Henry A. Parsons, Jr. .. Editor THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1874. A Conns of Our State. A proposition that a new census of Pennsylvania shall be taken on the first day of June, 1875, in order to present a full exhibition of industrial wealth on the occasion of our great Centennial Anniversary, is now before th Stato Legislature at Hanisburg. No one can doubt that it is roost desirable, most proper, to have this done. The time would be half way between the last and the next United States census, and the thing itself would be that "takiDg of stock" whioh is necessary in national as i?ell as in commercial affairs. Neither need the expense be considerable. The ussistanoo of a great many persona would be required, but only for a short time, namely, for the actual enumeration of the peopb and tho ascertaining, clissi fying, und propel ly condensing the sta tistics which would be collected. A good staff of able and honest worker would be very requisite, and there can be no doubt that it could be organized with little diffioulty. Above all "aye, there's the rub" it will be necessary to employ trustworthy people, who would disdain to mako a job of what, if not fairly done, had better not be done at all. One point, above all, would have to be insisted on, Jnamely the accurate enumeration of the inhabitants of Penn sylvania. The taking of the national census in 1860, and again in 1870, showed how the thing was not to be done. In Philadelphia alone, in 1S70 over a fortnight was wasted in the at tempt to count the number of inhabit ants. Tho only reliable iuoJo is, let the counting be done all on one and the same day, and strictly include each person within doors, wherever be or she might be, on one particular night Forney's Press. Supplement to the Election Law. On Friday last the Senate passed and the Governor signed, an act declaratory of and amending the original act, en titled a further supplement to the act regulating elections in this Common wealth, approved January 80, 1871, as follows: Section 1. Be it enacted, etc. That the assessors directed to be ap pointed and elected by the. fourteenth und fifteenth seotions of tho act ap proved the thirtienth day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, are hereby declared to be assessors only to perform such duties as are now required by law of asscsors incident to the holding ot elections and registration of voters; and that the office of assessor for the purposes of valuation, with all the duties incident thereto, shall contiuue and remain as now provided for law: Provided, That in townships, boroughs aud wards com posing but one election district, tho as sessors for purposes ot valuation shall be assessors for the holding of elections and the registration of voters. Sec. 2. That so much of the thir teenth section of the act, to which this 18 a supplement, as provides "that noth ing in this act shall require the returns of election of township or borough officers to be made to the court as di rected by this section, but all the returns of the election of township and borough officers shall be enclosed in a sealed cover, directed to the Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the proper county, and shall by some ot them be delivered into his office witbin three days after every such election and filed therein," be and the same is here by so altered and amended as to require the returns of the election of township and borough officers to be directed to the IClerk ot the Court of Quarter Sessions of the proper couuty, instead of the Prothonotary of the Court of Common Picas as provided in said act. Sec. 3. In all elections hereafter, the certificate of Laturalizatiou, if genuine, shall be conclusive evidence of the facts mentioned therein, and where the person offering to vote claims the right on the payment of tax, the receipts tor audi tax, if signed by the prcper officer, shall bo the evidence thereof; if such person does not produce such receipt, then the payment of the tax may be provided by the oath of such person or other evidence stating "when, where and townomauch tax was paid. I A raid has been made by a special agent of the Post Office Department at Chicago, upon a number of quack doct ors and specialists who have been send ing obsecne publications through the mails contrary to law. About a dozen persons were arrested, and a large quantity of books and circulars seized. The penalty for the offense of circulat ing this kind ol literature is a fine of Jrooi one hundred1 to' ouo thousand dol lars and an imprisonment of not less lior more than ten years. Mr. Com stock, the Government agsot referred to, has since March, 1873, proeured the arrest of 45 specialists, and had -destroyed 1 8 tone ot obsecno publications and 7 tons of stereotype aud electrotype plates for printing the same. Governor Woodson, o' Missouri, offers a reward of (2,000 apiece, dead or alive, for the mn who robbed the Jasbenger, express and mail train on the ron Mountain Railroad at Loth Hill January 31. In addition to this, it is understood that the government of: Arkansas las offered $2,500 and tbe 1 Post OiEee Department 55.00?, ciskinp I t,o ipgregiite of ?7,50O. The Legislative Assembly of Montana Territory, with great unanimity and en thusiasm, have made an appropriation of 85,000 to facilitate the exhibition ot Montana products at the Centennial Ex position at Philadelphia, to be expended by tho ootnnriasioner, alternate, and the members of the Women's Centennial Commission. Four hundred women have enlisted in tbe temperance movement at Xenia, Ohio. A large and influential meeting was held iu Brooklyn last week in favor of the uniou of that city with New York, and preliminary steps were taken for an organized movement to that end. The Massachusetts Senate has passed to a third rending the biU prohibiting the employment, by any manufacturing corporation, ot women or children un der eighteen yours of age, more than sixty hours in any one week. Owing to the discovery that Tweed and Field are named as members ot the commission appointed in 1871 to renre sent New York in tho Ccntcnial Exhi bition, a resolution has been adopted, at Albany, ou motion of Mr. Weed, Demo crat, to wipe out tho said commission. The trial ol Joseph W. Freeman, charged with the ntnrJor of bis mother, at their home in Jersey City, a few weeks ago, hti9 been poMponcd till March 9. The superintendent of the Bloo'mingdalo Lunatio Asylum is in quiring into tho mental courtitton of Freeman, and makes affidavit that he will be able to reach a conclusion before six weeks. TVIYSICIANS AND DRUGGISTS. A prominent New York physician lately complaiuid to Dmidtis Dick, nboui iiis San dalwood Uil Capsulas, aiming that some times tlicy cured miraculously ; but that a patient of li :s had tuken ilii-m for souielim without effect. On being informed that several imitations were made and sold, he inquired aud found I hut his patient bad been taking cnpsulus sold in bottles, and nut DUN DAS DICK & CUS. hat happened to this physician may have Uai pentd tu othi-rs, nud DUNDAS DICK & Co., tul.e this method ofprotecting "Oil of jSi.iiuaiwoou iron mis disrepute. rJlYSlCIANS who once prescribe the Cnpsulas will CONTINUE TO lo HO, for they contain the I'll UK U1L. in tuo Dial AND CHEAPEST form. OIL OF SAN DLL WOOD is fact super seding every other remedy, sixty Cspsules ONLY being lequ.red to jm-ure a tale and ctilum cuie in mx or eight days. 1'ioiu no oilier medicine can this result be had. Dick's Son CArst'ics solve the prob lem long consiutreu by many eminent yuy siciuns, of how to avoid the nnuisea und dis gust experienced in swallowing, which aie well known to del tact lroni, ll not destroy, me gooa enocts ol many valuable remedies. So(t Capsules aie put up in tiu-foil and neat boxes, thirty in each, and are the only capsules prescribed by Physicians. earTEESE were the only cap sules ADMITTED TO TOE LAST PARIS EXPOSITION. Send for Circular to 35 Woosler St., N. Y SOLD AT ALL EEUG STORES. General Agency, 110 Reade Street, N. V. 1874. the PITTSBURGH EVENING TELEGRAPH! THE BEST NEWSPAPER PENNSYLVANIA. Contains move Telegraph, Local and General News than uny paper in the State. As A FIRST-CLASS NEWSPAPER, the Evening TELEGRAPH will continue in lead the coming year. Its well known ex alted character in the past will bo main tained in the future it will continue to ad vocate the cause of the people, without ref erence to individual interests,' and will re probate all semblance of demngoguery, In whatever quarter it may appear. The TELEGRAPH will maintain its po litical independence of all semblence of all partizan "rings," and a tthe same tinio will advocate the principals of the Republican party and support its nominess when they are deserving of support. The TELEGRAPH will continue in the future, as in the past, to excel in the quan tity nnd quality of its LOCAL AND GENERAL SEWS, care being taken to exclude everything of an objectionable character. The TELEGRAPH will be unequalled in this city the present season iu the matter of FULL AND RELIABLE SPECIAL COR RESPONDENCE. as we have now regular correspondents stationed at Washington City, Hanisburg, Philadelphia, New York and Cincinnati, and special co: respondents elsewhere. This feature of the TELEGRAPH will be un equalled, and will commend it to all who want tha news fresh and trustworthy. The TELEGRAPH will continue to main tain its excellent reputation in a LITERART, SCIENTIFIC AND AR TIM1C. war, and in the quality and amount of se- locted miscellany will not be surpassed by any journal anywhere. Iu tbe matter of IMPORTANT AND LATE TELEGRAPH. 1C NEWS. Our arrangements are such that we cannot be equalled by any colemporary in this sec tion, or surpassed by cotempories nearer the Eastern news centers. Iu a word, the TELEGRAPH the present year. 1874, will aim to be among THE FOREMOST JOURNALS OF THE COUNTRY, to which and neither pains nor expence will be spared Ly the publishers. Tbe Full and Reliable marlret'reports pf the EVENING TELEGRAPH make it es pecially interesting to merchants doing busiLess with Pittsbugh, as its reports are fully twelve boars in advance of the morn ing papers printed here, and uuequaled by them. 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Firmly believing that tie world moves, and that the demands of the public are con stantly inereaeinr, the proprietors of tho (Brand nti;al jStoip have just returned from Hie eastern aud western cities with the most perfect and complete stock of MERCHANDISE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. You caunot ASK FOR ANYTHING they do Dot keep, and they have absolutely BROKEN THE BACKBONE of high prices. They buy for cash and SELL FOR CASH! CHEAPER THAN THE CHEAPEST ! Ridgway, May 1st, 1873. J EW STAGE ROUTE. J. C. BURNS, Proprietor. The subscriber having eecurod the con tract for carrying the V. S. Mail between RETNOLDSYILEL & BROCKWAI VILLE baa placed on tbalroad a Una f hao Hacks leave the Exchange lot el n ReynoldviUe every Tuesday, Tnurtday and Saturday on the atrival of tbe lirooaville stage, and return the same day.. These hacks conned at BrockwayviUe with the Ridgway stages, making connection wi h train on tha P. b E. Road, both east and west. Every atteution to the eoniiort of patrons of this line will be, given, and liberal patronage aoltoitedv Auf. U-Wtf. and General Job Printers, V f QUANTITV. is; THE VICTOR SEWING MACHINE CO. want reliable nnd energetic Agents in this County. The "VICTOR" in it l.ocV-stitch, t-'liuttle Machine, with Sclf-settinc Needle, best fiirnishe I and mist perfect Machine offered. Ar. inorenne of over SiOO per cent, on sales of 1672 over 1871. For Term ftc. Address. VTCTOK SEWING MACHINE CO., 1227 Chestnut St., I'hiladelphia, Pa. nSOlu. Br MAIL. SB CENTS ' ' I M. PARK ROW I fJEWYORft ! IS DAGUSCAHONSA fiAILHOAD. From and afer Monduy, l-'cb. 6t'i 1873. Trains Kill run on this Road as ioilor. s: Leaves Earley 7 30 a. m., arrives at Dagnscahonda Junction 8 10 a. tu., con Decting with Accuni. east 8 14 a. in., aud with id nil west at 9 15 a. m. Leaves Dasuscahouda at 9 20 a m. arrives ac Farley 10 00 a. ui. Leaves Earley 3 30 p. m., and arrives at Dagus caiKuiuaat 5 00 p. ui., connecting will. Mail east at 5 09 p, m, aud Accommo dation west at 5 40 p. ni. In case P. & trains arc late, Dujus cahonda train holds twenty minutes be youd the above time. lickcta t-hould always be procured lie lore leaving stations. C. R. EAR. LEY, Let. VICE'S FLORAL GUIDE TOE 1874. 200 PAGES ; ROO ENGRAVINGS, and COLORED PLATES. Published quarterly at 2ro eer.ts a Year. First No. for lb74 hus been issued. A German Edition at same prioe Address JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. V. I F YOU WANT TO DUY GOODS CHEAP 60 TO JAMES H- HAGEKTY Main Street, Ridgway, l'a. DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, HOOTS SHOES, HATS AND CAPS, GLASS AND QUEENS WARE, WOOD AND WILLOW-WAKE, TODACCO AND CIGARS. ALarge Stock of Groceries n& Provision. The BEST HltANDS of FLOUR Constantly ou band, add sold as cheap as tho CHEAPEST. JAMES U. HAGEKTY. THE ELK ADVOCATE. TnB OLDEST PAPER IN TUB COUNTY, HAVING THE LAROBST CIRCU- ATION, IT IS THEREFORE THE ADVERTISING MEDI UM IN THE COUNTY )c voted to the xUtta$ ot tit optt ti (tfc Owutt). TSKMS:$2.00 PES YEAR. If you want to st.ll anything, let the people kuow it through the Apvocate, tbe great advertising medium. BRING ALONG YOUR ADVER TISEMENTS AND GET Til KM INSERTED IN THE ADVOCATE, AT LOW RATES. She &lh SWwmtte Job Printing OfticM?, Iu the Court Hbuse, Piidway, Pa. The beet work douo, aud at the very lowest prices. Blanks kept constantly on baud at this oflioo. Hand bills printed at theshorcst notice NEW LIVERY STABLE IN BIDS WAV. DAN SCRlDNEll WISHES TO IN (ortu the Citizens of Ridgway, and the public gcLerally, that he has started a Liv cry Stable and will keep GOOD STOCK.GOOD CARRIAGES . Bujgies, to let upon tUt most reason ble terms. Bc4lle will lo do job leaaiug. Stable on Broad street, above Main All orders left at the Post Office will meet prompt attention Aug; 2 1T. f. i l "TO-DAY." THE PEOPLE'S ILLUSTRATED PAPER. Is a thoroughly Amoncan enterprise, u tutifltfl. aim teem ing with the beBt efiorts of tho most able writers of our country. It is a paper that, once introduced in the family oirole, is sure to be eagerly watched Tor ana careiuny pre served. The choice of THREE OF TFIE MOST BIABTIFUL fiHUOMOS ever issued, is given to each subscriber, vis: "Jost Bo High" and "Lima Sbrshmb," i hnii.tifnl f'hll.l Pintiires. bv Mrs. An derson, and "Audio thi Dbwdbofs," a landscape in water oolor by tne ceiourateu All niir rnrontu hnv conies of each, and are prepared to deliver them together with s suucsripiion ueruncaie signeu oy me pun Ushers, at the time the money is paid. Agents wanted everywhere, and liberal in ducements offered. Sample copies with full particulars and description of the Chromos sent ou receipt of bii cents. Only two dollars and a half a year. Addbess, TO-DAY PRINTING 4 PUB. CO.. T33 Sanson St., Phila. 712 Broadway, N. Y. 8 Sehool St, Boston. 113, & 117 E. Madison St, Chicago. TJTICA (Fobuibli Wood Hunt.) STITIOHUV X PORTABLE". Steam Engines. The Best & Most Complete Assortment iu the Market. These Engine hsve alwayn maintained the very highest standard of excellence. We males thi manufacture of Enjyinea. Boiler sn4 Raw Mills a specialty. We have tbe largest and most complete works of the kind in the country, vritU mactunarr specially adapted to ths work. We keep constantly in process lanre numbers of Engines, which we furnish at the very lowest prions and on ths shortest notioe. We build Eo Brines specially adapted to Minn, gaw Mills, Orist Mills, Tanneries, Cotton Gins, Threshers and all elasMS of manufacturins;. , , , , We are now building tbe celebrated Lnne Circu lar Baw Mill, the best and most complete saw mill ever invented. Ws make the manufacture of Baw Mill outfits a special feature of our business, and oan furnish eonvple'e on the shortest noiice. Our aim in ail cases is to furnish the best ma chinery in the market, and work absolutely un equaled for b-auty of deeiim, economy and strength Send for Circular and Price List. UTICA STEAM ENCINE CO. TJTICA, IV. T, Elk County Directory. President Judge L. D. Wctmore. Additional Law Judgo Hon. Jno. P Vincent. Associate Judges Clias. Lubr, J V Houk. District Attorney J. K. P. Hail. Sheriff D. C. Oyster. Prothmotary J-o., Fred. Schcening. Treasurer O. R. Earloy. County Superintendent Rufus Lueore. Commissioners Kobt. Campbell, John Barr, Geo. Ed. Weis. Auditors Clark A. Wilcox, George D. Messenger, and C. W. Barrett. County Surveyor Geo tlmsley. Jury Commissi incrs. Joseph Kerner. and Charles Mead. JTA T77S VEGETABLE SICILIAN HAIR RENEWER. Every year increases the popularity of this valuable Hair Preparation; which is due to merit alone. We can assure our old patrons that it ia kept fully up to its high standard ; and it is the only reliable and perfected prep aration tor restoring ubay or aded Haib to its youthful color, making it soft, lustrous, and silken. Tbe scalp. by its use, becomes white and clean. It removes an eruptions ana aanarun, and, by its tonio properties, prevents the hair from falling out, as it stimu lates and nourishes the hair-glands. By its use, tho hair grows thicker and stronger. In baldness, it restores the capillary glands to their normal vigor, and will create a new growth, except in extreme old age. It is the most economical Hair Dbessino ever used, as it requires fewer applications, and gives the hair a splendid, glossy ap pearance. A. A. Hayes, M.D, State Assay er of Massachusetts, says, "The constituents are pure, and carefully selected for excellent quality; and I consider it tbe JJest x befaeatios for its intended purposes." SoU by all DrugyUt; ana ialri JxedHmse, Price Oue Dollar. Buckingham's Dye FOB TILE W HIS K. K It J. As our Itenewer in many cases re ouires too lontr a time, and too much care, to restore gray or faded Whisk ers, we have prepared this dye, in one preparation; which will quickly and effectually accomplish this result. It is easily applied, and produces a color which will neither rub nor wash ofL Sold by all Druggists. Price Fifty Cents. Manufactured by R. P. HALL & CO., KASIiUA, SJO. Edw'd J. Evans & Co., KURSERYMEN AND EEEDSME5, yokk, fbsn'a C2irCatalogues Mailed to Applicantsig8 Refer (by permission) to Hon, J. S, Black, Washington, D..C. Waisaa, Son Cabi, Bankers, York, Pa, 2-61KV CHARLES HOLES, Watohmaker, Engraver and Jeweler, Main street, Ridgway, Pa. Agent for the Howe Sewing Maohiue, and Morion Gold Pen. Repairing Watches, etc, dons with lie sains accuraey as heretofore. Untie keiva gtratsd. vluty STEAMMINE iWaf m rr Vt' BUSINLSS CAKDS. O. A. RATBBITX, Attorney-at-law, Ridgway, Pa. 1 a if. RUFUS LUC ORE, Attorntyat-Law, ni,!....- fiv Cn . Pa. Offiaa ia ir.ir. w Kri'ck Buildins. Claims fa collection promptly attended ta. vSnlly. HALL A M'CAULJSr, Attorneys-at-Lw. nme. In New Brick Building, Mala 9 Ridjway, Elk Co., Pa. viaMit. : REYNOLD'S HOUSE usraoLEsviLLi.JErrruccyco, r H. S. BELNAP, PaoFMBio J, O. W. BAILEY, ATTOENET-AT-LAW. vlnioyl. Ridgway, Elk Connty, Fa. Agent for the Traveler's Life and Aeai dent Inturance Co., ef Hartford, Cona. JAMES D. FULLER TON, Surseon Dentist, kavlns? permanently'! eated in Kigway, offers his professions ser vices to the citizeus ef Kidgway eAtf sur rounding country. AH work warranted. Office in Service & Wheeler's Building, np Btairs, first door to the left, 78-n-2-ly G. G. MESSENGER, Druggist and Paraceutist, N. vT. eornes of Main and Mill streets, Ridgway, Pa. A full assortment of carefully selected Far eign and Domeslio Drugs. Preseriptioas carefully dispensed at all hours, day sr night. -Inly J. S. B ORB WELL, M. D., Eclcctie Physician and Surgeon, lias remov ed his office from Centre street, to Main St. Ridgway, Pa,, in tbe second story ef tha new brick building of John G. Hall, oppo site Hyde's store. Office hours: 8 to 8 a- m: I to 2 p. as. 7 p m. jan 0 73 r. -S. HARTLEY. M. D., Physician and Sargeon, Kidgway, Pa. Office in Walker's Building .-pecial attention given to Surgery. Office ijouee lrom 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. Resideae on corner of South and Court streets, ap posite the new School Home. All sella promptly attended to. vln2yl. J1YDE- BOUSE, Ridqwat, EikCo., Pa. W. IT. SCHUAM, Proprietor. Thankful for the patronage heretefora so liberally bestowed upon him, the new proprietor, hopes, by paying striet at tention to the comfort and convenience el guests, to merit a continuance el the banie. Oct SO lSG'J. BUCK TAIL JJO USE, Kai, McKeaa Co., Ps. P.. E. LOOKER, Proprietor. Thaukful for the patronage heretefeie eo liberally bestowed upon him, th new pre prietor, hopos, by paying strict attesnien to the comtort aud convenience of guests., to merit a continuance of the aaine. Tne only stables (or horses in Kane and well kent uient or day. Hall atuobed is tha MOUil. V1U40J4. " - 1 o , HALL A BRO.u Attorneys - at Li-1 ST. MARY'S, ELK CCTOTY, FENHSTLTaYXA. ,...JAS. K. F. KAJSt KERSEY HOUSE, Cektbsvillb, Elk Ce., Pa. 1 John Collins, Proprietor. Thankful for the patronage heretofore : bo liber illy bestowed upon him, the new proprietor, iiopes, by paying atrial at- leution to the comfort and convenience of guests, t) merit a continuance ef the! auie. P. W. HAYS, ' PBALBj, is Dry Goods, Notions, Grcceriea, and General Variety, FOX, ELK CO., PA. Earley J. O. vln47tf. ' JAMES PEN FIELD, (Suoo-sor to W. C. Hea'y,) DEALER IN a,ey goods, GBocsaias, nwmsionrs. PKOIjUOE, FHUITS, 4a. 3u7tf. West End, RidgwaT, Pa. FRED. SCHOENING, WHOLESALS AMD BKTA1L JXllU SH PIAM Q-fc'OKTKS, URUANtf , SllEET MUSIC, and MUSIC BOOKS Piano and organa to rent and rental ap plied if purchased. l'rotuouotary's Umoe, Kidgway, fa. vuJOU. 'pO THE CITIZENS OP PENN6VL L VANIA. Your attention is specially mvited to tbe fact that the National Kanka are uow prepared to receive subsoriptione to the Capital stock ot the Centennial lioard of finance. The funds realized from this source are to be employed in the erec tion of tha buildings for tha International Exhibition, and the expenses couuected with the same. It is confidently believed that tha Keystone State will be represented by the name of every citiien alive to patri otic eommemoratien of ths one hundredth birth-day of the nation. Tha share of Block sr offered for $10 each, and sub acribera will receive a hand sous engraved Certificate of Stock, suitable for framing and preservation as a national mehtorial. Interest at tha rat of aix per cent, per annum will b paid en all payment of Cen tennial Stock froi data of payment to January 1, 187ft. Subscribers who are moinaar a National Bank can remit a eueek or poet office order to th nadaraignad. FKBU't; FRALSY, Treasurer. Wa!nt5i., PhttaeVvaU