ri-
-til M
THURSDAY, JULY 21, 87ti.
New Time Tale. Under the new
schedule the inall mid local freight
leave Ridirway Motion ns follows:
MAIL WEST - - 2:33
" EAST ... - B:03
LOCAL WEST - 7:50
' EAST - 3:23
CORNER-STONE
OP TUB
NEW COURT MOUSE
LAID JULY 10, 1879.
EXCELLENT MUSIC RY THE ST.
MARY'S RAND.
POEM RY PROF. DIXON.
SPEECHES) ETC., ETC.
FIREWORKS IN THE EVENING.
The preparation;! for a fit celebration
nf the corner-stone laying had been
pushed by our worthy county com
missioner!!, especially by V. H. Ostcr
liout, who bving the resident commis
sioner naturally came by a full share
of the work, which he faithfully per
formed, nnd to hi in as much as to any
one man is due the credit for the great
success which attended the exercises.
On Friday evening, July 11, a meet
ing of the citizens was held at the old
court house, which organized by elect
ing Hon. George Dickinson Chairman.
After remarks by Messrs. Ostcrhout,
Itathbuu, and others, the following
gentlemen were appointed as a com
luittee to raise funds and conduct the
ceremonies incident to the laying of
the corner-stone: O.B.Grant, J. H.
Hagerty, D. C. Oyster, Geo. A. Rath
bun, G. G. Messenger, Geo, Ed. Weis
St. Mary's), and M. S. Kline. A
meeting of the committee was called
For 10 o'clock, Saturday morning, at
the office of Geo. A. Rathbun, Esq.
From this time forward, until the day
Closed on the K-th, the committee
Worked diligently, and too much
credit cannot be awarded them for the
brilliant success of the ceremonies
from the time the special trains ar
rived in the morning until the climax
Was readied in the display of fire
works at sunset.
order of exercises.
Announcement of Oillcers
of the Day . . . O. R. Grunt
INVOCATION.
Depositing of Records . Geo. A. Rnthbun
(See remark and list of article 111 unotlier
nulumu.Kil. Anvocaik.
inrsic.
Geo. Dickinson,
Eruumtft Murcy,
Laying Cor.-stone Jessie K.ylor,
.1. r. Miirsliin, Architect.
(.A. Aumn.li, l-'.ireiiiuu.
Original Poem . . Geo. R. Dixon
MUSH".
r.ieut. Gov. c. W. Stone,
Hon. William 1'. Jonks,
Hon. L. I. Wet-mure,
Hon. John llrookx.
Addresses
German Orutlon . Holl. CharluH Lulir
MUBIC.
Fireworks ntS:15 P. M., by K. R. Westfall, np
Risted hy J. H. Hngivty ilnd others.
Exercises to Commence at J P, M., SUarp,
THE CORNER-STONE.
This stone, about which so much
lias been said and. written, and the
placing in position of which cost such
i large sum of money diroiitly and in
directly, is of Elk county snnd-stone,
quarried on the hill back of the depot,
und is 2 ft. 2 in. x 2ft. 2 in. and 15 in.
In height, having on the north, or
Main street side, in bold characters
the legend "July 10, 1S79.' The cut
ting of the stone and carving of the
letters is the work of J. W. Riddle, of
St. Mary's, and is a lasting monu
ment to hisskillful handiwork, About
two and a half days was taken In the
accomplishment of this beautiful piece
of workmanship.
Under the coi'ner-stone, in the water
table, is a cavity 8x10 inches and 0 in
ches deep. In this receptacle is placed
ti box made by W. S. Service, of O'
Neill's patent pbynished copper, in
which is placed thearticles enumerated
in another column. The coyer being
tightly soldered on. At the bottom of
the opening It carved "H. Huffman,"
the name of the man who dug the
mortise.
When the box is placed in its posi
tion, the corner-stone placed over the
box, and the 22 inch brick walls rise
in their solid grandeur over all, it is
hoped und believed that the structure
i Will stand for many, many years, and
'. When at last it shall yield, as all things
must, to the devouring tooth of time
and the ceaseless wearing of the de
lta tits, and the generations in the dim
future shall deem it advisable to pull
dowtt the old walls and build anew,
that then they will remove with un
covered heads and reverential hands,
these records placed there by the living
of to-day, but who then will have for
long, long years si umbered In forgotten
dust.
St. Mary's Baud.
The presence of this line looking
body of men in our village, on the
loth Inst., was un important and in
teresting feature of the grand occasion.
Their excellent music and splendid
marching, during the purade, and
their playing while the exercises were
going on, was favorably spoken of on
all sides. That their leader and
teacher, Prof. Joseph Helmut, under
stands his business, and that the mem
bers f the band are apt pupil i
evinced by thetr rapid improvement.
The St. Mary's Bund is certainly de
serving of great credit, and Is destined
to become one of the best bauds in the
State.
Dennis llealy was kicked, by a
horse in the Tliayer House barn on
Friday afternoon last, receiving pain
ful injuries. The animal kicked with
both feet one passing over his head
and the other striking him in the
face; by the accident he lost three
teeth outright and had two more
broken off. He was unconscious for
some tluie, but was out the next day
although suffering great pain from the
mishap.
-lT A i -J W i- .
T 1 ,1T 1 1 ill '
Remarks of Hon. Joint Brooks, i
of cameron county, .htly 10, 1879,
at the cornkr-stone laying of
elk county's new court house.
Mr. President Ladies and Gen
tlemen In this eventful period and
dynamical ngc, it requires no heroism
to assert, "The world moves." Rut,
two hundred and forty six years ago,
the 22nd of last June, Galileo the Flo
rentine snge, was condemned nnd Im
prisoned at Rome for this assertion.
Fifty years prior to the dato of the
great charter granted to Win, Pen It,
by Charles the second, the King of
England, Scotland, France and Ire
land, the defender of the faith, and
before the city of Brotherly Love, was
founded, this event occurred. Let
Philadelphia to-day nnd our great
Common wealth answer, and vouch for
the truthfulness of the Utterance "The
world moves." The purpose and ob
ject of this assemblage is proof that
"the world moves," nnd If you ask
for more positive proof, I cite you to
t he great fact, that in this year of grace,
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood was admit
ted as a practicing attorney at law In
the Supreme and in the Superior
Courts of the United States. This of
itself should be a conclusive verifica
tion not only that "the World moves,"
but that It moves forward, that the
march of progress, like the visual rays
of the sun and the march of Empire Is
ever onward. Forward march, comes
from the telephone, and the swift light
nings speed the command .all along
the line.
Less than a century ngo, the forests
(God's first temples) prevnilcd over the
sito of your county and picturesque
village, in all their native solitude nnd
grandeur. Hero the stately elk, with
its spreading palmate antlers in all it,
native majesty, bounded and roamed
in the valley and among the hills that
environ your beautiful and romantic
shire-towu, unobserved und unmo
lested save by the rude and untutored
aboriginals. The elk and the denizen
of the wigwaTn, alke have disappeared
and fled civilization. Archery'has be
come a pastime rather than a Jiveli
hood, arts aud science are advancing,
and the iron horse has superseded the
birch bark canoe, and the court house
the council fires and the rubricated as
sizes of the chiefs of the wigwam
A little over thirty-five years ago, your
speaker, as one of the earliest com
missioners of your romanesqiie county,
first entered your town. The special
trains for travel, at that period, were
the wagons. The ordinary mode of
travel was the pedestrian ; and the oc
casional mode, was bestride the steed.
News was curried by one horse riders,
but often superseded by gossippers of
both sexes on foot The mails were
carried once a week on horse back
from Lock Haven to Smethport, pass
ing through the then eastern part of
your county. This line was an accom
modation line carrying all sorts of
wares aiid merchandise for the settlers
along the route. Usually you would
observe the ' cavalier upproaching,
mounted bestride his nag, the mail
pouch across the saddle and dangling
fore and aft and athwart his knees,
and along the sides and around the
neck of his pony, sundry articles
fastened or strung together with leath
erwood thongs, such wares as pails,
washtubs, churns, pots, iron kettles,
boots, sole leather and other packages,
aud on one occasion, a pondrous iron
mill crunk; this hist article however,
took the swing on him and he failed
to deliver it. The mails were carried
for a long time in your county, along
Bennetts Branch by a footmnu once a
week, and it was generally supposed
mat inese weeiciy man carriers, or
agents, carried more and later news iu
their heads than in their pouches.
On one occasion a dimijohn of brandy
from Lock Haven, constituted a part
of the freight, this, however, grew
lighter from day to day, till at last the
engineer became tired, and switched
himself off to rest, fds pony was found
the next day, by some one, grazing
along the route, minus Uncle Sam's
saddle bags. But few collisions occur
red on these lines of travel whether
the trains were run on the pedestrian
narrow gauge, or on the wider gauge
of the one horse cavalcade. An in
stance is remembered where the en
gine in ascending the grade above the
bluffs near Driftwood, bounced the
track, the engineer, however, escaped
by leaping frpm the engine aud re
ported the wreck, iu which lay com
mingled, a dead quadruped, the U.
S. mail pouch aud miscellaneous freight
iu transitu.
Your old court house, however hum
ble iU belfry, still stands as the great
conservatory of the peace aud palla
dium of human rights Sovcrlgns of
Elk county, we are here to congratu
late you for your enterprise, for your
industry, and for your progress, may
your energies never grow less. We
Erect you on this eventful occasion
with cheer as you lay the corner-stone
of your new temple of justice. The
corner-stone unite the foundation
walls of all well constructed edifices.
The ceremonies attending this work
are of moment, and the occasion one
of rejoicing. When the great Archi
tect of the universe spake to hi ser
vant, the Patriarch Job, out of the
whirlwind, He said, "Where wast thou
when I laid the foundations of the
earth ? declare if thou hast understand
ing, who hath laid measures (hereof if
thou knowest; or who hath stretched
the line upon it? whereupon are the
foundations thereof fastened? or who
laid the coroner-stone thereof, when
the morning stars sang together and
all the sons of God shouted for joy?"
The laying of the corner-stone of your
new edifice Is the pledge that soon the
head-stone shall be brought forth with
shouting of grace, grace unto it. The
privilege of meeting with you my
friends, on this occasion, affords great
pleasure, und is truly gratifying.
The kingdom of Israel in the zenith
of Its glory under the administration
of its wisest king bullded according to
the divine plan and specification (upon
Mount Moiiali) the great temple of
worship.nndof justice. In the porch of
this grand temple were erected two
magnificent and exquisitely orna
mented pillars. "Jnchin'' 'emblemat
ical of stability und ''Boaz," emblemat
ical of strength, symbolized by these
Unique bronze columns, are the essen
tial elements of all Well organized
governments. The school house the
church and the court house or forum,
nre the pillars of our Republic. The
church and the school house constitute
the Ron, or strength of the Govern
ment that gives It power, for knowl
edge U power. Rut the court house,
or temple of justice, is the "Jachin"
that gives stability to ottr Republican
Institutions. The judiciary Is the con
servative arm of our Government,
that directs its poWcr. that conserves
the life and the franchises and the au
tonomics of the county, of tlio Stnte,
and of the nation. The sovereign
citizen and the citizen sovereign, alike
find refuge in the judiciary, De
Toequeville, in his "Democracy in
America, s:ys: "The people in Dem
ocratic States do not mistrust the
members of the legal profession, be
cause It Is well known they are In
terested in serving the popular cause.
Lawyers belong to the peo
ple by birth and interest, and to the
aristocracy by habit P.ud by taste, and
they maybe 'looked Upon as the nat
ural bona and connecting link of the
two great classes of society. The pro
fession of the law is the only aristo
cratic element which can be amalga
mated, without Violence, with the
natural elements of Democracy, nnd
which can be advantageously nnd
permanently combined with then. I
am not unacquainted with the defects
which are inherent ill the character of
this body of men ; but without this
admixture of law yer-like sobriety with
the Democratic principles, 1 question
whether Democratic institutions could
long be maintained; and I cannot be
lieve that a republic could subsist at
the present time, if the Influence of
lawyers in public business, did not in
crease in proportion to the power of
people. In the mind of an
English or American lawyer, a taste
and a reverence for what is old, are
almost always united to a love of reg
ular and lawful proceedings.
The more we reflect upon all that oc
curs in the United States, the more
shall we be persuaded that the lawyers
as a body, form the most powerful, if
Hot the only counterpoise, to the Dem
ocratic element. The courts
of justice are the most visible organs
by which the legal profession is en
abled to control the Democracy. The
judge is a lawyer who Independently
of the tate for regularity and order,
which be has contracted in the study
of legislation, derives uu additional
love of stability from his own inalien
able functions The 'strength
of the courts of law has ever been the
greatest security which can bo offered
to personal independence." Jurists
are accustomed to regard precedents
rather than to introduce aud and en
courage inovation or revolut ion. Most
public men arc, or have been, legal
practitioners, und they introduce the
technicalities of their profession into
the affairs of the country. All classes
of men have been cither witnesses or
jurymen and have ncquired in the
courts of justice, tt) some extent the
language of the law, and have carried
into their social circles a degree of re
spect for law and some regard to the
forms and logic of inflexible justice.
In pursuing the thought suggested by
tlte occasion the mind reverts to the
Areopagus on Mars Hill, situated in
Athens, that erudite queen city, where
in that awful and supreme court of
judicature, Mars, the god of war, had
been tried and acquitted by twelve
gods, where from time immemorial
the greatest of crimes were determined
by the august judges in casting down
pebbles upon the tables for acquiltal or
for condemnation, but I shall not
weary your patience by further recital
of the events in the history of the
Hellenic nation. Waldo Emerson
says that, "every book is a quotation,
every house is a quotation out of all
the forests, mines, aud stone quarries,
aud.ever man is a quotation from all
ins ancestors. ' The new temple of
justice you are uuout to erect ami to
dedicate and for which you are about
to place in position its corner-stone,
will be u quotation out of the forests,
mines and quarries, as was the great
temple on Moriah and the Areopagus
iu the Grecian metropolis, and your
old wooden court house of thirty-live
years ago. -I see before me many fa
miliar faces but few however, that were
at the laying of the corner-stone of
your old forum. Many have passed
away whom we shall again meet at
the great day of ushizc. Many are the
pleasing memories of the last three
dcwides,allhough mingled with regrets,
and should I at if nipt to relate but a
tithe of the adventures of the. early
pioneer's of your shire town and county,
their narrative would "seem like an
Arabian myth, or u legend of the age
of fables. Waiving the consideration
of the reminiscences and the plexile
associations of the past, it gives us
pleasure to mark the progress of events
that relate to your own as well as your
sister counties, and the country at
large, in the contemplation of which
we are struck with amazement nt the
progress, and they are still marching
on. Wecongratulateyou, fellow peers,
that you are about to extend the lines
and strengthen the stakes of your ju
dicial forum. Tliht on the ides of
July, tlte month auspicious to liberty,
faUd to Bastiiesand adverse to tyranny,
that you are met to lay the corner
stone of a new temple wherein justice
and righteousness shall be adminis
tered, and where the strong arm of
the law shall restrain all licentious
ness and conserve the freedom of our
Democratic-Republican nation and
people. Long live freedom, long may
she preside in the school house, in the
church, and in the judicial forum.
Long may civil liberty impose her
mild restraints; ami our people "with
malice toward none, and charity for
all," learn that great political lesson
so admirubly taught by the Savior,
"Render unto Cesar the things that
are Ceasar's, and unto God the things
that are God's." Long may the ju
diciary, the conservative arm of re
publics, preserve immaculate their er
mine, and so exercise their functions,
that in every county, in every State in
the 'great Union, right and justice
shall triumph. Fortius in the judi
ciary forum we rest our hope. It is a
theme worthy of our contemplation,
and should inspire us with mutual
congratulations that the United States
which has been an asylum for the op
pressed of all nations, is no longer the
oppressor, that slavery, the corner
stone of the confederacy, was upheaved
aud the whole superstructure whelmed
in ruin, and that to-the United States
etauds the peer of the greatest of hu
man governments, and is the freest'
the most powerful, nnd the most pros
perous government of the world. "Re
publics nre short lived," said the Im
mortal Benton, that boy who obeyed
his mother when she said, "n,iy f.oti do
not swear nor drink," and for his
obedience be was promoted and hon
ored with thirty years in Congress.
Said he, "two diseases beset, (hem, the
one, the corrupt election of the chief
magistrate when elective, the other,
stvtioonl contention when Interest or
ambition are nt issue." Said he iu
1850, "Our confederacy is now labor
ing under both diseases, nnd the body
of the people now, as always, honest
In sentiment, and patriotic 'in design,
remain unconscious of the danger,
nnd even become instruments' in the
hands of their destroyers." Since this
was penned both of these diseases
have reached their crisis, the one cul
minating In the civil war of secession,
the other iu the corrupt influences
that pooled the caucus in the nomina
tions, and that nttcmptcd by cryptic
graphics to gobble the electoral col
lege.both,however,liave signal ly failed.
All honor to Elk county Buck Tails
for their prompt and efficient action
In the civil conflict. And nil honor
ami all praise to the judiciary, the con
servative nrm of the republic, for its
wisdom and love of order and of right
mid of truth, in the Presidential con
test. May kind Heaven avert the re
lapse or a rreurrence of these aggra
vated maladies. When Ulysses, the
Grecian hero, was returning from the
conquest of 1 Ilium, after he had been
driven by adverse winds, he reached
the straits of Mcsina. To avoid
Charybdis on the Sicilian shore, he
steered close to Scylla, on the Italian
coast, and six of his braves were
snatched away by the monster, while
Charybdis the more terrible monster,
with extended jaws, horribly yawned
with dreadlul noise, iu readiness to
gulp all the distinguished heroes.
'Tis thus t he republic, the great ship
of State, freighted with 45,000,000 of
freemen is tossed about on the turbu
lent ocean by the political winds, and
has reached the dangerous straits,
where the Seylla of imperialism, on
the roclt bound Italian coast, from its
caves, stretches forth her six heads,
armed with triple rovs of teeth, eager
to destroy, while the more dreadful
monster, the Charybdis, of anarchism,
on the Sicilian shore, rages and foams
and belches like her native Aetna,
threat ning toengulph in its dark whirl
pools, the entire nation. As a check
to these enemies of freedom, and foes
of civilization, compatriots of Elk
county, you are engaged in a good
work. Your school houses and your
churches yield strength and knowl
edge and power. But It is to the
court houses, the temples of justice,
that we must look for stability. These
are the bulwarks, the impregnable
ramparts of the nation, the counter
poise to licentiousness, and to the en
thusiasm 'of Democracy. God speed
you in your noble work, and ns you
place within the corner-stone of your
edifice the act of assembly erecting
your county, the laws and constitu
tion of yoiir Commonwealth and of
your nation. It were Well also to
place therein a copy of that more an
cient code of written law, the Penta
teuch. The courts of justice nre the
West Point, the people who nre the
witiiesscsund the jurors, are the cadets,
from who alone under Providence the
detinue of the Government must be
maintained. If the people listen to
the siren voices of t,lie three sisters,
nihilism, socialism and communism
they, too, will soon be in raptures over
their charms, and will forget home
and wile and child, and country nnd
all they Invert, then will civilization
end iu barbarism aiid freedom in vas
salage, erect then your court house,
dispense justice and' obey and enforce
your laws, then nmy you beat your
swords into plowshares und your spears
into pruning hooks aud enjoy the nor
mal franchises of the race' under your
own vine and fig tree. God save the
nation.
"Forever float, that standard sheet,
Whero hrealhes the foe, but talis before us
Willi freedom's soil beneath our leet.
And freedom's bunuer streaming o'er us."
Company IPs Record
AS DEPOSITED IN THE CORNER-STONE.
Company H, lTtli Regt., 6th Division
X. G. P.
Organized September 26, J874.
CO.MM ISSIONED OFFICERS.
Fred. Sclnjouing, Capt. Age 33 years
W. S. Service, 1st Lieut. " 86 "
Edson T. Grant, 2d " " "
(Lieuts. Service and Grant resigned.);
promoted.
J. O. W. Bailey from Orderly Sergeant
to 1st Lieutenant. Carlton H. Rliines
from Private to 2d Lieutenant. J. O.
W. Bailey died at nu encampment at
Lake View, Chautauqua Co., Xew
York, Saturday, August 81st, 1878 at
2 o'clock A. M. Died of Apoplexy
Orderly Sergeant W. S. Horton pro
moted to 1st Lieutenant. Strength of
Company, 04 men.
ENCAMPMENTS ATTENDED
Erie in 187-1 ; Cony in 1875; Mend
ville In 1878. Attended the Inaugura
tion f Gov Hoyt, at Harrisburg in '79.
In response to a call, July 20, 1879,
went into active service at Pittsburg,
and remained for two weeks and were
discharged. During the Riot service
was stationed at Pittsburgh, Pittston
aud Scranton. The regular inspections
at home and abroad were well rep
resented. The present Orderly Sergeant is
Henry A. Parsons, Jr.
List of men present this date ( July
16, 1870.)
Fred. Schcening, Captain
W. S. Horton 1st Lieutenant
C. H. Rhiues 2d
Henry A. Fursons, Jr., 1st Sergeant.
Harry Wilson 2d "
John Meenan 3d "
C. Bowers 5th
C. A. Olmstead 1st Corporal
H. K. Gresh 3d "
S. S. Wilson 4th "
Howard Gorton 5th "
PRIVATES.
Anderson, John
Bailey, Joseph
Benton, Isaac
Bailey, John
Cuthbert, William
Gorton, Frank
Healy, Dennis
lloff, Henry .
Kiunicutt.'W. C.
Kelts, O. G.
Kelts, O. C.
Meenan, James
Metz, Joseph
Messenger, William
Mann, P. F.
McChesliey, W. A
Nichols, Charles
Rhiues, George
Rhines, Oren M. .
Woodward, Geo,
Court ltccer;ls, List of Co. Ofllec r, &(
A MONO Til E LliT OF ARTICLES Pli
POSITKD IN THE CORN EK-HTON E.
The record of the first court held In
Elk county appears as follows:
"And now to wit: December 10th,
1813. Hons. James L. Gillls and
Isaac. Horton, associates on t he Bench.
William J. R. Andrews appeared and
was sworn in as Prothonotary, A.c, of
the several courts. Uriah Rogers was
appointed Court Crier. Reuben Wins
low appeared and sworn ns County
Commissioner; Chancey Brock way ap
pen red and sworn ns County Commis
sioner; Leonard Morey appeared and
sworn as County Commissioner.
MST OF PltOTHONOTAUYS &C.
Win. J. B. Andrews from 1843 to 1817
Charles Horton
Clint les McVean
C. F. Luce
Geo. Ed. Wcla
Geo. A. Rathbun
Fred Sehcening
1847 to 1855
1855 to 1858
1858 to 1801
18(11 to 1807
1807 to 1870
1870 to 1882
MST OF COt'NTY TREASURERS.
Jacob Coleman from 184(1 to 1848
Henry Souther " 148 to 1850
R. P. Little " 1850 to 1852
Ellis Lewis " 1852 to 1854
Jerome Powell " 1854 to 1850
Justus C. Chapin " ISott to 1858
John A. Royle " r858 to 18ii0
Isanc Horton " 1800 to 1,8(12
James Coyne " 1802 to 18(i4
Charles Luhr " 1804 to 1800
James Coyne " 1800 to 1808
C. V. Gill'is " 1808 to 1870
II. D. Deri' " 1870 to 1872
C. R. Eiirley " 1872 to 1874
Joseph Windfclder " 1874 to 1870
Jacob McCauley " IS7G to 1870
Michael Rrttnner " 1870 (o 1882
LIST OF ASSOCIATE .TUDOES.
Hon. J. L. Gillis from 1844 to 1849
" Isaac Horton " 1814 to 1840
" Geo. Dickinson
(In place of Gillis resigned) '40 to '51
" E. C.Witislow from 1840 to 1854
" Edward Derby from Feb. U 1861
to Dec. 1851.
" Geo. Dickinson from 1851
" Isaac Horton ," 185?
to 1850
to 1802
" V. S. Rrockway
1857 to 1802
1802 to
1802 to
18G7 to
1807
1807
1872
E. C. Sehultze "
Charles Mead
Dec. 1, 1800.
Jan., 1800 to
Jesse Kyler " 1807 to 1872
J. K. Whitmore " April 12, '71
Dec, '71, (in place of Schultze
removed.)
J. V. Houk front 1872 to 1877
J. K, Whitmore " April 20, '70 to
'77. (in place of Houk deceased.)
Geo. Ed. Weis from 1877 to 1882
Julius Jones " 1877 to 1882
LIST OF SHERIFFS.
Eusebius Kincard front 1843 to . 1847
Jacob Siiicltzer (resigned)
from 1847 to 1818
David Thayer " 1818 to 1851
Charles Mend " 1851 to 1854
A. II. Head " 1854 to 1857
Win. C. Healy " 1857 to 1800
A. II. Head " 1800 to 1803
P. W. Hays " lWi to 18G0
Jnmes Malone " 1800 to 1809
Jacob McCauley " 1809 to 1872
I). C. Oyster " 1872 to 1875
Daniel Scull " 1875 to 1878
D. C. Oyster " 1S78 to 1S81
LIST OF CORONERS. .
James Mix from 1843 to 1810
XathanieIHyatt " 1840 to 184!)
Townsend Fall " 1850 to 1853
Daniel D. Hyatt " 1854 to 1857
" " " " 1800 to 1803
LIST OF COUNTY SURVEYORS.
A. I. Wilcox from 1843 to
E. P. Goff " 1851 to 1854
Geo. F. Scliaefer " 1854 to 1857
Horace Little " 1857 to 180(1
Geo. A. Rathbun " 1800 to 1803
Geo. Walmsley " 1804 to
Geo. Walmsley " 1872 to
Eugene Lenta " 1878 to 1881
Present Board of Co., Commissioners
W. H. Osterhout, George Reischer
and Michael Weidert. W. S. Horton
Clerk.
Attest: Fred. SchceNino ,
rrothonotary &c.
Sheriff Oyster lias sold his black
horses to Mr. J. L. Ellis.
Last Sunday Wm. Messenger cele
brated his twenty-firwt birthday. His
mother presented him with n beautiful
gold watch andchain.
Many persons have a bad headache
every few days. It can be stopped in
one hour by Dr. Day's Cure for Head
ache. Prepared by D. B. Day, Rid
way Pa-
James McAfee, Merchant Tailor,
has just received a varied and exten
sive assortment of spring and summer
goods for gents' ware.
List of letters remaining in the
Ridgway post office, Elk county, Pa.,
up to July 21, 1879:
Head, J. R.
Montanye, Charles D. 2
McGilleti, Michael 2
Yaritigtoti, Mrs. L.
If not called for in thirty days they
will be sent to the dead let'r office,
Washington, D. C.
J. H. Hagertv, P. M
Powell Kimh's Grand Central
Stoke, RidgwaV, (in basement of
The Advocate building :)
Granulated Sugar.lOc. ; Powdered 10c.
Crushed 10c. ; Coffee A OJc. ; XCWhtte
9c. ; C Yellow 8c. ; '31b Canned Peaches
22c; 81b Canned Tomatoes 0c; Wins
low's Canned Corn 13c i Lima Beans
13c; Green Gages 25c; Dried Peaches
Js5c; Dried Apples 5c; Green Rio
Coffee, good, 15, best 18c; Roasted Rio
Coffee, lib pkgs. 20c; Syrup, a splen
did article 50c; English Currants 8c.
Crackers, best, 8c.; Medium White
Beans, per bush., 2 15; No. 1 White
Fish per lb. 6c; Valencia Raisins 10c;
Salt per but, $1.50; Snow Flake Sal
aratus 8c. 21b Canned Tomatoes 7c
Sugar Cured Hams 10c. Linseed oil
raw, linseed oil boiled, putty and pure
White Lead at bottom prices.
Remarks of (Jeo. A. Huiiibiut,
AT THE LA VINO OF THE NEW COPHT
MOI HE CORXEH-sroN'E, JULY 1()TH,
1870.
Law Is universal 1 When the Su
premo Architect of the universe
created matter, He impressed upon
each particle certain qualities that ad
here to It in every form it may take or
combination into which It may enter,
so when Hecreated things having life,
He established eertain physical laws
by which that life, whether animal or
vegcuible, sentient or Insentient,, is
controlled, and a breach of which Is
followed by disease and death. He has
also revealed the laws by which man
is to regulate his moral life, leaving
him to make for himself such further
regulations in regard to his conduct
toward his fellow man as should tend
to the peace and harmony of society.
In the natural world, like causes al
most invariably produce like effects;
we notice the succession of the seasons;
seed time and harvest; sunshine and
storm; the rain and the dew falling
like n blessing, and the tornado sweep
ing over land and sea, like the" breath
of offended Deity, leaving death and
destruction in Ita (racki
It Is from a knowledge df theso laws
that the farmer has faith to sow his
seed knowing that, though buried out
of sight, it will in due time spring up
and produce fruit after its kind, that
the rain aud the dew will nourish it,
that the warm air and bright sunshine
of summer will ripen It for the harvest;
it is from a knowledge of other but
similar laws that the mechanic acts
front the time the crude ore is torn
from its bed in the earth till the fin
ished locomotive speeds over tne iron
way, almost annihilating time and dis
tance, or till the steamer ploughs ma
jestically across the restless ocean,
freighted with the hundreds of lives
and with richest merchandise suffi
cient to iond a fleet of the prgosies of
old.
Human nature is unhappily, or per
haps it were better to say happily, so
constituted that differences Of opinion
are constantly arising between people
in all ranks and stations, and, when
men -began to multiply upon the face
of the earth, to congregate iu commu
nities, cities und states, it was found
necessary to establish some central au
thority having power to fix the rules
which should govern the citizens in
their social and business intercourse;
hence we huve what is called "munici
pal law," as distinguished from divine,
or revealed, nnd natural law, being the
rules of civil conduct ttrescribed by
the supreme power in a state.
As communities enlarged in numbers
ttid in extent of territory, increased
u wealth und diversity of occupations,
these rules of conduct multiplied and,
it becoming impossible for the govern-
ng power to administer the laws di
rectly, the right and authority to de
cide the various controversies con
stantly arising among men ns to their
respective rtylita and duties, were dele
gated, and iu every civilized country
are delegated, to judges, who are sup
pose to be learned in the law, and who
are the deputies or representatives of
the supreme power of the state in the
interpretation of municipal, or the
common or statute law of the land, to
protect and enforce the rights, or re-
css the wrongs of Individuals, by de
ciding between those who may hon
estly or dishonestly differ in opinion,
and to protect the peace and well be
ing of the people at largo by punishing
those who may be guilty of crime.
The judges sit in courts at stated
times to hear the allegations of the
contending parties by themselves or
their counsel. Lawyers are made nec
essary by the constantly accumulating
mass of statutes aud decisious, now so
great that a life time of labor is not
sufllcient to render a man familiar
with more than a few of the subjects
embraced in them.
And here let mo say a Word for the
honor of the profession. It is the cus
torn to scoff nt aud deride the gentle
men of the bar, to crack stale jokes,
such as that they have the devil for
their patron saint, and the like, aud, if
a knave Is to bo introduced upon the
stage, or into a story he is clothed in
the garb of an attorney. Yet the relu
lion oi attorney ana client is one re
quiring that the most perfect confl
deuce should exist. The attorney is
bound by oath to keep the business
communications of his clients secret,
nor can lie be compelled to divulge
them ; he is sworn to act with all due
fidelity, and his deductions from duty
are punished summarily and severely.
There are black sheep in all flocks, but
it is safe to say that less rascality is
developed iu the legal profession, con
sidering its numbers, than in any other,
for the reason that its entrance is more
strictly guarded and the punishment
for faults more severe; hence, and from
the educational and other influences
surrounding them, we And the great
majority of the profession men of
strict honor and Integrity, worthy of
the confidence that must be reposed iu
them.
But to return from this digression.
Having courts, judges, counsel and
suitors, buildings came to be con
structed adapted specially to the na
ture of the business' to be transacted,
and such buildings are usually called
court houses.
By the statutes of Pennsylvania it
is made the duty of the county com
missioners In each county to provide
proper rooms in which the courts may
be holden, and in no state of the
Union are there court houses that are
finer in appearance, better adapted for
the purpose, or more thoroughly built.
The ordinary holidays, Christmas,
Easter, Independence Day, and the
other days set apart for observance by
church, stute, or custom, are annual
in their recurrence, are marked as red'
letter days upon the calendar, and are
the occasion of gatherings of those who
may be interested, from any reason .
ill the eveill they Jwivc bc"i "stab
lishcd to commemorate ; but (lie erec
tion of large public buildings is In ire
qtient In nny given locality ; their be
giunliigs arc usually attended by
solemn ceremonies, and those whoex-1'
pecttojoin in their use assemble to
witness the manner in which such
ceremonies are performed, make the
day one of cessation from labor and
relate its incidents to their children.
The building of a courthouse, some
thing in which every citl.en of ft
county ha a direct Interest, is not
a daily or n yearly occurrence. It Is
intended to lust till the generation
who build have passed away and to
meet as well their wants ns those of
the generations that succeed them, it
should be so planned, as to1 its internal
arrangements, as to be convenient and
comfortable, and as to its external ap-1
pdarance, so as to be pleasing to the eye, .
harmonizing with its surroundings
and suggestive of its use,
One of the youilgcst, and in popula
tion one of the smallest among the
sisterhood of counties in the State,
"Little Elk" has hitherto been with
out n proper building for the use of her
courts and the preservation of her re
cords ; but such will not much longer
be the case. Before you are the foun
datioilsof a bidding which we believe
will be regarded with pride by every
cit izen, and we have assembled to cele
brute the laying of the corner-stone.
It is a red-letter day in the calendar of
tlte county, an epoch in Iter history,
and let us hope it is the beginniilg of
an era of renewed and extended pros
perity for her people
Mr. Rathbun then proceeded to read
the list of articles to be deposited,
placed them in the box and the box in
the cavity of the stone :
list of articles and documents
deposited in tlle corner-stone
of eliv county's new court house
JULY' 10, 1879,
Fac-siniilt1 copy of Declaration of
Independence. Presented by M. S.
Kline.
Lithograph copy of Constitution of
United States, giving outline of fen
hires of George Washington, Pre
sen ted by J. H. Hagerty.
Constitution of Pensylvania in pain
phlet form. Presented by Geo. A,
Rathbun.
Statement of officers nnd members
of the Executive nnd Judiciary De
partments of United States govern
incut; also the name of President of
Senate and Speaker of House of Rep
resentatives also the names of U. S.
Senators from Pennsylvania and of
members of Congress from this the
20th Congressional District. Also of
officers and members of Executive
and Judiciary Department of Govern
nientof Pennsylvania; also names of
members of Senate for this, the 3Sth
District, and of the member of the
House of Representatives from Elk
county nlso date of organization of
Elk county nnd its present County
and Court house. Prepared and pre
sented by Geo. A. Rathbun.
Autographs of resident members of
the Bar of Elk County nlso of the
County Commissioners, their Clerk,
the Architect of new Court House, of
the foreman of masonry for the fottti
am Ion thereoi, and of cutter of the
corner-stone.
Copy of Elk County Advocate of
July 10, 1870. Presented by Henry A,
Parsons, Jr., Editor.
Copy of JiilU County Gazette of July
10, 1870. Presented by G. C. Brandon.
Editor.
Copies of Elk Democrat of May 22.
July 3 and 10, 1870. Presented by E.
J. Miller, Editor.
hist of officers of Elk County from
organization to tlate. Prepared by
1 red. SchuMitiur. Prothouotarvi fFor
complete list see another column.
copy ot tne printed Order ot iix
ercises of the day.
liaiuiuui announcing tne laying of
corner-stone.
Handbill prepared by Pennsylvania
R. R. Co., giving schedule of' special
trains on that day to this place.
Names of some of the early settlers
of the County and memoranda of posi
tions of some of them, nnd incidents
of some of their lives, Furnished by
Erasmus Morey.
Memorandum of organization, of
County building, of first Court House
and first Judicial officers of the County.
Furnished by W. S. Horton, Commrs.
Clerk.
Specimen of leather from RidgWay
Tannery. Presented by Grant & Hor
ton.
Map of political divisions of Penn
sylvania. Presented by James Pen
field.
Specimens of scrip of J. S. & W. II.
Hyde.
Silver half-dollar of 1829. Presented
by Will Dickinson.
Fifty cent U S. fractional Currency
of 1803. Presented by E. C. Barrett.
Specimens of gold and silver ores, and
iron pyrites from Colorado. Presented
by C. W. Barrett.
Statements of organization of Co. H,
17tli Regiment, 5th Brigade, National
Guards of Pennsylvania. Its active
service &c. Prepared bv Capt. Fred.
Sehcening. Eor eompfete record see
another column.
Blank bond of the recent County
issue for the erection of this Court
House.
Spanish coin of 1778 with name of
giver, Michael Weidert, engraved
thereon.
Spanish coin of 1803 with name of
giver, James McFarlin engraved there
on. Whitefish, Mackerel and Mack
inaw TDiit at Morgester's.
Pittsburg Female College.
As many parents are now inquiring
for good schools for their daughters,
we cannot do them a better service
than to commend to them the Pitts
burg Female College, one of the best
institutions for Ladies on the conti
nent. It embraces within itself, seven
distinct schools, viz.: Liberal Arts,
Music, Drawing and Painting, Elocu
tion, Modem Languages, Needle Work
and Wax Work. The buildings are
large, nicely fitted up and comfortably
furnished. Twenty-three teachers are
employed in the different departments.
Churges less than any other school af
fording equal advantages and accom
modations. Twenty-fifth year com
mences Sept. 3d. Send to Rev. I. C.
Persuing. D. D., Pittsburg, Pa., for
a new Catalogue.
"Fine quality Lemons 25 cents A
doe. at Morgester's.
Sardines and canned salmon at
Morgester's.