The Elk County advocate. (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, March 15, 1877, Image 2

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Henry A. Parsons, Jr., - Editor
THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1877
Pennsylvania Hew.
Furnace No. 4, of the Crane Iron Com
piny, Catasauqua, made 483 ton of iron
last week,
. J. D. Yopmsn hM been appointed super
Intendent of the Buffalo, New "York sad.
Philadelphia Railroad.
4EaBl of the mountain the Pennsjlvanla
canal will be open for navigation about the
middle of the month, .
J. 8. Puhaan, of Laurel Run, Lycoming
eounty, bas put tn between are aad six
million feet of logs this season.
A steam saw mill on Pina Hill, Leierne
county, and belonging to Stanton & Wide
man, was destroyed by fire on the 23d ult.
The West Branch Canal Is in good order,
and it is expected the boating season will
begin about the 20th of this month.
Alfred Res, was shot and instantly killed
by his brother, at Barnslon, yesterday.
The murderer has been arrested.
. George Shrom, editor of the Newport
(Perry county Ledger,) waa elected Burgess
of that place at the late eleotion.
II. J. Olmsted, of Coudersport has been
appointed bonk 'assessor for Bradford,
Clinton, Potter, Susquehanna and Tioga
counties.
The Susquehanna river was froen oyer
this year earlier than at any period since
I860. In 1874 it was not closed during the
winter.
The case of James Pan n ell, on trial at
Lancaster for murder, has been given to
th i jury after arguments by counsel occu
pying three days.
John Carr -was killed near Petrolia, on
ihe 8d inst., by being caught in ihe cable
at an oil well and wound around the shaft
while drawing tools.
A. 0. Blancke, a former clerk in the of
fice of the motive power department of the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Altoona, was
killed in a recent hattle in Cuba.
Three hundred men, at work on the
double track of the Lehigh Valley Railroad,
were discharged last week. Work in the
mines of the company at Vest Pittstoa has
also been suspended.
A daughter of Charles Kissecger, of
Huntingdon county on the morning of Ihe
2d inst., was playing with a candle, when
its clothes cnught fire and it was so bailly
burned that it soon died .
A large steam mill at Blossburg, belong
ing to the Blossburg Coal Company, was
totally destroyed by fire early last Satur
day morning, together with a large
quantity of valuable lumber. Loss $30,
000. The Democrats of Pike county held their
annual meeting on tho Oth instant. A
resolution waa adopted condeming the ac
tion of the Democratic Congressmen in vot
ing for the commission to try the Presiden
tial question.
The Delaware and Hudson Canal Com
pany, up to tli 3d instant, had mined 280,
C02 tons of coal. Last year to the same
period they had produced only 140,866
tons, showing a gain in favor of 1877 of
39,738 tons.
Any citizen mailing ten cents to the
Schcol Department, Harrieburg, Pa., re
questing a complete copy of the last edition
of (be School Laws, giving their name and
post office address, will receive a copy by
return mail.
The Williamsport, Bulletin says : "The
oil fever is spreading and threatens to infect
all this region of country. A strong com
pany has been formed for the purpose ot
boring for oil at Pine Bottom Run, on Pine
creek, a short distance above Waterville."
J. S. Mower, a member of the bar of Bed
ford county, was recently dismissed from
the court for having committed a series of
forgeries and with having collected monies
for clients which he applied to his own use.
The Tunkhannock Democrat says:
Travel upon the Lehigh Valley Railroad is
picking up rapidly, and although we can
never hope to see the Centennial times
again, the prospects are that two or three
additional trains will be needed to accommo
date 6ummer tourists."
The locomotives on the Pennsylvania
Railroad have pieces of tin affixed to the
headlights bearing the number of the engine
This is to apprise telegraph operators of
the number of engines passing their
stations after night.
David O'Hara, flagman on the Pan Han
dle Railroad, was killsd recently by a
stone from the side of the mountain falling
upon him while the train waa in motion.
Only a few months since a brother of the
unfortunate man was killed on the trestle
work over Saw Mill run, not two hundred
yards from where he met his death.
Laws Relating to Newspaper Subserlp
tlons and Arrearages.
1. Subscribers who do not give express
notice to the contrary, are considered wish
ingto continue their subscription.
2. If subscribers order the discontinu
ation of their periodicals, the publishers may
continue to send them until all arrearages
are paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to
take their periodicals from thf office where
they are directed, tbey are held responsi
ble until they have settled their bills, and
ordered them discontinued,
4. ' If subscribers move to other plaees
without informing the publishers, and the
papers are sent to the former direotion,
tbey are held responsible.
6. The eourta have deolded that "refus
ing to take periodicals from the office, or re
moving and leaving them uncalled fjr is
prima facie evident of intentional
fraud."
6.. Any person who reoeives a newspaper
and makes use of it. whether he has
ordered, it or not, is heldia law to be a sub
scriber. ' 7, If subscribers pay in advance, they
are bound to give notioe to the publisher at
the end of their time, lftheydoaol wish to
continue taking it otherwise the publishers
are authorised to send it on, and th sub
scribers will be held responsible until an
express notice with payment of all arrears,
seat to the publisher.
The Clearfield Republican of a late date
says i "The lumberman in tbia region
have about finished their eentraeti for cut
ting and putting tn logs, and are now
S silently waiting for water with which to
rive them to market.. We inoldentally
learn that about 23,000,000 feet have been
put in Laurel run during the past .winter,
being more logs then have been put in that
stream at any one time for several years,"
The commission appointed by the Gov.
ernors of Pennsylvania an J New Tork,
whose duty it shall be to examine and rec
tify or re-establish the boundary between
the Keystone and E'erpire Slate's, w.jll pro
.cetd to examine the. line about' the' lst'of
Hprll,:..'. .-"-V . '.
BLANKET SHAWLS, AT
POWELL KIME'S
DRIED APPLES AT
POWELL & KIME'S.
. Sates of Advertising.
One column, one year $76 00
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Transient advertisements per square of
eight lines, one insertion $1, two inser
tions, $1.60, three insertions, $2.
Business cards, ten lines or less, per
year $5.
Advertisements payable quarterly.
New Advertisements.
No
We will stnrt you In A bUHlnesH
vou can mnkn ttO a wwk without
Money
capital; rosy nnrt respectable for
eiuier arx
M. A. Young, 201 How-
ery, N. Y.
mini.
Administratrix's Notice.
Estate of Geo. Walmsley late of St.
Marv's Borough, Elk Co., decenned.
Letters Testamentary upon the above
estate have been granted to tne under
signed, all persons indebted to said es
tate ore reo nested to make navment.
and those having claims to present
me same wiiiwui ueitiv to
ESTHER ANNE WALMSLEY,
n4t0 Administratrix.
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NOTICE.
U. S. ISTEEXAL RETEXCE
SPECIAL TAXES
May 1,1877, toApril30, 1878.
The Revised Statutes of the U. S.,
Sections 8232, 8287, 3238, and 3239, re
quire every person engaged in any
business, avocation, or employment
which renders him liable to a
SPECIALTAX, to PROCURE AND
PLACE. COSPICUOUSLY IN HIS
ESTABLISHMENT OR PLACE OF
BUSINESS A STAMP denoting the
payment of said SPECIAL TAX for
the Special-Tax Year beginning May
1, 1877, before commencing or con
tinuing business after April 30, 1877.
A. return, as prescribed on Form 11, is
also required ty law of every person
liable to Special Tax as above.
THE TAXES EMBRACED WITH
IN THE PROVISIONS OF THE
LAW ABOVE QUOTED ARE
THE FOLLOWING, VIZ :
Rectifiers $200 00
Dealers, retail liquor 25 00
Dealers, wholesale liquor 100 00
Dealers in malt liquors, wholesale 50 00
Dealers in malt liquors, retail... 20 00
Dealers in leaf tobacco............. 25 00
Retail dealers in leaf tobacco... 500 00
And on sales of over $1,000,
fifty cents for every dollar
in excess of $1,000.
Dealers in manufactured tobacco 5 00
Manufacturers of stills 50 00
And for each still manu
factured 20 00
And for each worm manu
factured 20 00
Manufacturers of tobacco. .......... 10 00
Manufacturers of cigars 10 00
Peddlers of tobacco, first class
more than two horses or
other animals 50 00
Peddlers of tobacco, second class
two horses orother ani
mals 25 00
Peddlers of tobacco, third class
one norse or otner
animal
15 00
Peddlers of tobacco, fourth class
on foot or puuiio cou-
t veyance - 10 00
Brewers of less than 500 barrels 50 00
Brewers of 500 barrels or more- 100 00
ANY PERSON, SO LIABLE,
WHO SHALL FAIL TO COM
PLY WITH THE FOREGOING
REQUIREMENTS WILL BE
SUBJECT TO SEVERE PENAL
TIES. Persons or Firms liable to pay
any of the Special Tuxes named above
must apply to E. Cowan, Deputy Col
lector of Internal Revenue at Warren
Pa., and pay for and procure the
Speeial-Tax Stamp or Stamps they
need, prior to May 1, 1877, and
WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE.
Special-tux Stamps will be
transmitted by mail only on receipt,
from the person or firm ordering the
same, of specific directions so to do,
together with the necessary postage
stamps, or the amount required to
pay the postage. The postage on one
stamp is three cents and on two
stamps Blx cents. If it is desired that
tbey be transmitted by registered
mail ten cents additional should ac
company the application.
Office of Internal Revenue,
GREEN B. RAUM,
Washington, D. C. Jan. 23d, 1877
Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
Executors' Notice).
Estate of John Taylor late of Fox
Township. Elk Co., deceased, letters
Testamentary npon the above estate
have been granted to the undersigned,
all persons indebted to said estate are
requested to make payment, - and
those having claims to present the
same without delay to
GEO. B. TAYLOR, ,
JAMES R, TAYLOR.
IJVINO. .WILD ANIMALS,
j : WANTED.
&rX),00 ....;.ench for PANTHERS.
8,00. .....each for BLACK FOX EH.
4,00.........each for CROSS FOXES.
10,00,.... -.each for LYNX.
10,00 each for OLD OTTER.
6,00 each ist YOUNG OTTER.
6-00 each for YOUNG WOLVES,
6,00 each for WILD CATS.
6,00 each for FAWNS.
l,00...-en-h for YOUNO BLACK &
CROSS FOXES. .
The above price I will pay, the
Animals to be in good and thriving
condition. Animals can be shipped to
me by way of Punsu'awney Pa. For
further information write to
JOHN A. STEWART,
Marion, Indiana, County, Pa.
TO CONSUMPTIVES.
TLt advertiser, baying been permanently
cured of that dread disease. Consumption,
by a simple remedy, is anxious to make
knows to bia fellow sufferers (be means of
cure. To all who desire-it, be will send a
copy of the prescription used, (free of
cnargej with the directions for preparing
and using the same, which tbey will find a
Suaa Cork for Conscmftion, Asthma,
Bronchitis, Ac,
Parlies wishing the prescription will
please address, Her. E. A. WILSON, 194
renn., Williamsburgh, N. Y.
SEED WHEAT.
I have a limited quantity of fine seed
from a new and unequaled variety of
Kaocn wneat, put up in 1 lb. saoks which
win be sent prepaid on receiptor $1. The
wheat is superior, lo Ihe favorite Clawson
variety, has a strong straw, and stauds op
well when growing. This seed is the
product of experiments last year, from
which the yield was at the rate of 87
bushels of wheat to one bushel of seed.
Only 600 tacks are ofered for sale.
H. D. SMITH,
734 14th. STREET, Washington D. C.
ntl3.
$7Tis not easily earned in these
Iff times but it can be made in
three months by any one of either sex, in
any part of the county who is willing to
work steadily at the employment that we
furnish, f 08 per week in your own town.
You need not be away from home over
night. You can give your whole lime lo
the work, or only your spare moments. It
costs nothing to try the business Terms
and $5 Outfit free. Address at once, II
HALLETT 4 CO., Portland Maine,
oney.
GARDEN SEEDS.
Sew Varieties of Flower and Vegetable.
Don't write to your member 'of congress,
who is flooded with applications for seeds
but obtain the same Varieties, and all the
new ones, by ordering from the undersigned
Bcniile my own specialties I am prepared
to lurmsli ony kioa or seed iroin any cata
log hi it a discount of ten per cent from
list prices. For the convenience of those
who want an assortment ham prepared
two collections.' No 1 consists of 13 varie
ties of choicest Flower seeds a complete
flower garden, price $1. No. 2 comprises
a complete collection of Vegetable seeds
for a small family garden, price fl.GO.
Packages of Ihe two sets combined for $2.00
Sent postpaid to any address on receipt of
price. The seeds in these collections
would cost double the money, made up in
separate orders or purchased of any dealer.
H. D. SMITH,
7S4 13th STREET, Washington, D. C.
FATENTSa,fordrvi:
ces. trade-marks, designs, and compounds.
Labels registered. Infringements, re
issues and interferences will received
proH attention.
INVENTORS
s h'ould
send us
a model or sketch of their invention, and
we will give our opinion as to its patenta
billlyifree of charge. Fees moderate, and
NO CHARGE UNTIL PATENT IS SE
CURED. We will, upon contingeut fee, prosecute
ca ses that have been bkjectsu by the
Patent Office.
We have clients in every State iu the
Union, and invite inquiry through your
congressman as to our standing before the
Patent Office.
Send for circular for further infomatioa,'
terms and references. Established in 18GC.
EDSON BROS,
Solicitors of U. S. and Foreign
PATENTS.
711 Q street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
n2tl3
QUOTATIONS
White, Powell & Co.
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
No. 42 South Third Street.
Philadelphia, March 13th, 1877.
BID. ASKKD
U. 8. 1881. e ......
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do do '66 do ...
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1081
108
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1232
10-40, do coupon
.110
do Pacific 6's cy Int. off
123;
New 6's Reg. 1881 .100i 1104
C. 1881 ..lOUi lioj
Gold 104J 104
Silver 10O 100
Pennsylvania ex ive
421 42
12f 12
Heading....
Philadelphia & Erie
11 Ht
2H 21 i
40 41
Lehigh Navigation,
do Valley
Uuited R R of N J ......... ex. diT13ti
Oil Creek o
Northern Central ex. div 21
Central Transportation 30
187$
7
211
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60
47
110
Nesquelroning . 48
North Pennsylvania v. "4ti
C ft A Mortgage 6's '89 lOilJ
SEW TIME TABLE P. A . B. S.
Commencing Sunday, Nov. 2tH, 187.6
WILCOX.
Hall East..
...........
4:18 p m
2:47 p m
6;22 a in
8:55 p m
" West.
Day Express East
Niagara Express West.
BI DO WAT.
Mail East .
Mail West..-
Day Express East
Niagara Express West-.
ST. mast's.
Mail Eartt
Mall West m ...
4:49
2:11
0:68
8:14
6:15
1:46
7:20
7:45
Day Express East
-............ ,
Niagara Express West.
LIFE, Growth, BEAUTY.
LONDON HAIR COLOR RESTORER
LONDON HAIR COLOR RESTORER
Not a Dye; makes harsh hair soft snd
silky 1 cleanses the soalp from alt impurities,
causing the hair lo grow where it has fallen
1 !..:. -
off or beoome thin.
Can be applied by the hand as it does not
staia the skla onsoil the finest, linen. As
a Hair Dressing it is the most' perfeot the
world has ever produoed. The hair is re
novated: and strengthened, and natural
co'or restored without Iht application of
mineral substances.
Since Iks Introduction of this truly valu
able preparation into this country, ' it has
been the wonder and admiration of all dai
ses, as it bas proved to be the only artiole
that will absolutely without deception,' re
store gray hair toils original uolor, health
softaess, lustre and beauty, and produce
hair on bald heads of its original growth
and color.
This beautiful and fragrantly perfumed
article Is oomplete within itself, 00 washing
or preparation before or after its use, or
accompanyroentof any kind being required
to obtain these desirable results., .
Her Is tho Proof of Hs SUPERIOR
EXCELLENCE.
A'ead this Home Certificate, testified to
by Kdward B. Qarrlgues one of the moal
competent. Druggists and Chemists of Phila
delphia, a man whose veraoily none can
doubt.
1 am happy to add my testimony lo the
great value of the London Hair Color Re
storer whioh restored my hair to its origl
nal Color, and the hue appears to be per
manent. I am satisfied that this prepara
tion not a dye but operates upon the se
cretions. It is also a beautiful hair dress
ing and promotes the growth. I purchased
Ihe first bottle from Edward B. Uarriaues.
druggisl, Tenth and Coates street, who can
also testify nij hair was quite gray when I
commenced its use. MRS. MILLER, No.
730 North Ninth street. I'hila.
Dr. Swayne & Son, Respeoted friends:
I have the pleasure to inform you that
lady of my acquaintance, Mrs. Miller, is
delighted with the success of your London
Hair Color Restorer." Her hair waa fast
falling and quite gray. The color has been
restored, ihe falling off entirely stopped,
ana a new growin or hair is the result.
E. B. UARR1QUES.
Druggist, cor Tenth and Coates, Phila.
boston testimony; --y
July 21M, 1871 Dr. Swayne ft Son:
Last witter while in Trenton, N. J., 1 pro
cured ajx bottles' London ' Hair Color Ke
sloier, which I like very much, in faet bet
ter than any thing I have used in the last
nine years. If you please, send me one
doieu bottles 0 O V care W S Fogler ft
Son Druggists, - No 723 Tremont street,
Boston. Respectfully yours, ADA "BAKER
No 59 Rutland Square.
London Hair Color Restorer attd Dressing
Has 001ipleieIy restored my hair to its
original color and youthful beauty, and
caused a rapid and luxuriunt growth.
MRS. ANNIE MORRIS, Not616 North
Seventh Street, Philadelphia.
Dr. Dulton of Philadelphia, says of it.
The London Hair Color Restorer is -used
very extensively among my patients and
friends, as well as by myself. I therefor
opcak from experience. ,JT.,
75 CENTS PES BOTTLE."
Address orders to Dr. SWAYNE SON
830 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia, Pa.,
sole Proprietors.
SOLH BY'JiL.L nnvaaisTs
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CONSUMPTION! 1
This distressingAnd dangerous onmri-u
and na .feieinoniiory j'itou8J neglected
cough, night eweats, hoarseness, wasliug
flesh lever permanently cured by DOCTOR
SWATHE'S COMPOUHfl SYBUP OF WILD
CHEBBY.
BRONCHITIS A premonilor or Pul
monary Consumption, is characterized by
catarrh, or intlamation of the mucuin mem
brane of Ihe air passages, with cough and
expectoration, short, breath, hoarseness,
pains in the chest. For all bronchial affec
tions, sore throat, less of voice,. coughs;
OR. SWAYNE'S
Compound Syrup of Wild. Cherry
IS A SOVEREIGN REMEDY
Hemorrhage, or Spitting of Bliod, may
proceed from the larynx, trachia, bronchia
orlunga and arises from various causes, as
undue physical exertion, plethora, or full
ness of the vessels, weak lungs, overstraiu
og of the voice, suppressed evacuation, ob
struct ion of the spleen or liver, fto.
Dr. Swayne's Compound Syrup of Wild
Cherry.
strikes at the root of disease by purifying
tbeblood, restoring the liver and kidneys
to healthy. action, invigorating the nervous
system,. .1 .'
The only standard remedy for bemor
rhane, Dronchtal and all pulmonary com
plaints. Consumptives or thosa predis
posed to weak lungs should not rail to use
Ibis great vegetable remedy.
Its marvelous power, not only over con
cumpt-on, but over every chronic disease
where a gradual alterative action is needed
Under its use the cough is loosened, the
night sweats diminished, the pain subsides,
the pulse returns to its natural standard.
the stomaoh is improved in its power lu di
gest and assimilate the food, and every
organ has a .purer and better quality of
blood supplied to it, out of which new, re
creative and plastic material is made. :
Prepared only by
DR. SWAYNE 4V SON,
339 Korth Sixth Street, Philadelphia.
Sold by all Pbomissst Dbugoists.
Itching Piles !
piles, pIles',' itching piles,
POBlTIVSLT CTBKD by the QBC of
SWAYNES OINTMENT
HOME TESTIMONY.
I was sorely afflicted with cos of the most
distressing of all diseases Pruritus or Pru
rigo, or more commonly known aa Itching
Piles. The itching at times was almost in
tolerable, increased bv scratching, and not
unfrequently become qnite sots. I bought
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wun tats aistreasing comptiuat to prooura
Swayne s Ointment at ouoe. I bad tried
prescriptions almost innumerabe, without
finding and permanent relief
JOSEPH W. .CHRIST.
Firm of Roadel & Christ,)
Boot and Shoe Hones 844 North Bacoad
Btraet, Philadelphia.
SKIN DISEASES.
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Beald Head,- Bryaipalaa, Barber's Itch
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esnis. cent by nail to any address on re
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SWAYNE'S PANACEA.
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50TICE.
The appeals will be held in ths sertrai
townships of Elk County as follows.
Jones, at ths house of Martin 8wsra,
Tuesday, February 27th, 1877.
Highland, at the honsa of Levi Elli thorp.
Wednesday, February 28th, 1877.
Millstone, tX the house ot Harry Cats,.
Friday, Miroh 2nd, 1877.
Spring Creek, at the houss of Thomas
Irwin, 8lnrdiiy, llaroh, 8rd, 1877.
8U Mary's Borough, at Bentinger Town
ship, Sohool House Mo. 1 Monday, Maroh
Oth, 1877.
Bentinger, at SohoM House No. 1. Tues
day, Maroh 6th, 1877.
Jay, at the house of David Chase, Thurs
day, Maroh 8th, 1877.
uenetet, at the jseneaet house, Friday,
Maroh, Oth, 1877-
Fox, at the house of John Kooh. Tues
day March IStb, 1877.
Horton, at J. 8. Hyde's store, Wednes
day, Maroh, 14th, 1877
Ridgway, at ths Commissioners' office,
Friday and SatuMay, Maroh 10th and I7th,
1877.
For unseated lands at ths Commissioners'
Office, Friday and Saturday, Maroh 16th,
and 17th, 1877.
And for reviewing military enrollment at
the Commissioners' Office on Saturday ths
17th sf March, 1877
At whioh time and plaoe all persons feel
ing themselves aggrieved by the assessment
of 1877 or military enrollment of 1877 can
attend if they see proper.
By order of the Board,
W. 8. HORTON, Clerk.
Ridgway, Pa, February Oth, 1877.
TRUSTEES' SALE.
T)Y virtue of the powers vested in us by
J3 the provisions of a certain mortgage
exeouted and delivered ty the Kersey Coal
Company to the undersigned, dated ths 1st
dny or June, A. D. 18G8, and duly re
corded In the recorder's office for Elk
county, State of Pennsylvania, in mortgage
book "B," page 193, Ac, as well aa by
virtue of the authority of the decree of the
Court or uomnon l'leas of Elk county
State of Pennsylvania, sitting in equity.
foreclosing the mortgage aforesaid, we will
expose 10 pubiio sale, at the court house, in
Ridgway, in the said eounty of Elk, on
FRIDAY. THE 80TH DAY OF MARCH,
A. D. 1877, at oue o'oloca P. M., all the
rights, franchises and property of the
Kersey Coal Company, including real es
tate particularly described as follows :
All those two certain tracts or pieoes of
land situate in Fox township; Elk county,
State of Pennsylvania, one being bounded
and described as follows : Beginning at a
post at the northeast corner of till r.
Kyler's land ; Ihenoo cast, partly by laud
of Nalh. and D. D. Hyatt, one hundred and
eightyseven'rode (187) to a beech; thenoe
ftouth, by land or Horace Little, one nun.
dred and sixty rods to a post and stones;
thence west, by lands of Joseph Cook and
Jesse Kyler, one hundred and eightyseven
rods to a post ; thence north by lands of
Jesse Kyler and Eli P. Kyler, one hundred
and sixty rods to the place of beginning,
containing one hundred and eighty-seven
acres, more or less, being part of the tracts
Mos. 4U78 and 4U79, and the same con
veyed to Joseph 8. Hyde by Edward Mo
Quone and Ellen, bis wife, by their deed,
dated Oth day of November, A. D. 1855,
duly recorded in the office for the record
log ofd:eds in Elk county, in deed book
"r , page J, sc.
Also Another tract adjoining the one
above described, and ia hounded and des
cribed as follows : Beginniug at a chest
nut tree standing in the west line of war
rant No. 4078; thence east, by landa of
Lli r. Kvlcr und J. 0 Hyilo, one hundred
rods, more or loss, lo on elkwood ; thence
uurih one hundred and sixty-nine and six
lentiis (160 0-10) rods, more or less, to 1
maple tree ; thence west one hundred rods,
more or less, to a beech ; thence south, by
warrantNo. one hundred and amy
uineuud eix-tcntns (lt o-iv; iea, wore
or less to the place of beginning, contain
ing one hundred and six acres, more or
lens, being prt of tract No. 4078, and the
same land conveyed to Joseph 0. Hyde by
Bitfield P. Little and Lydia A, M., bis
wife, bv iheirdee'd dated Itith day of July
A. D. 1809, duly recorded in the office for
the recording of deedi in Elk county, in
deed book "It, page 7o7, &Q.
Also All the following described tracts
of laud situate in the township of Fox
aforesaid, bounded and described as fol
lows : One tract beginning at a post at
the south side of the Milesburg and emeth
port road, on the western line of Daniel
Hyatt'a land, forty-six (46) perches, mors
or less, to a hemlock ; theuoe west forty
three (43) perobes more or less, to an elk
wood tree on Libel's line; thenoe north
along said Libel'a line, seventy-four (74)
perches more or less, to the Milesburg and
Smethport road ; thence easterly along said
Milesburg and Snieihport road to the plaoe
of beginning, containing sixteen (16) acres
more or less.
Also One tract beginning at a post on
tbe mill road; thenoe west eighty one
(81) rods to John Semeling's southeast cor
ner ; thence north ninety two (92) rods to a
stone corner; thence east niuety-six (96)
rods to mill road ; thence south twenty-six
degrees east twenty (20) rods thence south
ten degrees west twenty (20) rods, thence,
south .thirty , degrees west twenty (20;)
rods; thence 'south fifteen degrees wast
thirty-two (32) rods to place of beginning,
containing fifty (i0) acres mors or less.
Also One tract beginning at a post ;
thence east, by land of Ueorge Wais,
seventy-eight (78) rods ts a post , thence
south sixty-one and two-ihhrds (Glj) rods
by land of J. Seifred; thence west aevauty
eight (78) rods, by land of D. D. Hyatt ;
thenca north sixty-one and two-thirds
rods, by lands of Benxinger & Excbbaoh, to
tbo place of begiuning, containing thirty
(30) acres, being part of warrant 4078.
Also One traot beginning at a -poet ,
Ihenoe eaat twenty (20) rods, by lands of
Benxinger & fisebbacb ; tbenee south forty
(40) rods by lands of D. D. Hyatt, thence
west twenty (20) rods, by lands of Patrick
Murphy, deceased ; thunce north forty (40)
rods by lands of Benxinger & Eschbacb, to
the plaoe of beginning, containing five (6)
acres, also part of No. 4078.
Also All the eoal, iron, oras, aad other
minerals or whatever kind, lying aad Deiug
in or upon all that certain traot situated ia
Fox township aforesaid, beginning at a
hemlock : thenoe eaat, by lands of Joseph
8. Iljdj, one hundred aad two (102) rod
ts a water beech ; thence north by land of
Horace LilUa. eighty -five (85) rods ts a
post ; thence west, by land of George Weis,
one hundred and two (102) rods to a post ;
thenoe south eighty-five (85) rods to the
place of beginning containing fifty-four
(541 acres and thirty (80) perches, tpgeiher
wiui the ricbt of ingress and egress, and to
enter upon aBd into aaid laud for the pur
pose of examining and searching for and of
- , 1 ! ..
mining, Banuiawurisg sua preparing ui
said eoal, iron aad ores, and other minerals,
for market, and transporting the same, and
for loess purposes to build roads an 1
drains upon or under the surface of aid
lands, aa saay ha aseesssry aad proper for
the eosrveaiant uae aad working of -ths
mines or works, with a right to deposit the
dirt or waste of the said mines or works
apon the 1 urfaes convenient thereto to
gether with all the rights, property, im
provements, fraachisee aad estates of said
company acquired or whioh may be here
after acquired,
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