THE TIMKS, NKW HI.0OMF1M.1), l'A.. MAY 21, 1878. THE TIMES. tfew Jtlootn field, Stay XI, 1878. NOT1CK TO ADVKHT18KHS. No Cut orStwotype will l 1m rtwl In this pup" anlMH Ilirlit fe and ou mUI lap. trtmrniy ptTccnt. in nnmm nf ri-iriiliir ;, will iohwilfnrlviirtliiiiPUU net In liniilu-Column. NOTICE TO mniC!IUBKKM. I.nnk t tho fliriirpa nn th lnWl of Tour pmwr. rhcclliiirrUOI vim I lm dnl I" wlilcli rM"' rrlllnn 'nlrf. Within WW" lf;r """' ant, p If tho date la cbaiiKwl. Nn other roilp la DdoMiaarr. A rmr.ADKi.pitiA Jrnv were kept together eleven days trying to agree on a verdict. They then agreed to disagree and were discharged. It wan a ease where ten obstinate men could not be brought to terms by the other two. ' An attempt was made on Monday of last week to shoot the Emperor of tier many while he was riding In the street. Three shots were fired at him, but none of them did any damage. The would be murderer was arrested, and for a time the excitement in Berlin was very groat. Bitmnksb in the House of Representa tives at Washington has been at a stand still during the past week. The demo crats have offered a resolution to Inves tigate the alleged frauds in the Florida elections. Unless it is made more gen eral, taking in Mississippi and Oregon, the republicans oppose the resolution, and refuse to vote, thus leaving the House without a quorum. The whole week has been spent In such nonsense. Few persons outside of the politicians will be able to see why fraud everywhere should not be hunted out and punished too. On Friday a cpjorum was present and the original resolution was passed, no amendment being accepted. Affairs in Europe. The condition of allhirs in Europe are still far from settled, and prospects for peace are gloomy enough. A dispatch from Constantinople says the Russians continue marching their forces from all directions in the vicinity of and are dally drawing nearer to the Turkish capital. They are olso constantly pressing on the Porte to insist upon Engluud with drawing her fleet from the Sea of Marmora. All advices received indicate that the Turkish popular feeling of uneasiness is increasing. Although the advance of the Russians four kilometres nearer to Constantinople Is declared to be devoid of significance, the movement has never theless increased the uneasiness in Eng land. Democratic) Caucus. Wakhinoton, May 11. Immediately after the adjournment of the house the democrats went into caucus to deter mine upon a plan of operations to be pursued on the question before the house. Also to decide whether to allow republicans to offer any amendments. A number of democrats favor permit ting amendments to be offered and vote them down. It was unanimously agreed that the resolution inquiring into the presidential frauds should be finally acted upon be fore any other business was transacted. On motion of Representative Wood it was resolved that all democratic mem bers out of the city be notified to return to Washington and that after due no tice all existing pairs between members be declared at an end. Republican State Convention. The Republican State Convention met in Harrisburg on Wednesday laBt. Col. Henry M. Hoyt.of Luzerne coun ty was nominated for Governor on the first ballot, the vote being Hoyt, 161; Grow, 47 Wlckersham, 29; Beaver, 12; Morrell, 1. Col. Hoyt was Lieutenant Colonel of the G2nd regiment, Pa. Vol. during the late war, and was chairman of the State Central Committee In 1875. He is at present a lawyer practicing in Wllkesbarre. For Judge of the Supreme Court, Judge Sterrett, of Allegheny, was nomi nated on first ballot, the vote being Sterrett, 154 ; Agnew, 02. Only one ballot was had for Lieu tenant Governor, Hon. Chas. W. Stone, of Venapgo county, receiving the nomination, the vote being ' Stone 182 ; Jacobs 59. Mr. Stone is at present a State Senator irom the Warren and Venango district. ' For Secretary of Internal Affairs, Hon. Aaron K. Dunkel,of Philadelphia, was nominated on the second ballot. Mr. Dunkel is at present a Senator from Philadelphia, and Is editor of the Suru day Republic. A New Industry. A new industry has sprung up in Car bon county, Pa. It Is the manufacture ot the oils of wintergreen, penny-royal and sassafras. The first named is made most. The leaves are picked on the mountains from early spring to the full of the year. This in itself is quite a profitable occupation for men, women and children. They are paid from seven and eight mills to a cent a pound for leaves, and It Is not unfrequently that one per son brings to the distillery 200 pounds a day. Mr. Kuehner lias paid as high as $1,K0 a year for leaves alone, and he has never been overstocked with them. The pickers make more at tills business than they could make on the railroad or at almost any other employment. The work Is light, and the mountains are covered with the herb. At the distillery the leaves are put in a large still, cover ed with water, and steamed.' The oil soon begins to sink to the bottom, and after a due time Is drawn off. For this there Is a ready market In New York at $2 per pound. This is the lowest price at which it has ever been sold. Eighteen or twenty years ago It brought $10 per pound ; from 1H04 to 18(18 It dropped to $7 and $H per pound, and six years ago it came down to $4. The largest quan tity niado in one year was 1,024 pounds. It is put up in twenty-flvo pound cans, boxed and shipped. It is used largely in medicines, sarsaparllla, cream-beer, soaps, toilet-waters, vermifuge, etc. An Odd Monomania. A peculiar case of monomania has been developed In the person of Mrs. Amy Hpence, who lives on Fifth street, near Lorimer, Greenpolnt. About five years ago she lout a child, and since that time her brain has become affected, and she imagines daily that some one has given her poison, and Is not satisfied until she has taken an emetic. She has been to all her friends In the place with her story, and many of them were much alarmed at first and had doctors called In ; but latterly her visits avail little and she Is usually sent home in a kindly manner. She has been to nearly every druggist in the place, and Is well known at several of the police stations, especial ly the Sixth and Seventh. Last Mon day afternoon Captain Rhodes, of tho Seventh Precinct, found her In Leonard street dreadfully agitated because, as she said, she had poisoned herself. He took her to the station-house and sent for Dr. Morrissey, who, after an examination, said that there wano poison in her sys tem. She was much affected, said site couldn't livelong, and implored them all to save her life. Captain Rhodes said last night to all appearances the woman believed that she been poisoned and seemed to go through the actual agony. She paid a visit to the Fifth Precinct re cently, saying she had taken Paris Green. She was given a drink of water under the pretence that It waB an antidote. She has not called there since. She also call ed at the Eastern District Hospital on one occasion. Mr. Spence, who Is a saw yer, Buys he cannot afford to send his wife to the Fiatbush Asylum. She Is perfectly harmless and about fifty years old. N. Y. World. Foreign Notes. Active preparations continue ,ln Can ada to prevent the threatened Fenian raid. Prince Labanoff, Russian Embassador to Turkey, has arrived In Constanti nople. There has been an outbreak of hostili ties between the Russians and Turks at Rutouni. A recent earthquake at Cua, in Ven ezuela, killed 000 perBons. Heavy shocks were felt at Caracas. The recent drought in Demerara Island it is estimated will entail a direct loss to planters of from $3,000,000 to $3,500,000. An explosion occurred at at ammuni tion manufactory in the Rue Beranger, Paris, last week. The building was com pletely shattered. A serious fire ensued in the neighboring houses, and at last accounts was still uncontrolled. The number of victims by the explosion is unknown, but is believed to be con siderable. London, May 15. Serious rioting be gan at Blackburn yesterday evening. Thousands of the lowest class of opera tives, including, women paraded the streets, making violent demonstrations. The residence of Colonel Jackson, Chair man of the Masters' Association, was burned to the ground. The same mob attempted to burn Jackson mills. The residence of Alderman Hornby was par tially wrecked, and the windows of all the mills in the town were demolished. Infantry and cavalry cleared the streets, but great destruction was committed be fore their arrival. Col. Jackson and his wife barely escaped in a cab. Alderman Hornby was Injured, being struck by stones while remonstrating with the rioters. A Somnambulist's Thrilling Position. The Pittsburgh Leader says: A young lady was discovered yesterday morning by Officer Rosenburg, in the neighbor hood of Fifth and Carson streets, South Side, suspended by one arm to a window In the second story of a building above the railroad, and the flutter of white garments in the uncertain gaslight sug gested ghostly thoughts to the astonish ed policeman. Ho lost no time In con quering his fears, and getting a ladder he proceeded to rescue the woman from her perilous position. It was found that the woman's arm had been caught by the descending win dow sash, and she was thus prevented from getting a fall to the pavement be low. It Is said the lady's husband, who works In a mill and Is absent at nights, Imputes the whole matter to somnam bulism, and thinks his wife fled from an Imaginary Intruder. The woman felt much worse for her adventure yesterday. School Superintendents' Salaries. The following statement gives the ap proximate salaries of county superin tendents, as fixed by a late act of assem bly. The act relieves the conventions of school directors from the duty of fixing the salaries of superintendents, as heretofore : Approximated Allan Alli'Klirny Armstrong imaver Hod fin d liiirka 111 Hlr liiHdfnril llllrka Kutler ('ninhrla Ciinmriin Curium Outre ('hrater dlarlnn ('IchHicIcI t'lintnii (Jnlninbla Crawford Ciitnliprlnnd Diiuphlii nlnwBre lilk Kiln ""syptte Finest. Frnnklln Fulton Hreeiw Huntingdon Indiana Ivllerxoti (titlarlet. (1,010 nr 1,1711 1.IKHI 1.017 l.iMH l.l'IKI 1.800 l.fion 1,107 1.110 mm l.ooo W0 1.0O7 l.wo l.ooo Approjlmntetl Stilnrle. .1 uiiliitn tUX'O x.ooo 1. (1(10 1,000 1.071 2, (Ml l,f00 1.00(1 l.win 1,000 1.000 I, Ml son 1 ,0! l.O.'.H 1. 1 III Mm 1,000 1.W2 1,000 1,017 WKI l,wm 1,202 Kim 1,1.10 1,000 lidO 1,000 l.filH 1,000 1,050 l.nwriMii'fl Lebanon llilKh l.uminn I.venmliiK JVrKeiiu Mereer Mimin Mnnrofl Montgomery Monloiir Nnrtlmmtitnil Nuillililnljcllinid Terry 1'lkH 1,0001 Totter Hi-liiivlklll 1,000 1.701 1,000 1.000 1.IMI son l.fiOO 1,112 Hon l.K'2 SIKI 1 II 0 l.ooo 1.0K0 1,(100 Hnydiir HoiimrRPt Hul 1 1 van HiiMiiie'uinna TIiikii Union Vnniitipu Wnrrai WiivliliiK'on Wayne Westmoreland Wyoming Yolk Not bo Anxious as Formerly. Tho Wnshlnglon Star soys : It seems strange, but It is true, that the least de mand for the standard silver dollar Is In those very sections of the country where the people literally howled for them. Nothing would satisfy them but the Silver bill. The passage of the bill was followed by a wail because silver was only paid out for gold. Now that silver is paid out for greenbacks, they do not appear to want the dollar they cried for. This is shown by the fuet that up to May 4th, Cincinnati had taken only $2, 847 of the new coinage for greenbacks, wlille New York had taken $73,0.50; Chicago only $1000 against Philadelphia $821 ,780, and St Louis $1,705 to Balti more $3,502. Even Washington is ahead of the great silver cities, It having taken $83,000. In Fear of a Flood. The hihabltantBo7Mlll River Valley, Mass., and particularly the residents of Williamsburg, have been much alarmed by the rumors of the unsafe condition of tho Goshen reservoir, from which is drawn the summer supply of the mills on that fatal run. In response to a petition the County Commissioners, ac companied by a number of citizens, examined the reservoir on Saturday. They will order the removal of the " flash boards," and institute other pre cautionary measures. Many families have long kept watch all night for an expected flood, and a universal feeling of dread prevails In the valley, which nothing will entirely remove. -.. .... . Juniata Valley Camp-Meeting. The Huntingdon Local News says: The directors of the Juniata Valley Camp-meeting Association have resolv ed to cleanse the entire grounds. The brush in the field in front has been clear ed away, improving the approach. The restaurant, boarding ten t,etc, have been rented to the official board of the Meth odist Episcopal Church of Mount Union The hauling of baggage and garbage has been placed in charge of John Smith, of Wayne twp. Everything about the buildings and grounds will be fixed up, and the entire place put in trim for occu pancy on the 13th of August next. Poison for a Whole Family. A Lansing, Mich., special says : A dastardly attempt was made to poison the family of a son of William Cook, a wealthy farmer living a few miles from this city, by putting strychnine in a pump. It was discovered in time. Phy sicians say enough poison was put In the water to kill a hundred families. The residence of the elder Cook was also fired by the same parties. Suspicion rests strongly on a man in the neighbor hood. Hakbibmjrg, May 15. Governor Hartranft this morning sent to the Sen ate the nameof Hon. John B. Linn, Dep uty Secretary of the Commonwealth, to be Secretary of the Commonwealth. The Senate promptly confirmed the nomination, and Mr. Linn was sworn in at 12 o'clock by Judge Mercur, of the Supreme Court. A Wife's Liability In Iowa. The Supreme Court of Iowa decides that the discharge of a husband from bankruptcy does not release the proper ty of his wife from liability for debts contracted by the husband for the fami ly expenses. The courtaiso decides that the rights of homestead exemption to the widow, as the head of a family, ceases when she marries again. tf On Friday afternoon last an eighteen months old child of Mrs. Adam Suavely, in East Hanover twp Lob. anon county, died suddenly from some mysterious cause. Having occasion to work In the garden, she took her Infant child along and sat It down while she went about her work. A short time after the pitiful cries of the child at tracted her attention, when she took It up and endeavored to comfort It, but without avail, and about twenty min utes afterward the child was dead. After deatii it presented a swollen appearance, leading to the supposition that it must have been bitten by a poisonous insect. New Yoiik, May 10. It Is asserted by a morning journal that the late Earl of Leltrlm was killed by the relatives of a woman whom he had seduced. They went from England to Ireland for the purpose, and two of the three men who committed the deed are said to have es caped to tills country. &2Mrs. Elizabeth Bachman, of New Cumberland has been awarded the sum of $3,331.31 In a suit against the U. B. Mutuol Aid Society for insurance on the life of her husband. The case was tried In the Dauphin county court, and the company resisted the payment on the grounds that some of the questions in the application of the deceased had not been fully and properly answered. OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, D. C, May 10, 1878. For more than a year a bettor United States Navy lias boen talked of, cried up and cried down, favored and objected to, praised and ridiculed. It lias seemed that all this talk bas amounted to nothing, but doubtless it has been an effective process of ripening off the project and bringing it to culminntlon. At all events there is now comparatively little objection to the plaD, if we may judge from the result of a con ference hold last week between, the Sec retary of the Navy, the heads of the bureaus of the Navy Department and the House Committeo on Naval Affairs, when a general reorganization of the Navy was discussed and the unanimous agreement was to the effect that the United States should build a new Navy equal in all re spects to the demands and emergencies of modern naval warfare. Surely, such a world-important Republic as our Government now represents should support a Navy of sufficient strength to protect her in any and every supposable case, which it does not do at present. Nor does it support such an Army. There should be no chance for any what ifn. They shoald all be covered by certain pro tection. A good amount of wary caution is ex hibited by the movers in the matter of a re opening of the Electoral Count muddle. Things have gone so far in that direction now, however, that it is hard to see bow another investigation is to he avoided if such should be the wish of the country at large. Public, affairs have reached a strange pass when Senators and Representatives openly condemn a Presidentand that Pres ident serenely remains at his post without so much as calling his officers to account for such sayings and such condemnations, Probably some of our wily deep-seeing, ruling politiaians see, or think they see, the end of this confused state of affairs, and the results ; but we confess we are not far-sighted enough. Although the wedding ceremonies of Senator Don Cameron and Lizzie Sher man, neice of the General Secretary, did not take place in Washington, yet, as the parties and their families are so well-known bore, the event of their marriage bas formed a most important topic in social circles in this city for aweek or two past. The bride spent last winter here and was much esteemed though that doesn't tell much for she would have been feted and sought for on account of connection and prospects, had she been the reverse of pleasing in manner and features. . She is, however, a very pretty, sensible and ac complished young lady. The wedding was brilliant, of course, as white silk, point lace, white lilacs and orange blossoms could make it. This match is considered a very important and desirable one, on all bands, despite the fact that Se nator Don bas children older than his bride. Some one aptly says : " The big political faml lies seem to be making alliances. The Shermans are reaching out and marrying with the Camerons, the powerful Penn sylvania leaders. The Shermans cover wide range. John leads the bard-money school ; Tom Ew'mg, his brother-in-law, leads the soft-money school ; Judge Sher man does the matrimonial business, and superintends the third house. Their kins. man was until recently the alternative if Hayes lost the nomination. In the State of New York Conkling baa the Republican machine, and his brother-in-law, Seymour, the Democratic machine." It Is said that Tom Ewlntr la worltlnir - m ri towards the end of placing John Sher man in the Chief Magistrate's olislr and Hiring for himself the uosltlon of Sec retary of the Treasury. Don Cameron's oldest dauohter bas houses and lands, considerable nrnnertr.'n her own name and rlebt. whloh aha con trols and manages without help from her father or others. She Is fond of bet step-mother and pleased with ber father's choice. General and Secretary Sherman anil other notablos went from here to Cleve land to attend the wedding, where they were received with muoh enthusiasm by the business people of the city. Olivr. Miscellaneous News Items. dMrs. Fronler.of Kvansvllle. attempt ing suicide by banging, a few days ago, but was saved by her little son, who suc ceeded in cutting her down just in time to save her life tW The rust is damairinir tlm wheat ir a considerable extent in the southern Indiana oounties. Some farmers in Switz erland county already talk of plowing up moir wnoat lieids and planting corn. ttJT A womau who died recontlv In Ll,. anon county Is said to have oonfessed on her death bed that she and ber sou, who is still living, murdered a rich old oeddler 1H years ago, robbed him and threw his body into burning charcoal. C3T The military were called out at Fort Erie, Ontario, last week, in anticipation of a Fenian raid. Extensive preparations were also made at St. Catharines. Four companies of infantry and a battery were ordered to be ready to march at a moment's notice. 2T" A noatly dressed woman placed a bandorchief over ber mouth and jumped into the Schuylkill rivor near Philadelphia. A gentleman in a row boat rescued her. The handkerchief had been chloroformed. She had a gold watch on her person, and her name is supposed to be Julia. T. Fos ter. tW On Wednesday last an Infant ap parently about two months old, was found on the Shade Mountain, near Shade Gap narrows. It was taken to Michael Stair's and on Thursday morning removed to the poor bouse. It is not known who the un feeling mother of the child is. tW A San Franoisco letter says : Great preparations are being made for the ap proaching Mechanics' Institute Fair. One of the improvements will be the lighting of the immense ball by a 10,000 candle power electiio light. The electricity is furnished by a Gramma machine driven by a steam engine. tW Several years ago a seven year old son of John F. Reith, Lancaster county, was seized with spotted fever, which re spited in the loss of speech and bearing. Last year he became blind, and about a month ago be was unable to take nourish ment, and after compulsory abstinence from food for twenty-nine days he died. , ItS" A New York writer says : The trials of the cabinet-makers are really bard to bear. The furniture trade, the present season, is in a depressed state, and the wages paid for labor by the trade are al most at salivation level. Many of the wives and families of workmen are said to be suffering. Many of the best workmen earn less than f 6 per week starvation wages surely. tW The body of Mary Howard, aged 5 years, was found dead in Shamokin creek, along the Reading railroad in Northum berland county. Tho little girl had wan dered away from home several days previ ous, and no tidings of har whereabouts bad been received until the announcement of the finding of her body was made. Lancaster, May 14. A German named Henry ilaerre, residing near Mountvllle, six miles west of this city, committed sui cide yesterday by banging himself in a shed. When found be was dead. Be was sixty-two years of age, and bore a good character. It is supposed that be became despondent in consequence of inability to obtain employment, having been a day laborer and disposed to be industrious. EST On Tuesday morning of last week, during the dense fog, as the track hands on the railroad were going to their work on a band car, they were met by a train which they were not aware of, and, owing to the fog, were nnable to see until it was just upon them. They bad just time to jump, some to one side and some to the other side of the track, when the band car was struck and completely wrecked. " Huntingdon Monitor." rOYEBTY AXD SUFFERING. i 'I was dragged down with a debt, pov erty and suffering for years, caused by a sick family and large bills for doctoring, which did tbem no good. I was complete ly discouraged, until one year ago, by the advice of my pastor, I procured Hop Bit ters and commenced their use, and in one month we were all well, and none of us have beeu sick a day since, and I want to say to all poor men, you can keep your families well a year with Hop Bitters for less than oue doctor's visit will cost I know it. A Wobkihgxax.
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