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NEW BLOOMFIELD, PENN'A.
Tuesday, May 10, 1870.
The committee on pensions have re
ported adversely on the petition of Mrs.
Lincoln for u pension, and jet tlie gener
al impression in Washington appears to
be that the pension will bo granted. If
the members feel that the amount ashed
for can be spared, it ctcma to us that
the country would be acting more justly
to increase the pensions of the maimed
soldiers who depend upon the pittance
received from the government for their
daily bread, rather than to pay a pension
to one who according to testimony offered
is worth sufficient to live comfortably.
Pensioning a person worth $50,000 while
some starve on a monthly pittance of
$8,00, is not exactly the thing for a re
publican government to do ; and from tes
timony offered to the senate committee,
it was proved that Mrs. Lincoln possessed
property variously estimated to bo worth
from thirty to seventy thousand dollars.
Under these circumstances we do not think
she has any claim for a peusiou.
In the House of lleprcseutativcs a
cry excellent bill has been introduced,
and one which will, if passed, save the
country many thousands of dollars. We
refer to a bill which provides that in ca
ses of contested elections, neither party
fchall be paid any uiileago or compensa
tion, while the case is pending, and after
it has been decided, the members declar
ed elected shall receive both compensa
tion and mileage. The opposing party is
to be allowed only his actual expenses in
contesting the seat.
With such a law in force in tho State
there would be fewer contested seats, and
consequently tho members would have
more time to attend to their other duties,
and the State would save thousands of
.dollars.
The Census of 1870.
The ninth census of tho United States
will bo taken, under the provisions of tho
act of May 23d, 1S50, on tho first of
June next. The assistants are paid as
follows : Two cents for every name
taken j fifteen cents for every productive
cstablisuient industry ; two cents for every
dead person j and two per cent, of tho
gross amount of names enumerated, for
social statistics ; and ten cents per mile
for travel. It will be seen by the forego
ing that the compensation allowed an
assistant or enumerator, provided tho
district allotted to him shall not contain
less than 20,000 persons, will be about
$000 or more.
The United States Marshal is forbidden
by law to accept any bribe or considera
tion for an appointment of assistants, and
is liable to a hue of $1,000 should he be
convicted of so doing.
The law provides that each assistant,
after qualifying, shall perform his duties
by a personal visit to each dwolling house,
and to each family in his subdivision,
and shall ascertain by inquiries made by
some member of each family, if any one
can be fouud capable of giving the infor
mation but if not, then of the agent of
sueh family the name of each member
thereof, the age and place of birth of each,
Hex, color, etc., and shall also visit person
ally the farms, mills, shops, mines, or
Other places respecting which information
is required ; and when such information
is obtained and entered in bis blanks,
theu his memoranda shall be read to the
person furnishing tho facts for revision.
There is a penalty of thirty dollars for
refusing to furnish tho required informa
tion to the assistant.
The Revenue for tho first nine
months of the present fiscal year amounted
to 121,260,534,against $101,244,198 for
(he corresponding period oi last year.
Operations of Judge Lynch.
On the 2d inst., a general meeting of
the citizeus jf Helena, Mon. Tcr., was !
called to take action in the case of two
men charged with robbery and attempted
murder.
The meeting then selected a committee
of twenty-four persons to try tho case,
and upon coming before the committee
the prisoucrs confess their crime, from
whieh it appears that the robbery and mur
der of Mr. Lcnl.art were deliberately
planned by them. At two 1 M. the
Ootninittco reported that both the prison
ers were guilty, and sentenced them to be
hanged at half past four, and at that hour
over three thousand persons were congre
gated at the hangman's tree.
At five V. M. the wagon on which the
prisoners stood, with ropes about their
necks was drivcu from under them, and
frontier justice was satisfied. Tho citizens'
meeting was not a vigilance committee
and tho whole affair was conducted in a
quiet but determined manner, and no
one questions the justice both of the trial
and verdict.
t The largest tannery in the world
is in Elk county, Pa. It was built 18G7.
The property of which it is a part com
prises 22,000 arccs of land heavily cover
ed with hemlock. Tho bark mills of
the concern are in a building 45 by 1000
i'eet, two stories high, and capable of
grinding seventy-five cords of bark per
day. These mills are driven by an eighty
horse-power engine, and the only fuel
used is spent tan. The leaching house
is 38 by 210 feet, and two stories high.
It contains twelve leaches of immense
size. Tho " sweat pit" is 70 by 90 feet
of stone. Seven hundred vats are now
in use. The product is 120,000 sides of
sole leather will be turned out annually.
The consumption of bark is 14,000 cords
per year.
A Smuggler and Robber.
Three weeks ago a New Nork Custom
House Iupector arrested James Scrim
shaw, on English burglar, on board the
newly arrived steamer Main, from South
ampton, and after seizing 815,000 worth
of diamonds, which he was endeavoring
to pass over free of duty, let him go.
A fortnight later Commissioner Whitely,
hearing of the transaction, set detective
Ncttleship on the track of Scrimshaw,
and a day or two ago effected his arrest
in Newark, N. J., where was found upon
his person $G0,0U0 worth of stolen French
and Russian bonds.
A Bold Robbery.
Another daring bond robbery was
perpetrated on the 3d inst., on the person
of a respectable geutleman named Beuja
miu N. Clapp, stopping at the residence
of his son, No. 229 W." Twenty-fifth street
N. Y., He entered tho ofneo of VerLviileyea
& Co., on Nassau street, and from them
purchased $5000 in Uuited States bonds.
While paying for the bonds, ho laid the
latter on the counter by his side, when
some adroit thief quietly picked up the
package and retired with his plunder un
observed. Two of the bonds, $1000 each,
are numbered 223,513 and 159,291.
A Desperate Duel.
A correspondent of tho Lawrence
(Kansas) Journal states that a few days
since Colonel A. Payne and M. C. Staple
ton, influential citizeus of Monticcllo,
Kansas, quarreled about some trivial mat
ter in a dark room. Payne had a knife
and Stapleton a revolver. Some citizens
upon hearing a pistol shot, burst open the
door, and found Stapleton with his throat
cut and Pay no shot through tho lungs.
Roth men are alive, but will probably
die.
S8F A certain amount of oppositon is
a great'help to a man. Kites rise against
the wind, and not with tho wind ; even a
head wind is better thun none. No man
ever worked his passage anywhere in a
dead calm. Let no man wax pale, there
fore, because of opposition ; opposition is
what he wants and must have, to be good
for auything. Hardship is the native soil
of manhood and self-reliance. He who
cannot abide the storm without flinching
lies down by the wayside to be overlooked
or forgotten.
fiiS In Richmond Va., the 4th inst,,
was generally observed as a day of hu
milliation and prayer for the great calami
ty. Nearly all the churches wero open
and fully attended. All the flags were
at balf-mast; bells were tolled; business in
the city departments was suspended, and
business generally was somewhat relaxed.
Very handsome collections were taken
up, amounting to several thousand dol
lors. The Southern people there gave
liberally,
Pennsylvania State Sunday School As
soclntlon. Tho annual Convention will
be held at Ilarrisburg'Tucsday, Wednesday
and Thursiltiy, Juno 14, 15, and 10. George
II. Stuart, Esq., is 'expected to preside.
Each Suiidayschool in the State is reques
ted to send two oi more delegates. Pastors
and Suiidayschool workers are also invited
to attend and participate. It is requcstod
that tho names of those who expect to at
tend shall bo sent to Rev. Thomas II.
Robinson, D. IX, .Chairman, or John M.
Sayford) Esq.) Secretary, of the local com
lnittee of arrangements at Ilarrisburg, on
or beforo tho Urst day of June, so that
places of entertainment inay bo provided.
Secretaries of county organization are re
quested to immediately send their ad
dress to tho State Secretary, Lewis D. Vail,
Esq., 703 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, so
as to receive printed details. Where there
is no organization, the Secretary wishes to
correspond with some earnest Suiidayschool
worker, and requests that his or her name
bo forwarded to him.
JCQWhcn diseases of the throat pre
vail, and particularly a dry, hacking
cough, which is not only distressing to
ourselves, but to our friends and those
with whom we aie brought into contact,
those thus afflicted may be benefited by
the following remedy given by a corre
spondent: Last fall wo were induced to try
what virtue there was in common salt.
We commenced by using it three times a
day, morning, noon and night. We dis
solved a large teaspoon ful of common salt
in about half a tumblerful of cold water.
With this we gargled the throat most
thoroughly before meal time. The re
sult has been that through theentire win
ter we were not only iree from the mud
coughs and colds to which, as far as our
memory extends, we have always been
subject, but tho dry, hacking cough has
entirely disappeared. We attribute it en
tirely to salt gargle, and do most cordially
recommend it to those of our readers who
are subject to disease of the throat.
Many persons who have not tried the
salt gargle have the impression' that it is
unpleasant. Such is not tho case. On
the contrary, it is pleasant, and after a
few day's use no person who loves a nice
clean mouth, and a good sharpener 'of the
appetite, will abandon it.
What "Port Wiuc" is Made of.
Some parties in Stonington, Connecti
cut, have recently been prosecuted for
selling adulterated wines and liquors.
Samples of their 1 stuff' wero submitted
to Prof. Silliman, of Yale College, the
State Chemist, and the following is the
result of his analysis of what was sold
for port wine : tho liquor was turbid,
heavily laden with sugar or molasses and
some coloring matter; containing 21 per
cent, of alcohol; over 19 per cent, of su
gar of molasses ; about 100 grains of sul
phuric acid to the gallon, part of it free,
as oil of vitriol, and part combined in
alum; oxido of lead, or litharge, in pois
onous quantities of about 45 grains to the
gallon. The alcohol had an acid taste,and
the coloring matter an offensive odor.
The liquor was stronger of lead than
most water poisoned by it.
OSS" Glycerine Cocktail is the name of
a new dnuk just invented, which is a
very good thing, it not abused, should
a policeman chase you, all you have to
do is to fall heavily on the sidewalk.
Concussion explodes glycerine and kills
policeman. What becomes of the holder
of tho cocktail is not stated. Ho proba
ply bursts, laughing to see the policeman
go to pieces. Incntive age, this.
Oar In tho McFarland trial at N. Y.,
they have finally progressed so far as to be
done with taking testimony, and tho law
yers are summing up the case. Iho prob
abilities are that tho farce (for the trial
is only a farce) will be closed in a day or
two. 1 he " insanity plea is becoming
altogether too frequent, and under its
operations murder is rarely punished in
New York.
Use Dr. Pierce's Alterative Ex
tract, or Golden Medical Discovery for all
Coughs, Colds, Rrouchial or Lung Disea
ses. It arrests and cures Consumption in
its early stages. Sold by druggists, or
enclose threo dollars and twenty cents to
Dr. R. V. Pierce, Uuflalo, N. Y., and got
three bottles free of express charges.
E2?" A young lady in Ross county, named
Caroline Frederick, aged fifteen, measures
five feet and half an inch in circumference
under-hcr arms, and two foot one and a half
inches around her leg just below the knee I
Her weight is four hundred and sixty-two
pounds. She bids fair to make a good sized
woman, Who can beat that,
Miscellaueous News Items.
tW A serious riot occurred at St. Quen
tin, France, during last week.
t fT Ono hundred and forty thousand
dollars is tho amount of tho Stanton fund.
C5?Ajudge at Muneie, Iowa, recently
fined a woman of that place twenty dollars
for thrashing her two grown-up daughters.
d? The number of Mormons who prac
tice polygamy is said not to exceed two
thousand.
In tho city of Boston no person ex
cept a native of tho State is allowed to play
a hand organ in tho streets of that city.
2?" The House joint resolution granting
tho widow of the late General Rawlins a
year's salary has passed the Senate.
American Silver continues to arrive
from Canada, and within a few days $1,000,
000 have been purchased by foreign bank
ers and is being packed for shipment.
EST" A. J. Butler is under arrest, at San
Francisco, accused of stealing $10,000 in
bonds, from Alfred Colvillc, in Wall street,
New York.
E2T" A bill, making the Northwest Ter
ritory a province of the Dominion, under
the name of Manitoba, has been introduced
in the Canadian Parliament.
EST" Captain Story, a Deputy United
States Marshal, was shot and killed at Salt
Lake City, on Monday, of last week, by a
desperado whom he was about to arrest.
The murderer was shot by the Mormons. .
Sioux Indians have inado hostile
demonstrations at the Hudson Bay Com
pany's fort at White Horse Plains, and a
general Sioux war is apprehended by the
American settlers over the lino.
CW In Philadelphia, a man on Tuesday
last, went to the City Missionary and began
to t ell that he was ill with the relapsing fe
ver. Before ho could finish his story, he
fell insensible upon the pavement.
13f A St. Louis Clerk, in rescuing a
pretty girl in tho street, from a big dog,
luckily sprained his ankle. The young lady
called a carriage, took her brave preserver
home, nursed the roses back to his cheeks,
and married him, with pa's blessing and
greenbacks.
t3f By a robbery committed on tho 4th
inst., at Rockland, Me., the bank loses
about $1100 and the special depositors
about $10,500, on which payment has been
stopped to tho amount of $15,000. $3500
collateral is held as security for tho notes
loaned.
tW Resolutions favoring the construc
tion of a railroad on tho thirty-second par
alell to the Pacific Ocean, and the grant of
the franchise to the Southern Trans-Continental
Railway Company, wero passetl by
tho House Sub-Committee on Pacific Rail
roads, last week.
tW The Rev. Mr. Smith, a popular and
sensational preacher of New York, is on
his trial before a committee or conference
of his brother ministers on the charge of
having taken gin and milk on Sunday, in a
public hotel or restaurant, in company with
two or more reporters, who did likewise.
C3T A colored man named Miller, a resi
dent of Frankford, on Tuesday last, was
seized with a sudden lit of insanity and
commenced raising a disturbance, finally
threatening to cut his throat. A number of
citizens secured and bound him ; he was
then handed over to tho police, and they
transferred him to the Almshouse.
KW Molasses is now shipped in the bulk,
vessels being fitted up like large tanks.
One containing 8000 gallons was recently
pumped out at Boston in four hours, and
was ready to proceed again to sea. In the
old way of carrying in casks, tho same
ship would only have held one-half the
quantity, and would have taken two days to
discharge
ZW It has lately come to light that some
ingenious person has discovered a method
of extracting a kind of yellow grease, re
sembling butter in appearance, from Lon
don mud. This stuff is mysteriously ship
ped off to Holland, and a horrible suspicion
has arisen among London housekeepers
that it returns to them in tho shape of the
Dutch butter largely consumed in their
kitchens.
tW At Chester, Pa., on tho 4th inst., the
extensive cotton mill of Messrs. Brewster,
McCroe & Co., situated in the North Ward,
was destroyed by lire. The factory lias not
been in operation for some time, owing to a
strike among the workmen, and the tire is
supposed to have been the work of an in
cendiary. The loss is in tho neighborhood
of $00,000, which is partially covered by
insurance.
At Louisville, Ky., John II. Morton,
aged 19 years, son of II. C. Morton, a
banker of that city, shot and killed Dan.
Powers, a gambler, at a house of ill-fame,
on Eleventh street, between Main street
and the river, kept by Annio Rayburn, on
Monday afternoon last. Jealousy was tho
cause. Young Morton has surrendered
himself and is now in jail.
13 On tho morning of the 5th inst.,
some burglars effected) an entrance into the
dry goods store of Messrs, Melloy & Cooper,
No. 2J0 8. Tenth street, Philadelphia, by
forcing open a door, in tho rear of tho
premises, with a jimmy. After ransacking
the store, the rascals departed unmolested
and unseen with an assortment of fine silk
dress goods valued at from $0,000 to $8,000,
The chief of the dotective police has been
authorized to offer a reward of $1,000 for
the recovery of the property.
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Sprains, rtruises. Cuts, Wounds of nil descrip
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TS UNEQUALLED by any now offered to the pub
lic. It is for sale at itt) cents per bottle, by
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Millerstown,
Terry county, Pa.
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THE PAIN KILLER each Bottle
Is wrapped with lull directions for use.
THE PAIN KILLER is sold by all
Druggists and Dealers in Family Medicines, and
by Dr. Btricklcr, New Iiloomileld, Pa. May 10 lm
No. 22 North Sixth Street, opposite Commerce,
PHILADELPHIA,
Importer and Dealer in
FINE WATCHES,
French and American Clocks,
GOLD JEWELRY
AND
SILVER-WARE.
S-Fartleular attention paid to Fins Watch
and Clock Repairing.
- Agent for STEVENS' PATENT TURRET
CLOCK, the best and cheapest Turret Clock in the
United States.
- Inquiries by mall for Information regarding
Clocks or Watches will be cheerfully answered.
Philadelphia, 4;U01y
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BOLTS,
MALLEABLE CASTINGS,
and a full assortment of tha latest
Improved Carriage Hardware,
For sale by
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To Sliocmnlcei's.
THE subscribers keep constantly on hand, a
FINK ASSORTMENT OF
FRENCH CALF SKINS,
PINK LIN1NQS,
ROANS,
MOROCCOS,
Slf OS THREAD,
PEGS, A WLS,
and a general assortment of articles used by Shoe,
makers.
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THE subscriber has for sale a few bushels ol
the Celebrated Harrison Potato, at SI 00 per
bushel. This Potato cannot be excelled for a pro
line yield, or for table use.
Orders may be left at tie store of F. Mortimer
& Co., New Iiloomileld, Pa., or at the residence ut
Hit subscriber, iu Carroll'township, this county,
j. p. donl;t,
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And warranted by tlie Company sept with every
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3u8 Chestnut street.
Philadelphia.
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