Chemung Co., NY Elmira Daily Advertiser Thursday, March 20, 1879 FRIENDSHIP FOTOGRAPHED(sic) A Few Pleasnat Items from Our Old Time Correspondent Friendship, March 17, 1879 Maple sweets are in the market at reasonable prices. The season promises well, and the quality is annually improving, and the demand also. Friendship has recently lost by death three prominent citizens, Messrs. G. W. ROBINSON, Abel HOXLEY, and Calvin CROSS, solid men, who tried by perhaps the best test--an honorable and prosperous business career -- were not found wanting. The old firm of PRICES & BRADLEY is virtually dissolved, the ready-made clothing and shoe business being assigned, under the new order, to Mr. BRADLEY, while three senior member, J. O. PRICE, deals entirely in dry goods. Both gentlemen carry large stocks from which the most exacting customer can be suited. F. W. BEERS & Co.'s agents are busy in this vicinity procuring matter for their History of Allegany County. This work is to eclipse all its predecessors, and is to be so thorough as to render attempts of the kind superfluous for many years to come. If the local correspondent had been born earlier the history would be both more complete and entertaining. Chas. L. LANE, jeweler, who occupies part of A. B. BRADLEY's elegant store, has finally enlarged his business so that it is a real treat to visit his establishment, simply to admire the elegant jewelry, silverware and watches that he displays. As he is yet young enough to be a favorite with the fair sex, and has built up a first class business in a few years, his success is due to enterprise, liberality and industry, which it gives me pleasure to bring to public notice. Erie train 12, of to-day, March 17th, Conductor PATTENGILL, was thrown from the track, one and a half miles west of Friendship, by a broken journal under the tender truck. Both tender and express car went off. With the aid of a wrecking train the road was cleared and the train proceeded, after a detention of four hours. No one hurt. The air brake has again proved its claim to be one of the most efficient contrivances of recent times for promoting the safety of passenger trains. Train 3 of last Thursday deposited, at this station, an elderly lady who left Chicago the previous, Monday, intending to come to Friendship by the most direct route. Having a ticket to New York she did not discover that she had passed this place until she arrived at Jersey City. Having received filial (sic) injunction at starting, not to leave the cars until she got here, unless it was to change, she adhered to it so literally as to take an extra ride of 746 miles, and to her credit, she was not in the least disconcerted by her mishap, but seemed to relish the absurdity of the thing as much as we did. There is a gentleman in this village now aged 72, who had, while in middle life, his right leg broken four times, once by the surgeon to file off the broken ends of the bones, to facilitate re-union, without success so that in walking they slip by each other: the clavicle broken once, and several ribs fractured at another time: and yet he successfully managed a farm, and is still able to workout his road tax. Were not for paroxysms of asthma, from which he has suffered cruelly for years, it would be in order to put him against some of our idle, yet boastful young men, in a walking match, with the odds in betting much in his favor. FRENCH. PERSONAL George MACDONALD is in Italy. What's up?--Mrs. JENKS coquetting about President HAYES. Everyday is for TILDEN--just to see how badly the old man can be beaten. The Brooklyn "EAGLE" is so anomalous as to say the coming man in pedestrianism is a woman. Dr. WIETING, of Syracuse, again has blood in his eye. He will contest HISCOCK's place in Congress. The Baltimore tragedy has ended in death. A Miss JAMES, who was seduced and defended by her brother in a pistol set to with her seducer, a young man by the name of HINDS, has just died in puerperal convulsions. After the encounter with young JAMES, HINDS went off West. A young and beautiful Neapolitan girl is charged with having carried on a daring and ingenious systems of swindling. It is stated that the young lady, whose name is ROSA delPRETE, has been in the habit of "making up" as an old beggar woman, and in this guise collecting alms in the public streets. She has got so much money in this way as to enable her to live and dress in the most luxurious style, and has actually, it is said, been accustomed to receive at her elegant saloon, in the evening, the very persons from whom she had begged in the morning. Discoveryhas, however, overtaken her, and she is now in the clutches of the law. submitted by Pat Wainwright