Henry A. Parsons, Jr., Editor THURSDAY DEC. 19, 1878. Mr, Wood has introduced a bill in the House making United States notes receivable for duties on imports. The Secretary of the Treasury lias Issued circulars of Instruction concern ing the resumption of specie payment. Princess Alice, of England, the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria, has died of diphtheria. She was born April 25, 1843. The House Committee on Appro priations have agreed to recommend the deficiency appropriations of $450, 000 for the continuation of the postal car service. Governor Hampton has been e'ect ed to the Uhlted States Senate from South Carolina. He has also had a leg amputated just below the knee. This is bitter-sweet with a vengeance. All the shoes for the use of our army are now made at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., by military convicts, with the aid of modern machines. Last year 39,880 pairs were made. Ex-Governor Curtin's notice of contest, served on Seth H. Yocum's seat in the next Congress, covers seven ty pages of legal cap, closely written, and consists of ninety-two specifica tions. He charges that several hun dred illegal votes were thrown. It is rumored that the speculators of New York contemptate making a "corner" in gold at the date of re sumption, with the hope of creating a panic that will In some way inure to their benefit It is asserted that the Treasury officials are without appre hensions of trouble from this source, and that it is believed the government is strong enough to control the gold market under any conditions that It is possible for the speculators to create. One of the southern heroines brought to light by the yellow fever plaugue is "Grandma" Wilson, an old negress of New Orleans. Ever since the yellow fever epidemic of 1837 she has been on hand to nurse the sick whenever the plague has broken out in that city and also at Norfolk, Savan nah, Shreveport and elsewhere. As soon as Ler philanthropic work is ended she refuses gifts and returns to her occupation of selling peanuts In the streets of New Orleans. The report of the Grand Jury to the Criminal Court last Friday after noon contained the fallowing : " We recommended to the General Assembly of the State that the crime of rape be more severely dealt with. The records of late years show that it is largely on the increase, and unless summarily and severely dealt with will continue to increase. We recommend that the raping of a child under twelve veurs of age be made a capital offense, and be punished with death ; that the at tempted rape of a child under twelve years be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for life." Judge Lowell has decided that some $4O0,OC0, notes of ihe Union Mills, of Fall River, signed only by the treasurer, when the by-laws of the corporation required that they be coun tersigned by the president, are valid claims against the concern, on the ground that the rule had not been ob served for a number of years before the company became bankrupt. The judge also held that the notes had been bought by innocent holders before ma turity, and that these parties could not be held responsible for the application of the corporation's money or be af fected by any fraudulent use of the proceeds of the notes. In the Senate, Dec. 12, Mr. Bnrn side. from the joint select committee to prepare a plan for the reorganization of the army, submitted a report, ac companied by a bill and numerous documents bearing on the subject. The bill, entitled "A bill to reduce and re organize the army of the United States, and to make rules for its gov ernment and regulation," was placed on the calender, and it was ordered that all the papers be printed. It pro vides that General officers shall be re duced to six, two Major Generals and four Brigadier Generals, 4ora perman ent organization, jntead of eleven, as at present, tmfeduction to take place by MSiJaities, and the present organi zation shall consist of not more than 25,000 enlisted men, exclusive of signal soldiers. The bill was made the special order for January 8th. The Board of Pardons is receiving a fire all along the line The Pitts burgh Dispatch wants the constitution amended and the board abolished. The Harrisburg Patriot says that "division of responsibility has in creased instead of diminishing the pardon abuse. The Board of Purdons has become a criminal court of appeuls in which the trial in the court below is reviewed, with the important differ ence that the Commonwealth In a good many cases is wholly unrepresented." It isn't surprised that there is a general demand for the abolition of the Board. ; . The Pittsburgh Telegraph thinks "it . v is too easy for each individual secretly to favor a pardon, and then in public to shift the responsibility upon his fellow members." The Lancaster New ' v Era looks for an era of outrage aud crime as a result of the recent pardon of twenty-nine criminals by the board, and it is "almost tempted to ask of what use courts and juries are so long a the Board of Pardons is in exist- ISO-" Plans for National Militia. AN IMPORTANT CONVENTION TO HE HELD TO IMPROVE TUB MILITARY SYSTEM. A general convention of the leading military officers of the different states is to be held In New York, in January, to take whatever official action nmybe necessary to make the militia force of each state an efficient military organi zation, and to present to congress the plans proposed in support of a hill to appropriate $1,000,000 annually for the purchase of arms, ammunition- and other ordinance and quartermasters' stores and for the general benefit of and to be proportionately divided among the regularly organized and uniformed militia of the different states, in accordance with such rules us may be prescribed by a mixed board of army and militia olhcers appointed by the President. A state military con vention will be held In this city or Philadelphia to select representatives to the general convention, and to take counsel as to what steps Xxyn be taken for the improvement of the Nutional Guard of this State. The New York Tribune says: "A new code, which shall be complete and sufficient in itself, and intelligible to the ofliccrs and men, to be presented to the leiris- miuiu in unit muie lor us approval, will be acted upon. Acknowledging that Pennsylvania is second only to New York in the numbers of its 'Na tional Guard, the olticers believe it fo be far behind all other states which make any pretentions to a uniformed militia in the provisions of its code. "A similar movement has been made by the ofliccrs of the National Guard of New Jersey and Rhode Island. Letters have been received by General Wingute from the Adjutant Generals of Rhode Island, Illinois, Iowa, Ver mont, Alubama, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, from the Governor of Idaho, and several leading military officers of those States, us well as this, promising their earnest co-operation with the movement that has for its end a ' nu tional militia," some of them saying they would go much further than the plan suggests. Governor Brayman.of idano, in approving ot the plan, says that Idaho, though organized in lSiiJJ, lios no militia laws each legislature refusing to enact them. The Nez Perce war and the recent Bannock war found him without authority ; he was simply by courtesy of congress, "commander-in-chief oi' the militia," without a recognized militia. In Ihe emergency he took upon himself the authority to organize twenty-six itm punies, and distribute l,70u arms and 00,000 cartridges. In his message now preparing he suggests "a mild, easy working militia,'' and had already suggested to congress a uniform or ganization, under national authority. The Adjutant General of Illinois writes that the State has a force of 7.600 men, without camp und garrison equipage, uud about half armed. C'urtin to Contest. Ever since the 5th of November it has been tacitly understood among a certain dun of the "unwashed und un terrified," that a contest would be made by ex-Governor Ctirtin for a seat in I'ongress. llie clandestine prepa rations have been going on for a fort night or more. But there hud never been more than a suspicion, until last evening, when the notice served on Mr. Yocum confirmed and verified all conjectures. The notice having been served, there followed to-day a specifi cation of the several frauds alleged to have been committed. And where were these frauds committed? Why, in every comity in the district, accord ing to the notice, which, like an in dictment with many counts, is bound to convict on some of them. From the borough ward to the rural precinct testimony will be furnished wholesale and retail, and what koo1 may come out of Nazareth will be seen later. Exclusive of the Meek wing of the Democracy, the matter is urged, and not a few of the Republicans add their quiet assent. It may be remarked, however, that it is not of bis own accord that Curtin makes the contest, for Wallace ami other prominent Dem ocrats encourage it, and t .e senator declares that Curtin " must go to con gress from this district." Since the election an alliance has been formed between the Republicans and Green backers, which makes Mr. Yocum's support far from weak. Evidence will be unearthed on this side that will make the contest a most formidable one. Election boards going home to dinner, not opening and closing ac cording to the time regulated by law. together with other latent frauds, will be submitted as offsets. In a conver sation with Mr. Yocum . Tuesday morning of last week, it was learned that a bitter light will be made. ' We whipped him in the election and we will whip him in the contest," he says. He is not at all afraid of their arrange ments, and says that be can in no way be defea ed, for the Greenbackers hold the balance of power In the lower house, and In that event he will be seated. Gazettc-Eullctin. X Silver PI aut. COIN OF GENERAL JACKSON S ADMIN 1STRATION. A few days ago the express brought to this city a large quantity of silver coin, supposed to be about $2u,000. It was consigned to the Fourth National bank, corner of Third and Walnut streets. There would have been nothing so strange about this incident if it had not been known that the coin was of an extraordinary kind, and was enveloped in a mysterious history. It was of the half dollar denomination, and every piece bore the date of the American mint, showing that it was coined prior to 1834. The strangest feature of all remains, however to be recited. Not one of the coin has ever been in circulation, and are as bright and rough as when they dropped from the mint nearly half a century ago. Where husthis money been all these many vears? It is well known that 420.000 received in Cincinnati is only part of the whole am unt of $75 -000 of this coin which has been ship ped from Pittsburgh to various parts ot the country, une meory is inui u is a thief's "plant" just discovered, und dug up bv some lucky fellow Another theory puts the matter in u sneculutorv light. It is known that shortly alter the date of this money's coinage, under uenerai Jackson's ad ministration, silver was debused Might it not be, then, some one invest ed largely in the debased coin and hoarded it away on a speculation ? Whatever the history of the strange money be. it Is a curious one. It be comes almost of national importance to know that $75,000 or this ancient silver is being poured into the current of trade. Vmeinttaiif.nqvirer. Samuel and Maria; Cain, of Pitts. burgh, have been arrested for cruelty tn children. A little child they ban adopted was found nearly frozen and in a nuny coumi . m - Clara Millard bus a suit on hana for a block in Pittsburgh worth $400, ooo. Her father left the property to another sister, siuce dead, aud three Analyzing the Yellow Fever. A paper to be read before the Public Health Association at Richmond by Dr. Cboppin ofNew Orleans will fix the direct losses by disease in that city at $10,672,600. The theories of theee leading doctors Remiss, Choppin, and Sherrlck will hold that the fever is not produced by local causes. The theory of the dis ease Is summarized as follows: "The germ theory lights us further than nny other in searching the tctl ology of yellow fever by accounting for its appearance In unaccustomed locali ties, and at unexpected times, through Introduction of its germs in fomites, by the fact that investigation generaly discloses the time and mode of their introduction, while occasional failure only shows Imperfection of research: by Its conformity to the manner and rate of progress of the pestilence, with out regard to the sanitary condition, air currents, humidity, barometric pressure, or electrical shite of localities ; by more satisfactorily explaining Its occasionally capricious mode of prog ress j by its absolute conformity to in troduction of the disease through fom ites, to its certain arrest by frost and its probable arrest by such chemical agents as chlorine ami sulphurous acid, where it Is piacticable to apply them thoroughly and completely to an in fected spot. The supposition that the germs are reproduced outside the hu man body, rather than inside, explains the following apparent anomalies At tendants on thesick are scarcely, If at all, more liableto the disease than any person in the same locality; persons having contracted thefever'by visiting an infected locality and afterwurd falling sick in a healthy one usually do not spread the disease among those around them: persons who have not had the fever have handled, swallowed and even Inoculated themselves with its morbid products with impunity. "Corollaries deducible from the fore going propositions: Yellow fever orig inated in lands never visited by frost, and does not obtain permanent occu pation where the temperature falls be low thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit annually. Yellow fever is exotic to the United States, and once complete ly extirpated by frosts or artificial means will not recur unless Introduced anew by intercourse with infected re gions abroad. The problem is so to restrict and regulate this intercourse as ellectuully to prevent the Introduction of Yellow fever germs from abroad. Dead-Heading on the Press. The idea that newspaper people. says the Ledger, are dead heads, Is a very popular error. There Is no inter est on earth that is expected to, and actually does, give so much to society without pay as the press. Instead of being deud-heads, newspapers are the victims of dead-heads. Not a day passes hut they are imposed upon by the public. Every publisher in this or any other town will bear us out in what we say. As a matter of fact the editor endures more genuine dead heading than any other man in the world. The pulpit, the bar, the druinu, religious and charitable societies, finan cial and industrial corporations, every body who is anj thing or ever expects to become, is a leech upon the liberality of the press. A fellow gives to the editor a pass to a twenty live cefit show, and then expects ten dollars worth of gratuitous advertising. . A weak enterprise is sought to be estab lished, and the press is called upon to give it strength and encouragement. A preacher wants free puftiing, and a civil otneer asKs the press to maKe mm popular. An actor becomes the editor's mortal enemy if the man of Fubcrs does not bestow upon him dollars of free advertising. The dull author ex pects the press to say that he is bright and entertaining, the quack considers it the newspaper's duty to tell the world that he is honorable and skilled. The editor is the one to whom fools look to give them talents, thieves to give them honor, knaves to give them respectability, the guilty to give them cloaks of innocence, frauds to hide their roguery and swindlers to cover up their cheating; they vain expect to ie extolled by the press; as u thing to e Imposed upon at will; a thing from which every one is in duty bound to gel all he can and return us little as possible A small-souled man will give the press a live dollar advertise ment and then consider himself cheat ed if the editor does not write him went-five dollars worth of editorial notices. It is about time this sort ot thing was stojjped. and for people to understand that the press is not a lead-head, but the chief victim of dead-heads. A newspaper gets noth- ng that purports to come gratuitously that it does not pay four-fold, and it gives much to true charity that people erroneously think they pay for. No "Blanks." Two thousand persons will readily put a dollar each into a scheme offering a prize of $1,000, though only one can get it, and i,yyu must lose ins uonur. A publisher puts $-.000 into collecting und preparing useful Information, and offers to every one of 2,000 persons who contributes only one dollar or so, a printed duplicate of the results, so thatcrtcA one may have the entire l-en- iftt of what has actually cost 2,000 or more, is not tins oetter man any un certain chance scheme, full of blank tickets? This applies to all good jour nals ana nil good oooks. Here Is a good special Illustration. The Publishers ot tlie American Ag riculturist expend $2",000 a year in gathering plain, reliable information, valuable iniormation valuable to every family, in country, village or city. mere are 700 to 8W ongi nai engravings in each volume, which bring right to theeveand understanding a multitude of labor-saving and labor-helping con trivances, und implements, for out door and in-door work, very many of them home produce. I his greut num ber of useful, instructive, and pleasing engravings, is a most valuable lea tine of the American Agriculturist, making it greutly superior to any otner source of similar information. This Journal constantlv publishes caustic kexposures of Humbugs and Swindlers, wlncli save its readers many times us cost. Over $25,000 a year are expended in collecting and preparing in forma. tion engravings, etc., giving thousands of useful hints and suggestions. Yet each and every reader gets the full benefit of $".25,000 outlay. The cost to single subscribers is only $1,50 a year, post free; four copies $1,25 each; and to clubs of ten or more only 81 each. (Specimen copies 10 cents each, post free.) It will pay every one to huve this Journal. Try ft. Marshall's magnificent Steel-Plate Engraving, entitled "The Farmer's Pride,"s pre sented to each subscriber sending 20 cents extra to cover cost of packing and postage.) Orange Judd Co., Publishers, 245 Broaway, New ork. The correspondent of a paper In Armstrong county commented on the size of the ladies' feet in Ills neighbor hood, whereupon they attacked and bHiidted him roughly. Comments on the strength of their arms are now in From HE V. A. J. MERCHANT, A.M. VU ftlftVf A . V. V. March 1,1878, T-i 1 r- ' Dear Hlri While rmlrtlng in Tldtoute, Fa., Mr, Merchant, nufTcred for wveral years from h severe coiijth, Hccofti panled with nlnht sweats, MHoiiMipsd, impaired nerves and en eral debility. Nothing brmiRht rellcr until nntll oho began the use of your Illood and i,iver remeuy and Nerve jonio. l-our Dottles restored her to her usual health. loursiiuly. A, J. M .iu'hakt, Pastor M. E. Church. Fredonla, Dr. Fenner's Blood and Liver Rem edy and Nerve Tonic may well be called "The conquering hero" of the times. It la-the medical triumph of the age. Whoever has " the blues " should take It, for it regulates and re store the disordered system that gives rise to them. It always cures Billlous ness and Liver Complaint, Jaundice, Dyspepsia, Constipation, Headaches, Fever and Ague, Spleen Enlarge ments, Scrofula, Erysipelas. Pimples, Blotches and all Skin Eruptions and Blood Disorders; Swelled Limbs and Dropsy; Sleeplessness, Im paired Nerves and Nervous Debility ; Restores flesh and strength when the system is running down or going into decline; cures Female Weakness and Chronic Rheumatism, and relieves Chronic Bronchitis, and all Lung and Throat difficulties. It does these things by striking at the root of disease and removing its. Dr. Fenner's Improved Cough Honey will relieve any cough In one hour. Dr. Fenner's Golden Relief cures any pain, as Tooth-ache Neuralgia, Colic or Headache in 6 to 10 minutes, and readily relieves Rheumatism, Kid ney Complaint, Diarrhoea, Dysentery. Get a circular entitled "Peoples Remedies" describing Dr. Fenner's Popular Remedies. For sale by Drs. T. S. Hartley and D. B. Day. Coughs, Colds and Consumption. "A cold Is but u slight thing; I never use any medicine when I have a cold." How often do we hear this from thinking people, even, whom we would give credit for more caution, if not sense. A cold, no matter bow slight, ought not to be neglected, for it will lead to a cough, and constant coughing to inflammation, which quietly but rapidly steals its way to the lungs, ending in a rapid consump tion. E. K. Thompson's Improved Cough Syrup has been before the pub lic for years, and thousands testify to Its good effects In curing coughs of long standing, and deep seated as well as the most recent. Prepared and sold by E. K. Thomp son, Tltusville, Pa. Price "i0c and $1 NE W A I) VEll TJH EM EN TS. Register's Notice. Notice is hereby given that the fol lowing accounts will be presented at the next term of the Orphans' Court of Elk county for continuation : 1. The final account of John G. Hall, administrator of the estate of Ralph Johnson, late of Benezettc town ship, Elk county, deceased. 2. The final account of Ralph John son, as guardian of Mary E. Winslow, filed by John O. Hall, administrator of ltulph Johnson, now deceased. 8. The final a count of ltulph John son, administrator of C. Wain wright, deceased, filed by John O. Hall us ad ministrator of ltulph. Jolsnson, de ceased. FRED. SCHU3NINO, Register. Auditor ITcfcce. The undersigned auditor, appointed to distribute the fund in the hands of Jacob McCuuley, Esq.. administrator of the estate of John McCosker, late of Fox Township, deceased, will attend ut his oflice, in the villageof Ridgway. on the 4th day of January, 1S71, at 10 o'clock a. in., for ti e purpose of hearing claimants, when and where ull may attend who see proper. GEO. A. RATilBUN, 43-3t Auditor. Valuable Farm for Sale. Thirty-nine acres of land, ubout two and one-half miles from Ridgway, on 'hich is a two-story frame dwelling house l"x20 feet, with cellar. Also barn and other necessary outbuildings About a dozen fru;ttees on the place. Eight acres under cultivation und about five acres fallow. Price low and terms reasonable. Addiess A. A. Maliv, Ridgway, Elk county, Pa. Estray- Came to the premises of James Mc- Mannus, a few weeks ago, a red calf. Ihe owner can have the same by proving property and paying expen ses. JAJIKSM'MA.NKUS. 42-3t Bhawmut, Elk Co., Pa. NOTICE is hereby given that a pe tition of citizens of Ridgway township will be presented at the next Court of Quarter Sessions of Elk county for the incorporation of a Borough of the town of Ridgway. PENNSYLVANIA RAIL ROAD Philadelphia & Erie R R- Div. WINTER TIME TABLE. On and after SUNDAY, November 10 1878, the trains on the Philadel phia & Erie Railroad Division will run as follows: WESTWARD. Erie mail leaves Pliila 11 65 p. in Kenovo iiouu. ni. " " Emporiunul lop. m. " " St, Mary's..2 07 p. m " Ridgway... -i M p- m. " " Kane 3 45 p. in. arr. at Kne 7 40 p. m, EASTWARD. erie mail leaves Erie 11 20 a. m " Kane 3 55 p. m " Ridgway....5 00 n. m " St. Mary's..5 20 u. m. " Emporium. H 20 p. m. " " Renovo 8 3E p. m. n . .... . . arr. at nnia 7 ou a. m WM. A. Baldwin. General Sup't. -pLAIN AND FANCY , PAPER AND ENVELOPES For Sale Cheap at this Office. All kinds of job work neatly exe 1879. THE Fife Miki PREMIUM LIST. One E?ymoncl Silver Watch . . . $ 80 00 Cne White Sewing Machine . . . . 35 00 One Webster Unabridged Dictionary . 12 00 One C- sh Prize 25 00 Three Cash Frizes $10 e?ch . , . 30 00 Five Cash Prizes, $5 eich . . . . 25 00 Total ... -. . . ... 200 00 ALL CASH PRIZES WILL BE PAID IK GOLD. $200 IN PRIZES TO ELK COUNTY ADVOCATE SUBSCRIBERS Call on Charles Holes, Jeweler, Ridgway, Pa , and see the Magnificent watch we offer. Call on C. Bowers, Furniture Dealer, Ridgway, and see the handsome and durable White Sewing Machine. The Other Frizes Will 1879. OUR Believing that every family in Elk county should have a county paper, and also believing it to be to the best interest of the publisher and subscriber that the-pay should be in advance, we make the following unparalled offer: Every subscriber to The Advocate in Elk county who pays $1.00 will receive Tjik Advocate for one year and a ticket which will entitle him to a chance in the prizes which we offer. Six hundred tickets will be issued, and the drawing will take place as soon as the tickets are taken up. which we think can be done in about sixty days. All old subscribers will be put on the same footing with the new ones; that Is, the paper will be sent one year and the ticket given to all persons sending us fsj.SO Further, to any person sending us $30.00, we will furnish twenty papers for fine year and twenty tickets, besides an extra copy and extra ticket to the getter up of the club. HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Ridgway, Elk County, Pa. AGENTSaWIUMIIWilMMMl" WANTEJJ FOR OITK GREAT WORK, . KOW' IN PRESS, THE INDUSTRIAL History of the United St? tes Being a complete history of all the important industries of America, in eluding Agricultural, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Mining, Commercial and other enterprises. About 1,000 large octavo pages and 300 fine en gravings. Ho Work Like it Ever Published- For termsund territory apply ut once. THE HENRY BILL PUB. CO., Norwich, Connecticut. VSn43-Cm RULE TO PLEAD. (eorge A. Johnson, 1 In the Court hcirof Ralph Johnson OF UOMMOX P I. K A 8 OF Elk count v Win. E. Wykoff. with notice to John A. . Wykotr. No. 78, Sept. Term, 1878. ejectment. And now trwit: November 2b 1"78, upon motion of Mess-fs. Hull & M'Cauley, attorneys for PiMntitf, the court grant a Rule on the Defendants to appear and plead to the above en titled action on or before the fourth Monday of January, A. D. 187N, or lulgment will be entered against mem by default Summons in ti ectnicnt Having neen Ixsued by Plaintilf against Defendant for all that certain tract of laud situate in Benezette township, Elk county, Pennsylvania, being an undivided two-thirds part of two hundred and eighty-eight acres, part of warrant No. ooza, ana uounuea on tne norm oy warrant No. 5012 ; east by warrant No. 5480; south by Coleman Johnson and others and remainder of warrant No. 5023 ; and on the west by warrant No. 6022, containing two hundred and eighty-eight acres, to enforce specific Jerlorniance ot contract oeiween uaipu (ohnson andsuid W.E. Wykoff, dated June 2d, 1870, tbe sheriff' having made return thereon that the said Defendants cannot be found in said county. From tne Kecord. Attest FRED. SCHfENING, Protbonotary. Hall & M'Cauley, Attorneys lor flaintin. 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