GEO. A. RA TUB UN,
Attorney-at-Law,
xMain Street, Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.
UALL & JTCAULEY,
Attorneys-at-Liw.
Office in New Brick Building, Main St
Ridway, Elk Co., fa. v3n2tf.
L UCORE & HA MliLEN.
Attorncys-nt-Law, Ridgway, Elk
County Pa. Office across the hall from
the Democrat establishment. Claims
for collection promptly attended to
Jne. 15 '70.
CHARLES HOLES,
Watchmaker, Engraver and Jeweler
Main street, Ridgway, Pa. Agent for the
Howe Cewing Maohine, and Morton Oold
fen, Hepniring Watches, oto, doe with
ie fame accuracy as heretofore. Satis
."uctba guaranteed. lnly
J. 0. If. MAIL BY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
tlnioyl. Ridgway, Elk County, Pa.
Agent for the Traveler's Life and Acoi
Jcut lnaurauce Co., of Hartford. Conn.
JAMES I). FULL Ell TON,
Surgeon Dentist, having permanently lo
cated in ltigway, offers liis professional ser
vices to (lie citizcus of Uidgway anu sur
rounding country. AU work warranted.
Office in Service & Wheeler's Buildiuit, up
glairs, first door to the left, 73-n-32-lj
O. O. 31 ESS EAGER,
Druggist and Pannacentist, N. W. cornei
of Maiuaud Mill street!', Uidgway, Pa.
full assortment of carefully selected For
eign mid Domestic Drugs. Prescriptions
carefully dispensed at all hours, diiy or
night. lu3V
' T. S. HARTLEY. M. D.,
Physician ana Surgeon.
Office ill Drug Store, corner l'roud and
Main Sis. residence corner Broad St.
opposite the College. Office hours lrom
8 to 10 A. M. anl from 7 to 8 P. M.
vln-y 1.
J. a. BOli DWELL, M. D.,
Eclectic Physician nnd Surgeon, lias remov
ed his office from Centre street, to Mail st.
Uidgway. Pa in '.he second story of llu
new brick building of Johu G. Hall, oppo
site Hyde's store.
Oilic hours:-! to 2 P M 7 to !) P M
HYDE 110 USE,
ltmawAV, Ei.kCo., Pa
V. U. SCIlllAM, Proprietor.
Thankful for the patronage herctoli.n
So liberally bestowed upon hini, the new
proprietor, hopes, by paying strict a.
tentioa to the comfort and convenience o'
guests, to merit a continuance oi tin
same.
Oct 30 lSi.'.l.
:. a. iw v.
LUMIJEIt ANU.INSl.'liAXCE COM
MISSION" liUOIvKIl,
AND
iA KX K II A h. COT. I.KCTIOX A( 1 EXT
Xo -Ati Walnut Place,
(31U Walnut Street,)
PHILADELPHIA. PA.
it -I'-iy
. II'. HA YS,
DKALK. IN
Dry Goods, Notions, Grrceries.
and General Variety,
FOX ELK CO., PA.
i Mai 1(1 J tt.
viuiT if.
M. J. tUltl.KY, M. U. W. 11 II IK1M.1N. .11. II,
D
U.S. EAR LEY & HAKTMAX.
l)r. W. 15. Hartinan, formerl v of St.
Mary's. Iim nx-oriatcd himself with M.
Eui'ley, M. I), in the practice of
medicine tit Ridu'wav. Hv close at
tention to business (hey hope to re
ceive a filieral share oi the patronage
of the public. Dr. W. 15. Hartinan
can he found at all hours, either at his
rooms, over tli3 post-ollicc, or at Dr.
M. .1. Earlcv's Drug Store. J)r. M. J.
Earlcy can he found at the residence
of Dr. ('. H. Earlcy. or at his Drug
Store. Sururerv, and diseases of
women and children a speciality.
V.. K. (illESH,
Dealer in atl kinds of cabinet ware,
woodaud cane scat chairs, kitchen and
txtetitinii tallies, wood and marhle top
tands. wood and marhle ton bureaux,
what not, looking glasses, wooil and
marhle top clianiher suits, mattresses,
priii;; lied bottoms, bed steads, cribs,
Lalerty's metal lined wood pumps,
Jcc. Vi t'ane seats replaced with
jcrforated wood seats, Weed sewing
machine reduced lrom ( to ?4-, the
nest machine in the market, anil pic
ture lranies made to order. Also a
Jarire assorted stock of ready made
Collins constantly on hand and trim
med at shortest notice. All the above
gumls are sold at panic prices. Ware
itooms in masonic minding, liwgway
Pa. v5ii4Mpdapr27'77.
JEW L
IV Kit Y STAPLE
IX
RIDGWAY .
DAX SCPIPXKR WISHES TO
Inform the citizens of Ridgway, and
the public generally, that he has
started a Ljvery Stable and will keep
GOOD STOCK, GOOD CARRIAGES
and Ruggies to let upon the most
reasonable terms.
JK3-IIe will also do job teaming.
Stable on Proad street, above Main
All orders left at the Post Oflice will
receive prompt attention.
Aug201871tf
ERRORS OF YOUTH.
A GENTLEMAN who Buffered for years
from Nervous Debility, Premature De
cay, and all the effects of youthful indiscre
tion will, for the sake cf suffering bu.
manity, send free to all who need it, the
recipe and direction fur making (he simple
remedy Dy wmcn ne was cured, ounerers
wishing to profit by the advertiser's ex
perience can do bo by addressing in porfect
confidence.
JOHN B. OQDEN,
42 Cedar St., New York.
"X NICK LOT OF NEW PRINTS
nt POWELL KTMK'S, only eight
,.ntsper. Sard.
STATEMENT OP THE AUDITORS SET
TLEMENT OK THE ACCOUNTS OF
RIDGWAY TOWNSHIP FOR THE YEAR
O. Ft. Pttnh and .Inmcs Rllry, RupprvlRorn
ninl px-otllclo ovcrKepm of the poor of Hide
way township, tu ;iiccount villi the several
funds.
KOAD FCN'T).
To otnount tnx levied on undented
property 13S2 51
To amount tux levied on Rented prop
erty 1(101 1,1
7U 117
OT8 HI
Excess of expenditure,
?:)7.j0 !
By nmount pxppnded building and ro-
pnliinnroBils &e ai23 41
By supervisors service 187U axi 80
took rust).
To nmount tnx levied on unseated
properly 62U 84
To iniioinit tux levied on sen toil prop
erty 633 15
To nmount received for rent for house
on south street 18 00
To nmount received from llorlou Tp.... fil 88
SUBS 85
By nmount mild for keeping and sun-
piyinn paupers nso m
Ily nmount pxld for kcephiH mid tian.s-
poriniK irnmp -is vt
P,y nmount paid o. 13. l-'itch's hill for
services -i mi
KK5 8:1
17o oi
Exeess of levy of tax
SIIIE WALK KVJCI).
aa 8.5
511 36
Tomnouiitof tux levied
314 Utt
l!y nmount pxpended building nnd rc-
ptiiriui; sine wiiik an m
P.y supervisor I). U. Filch' services..,.. 0 oo
31 4S
12 t
Kxi'oss of levy of tnx
S.1I4 :W
We. the underslitnod. nmlltors of rililvwuy
towiiKliip, for 1ST, Imvlun met on the second
Monthly of April 1X77, for the purpose ofset
tlimt tlie iieetmiits of the sevenil township of
liet'i's, tlo hereby certify, that In the presence
oft). It. I'iteh nnd Jiiint's Uiley, supervisors
tintl ex-olliulo overseers of the poor of said
lownsnip lor iSiti, we settled llieir nt'counis
with the scvernl funds thereof lor 1S7II, and
Hint the nhove Htntemeiit is the result of said
settlement.
Witness our minds this 15th dav of Mu.v.
A. 1). 1.77.
JAMES rKNKIEfJ). I Auilitors
J. S. l'OWKI.I,. i All,llto,s-
Attest, M.S. KMNK, Clerk.
ASSETS AMI I.IAIUUTIES nV FOX
TOWNSHIP Full Tilt; YKAU liNDINU
Al'UlIi Ni), 1S77.
llO.VIl FUND, ASSKTS.
ii mount due from Henry I.hikii.v,
Col I eel or
amount due from 1'. V. llnys Col.
tiiiioiint tluo from county Trims,
nmount due from 1. M Trendy.
I'olletlor
nmount due from Elk Co., on in
count .losi'ph Winntlelder
Cnsh iiiTrensury
Excess of l.hihililies
H1.1 ill
30 71
00 To
11 41
3Si 57
3 ti:t
1 1-5:1 1
S17IS 75
J.IAUII.ITII'S.
outstiiiiilimr tiiders and Juilainents 1718 75
111 11011 nt due from .1. ilewltt Col....
amount due from jiunis Tooiny,
iverseer
nmount due from Elk Co., uf-
eount .losi'idi Windfelth-r
uiu'l.ttue from unsfiitetl taxes '7'i.
itmouiit c:ish in Trensury
463 81
4'.l U3
Ill'J II
2 Vi Ul
:;o 3d
iiuu .11
i.iAiiii.rriKs.
To nmount due EM; Co., for support
of Knte Willinms
To oiitslnuiliiez orders
To exiN'ss oi nssels
S'V) 2l
577 00
111 IHi
S!Mli 31
Ainouiit of taxable jiroperty 111 Fox
township 2l,"il!i il
We, the undersigned. Auditors of Fox
Ttiwnshi), hnvliiysettlrd tintl luljustetl the ae
eounts. oi' sniil township fuel the nssets tun!
; in lj i I It ii-s 01 t he fluids ns 11 hove set forth.
Ji ill X I1EHSIIEV. I
I'. A. .Ii 1 K 1 VN. - Auditors.
.1. I!. MEllEIUTII. I
Atlesl. .1. .1. TAVl.tUt, Clerk.
Fox, April '! nil, I.N77.
A NXt'AI. STATEM EXT
T'i)WXsIlH.
OF J11XF.S
Jones Township in Account Willi funds of
said Township.
HKt:i;t its.
I'o nmount ovci-ilue from t-oiinty eom-
missi.uifis J.2H0 (Hi
I'o ii mt 11111 1 sealed lax levied 1,151 frj
i'o iimoiint etish from county trt-as HI2 1!5
I'o amount cash from Collet-tor Then.
Cook Ml oil
To amount cah iVuin I'oileetor Yuleu-
line Miller 88 31
s l,.S.I 5-
KXi'Kxnrrini kx.
Hy ainouot of oiitsiaiitliu;; orders re-
tleellietl 50 li!1
Ily nimaiiit paid Sujiervisor Milter
ami liilinrei's under him 1,571 27
Ily tiiiioiint paid Sujiervisor lloiinei-t
anil laborers uieier him S2H 2'1
P.y nmount paid lor Iiimhcr, etc., used
by Miller 170 (is
I'.y nmount paid for I umber etc., used
by iloniicrl Hi iki
Hy :i 1 111 mi 1 1 pai.l for ollicers anil prinl-
llllf !KJ no
Ity nmount paid lor town I rensurer's
commission 51 113
Ily aintainl lai.-s in hand of Collee-
lor II. A. .Mniinctt, siiliicct In i-oiu-
luissiiin itntl exonerations 37(1 s.
I'.y iiiiitiiiiil in haiuls of treasurer 2 57
:-1,lS1 52
ASSETS AXIi I.lAlilLlTlES.
ASSKTS.
Amount due from Collector Miller for
l.73 US 01
Amount tine from Collector Theodore
Cook. I s7 1-5 212 81
Amount tine from Colleelor Atlle bur
ner, 1S7U-1 110 27
Amount due from Treasurer Wlutt-
felder 107 22
Amount due ft om Treasurer M'Ciiuley 2m) uu
Amount due lrom Collector Malilictl,
77 370 8S
SI, 1711 !
l.t.Miii.rriKS.
Amount roatl orders oulstaiitlint; 7!N HO
Excess of assets over liabilities...
377 112
,17li 22
Toon ACCOFNT.
llKI KIITS .
To ninount from Collector Miinett...
To aniounl from Collector Miller
115 Oil
52 00
sm 00
KXPKXiurriiKs.
Ily nmount paid Wilcux House for
board 10 (10
Ily amount paid indigent mid blind... 12 2(1
Hy amount cash in hands 01' treasurer 111 7S
Ily amount commission paid treas 2 .17
Ily nmount olltslamline, orders re
deemed 72 A3
117 0(1
Ily order Hoard of Auditors.
nl2-ti J AS. II. WELI.S. Clerk.
County Ollicers.
President Jiido-c-IIon. L. I). AVetinore
Associate Jtidyes Hons. (Jeo. Kd.
Wi'is, nnd Julius Joiic-h.
Hiorifr Paniel Seull.
T ri'iisu rer J 1100b M eCn uloy.
District Attorney C. H. ai'Cuuli'y.
Co. Superintendent Geo. R. Dixon.
Prothonotury. &c Fred. Sclinenin;.
Deputy l'rothonotiiry W. llorton.
Coiuniissioiieris Michael AVedert, W.
II. Ostcrhotit, Ct'orfre Reusclur.
Coniniissioners' Clerk W. ,S. llorton.
Auditors W. II. Hyde, R. I. Spung
lcr, Ocorge Uothrock.
Tonnsliip Onitcrs.
Judge of IClection Will Dickinson.
Inspectors Jiimes Penfleld, P. It.
Smith.
JusticcK of the Teuce Charles Mead,
Jas. D. Fullcrton.
School Directors 0. P. Grant, Jas.
Gardner, O. T. Wheeler. N, T. Cum
miners, W. H. fervico, lOug. J. Miller.
Kupervlsors O. P. Fitch, Jas. Riley.
Trcasurcr-W. 11. Hyde.
Assessor M. S. Kline.
Assistant Assessor Geo. Dickinson,
John Wahnsley.
Auditors J. H. Hugerty, James Pen
fleld, J. S. Powell.
Clerk-M. S. Kline.
Constable J. W. Molester.
SUGARS AT POWELL AND
KIME'Sare high to be sure; but still
area little cheaper than ut nny other
s'ore in town.
THURSDAY, JUNK 14, 1877.
Subscribe for the Advocate
Wait for the circus next Saturday.
There nrc several Murphyltes In this
place.
Wo enme near having a frost lnft
Sunday night.
Daniel Scribner baa put up a neat
fence on the old Rums lot.
A party In which there is a good
deal ofback sliding a skating party.
ClIEAPKK THAN DIRT. two good
envelopes for a cent at the Advotakk
oflice.
The candidates for Sheriff are be
coming numerous. 1 1 Mary's will
furnish five or six.
POWELL & KIME have 11 flue lot
of dress goods, also all other kind of
dry goods at low rates.
Charlie Cody is painting, nnd other
wise improving, the house recently oc
cupied by Daniel Scribner.
It km km m: ft tht P. A' K. keep a full
line of ladles' childreiis' und Misses'
shoes, slippers, and gaiters.
Thk saddest moment of a boy's life
Is when the circus music strikes up,
and he hnsn't any ticket to go in.
Wkitixo paper for sale nt the Ad"
vocatk oflice by the single sheet or
ream, and cheap, all we ask is u trial.
Catch your potato bugs and pour
boiling water on them, nnd we will
warrant them to be of no further use
as potato bugs.
A ritii.n being asked what were
the three great feasts of the Jews,
promptly replied: "Hreakfnst, din
ner, and supper."
Jas. S Champion, and wife, aged
respectively between sixty and sixty
live years, walked from Millstone to
this place, about twenty-five miles
to see the circus lust Tuesday.
The old wooden water pipes through
the court yard have been repaired. A
new tin dipper has been provided and
fastened with a chain to Ross' pen
stock, and since the logs have been
fixed the water supply Is abundant.
Tin: Great Pacific Circus will ex
hibit in this place next Saturday, and
promises to bu a circus worth going to
see. Husbands tuku your wife. Par
ents . take your children, nnd young
men take your June Pug and go and
see the circus.
Wk havecn hand upwards of fifteen
thousand envelopes which we are de
termined to sell, you can have them
either wi'h or without being printed,
and in any ijuantity from a single en
velope to any number you wish, any
size, style, or quality.
There are Mime township ollicers in
Klk county that have laid themselves
liable t' prosecution. The law re
quires township accounts to be pub
lished In two papers, and a heavy
penality is attached for a failure to
comply with the law.
Pishing parties are the rage now,
and are formed of various si.es, all the
way from the "bare-footed little man"
with a pin hook, to the "laziest man
in all the town" with six or seven
other fellows with nothing else to do,
ami a bottle of "ci al-cil" to keep the
punkics away.
The bridge over Elk creek opposite
the grist mill, and long ago condemned
by the Supervisors, fell with a crash
one day last week. ot twenty
minutes before the bridge fell a party
of ladies, consisting of Mrs. T.S. Hart
ley and sister, Mrs. Dixon and daughter
passed over the rotten structure. We
have been expecting u good local from
that direction for some time, and are
glad that wo have the local without
having to record the death or serious
injury of some person.
.Married.
R 11 inks Kady At Pittsburgh,
Pa.. Sunday, June loth, 1S77, by Rev.
Mr. Pe.irsou, Mr. C. II. Rhines of this
place to Miss Mary A. Kady of Pitts
burgh. Ross Lou an. On Tuesday, June
5ih, lb77, Mr. James Ross to Xliss Lib
bic Logan, both of this place.
Wilcox Xotes.
Col. Wilcox didn't come home
Saturday.
Plenty of rain und everything grow
ing finely, even to the potato bug.
Jell. Drown was swimming last
week. Says he can out swim any
man in town with a pike-polo in his
hand.
One day last week, while a small
girl, eleven years old, was after her
eow on one of our back roads, about a
mile from town, she was followed and
forcibly outraged by u young man
about seventeen years of age. After
getting away lrom the brute, she ran
sobbing all the way home, and from
the bodily injuries, fright, and fatigue
of the race.was u good deal prostrated.
The young man was promptly ar
rested und brought before Esquire
Drown, who held him in $500 buil for
his appearance at next term of court,
in default of which he was committed
to jail ut Ridgway. There is another
young man iu this town if put in to
keep him company 110 injustice would
be done.
Circus! circus! nil circus! one goes
and unother comes. Last Monday we
had the New York, und next Monduy
we are. to havo the great Pacific. The
boys are happy. Put middje aged
people would not think of going only
their children have never beeu and
they are obliged to go und take cure of
them. Only one fight, nobody hurt
but a showman.
They ure going to have the walls of
the bmethport jail papered and see if
they can't keep the prisoners in.
PETE.'
A Treed Fox.
Several days ngo a party of young
men and a dog started a fox, Dome
where above Dickinson's orchard, and
in a short time succeded in treeing the
sly chap. One of the boys climbed the
tree, which was a tall old hemlock and
endeavored to capture his fox ship but
received for his trouble several severe
scratches. The fox then Jumped to
the ground and was chased by the
young men and dog until he was again
treed, and shot by one of the party.
He was was a cross fox, and no won
der. Don't fail to attend the circus.
Go to POWELL & KIME for your
flour, feed and pork, and everything
else in the provision line.
A pack of tip-top good envelopes,
any color, can be obtained nt this
oflice, ever Powell & Kime's 'store for
eight cents.
Rkv. Wm. L. Rkilky will deliver a
free lecture at the M. E. Church this
evening. Mr Relley Is a fine speaker
and well worth golngo hear.
C. R. Slade wishes to inform the
public that the West End Gallery will
be reopened on or about the 18th Inst.,
he having made arrangements with
Messrs Rote it Marling to conduct the
snme.
Court Matters Omitted in our last
Issue.
roads.
Petition for viewers to view and
change a part of the Ridgway and
Brookville public road, commencing
near the house of James Reilly, Jn
Ridgway township, and ending near
Hellen school house, in llorton town
ship. Order to view issued; and G.
W. Clinton, appointed surveyor, and
X. M. Prockway, and John Meyers
viewers.
Petition for public road from Anson
Robinson's in Jay township, to a
point nenr where Spring run crosses
the township line beteen Jay nnd
Penezette townships, which was
granted March 30, 1H77, was taken up,
A. W. Gray appointed surveyor, anil
Albert Weis and John Hat r viewers.
Petition of Ralph Pell for private
road from ids farm In Fox township
to the private road leading from the
house of Joseph Seifried to the Miles
burg and Bmethport turnpike. Order
to view issued, and E. E. Willard ap
pointed surveyor, and Geo. R. Wood
ward and William M'Cauley viewers.
Petition for public road from north
end of bridge across Dennett's
Pranch, near Medix run, to Hair's
Station, 011 Allegheny Valley rail
road. Order to view issued, and A.
W. Gray appointed surveyor, nnd
John Johnston and Miles Dent view
ers. Order to view a road to lead from
Water street, in Penezette, to the de
pot on the Allegheny Valley railroad,
near Penezette. Confirmed nisi, und
ordered to be opened fifty feet wide
In the matter of u road in Ridgway
township, from nonr W. "H. Oster
hont's house to the northern terminus
of Proad street, the report of the view
ers of which was the January term,
confirmed nisi nnd the road ordered
to be opened fifty feet wide, the fol
lowing exceptions to said report were
presented by George A. Rathbun,
counsel of certain citizens of Ridgwny
township.
1st. That said report assesses dama
ges, and it does not appear from the
report that notice was given to the
county commissioners, as required by
the :28th rule of court.
l!d' That said reviewers, having as
sessed damages to owners of lands
through which the road passes, do no!
report whether, in their opinion the
damages should be paid by the pe
titioners or the county, as required by
the 2i5th rule of court.
.'id. That 110 proof of notice to the
county commissioners, or their attor
ney, of the presentation of said report
is filed therewith, as provided by the
2s-th rule of court.
1th. That there are already two
roads from the village of Ridgway
one from Mill street, and one from
Depot street, to Osterhout's tannery
and the latter immediately in front of
said Osterhout's house, and at that
point are only about fifty rods apart;
that it appears, from the draft np
pended to said report, that said road
crosses Elk creek, two mill races, two
ditches, nnd some swamp land, in all
177 feet. That the termini of said road
nre about fifteen feet higher than the
main part of said road, nnd that the
suid road, from said cuuses, will be
very extensive to build and maintain
The exceptant further says that the
township of Ridgway is largely in
debt, and the building of said road, in
view of the facts, is inexedent, and
will be burdensome to the people.
The court overruled the exceptions
and confirmed the report absolute.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Petition of citizens of Spring Creek
township was presented, setting forth
that at the late election for municipal
officers E. M. Rogers, W. A. Irwid
and S. T. Dougherty were electen
auditors ; that the said Rogers and Ir
win, by reason of being school direc
tors, are ineligible ; that said Dough
erty has since removed from the
township; that from these causes the
oflice of auditor is vacant and there
fore praying the. court to appoint as
said auditors Martin Perrin, L. B,
Elliott and Galen Mcddock. The
prayer of the petitioners was granted
and said Perrin, Elliott and Mcddock
appointed.
Petition for county bridge across
Bennett's Branch at or near the
mouth of Dent's run. Order to view
Issued, und A. W. Gray appointed
surveyor, and E. Lenz, B. P. Ely, A
E. Golf, John Burr and William M'
cauiey viewers.
Go to POWELL & KIME of the
Grand Central Store, Main Street, for
your groceries.
The Dictionary as an Instructor.
We notice as a mntter well worth
mentioning that at the recent grent
publishers' trade sale in New York,
the books that were most in demand
and brought the best prices were
Webster's Dictionaries, from the fa
mous Quarto to the neat and handy
pocket edition. This fact is a good in
dication of the almost universal popu
larity of these books, and of the grow
ing public demand for them. It indi
cates also a fact of far greater impor
tance, and that is the interest the peo
ple are taking in the study of their
own language. This Is encouraging
as there is no branch of education
that is now nnd has been so much
neglected ns the common branches of
Kpclling and defining. It is often as
tonishing and grievous to sec how
grossly ignorant are children and
youth, and even men and women, of
the orthography, pronunciation and
meaning of ordinary words and
phrases. They cannot 'express their
thoughts for the want of words, and
often they express thoughts very dif
ferent from what they intend, because
they do not understand the words
they employ. And very frequently,
from the same cause, they take no idea,
or wrong ideas, from what they read
or hear.
The remedy for these evils is the
proper training in the study of words,
by the use of the Dictionary, and this
training should begiu as soon as the
child can distinguish between one
word nnd another, and continue in
definitely. The apparatus for this
study should, of course, be the most
complete and thorough to be had, and
this is abundantly supplied in Web
ster's Dictionaries, which are justly re
cognized, whereever our language is
spoken , as the standard authority in
English. Purents and teachers can
in no other way so effectually or so
cheaply promote the educational iu-
tcrests of their children, when of
suitable uge, us by putting in their
hands nny one of Webster's School
Dictionaries, for daily use iu connec
tion with the study of their lessons'
nnd by placing on the family center
table, or the teacher's desk us the
authoritative guide and standard a
copy of the Unabridged.
The unabridged contains 3,00 illus
trations, over 114,000 words in its vo
cabularies, and 10,00(3 wordsund mean
ings not in any other Dictionary ; the
abridged editions comprise ''The Pri
mary," which has the largest sale, und
which has some capital rules for
spelling. "The Common School" is
similar, but larger, with tables of
synonyms, &c. "The High School,"
still fuller, with many useful tables;
The Academic" and "Counting-
house" for advanced schools and for
general home nnd business use. The
latter has some specially valuable com
mercial und financial tables. The
little "Pocket" edition, with its bright
gilt edges und morocco binding, is
truly an invaluable pocket companion
It contuins more than 18,000 words,
rules for spelling, many abbreviations.
words and phrases, proverbs, etc., or
dinnrily met with in the Greek, Latin
nnd Modern languages. Whether it
is convenient or not to have copies of
nny of the other books of the series,
we certainly recommend that all
should possess a copy of the Pocket,
which, when not otherwise obtaina
ble, may be had by mail, by inclosing
$1,00 to the publishers, Messrs. Ivison,
Blakeman, Taylor cfc Co., 138 and 140
Grand Street, New York.
Durosma is the name of a medicine
that bus cured more cases ofinflama-
tion of tho kidneys, bladder und
gravel than any known preparation
extant- We have a great number of
certificates from both mules and
females who have been cured, ex
periencing almost Instant relief, in
cases of back-ache, strain or cold. It
has no equal. It is prepared by E. K
Thompson, Titusville. Ask any re
spectable druggist, who will get It for
you if he has not got it in his stock
Price $1,00 per bottle.
Boston, June 8. Another ease of
child killing by n child has been dis
covered in the Charlestown district,
the victim being a boy named Charles
Fagerstrom, aged three years, and the
slayer a boy named Welch, aged two
years and six months. Whether the
children were in the habit of quarrel
ing does not appear, but a sister of
Mrs. Welch instructed her daughter
Lizzie to drive away young Fugcrs
trom whenever he cume there. This
display of hostility towards the Fa
gerstrom boy doubtless made a strong
impression upon the Welch boy, und
last Wednesday evening tho latter
picked upa fragment of brick having
a sharp edge, and going up to the Fa
gerstrom boy struck him on the head
with it just above the left eye, fractur
ing his skull from which he died. No
inquest was held on account of the Ir-d
lesponsible age of young Welch.
The Norristown Herald says: Two
daughters of a farmer in St. Lawrence
county, N. Y., desired to pay tho debt
on their homestead, but they preferred
not to do it by hard work. They hit
upon an idea that suited their pur
pose, and have made enough money to
remove the debt. They had a large
quantity of porous stones sawed into
small pieces and thoroughly soaked in
an odorous preparation, which ini
parted to them a durable scent. These
they have peddled throughout the
State, at twenty-five cents each, repre
senting that they were cut from the
rock of a wonderfully perfumed cave
in South America. The girls are so
demure and pretty, and tell their lie
with sucn an appearance or sinpllnlty
that the sales are very large. They
navejust put a iresu lot ot stone in
soak, preparatory to a western tour.
Saturday, June 16, is the day to go
and see, the Great Pacific Circus.
Save your 50 cents until Saturday and
then go ana see the great fchow.
Railroad Train Boarded br Bandits.
New York, June lfl. The owl train
on the Pennsylvania railroad due in
Jersey City at 4 o'clock this morning
was boarded by a bnnd of bandits
who robbed and nearly bent to dent h
Thomas Downing of loO Sixteenth
street, New York. Tho conductor
and brukeman, who attempted to res
cue Downing were driven awny with
revolvers. They then locked tho car
with the ruffians inside and tele
graphed to the police at Jersey City to
be ready at tho depot. While the
train was running at the rate of thirty
miles an hour three of the ruffians es
caped by jumping out of the windows'
Tho fourth man, who describes him
self as John Williams, a sailor, of 45
Washington street, New York, was
nrrcsted by the Jersey City police.
Downing says that he is a New
Yorker but has been living in Phila
delphia for over a year and wus com
ing home in a visit.
A Haik-Pin Explosion. We fre
quently observe persons handling
pistol cartridges, and many carry
them loose in their pockets as though
there was no danger. The Lewisburg
Journal, of Inst week, records the re
sult of one of these cartridge explo
sions In this way.
"On Friday last Mr. Joseph A Mc"
Clcllan of Pittsburgh, (who has been
employed on several of he bridge con
tracts on the L. C. & S. C. Railroad)
was handling the cap portion of a
cartridge for a revolver. He had car
ried this in his pocket for months and
thought there was nothing explosive
about it. On Friday he was visiting
at Mr. John Vandine's in this place,
and in course of conversation with
several ladies he drew this cap from
his pocket. The ladies had it in their
hands and tried to break it. Mr. Mc-
Clellau then took it and with a hair
pin struck it a number of times, when
It suddenly exploded, taking oil" a por
tion of the thumb and first linger of
his left hand, iiiiurinir the second
finger of tho same hand and the first
linger of the right hand. It also in
ured his face somewhat and damaged
the ceiling. The wounds were
promptly attended to. This is another
warning to be careful of anything per
taining to fire-arms."
Custody of two Children.
Quito an interesting ense was before
Associate Judge Warner last Friday.
Samuel McGath, of Cameron, wants
the custody of his two children. In
-March, last, MeGrath and his wife
unable to live together in harmony,
igrccd to sepcrate and made disposi
tion of their children, one a bov about
three years old and the other an infant
Martin Gallagher taking the boy
and Martin Burke tho babe. A paper
was dawn up by Justice Aldoufer and
signed by both parents of the children
relinquishing all claims to the little
ones, and giving the above named
parties the sole and exclusive control
oftheiu until the children became of
nge. McGruth ami his wife have
agreed to live together again und
want their children, which ure l'C'
lused them. It is alleged by the
parents that they are entitled to their
ehidren, and the paper signed by them
liasnoellect in law. They claim they
are able and willing to provide for
them, which fact they can show by
competent witnesses. On the other
hand, Gallagher and Burke claim that
the parents made a lawful desposition
of the children, and are unfit and
unable to take care of them, that
when the parents had the children
they neglected and ill-used them, and
now they nre well provided for, and
in every way better off than with the
purents. The case was decided in fa
vor of the parties holding the children
and another hearing will be had be
fore Judge Ross, next Tuesday.
Cameron rrcsii.
HO W HE GOT OUT OR IT.
The .following candid statement is
from the post master of North Clymer,
N. Y. After reading it will anyone
undertako to say that it would be pos
sible to find language wherewith to
express the value of a remedy pos
sessed of capabilities for renovating
the human system and benefiting the
community? Yet in point of fact
this is only a representative expres
sion of the grateful souls that day by
dny voluntarily add their testimony.
Still there is u feeling that whatever
may be advertised us a proprietary
medicine must have more or tess ex
aggeration attached to it, whereas
the exact fact is that, generally speak
ing, there ure no medicines in exist
ence made with so much care and
i .1 ,
pains anu wiiu so nine regara to ex
pense in order to insure precision of
action and general effectiveness.
Norfi Clymer, N. Y.. Dee. 21, 1K75.
Dr. M. M. Fcnner, Fredoni-.i, X. Y. Denr
Kir About ono ycur ngo my health wus so
poor Unit I was hurdly able to do biiKiness at
all. JIud no npiietlte, could not sleep nights,
coughed great deal, and had In fact, jjotinto
that state of decline when I begun to couteni
pluto tho necessity of going to n dim-rent
climate for my health. I had tried most
everything recommended for sueh cases, but
found no relfef. A-t lust I tried your Hlood
and Liver Ilcmedy and Nerve Tonic. I
thought the first half bottlo stirred me up to
icel worse, but before tho first bottlo was nil
gone I begun to Improve. I continued tho
remedy until I had used live (o) buttles dur
ing whicti time I guined twenty-Mvo (2.1)
pounds In weight and felt myself us sound ns
ever. 1 know therein no better remedy In
existence for fixing up one's system when
out of rig than your Blood und Liver ltemedy
and Nerve Tonic. Yours trulv,
J. 11. NEWELL.
Bold by dealers in medicine.
The Hillard nnd Hunting circus
which exhibits hereon the 10th is the
only exhibition traveling that has a
legitimate claim to the title of circus.
This establishment Is a circus only, the
proprietors clam nothing more, noth
Ingless. Relying upon the attractive
qualities of the arenic talent engaged,
they attempt to make no outside dis
pluy; they udopt no high sounding
title as their nomenclature, they do
not posessand therefore do not adver
tise cages of animals with jaw breuk-
uig names Dut tney do claim to
nave, a circus ana the best on the
road.
MrIo Kotes.
Tbcie are 087 convicts in the Veslrn
Penitentiary, of whom four are wouioti.
The scvont ecu year locusls have niaJe
their apnenronce in I.cliigh counly.
About fifteen hundred shad have been
caught ia the Juuiata uour Newport this
season.
Tho Hon. Goorgo Tracy, of Bradford
county, died tho other day nt tho insane
Asylum Harrisburg.
Lester Hassenplug, sou of the Trotliono
tary of Union county, was drowned in the
river at Lewisburg tlie other day.
The pardons recommended by tho Bir J
on Thursday were J. Horack of Bucks,
burglary; Moses Wolf, Schuylkill, latoony.
Tlie Titusville Courier says if the ''prcs
ent rate continues 1,400,000 barrels of oil
will be shipped from tho Pennsylvania re
gions in June."
A Scrnnton man has been arrested fur
perjury. He sworo that he had lost $1,
500 by a recent fire, while the actual dam
age is said to havo been only $250,
During the month of May 814 oil wells
were drilled. Of these GO were dry holes.
TLus 254 producers ore added, which on
tho whole, will more than counterbalance
the fulling ofin production. There arc now
275 rigs up and in process of erection.
An unknown Irish man was found dead
iu a car on tho Allegheny Valley railroad
on Friday. It is thought he was a moulder,
as a number of moulder's tools wcro fout.d
in his possession. The deceased committed
suicide by tubing laudanum.
The Shenandoah Herald is end javoring
lo create a sensation with the story that
tho Muuch Chunk jail is to be attacked
with the purpose of liberating the con
demned Mollies. Tho police force on
duty at tho jail lias been doubled-
The people of Wayno coutity endeavored
lo procure an injunction to prevent tho
Commissioners from erecting a two hun
dred tliousaud dollar Court House by days
labor instead of contract, but Judgo
brchcr decided that the building might go
on as the Commissioners directed.
At Peirolia on Friday Minnie Suialley,
aged ten years, attempted to kiudle a lire
iu astovo with kcroseno oil, but holding the
can too near the ilame it exploded, burning
her fatally, tho skin being torn from her
body and limbs. She died in a short tnno
iu great agony.
Tho Scling3grove Times says: 'Vm. H.
Gibbony, who has been doing the tanning
business for John M. Hiue at M'Kcc's Halt'
Falls, Snyder county, disappeared several
days ago, leaving Mr, Kino minus about
$2,500. On Tuesday morning Mrs. Gib
bony followed her defaulting husband but
no one kuows whither.
It is reported that an immense gas vein
has just been Btruck in a well iu McKean
county, about fivo and a half miles south of
Olean. The gas comes from a depth of
1,180 feet, faoni a sand rock about 25 feet
thick and about 40 feet over tho producing
(third), siud of the Bradford oil region,
and iudicates a pressure of about sixty
pounds to tho square inch.
Tho Clarion Democrat says: "Never
since 1805 has there been so much excite
ment about oil in Clarion ns there has been
tlii week. The well of M'Lauglilin, Law
& Co., on tho Samuel Sloan farm, about
half a utile cast of the borough, struck the
third sand at a depth of 1,150 feet, last
Monday night, and before noou on Tuesday
there was between !100 and -100 feat of oil
iu the hole. Tlie news spread rapidly and
hundreds of our citizens havo visited tho
well, and scores of operators, speculators
und curiosity Beckers have como from
Kdenburg and other points in tho oil re
gions." A Treacher iu a Pittsburgh church was
charged with forty otFenses by iho congrc
gation of which he was pastor. He ac
knowledged the truth of thirty-two, among
them tho following: Sixteen for debt;
eight for falsehood ; two for engaging iu
immoral conversation while visiting, and
one charge of writing a promissory neto in
church whilo a brother was praying. Ho
had borrowed some money from one of the
members, uud while another ot his flock
was scuding up a fervent petition to the
throno of graco tho pastor was engaged in
making out a promissory nolo with a lead
peuoil and handed It to I lie right parly
whilo the prayer was stiil going on, Tho
immoral conversation, charged against
him. is for bringiug up tho subject of game
chickens and their lighting propensities ut
houses where ho would visit. The investi
gation was brought lo an abrupt termina
tion a lew days ago, when tho minister's
friends rallied ut the church in largs force,
refused lo hear uny evidence and ex
onerated the minister ,
From the llarrisburgh Pulriot 1-lh inst.
The Lares Polsoniii!; Case.
The supremo court yesterday moruiug
rendered an opiuion affirming Ihe judg-
mcntoftho Northampton county court iu
the case of Allen C. Laros, who poisoned
his father, mother und five sisters and
brothers, a grandchild und an aged man
named Moses Schug, on March 81, 187U.
ihe lather and mother aud Mr. Schu"
died from tho effects of tho poison, while
tlie cuildrcn all recovered. The oiso was
argued on a writ of error before tho su
preme court at iis last meeting in Philadel
phia, during which a number of verv
delicate quenlious were presented for the
consideration of that tribuual, Hence tho
protracud postponement of the deeision.
Tho poisoning of the Larou family created
a great Bcnsalioti at Euston and elsewhero
at the time. The father and mother of
Laros died the next day after the poison
had been administered, and Schug on the
second day. Laros, after suspicion pointed
toward him as the perpetrator of the crime,
directed the oBioers where to look for a
sum of money- -$340 he had taken from
his lather and Mr. Schug after the commis.
sion of the crime, Allen Laros was for
merly a kchool teacher and had borne a good
name. The pica ol iusanity was attempted
to be established by his counsel, but the
jury who tried him, brought in a verdict of
murder in the first degree, and the Bupreme
couit to-day sustained the action of the
lower court, and another will be added to
the long list of executions already an
nounced to tako place.
FLOUR, rORK, FEED, CORN
Meal, Oats, ulways on hand at
POWELL & KIME'S ut bottom prices.