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RIDGWAY, PA., MARCH 21, 1878.
Kotos.
Tho ronds are almost Impassible.
"Consistency thou art a jewel."
Did you plant those tomato seeds
last Sunday?
Snow fell quite briskly at Centre
ville on Tuesday.
Services in all the churches In this
village next Sunday.
Tho State Fair will be held at
Erie, Sept. 23 to 27.
A new and neat awning In front of
It. I. Campbell's store.
The Supervisors of Ridgway town
ship meet on the first of April.
Ridgway can boast of a shoemaker
who has forsaken lying forever.
What a pity we can not hnve
another grocery or two in town.
That last crop of ice is likely to bo
a fuilure. Wonder how tho melt lies ?
The voice of the delicious buck
wheat cake Is heard no more la the
land. ,
Tho County Seat of Elk County Is
the only ouo in the State not a bor
ough. About these days clean up your
back yard and cellar and b some
body. Ridgway must be a healthy ploce
for dogs, wo scarcely ever hear of
one's death.
Tho State Senate has passed the
bill reducing the pay of jurors from
?2.50 to 52.00. .. " H
The new township officers, ex
cepting Constable, are sworn on the
first Monday in April.
The chap who wintered four pul
lets and seven roosters wonders why
he don't get more eggs.
The mines at Earley have en
tirely shut down throwing a large
number of men out of employment.
Two hunters went out the other day
and after firing six shots at a pquirrel
succeeding in killing the poor thing.
The report is current that the
Uaskel well, in the borough of Smeth
port, contains eight hundred feet of oil.
We noticed Frank Lawrence on
the streets the other day, the iirst
time we have seen him iu a "dog's
age."
The Cameron County Press is
now issued as an eight-page paper.
The Press entered its XIII volume
last week.
Hon. C. R. Earley will please ac
cept our thanks for a specimen "dol
lar of the sous," received by mail on
Tuesday last.
If you don't write much for the
paper folks will conclude you are lazy,
if you write too much they conclude
you are a fool.
The croquet season is upon us,
when the laziest man in town, and
three next laziest men, will take a
four handed game.
This has been an unusually good
spring for our lumbermen. The
streams having been at a good rafting
stage for a long time.
On Wall street, ICew York, the
new silver dollar is selling for a little
more than gold, as people are desirious
of getting them for tokens.
Lilac bushes, are budding ready to
put forth leaves, and all other vegeta
tion seems to catch the idea that we
are to have an early spring.
Last week a stranger, John
Buckley by name, helped himself to a
suit of clothes belonging to Nelson
Jackson bar-tender at the Ridgway
house, and left for parts unknown.
The Treasurer's Sales of Unseated
Lands will be published next week
We had intended to publish them this
issue but did not receive the copy in
time.
A bill has been Introduced in the
Legislature making the cremation or
burning of a human body a misde
meanor and imposing a fine of not
less than 500 nor more than $1000.
St Patrick's Day was generally
observed in this village, all the places
or business were closed and services
were held in the several churches. It
is not necessary to add that Sunday
was the cause of it.
Rock candy and whiskey is said
to be a cure for consumption. Tho
opinion is prevalent in this latitude
that the candy part is superfluous. At
any rate the consumption seems to be
on the increase.
Capt. Fred. Schcening has erected
a neat grape arbor in his front yard
on South street. The general desire
among our citizens seems to be to im
prove their places as much as possible,
which is right and will soon place
Ridgway in the front rauk of beauti
ful villages.
An organization has been formed
in this village, embracing a luTgo
number of our citizens, the object of
which is to enforce obedience to the
license laws. We would willingly
have published the rules apd regula
tions of the order had they been
handed us In time.
The oil regions are not the para
dise for laborers that some imagine.
All the papers, from Butler to Brad
ford, concur in saying that the num
ber of the unemployed is unusually
large, and those going there in search
of work in nine cases out of ten are
doomed to utter disappointment.
The cheek of some men is truly
wonderful. They will ask all manner
of favors of the editor, and never pat.
ronize him. Good enough for him he
had no business to be an Editor, and
while clothes lines are cheap and air
don't cost anything ho surely will
have a good bed and air to live on.
Personal.
Frank M'Gloin feels proud of his
boy.
Bevy Mercer is not at all afraid of
work.
Miss L. Leo keeps a "variety
store."
Treasurer M'Caulcy has a new sil
ver dollar.
Judge Dickinson carries one of
the "shiners."
Service, the tinker, Is a good politi
cal talker.
Hon. Jno. O. Ilall is taking a
southern trip.
E. J. Miller has a new dollar and
a box to put it in.
Maginnis has the first new suit of
summer clothes.
Bailey now styles himself tho "re
formed lawyer."
Mrs. Crayston has gone to the
city for goods.
Grove Messenger frequently keeps
his drug store open.
J. Powell has been absent from
town for some time.
John Ball has a hen set two weeks
coming Sunday.
Thomas Noon is able to bo about
on his hurt foot.
Isaac Avery is busy at work get
ting in timber.
Dixon, Co., Supt., Is said to be an
industrous man.
Geo. 'Woodward has returned.
Now for oil news.
W. H. Schrnni delights in a drive
behind his dark horse.
Thomas Johnson has his house
ready for plastering.
Charles Holes don't like the new
order of "Vigilants."
-A daughter of Rev. J. M. Gillette,
no $ifcccps house for him.
Sam Clark is determined to move
his family to Lock Haven.
Ed. Grant Is not well pleased with
his boy because it is a girl.
Mrs. W. H. SchramJ is now able
to walk about the house.
Mrs. G. A. Rathbun, and Mrs.
R. V. Kime are home again.
Thomas Neill is evidently deter,
mined to become a farmer.
Ike, the butcher's dog,had his foot
severely cut on Sunday last.
Mr. Nichols had a warm sugar party
at his residence on Saturday last.
Capt. Fred Schcening feels better
after his trip to Philadelphia.
Nelson Jackson has engaged in the
vegetable peddling business.
Doc. Fullerton's wood pile is a pro
lific scource of annoyance to him.
J. S. Hyde sports a new silver dol
lar, a present from his sou W. H.
Rathbun's dog is not yet sold.
He has only had a bid for its hide.
Orderly Horton is a good .'mark's
man, and very fond of hunting is he.
Don M'Govern says no money
would hire him to be Supcrvisoragain.
Hon. Henry Souther will return
to his home in Erie city sometime iu
May.
Ex-Sheriff Head, walks about
town as spry as many a younger
man.
Bittenbender, the watch-tluker.
has moved into Mrs. Malone's shoe
shop.
Miss Agusta Bookman, has re
turned after an absence of several
weeks.
Doctor Stnessley, and P. A.Jor
dan, of Centreville were in town yes
terday. Mr. M'Farland, proprietor of the
Thayer House,keeps a big pile of wood
on hand.
Jake, the barber, invaded ourviN
lapre yesterday. He hangs out now at
Wilcox.
Capt. Jas. Woodward, the new
clerk, goes into office the first Monday
in April.
Al. Brown has made a vow to ab
stain from the use of intoxicating
liquors. He says he will not join the
'Vigilants."
J. S. Powell is putting up a build
ding for a harness shop and dwelling
in Benezette.
Sam Clark is a first-class shoe
maker, and generally gives his cus
tomers fits.
Frank Dill and Jim Hagerty are
anxious to put down an oil well, all
they ask is the territory.
Charles Mead will be seventy-two
in August next. We made a mistake
in our last issue as regards his age.
Judge Ross carries the mail as
regularly as though he had not seen
his three-score-yearsand-ten.
Mrs. Thomas Johnson earns ten
dollars a week taking care of the sick ;
she is said to be an excellent nurse.
Jerry Thompson and family are to
move into the rooms, over Hartley's
drug store, formely occupied by Ned
Baldwin.
Crayston, the miller, has a turtle
dove, which he keeps at his wife's
millinery store, in a neat cage which
he made himself.
Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Osterhout,
and Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Grant have
gone to attend the Ernhout-Taylor
wedding at Smethport.
Mr. and Mrs. N. T. Cummings
have gone to Smethport to attend the
Ernhout-Taylor marriage. Mrs. Tay
lor is Mrs. Cumming's aunt.
M'Afee, the tailor burns up his
rags. What a pity when bo many
women are just dying to get rags
enough together for a carpet.
H. S. Thayer is selling a large
quantity of wood which he has cut on
his farm adjoining the cemeteries, or
where he expects to have a farm, after
the wood and rubbish is cleared away.
Uotes.
"Example is better than precept."
This is beautiful weather for a
cold.
Jerry Thompson drives the Brock
wayvllle stage.
Mrs. Kate M'Cracken, and son
Wilkle, arrived here last week.
John Ball says he has a dog who
lias learned to say his prayers.
Beautiful moonlight evenings. A
moonlight night for a ramble W.
'Tis strange how early some young
men rise, especially Monday morn
ings.
"Curt" Barrett will move his
family from Centreville, into Thomas
Neill's house.
Isaac Avery ls "putting In" the
timber from Doctor Earley's land,
above the.big spring.
. The owner of the lost breast pin
was Miss McKeo who at once called
for it on seeing tho advertisement.
Salyer Jackson has been awarded
the contract for building the new
school house at Shcllield. Mr. Jack
son erected the one which was burned,
Dr. 12. O. Bordwell, who has re
turned from the Buffalo Medical Col
lege, will practice medicine here this
summer with his ' uncle, Dr. J. S,
'Bordwell.
Representative Walter, of Del
ware, wants'a stop put to the custom of
treatiug, and accordingly introduces
a bill to make it a penal offence to
"set em up." Would it not be a good
idea for our legislature to give their
constitutents the practice first, and
precept afterward "JPittvburgh Tele
graph. The dwelling' louse of M. T.
French was broken'Jnto yesterday,
while the family were away, by two
drunken men, names not given, who
turned the house topsy turvy. Mr.
Head, next door neighbor, hearing
the racket went over, and succeeded
in getting them to leave the house. A
warrant has been issued for their ar
rest. Tills is a good case for the Vig
ilants to start in on.
The jury in the case of tho city of
Chicago vs. the bond of ex-City-Treasurer
David F. Gage for defalcation in
1S74 last Saturday morning returned a
verdict in favor of the city for the
amount of the original deficiency, $-'07-703,
without interest, and for $1,000,
000 penalty. The bondsmen are
among the most prominent citizens.
Motion for a new trial was entered by'
the defendants.
Geo. Ziigler about thirty-five
years of age, employed as night
watchman, at Kane, by the P. & E.
R. R. Co., committed suicide on
Tuesday last, by shooting himself
through the head with a revolver.
The cause of the rash act is said to be
jealousy of his wile. Zeigler lost an
arm at JSt. Mary's, while coupling
cars, about eight years ago, being
then employed as brakeman, and has
been at Kane for several years, being
retained by the R. R. company by
reason of losing an arm in their ser
vice. Births.
On Friday March 8th, to Mr. and
Mrs. John Gillouly, of this place a
son.
On Tuesday. March 12. 1878. to Mr.
and Mrs. Edson T. Grant of this place,
a daughter.
On Tuesday, March loth, 187 to
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bedell of this
place, a son.
Church Directory.
LUTHERAN CHURCH.
Services next Sunday, morning and
evening by Rev. J. M. Gillette (Pres
byterian) at the usual hours.
GRACE CHURCH.
Rev. Wm. Jas. Miller, morning
and evening at the usual hours.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Morning and evening al .he usual
hours by Rev. W. H. Swartz.
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Next Sunday at the usual hour by
Rev. M. Meagher.
A Boy Drowned. -
A sad accident happened near Oster
hotifs tannery between three and
four o'clock, on Tuesday afternoon
last, resulting in the death of Frankie
DeWitt a little five year old son of
John DeWitt night watchman In the
tannery. Frankie, and another little
boy of about bis age, were playing on
some rafts opposite the tannery and
were jumping from one raft to another
when Frankie fell in, and it seems
the other little boy endeavored to get
ldm out and at one time had him by
the hand, but did not seem to realize
the situation and only when he saw
his little playmate disappear managed
to run home and give the alarm, Mr.
DeWitt was sleeping at the time, and
fully an hour and a half elapsed be
fore the search for the body of the
lost child was commenced. The body
was found under the raft which it
was found necessary to move out into
the stream. The utmost endeavor
was made to resuscitate the child but
to no purpose, as life was extinct. The
little chap had been to the store in the
morning after some clothes pins for
his mother, and as he lay in his casket
a cut on one of his littlo fingers was
plainly discernable which ho had
made with his father's knife on the
morning of the accident. The mother
of the child was suffering with a
severe attack of the headacho and for
that reason the child wandered away
as children will do. During yester
day a great many people called to see
the dead child and all pronounce
him "beautiful in death." The sym
pathy of all, and especially those
parents who have little ones, goes out
with heartfelt emotion to the sorrow
ing parents. Mr. DeWitt has one
child, a little son, Freddie, a year or
so younger than the little boy who
was drowned.
Kotos.
Dried apples are selling at eight
cents a pound. j
Butters is selling in this market
at 28 32 cents abound.
J. 8. Powell will start a branch
harness shop at Benezette soon.
Charles Mead, had on eye injured
by a falling limb while trimming an
apple tree a few days ago.
Births, Marriages, and Deaths are
published free in the columns of the
Advocate. Send in these little items,
You can't come your greenback
dodge on John Sherman. It takes a
gold dollar to buy one of the new shin-
ners, with the partridge.
Pigeon pot pie Is so nice ; the way
to make one is first to catch your
pigeons, or shoot them, or I ny them
from some other man.
Thomas Neill has sold his prop
erty on Zion's Hill to J. 8. Hyde for
fifty acres of land near the upper end
of the Eaglo valley pond.
On the fourth page of this issue of
the Advocate will be found a picture
of the new "dollar of thesons." That
partridge is a "purty bird," dont It?
You desire to see all the news in
the paper, and yet you would stop in
the middle of a good story, if ye Editor
happened around for fear it might be
published.
Two or three professional pigeon
hunters have made tbeir appearance
in "these diggings," they conclude,
that the pigeons have taken Greeley's
advice and gone west.
Next thing to having the seven-year-itch
is to have the candidates
flocking through the county, like an
army of turkey-buzzards, seeking
whom they may eat up somebody.
Squires Painter and Maybee,
landed a boat on Monday, with pro
visions, etc., for down the creek.
This is a cheap mode of transporta
tion and beats the P. & E. R. R. hol
low In the matter of price.
"Thanksgiving Sermon by Rev.
J. M. Gillette, with Remarks and
Chriticisms by 'A Catholic' as pub
lished respectively in the Elk Demo
crat and Advocate," is the title of an
eighteen page phamrlet, which we
have for sale at this office for 25 cents
a copy.
Most people, when the panic
strikes them "right smart" hard,
economize by stopping the county
paper, three or four cents a week
saved is belter than six or eight cents
earned, you know. Therefore, when
you economize be sure and stop your
paper first.
It don't make a hurra's differ
ence to us whether you pay for your
subscription in Gold, Silver, or Green
backs, and we have been known to
lake cord wood, apples, and cabbase.
and apple butter, but just now we are
more iu need of money than "garden
sass."
Luzerne county is rightly called
the mother of "great" men. There is
Beamish, and Coon, and last but not
least, the mighty Gaines, Serrgeaut-at-Arms
of the House, who could imag
ine just what men were to be sub
pcenied in a certain case and the
length of a time each witness had to
serve. Such talent is happily rare.
The spectacle of a member of Con
gress bciug on the floor of the House
too drunk to stand was witnessed last
week, Wednesday, the Hon. Beverly
Douglass of Virginia being the mem
ber who thus disgrtced himself. In
justice to himself, the reputation of his
State, and the dignity of tho body he
has disgraced, he should promptly re
sign.
Tho Minneapolis Lumberman
and Manufacturer publishes a table of
the amount of lumber on hand at all
the lumber points in the United
States on the first of January, which
sums up a total of 2,163,057,776 feet.
On the first oi January, 1877, the total
stock on hand was 2,434,059,773 feet,
which has been decreased 271,001,907
feet in one year. The stock on hand
at the beginning of the present year
has been very materially decreased
during the past two months.
Will tho following apply to our
town: "The wise daughter is the
pride of her father; yea, her mother
also delights in her, but the foolish
maiden bringeth sorrow. She bang
etli her hair over her right eye." she
tippeth her hat on the back of her
head. When evening cometh she
walketh on Main street, and with her
left eye she gianceth at the patient
youth, who coughed on the curbstone
and wipeth his nose with a red ban
dana. Her handkerchief also is seen.
Then the youth smileth to himself
andfolloweth in her footsteps. She
setteth a snare and scoopeth the way
farer in. Selah. '
A correspondent of the Erie
Gazette In Bradford has the following
about the railroads: The threo rail
roads do an immense business. The
Tuna branch of the Erie road, that
seems to have been built expressly for
this occasion, in advance, is teeming
with freight and 'passengers. The
three-foot gauge the Olean Bradford
& Warren road, carries large and de
lighted loads of humanity through
its wild and wierd course. The "one
jegged road" shoots its coaches well
filled, back and forth every half hour,
between Tarport and Bradford, a dis
tance of a mile. The trip is made in a
minute. It is an utter impossibility
for a coach to leave this track conse
quently no dange? is met with in run
ning a mile a minute. An Irishman.
a few days ago, vho had just landed at
the Bradford depot, looked toward
Tarport, and iinoeently exclaimed,
"wnat tne uevl is mat comln' on the
fince." This remark is not so surpris
ing, when we ionsider the near re
semblance betvpen this railroad and
a common Doarc.ience,
Kotos from onr Exchanges.
BY counties. .
Clarion
From the Republican.
At the last census Clarion County
had a population of 20,078. From
the annual report of the managers of
the Western Pennsylvania Hospital
for the Insane, we find the represen
tation from this county as follows, pa
tients sent by county, or public, 15,
private, 2, making a total of 17.
Mrs. J. C. McCombs, of Corsica,
mother of A. C. McCombs, met with a
serious accident on Saturday. Her
husband being ill, Bhe ascended into a
hay loft to attend to some duties, and
fell through a concealed trap door to
the floor, breaking several ribs and
bruising her body considerably. Mrs
McCombs weighs about two hundred
pounds. The attending physician
thinks her recovery doubtful.
At tho same place on the same
morning, a little boy was caught be
tween a wagon and the corner of a
barn, and suffered a fracture of the
collar bone and one arm besides sus
taining two or three cuts in the head
and face. A stick penetrated the face
alongside of the nose, to the depth of
one and a half inches. The boy still
lives.
Clear Jctd.
From the Republican.
The citizens of DuBois City and
the northern portion of Brady town
ship have held several public meet
ings, looking to the formation of a new
township out of the townships of
Brady and Huston. There is no ques
tion but that there Is both territory
and population enough to warrant a
new township, by taking about one-
third of the northern territory of
Brady from the Union township line
west to the Jefferson county line nnd
that portion of Huston township lying
immediately north of Brady. Should
a new township be formed, we hope it
will be named after Washington,
Franklin, or some other of the Revo
lutionary heroes. We already have
Brady, Morris, Pike and Penn. Now,
let us have one of the namesindicated.
The most remarkable weather we
ever witnessed in this latitude (41 J)
was that on the 9th, 10th, and 11th
days of March. The thermometer
ranging from 68 to 70 degrees, frogs
musical, robins and blue birds "gay
and happy," and vegetation is budding
and as far advanced at this time as it
was on the 25th of April Just year.
What a perfect hoax the ground hog
proved to be this year.
Cameron.
From the Press (11th inst.)
This morning at 4 o'clock, Charles
Sweazey, brakeman on train 13, fell
from the cars at Elma, twelve miles
this side of Buffalo, the cars passing
over him and killing him instantly.
The body was conveyed to Buffalo
and will be taken to Grotou, Tomp
kins county, N. Y. for interment.
Charley was a young man of excel
lent character, and loved by all who
know him. His sudden death has
cast a gloom over the town.
Clinton.
From the Renovo Record.
Mr. Robert Cameron, a lumber
man, who was lately employed on
Randall's log job, on Youngwoman's
Creek, was accidentally crushed to
death, on the 0th insr., while breaking
a landing near the nlue-mile shanty.
The deceased was about 40 years of
age, and leaves a wife and three
children, in poor circumstances, in
that neighborhood. He has been em
ployed in this neighborhood as a lum
berman for the past four or five years.
A down town man and his wife
agreed recently to learn a verse of
Scripture every evening and repeat It
to each other for mutual improvement.
The first night, however, her quota
tion happened to be : "Am I not thy
ruler?" and his was to the effect that
he'd be hanged if she was ; and the
result of the plan so far has been that
he has taken to drink, and exhibits a
willingness to sleep in the woodshed
at night.
Warran.
From the Mail.
The "officers of the law" In Sugar
Grove township make quick work of
thieves and rascals. Mr. Kimball,
about 70 years of age, old and big
enough to know better, living near
Sugar Grove, was arrested last week
on the charge of setting lire to the
barn of Mr. H. Wilson of Chandler's
Valley, which was destroyed, with a
quantity of hay, farming tools and
lumber, Sunday morning, March 3.
Ho was lodged in jail, tried last week
and sentenced to go down the river
and serve thirteen months. He was
angry at Mr. Wilson, and walked two
miles "to see the barn burn," and was
caught in the woods near the fire by a
dog.
Lycoming.
From the willlamsport Gazette A Bulletin.
Between 11 and 12 o'clock Sunday
night there was another alarm of fire
at Montoursville. The residence of
Mr. W. C. Allen, Main street, near
the M. E. church, was discovered to
be on fire at tho hour named. The
fire had started in the basement and
had burned through the floor, and also
through the ceiling above. Consider
able crockery ware in the basement
was destroyed and the wood work of
tho room badly damaged. The citi
zens turned out and worked so faith
fully that the flames were soon sup
pressed. The ladies especially, distin
guished themselves by their noble
efforts. Mr. Allen and his family
were well nigh suflbca ted, before get
ting out. The fire was undoubtedly
incendiary work, as a window was
found open, and some shavings in the
house were found saturated with coal
oil. Just before the alarm was soun
ded a man was seen riding hurridly
up the street back of Mr. Allen's. A
quantity of table linen and other arti
cles were stolen also. The loss, which
will be about f 100, is fully covered by
insurance.
Pennijlranla Notes.
A Lancaster planing 1 mill firm
paid off its employees In gold on Sat
urday. The University of Pennsylvania
turned loose 400 new doctors last week,
seventeen of whom are women.
Arthur Klllen was found dead in
the Herdic park ticketofllce, William
sport, on Friday. He had been dead
several uays.
lie Supreme Court has decMod
that Col. Barber, Republican, Is en
titled to the office of Prothonotary of
Luzerne county. His right had been
contested by Dr. Trimmer.
There are twenty firms in Pitts
burg engaged in the production of
table ware and lamp goods whoso ag'
gregate annual production is $5,100,-
530 dozen pieces.
Three men were arrested In Frank
lin county last week on suspicion of
having murdered March Dixie, a tin
polish pepdler, who has mysteriously
disappeared.
Judge Cadwallader on Friday sen
fenced John Pawlings, a route mail
agent on the Reading railroad, con
victed of stealing a registered letter
and other mail matter from the mails,
to five years' imprisonment.
Francis S. Fisher, of Wllliamsport,
has filed a voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy in the United States district
court. He is said to be another one
knocked over by Peter Herdic's fail
ure. His liabilities are over $100,000,
The body of Joseph R. Lacey,
aged 27, at Birdsboro', was found
standing erect and lifeless in a sink
hole in the rear of hisresidenceFriday
night. He had been ill with fever,
and while temporarily deranged jump
ed out of his bedroom and thence into
the hole.
Mr. Joseph Walker, a widower,
aged about fifty-six years, residing
about a mile from Mansfield, Alle
gheny county, committed suicide on
Thursday. He first flattened two bul
lets on his head and afterward hanged
himself. The supposed cause was the
loss of $18,000 through Gill, the miss
ing Pittsburg defaulter.
A negro named Toogood, who bo
longs to a gang of desperadoes in Lan
caster county, resisted arrest on Fri
day, seizing an axe and swinging it in
a threatening manner. Before he
could use the implement a manaccom
pauyingthe constable deputed to make
the arrest shot the negro in tho rear.
The desperado dropped to the floor,
but the wound is not dangerous.
It is stated that the New York
Central railroad company and the
Standard oil company are co-operating
in the effort to induce the Legislature
of New York to grant tho power of
procuring the right of way for free
pipes in that state. The object to be
attained is to secure the monopoly of
oil transportation from the Bradford
region.
The citizens of Beaver and Butler
counties have oeen considerably an
noyed during the past few weeks by
the operations of a gang of robbers,
whose detection and arrest seemed im
possible. Their work was chiefly in
the towns of New Brighton, Roches
ter, Baden and Freedom, iu Beaver
county, and in Zelienople, in Butler
county. The last and boldest and
most wholesale operation was in Zel
ienople, one night last week, when
they went through no less than eleven
houses, in each of which they ob
tained goods to a greater or less value.
The discovery of the gang, which is
supposed to be responsible for all these
depredations, was made by the merest
accident last week. A little girl was
passing the house of a family named
Gordon, living about two miles back
of Rochester, soon after the Zelienople
robberies, when she saw some of the
family secreting iu a newly dug well,
a mysterious package, wrapped up in
some bed ticking. She told the
neighbors what she had seen, and this
circumstance, together with the gen
eral reputation of the family, at once
fastened a strong suspicion upon them.
Living With the family was a man
named Jack Wiles, who is, or pretends
to be, married to one of the Gordon
girls, named Emma. A reward of fifty
dollars was offered for his arrest as he
was supposed to bo the moving spirit
iu these iniquities, and soon afterwards
a farmer named Beard, determined to
bring this man to justice, and at the
same time secure the reward, 6aw
Wiles a short distance from the house.
Attempting to capture him, Wiles ran
and Beard gave chase. As the thief
was climbing a fence Beard threw a
stone at him, striking him on the
back of the head, and knocking him
down. Supposing that he had him
within his grasp, Beard confidently
approached, and was much surprised
to see Wiles spring to his feet and beat
a hasty retreat, firing two shots at his
pursuer as he ran. Beard concluded
that further attempts to secure his
capture were useless, so long as the ad
vantage in arms were thus against
him, called at a near furm-house, pro
cured a double-barrelled shotgun, and
soon had the satisfaction of taking
Wiles in custody, the latter surrender
ing at the muzzle of the gun. A large
quantity of stolen goods were found
secreted in the well and other places
in and about the house. Wiles and
the Gordens were taken to Har
mony and lodged iu jail. As most
of the articles recovered were stolen
from Zelienople, the party will be
taken to Butler county for trial. The
citizens feel much relieved by the ar
rest, and it is believed that there is
sufficleut evidence against the defend
ants to put them out of the way of
doing hafrn for some time. Wiles,
the leader of the gang, Is a man with
a bad record, which the police of this
city are familiar with. Pittsburgh
Telegraph,
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GEO. A. RATHBUN.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Mslu Street, Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.
HALL & M'CAULEY.
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
oniceln New Brick Building, Main Street,
Ridgway, Elk Co., fa. v3n2tf.
J. O. W. BAILEY.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Ridgway, Elk Connty, Fa. Agent for the
Traveler's Life nnd Accident Insurance Co.,
of Hartford, Connoticut. vln25yl.
LUCORE & HAMBLEN.
ATTORNEYS AT-LAW.
Ridgway, Elk County Pa. Office across
the hall from the Democrat establishment.
Claims for collection promptly attended to
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E. G. FAY.
LUMBER AND INSURANCE COMMIS
SION BROKER.
And Qoncral Collection Agent, No. 200
Walnut Place, (310 Walnut Street.) Philadel
phia, Pa. nil-ly
" NEW MEAT MARKET.
MERCER BROTHERS have moved their
meut market from D. D. Cook's building to
W. S. Service's hardware store, where they
Invite all wishing beef, pork, veal and
snusage to give them a call.
V7n47lf,
CHARLES HOLES.
WATCHMAKER, ENGRAVER AND JEW
ELER Main street, Ridgway, Pa. Agent for the
Howe Sewing Machine, and Morton Gold
Pen. Repairing Watches, eto., done with tho
8amo accuracy as heretofore. Satisfaction
guaranteed. vlnly
G. G. MESSENGER.
DRUGGIST AND PARMACEUTIST.
N. W. corner of Main and Mill streets,
Ridgway, Pa., full assortment of carefully
selected Foreign and Domestio Drugs. Pre
scriptions carefully dispensed at all hours,
day or night, Yln3y
T. S. HARTLEY, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office in Drug Store, corner Broad and
Main Streets, Residence corner Broad
Street, opposite the College. Office hours
from 8 to 10 A. M. and from 7 to 8 P. M.
Vln2yl.
J. 8. BORDWELL, H. D.
ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Has removed his office from Centre Street,
to Main Street, Ridgway, Pa., In the second
story of the new brick building of John G.
Hall, west of the Hyde House.
Office hours : 1 to 2 P. M. 7 to 9 P. M.
MRS. N. T. CUMMINGS.
A LARGE ASSORTMENT of Ladies' Cloaks.
at Mrs. N. T. Cummings, also ties, collars
cuffs, bolsery, gloves, and a general assort
ment of Ladles' fancy goods. Remember the
pluco over R.I. Campbell's store. Main street.
Call and examine before purchasing elsa
where.
HYDE HOUSE.
W. H. SCHRAM, Proprietor,
Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.
Thankful for tho patronage heretofore bo
liberally bestowed upon him, the new pro
prietor, hopes, by paying strict attention to
the comfort and convenience of guests, to
merit a continuance of the samo,
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Ridgway Oyster, Fish and Produca
Market.
- The undersigned having leased the build
ing formerly used by Mercer Bros., as a Meat
Market will occupy tho same as a General
Market House, and will constantly have on
hand, Shell, Tub, and Canned Oysters, a
variety of Fresh and Salt Fish, Foreign and
Domestio Fruits and Nuts, and all kinds of
Produce. Canned fruits and Jelllls.
Fresh invoices of Ovstors and Fish Daily.
A. C. MATHEWS A CO.
MILLINERY AND DRESSMAKING.
MRS. J. R. KELTZ, Kersey, Elk Co., Pa.,
takes this method of announcing to the citi
sens of Elk county, that she has on hand an
assortment of fashionable millinery goods
which will be sold cheap. Also dressmaking
in all its brandies.
Agent for Dr. J. Ball A Co'g Patent Ivory
and Lignum Vita Eye Cups. Send for des
criptive circular.
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APPLETON'S AMERICAN CYCLO
PEDIA.
Vol. 8 of this admirable work is Just out
making it half complete, as there are to be 16
in all, of 800 pages each, 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
umo in leather, or J7.00 In elegant half Tur
key, C. K. Judson, Fredonla, N. Y., controls
tho sale In Elk county. Address him for
paticulars. scp 17-tf.
E. K. GRESH.
DEALER in all ktnrln nf
wood and cane seat chairs, kltnhnn mH at
tention tables, wood and marble top standi,,
wood and marble top bureaus, whatnots,
looking glosses, wood and marble top cham
ber suits, mattresses, spring bed bottoms.
ooa steaus, cribs. Lafcrty's metal lined
wood mini us. Ac. An.
with perforated wood seats. Weed sewing
macnine reduced rrora i5 to J45, the best ma
chine In the market, and nlctur frames
made to order. Alsoa large assorted stock of
reauy made eonlns constantly on hand and
trimmed at shortest notice. All th ib.
goods are sold at panio prices. Ware Rooina
in masonic building, Ridgway Pa,
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