Hie JUwoitt.
t THUR3DAY, DEC. . 1878.
Local Hotel
Merry Christmas to oil.
Hay lg $10 and $12 a torn
'Beer Is five cents a glass.
Sleigh bells ring merrily.
Eggs are 28 cent a dozen.
Full line of sugars at Morgester's.
-Ohrisma&, turkey and cranberry
fcauce.
A new court house before many
Jrears.
Turkey and venison each 12 cents
)er pound.
See our offer for subscribers to the
Advocate
Company "H" will parade on
ifew Yeats Day.
Call and see our elegant samples of
New Year's cards.
Wood sells from $125 for green to
$1.60 for seasoned.
Mince meat, potatoes and apples at
the coTrier grocery.
February election will be around
before you know It.
Don't let your house plants freeze.
Keep up the fire and save them.
Subscribe for The Advocate now,
land read your own paper next year.
Fresh supply of wheat, buckwheat
land graham flour at the corner gro
cery. Who stole Fullerton's turkey ? is
one of the questions agitating this sec
tion of the world.
The Gazette wants the merchants
f St Mary's to wake up. How long
have they been asleep ?
Going to the dance at Hyde's
Opera House on Christmas eve? Of
couisv.J&ih't you going?
No paper will be issued from this
office next week. The next Issue will
be dated January 2. 1879.
The Commissioners of Elk county
will meet at their office, in Ridgway,
bit Monduy, December 30, 1878.
The standard silver dollar has been
counterfeited, and people will do well
to keep their eye peeled for spurious
coins.
If you need furniture call on E
K. Gresh, at his furniture rooms. Ma
sonic Building. He sells at marvel
ously low prices.
The doer hunting season is at an
end. The boys will bring the venison
in until January 1st, when the season
will positively end.
That wood pile did actually con
tain nearly rt e cords. Then there are
some shoemakers who can tell the
truth, but they are scarce.
Charles Holes, jeweler, has just
furnished an ebony, solid gold-headed
cane for It. Lucore, with the name of
the owner neatly engraved on the
head.
Resumption of specie payments
Sifter January 1st, 1879. The Advo
cate will continue to be sent for $1.50,
national notes, .
Subscribe for the Advocate only
$1.60 a year, and a chance to get a
magnificent watch, or sewing machine.
See our unparallcd offer to subscribers
to a county paper.
A man in Beaver county was sued
for one year's subscription to a news
paper, $2. The editor won his suit,
nd the costs, amounting to over $12,
were saddled upon the defendant.
Mackerel were selling in Warren
last week as low as a cent apiece, and
to those who had no cent a mackerel
was given free, gratis, for nothing.
Who says times are not getting better ?
On Christmas eve, at the Metho
dist church, the Methodist and Pres
byterian societies will have a little
treat prepared for the children. All
ere Invited, and a good time no doubt
will be had.
John Logan, a young man, died at
Warren about two months ago, of ty
phoid fever, and was buried at Titus-
ville. Last week his father had him,
disinterred long enough to have a pho
tograph taken.
Dance at Hydes' Opera House on
Christmas Eve, December 24th. No
special invitations will be issued. An
invitation is hereby extended to all to
attend. Good music. Tickets reason
able. Don't fail to go.
Captain Fred. Bchoenlng will com
mence his fourth term as prothono
tary, etc., on January 1st. If there
are any counties in the State who have
a more accommodating or efficient
officer we have failed to hear of the
fact.
There Is talk now in military clr
cles of the National Guard going iuto
camp for a few days next summer on
the battle field of Gettysburg. If the
talk results in action, Company " H '
will have a chance to camp on historic
ground.
The attendance at the Methodist
church, Sunday, night, was not as full
as usual, owing, no doubt, to the slip
pery walking. Those that had had no
back slide this winter were fearful they
might have, and so very wisely staid
at home.
Subscribe for the ADVOCATE, only
$1 60 in advance, and a ticket which
entitles you to a chance in onr prize
arrangement. Subscribers outside the
county will be admitted into this ar
rangement. The cash prizes will be
paid in gold.
A new gallery is being built In the
'Catholic church, to be occupied by the
choir. On Christmas day three masses
Will be celebrated in the church, two
early masses and high mass at ten
o'clock. The uew choir will sing on
lhl occasion,
Personal Kotos.
Dr. D. B. Day has a neat store
room.,
Sheriff Head now pntrols the streets
nights.
Sam Clark will spend the holidays
at Lock HaVen.
O. B. Fitch has killed twenty-nine
deer this season.
Brandon, of the St. Marys Gazette
is now in Detroit
Rev. F. F. Wilson, of Wilcox, paid
us a visit yesterday.
Miss Jennie Gresh is teaching
school in Jay township.
Senator Hall and family will Spend
the winter at Harrisburg.
Cal. McCauley Is well pleased With
his boy. Here's success to C. H.
McC.jr.
Robert I. Robinson has the con
tract for building the trestle work at
the Wllmarth mines.
John Casserly's eye is gradually
Improving. There is strong hope that
the sight may be restored.
Mr. Daggett, piano tuner, of Erie,
presided at the organ In the Methcdlst
church last Sunday evening.
Horace Little and George R. Dixon
have moved Into the room In Robert
Campbell's building recently occupied
by D. B. Day.
Doctor Earley has a very pleasant
and well arranged office in his block,
Immediately over th6 Western Union
telegraph office.
Scott Abrams, of Lock Haven,
formerly an employe of this office, was
married recently to Miss Mary Reed,
Of Lock Haven.
. Henry Wensel has been appointed
assessor for Ridgway township, In
place of J. S. Powell, who is confined
to the house by sickness.
Captain Schoenlng has gone to
Philadelphia to attend a convention of
officers looking to a revision of the
military code of the State.
Hon. Henry W. Williams, of Tio
ga, will he presented to Governor Hoyt
as a candidate for the officeof Attorney
General. Frobably no better selection
could be made in the State.
Carrie Lather will spend Christ
mas at home. She has been teaching
school for nearly eleven week in Mill
stone township, and w ill finish out the
three months' term after Christina.".
Dry Saw Mill Notes.
J. C. Brown has commenced a
large log job.
Quite a number from this place are
going to attend the Institute.
D. S. Johnson is about finishing
the nicest house on the branch.
A little whiffet, a lame boy, and a
fat woman don't make very good
hounds.
J. C. Brown lost a good span of
horses last week by being over fed on
corn stalks.
Miles Dent is giving employment
to the needy by letting log and timber
jobs this winter.
The men and boys are all out try
ing to kill the last deer, as it is their
last chance this year.
Miss Irwin has the good Will of all
the neighbors as well ns the scholars,
which speaks well for her.
The Overturf boy returned from
Kansas a short time ago, but did not
speak very favorable of the State.
H. Rot brock, Wallace and Newton
Johnson are waiting and watching for
snow to get their logs and timber out.
Fresh lemons, oranges and celery
the at corner grocery.
Wilcox Notes.
The Ladies' Society of the Re
formed church of this place, Is meeting
with marked success. It met last
Thursday evening at the Wilcox
House. Mrs. M. M. Shultz opened
her elegantly furnished parlors, and
they had an enjoyable time of it.
There was a large attendance at the
church last evening. They expect to
hold a fair and festival for the benefit
of the society on Monday evening
next, December 22d. All are invited.
Sparks.
Attention Company "H.
The officers and members of Com
pany "H," Seventeenth Regiment N.
G. P., will meet at their armory, Jan
uary 1st, 1879, at 2 o'clock p. m. tharp,
for dress parade and inspection.
By order of
FRED. SCHCEXING, Capt.
Attest:
Henry A. Parsons, Jr., Ord.
At Hyde's Opera House, on Wed
nesday and Thursday eveuings, Jan.
1st and 2d 1878, will be given two lec
tures by Geo, Kentiun, a celebrated
author, lecturer and traveler. The ad
mission is fixed at a low figure, so that
no one need fail to hear two first class
lectures because of the cost.
Mr. Bechtold wishes us to inform
the public that he will dispose of his
household effects, consisting of chairs,
table, stove, beds, bedding and dishes,
at a low figure. For further particu
lars inquire of Mr Bechtold, at the
sho j shop of Bechtold & Butterfuss.
Wiluiarth stands a good chauce.of
being a place of considerable impor
tance. The coal fields In that vicinity
are to be worked by a large force of
men. The coal is of good quality, and
great quantity, and may be the means
of makiug Wilmarth.
Mr. Sheldeh Whitman can now
shout " Eureka," for he has discovered
a paint mine. If somebody could get
a good oil well, or tap a vein of soft
soap in Forest county ve might all
get rich and be happy. Forest Na
tional, Hens will soon commence to re
duce the price of eggs to about 13 cento
a dozen.
Company H. -
At the meeting of Company " II,"
last Saturday evening, the principal
business was the election of several
non-commissioned officers. George R.
Woodward was elected Secretary, and
Lieutenants Horton and Rhines tellers.
The resignation of Third Sergeant
Morgester was received and accepted.
The result of the election we give
below.
1st Sergeant Henry A. Parsons, Jr.,
promoted from 1st corporal.
8d Sergeant-1 John . Median, pro
moted frou 4th sergeant.
4th SergpantJMiehacI Bailey, pro
moted from 6th sergeant
6th Sergeant C- Bowers, promoted
from 2d corporal
1st Corporal Charles Olmstead, pro
moted from private.
2d CorMral Joseph Bailey, pro
moted from private.
4th Corporal 8. S. Wilson, promoted
from private.
6th Corporal Howard Gorton, pro
moted from private.
The officers of the company are as
follows :
Captain, Fred. Schoenlng.
1st Lieutenant, W. 8. Horton.
2d Lieutenant. C. II. Rhines.
1st Sergeant, Henry A. Parsons, Jr.
2d " H. If. Wilson.
3d " John Meenan.
4ih Michael Bailey.
6th " C. Bowers.
1st Corporal, Charles Olmsted.
2d Joseph Bailey.
3d . " H. K. Gresh.
4th " 8. 8. Wilson.
6th Howard Gorton.
Fresh egga, butter and cheese at
the corner grocery.
Ammonia in the Household.
The pantry shelvesaregettinggrimy
or fingermarks around the door latches
and knobs are looking dark and un
sightly. For lack of time they are
left day after day, for It Is hard work
to scour all the time, and it wears oft"
the paint, too. Now suppose the wife
has her bottle of spl'its of ammonia to
use; she takes a basin of water and a
clean cloth, just puts on a few drops of
the fluid, and wipes off all the dirt; it
is worth more than half a day's labor,
and does not hurt the paint, either.
She could put a few drops in her dish
water, and see how easily the dishes
could be cleaned; a few drops on a
sponge would clean all the windows
in the sitting room, making them
shine like crystal. It would take the
stains off the tea-spoons, and a tea
spoonful In the mop-pail would do
more in washing up the kitchen floor
than ten pounds of elbow grease ap
plied to the mop-handle. A housewife
has just as much right to make her
work easy and expeditious as her hus
band has. If she does not do it the
fault is her own in a great measure.
Teachers' Institute.
The teachers of Elk county will hold
their twelfth annual convention in the
school building, Ridgway, Pa., com
mencing Monday, December, 30, 1878,
at 3 p. m., and closing Friday, Janu
ary 3, 1879, at 18 in. Prof. J. B. John
son will deliver the address of welcome,
which will be responded to by Prof.
W. H. Prideaux. A large corps of
lecturers and instructors are engaged
for the occasion. Mrs. P. S. Ernhout
will conduct the musical exercises,
which fact is a fill! guarantee that that
part of the Institute will be a success.
The Democrat office will issue a daily
paper each evening, containing full
notes of all proceedings. Thursday
afternoon will be especially set apart
for directors. Holiday excursion tickets
may be bought at the various railroad
ticket offices. Boarding at from 75
cents to SI a day. All are invited,
and an unusually good time is antici
pated. Taylor Rhines came near meeting
with a serious accident last week. He
was in a hunting shanty on Bear
Creek, alone with a dog. The wind
was blowing very hard at the time,
and just as Taylor and the dog left the
shanty to prospect a little, a huge
hemlock came crashing through the
shanty roof, demolishing everything
inside, except a jug, which stood a
monument of tho wreck. He cume
to Ridgway the same night, reaching
this place at about three o'clock In the
morn i ng.
Snow commenced to fall here Sun
day evening, and has continued to do
so ever since, until, at present writing,
the prospect for a good run of sleighing
seems excellent. Hope it will not dis
appoint us this time, as good sleighing
would make business lively. Those
having bark, wood and lumber to haul
would set to Work, men would have
employment, and money would be put
in circulation.
Woods Household Magazine com
mences the sixteenth volume January,
1879, and will also be enlarged to one
hundred pages. The premium and
clubbing listof thisexcellent magazine
are better than ever before. The con
clusion of " Otldhard and his Model
Wife" will be found in the January
number. Send 10 cents for a sample
copy. Address, S. 8. Wood, Tribune
building, New York City.
When you are walking on an icy
place and both feet go out from under
you iu chorus, what happens? IT you
don't know, try it. We tried it Sun
day night and know from experience.
It seemed for several seconds as though
the whole earth, the fiesh and the devil
had conspired together to give us a
grand bounce, and starry night,
whew I
For Sale. One of the most desira
ble Homes in Ridgway, Barn, Ice
House, Chicken Coop, Wood and Coal
Houses, outside kitchen. Water at
door. Shrubbery, trees, &c.
Apply to Mrs. W. S. Service.
n43tjf
Fine syrup and New Orleans mo
lasses at the corner grocery.
BIRTH.
McCauley To Mr. and Mrs. C. H.
McCauley, of Ridgway, on Monday,
Decrtiiber 13, 1878, a son.
State Ifotcs.
Masquerade balls are unlawful.
Wild geese we flying southward.
Business Is dull In the oil regions.
Chester county Is troubled by horse
thieves.
Counterfeit trade dollars are in
circulation.
Twenty-two enows are predicted
this winter.
The new carpets fuf the Btate capl
tol cost $5,000.
'Coon hunters have been very for
tunate this season.
The Reading Iron works employ
some 3,000 workmen.
- East Brady. Clarion county, Is to
have a National Bank.
Berks county sends 20,000 muskrat
skins to market yearly.
Only.twenty-fiv'e faro banks and ten
keno rooms in Bradford.
Coal oil burnings are reported In
various parts of tho State.
Contested election cases are numer
ous throughout tho State.
The First National Bank of Mercer
pays gold to its customers.
The Glrani wrench factory turns
out 1 ,080 wrenches per day.
Car shops, as a rule, have not
proved paying investments.
Burglaries are becoming more fre
quent In the farming districts.
Sneak thieves keep the police busy
In the larger towns and cities.
Potatoes are remarkably scarce ill
the northern part of the State.
Fruit will be more plenty In Phil
adelphia this year than ever before.
Armstrong county is afflicted
with diphtheria of a malignant type.
More than two hundred Odd Fel
lows Halls were dedicated the past
year.
There are four Inlies In Brooklyn,
Susquehanna county, each aged 95
years,
The Philapelphla banks decline to
oppose the circulation of the silver
dollar.
A. J. Vansant, of Oxford, Bucks
county, trapped 100 musk rata in No
vember. The Board of Pardons refused to
recommend the pardon of J. Albert
Huutzingcr.
Tho Police Committee of Pitts
burgh Council are $10,000 short for pay
of the police.
Robeson township, Bucks county,
has an apple butter kettle one hun
dred years old.
There Is an Increasing demand for
the abolition of the office of Jury
Commissioner.
William Lytle of Smith township,
Washington county, lias had thirty
live sheep stolen.
The wife murderer Sayres, under
sentence of death, is rapidly Wasting
away by disease.
MrSchluugh. editor of the Slating-t-m
j7u is missing. He had a libel
suit on his hands.
Frank Fullerton, of Pittsburgh,
has been nrrested on suspicion of mur
dering his nun her.
Whiskey can be bought for two
cents a drink at some of the low grog
geries in Philadelphia.
Rev. Edward H. Hammond, the
revivalist has commenced a series of
meetings in Allegheny.
There is a hog near Shoomaker
ville, Berks county, that weighs 800
pounds, and is still growing.
Wm. S. Torbert of Schuylkill will
contest the seat of John Parker,
National, in the State Senate.
Russia ships at Philadelphia have
taken on board heavy cargoes of car
tridges, shells, Gatling-guns, etc.
The inaguration ceremonies of
Governor Hoyt bid fair to be the nlost
imposing ever known in the State.
tt Is reported that Col. A. K. Mc
Clure of the Philadelphia Timet is to
be married to a Miss Giutz of that city.
The tax rate of Philadelphia has
been finally fixed at $2,05 and it is
claimed tins Will Hot pay current ex
penses. A petition to Congress has been
signed by many ladies of Lancaster
asking for the abolition of polygamy
iu Utah.
The late Thomas Hi Powers, of
Philadelphia, left from 3J0 to WM a
year during his life to several of his
employees.
The new pipe line from Bradford
oil regions is being rapidly pushed to
completion, me total lengtn will
be lo3 miles.
William Howells was Instantly
killed by a descending t-agein Notting
ham Colliery, near Plymouth, on Mon
day afternoon.
A telephone line' ha Just been
constructed between the Western
Union offices, Harrisburg , and the
eapitol building.
A tree was cut down, in Clinton
county, recently, from which Was
taken six logs sixteen feet long and
scaling 4,700 feet.
Reading is a queer place. Musk
rats attack men, raccoons assault
women and game chickens try to ex
terminate children.
' Beautiful varigated black and
colored marble has been found on the
land of Henry D. Kintzle near Myers
town, Lebanan county.
Peter Rhodes of East Hanover
killed a black snake last week, six feet
in length. The reptile was suulng
itself on the limb of a tree.
Fourteen heirs-at-law of Stephen
Girard have brought suit against the
city of Philadelphia for all the surplus
income of the estate for twenty yeurs.
Mr. Benjamin Clewell, organist
for forty years of the Morvlirn church
in Easton, has tesigned on account of
old age- A faithful servan; truly.
It htm been decided In Allegheny
county courts that election Miles are a
nuisance. One In Allegheny City fell
and killed a boy, and the city was sued
for damages. j:
Governor Hoy t elect was knocked
down by a baggage smasher at the
depot I n Wi Ikesbarre one day last week.
He was on his way to New York to
attend a diuner at the Gilsey House.
Numerous barns In Bucks county
have been burned of late and there is
much excitement. Near the ruins of
one a letter Was found stating that
sixteen more would be burned during
the winter.
There was a tie vote for Prothono-tary-in
Bucks county and one of the
contestants has filled a petition. It
will be a long and tedious business to
go through as every voter will have to
prove bis ballot.
Geo. W. Huntzinger, ex-President
of the Philadelphia coal company was
acquitted Saturday morning of a
charge of misapplying moneys of the
company, but was immediately re
arrested upon a criminal charge of
embezzling $2,000 belonging to the
comnanv in 1876 and 1877. Tf a wn
held in $15,000 bail.
Sotes of Sews.
Wtrh Merrick was convicted, at
Indianapolis, of murdering his wife.
A dispatch from London states
that Q.ueeh Victoria is Indisposed.
Senator Davis (W. Va.) predicts
no change this session In the tobacco
tax.
The New York police have ar
rested two men who are thought to be
the Manhattan bank robbers.
' -Peter Muehmclsser, a drunken
wretch, rleariy killed his wife at Cin
cinnati and then hanged himself. She
may recover.
An explosion of nitro-glycerlne
and gunpowder In coal mines at Ear
lington, Ky., blew to pieces a train of
cars and killed a negro.
Dr. Bradford, for the death of
Sarah Connors. In New York, by mal
practice, was milte-iiced to Sing Sing
for fourteen and a half years.
Senator Chaffee, of Colorado, Is
the fortunate owner of half of a newly
developed silver mine which is yield
ing $9,000 worth of silver daily.
The Citizens' Relief Committee of
Memphis Wound up its affairs on Sat
urday and distributed the balatiCe on
hand, $7,253 among four orphan asy
lums. A 100 mile walking match, at
Jamestown, N. Y., between Miss
Mary Marshall, of Chicago, and Dan
Corrol of Warren, Pa., was won by
the former.
The statistics of the western pork
packing houses in six large cities snow
a total for Novoinber of 1,795,000 hogs
against 980.000 last year, an Increase of
815,000 which is an extensive thing
in hogs.
A.Portland dispatch says: "In
the United States District Court, in
the case of the United States vs. W. U.
Griswold, charged with fraud in con
nection willi Indian war claims of
1854, tho jurv have returned a verdict
awarding plaintiff $35,228."
At a Dubuque wedding the other
day, mong the wedding presents os
tentatiously displayed was a $1,000 bill,
a present from the doting father to his
darling daughter. After the guests
departed the old man cooly rolled up
the bill and put it in his pocket, and
that was the end of it.
Hon. H. P. Gage, ex-Presieent of
the Hancock (Ohio) savings Bank,
was discovered in bed with a bullet
hole in liis right temple. A revolver
was found with one chamber empty.
He Is supposed to have shot himself
on account of bank troubles. There is
only a very slight chance of his recov
ery Joshua Walker on Saturday night
last purchased a quantity of pork, and
taking it home proceeded to salt it
down. His wife soon niter discovered
that he had been trying to make a
brine with white sugar. She was
seized with a fit of laughter, which
she continued for several minutes,
when she suddenly expired.
--If there had been any doubts ltt
Minneapolis as to the explosive charac
ter of mill dust they are now entirely
dissipated. The overwhelming dis
aster of last May Went far to establish
the theory, and the question was
finally set at rest Monday by a watch
man's lantern, a cloud of Hour dust,
an immediate explosion, and a seventy
five thousand dollar fire.
Detectives from New York are at
Fredericksburg instituting a search
for the remains of A. T. Stewart, sup
posed to be concealed there. These
officers say that they have a clue and
believe that their efforts will be re
warded this time. They refuse to
make any statement further than that
they are positive that they have got
on t he 1 rail of the ghouls, and are
certain thut they will be able to put
their hands on the missing remains in
a few days.
One of the strangest crimes of re
cent record is the snooting or Miss
Ella Hearu by Miss Lilly Duer, at Po
comoke City, Md. Whether accidental
or done purposely is disputed, but those
who charge .Miss Duer with murder
allege jealousy as the motive, Miss
Duer believing that Miss Hearn loved
another young lady more than her. A
murder of this kind without one of the
opposite sex as a prominent element is
an anomaly iu crime.
A horrible accident occurred at the
American Iron Works, Pittsburgh, by
which Patrick Shannon, Assistant
.Millwright, was Instantly killed and
his body torn to sh reads Shannon
hail gone upon a platform to examine
a line of shafting, when his clothing
wus caught by u puliey and his body
draw ti oiito the shaft, which was mak
ing 240 revolutions a minute. Before
the machinery could be stopped his
body Was torn to pieces and scattered
over the mill, portions of the remains
being thrown uoo feet.
The Atlantic express, bound east,
on the Wabash raiiroad, was telescoped
at Tolono, Illinois, at one o'clock on
Saturday afternoon, obstructing the
truck for eleven hours. The train was
ccming Into the switch rapidly, being
late, when the, icy condition of the
track caused the mail, baggage and ex
press cars, four coaches and a sleeper
to jump the track. The track was
badly torn up ana couches damaged.
The passengers were greatly alarmed.
but Hone seriously hurt. Senator Davis
was a passenger on the train.
The recent convention of cheese
and butter makers held in New York
city, has shown that nearly $350,000.
000 worth of butter and cheese have
been produced iu this country within
the past year, or one-seventh more
than the value of the wheat crop of
the country, and one third more than
the cotton crop. There will be ex
ported this year from the whole
country $iaofouo,ooo pounds of cheese
and 25,000,000 pounds of butter. There
are 13,000,000 cows iu the country, or
23 to every 100 persons.
Disastrous floods devastated the
Middle and New England States last
Wednesday and Thursday. The
Hudson and Susquehanna were both
flooded, and much damage is reported
in their valleys. One of the singular
effects of the inundation at Hudson,
"New York, Is the burning of a rall
, road freight house. The water crept
up among some barrels of lime, and
the bent generated thereby ignited the
barrels and burned the Imilding. It
is seldom that a flood proves to be an
incendiary. Quite heavy floods visited
all parts of the State but they Inflicted
comparatively little damage so far as
heard from.
The reisirt has reached the mili
tary bwtd-quartersat Chicago, through
the headquarters of the Department of
Dakota at St. Paul, that a large camp
of 600 Indian lodges U at Powder
River, the occupants intending to
cross the Missouri River as soon as it
freezes over, and decamp to British
territory, which they hope to reach in
about thirty daysr GeneralTerry says
he is perfectly willing to let these In
dians go, and would be delighted, in
fact, but for a fear that the hostiles
already across the border may feel
strong enough with these accessions,
to begin raids across the line. Scouts
have been ordered out from Fort
Keogh to ascertain the truth or falsity
of the report
A Terrible Fall.
TWO PRISONERS ATTEMPT AN ESCAPE
ONE PA LLS A DISTANCE OF THIRTY
FEET AND IS SERIOUSLY INJURED.
From Ml Mettesrt Miner.
Th Occupant of the lall were wak
ened yesterday (Wednesday Dec. 11)
in nr hi off about five o'clock, hv the
cries of some one in distress In the
rear of the building. Deputy Feck
went outside and there found one of
the prisoners named Jack Lynch Ivlhir
on the ground, helpless and apparently
suiieiing greui pain, tie was tarrieu
inside, nnu wiin many groans told tue
story of his mishap. .
He aild bis pal, Tom Hughes, had
dug a passage from their Cell by the
old route up Into the garret Here
they hod tied their bedclothes together
ny which to let themselves down from
the garret window to the ground, a
distance of about forty feet. Lynch
was the first one to make the trial. He
let himself down carefully, hand over
hand, until he had got about eight feet,
when the rope parted and he fell to the
ground, thirty feet below. He struck
on his feet, and for a minute did not
know he was hurt He got up and
put ort his coat and boots, which he
at once he fell to the ground, helpless
and howling with pain, and only too
glad to be taken inside again, Tho
shock seemed to have driven hlth, as
one might say, all irt a heap, and it is
A wonder it did not splinter every bone
in bis bony, nesuuered intensely an
day yesterday. Large swellings puffed
out on his ankles and the lower part of
his spine and he complained of much
pain inwardly. He is a heavy man,
weighing about two hundred, and one
can imagine the momentum lie must
have attained before he struck the
ground. His companion, Hughes, was
left In the garret, and though loth to
come down finally obeyed the sum
mons of the deputy and made his ap
pearance. Both were hard looking
customers, their faces, hair and clothes
begrimmed with dirt and covered with
plaster.
As we said before, they dug through
into the garret by the old route by
digging through the chimney which
has proven by experience to be the
easiest and du'ickest wav out of the
Jail, provided one has no key to the
trout uoor. we suppose it Would lie
In order for us to remark in this con
nection upon the duties of the powers
that be as gathered from this occur
rence. It nun hardly be said that the
sheriff is to be blamed, for he cannot
be expected to keep a guard in every
cell to keep the prisoners from digging
their way into the garret which it
seeim enn be done easily in six hours.
We will leave the public to draw its
own conclusions as to whether any one
else is to blame, and do its own growl
ing. Jt is one consolation that Lynch a
bad luck will rather discourage other
pining jail birds from going out by
way of the garret window, unless some
one provides them with a strong rope
or unless the sheriff supplies a better
quality of quilts.
-"Wedding cards neatly executed at
this office
It Is pretty clear that If the South
Is b be kept at its present point of sol
idity, tne tissue ballot must come into
general use at elections hereafter. The
negroes of South Carolina show that
the red-shirt business has ceased to
carry the requisite amount of terror
with It to keep thellt frnru the polls.
This is likely to happen iu other
Southern States, and when it does the
only way to keep up the work of " re
demption " will be to stuff the ballot
ls)xes. If the negro can't be scared
away he must be counted out. New
York Tribune. I
At u meeting of the Ways and I
Means committee on the lOlh, a new
finunciul scheme wus agreed to. It
provides for the issue of three per
cent, certitieutes. convertible into four
per cent, bonds at any time, in sums
not less than fifty dollars. This is to
facilitate the financial operations of
the government, and relieve the people
who accumulate small savings from
losses through savings bands. There
is no certainty, however, that it will
pass,
A Wyoming correspondent of the
Chicogo Inter-Ocean comes forward
with a point blank contradiction of the
reports that woman suffrage has failed
in that territory He suys that large
numbers of the better classes of women
visit the polls, that they are not de
graded by t lie suffrage, that their in
fluence on the ballot has been salutatary
and purifying, and that there is no
desire to take the elective franchise
away from them.
A western evangelist bris an outfit
consisting of four horses, large cov
ered wagon like a circus van, a tent
thut can be packed compactly, and ap
pliances for cooking and sleeping. lie
Is a clever exhorter, and his wife who
travels with him, does the singing
He goes from place io place, staying in
each as long as his meetings are suc
cessful. He sells hymn books, but
claims that the profits ure only suffi
cient to pay his expenses.
The taint of repudiation is spread
ing among the New York towns. An
gelica; Allegheny county, which
bonded itself for $05,000 for the Roch
ester, Nunda and Pennsylvania rail
roadj has at a special town meeting
resolved to resist payment. The tbwhs
of Birdsall, in the same county, and
Wolcott, Wayne county, are also med
itating proceeaings to tne same end.
r-Jack Campbell', Who killed his
wife in Cincinnati, wus in un ad
vanced stage of consumption, He
hud often said that he did not desire
Mrs. Campbell to outlive him, for she
hud considerable money, and he feared
that she would soon get a second hus
band. Women were allowed to vote on
the question of selling lager beer at
Plymouth, Mass., the other day, and
the sale of liquor wus prohibited by a
two-thirds majority.
N
EW LIVERY STABLE
IN
RIDGWAY .
DAN SCRIBNER WISHES TO
inform the citizens of Ridgway, and
the public generally, that he has
started a Livery Stable and will keep
GOOD STOCK; GOOD.CARRIAGES
and Buggies to let upon the most
reasonable terms.
ftcS-He will also do job teaming.
Stable on Broad street, above Main.
All orders left at the Post Ofllce will
receive prompt attention
Aug201871tf
Business Cards
C. . OFKtSKMIIKB.
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N. W. corner of Main uiiu Mill streets.
Ridgway, Pa., full assortment of care
fully selected Foreign and Domestio
Drugs. Prescriptions carefully dis2
pensed at all hours, day or night.
vln3y
T. S. HARTLEY, B- B.,
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. vln2yi
J. 9. BORDWELL, M. Pi
ELECTIC PHYSICIAN A SURG'Ni
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 HoU?e:
Office hours : 1 to 2 p. M. f to 6 P.M,
Mrs. m. t. stsmvjiuen. '
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF NKW STYLES
HTS JUST RECEIVED
ot Mrs. N. T. Cummings, also tles.eol-!
lai-s, cuffs, hbisefy, glove?, and a gen
eral assortment of Lad lea' Fancy
Goods. Renlember the place, In H. S.
Thayer's Building, Main street. Call
und examine before purchasing else
where.
HYSE HOUSE.
W. H. SCHRAM, Proprietor,
Ridgway, Elk comity ( Pa:
Thankful for the pntronuge hereto'
fore so liberally bestowed upon him,
the new proprietor hopes, by paying
strict attention to the comfort atid'con
venience of guests( to merit a continu
anec of the sumei oet30'69
MILLINERY AND DRErSMAKIMBj
MRS. J. R. KELTZ, Kersey, Elk
county, Pa., takes this method of atl
nodncing to the citizens of Elk county
that she lias on hand an assortment of
fashionable millinery goods which will
be sold cheap. Also dressmaking In
all its brunches
Agent for Dr. J: Bail fe Co.'s Patent
Ivory and Lignum Vitro Eye Cups.
Send for descriptive circular. nl7yl
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controls the sale in Elk county. Ad
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NE W
BOOT SHOE
SHOP.
BUTTERFUSS 1 BECHTOLD,
Have associated themselves in the
boot and shoe business in the Ma
sonic building. Prices reasonable;
stock first-class, and work guaranteed:
Repairing neatly and cheaply done
Give them a call and be convinced.
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Wealth, to their assessors, and yet
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Howe Sewing Machines.
Among the great variety of goods of
every description fof sale at
Powell & Kimc's
Will be found an assortment of the
celebrated Elias Howe, Jr., ImprbVed
Sewing Machines the best machine
now manufactured they having been
appointed sole agents for Eik county
They will keep on hand Tuckers,
Corders, Heinmers, Braiders and Ruf
tiers, Needles, Sewing-machine Oil,
Thread, Ac, &c. Will also furnish at
any time detached parts . for aaid ma
chine. All at greatly reduced prices,
and will be sold on accommodating
terms with approved security.
Ridgway. Aug. 20, '78. it,
Hides, Sheep Pelts, and tali
Shins wanted at 42 Slain street
FRANK SETTELttf