RIDGWAY, PA., APRIL 18, 1878. Kotos. Fly time will soon be hero. reople are now making soap. Next Sunday Is Easter Sunday. Corpus Chrlstl comes on Thursday, June 20. May terra of court Is a license term. Our lumbermen are praying for a flood. To morrow Is good Friday. Sow your cabbage seeds. Send In your subscriptions to the Advocate. Farmers are now busy putting In their spring ciops. Old sheep and green pea9 will Boon be In market. This Is Holy Week and the last week of lent. Less than $10,000 of one cent pieces were coined last year. Another lot of new samples for ummer wear just received at M' Afee's. This is the last "r" month and the close of the oyster season for some time. The croakers are still determined to have a young winter some time this summer. Pleasant wenther, and a good time to clean up yards and get ready for the;summer campaign. The survey of the "Dutch lands" is being pushed forward as rapidly aa possible. The lumber for the derrick, near Jim Gardner's, has been hauled on the ground. Many people plant their potatoes In the moon. We propose to plant ours in the ground if it don't rain. April showers bring May flowers. ThejTshowers have not been very plenty this month thus far. The constables elected at the spring election will be sworn in at the May term of court. The Republican State Convention will be held on Wednesday, May 8, 1878atHarriMburg. The State Convention of the Na tionals will be held in Philadelphia on Wednesday, May 8, 1878. Potatoes are very plenty in this market at present and are .quoted as low as 40 cents a bushel. The breezes that are wafted from the skivingson the old road opposite the grist mill, are anything but spicy. April report of the Principal's Re port of the Wilcox public schools in another column. If the weather continues fine we expect to plant a lot of dead cats in a few clays. We have a few chickens and that is the cause of it. We would like a correspondent from each township in Elk county. Any thing you would like to see in the Advocate please send us for pub lication. There is talk of consolidating the Methodist and Presbyterian congrega tion of this place and hiring a Con. gregational miuister. This will en able the congregation to hire a good man and pay him a good salary. The crop of spring chickens is looking finely and reports from our correspondents in diil'erent parts of the town report them as unusually far advanced for thisseasou of the year. There will be a meeting of the Ridgway Greenback Club, in the base ment under W. S. .Service's hardware etore, next Saturday evening, for the purpose of electing a delegate to the ensuing county convention. My friend a little advice. Don't borrow the Advocate from your neighbor, remember we will send it to your address for one year gratis pro viding you say you are not able to pay for it. Then have a copy of yourown. The payment made to the Seven teenth Division, P. N. ii., for military services during the last July riots, ag gregate $27,000, Clarion Republican. The Seventh Division is undoubtedly ment in the above item. As no such division as the seventeenth exists in this State. The number of officers and men in company H paid by Major Noble was thirty-one as follows: three commis sioned officers ; five non-commissioned officers ; and twenty-three privates. This as a correction of the Democrat which made the number thirty-two, and which seems unable to figure. The culture of grapes in this vil lage is improving very much of late. There is no question about this climate and this soil being adapted to the culture of that delicious fruit, and we hope every person having a spare spot will set out a grape vine as an ex peslment, and our word for it the en terprise will pay. Judge Dickinson, Harry Wilson, Charles Matthews, and others about town, have had good success with grapes, and no sufficient reason can be given why any person having a piece of ground cannot raise enough grapes, for h is own use. The Republican County Com mittee met. pursuant to call, at the Ridgway Rank. In the absence of J.O. W. Bailey, Chairman, W. C. Spaf ford, of St. Mary's was chosen Prea dent. H. M. Powers was chosen Secretary. The Borough of St. Mary's and Townships of Fox, Ridgway and Spring freek were represented. W. H. Osterhout, of Ridgway was elected as representative delegate to the ensuing- Btt Convention. W. W. Ames, of Bt. Mary's was named as the choice of Elk county for Senatorial delegate. Pergonal Kotos. D. C. Oyster's peas are up. Cal. Luther has bought a cow. Mrs. C. R. Earlcy is again at home. The township auditors have com pleted their labors. T. A. NelU is boss on Hyde & Ross' new planing mill. Mrs. Patrick Riley was In town on a visit last week. Phillip Lesser has made himself a neat grape arbor. Oren Rhincs has a cow and a calf and a new spring house. Hon. K. L. Blood, of Brookvllle, was In town last week Saturday. Grant & Hortou are building a big barn near their tannery. Mr. W. H. Schram has a beautiful sorrel colt of which he seems very proud. W. S. Service has returned from the city bringing with him a nice lot of goods. M'Afce borrowed a hen of we'uns the other day and now proposes to have some poultry of his own. Ben Dill was down from Shaw mut the other day and took home a load of potatoes and other necessaries. G. T. Wheeler has a bad sore on his leg, the result of the dog bite he received a week or so ago. Geo. W, Rhines has set out a number of fruit trees on his farm on the State road below that of Jno. G. Hall. r-Every fellow must now lick his own postage stamps as the postmasters are not allowed to do that business any more. G. W. Rhines, George Rhines, Carl Rhines and James Rhines, yester day started for Highland on a pigeon hunt. Michael Mann is doing the plow ing and other team work this spring for all of Irishtown. R. V. Kime is having his garden nicely laid out. Year by year people take more pains to beautify their places. Grant's rye and Dickinson's wheat are looking finely. And show what can be done in this soil with the aid of good fertilizers. TneSupervisors of Ridgway town ship have employed Messrs. Lucore & Hamblen as their counsel for the en suing year. The Warren Mail says: "the Mof fit bell punch is the coming thing. You don't drink the punch it only punches your drinks. A good many German strangers are seen on our streets for the past few days. We may expect to hear the sound of the ax in the "Dutch lands" before long. Frank VanOrsdall, for a long time employed at the depot, will take the position in Powell & Kiiue's store, made vacant by the resignation of B. T. C'hapin. R. II. Coates started out on Mon day morning, for a trip with Service's peddling cart, loaded with tin ware etc., to be exchanged for rags, old copper, and cash. Whatever shortcomings Messrs. M'Govern and Gulnack may have been guilty of they are certainly de serving of great praise for not increas ing the township debt. Mrs. N. T. Cunimiugs has just re turned from the city with a new and elegant stock of millinery goods. Call and see her in Thayer's building in the room formerly occupied by Miss Krimble. There was a little error in the Elk Democrat of last week in relation to the size of Hyde & Ross' new planing mill. That paper gave the size as 45x100 feet, when the size is, as given in the Advocate, 48x96. M. E. Lesser has torn down his old house across the creek next west of Mrs. Houk's and has commenced the cellar for a new dwelling. There are several handsome building lots on the other side of the Clarion. B. T. Chapin, who has occupied the position of book keeper for Messrs. Powell & Kime, has purchased the stock of goods and rented the store of Mrs. Moorehead, atBrockwayville, for u term of five years. He intends com mencing at once. Mr. P. T. Brooks cut the limbs off an apple tree next his house because the tree did not do very well. He says the tree bore last year one million little apples and two million caterpil lars. The apple crop being out of all kind of decent proportion to the other crop. A young chap poked his head In our office door the o'her day and in quired ''have you change fora$o bill.'' Ou our asking him for his bill he re plied, "I have none now but thought prehaps I might get one." We killed the villiau at once and buried him un der the grape vines. Eight Mollie Maguires were ar rested at Shamokin on the 12th Inst., ou the charge of murder and iucen. diarism. With the hanging and Im prisonment of the Mollie Maguires the time will come shortly when the or- ganizatiou of which they are members will be a slim one. i resiueni Hayes has ordered a court of inquiry to rehear Fitz-John Porter's case. Sixteen years ago Por ter was tried by court-martial for diso bedience of orders and upon convic tion of the charges against him was sentenced to be cashiered and forever rendered incapable of holding office under tne government of the United States. It is claimed on Porter's be half that new evidence can be pro duced which will exonerate him of the charees on which he was convicted His petition for a re-hearing has been refused by three President, Lincoln, jounson ana urant. Notes. The premium on cold Is now only from one-fourth to seven-eights of a cent. -Deficiency bills to the tune of $9,000,000 have been passed by the House at Washington, and more are coming. That's a good way to reduce expenses. Several southern papers want Alex H. Stephens to be President. He declares he will reduce himself to a skeleton rather than bo President. A $130,000 jail In Clarion county does not hold the prisoners. Two of them dug through the wall with a twenty cent jack knife a few days ago and escaped. The Buffalo races are to be on the 30th of July and the two following days. Purses, $13,500. There will also be a three days' meeting In June, the days and time being not yet fixed. The Philadelphia Times calls the members of our State Legislature. "Legislature paupers." And they continue to take their $10 a day, for bringing disgrace on the common wealth, all the same. The Derrick's report of oil opera tions for the month of March, shows that 212 wells were finished in that time, of which 89 were "dusters." A slight increase in drilling wells is noted over February. The daily pro duction was 87,400 barrels. A post mortem examination of the body of a young lady named Allen, who died recently at Spring Station, Crawford county, revealed the fact that her liver, stomach and intestines had grown firmly together. Her suf ferings M ere very severe. Tight lac ing is said to have been the cause. The Bradford narrow gauge road and the one legged road have gone to the courts to decide a controversy about the right of way beyond Brad ford. Application has been made to the Attorney General of the State to annul the charter of the elevated road, the claim being that it is not a railroad within the meaning of the statute. A letter was published in New York last Monday from Mrs. Tilton to her private legal adviser, Mr. Wheeler, declaring the charge of adultery be tween herself and Mr. Beecher Owe! Mr. Beecher confronts the new confes sion with an explicit and absolute denial ! The Renovo Eecord last week copied an article from the Advocate without credit, in relation to keeping boys home nights. If the article was good enough to use it was certainly deserving of credit : We expect, how ever, to be bothered with these thiev ing cases as long as we write articles so much better than our cotempor- aries. W'm. M. Tweed is dead. At noon on April 12, 1878, he breathed his last in Ludlow street jail, New York City. His last words were "I have tried to do some good, If I have not had good luck. I am not afraid to die; I be lieve my guardian angels will protect me." Besides being Mayor of New city he succeeded in stealing from the city several millions of dollars, and yet was allowed to quietly die in bed in stead of being hung as he deserved Ridgway township has an interest bearing debt of $12,71)3,65 and with the judgments in favor of the town ship and the amount of tax in the hands of collectors has enough to pay half the amount. And while this enormous debt, bearing interest to the amount of over $750,00 is carried, the taxes in the hands of collectors is bear ingno interest. There seems to be a needed reform in the niannerof collect ing taxes, and we propose to harp on this matter until some action is taken by the powers that be to have taxes promptly collected and promptly paid over. No reasonable man can ask for a longer period than six months for the payment of his tax. Then let the duplicate be placed in the hands of collectors, allowing a reasonable dis count to those who pay ill sixty days, and let those who pay in four months pay the full amount, and those who wait until the expiration of the six mouths should have a reasonable per centage added to the amount of their tax. Upon the expiration of the time named compel the collector to settle his duplicate, and square up his ac count. The tax then remaining un paid should then be collected by levy and sale forthwith. There is no need for the dilatory collection of taxes, and once get the tax payers in the habit of beiug prompt and a few years would extinguish our debt and make the taxes so low that what now is a grinding burden would become a com paratively pleasant duty. Correspon dence if solicited on this subject, and we hone bv persistent agitation to ac- comnlish an end for which all most devoutly hope, viz: the payment of our debts ana low taxes. Good Friday. To-morrow, the 19th, Good Friday, the day on which our blessed Lord was crucified for the sins of the whole world, there will be service at Grace Church at 1:30 A. M. and 7:30 P. M A Christian people should not let this day pass as an ordinary day no more (to sav the least) than a legal citizen would treat with unconcern "Wash ington's Birthday" or the "Fourth of July." Therefore, the Rector of Grace Church cordially invites all to the solemn observance of this Christian Fast. Birth. Agens. On Thursday, April 11th, 1878, to Mr. ana Mrs. Simon Agens, of this place, a son. " That Spring Suit, Can now be bought at a very low price by making a selection from Wanamaker'g samples at The West End Store. Township Jccouuls. A good dealof dlscssslon Is going on in regard to the publication of the ac counts of boroughs and townships. We have heretofore published the several laws in relation to this ques tion, and therefore deem It unneces sary to do so again. The law plainly requires the auditors of the several boroughs and townships to publish a statement of their accounts respec tively at the close of each fiscal year, which previous to'76 was in June. We so stated In previous years but there were persons, and some lawyers, too, who had not given the Bubject a minute's attention, who argued that the law did not require any publication other than a written statement posted up in the borough or townshp. A case was tried in Northumberland county, in volving a neglect of the auditors to publish In the papers, and, after .a thorough examination, the court de cided against the auditors, and fined them twenty dollars each. In Alle gheny county a like case was tried, and with like result. It was all along clear to us that publication in the pa pers was necessary. The reason why people thought a publication by writ ten or printed statements put up in the borough or township was a suf flcent compliance with the law, was because the act of 1874 so stated it, but the proviso to the act says as follows : "Nothing in this act shall be con strued to interfere with the present law, which requiresannual statements of the receipts and expenditures of the borough councils, road commissioners, supervisors, overseers of the poor and scnooi directors to ue advertised in the weekly papers of tlife county." From this it Is clear that the written or printed statement to be put up in the borough or township is a publica tion in addition to the publication in the papers, for were it not so the act itself would be practically of no effect. Several laws have been passed bearing on this subject since 1874, and the whole of them sum up thus : First The auditors are required in each borough and township to settle the annual accounts thereof, and pub lish the same not only in newspapers, but also by written or printed state ments put up in the most public places In the respective boroughs and townships, as soon after the close of the fiscal year, which is on the first Monday in April, as possible. Second If the borough or township is in debt, has a funded or floating debt, it must be included in the state ment, together with the valuation of property, &c, and published in at least two papers, and embraced in the written or printed statement also. It is necessary that the auditors of the respective boroughs and townships should go to work at once and settle the accounts as they are in duty bound to do, and have them published as the law directs. When the borough .or township has no Indebtedness, neglect to publish incurs a flue of twenty dol lars, but if the borough or township is in debt, the neglect Incurs a fine of one thousand dollars. We would advise those who read this article to cut it out of the paper and preserve it, so that it may be had for reference. The following supplement to the above act was approved March 31, 1876, and is also of importance : "Be it enacted, etc. That the time for the Auditors of the several town ships and boroughs within this Com monwealth to meet annually, shall be, and Is hereby changed from the first Monday of June, annually, as pro vided in the act to which this is a sup plement, to meet the second Monday of April, annually, except so far as said auditing relates to School Direc tors." Qreensburg Argus. The New Bogus Five Dollars. This city and vicinity is now being flooded with counterfeit five dollar bills on the First National Bank of Hanover, Pa. We alluded to this fraudulent bill in our last; a subse quent, careful, examination enables us to lay before our readers a more de tailed description of this dangerous counterfeit, which is so well executed that It has deceived several experts. The bogus bill is marked ou one of the D series, the only defects the closest scrutiny reveals are in the cautionary directions printed on the back of the note. The word "owing" on the up per right hand corner had evidently been originally printed "ownig" and afterwards changed as there is an ex tra, dot over the "n." The word "thousand" in the lower right hand corner has the last syllable printed "aud" and the word "exceed ing" immediately following begins with a "c." These are very trifling defects, and may have been corrected in subsequent Issues of the counterfeit. It would be well to refuse all $5 notes on this bank of the Beries D. Peter sons' Counterfeit Detector. Church Directory. METHODIST CHURCH. Rev. W. H. Swartz, next Sunday, morning and evening at the usual hours. grace church. Rev, Wm. Jas. Miller, next Sunday, morning and evening at the usual hours. Next Sunday being Easter Day, the subject of the morning sermon will be "Light Springing up" and of the even ing, "Si)iritual Resurrection.'' In the afternoon at 3.30 o'clock there will be a children's service. LUTHERAN CHURCH. Rev. J. M. Gillette (Presbyterian), morning and evening, at the usual hours. . CATHOLIC CHURCH. Next Sunday there will be no ser vices although it is tne regular dav Rev, M. Meagher will be In attendance on the Mission at Emporium which closes on that day. Wilcox l'nbllo Schools. Principal's Report for month ending April 2, 1878. 13 r a 5 86 87 00 a e s m TEACHERS. 3 M B-3 Tl 15 13 13 Miss. Eula Schultz. Miss. W. Murphy. W. H. Prideaux. Bu miliary. The standard U6I78 87J4l here used Is 100; The highest average class standing during the month is 99 the lowest 65 ; the best general average 100; the lowest 88. Divisions. 1st. Div. A Grade. Ella Locke 100 100 100 08 99 Amanda Wilcox 100 98 98 97 98 Jessie Parsons 90 100 100 97 98 DoraStarks 100 98 08 96 98 Willard M'Vean 100 99 98 97 98 Maggie Murphy 100 100 98 97 99 Lucy Nearing 90 100l 96 97 07 "B" Grade Katie Murphy 100 100 95 97 98 Mattie Locke 100 100 98 97 99 Ada Miller 100 100 98 97 99 Martha Groat 1"0 100 95 97 98 Mary Schriner 100 100 loo 98 99 Johnnie Murphy 100 loo 97 87 98 Eugene Parsons 90 94 90 95 94 Freddie Aldrich 100 100 94 95 97 James Murphy 100 90 98 90 97 "C" Grade Eddie Wells 96 100 90 05 97 William Miller 98 0 96 93 00 Mary Myrthough 90 100 loo 94 90 2rd Div. A Grade. Bennie Murphy 100 100 99 97 99 Grant Allen 99 100 98 92 97 Willie Sweet 99 100 99 94 98 Eddie Bevier 99 100 00 89 94 Martin Brogan 90 100 95 95 95 Jackson Schultz 100 08 98 89 96 Minnie Whiteman 95 100 loo 95 97 Flora Weining 100 100 loo 98 99 John Leonard 98 90 95 65 88 "B" Grade Hatta Whiteman 75 100 95 83 88 Ellie Whiteman 90 100 97 88 94 Lillie Brown 100 97 85 93 94 Edna Walker 100 100 loo 98 99 Willie Locke lOojlOO loo 98 99 John Flannagan 99 100 98 95 99 Geo. Weining 100 100 9.5 90 98 M. Westcott 100:100 90 96 96 LucvStarks HMlOOloO 99:i00 Charlie Armel 97100 95 97 97 Charlie Stoltz 99 100 85 90 94 Otto Schriner 99 100 98 93 9 Bernardine Veditz 100 100 loo 85 96 Sarah Nearing 100 95 90 96 95 "C" Grade. Lillie Ernhout 98 100 100 96 08 Allie Houghtailing 100 100 100 99 99 Celia Miller 100 100 100 99 99 K Flannagan 95 100 100 92 94 LMurtough 701 100 loo 86 89 Visitors, Messrs. Geo. R. Dixon. A T. Aldrich, H. M. Campbell, James Iveeley and Rev. Wilson. W. H. PRIDEAUX, Principal. National Greenback Men ! Take Notice t A convention of delegates from the several Townships of Elk Co., will meet In Ridgway, Thursday, April 25th at 2 o'clock P. M. to select a dele gate to the State Convention to be held in Philadelphia May 8th. Also to perfect County organization. Each township is requested to send two delegates. By request of W. S. SERVICE, President of Central Club, April 17, 1878. Ridgway, Pa. E. K. Thompson's Great Healing Ointment has cured cases of badly frozen feet aud toes, taking the frost out and healing the parts. Recently a man had his large toe froze so that the flesh came off, leaving the bone almost bare. He applied the Ointment as above, and in a short time bad a new one. Prepared at Titusville, Pa. Price, 25 cents Sold by Dr. T. S. Hartley, Ridgway Elk Co. Pa. 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Bcemuureas or 8 other while-leaved plants. 8 Ihilillus, or antbus (new Japan.) 8 Kerns. 8 Mosses, or 8 Fuchsia. 8 Geraniums, Fancy, 8 Variegated, or 8 Ivy-leaved, t Gloxinias, 8 Gladiolus, or 8 Tuberoses (Pearl) t Grape vines, 1 Honeysuckles, 4 Hardy nnruus. 8 Heliotropes, 8 Lantanas, or 8 Petunias, 8 Puusies (new German), or 8 Salvias. 8 Hoses, Monthly, 8 Hardy Hybrid, or 4 Climbing. 8 Violet (scented), or 8 Daises, English. 12 Scarcer Bedding, tr 12 bcarcer Green' house Plants. 16 Verbenas, distinct and splendid sorts Jo Varieties of Flower, or 20 varieties of veeeianie neeaB. or by KX PR lews, buyer to pay charges. 12 for SO; UforS7; lS'for10: or the full collection of 850 varieties of Plants aud Seeds sufficient to stock a greenhouse or Garden for 123. to our book "Garden ing for Pleasure' and Catalogue ofi'ered above (value ti.vo; win oe auueu. PETER HENDERSON & CO 85 Cortlandt 8k, NEW YORK. Notice for Convention of School Direc tors to elect County Superintendent. To the School Directors of Elk county: Gentlemen In pursuance of the forty-third section of the act of 8th May, 1854, you are hereby not! lied to meet in convention, at thecourt house, in Ridgway Elk Co. Pa. on the first Tuesday in May, A. D. 1878, being the 7th day 'of the month, at one o'clock In the afternoon, and select, viva voce, by a majority of the whole number of directors present, one person of liter ary and scientific acquirements, and of skill aud experience in the art of teaching, as county superintendent, tor three succeeding years: determine the amount of compensation for the same; and certify the result to the State Superintendent, at Harrisburg. as required by the thirty-ninth and fortieth section of said act. GEO. R. DIXON, Co. Supt. of Elk Co. April 4th, 1878 List of Jurors drawn for May term of court, com mencing Monday May 27, 1878. OKAND. Bt. Marys. Gerhard Fochtman. Benezctte. H. R. Wilson, Dennis Taylor. lieiizingcr . 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John Turley, Charles P Chase. Ridgway. William Fannin, E. J. Miller, Minor Wilcox, G. G. Messen. ger, James P. Garrett, James Rickard, George Dickinson, Andrew Jackson. St. Marys. Fred Leoffler, George Young, Frank Aves, Frank B. Hall, Anthony Boenninger. Paper Rags taken in exchange for goods 42 Main Street The articles appearing in the Elk Democrat and 101 k Advocate signed by Rev. J. M. Gillette, aud "A Catho lic." also Rev. J. M. Gillette's "Thanksgiving Sermon,'' are pub lished in a neat pamphlet, and for sale at this office for 25 cents. Send in your orders. A new line of dress goods at J. H Hagerty's. Call aud seethe elegant new stock. The silverware delivered by the National-Plating Co. No. 704 Chest nut street, Philadelphia, is giving en tire satisfaction. All orders are promptly filled, and no one need hesitate about sending them money. Lutheran Observer. T "'HE SOCIETY STORE. A new store started in Ridgway un der the auspices of the ladies of Grace Church, with MISS A. E. 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T,V-ICk riayirlon Thk Garden is an 11G UdlUCU elegant quarterly Magazine, devoted to the culture of Flowers and Vegetables.- It is printed on line book paper, profusely 11 lustra ted, and contains a splendid Colored Plate of Flowers. Price 25 cents a year, and 25 cents worth ol'Seeds free. Splendidly Illustrated Catalogue of Flowers and Vegetable Seeds and Plants for a three cent slump. special rrice i.isi to mantel uaruners lee. Wholesale Catalogue to dealers on applica tion. Address I BESJ. KLLIUTT &CO. 114 Market St., Pittsburgh. Pa. nlvS-lt. PENNSYLVANIA RAIL ROAD Philadelphia & Erie R. B. Division SUMMER TIME TABLE. -N and after THURSDAY, JULT. 28. If 1877, the trains onthe Philadelphia & Lri ttrnroaa willrunas follows t WESTWARD. ERIE MAIL leaves Philadelphia 11 65 p m " " Kenovo 11 00 a m " " " Emporium 12 65 p m ' St. Mary's 1 46 p m Ridgway 2 16pm " '' Kane 8 80 p m " arrive at Erie 7 85 p m EASTWARD. ERIE MAIL leave Erie M .....11.00 a m " '. Kane 8 60 p m ' " ' Ridgway ........ 4 49 p m " " St. Mary's 6 18 p m " " " Emporium 6 15pm Renovo- 8.85 p m " " arr. at Pbiladephia... 7 00 a m Day Express and Niagara Express oon neoteast wilh Low Grvde Dilution and B. N. Yl & P. R. R. WM. A BALDWIN. Gen'l 8up't Hmtrnt ! Advertising. One oolnran, oat ye"' Sum- 15 0O & I t .J...ItuimiinU Mr Bfl HUT Of. nlilit llnca one insertion II. two luser 1..tII, I lireo insertions 2. Business cards, ten lines or less, per jrear . Advertisements payaoie qunrwnj. ri.n.ruiri. i - - -riji-n.gjui n fi rji-iAfirVwssT 1"- Business Cards. GEO. A. RATHBUN attorney-at-law, Main Street, Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa. HALL A. M'CAULEY. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Office In New Brick Building, Main Street, Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa. 3n2tf. J. O. W. BAILEY. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Ridgway, Elk Connty, Pa. Agent forth Traveler's Life and Accident Insurance Co., of Hartford, Connetlcuh vln25yl. LUCORE & HAMBLEN. ATTORNEYS AT-LAW. Ridgway, Elk County Pa. Office across the hall from the Dbmocbat establishment. Claims for collection promptly attended tr Jne.15-1876 E. Q. FAY. LUMBER AND INSURANCE COMMIS SION BROKER. And General Collection Agent, No. 204 Walnut Place, (311) Walnut Street.) Philadel phia, Pa. n-ll-ly NEW MEAT MARKET. MERCER BROTHERS have moved their meat market from I). D. Cook's building to V. 8. Service's hardware store, where they invite all wishing beef, pork, veal and suusage to give them a call, v7nl7tf, G. G. MESSENGER; DRUGGIST AND PAUMACEUTIST. N. W. corner of Main and Mill streets, Rldgwuy, Pa., full assortment of carefully selected Foreign and Domestlo Drugs. Pre scriptions carefully dispensed at all hours, day or night. vln3y 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. vlnJyl. J. S. BORDWELL, M. 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 Johu G. Hall, west of the Hyde House. Office hours : 1 to 2 P. M. 7 to 8 P. M. MRS. N. T. CUMMINGS. A LARGE ASSORTMENT of Ladles' Cloaks, at Mrs. N. T. Cummlngs, also ties, collars cuffs, holsory, gloves, and a general assort ment of Ladies' fancy goods. Remember the place over R. I. Campbell's store. Main street, Call and examine before purchasing else where. HYDE HOUSE W. H. SCHUAM, Proprietor, Kldgway, Klk Co., Pa. Thankful for the patronage heretofore so liberally bestowed upon him, the new pro prletor, hopes, by paying strict attention to the comfort and convenience of guests, to merit a continuance of the same, oct30'0 Ridgway Oyster, Fish and Produce Market. Tho undersigned having leased the build ing formerly used by Mercer Bros., as a Meat Market will occupy tho sume as a General Market House, and will constantly have on hand, Shell, Tub, and Canned Oysters, a variety of Fresh and Salt Pish, Foreign and Domestlo Fruits and Nuts, and all kinds of Produce, Canned fruits and Jellils. Frcsli invoices of Oysters 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 cltl Eens of Elk county, that she has on hand an assortment of fashionable millinery goods which will be sold cheap. Also dressmaking In all Its branches. Agent for Dr. J. Bail it Co's Patent Ivory and Lignum VlttB Eye Cups. Send for des criptive circular. nl7yl. APPLETON'S AMERICAN CYCLO PEDIA. Vol, 8 of this admirable work Is Just out making It half complete, as there are to be 18 in all, of 800 pages each, one being issued In two mouths. It mukes a complete library. and no one can afford to do without it who would keep well informed. Price 86,00 a vol ume in leather, or $7,00 in elegant half Tur key. C. K. Judson, Fredonla, N. Y.. controls the sale In Elk couuty. Address him for patlculars. sep 17-tf. E. K. GRESH. DEALER In all kinds of cabinet ware. wood and cane seat chairs, kitchen and ex tention tables, wood and marble top stands, wood and marble top bureaus, whatnots, looking glasses, wood and marble top cham ber suits, mattresses, spring bed bottoms, bed steads, cribs. Luferty's metal lined wood pumps, dec, ic. Cane seals replaced with perforated wood seats. Weed sewing machine reduced from $65 to (-15, the best ma chine In the market, and picture frames made to order. Also a large assorted stock of ready made coffins constantly on band and trimmed at shortest notice. All the above goods are sold at panic prices. Ware Rooms In masonic building, Ridgway Pa. v7nolt. Choice Rio Coffee. Costs but 23 cents at The West End. A C2ANCS TO HAKE SOUS MONEY, SUEE, 'Cornell's History of Pennsylvania." Now ready. Write for Agency at once. JOHN SULLY (V CO., Publishers, T Sansom Street. Philadelphia, UinViii. A Sew Supply. of London Layer t, . Valencia Rlns. Oranges, Lemons, Figs. Prunes, at The West End. Groceries, fresh and good, and the best crackers at Hagerty's. Shipping tags are printed cheap at this oflice. Call on us. Neat note-heads printed cheaDlv at the Advocate oaice. Diphtheria! Johnson's Anodyne Liniment will pos tively prevent this terrible disease, and will posllvely cure nine cases lu ten. Informa tion that will save luauy lives sent free by mail. Don't delay a moment. Prevention Is better than cure. I. S. JOJtNSOH m, Bangor, Maine. '
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