GEO. A. UATHBUN,
Attorney-at-Law,
Main Street, Ridgwny, Elk Co., Pa.
HALL fc M'CAULEY,
Attorneys-at-Lw.
umcein New Brick Building, Mnin St
Knway, Elk Co., Pa. 8n2lf.
L UCORE & HAMBLEN,
Attorneys-nt-Law, Ridgwny, Elk
County Pa. Oillce across the hall from
the Dkmocrat establishment. Claims
for collection promptly attended to
' Jne. 15 70.
CHARLES HOLES,
Wotohmnker, Engraver and .Tewelor
Main, street, Ridgway, Ta. Agent lor the
Howe Sewing Machine, and Morton Gold
en. Repairing Watches, eto, dosawith
e same aocuracy as heretofore. Satis
faction guaranteed. tlnly
J. 0. If. BAILEY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. ;',
tlnioyl. Ridgway, Elk County, Pa.
Agcm ior me iraTelcr s laie ana acoi
dent Insurance Co., of Hartford. Conn.
JAMES I). FULL ER TON.
Surgeon Dentist, having permanently lo
cated in Rigway, offers his professional ser
vices to the citizens of Ridgwny and sur
rounding country. AU work warranted,
Office in Service & Wheeler's Building, up
stairs, first door to the left. 73-n-82-ly
G. G. MESS EAGER,
Druggist and Parninceutist, N. W. cornel
of Main and Mill street?, Ridgway, Pa.
full assortment of carefully selected For
eign and Domestic Drugs. Prescriptions
carefully dispensed at all hours, day or
night. vln3y
T. S. HARTLEY. M. D.,
Thysicinn ana Surgeon.
Office in Drug Store, corner lirontl and
Main Sis, Residence corner Rrond St.
opposite the College. Office hours from
8 to 10 A. M. and from 7 to 8 P. M.
vln'Jyl.
J. S. BOH DWELL, M. D.,
Eclcclio Physician and Surgeon, has remov
ed his office from Centre street, to Mair st.
Uidgway, Pa in the second story of the-
new brick building ot Jolin U. nail, oppo
site Hyde's store,
Offieo hours:! to 2 P M 7 to 0 P M
HYDE HOUSE,
RinowAT, Elk Co., Pa.
W. II . SCH RAM, Proprietor.
Thankful for the patronage heretofore
o liberally bestowed upon him, the new
roprietov, hopes, by pnying strict m-
ention to the couitort ana convenience oi
guests, to merit a continuance oi the
same.
Oct 30 18C0.
;. ). FAY.
LUMIi K 11 A X 1. I N S U R A N C K COM
MISSION 1JROKER,
AXI
ueneral collection acext
Xo L'U Walnut Place,
(31(i Walnut Street,)
PHILADELPHIA. PA.
n Jl-ly
II'. HAYS,
DV.M.K. IN
Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries,
and General Variety,
FOX ELK CO., PA.
t-.-ir.f.
NEW STORE
IN RIDGWAY.
SILVERMANN & Co's
1SAZAAR of WILLI AMSPORT.PA.
have opened a large stock of Millinery
and Fancy (Joods, Xotiolis, (ielits
Furnishing (foods, Picture and Motto
Frames, Hair Switches, Ac, which
they will sell at prices within the
reach of all.
Don't fail to call and examine their
full andeomplete stock before purchas
ing elsewhere, Remember the place
next door to the Post-ollice. nloni3.
j"UW LIVKliY STARLK
IX
RIDGWAY .
IAX SCRIBNER WISHES TO
Inform the citizens of Ridgway, and
the public, generally, that ho lias
started a Ljvery Stable and will keep
GOOD STOCK, HOOD CARRIAGES
and Buggies to let upon the most
reasonable terms.
Sffille will also do job teaming.
Stable on Broad street, above Main.
All orders left at the Post Oittce will
receive prompt attention.
Attg201871tf
"F YOU WANT TO BUY
GOODSCHEAP
GO TO
JAMES II HAGERTY
Main Street, Uidgway, Pa
DBY GOODS, NOTIONS, BOOTS
SHOES, HATS AND CAPS,
GLASS AND OUEENS
WARE, WOOD AND
WILLOW-WARE,
TOBACCO AND CIGARS
A Large Stock of
Groceries and Provisions
Tho BEST BRANDS of FLOUR
Constantly on hand, and bold as cheap
as the CHEAPEST
JAMES II HAGERTY
mi
lthtinrmih
THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 3877.
Tho weather Is warm.
Strawberries are delleious.
Subscribe for Iho Advocate
There seems to bo no steps taken to
celebrate the 4th at this place.
Elk County needs a new court
house.
J. S. fc W. II. Hyde have com
menced moving into their new store.
J. 8. Powell has put up some neatly
lettered signs In his shop windows.
Doctor M. J. Early is limping about
town with a lame knee.
Horses and cows should not be per
mitted to pasture In the court yard.
James McAfee continues to make
those cheap suits and good fits.
D. Wr. Baldwin, Photograph, will
be at Centreville next week.
J. M. Tewilllger has been appointed
postmaster at Daguseahonda this
county.
A new culvert has been put in on
Centre Street west of the Thayer
House.
Tho Editor of tho Democrat had the
misfortune to lose two vests during
the prevalence of the circuslast week.
T. J. Burke and Jerry Mecum, of
St. Mary's, have announced them
selves as candidates for the Demo
cratic nomination for Sheritr.
A. G. Cuthbcrt fell a distance of'
eight or ten feet. in Hyde's new store
on Tuesday and was seriously in
jured. You can find at this ofllce a large as
sortment of envelopes of different sizes
and quality which will be sold in
quantities to suit purchasers.
The Ridgway Oil & Pipe Line Co.
arc putting up a derrick at Grant
Mills, about fifteen miles from this
place, and will soon commence drill
ing. "He who lays hand on a woman,
save In kindness, is a wretch whom it
were base flattery to call a coward."
All of which is dedicated to those who
wish to wear the shoe.
Joseph Hoist-brook has been
awarded the sub-contract for carrying
the mail from Ridgway to Tylersburg.
He will commence about the 3d of
July.
Mrs. W. C. Ilealy, daughter, and
Mr. S. A. Rote have returned from
Jacksonville Florida. Mr. Rote was
in our office the other day and gave
an interesting description of some of
the mannersand customs of the peo
ple in that section of the country.
Ridgway can boast of some hand
soiiftcly laid out grounds, among which
we notice those of W. H. Osterhout,
E. K. Gresh, C. R. Ear'.ey, George
Woodward, and very many more. I n
the summer time Ridgway is a place
of beauty.
A full attendance of members of
Ridgway Silver Ca'iiet Baud next
Thursday evening -lt inst, at 8
o'clock, at Bailey's ofllce, is requested.
Important business to transact.
M. S. KLINE, Sec'y.
Five hundred and twenty-nine
thousand, five hundred and forty
eight is the numberof pupils, and six
thousand one hundred thirty-two the
numberof schools reported to be in
this State at the late session of the
Sunday School Association at Harris
burg. The number of officers and
teachers is eighty-one thousand throe
hundred and eighty-live.
County Commissioner Weidert's
mother, aged about ninety years,
walked from her residence, in Jones
township, to St. Mary's, a distance of
fourteen miles, for the purpose of at
tending church. Although the road
is a very rough one, and a team of
horses accompanied the party, she re
fused to ride saying that she was
young enough to walk that distance.
Married.
MuitrMtv-WAHNKK. At the Catho
lic church, this place, by Rev. Father
Prior, on Sunday, June 17, 1S77, Mr.
John Murphy to Miss Rosa Warner,
all of Ridgway.
W. H. Little, of Philadelphia, has
been doing some good work in the
lettering line in this place the past
week, as witnessed by J. S. Powell's
new curtins, G. W. Rhines' billiard
room windows, and a small sign for J.
S. Magi mi is on card board. Mr.
Little lias several orders for signs, etc.,
on hand, and is prepared to do all
work of this kind that may be furn
ished him. We believe from the work
already done, and which he considers
common work, that he Is a first-class
workman in his lino, besides he does
work very cheaply. A nice neat sign
looks like business, and thosevwishing
anything of this kind, from a show
card to a large sign, will do well to
employ Mr. Little.
Great Pacillc Circus.
On Saturday last Hillard k Hunt
ings Great Pacific Circus gave an ex
hibition, on Dickinson's ground, In
this place. The performances were in
every respect first-class, and it was
generally remarked that the horses
and entire outfit were in better shape
than any other circus that ever
before exhibited here. There was
that lack of rowdyism usually seen
with a traveling circus, which seems
to indicate that the managers are
gentlemen and keep none but gentle
men in their employ. To attempt the
enumeration of tho many feats per
formed would be useless here, as all
were good, but we can say that should
this circus pass this way again they
will receive a liberal and merited pat
ronage.
NEW OIL FIELDS.
The Territory In M'Kcnn Connty.
RAPID DEVKXOPMF.NT OP A FORMER
WILD-CAT REGION RAILROADS AND
I'IPE-MNI'.S. CAN TUB PRODUCTION
BK CHECKED?
"E" In Philadelphia Times.
Bradford, Pa. June 12.
The census of 1870 shows. this Mc
Kean county to have been the lowest
in property and population of all the
counties in the State, with but three
or four exceptions. This was a lowe'
rank In the scale of progress than M'
Kean should have occupied, consider
ing her internal advantages. There
has existed, however, in the more
wealthy and prosperous sections of the
State a prejudice against these hilly,
upper counties, a prejudice that took
form in the Idea often expressed, that
it was "a good country for wild-cats."
So the whole region around about Is
known the State over as the "wild-cat
district." But the "stone which the
builders rejected may become the
chief of the corner." Lately the hills
ofM'Kean have shown a capacity to
produce inure valuable articles of ex
port than wild cat carcasses and skins.
The advance of this region in material
prosperity the past few years has Jjecn
remarkable, and the next census will
not find the county so near the bottom
ofthelistas in 1H70. .she. is moving
up towards the top. The Buffalo New
York and Philadelphia road has been
built through M'Kean, connecting at
Emporium with the Philadelphia and
Erie. Branching out from this is a
coal road to the Clermont coal mines,
the best supply of soft coal contiguous
to Buffalo. The distance is but a
hundred miles, and the company Is
enabled to throw coal into Bullalo at
a very low rate.
THE EFFECT OF THE DISCOVERY.
But the discovery of oil in this end
of the county lias been the main stim
ulus to growth. This is a late thing,
but the magic powers of oil are such
that the whole region has undergone
a kind of transformation so rapid that
the old fanners who own and did own
the soil can hardly "keep up." They
move about among the derricks lu a
dazed sort of a way and say to one
another, "Who would have thought
it?" The butter and milk and potato
business, which formerly furnished
the husbandman a scant subsistence,
lias been forgotten in the mad rush for
oil. Four or five hundred derricks
dot the landscape and the little station
of Bradford has risen to a city of three
thousand inhabitants, more or less.
The change here has been rapid, al
most beyond the power of belief or
the capacity of memory and sight to
reconcile the situation of a few years
ago with that of to-day. Production
is steadily increasing and the oil terri
tory is extending in every direction
by new discoveries and tests, so that
it is now impossible to set a limit.
But with the tests already made ami
result obtained it is probable that .M'
Kean will take a front rank among
the oil-producing regions of the State.
Already they are pumping up and
sending out from hereovcra thousand
barrels daily, sent by rail over the
Erie road to New York, and sent by
pipe line to Olean, New York, and
thence by rail over the B. N. Y. d P.
and p. vE. Railroads to Philadelphia.
This pipe line saves the "breaking in
bulk" in shipping to Philadelphia, as
otherwise it would have to be shipped
by Erie, which has a broader gauge
than the. roads leading into Philadel
phia. With the development of oil
there is no telling to what extent the
pipe-line business will be carried.
Iron is cheap ami a line of pipe can be
laid at comparatively small cost to
almost any oint, through almost any
description of country. The line to
Olean passes through the woods, and
over a hill five hundred feet high. It
is hard to conceive of a natural ob
struction that a pipe line will not sur
mount. I.AKUE PRODUCTION AND S.MAI.I.
PROFITS .
There is but one drawback to the
very rapid development of the Me
Kean oil fields, the low price. If
crude oil was, say, -i per barrel there
is hardly a limit to which produc
tion would be carried. But for some
time it has been falling in price, and
is now about 1.7.3. A t $l.7o per barrel
there is no money in five and ten
barrel wells. Those that How' fifty or
a hundred bring a net profit to their
owners, but not what they should
considering, all the circumstances,
Crude oil at ?1.7o per barrel is too low
for profitable production, taking the
oil regions over. But how is it to be
brought up? Only by checking pro
duction and ceasing to develop new
territory. Every new well sunk only
cuts into the profits of those already
sunk. 'When we reflect that it costs
from four to five thousand dollars to
put down a well the folly of doing
more of it now is apparent. If the oil
producers could bring themselves to
act in concert and diminish produc
tion one-half they would make more
money from the half than they do
now from the whole. The present
low price is charged by some to the
European war. But it is difficult to
see how that ccntest could affect oil to
a serious extent. The more likely
reason is over-production and the con
tinual development of new territory.
The rich discoveries here caused a
notable weakening in price and the
shipments daily add to tho excess of
supply over demand.
Aside from oil McKean and adjacent
counties will have in tho future a
sourco of wealth from tho forest of
hemlock which cover the hills.
There is not on tho continent more
valuable forest of hemlock than here.
The lumber Interest Is flat now all
over the country, but tho time is com
ing when the hemlock forests of this
region will be a large source of wealth.
There are tens of thousands of acres of
hemlock forests In these counties yet
undisturbed by the woodman's axe.
Rich as are the oil discoveries, and
great as Is tho rush and clamor on that
account, I sometimes think that the
forests of massivo hemlock are, after
all, tho more valuable.
There Is nothing encouraging In the
lumber trade. The report of the ship:
mcnts for the month of May, printed
elsewhere, show a total of 13,482,811
feet, a decline of 1,816,712 feet, as com
pared with April. With the class t
May the shipments from Willlamsport
foot up a total of 73,280,684 feet, a great
decline as compared with tho trade of
former years. The total shipments,
Including points on the Northern
Central railroad, and between Renovo
and Lock Haven, and Pine creek,
Jersey Shore and Larry's creek,
amount to 82,439,808 feet. The pres
ent month will probably put the
quantity over one hundred millions.
The recent flood in the river has been
the means of restocking the boom,
which was nearly empty. Two or
three "drives," arc yet to arrive which
will add several millions more to the
quantity floated down. The flood
will probably be the means of bring
ing fifty millions into the boom,
which will keep the mills running for
some time and give employment to a
large number of men, About forty
millions have been rafted out of the
boom for the season. Gazette &EirflC'
tin.
Washington, June 14. The issue of
one and two-dollar greenbacks was
discontinued at the Treasury in this
city mainly to induce bunks and indi
viduals to take and put in circulation
silver-coin. Silver is now going out of
tho Treasury so rapidly, about a mil
lion dollars a month, and the full green
back fund of ten million dollars au
thorized by law is so well assured that
the Treasury will probably soon re
sume the shipment of ones and twos
In moderate amounts. It is impossi
ble on account of the smallness of the
appropriation for transporting Gov
ernment funds to supply Assistant
Treasurers with notes for exchange,
and some of the local inconvenience
arising from lack of small notes must
be laid to the comparatively small
amount appropriated. A notice litis
been posted at one of the windows on
the counter in the cash room of the
Treasury hero as follows : '-The issue
of ones and twos is discontinued." It
is very well understood here, as a
prominent officer of the Treasury to
day said, "that the notice applied
only to that window and not to the
United States of America."
FROM THE PRESIDEN T OF THE
NEW YORK STATE SORMAL
SCHOOL.
To use any one or more People's
Remedies is to like them, and to make
renewed calls for them whenever
their need is felt. There are seven,
different kinds, and no one is recom
mended as a "cure nil," Each lias its
place and in that ease will work
wonders. For instance, the Blood
and Liver Remedy and Xerve Tonic
will cure all blood diseases and re
store and build up the nerves, the
Capitol Bitters will at once bring on
the appetite and increase the strength;
the Catarrah Remedy readily heals
catarrah ; the Improved Cough Honey
breaks up colds and cures coughs ; the
Golden Relief cure any pain or in
flammation, and the St. Vitus Dance
Specific readily cures St. Vitus Dance.
So each has its place. They are all
special remedies except the Blood and
Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic,
which is a remedy for regulating the
general system. They all act better
and quicker when the system is under
the healing and regulating influence
of the Blood and Liver Remedy and
Nerve Tom'e. For instance, Catarrah
is readily cured by the Catarrah
Remedy, when the system is at the
same, time placed in a healing condi
tion by tho Blood and Liver Remedy
and Nerve Tonic.
Here is what the president of the
State Normal school says:
From Prof. John W. Armstrong, D.
I)., LL. D., President of the N. Y.
State Normal School,
Frcdoiiln. N. V. May, 27, 1873.
Dr. M. M. Fen nor, Frcdonln, N. V. Deur
Kir Your lllood mid Liver Remedy mid
Nerve Tunic, with your Cupitol bitters, lmd
such excellent elt'ect In expediting my re
covery tlml I want another bottle of each.
Yours truly,
JOHN W. ARMSTRONG.
For sale by dealers in medicine. Ask for n
circular entitled "People's Remedies,'' des
cribing till ofthein.
A pack of tip-top good envelopes
any color, can be obtained at tills
ofllce, ever Powell & Kime's store fo
eight cents.
Go to POWELL & KIME for your
flour, feed and pork, and everything
else in the provision line.
Go to POWELL & KIME of the
Grand Central Store, Main Street, for
your groceries.
The M'Kean Miner came to hand
last week in anew dress.cnlarged, and
printed on a new power press, all of
which we are pleased to note as an
evidence of prosperity.
See Jones township school state
ment and Jify" township Auditor's
statement in this issue. We will
again remind the Auditors and School
directors in several townships in the
county that by reason of a neglect to
publish statements as required by law,
they are liable to a heavy fine.
Correction. We should have
stated in our article last week in refer
ence to the accidental poisoning of
Mrs. John Ross that the poisonous in
gredient was Extract of Nux Vomica,
instead of Nux Vomica ; also that Mr.
Colegrove first administered warm
water and mustard, instead of warm
water alone. We make these torrec.
tions with the purpose of making our
statements, as we intended, perfectly
accurate.-rjleA'eart Miner.
Brookville and Buffalo Railway.
AN IMPORTANT ENTERPRISE FOR JEF
FERSON, ELK AND FOREST COUNTIES.
A corps of engineers have for some
times past been engaged surveying a
railway from Brookville to Buffalo.
A Derrick correspondent Interviewed
Col. Caldwell the other day, from
whom he learned the following facts
concerning R.
The above road is to connect at
Brookville with the Low Grade divi
sion of the Allegheny Valley railroad;
thence through the town of Brook
ville, and up the North Fork of Red
Bank creek to tho Biuninit between
the lied Rank and Clarion rivers ;
thence down Gathers' Run to the Clar
ion river, crossing it about two miles
below Cooksburg or at Hemlock
Island. The bridge at this place across
the Clarion Will be eighty feet high and
probably three hundred feet long. It
will then extend up tho Clarion to
Cooksburg, continuing up Thorn's
Run to what Is known as the Big
Level. It will cross Tionestiv creek
somewhere below Foxburg, Forest
county, and from there follow
Tionesta creek to Sheffield.
Engineer Caldwell informed me
that the maximum gradient is only
fifty-one feet per mile, and the min
imum is two feet and six inches per
mile. The heaviest grades arc on the
northern slope and the lighter grades
on the southern.
The object of this road is to facilitate
the shipment of heavy goods and coal
from eastern cities and mines. Coal
shipped from Reynoldsville via Drift
wood to Buffalo has either to be taken
over the St. Mary's summit on the
Philadelphia & Erie railroad, or Keat
ing summit on the Buffalo New York
to Philadelphia railroad. If shipped
fron. the same point via Red Bank,
the freight amounts to more than the
cal is worth in Buffalo. If tills road
be rutin operation it will undoubtedly
open up a trade for the counties of
Jefferson, Elk Forest and Warren,
that is now not thought of. The coal
mines at Shawnnit and Centreville
and Little Toby, in Elk county, will
again be put in operation and a good
road built down the (Marion to connect
with the above at Cooksburg. The
bark resources of Forest and Warren
will be better developed.
Colonel Caldwell gave it us his
opinion that the Philadelphia & Erie
and the Allegheny Valley roads
would oppose this enterprise to the
bitter end O. W. S. in Oil City Der
rick. PiiTERso.N's Magazine for July is
on our table, ahead as usual of all
others. The principal steel engrav
ing ''Cherry Ripe," after Meyer Van
Bremen, is one of the most beautiful
we have ever seen, even in this maga
zine. Then follows a mammoth col
oredsteel fashion plate, witli five fig
ures a miracle of loveliness. In addi
tion to this, there are some twenty
other engravings of fashions. There
are also colored patterns of butterflies
and flowers for applique embroidery,
besides a dozen or more other patents
in crochet, embroidery &c., &c., for the
work-table. Mrs. Hooper begins a
powerful novelet, "Blue-Beard's
Closet;" Mrs. Stephens continues her
"Dependent Cousin," a story which
is alone worth the subscription price;
and in addition, Frank Leo Benedict,
ami the author of "The Second Life,"
have thrilling tales ; while all the rest
are far above those usually found in
periodicals. "Peterson,'' in fact, is
celebrated for its stories. This is un
doubtedly the cheapest and bent lady's
book; and it combines more attrac
tions than any other. A new volume
begins with this number alibi-ding an
excellent opportunity to subscribe.
Price, two dollars a year, with great
deductions to clubs, and premiums to
persons getting up clubs Specimens
sent, gratis, to those wishing to get up
clubs. Address Ciias, J. Peterson,
SOU Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
NATIONAL BANK NOTES.
AN OFFICIAL DENIAL OF TUB ALLEGED CON
TRACTION SC11EMK Of CERTAIN NEW YORK
BANKS.
Washington, Juae 12 In order to cor
rect various published misstatements in
reference to the amount of additional cir
culation recently ieucd to national banks
in the c;ly of New York, the Comptroller
of the Currency furnishes the following :
"The total amount of additional circulation
issued to all the national banks of the
country einco the passage of the Act of
January 14, 187o, to date, is $27,311,825.
Of this amount (:), 402,770 has been issued
to the banks in tho city of New York, as
follow: From January 14, 1875, to
January, 1870, SlSC, 780 ; during the year
1870, $1,223,200 ; from January 1, 1877,
to June 10, 1877, as follows, monthly;
January, $381,740; February, $140,040;
March, $387,720; April, $U5tt,(i'J0; May.
S423.G00; to June 11, $40,100. The
greatest amount issued to any one bank
during the year ending June 1, was $075,
000, which amount was issued in instal
ments during the six mouths previous to
the months of April, 1877, By reference to
the published reports of the Comptroller of
the Currency it will be found that the circu
lation of the national banks in New York
city was iu October, 1872, $28,000,000 ;
jn October, 1873, $27,000,000 ; in October,
1871, $25,000,000; October, 1875, $18,.
000,000 ; October, 1876, f 14-832,000.
The circulation on January 1, 1S75, was
$24,800,000, and April 14, $10,238,000, so
that the circulation of tho New York city
banks will need to be increased eight mil
lions or one-half the present amount, in
order to equal ike amount outstanding at
the date of the passage of the act of
January 14, 1875. The.-e is no foundation
whatever for the statement that a national
bank in New York city has had issued to it
$1,000,000 of additional circulation three
different times during the past few weeks,
as the whole amount issued to all of the
banks of the city of New York, during the
present year has been but slightly Inez
cess of two ci'.'.kna of djiUr.
Clarion Connty Oil Dcrelopmcnls.
From the Clnrlon Jneknonliin.
Within the last decade the develop
ment of the territory of this county
for petroleum ha asSumed gigatific
proportions. From a few wells scat
tered here and there over the county
for the purpose of testing the territory,
("wild-eating," as operators call it,"
the number of wells now pumping,
and being drilled, has reached hun
dreds, and Clarion is ot present the
leading county of the Union in the
production of the oleaginous fluid.
Many of tho owners of farms, who
were bn.iely able to make a living on
their lands a few years ago, have un
expectedly realized immense fortunes,
without leaving their homes to seek
gold on the Pacific slope. Many of
our former citizens who disposed of
farms here at a low figures, some
years ago, and sought to better their
condition by removing to the west,
now regret the steps they have taken.
Towns, (some of them of a mush
room growth, it Is true,) are springing
up all uroitnd us. and at almost every
point in the county the evidences of
prosperity and progress are manifest.
The permanency ot some of the older
towns, which have received a new
impetus through the oil development,
Is unquestioned. The population of
our county, instead of being dimin
ished, has Increased three-fold during
the last decade. Merchants ami
Laborers, who have come from all
parts of tho country to our midst,
have found employment, llusiness
men with a small capital, from a dis
tance have made profitable invest
ments. All classes of our citizens
have been benefitted in various de
grees by tho discovery of this great
commodity in our connty.
There are other resources in Clarion
county which arc attracting ?he at
tention of capitalists and when the K.
& S. K. It. is completed to Clarion
borough, the large bituminous coal
fields near the borough will be opened
and coal exported by railroad to a
ready market.
John Bush, trcasnrer of a building as
social ion in Allegheny county, has misap
propriated about $20 000 of the associa
tion's money.
John Ide was killed on Friday morning
nt. Hie Fort Bowkley mines, Luzerne county,
by a fall of rook. It was his first experi
ence in the mines.
There will be no meeting of the Pennsyl
vania deserves this year. The limos are too
hard aud so many members are out of em
ployment. About $114,000 were disbursed to the
shopmen at; Altoona on the last pay day
The pay next month is not expected 'ta be
more than $'.10,000.
McGhce the preacher who has just been
convicted uf wife-poisoning in Illinois,
formerly lived nt. Lock Haven, aud married
the daughter of Daniel Kicker, of Jersey
Shore.
Memphis, June 18. A storm lust even
ing broke loose from their moorings all the
steamboats at the levee, and blew down the
smoke stajks of the Osceola Bell, damaging
he boat to the exteut of about $1,500.
the other boats were uninjured. The Cum
berland Presbyterian church, on Court,
street and soveral residences were reduced.
New York, June 18. William Leith and
William Henry Leiih, father aud son, oon
victcd of forging four checks on the Mcr
chants' Exchange national bank, amount
ing in the aggreg ito to $22,000, were sen
tenced to-day. LeitU the e lder got ten
years and Leith the younger seven years.
New Orleans, June 18. A Now Orleans
letter to the Herald says; ''Gentlemen
who have just returned from the border
counties of Texas say that stock raisers and
other people of these counties, aud even as
far up as San Antonio, are making sworn
statements of t heir losses during Ihu last
ten years by the Mexican raids," and doing
so nt the instigation of the authorities iu
Washington. It is asserted that these
sworn clnims are seut to Washington and
that the state department is taking them in
hand.
Old Town. 111., Juue Fredrick Hen.
dricks, a wealthy farmer of this vicinity,
00 years old, in a fit of drunken rage, last
night, shot his wife, to whom ho bus been
married twenty-five years, it appears
that he had long been an unfaithful
husband, and last night returned home
from lSlooinington about dusk, bringing
with him a girl whom he told his wile was
to supply her plaoo in the house. To a re
mark which she made he kicked her, then
drew a revolver and commenced shooting
at Mrs. Hendricks, who ran toward the
gate and there fell weltering iu blood. A
hired man, named Daley, witnessed the
whole affair, but was deterred by fear from
stopping it. He communicated with the
neighbors, who began a search for Heu-
"incivs, ana 7 o'clock this morning they
found his dead body lying behind a hay
slack, a quarter of a mile from the town,
with a bull et hole in his head and his hand
grasping iho reAolver with which he
murdered his wife.
POWELL & KIME have a fine lot
of dress goods, also all other kind of
dry goods at low rates,
liarosma is a stimulant, diuretic.
anti-spasmodic and tonic ; is pleasant
to tho taste, and can bo used in all
cases with safety. It is given chiefly
iu complaints attended with an in
creased flow of uric acid, for gravel,
catarrah of the bladder, morbid irri
tation of that organ, for retention or
incontinence of urine. Also iu
cutaneous affection and dropsy. It is
prepared by E. K. (Thompson, whole
sale druggist, Titusville, Pa.
Price, $1.00 per bottle,
County Officers.
President Judge-Hon. L. D. Wet more
Associate Judges lions. Geo. Ed.
Vf eis, and Julius Jones.
Sheriff Daniel Scull.
Treasurer Jacob McCauley.
District Attorney C. II. M'Cnuley.
Co. Superintendent Geo. H. Dixon.
Prothonotary, &c Fred. Schcening.
Deputy Prothonotary W. S. llorton.
Commissioners Micuael Wedert, W.
H. Osterhout, George Keuscher.
Commissioners' Clerk W. S. Horton.
Auditors AV. II. Hyde, R, I. Spang-
ter, ueorge uotnrocK.
Township Officers.
Judge of Election "Will Dickinson.
Inspectors James Penfield, P. It.
Smith.
Justices of the Peace Charles Mead,
Jas. D. Fullerton.
School Directors O. B. Grant, Jas.
Gardner, O. T. Wheeler. N. T. Cum
mings, W. 8. Service. Eug. J. Miller.
Supervisors O. li. Fitch, Jas. Kiley.
.treasurer h.ii. uyue.
Assessor M. S. Kline.
Assistant Assessors Geo. Dickinson,
John "ainisiey.
Auditors J. II. Ilagerty, James Pen
field, J. S'. Powell.
Clerk- M. S. Kline.
Constable Geo. D. Mecn&erJr.
Indians Murdering "Whites.
San Francisco, Juno 17. A dispatch re
ceived to-day from Lieutenant Wilkinson,
now at- Wallula, conveys the startling news
of an uprajsiug of Indians and states that
they were murdering tho whites at Ml.
Idaho, which is situated sixty miles from
Lcurslon. He asks to have boat die.
patched at occe from WalU Walla to con
vey soldiers to Lourston. Tho order has
been complied with and all available troops
at Walla Walla will be dispatched at once
to the scene of the difficulty. Another dis
patch says several settlers living on Cot
tonwood creek have been massacred by In
dians and the messenger who brought the
Intelligence to La Pival was entrapped and
wounded by savages. General Ho word,
who Is beyond Walla Walla, has just tele
graphed to Adjutant General Wood in this
city to forward all availablo troops without
delay to the scene of trouble. Great ex
citement prevails. It is however thought
iho reports have been exaggerated.
Issue of Silver Coin.
Washington, Juno 16 The following
w.ra issued this afternoon :
Treasury Department, Washington, June
14, 1877 To A. V. W'man, Treasurer
United State--Sin : It appears from tho
report of the treasurer of the United States,
the comptroller of tho currency and tho
chief of the bureau of engraving, dated the
0th inst., that the amount of fractional cur
rency lost or destroyed and which, there
fore, cannot be presented for redemption is
$8,083,51 iJ.oO. The attorney general, in
his opinion of this date, holds (hat in as
certaining tho amount of fractional cur
rency outstanding within the meuning f
tho third section of the joint resolution of
July 22, 1877, there should be deducted
from the amount of such currency issued
and not redeemed tho amount lost and de
stroyed. The amount issued and not re
deemed on May 81, 1877, was $21,210,
nnn.25, and deducting tho amount, as
above stated, will leave $11,123,410.83, tho
amount of fractional currency which, ac
cording to the opinion of the attorney gen
eral, was then outstanding. You are
therefore directed to issue, according to law,
from lime to time an amount of silver coin
which, including the amount issued since
the date of the resumption net of January
14, 1875, and the amount of fractional cur
rency outstanding, will equal $50,000,000.
Very respectfully,
John Sherman, Secretary.
The shipments of anthracite coal from
the Schuylkill region during the week end
ing June 1) amounted to 139,417 tons,
against C,0'i0 tons for the corresponding
week last year, an increase of 133,357 tons.
The total shipments for the year were 2,
444,5150 for the luiit year au increase of
8 03,007 tons.
Xcw Advertisements.
Rates of Advertising.
One column, one year $75 00
" 40 UO
" ' " 25 00
J " " 15 00
Transient advertisements per square of
eight lines, one insertion $1, two inser
tions, $1.50, three insertions, $2.
.'Justness cards, ten lines or less, per
year $5.
Advertisements payable quarterly.
Notice.
All persons are hereby forbidden
selling goods to, or trusting any person
on my account, without my written
order, as I will pay no debts thus con
tracted after tills date.
M. T. FRENCH.
Ridgway May i, 187".-ly
Notice.
The firm of W. H. Ilearce & Co.. is
this day dissolved by mutual consent.
I ne business win be carried on at the
old stand by AV. II. Bearce, who
hereby solicits a continuance or tuo
patronage bestowed on the old firm.
W. 11. JiUAlUJE,
E. V. ROLF.
Wilmarth, Pa., June 1st, !877-nl7t3
MILLINERY AND DRESSMAKING.
MRS. J. R. KELTZ, Kersey, Elk
Co., Pa., takes this method of an
nouncing to the citizens of Elk
county, that she lias on hand an as
sortment of fashionable millinery
goods which will be sold cheap. Also
dressmaking in all its branches.
Agent for Dr. J Rail & Co's Patent
Ivory and Lignum Vitae Eye Cups.
Send for descriptive circular.
niiyl.
SETTLEMENT OF AUDITORS OK JAY
TDWNSIIII' WITH OMVIN IHUJHK.
TRKASUHEKOP JAYKOHOOI. DISTRICT,
HKCEII'TS.
To amount of funds received 2,765,07
S2,7U5,57
EXPENDITURES
Ry nmount disbursed 1,7&V3
lly 21-2 it (-.nt. commission on buiuc.. 8.S.71
liy funds iu treusury 9M.14
S2,73,b7
C. DODGR )
J. M. 1IKOOKRXH, V Auditors
li. I,. THURSTON,!
Attest A. Y. CiKAV, clerk.
STATEMENT OP ACCOUNT OF JONES
KCIK ()Ii DISTRICT FOR THE SCHOOL
YEAR 177:
RECEIPTS.
Itulance on linnd nt heiiinlng of year 810 ftj
Received of Treasurer from tttxubies... 1700 77
Reeelved from Collectors 4(i07'i
Received from County Treasurer.. ...., Sflj;
Received from State appropriation 1!7IU
$5,381 71
EXPENDITURES.
Repairs $101 1
Teueliers' wuees 1IH 00
Fuel and contingencies.. 4:01.51
Treasurer's fees 1:15 its
Old orders puld 2!tul ti-5
Cash lu Treasurer's hands 8 1:15581 71
Resources over liabilities $1,020 00
A. T. ALDRICH, Pres'U
J. L. Ruown, Sec'y. nl7.
Applelon's American Cyclopedia.
Vol. R of this niliii iivililo wnrV to Incf
. .... ... . . 'J I, , . 1 j V
out, making it half complete, as there
ure to ueiu in an, oi ouo pages eacu,
one being issued in two months. It
makes a complete library, and no one
can afford to do without it who would
keep well informed. Price $0,00 a vol
ume in. leather, or $7,00 in elegant
half Turkey. C. K. Judson, Fredonia,
N. Y., controls the sale in Elk county.
Address him for particulars.
sep!7-tf
Caution Notice.
All persons are hereby cautioned
not to purchase, or in any way meddle
with, the following described property
now in possession of Michael Fearn:
One sewing machine, one shop
stove and pipe, two chairs, one table,
dishes anil tinware, as I purchased tho
same at Sheriff's eale and have left
them with the said Michael Fearn for
a time only.
ROEERT MANETT-VVik-ox,
Pa., May 21, 1877. nlota.