ss,TgFG ADVOCATE.

ROCK. SEPTEMBER I4, 1881.
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gbe AGENTS of the ADVOCATE, are t6 .s,lly requested to make returns of sgesp' ea,leetions, on or before the first of =''es0 a,. ind ebted to this this office. for Su5-

 .,;o0s. .4dgerfissag, Printing, Sc. are sefY .,lv requested to make immediate ea', .ot to our Agents, (a list of who's e p'3" are inserted on the first page of our ''@ ar transmit the amount of their P'Rs .,l dues, to the editor, by Members ss' :, otbers attending the Legislature.

 u,. s,nerior Court, for the adiudica-

 # unconfrmed French and Spanish 'ga 3 Claims, las been in session, in

 n,ooe (excluding Sundays,) FIFTY 'D .vs. at an expense to the Federal 1p the per diem pay ofits

 sa.l;nate officers, alone-of seventeen ,uor, oer daya Why this useless and l. aaoessary waste of Uncle Sam's money? syEoD ,' inc Court will adjourn, it would re-

 

 ire more of prophet than we are, to toretell. D,a.-A meeting, we are told, took Mace. on an Island opposite St. Louis, .a,isso,ri, on Friday the 26th nlt. between g, SPENCER PETTIs, member of Con- r,4ss from that State, and Maj. THOMAS RIDDLE, Pay-master U. $. Army. On the first fire, both fell, mortally wounded.- ,rbe former survived until the evening of tbe next day, and the latter until the 29th. Tine distance at which these gentlemen fought, was fue feet.

 Nr. Pettis lad just been reelected to (onrress, over Mir David Barton, late U. s Senator, by very large majority.

 At the request of one ofour subscribers, i've publish the following statement of the Soolls al the late election in J Jefferson coun- N flor member of the Legislative Councils: