropriations
ot 1872-73, as will bo seen by rclorouccs
to the law, which says: "And tho sums
hereby appropriated for the construction
of public building under tho Treasury
.Uepiitment, including the building for
the new fstatc, War and Navy Depart
ments, shall bo available immediately
upon the opproval of this act." There
is also included iu tho above sum the
amount of 82,458,033,01 for the Hoard
of Public "Works. In auy fair estimate
theso sums should ba deducted from
the appropriations for the year cuding
June 1874. If viewed in the light oi
tho Dawes act ol July 12, 18"0, and
the very instructive speech on ''publio
expenditures their iuerease and diminu
tion," of Gen. Garfield, on the occa
sion of tho introuduction of tho first
appropriation bill under his charge,
January 23 1872, it will bo found that
tho expenditures authorized under the
6aid appropriations will form no bad
"test of tho health, the wisdom, and
the virtue of the government." In a
word, they show that the actual ex
penses of the government for the year
ending June 1874, are somewhat less
than for tho present fiscal year, and
not fifty-four millions larger as stated
by the Star.
Poiis Protection Protect? A
good many flippant sciolists nf the Iree
trjdo school of political economy (ssys
the 1 ittsbunjh Commercial) are in the
habit every now and then ot flaking
with a great air of oracular wisdom
whether protection really docs protect ?
Of themselves aro they answered. One
of tho loading free trade organs in tho
couutry publishers, iu a recent issue, a
summary ot the statistics vt the nianu
factoring town of Fall River, Massachu
setts, from which it appears that the
population ot the plseo has increased
Irom 1,28(3 in the year ISM to 3f,33o
and its valuation -from 510,041,010 in
18G7, to 837,841,204. It bar, uow
thirty-three cotton manufacturing cum
panics, with an aggregate capital of
14,470,000, with 1,209,004 spindles
2.o4 looms, employing 14,b0 hand?
, usng, l.io,17i liiKc.s ot couon, nianu
factoring 410,025,000 yards of cloth
and paying monthly to employees Slot
oOO. It litis seven nat'.oual bau.;s, wit
a capita! of 2,250,000, ud a surplus of
?1 .113.438; and four savings bunk;,
with 9,(.HS9.029,S5 -deposits by 21.
501 depositors. This rapid and
substantial growth, it should be
remembered, is very largely due to the
tbiteriii! influence of t!:a tariff in pro
tecting mnnutaeturers and workingmeu
from the eouipelilion of iho products of
cheap foreign Ubor. The total product
of manufactures in M;i:-?iohnsotts in
1870 amounted to the enormous sum ot
553,912,568. Would this likely have
been Ifio ccsa if tboro had been no tariff?
And what sort of a iiveiihood would the
teeming population of that State have
been ant to derive from the svlvan pur
suits '!' agriculture among its rock-bouud
sterile acres? fllarrisbuig Telegraph.
A "Moving" Advice. As "moving
time" is fust approaching, hero are a few
suggestions from an exchange, by which
some persons may profit. The writer,
evidently, like most of us, has had some
expenenco :
"II it is your good fortune to 'flit
this spriug, go off without 'cleaning
house,' and leave it in, if possible, a
nastericr conaition than when you tirst
went in. Throw all the old bones, shoes,
hoop-skirts, slops and broken lamp chim
neys just whero they cau bo raked on a
pile but don t do any raking, or the in
coming family wont know what it is to I
make garden. It a door or gate is near
ly off its hinges, givo it a kick to help
it off; it pleases tho proprietor to fix
such things up about this time in the
year. Tell your oldest hopeful to throw
the old dead cat iu the well, because it
imparts a delicious taste to tho water,
and you know tho doctors can't always
be idlo. It you have a surleit ot rusty
stove pipe, broken bottles and rotten cab
bage in tho collar, leave them; it shows
neighborly spirit. hen you pull out
tho spikes upon which your pictures
and looking-glasses depended, be care
ful to draw out about a loot square ot
plaster with eaoh ; it gives a pleasing
appearance to a descrtod room. And
above all, don't commence to 'tear up'
until the other family has arrived, and
are filling tho entry and stairs with their
things. It is such lun to get around
and over them, aud the strangers are in
no hurry to come iu. If you only move
half a square down town, do it on a
wheelbarrow, it is so easy to tall over.
When your last load moves off, it don't
matter if you do throw an axe, a basket
ol canned fruit, or o lew old bains in
The new occupants will think they tfcre
'lost in moving. Dont say good-bye to
the other family, or they might, think
your friendliness is only 'put on,' but
pick up their best door mat and scoot!"
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Letters
of Administration iition tho cslato of
VICTOR NORTON, deceased, have been
dulv Granted tn thu undcrsignod by the
Register of Elk County. All persons in
debted to the estate of the deceased are
requested to make pijment, and those hav
ing claims against the estate will present
the same for Battlement without, delay.
D. C. OYSTER. Administrator.
March, i:0th, IB73. n3t4.
SHERIFFS SALE.
By virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias tesued
out of the Court of Common Pleas of Elk
.mini and tn mt directed: waving Inqui
sition and Exemption, I will expose to sale
by PUBLIC VENDUE Oft OUTCRY at the
Pniirt (Innaa In TtiiltrwUV. Elk Co., Pa. On
.J- o . , n n I r A li
MONDAY, the 14th DAI OI Ariviu, n. xj.
1pi3 at one o'clock, p. m.,
All il, n .irl,t title, interest claim and do.
mand whatsoever of HE Nil Y McCREADY
defendant in said writ, of in to or out oi
that certain traot piece or parcel of land
situate in the Township of Fox, connly of
Elk and State of Pennsylvania, aujo.imiig
lands of FRANCIS O N bib lormeny
SMITH MEADE and described as follows:
bounded on Iho east by lands of EARLEY
& HERSHEY, on the south by landu of
FRANCIS O'NEILL, on the west by lands
belong to the JOHN MA LONE estate, on
the north by land of S 8E1FRED and
others containing about one hundred
acres, thirty-five acres of which is under
improvement and cultivation ond the balance
nf unid one hundred acres is wood land
upon which premises one frame dwelling
house one barn ana nine khu una uuie
sheds with other out buildings.
Hcinfr the Banie premises conveyed bv
EDWARD McCREADY ami wife by deed
dated tho 10th day of January, A. D.
to HUGH McCREADY in trust, for HENRY
MoC READY and EDWARD McCREADY
and Uulv recorded iu the Recorder's otlico
in and for Elk county in Deed Look ' U
page 403 etc. ISeing the same premises on
which EDWARD .MctltLAUl now resides.
Seized and taken in execution as tho
property of HENRY McCREADY, and to
be sold by
D. C. OYSTER, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Oif:ce V
Kidgway.Pa. March LO, 1873. n3(c.
Elk County Directory. -
President Judge L. D. Wetmore.
Additional Law Judge Hon. Jno. P
Vincent.
Associate Judges ChaB. Luhr, J V.
Honk.
District Attorney J. K. P. Hail.
Sheriff D. C. Oyster.
Prothonotwy o., Fred. Sohoening.
Treasurer C. R. Earlcy.
County Superintendent Rufus Lucore.
Commissioners Robt. Campbell, John
BaiT, Geo. Ed. Weis.
Auditors Clark A. Wilcox, George D.
Messenger, and C. W. Barrett.
County Surveyor ueo mnsiey
Jury Commissioners. Joseph
and Charles Mead.
Kern or
THE ELK ADVOCATE.
Failures in 1872 From tho an
nual circular issued from the office of
"The JJerchantilo Agency," we gather
the following statistics in relation to the
failures iu the year 1872, in tho United
States. Theuumber of failures for the
year was 4,0G0, the amount of liabilities
being 121,050.000. In 1871 the num
ber of iailutes was 2,91ii, the amount of
liabilities baiug 883,252,000. This iu
erease is iu the muiu owing to the many
lurne fires which have devastated the
country the past year ilassauhustts
ujoro than doubling her umouut, or
more than 17,000,000, and Illinois
more than doubling. Iu New York
State, outside of Mew York City, the
number of failures was 423, with liabil
ties amounting to 8,-417,000; against
321 and 0,051,000, iu 1871. In New
Yoik City the auiouut of liabilities is
less than iu 1871, while tho number of
failures is greater. Jamestown Journal.
MSB?
IV
UFUS LUCORE, Attorney-t-Law,
Kidgway, Elk Co., Fa. Ottioe in
Hall's new llncK iiuuuing. wms ior
collection promptly attended to.
v3nlly.
IN THE COURT OF
Common Pleas of
Elk County.
No. 24 of Ajiril
Term 1873.
IN THE MATTER 1
of the incorpora
tion of Alvan B.
Frcston and oth
ers as "The Re
formed Church
of Wilcox." J
NOTICE is herebv eivem that Alvan B.
Preston and other have made application
to the Court of Common Pleas of Elk County,
to bo incomorated under the name, Btyle
and title of "1'he Reformed churoh of
Wilcox," and that no sufficient reason ap
nparinir to the contrary a dcoroo of incorpo
ration will be mado at the next term of Baid
Court.
FltED. SC IKE NINO,
Vrothonotary
GEO. A. RATHBUN, Att'y.
v3u!4w.
THE OLDEST PAPER IN THK
COUNTY,
HAVING THE LARGEST CIRCU-
ATION, IT TS THEREFORE
TnE ADVERTISING MEDI
UM IN THE COUNTY
BUSINESS CARDS.
A
idgway, Pa.
Attorney-ot-law,
2 2 tf.
JOHN G. HALL, Attorney at law, Eidg.
way, Elk county Pa. mar-22'(iul
T O. W. BAILEY,
ATTORNEY-ATLAW.
vlnioyl. , Ridgway, Elk County, Pa.
Agent for the Traveler's Life and Aooi
dent Insurance Co., of Hartford, Conn.
ScsrtcA to the gntcsit. of tUe gcopU
of (firth Countu.
Letters from London stato thf.t Wm.
E. Gray, the notorious perpetrator of
the Vi'alf street forgeries, to t!io amount
of three hundred thousand dollars in
18(19, is probably one of tho chief con
spirators ia the recent forgeries on the
Dank of England. Gray, it will be re
membered, is the son of ex-Chaphuu
Cray of the United States Seuato. lie
formerly held office in Washington, and
is one of the most expert forgers Lnowu.
A bill bas been introduced in the
State Senate fixing tho timo for tho
election of a State Treasury on the
second Tuesday of October. 1873, aud
every two years thereafter, aud retain
ing tho present inoumhent until his
successor assumes the office on tho first
Monday of Mach, 1874. The salary is
fixed at 5,000 per annum, and the
surety one million of dollars.
A cheerful prophet in Philadelphia
telk us that from 1880 to 1885 this
world will be subject to a:i unusual am
ount of disaster aud affliction owing to
the fact, that the planets Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus, and Neptune wiil coiiw uncom
monly near to the earth. The result
will be pestilence, f imiue, extremes of
heat and cold, aid sundry other direful
.i t . . . . . fiM. . I
evifl. iuotu me propnet: -ine gissi
patecl, the glutton, debauchee may cal
culate on being the first victims. Young
meu who devitalize themselves by tobac
co using, young ladies who destroy one
half of tbiar breathing capacity by fush
ionablc dress and tiiiht laciu will never
survive thu perihelion of all tho large
planets of the solar system; and per
haps it will be beit that they should
not." We hope tho parties mentioned
will take warning and reform their way
ot life; but at tho same time, we should
think theso big planets might keep
thier distauce and not come around to
tormeut this little wotld nud its poor
sinuevs.
Antonio Zombronu, a distinguished
Cuban patriot who has arrived in New
York city, reports tho insurgents of that
isluud as having an abundaocc ofarnH aud
in good spirits. They are making steady
progress in the Eastern Department,
and will very soon compel tho Spaniards
to wholy withdraw therefrom.
Statements are published based on
the forthcoming report ot the Controlor
of New York, that nearly halt' a million
dollars have beou exacted by blackmail
within the past few years troui tho stall
owners of Washington market.. J lie mar
ket overseers in that timo were Ihe ap
pointees of tho fugitive Coiiuoly, aud
anionic those concerned in the steal are
several well known members of the ring.
Reduction of the State Debt.
The Stato Treasury has given notice
to tho holders of the 510 series of
loans created by the act of February
2, 1867, that interests will cease on all
sums of 5.000 and under, on the 3lst
of July, 1873, amounting in all to $1,
2G5.900, This in the face of the ap
linn nhnnt tn ba made bv the
Legislature, is most gratifying indeed, a good hotel keeper.
A Washington special says the con;
duct of the Collector at Albany, N. Y.,
in allowing the Central Compauy to
buy tho engiues recently auctioned to
pay taxes, was a surprise to the In
ternal Revenue Bureau, us tho Colector
should not have sold for so small a
sum. IIo is bow ordered to distrain
on the pssenger depot at Albany, and
if the company doe not make a fair
bid, to turn the property iu to
tho ciedit of the United States.
Wisconsin crows timber lor masts
150 feet long. ' "
Illinois ia considering the abolitiou of
toll bridges.
New York's Seventh Resiuiont began
its career iu 1808.
The London Lancet says night work
ers should uso tobacco.
In .Rome there is a scoiety of profes
sional blackmailers.
A man that can always be put with
A fast day doos not pass away more
rapidly thau any other.
A salt well at Muskegon, Mich., is
1730 feet deep.
Kerosene ia said tobs more fatal than
small-pox
Mrs. Partington's ' last" may ba
heard of at her shoemaker's.
The feast of imagination Having no
diuuer but reading a cookery bock.
Copper ore is said to have bceu dis
covered in the hills about Cornwall,
Lebanon county, IV,.
Cranberry culture is becoming an im
portant branch of fanning industry in
isconsm
Tub editor of a country journal up
in New York State thus appeals to the
better nature of his delinquent subscri
bers: "lo all those who are m arrears
one year or more, who will eome for
ward and pay up, wo will give a lust
class obituary notice gratis iu case it kills
them."
LICNSNOTICST
TAVERN LICENSE.
BENEZETTK TOWNSHIP.
1. Martin Entz,
2. D. Kunas.
HENZINGER TOWNSHIP.
3. Jacob lierbstritt.
FOX TOWNSHIP.
4. Wolfgang Auman,
5. Kock & Son, (Kersey.)
JAY TOWNSHIP.
. A. Turley, (WVedvilie.)
7. T. J. & J. A. Burke,
S. P. II. Burke,
9. B. Browulee.
Junes township.
10. Horace litnrk.
fcsT, SlARY'li BGUXlUUH. ,
11. B. Conner,
12. P. Scull,
lil. A. J. Layton & Co.,
li. Idathias Welleudort.
EATING I10U3S.
HENZINGER TOWNSHIP.
15 F. Duport.
FOX TOWNSHIP.
13. F. Gill, (Kerrey.) '
17. James MeCloskey.
JAY TOWNSHIP.
18. Thrs. J. Burke, (Weedville.)
6T. mary's borough.
11). F. Sorg,
20. Charles Klauseman,
21. J. B. H indie,
22. George Sonant.
RIDGWAY TOWNSHIP.
23. James Leith.
STORE.
JAY TOWNSHIP,
21. B. E. Moray.
JONES TOWNSHIP.
25. Martin Sowers.
Manhood: Eow Lost, How
Restored.
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jTa Hud ot tm. julveiiwii,t. b
Cklebkated EsstYon the radical cure (with
out medicine) of SrsnMvronniicKA or Semi
nal weakness, Involuntary Soininnl Losses,
Impotkncy, .Mental en.l i'hyaical Incopao
ily, Impediments to Marriage, etc; &1eo,
CoNsi'Mi-Tios. Epilepsy sn l Fits, induced
by self indulgence or sexual extravagaao.
p-fPrioe in a scaled envelope, only 0
cents.
The celebrated author, in this ndruiruV.o
essay, clearly demonstrates from a thirty
years' practice, thai the alf.rmininlig con:;'
quenct-s of self-abuse may lie radically
cured without the dangerous use of ir.ier-
r.al medicine or the applitalioa ot tUekn;i-;
iinintiu'j out a mode of cure ot once simple,
certain aud etfictual, by means of which
every sufferer, no matter what his condition
may be can cure himsch cheaply, pnvat-
lv. itml rudicalh.
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This Lecture siiouia oc ia uio nanus
of every youth and every man iu the lima.
Sent, uudor seal, in a plum envelope, io
any address, pustpard on receipt of six cents
or two post siamps.
Also, Dr. Uulverwcu s -Marriage uuiue,
priue 50 cents.
Address tno ruousners.
CU AS. J. C. KLINE & CO.,
1 'il Bowery, New York, Tost Office Box 4
58G. K as
AGENTS WANTED!
The unpnrnlellcd success of the "Viotor
Sewing Machine," East and Wost, opensa
good opportunity for Sewing Mnchins agents
and responsible men to take the ngenty for
this County.
Foi Circulars, samples of work aud terms,
address,
it
SEWING MACHINE COMPANY..
J. L. FERGUSON,
MANAGER,
$9. 1227 Chestnut Street
PHILADELPHIA,
nov. 27 lm.
JEYNOLOS HOUSE,
mKGLTSVILLE, JEFPEUSON CO, PA.
II. S. BELNAP, Proprietor .
J D. PARSONS,
Manufacturer and Dealer in Boots
and Shoes, Main St., opposi to the II
tel, Wiloox Pa.
J. S. BOBS WELL, Id, L,
Eolcctio Physician and Surgeon, has remov
ed his office from Centre street, UMain st.
Ridgway, Pa,, in the second story of the
new brick building of John Q. Hall, oppo
site Hyde's store.
Office hours: 8 to 9 a- m: 1 to 2 p. m. 7 to
8 p, m. jan 9 7a
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Mnin mid Mill streets, Kidgway, Pa. A
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(special attention given to ourgery. Urace
house irom 8 a. m. to 10 p, m. Residence
on corr.er of South and Court streets, op
posite the new School House. All calls
promptly attended to. vlnUyl.
"CHARLES HOLES,
J Watchmaker, Engraver and Jeweler,
Main street, Ridgway, Pa. Agent for the
Howe Sewing Machine, and Morton Gold
Pen. Repairing Watches, eto, done wilh
ho same accuracy as heretofore. Satis
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vlnotf. West Eud, Rid-way, Pa.
If yon want to sell anything, hi the
people know it through the Apvocatk,
iha 2? t advartiobg medium.
HYDE HOUSE,
Ridowat, Elk Co., Pa.
W. II. SCHRAM, Proprietor.
Thankful for tho patronage heretofore
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proprietor, hopes, by paying strict at
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