The Bloomfield times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, October 04, 1870, Page 4, Image 4

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NEW BLOOMFIELD, PENN'A.
Tuesday, October 4, 1S70.
The funehal obsequiks of Admiral
Farragut took place in New York on Fri
day last, and notwithstanding a heavy
rain prevailed, many thouKiud persons
joined in paying this last token of respect
to a brave old officer.
Ex-Governou Packer died in Wil
liauisport, on last Tuesday. He was, at
the time of his death 64 years of age.
During his lifo he had occupied many
positions of honor and trust, and in his
death the State loses one of her ablest cit
izens. Advanced sheets of the testimony
taken before the Justices of the Supreme
Court of North Carolina, in relation to
the outrages recently perpetrated in that
State, have been received. As the results
of this investigation four persons have
been committed for murder and forty-one
others for high crimes.
The News from Europe shows the
Prussians are still determined upon the
capture of Paris. The wholo attention of
the army now seems to be given to that
point. The-city is entirely cutoff, though
rumors on Saturday last said that the
French had made an attack on the be
siegers and had succeeded in beating the
Prussians and forcing them to withdraw
their lines in one place for several miles.
The city of Strasbourg has finally been
surrendered, the garrison and all the ma
terials of war falling into the hands of
the Prussians. Prospects of peace are
now apparently further off than ever, as
Favre has returned from his mission to
Bismark and to Russia, without accom
plishing anything. Peace now probably
will only come with the total defeat of
the Prussians, or the capture of Paris by
them.
Amono leading partizans, considerable
fault is found with Secretary Cox,because
he has refused to allow the clerks in his
department to be taxed for political pur
poses. He has decided objections to the
compulsory method of obtaining " dona
tions." for party aid. Though political
demagogues' and those who live on what
is obtained in this manner, may find fault
with the honorable Secretary, wo think
the majority of the pcoplo will say his
course 'is one worthy to be followed by
the heads of other departments. If
these clerks receive more salary than
they are entitled to, their salaries should
be reduced and the government expenses
thereby lessened ; but if they receive on
ly what they earn, they are entitled to
dispose of it as they may see fit, without
the dictation of these political highway
men. Fraudulent Registration.
A more infamous attempt to pollute
the ballot-box and destroy the last chance
of an honest election being had by the
the citizens of Philadelphia, was never
discovered than that which was partially
heard yesterday before United States
Commissioner Craig Biddle, of which
full particulars will be found in our local
columns this morning.
From the evidence it will bo seen that
at one house ten persons are registered
who do not live at that house,
At another house six persons were
registered who did not live at it.
As to the prisoner, it is imposwble to
ascertain how often or at how many
places ho has been registered under diff
erent names.
But enough is proved to show that
thousands of names may have been fraud
ulently registered by different parties,
and that unless they are detected the
coming election will simply express a
fraud and not the will of the people. To
this outrage a policeman proves to be a
party, J'h!ladclj)h!a Inquirer,
Troubles of Congressmen.
The following remarks a part of which
we copy fromihe Mercantile Journal
of New York will explain some of the
troubles of Members of Congress and
the reasons for the vacillation as often
displayed in their actiousand votes.
Many persons speak of Congress as a
ruling power. This is a mistake. It is
made up of men who eru their living
by carrying out the wishes of those who
send them : first, the wishes of those who
lead that majority to nominate them for
choice. These being met, their personal
desires are gratified as much as practica
ble, often under cover of seeming or real
fulfilment of those already named. Some
few members like Sumner, the late
Thaddeus Stevens, Butler, Bayard, Brooks
and Cox cither care nothing for re
election, or know themselves sure of
re nomination where this is equivalent to
election. They are bold and dashing,
following their own judgement, and lead
ing their fellows. But most members
arc by no means sure of either, and spend
much time endeavoring to secure both.
They try to steer such a course as will be
acceptable to the mass of their constitu
ents. To find out what the latter want
each member takes the newspaper of his
locality. lie also has correspondents
scattered about that region, who inform
him of the state of feeling. By hit
judgment, founded ou such information
his vole and voice are governed. On a
few largo matters, such as reconstruction
and reduction of taxes, the voters have
strong positive wishes. They have heard
these things talked of till they feel that
they understand them. The number of
these subjects is growing, and this growth
it is which makes representatives cau
tious. On other matters the trusteeship
of the delegate comes into play. The
voters, having chosen him, say, " We
elected him because he isfamilliar with
public affairs. We sent him to do cer
tain things if he can. Ou other mat
ters he must use his own judgment, and
give an account to us."
The first, or long session of "each Con
gress, begins on the first Monday in De
cember following the elections for mem
bers. It lasis sometimes through the
following Summer, nrA in the Fall, elec
tions for Representatives, and for Legisla
tures which choose Senators, take place.
Thus members must face their constitu
ents at once. Hence this session like
that last held is given mostly to discus
sion to feeling the public pulse and
little definite work is done.
Tho short sessiou, which begins on the
first Monday in December after these
elections, is given to work. Little is
done, though, before the middle of Janu
ary, but to introduce bills, compare notes
and lay plans. So many Senators and
Representatives are interested in the Sen
atorial elections, which take place at tho
last named time, that committees cannot
be worked, and even a quorum is hard to
get ; so a long recess is taken over the
holidays. When the result of all elec
tions is fixed, so that every man knows
his fate, legislation is crowded through.
As no more election will take place for
about eighteen months, all feel safe in
carrying their personal views and ob
jects if they can.
Darin? Robbery In Philadelphia.
Sometime between Saturday night and
Monday of last week the store of Messrs.
Besson, and Co., No. 918 Chestnut street,
was entered from the rear on Sansom
street, and robbed of goods to the value
of $7000 or $8000, although a smaller
valuation has been announced.
Tho burglars got into the building
through an unoccupied house adjoining
on hansom street; and all hough there are
two private watchmen engaged on tho
square, the thieves operated from a point
trom which they could not bo observed.
Access was had through the second story
of the back building, but after getting in,
sundry objections were met with in get
ting into the store by way of heavy oaken
doors, which were, however, dexterously
opeued with a "jimmy," aud the goods
put up and carried off in safety.
They consisted of about one hundred
dozen of Jouvin's kid gloves, quantities of
silks, poplins, and other valuable mer
chandise. Many of these were taken
from the bulk window, and strange to re
late, a bundle containing about $300
worth of goods was left laying on the
counter, as if forgotten by the thieves, or
what is still more probablo, as if they had
already more with them than they were
able to carry.
The goods were recovered the day fol
lowing at a drinking saloon in tho upper
part of tho city.
A Murder Troved by a Gun-Wad.'
The circumstances attendiua tho trial
and conviction of the murderer.Skasrgs.aro
interesting. R. V. Richardson, the mur
dered man, had been a brigadier-general
in the Confederate army, and an attorney
at law in civil life. His abilities were
above the average, and such was the
blamelcssncss of his life and character
that it was not supposed that he had an
enemy except a former business partner,
who has left the country and is suspec
ted of having instigated the murder.
On the Gth of January last, ns Richard
son was sitting on tho piazza of a hotel
he was shot by two men from behind a
loaded wagon standing in the yard. The
murderers were not recognised except by
a negro; and, although Skaggsand Frank
Clark were arrested on his statement,
their lives, in that State, would hardly
have been greatly jeopardized by negro
testimony of so vacuo a character, had
no evidence of a corroborative nature
been added to convince the minds of the
jury. J. he wadding ot the gun which
had killed Richardson was picked up
and carefully preserved. It was a roughly
torn picco of aCenuan newspaper. Sub
sequently, when Skagg's house was
searched a double-barreled gun was found
only one barrel of which was loaded.
The load being drawn the wad was found
to bo a piece of a German newspaper,
which fitted on one of its sides to the
piece which had been found in the hotel
yard. This was conclusive, and Skaggs
was adjudged J worthy to suffer the se
verest penalty known to the law. Clark,
his alleged companion in guilt, is to be
tried during the present month, and the
identification by the negro already so
remarkably corroborated in one ease
will bo quite likely to prove fatal, since
the only other witness to the deed is dead.
Accident on the Lebanon Valley R. R.
Yesterday as one of tho freight trains
over the Philadelphia and Reading and
Lebanon Valley railroads, was coming
west, an axle of one of the Cumberland
Valley cars broke when the train was
about 4 miles east of this city, and in less
time than it will take to read this sentence
twenty cars of the long train were more
or less wrecked, many of the number
being thrown from the track, and several
shattered into fragmeuts. Mr. Josoph
Johnston, of Norristown, standing on a
car, just back of the one that did the
hurm, saw the wheel of the Cumberland
Valley car shoot out from its place, and
from that moment had no recollection of
anything but what appeared the most
unearthly uoise and confusion, uut.il the
destruction was all over. When taken
from the wreck he was found to bo very
slightly injured ; and we learned this
morning that ho proposed to return to
Norristown this afternoon.- The only
part of the car left whole, on which he
was standing, was the roof. The dam
age to the track was immediately repair
ed, and in a few hours trains were run-
niug as usual. Ilarriluri Tdeijroph of
the ''Silt ult.
W Mrs. Katy Brondell was last week
initiated into the Bridgeport Conn
Post ot the Grand Army of tho Republic.
She first enlisted in one of the three
months' regiments in Rhode Island,
was honorably discharged at the, end of
the term, aud subsequently enlisted in
the Fifth Regiment from .the same State.
At the battle of Newbern, when her hus
band was wounded and dropped the col
ors she bravely gathered them up and
carried them into battle. She was after
ward wounded and honorably discharged
from the service Yet she cannot draw
a penson because she is a woman.
JBSyMr. John Van Amburgh, of Kear
ney, N. J., died recently at his residence in
that township, aged about 104 years.
Ho was married fire times, and had nu
merous children, grandchildren, great
grandchildren, and great-great grandchil
dren. At the age of 96 he married a
German girl 16 years old, and within a
year she presented him with twins, which,
however, lived but a short time. The
old man was so delighted and childish
that for a week he refused to allow the
twins to be buried. He wus a wealthy
farmer, and up to his death was free from
sickness. He had lived from the time he
was born in Kearney'township.
t3FIu Brooklyn, three llooin of the foiir
story building, cornor of Cranberry and
Fulton streets, occupied as a wholesale pa
per house by Stewart and Sutplion, foil late
on Saturday. Tho walls, roof, and most of
the windows are uninjured, but a single
glass being broken on the Henry street
side, and only a few on the Cranberry street
front.
Miscellaneous News Items.
KW A German paper In New York is
publishing the officii' I lis.s of the killed in
the recent ba, ties.
tW An Oregon man has just died from
the effect s of an operation on his foot by a
professional corn doctor.
tf?Nine young ladies are learning to sow
in tho Michigan Agricultural College. 'A
good way to learn husbandry and obtain
husbands.
KW A New Orleans woman resented the
boxing of her boy's cars by whipping the
offender, and he ungallantly broke her head
with a hammer.
t&T At New York, Dennis O'Neil, for
highway robbery, was sentenced to iwenty
two years and six months in Sing Sing, by
Judge Bedford, last week.
Thcodo;-e Davis, at Jericho, L. I., a
jealous lover, shot himself on AVednesday
last. Ho was to have been married ou
Wednesday next.
IS?" "The Fiieplace" is the name of a
drinking saloon in Chicago. Any ono can
get warm by it for ten cents or red-hot for
a quarter.
EST The largest bar of gold in the world
was lecently on exhibition at Denver City.
It weighs over vli'co thousand ounces, and
is valued at $50,000.
fcTlie Prussian laid into the couiuiy
ROUlhwest of Paris are terribly dcsi.ruc1.tve.
Even Solomon in nil his fflo-'v was not a
raid like ono of these.
C2?"Somo women arc very strong and
can do as much work as a man. In New
York there are soveial strong-minded wo
men who get a living by shoplifting, and it
is said they can lift as much as a man.
KW A London firm has contracted to
supply a house in Paris wii.li six thousand
mourning boiiiicis and sixty thousand yards
of crape within tho next fortnight, and at
Berlin tho orders given are far greater.
tW The population of Kansas has in
creased more than two hundred per cent,
during the past ten years. In 1800 it con
tained 107,004 people, and the present pop-
Uuion is, according to tho census, y.j'J,U10.
15T" Amos Campbell, of Hampshiie,
Kane county Was run over by the cars the
other night and killed at Clinton, lowa.'
The same night his house in Hampshire
was struck by lightning, and two of his
lamily Killed.
t2F"A certain Boston clergyman who
last week had an overcoat and umbrella
Stolen from his hall, thinks that the man
who took them is likely to bring up in a
world where neither overcoat nor umbrella
will bo essential to comfort.
ESP A French colony at- the town of
i ranklin, m Kansas, has started a velvet
lactory, the only one in tne United States.
Operations were begun last summer on
the co-operative plan, and already the colo
ny has comfortable dwellings, sio-cs, shops
ana iarms, besides its factory.
tW The Holy Comforter Chinch, in
Poughkepsio, was far f-'om a comforter to
the laches of the coiisrregaliou last Sunday.
It had been newly -painted, and the : esult
was a damage to shawls, scarfs, r.nd rib
bons to the amount of five hundred dol
lar or mprc.
S3T Near Lancastov, on the 27Ji ult.,
two boys, named Jr.mcs Reese and Samuel
Kyle, while out hunting, met with an acci
dent, by which the latter was killed.
Reese, while ioading his gun, was siruck
on the hand by a piece of clay, thrown by
K.yie in p'ay, causing a p-'ematuie dis
charge, KiUiug Kyle instantly.
tW Among ihe foremost and largest
uuunu.'.ijuuua iu tut? iiiuu xur tuts n-iivj. ui
the widows and families of the crew that
perished in the English iron-clad, "Cap
tain, is Uio coni.nUui.ioi) ot the officers
aud ship's company of the U. S. steam
frigate " Frauklin," now lying o3T Ports
mouth.
t3F" The latest yomanlic wedding is re
ported from Erie, Pemieylvania. A coup'e
were manned recently on board a pleasure
yacht while sailing on ihe ?.ake there. Tho
ceremony was a surpiUe io tho compauy
comyiosea ot about thirty ladies aud ecu
t'eiven) on the boat, but all took it pleas
a.it'y, and afterward joined in a wedding
aance on tne tieciz.
tW Near New York, an unknown pro-
Eeller recently upset a boat containing Miss
Kinlap, of Rossmore Collage, Astoria,
and her two brothers, in the East River,
opposite One-liundred-and-tweiii ietlystreet,
and left them struggling in the water. Tho
steamer did not stop, but fortunately Jo
seph McEvoy, of No. 127 Forty-ninth St.,
who witnessed tho accident, swam to their
assistance, and rescued first the girl and
then the two lioys.
BQfThe ease with which the Chinese
learn is well exemplified by the follow
ing :
' At San Jose a gentleman wanted four
teen houses built. A Chinaman took
the job, and hired an American carpen
ter to build one of thcui. While he was
doing so the Celestials lay around and
watched every movement he made. As
soon us he finished it the Chinaman dis
charged hiui, und erected tho others
themselves. When they were done, the
best judges could not tell which was built
by the white uiuu,
REAL ESTATE NOTICES.
VALUABLE
Farm at Private Sale,
THE undersigned offers at private wile, a farm
iiiliyetownship.Fcr y county, Fa., containing
n V ACUEH.
The land Is the test In tho nlghborhood, with rim.
unit; waer in every neui, is uiuicr goou ionce, ami
has thereon elected a new
Frame Dwelling House. '
There Is also a thrlftv Yonntr. OlU'HAKDon tho
place. This land lies along two public roads tho
Fishing Creek ioad and the Lamb's Gap road : tho
last nnined divide-, the land In two pal ts 30 on
the one side and 26 on the othe.' : on tne 2GJ
acre piece Isa icw F'atnc Dwelling House, and on
the othe a
FRAME 22 x 23,
erected for r. house, with a never faillnn Hprlnj; of
.iin . i ii is mini win ie sow as a wnoie, or in two
Tracts, lo suit iturclin.se.
- If not sold at .private sale before the LAST
OF DKCKMIIKK, th s property will be sold at pub
lie sale, tu dm Court House, in Kloomlleld, on the
FlItST THUllMtAY IN FEHHUAKY, iSii, at ono
o'dock p. iii., of said day, when tei ins will be made
known.
5- Fersous desiring (o pu chase a fa-in will do
well to examine this one before Investing else.
wheio, as it lies within four miles of Marysville,
and the Pennsylvania Kailroad one of the best
markets in the county.
Further in format Inn eiin "- e bad by ad
dreslng 1).. .JOHN TTSAW,
Jc.imv X ltoads,
4 4(1 Homcrsci county, Fa.
VALUABLE
HEAL ESTATE
-Vt XMllio Sale.
THE undersigned, widow and lieVs of John :
Kline. Into of .IlitiifiliL two.. Pervvl'nimtv. Tu.. i
ieceueu,wiii sen ni puiinc saie,on me premises, on
Saturday the 29th day of October. 1870. at 1 o'clock
p. in., of said day, the following described real es
tate, late of the said John Kline deceased, to wit i
Fu-partNo. 1,
A. VALUAULK IVltM,
situated In Juniata twp.. Ferry coutnv, Fa,,bound
ed by lands of Gcoige Tilzel, William Kougli,
liev. V. W. Miller, and others, and containing
01 ACHES & 24 F E It C II E S.
The Improvements arc a two story frame weather
boarded house,
A LARGE BANK BARN,
of the most substantial character and completely
furnished.
There Is also an APn,K OliCHARI) 'on said farm,
and a variety of oilier fruit trees.
About 15 acres of the property Is woodland. Well
sot In with timber. There Is also a spring of good
water, covenient to the house.
Purpart No. 2,
A Farm in Juniata Township,
Perry County, Pa., adjoining lands of James B.
Itamsey, Henry Flcket, Purpart No 1, and others,
and containing 70 acres and 126 perches. About
10 acres of this proiierty is good woodland. Tho
land is In a high stace of cultivation. Is divided in
convenient Melds, and under good fences, and is
well adapted to raising alt kiwi Qf arntn.
Tills property Is located In one of the best neigh,
borhoous in Perry county, and convenient to mar
ket, places of public worship of all denominations,
schools, stores, mills, &c, and will be sold as n
whole, or In parts to suit purchasers.
t3 Cunditions made known at sale by
RAMUKI, KLINE,
HEN UY KLINE,
JACOB KLINE.
MAKTHA YOHN,
ELIZABETH SHOUT ESS,
CATHAK1NE KLINE,
JANE KLINE,
BAH AH KEPNER.
September 20, 1870;
" OUR FATHER'S HOUSE ;"
OR,
Tlio TJirwi-ittcn Word.
By Daniel March, I). V., author of the popular
"Night Scenes." This muster In thought and Ian
guage, shows us untold riches and beauties In tho
Great House, with its Blooming flowers. Singing
birds, Waving palms, Boiling clouds, Beautiful
bow, Sacred mouiitulim. Delightful livers, Mighty
oceans. Thundering voices, Blazing heavens and
vast universe with countless beings in millions of
worlds, and reads to us in each the Unwritten
Word, ltose-tinted paper, orniite engravings anil
superb binding. "Rich and varied in thought."
"Chaste." " Easy and graceful in style." "Cor
rect, pure and elevating In Its tendency." "Beau
tlful and good." " A household treasure." Com
mendations like the above from College Presidents
and Professors, ministers of all denominations,
and the religious and secular press all over the
country, us iresuness, purity or language, wit it
clear open type, fine steel engravings, substantial
minting, ami low price, making It the hook tor the
maxxe. Agents are selling from 50 to 150 per
week.
We want Clergymen, School Teachers, smart ac
tive young men and ladles to lutroduco the work,
for us in every township, and we will ltay liberally.
No Intelligent man or woman need be without a.
paying business.
Send for circular, full description, uud terms.
Auuress
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