THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIFXD, TA.. OCTOBER 1, 1878. THE TIMES. New Bloom field, Oct. 1, 187S. NOTICE TO ADTEnTlSBBS. lfo Out or Bterentype will be Inserted inthU ppe Unless light face aud oo metal bane. tW Twenty per cent in eirem of reirolar ratee, will pe uasrurru lur aavertiseiueuui set 10 iuuu miuuiu, NOTICE TO SUBWCRIBERS. Look t tho flirnron on the Isbet of your roer. Thoi)Kiiretl vontlm ilnteto which youranu- crlpllon In paid. Within S wwki .alter money la sent, sm If the dnte la ohantred. No other receipt a necessary. Noav that the Negroes have been left to depend upon themselves, they are rapidly acquiring the means of Belf-de-fence, and knowledge how to use them for attack If need be. Only a few days ago a colored mob took a white man out of jail at Beulte, La., and riddled him with bullets, as if they hud been a crowd of high-toned southern gentlemen and the prisoner 'only a nigger." - The Middle Penitentiary. ,The commission appointed by Gover nor Hartranft to select a site on which to locate the proposed middle district penitentiary met at the Lochiel hotel last evening to read communications from the counties composing the middle dis trict, and to map out a prog ramme for visiting the sites offered. A special train brought the commis sion to this city from Philadelphia yes terday afternoon. The commission was accompanied by Messrs. Francis Wells, Philadelphia Bulletin ; Hon. James M'Manus, Michael Cassidy, Esq., John A. Wilson, Esq., Mayor Btockley, Geo. W. Leuffer, Esq., William Baldwin, Esq., John Morris, Esq., and Thomas Noble, Esq. There were .present Col. Charles Thompson Jones, of Philadelphia, Presi dent; Henry Itawle, of Erie; Henry Howell and George.J. Young, of Phila delphia ; J. K. Moorhead and John Paul, of Pittsburg. Delegations from Tyrone, Carlisle and Harrisburg present ed the claims of their respective sections. The legislature has appropriated $100, 000 to be applied in purchasing the site and erecting thereon a penitentiary capable of holding 250 prisoners in soli tary confinement. As there are now confined in the eastern penitentiary at Philadelphia, 145 convicts, and in the western penitentiary at Pittsburg, 83 convicts making a total of 230 convicts sent from counties included within the district it is likely that the new Insti tution will be almost filled as soon as completed. Fifteen acres of land will be required. Harrisburg and Tyrone have offered to donate the ground, while Carlisle says it will do so if asked for by the commission.' In addition to the profusion of stone, iron and coal which each locality puts forward as an advantage in its favor, Harrisburg furnishes figures showing the total population of the twenty-seven counties in the middle district to be 777, 000, and that the six counties nearest Harrisburg have more than one-fourth of the population and one-third of the convicts. Tyrone shows that it is within seven miles of four counties Cambria, Blair, Centre and Huntingdon that it can be reached from ten counties in the dis trict without change of cars, and from ten others it will have but one change, and from the remaining seven with but two changes, a point which they claim is of some importance in connection with the transportation of prisoners and that the state has none of her public buildings along the centre line of the state, the Pennsylvania railroad be tween Harrisburg and Pittsburgh ; and in furtherance of the state 'policy of scattering its public buildings, that, therefore, Tyrone is the more eligible. Carlisle claimed the best soil, good drainage and a large, orderly population, and that produce could be obtained there at about half the cost of Harrisburg. To-day the commission, accompanied by Governor Hartranft, Mayor Stokley and the state board of charities, will visit Selinsgrove, Northumberland, and Williamsport. To-morrow, Lock Ha ven, Bellefonte and Tyrone will be visited, after which the commission will repair to Altoona and remain over night On Thursday they will inspect ' sites at Huntingdon and Lewistown,and on Friday M'Veytown, Marysvllle and Harrisburg will be inspected. Captain William B. Hart, of this city, was elected secretary of the com mission. The meeting adjourned at 11 o'clock P. M.JIarrwlmrg Patriot of the 24th inst. United States Malls Burned. Information has been received at the Post-office Department at Washington that twenty-four sacks of newspaper mail have been burned by the Health Office at Mesquite, Texas. As the mails have not been forced by the Department past where quarantine has buen estab lished, the question arises by what au thority the mails were burned V The Department will Investigate the matter. A Lively Struggle with Two Prisoners on Train. The Pittsburg Leader says j BlverlfT D. C. Oyster, of Elk county, arrived In this city this morning, accompanied by Deputy-sherlff Winsel, having in charge two desperate characters named James Dailey and Patrick Goodman, sentenced at the recent term of the court of Elk county for burglary, the former receiv ing two years and six months and the latter two years. The party arrived at Warren yester day and finding that some hours would elapse before the departure of the train at 9 A. M., on the Allegheny Valley Road, the men were placed in the jail at that place. Between 8 and 9 o'clock the sheriff and his deputy started to es cort the prisoners to the depot. On the way from the jail to the cars, Dailey, who is a powerful young fellow about 29 years of age, in some manner slipped his handeuHs,and breaking away ,started to run. The sheriff held to Goodman, while Deputy Sheriff Winsel started after Dailey. Finding that Dailey was get ting away from him the deputy sheriff fired at him, and the prisoner looking around when he heard the shot, struck his head against a tree, and before he could recover himself Winsel was upon him, and a desperate struggle ensued, both being powerful men. Dailey caught the deputy by the throat,and at the same time took hold of him with his teeth. After a moment's struggle a citizen came to the rescue, and with his aid the pris oner was overpowered. When the train was approaching Irvington, Dailey requested the sheriff to get him a drink. This the sheriff did, but as he approached the man Dai ley kicked the glass out of the sheriff's hands, and with an oath demanded beer instead of water. Turning to his com panion he proposed that they should go and get some beer. He readily assented, and a dash was made for the door. The train was just slowing up at the station and the sheriff and his deputy sprang to the door, where another struggle was inaugurated by the reckless criminals. The sheriff hesitated to use his revol ver, as the car was occupied by a num ber of passengers.lmt just at the moment a stone-mason came aboard, carrying in his hand a hammer, which the sheriff seized, and after some twelve or fifteen blows with the handle of the instru ment, finally subdued fhe men and no further trouble was experienced on the trip. The handle of the hammer was broken in the struggle, and both men used up. One of them, Dailey, though not considered as seriously injured, was placed In the hospital at the penitentiary after his arrival. An Exciting Scene. Marquette, Mich., September 24. About 9 o'clock last evening, during an examination of witnesses before Com missioner Maynard, in the case of the United States vs. Samuel J. Tilden, two men suddenly entered the office, seized the books of the New York iron mine, which were being used in testimony ,and escaped with them. Warrants were issued as quickly as possible and officers started in pursuit. It is supposed the book 8 have been taken outside of the State. Considerable excitement pre vails. Tilden's counsel has been arrest ed for the theft.- MEMniis, before the plague, had a population of 50,000, but of the people who now remain only 2,000 are in health. The fever prevails in various parts of the country included within a radius of ten miles of the city. Fifteen volunteer physicians have died in Mem phis, and twenty others are sick. Eight Catholic priests and five Protestant ministers have also perished. Terrible Work of a Kerosene Lamp. Providence, R. I., September 24. Yesterday afternoon the house of Mrs. Abby Daval, in Portsmouth, was dls covered to be on fire and when the neighbors reached the scene nothing could be saved. The body of Mrs. Daval could be seen on a bed burningtoacrisp. By the side of the stove was a kerosene can, which probably explains the dis aster. ! Fever Notes. Two thousand dollars' worth of blankets will be sent the yellow fever suf ferers from London, Ont., under an ar rangement with the United States Treasu ry Department which gives them free en try. A couoeit at Gilmore's Garden in New York on Monday night for the relief of the yellow fever sufferers in the South, under tbe auspices of the Fireman's Ball Committee of the old volunteer fire depart ment, will net between 8,000 and f 10,000. There is great suffering at Grand Junc tion, and doctors and nurses are being sent from New Orleans. At Baton Kongo there were thirty-eight new esses and two deaths reported up to noon Thursday. At Canton, Miss., two deaths and twenty-one new eases. The Secretary of State 'lifts reoleved from Minister Noyes a ftither remittance of 4,000 for the yellow-fever sufferers, which includes 1,000 subscription from the President of the French Republic and Madame MacMahon. Jiot a Beverage. "They are not a beverage, but a medi cine, with curative properties of the high est degree, containing no poisonous drugs. They do not tear down an already debill tuted system, but build It up. One bottle contains more hops, tbat is, more real hop strength, than a barrel of ordinary beer. Every druggist in Rochester sells them, and the phsicians prescribe them." Roch ester Evening Express on Hop Bitters. 40 Miscellaneous News Items. tW A live cat was found in a mail bag at a town in Maine recently. It is su ppos ed she had a pur-puss in being there. tW Seveuty-seven Kansas bound emi grant wagons passed through Des Moines ono day last week. CSPAyoung daughter of II. C. Fronce, of Mahanoy City, was choked to death by a peanut keruel lodging in her windpipe. C3FThomas Wardlaw's body was found in the woods near Musquash, N. B. Tues day, with the skull crushed in. I lis wife and her paramour were arrested. tST'A Lady aged sixty-six years, the mother-in-law of Rev. Eisenminger, of Ly coming co., committed suicide by hanging herself in an outhouse. tST"Awoman in Richmond, Ind., who died recently, hod kept $3,000 in gold secreted for forty years. She didn't believe in banks. tW Frank Pike dived into the Boyer river, Wisconsin, stuck his hands iuto the mud at the bottom, and came up with a long lost dinmoud ring on bis finger. tS A tramp who stole a ride in a car of flour on the Yaudalia road, in Illinois, a few days since, was smothered by the car taking fire. When fonud he was dead. g" Wm. Buller, of Chester couuty, leap from a third story window while suffering from typhoid fever and sustained supposed fatal injuries. C5P The Odd Fellows' Bauk of Sacra mento bas decided to wind up its buisness, and has made an assignment of its assets, which it is believed are sufficient to pay tbe creditors. E2T On Saturday night an attempt was made to burn up Taylor Bartlett and family of Altoona. The fire was discovered in time to prevent the accomplishment of the object. . , C5PA widow in Reading, who has attain ed the age of fifty years, has been arrest ed for firing her own property with the in tent of destroying the house of her neigh bor, against whom she had an old grudge. tWTen persons died from diphtheria at Sharpsburg, Allegheny county, withiu a week recently. Iu the family of Mr. Col lins four childreu have died and another is dangerously ill. tW A Bohemian woman, while gather ing blackberries near Iowa city, recently, was bitten by a rattlesnake, and died be fore reaching home. Her body was found the following day. CSTA dispatch from Dodge City says that a fight commenced on Saturday between the troopB and a band of thiev lug Indians, several of whom had been killed, without injury to the soldiers. Cincinnati, Ohio, September 23. The second Bection of John Robinson's circus train on the Cairo and Vincennes railroad was ditched at Mt. Carmel yesterday, de molishing five cars. Four employees were seriously hurt. Alliance, O., September 23. When the train carrying Mr. Hayes and party east arrived here to-day a salute was fired so close to Mr. Hayes' private car as to break all tho windows on one side. No one was hurt. The woman and child fouud murder ed ou Sunday near Indianapolis prove to be the wife and child of William Merrick, a livery-stable keeper. Merrick was arrested, but denies all knowledge of tbe crime. tW Two men wore arrested in New York on suspicion of having stolen $2,000 worth of opera-glasses from a Broadway optician on Sunday ovening. Tbe robbery was committed at an hour when scores of people were passing the place. Additional advices relative to the tornado which visited a portion of Michi gan on Friday woek, state that two or three persons were killed and a number injured at different points. At Greenville tbe Baptist church was blown down. ' dP A dealer iu lottery tickets was sen tenced by the criminal court of Lehigh oo.,' last week to pay a fine of $1,000, the cost of proseoutlon, undergo an imprisonment of thirty days and give bail in $2,000 for two years for his good behavior. t3TTha Harrisburg Patriot says : The river is exceedingly low at present lower than at any other time this season. Tho employees at tbe various industrial es. tablishments from Falrvlew and Worm leyslmrg fiud it somewhat difficult to push their boats aoross, morning and evening. ' EST The body of Mrs. Iligby, Garretts vllle, Ohio, was found in . tbe vat of tbe Homeeopatblo College, at Cleveland, on Saturday. The College authorities had the body dressed and restored to the friends, bub the chief mombers were arrested and held to bail. The affair cuines much excitement. tW A singular scene was witnessed on the St. Lawrence, a few days since. Dur ing a storm, a floating island passed down the river. It contained near two acres of meadow land, with hay in the wiurow, and some in the cocks, ready to Store in the barn. It measured seven feet in thickness. GSome of the boys of Carrollville, Wis., made a midnight parade, wrapped in sheets, and starting from the village graveyard. Their idea was to scare who ever saw them. They succeeded. Three men went into convulsions at the sight, one sick man weut into a relapse, and a girl broke her arm by a fall iu climbing hastily over a fence; Teiuie IIaute, Ind., September 21. William Foreman, residing a few miles north of this city near Centreville, has just been arrested on a charge of causing the death, yesterday, of Miss Jennie Murdock, a member of a respected family in the same neighborhood, by efforts to produce an abortion to cover up his crime of seduction. The matter has created great excitement. Cincinnati, September 24. A dispatch states that James Mullen, a wealthy farm er and bachelor, residing near Gower, Mis souri, was fouud ou Sunday moruing lying near his barn, dead. The body was fright fully mangled, nearly all the flesh having been eaten off the bones by the hogs. The supposition is that he fell from the barn loft, breaking his neck. The horses and cattle were tied in the barn and nearly starved when discovered. Allentown, Pa., September 24 A ter rible boiler explosion took place at the school slate factory of the Lehigh slate works, at blatington, at a quarter before 1 o'clock this afternoon. Frank Kenuett, the engineer, was instantly killed. Wm. Hunt was badly wounded, and several oth ers were seriously injured. The boiler was thrown about forty feet, burying itself in a rubbish bank. Tbe engine house and the wash bouse were completely wrecked. Detroit, Mich., September 22. A spe cial from Saginaw Bays: "A quantity of Bhingles and about 15,000 feet of lumber on the docks there were blown into the lake, 1,600 trees were blown across the track of the Iowa and Southwestern railroad, and a considerable amount of damage to prop erty along the Hue was done. At Ogeman Springs a man was struck by allying board aud had his arm broken aud was otherwise badly injured. The Ogeman mill and oth er properties there were damaged to the ex tout of about $1,500. The roof of the de pot wbb blown off and considerable damage done to curs ou tho track at that place." Communicated. Patent Flour. One of (lie greatest Improvements of the times, mid one that greatly Interests the public. Is the the new machine that has been put in the Flour ing Mill of Milton B. Kslielnmn, of Newport. It is a Smut, Purltler, brought here from Michi gan, the name kind of a machine that makes the Patent Hour from the Western spring wheat, which Is decidedly the best flour made, and al ways commands the highest price In the Eastern markets. It Is the same make of machine that Is in the Harrisburg mill, and Is the only one In 1'erry county, It cost three hundred dollars, and Is a nice piece of workmanship. It was put up by Mr. W. J. Bell, of Lewisburgh, . Fa., a practical Millwright. Now a word about the working of the machine. Every observing person knows that each grain of wheat has a growth of hair or fuzz on its point, mid this Is the most dllllcult part of the grain to clean. It has delled the Ingenuity of tiie Bmut Machine Makers, and in spite of the mostdlll- f:ent care of the Miller In scouring the grain, and ii bolting the chop the fuzzy stult will work Itself through the bolting cloth, and darkens the color of the Hour; unlet a goodly portion of the re turns Is run to the feed, aud then the turnout of flour is too small. This machine is so constructed thatinsteadof the revolving reel of the ordinary bolt. It has a flat shaken sieve gently vibrated, covered with very line HoltiugCloth broughtfrom Germany. And while the material to be purified is passing over the seive; It Is evident toevery one that the heavy partioles which Is the good Hour will lay next the seive and pass through the meshes: while the light portion, which is the feed, (and called Hhlpstutl ) will be carried along on t he top. and finally be shaken oil the toll end. But this is not the most Important partol the machine, for while this Is going on there Is a suction fan on the top of the machine running at the rate of six hundred revolutions per minute, which draws the air upward through the seive, and carries with It all that hairy tint stuff, and deposits it in a dust room, to be old for feed. Any person who has not seen the machine working can hardly re alize the amount of this very tine stult that it takes out, which formerly went iuto the flour. There is no doubt that the late Improvements in Mill Machinery make flour of a better quality than our grandmothers baked with, and many ask, Why is it that we don't have better bread 7 My answer is, that we do have better bread, and a great deal better bread on an average: but it is now as then a great many of our housekeepers never rightly Warned Hie art of perfect baking, aud It is at best, but guess work with them, and it gives them great comfort to put all the blame on the poor Miller because he Is absent. Andthere are a great many men who think when they have bad bread, that every other family has bad bread too. but tills Is a very erroneous Idea, for I know from experience that there is a great deal of good bread made, snlendled bread, and from home made flour. There is a very good reason why our tlour requires more care In baking, than did the old time tlour and it Is this, our Millers do not have as good wheat to grind, and the causes are two: Klrst, the old farmer had the wheat from the Virgin soli, where Uod had placed the ele ments or nature to make perfect everything that grew; there was no trouble then to raise good and large wheatcrops. The Hist farmers here did not have to change seed every two years, nor sow three crops to reap one. Where manure is plenty and proiwr'.y applied, the ground may be kept In nearly the original condition, but it is guess work and as likely to be wrong at right. The second cause is that the old time farmer out his wheat at the proper time, and let it cure ou the shook; the present farmer allows It to become dead ripe ou the stalk; sunburnt ou tho swath, and theu hur ries it iuto the baru so hot and dry that it never sweats, or goes through that maturing process that nature Intended It should. And the Miller Is expected to make as good flour, and as much of It as If he had perfect wheat, cut and cured In Proper manner. Positively, If the Miller now shoulddlseard all the Improvements of the last 60 years he could not sell a barrel of flour.nor would a farmer take him the second grist to grind. There Is not one operation between the wheat in the bag, and the flour In the sack, that has not been greatly improved by Important discoveries and new machinery. Every one of these had tn be introduced by some one more enterprlslna than the rest. 1 herefore the Miller must lie con tlnually at great expense and risk, trying and buying Improved machluery to counteract tiie de terioration of the grain, and the more fastidious tastes of the people; and he who takes the ad vance In it deserves the sympathy of every con sumer of flour. raooitEss. JHE ST. ELMO HOTEL, 817 & 819 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, has reduced the rates to PER 1JA.Y. The high reputation of the house will be main tained In all respects, and the traveling public will still find the same liberal provision for their comfort. The house been recently refitted, and Is com plete In all Its appointments. Located In the im mediate vicinity of the large centres of business and of places of amusement, and accessible to all Kin I road depots and other parts of the City by Streetcars constantly passing its doors, It Oder s lieclal Inducements to those visiting the City on business or pleasure. JOS. M. FEGErT Proprietor. C H CHEAP A P C H CHEAP A P MORE JOB LOTS! Call and Get Your Share -OF THE GBEAT BARGAINS Read and think over these price Good Canton Flannel at 8 cents per yard. Very Heavy Canton Flannel at 10 cents per yard. A lot of Prints, good styles, aud fast colors at S cents per yard. Itusches, good style, at 2 and 3 cents each. ' Foxed Button Gaiters at 81 C9 per pair. Children's sizes ditto at (1 25 1 The best Turkey Morocco Button Shoe made, every pair warranted ti 10 " " rs. These Shoes are made to order for ourtraile by the best Manufacture in the country, and are all made from the best stock. We can warrant the quality In every particular. Men's Heavy Boots, Overalls, A Pretty Tumbler, Goblets, 2 50 & f 1 00 " " 50 ets. " 40 ' per doz. 92 " per doz. Also lots of other Bargains too numerous to speci fy. Call and see the stock; it will Kot Cost You Anything to Look I F. MORTIMER, Neiv Bloomfield, lya. c H CHEAP A P c H CHEAP A P J. M. GIRVIN & SON., FLOUR, GRAIN, SEED & PRODUCE Commission Merchants, ' No. 64 South Gar, St., BALTIMORE, MD. We will pay strict attention to the sale of all kinds of Country Produce aud remit the amounts promptly. 451yr. J. M. GIRVIN & BON. HUNT'S The. Great Kidney Medicine la fiot a new compound ft bu ben before the public a) yean and db(1 by all classes. by all classes. ilt'NT'g TtKlHElJ V has MVed from llncrr rtntr r disease and death hun m m VtM Gil lua lL-m II mven no hr Phv.l. i..,. i ami wuo nave been to die. llUNT'H HEittF.Dir cure- all Hi, raiea of the Kidney. Bladder, and I rluarv Oriam, Jtropay. Urvfl, IMabrtes. anl Inrniulnenre and ltetentlnn of Urine, ii D N T'rt 1 K1WEM Y encounmo. .leep, mate i appetite, braces up the tyatem, and renewed hpaltu Is the reeult. HUNT'S KHMEDV eurei Fain In the Hide, llnck, or l.olna, Uenrral Urbil- table. and TTUtete a Went nnver ImfnrA fiimtahtri tft A,A ftfinH, 111 MlimiTIIV 1. nm v v.ri. puhilo, and the utmost reliance may oe placed In It. One trial will Ylnre you. bend lor pamphlet to WM. B. CLARKK. MV 1 UIMM UJI. S3Bly INSTATE NOTICE. Notice is hereby given Lj that Letters Testamentary on the estate of Bernard Roth, late of Jaoks.ni township. Perry eount v. Pa., deceased, have been granted to tho unders gned, residing lu Blaln. Perry comity. Pa. All persons Indebted to said estate are request, ed to make immediate payment, and those hav Iiir claims to preseut thent duly authenticated lor etUemeutto BRN.T. F. BHOEMAKEK, , UAV1U HOIH, C. H. SMttET. Attorney. Executors, beptemuur IU, la".
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers