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NEW BL00MFIELD, PENN'A.
'Tuesday, Xovember 8, 1870.
The Election in West Virginia re
sulted in a democratic victory, that party
gaining two members of Congress and
probably the Legislature, which elects
the next United States Senator.
Hon. Columbus Delano the former
commissioner of Internal revenue has
taken charge of the Interior Department
in place of Mr. Cox. Mr. Douglass the
deputy commission of Internal revenue is
in charge of that department and it is
probable ho will be appointed as Mr.
Delano's successor. In this connection
the letter of Mr. Cox, offering his resig
nation, may be of interest, as it shows
that the reason for his resignation, was,
that ho felt that his attempt to introduce
honesty and ability, as a test for clerk
ships in his department, was not properly
supported by the administration. The
ex-Secretary says : " My views of the
necessity of reform in the civil service
have brought me more or less into collis
ion with the plans of some of our active
political managers, and my sense of duty
has obliged mo to oppose some of their
motives of action through the department,
I have no doubt whatever that public
sentiment will, soon or later, sustain the
efforts at what I regard as needed reforms,
but I ought not to overlook the fact that
for the present they involve opposition
which it may not be for tho interest of
the Administration to provoke, and as
my personal tendency is to be rather
more than less persistant in tho course
to which I am committed, I deem it my
auty to piace in your nanus my resigna
tion of tho office of Secretary of tho In
terior, to take effect as soon as vou can
conveniently dctcrmino my successor."
The Fertility of California.
a. receni letter irom uaaiornia in
speaking of the fertility of that state savs :
Stockton is the point of departure to
tne Yesonnto valley. Tho fertile San
Joaquin valley through a level country
is covered with wheat fields. Tho
long lines of teams almost invariably
seven spans of mules or horses to tho load
with three long wagons in line, loaded
with bags of wheat, which wo were con
stantly meeting on their way to market
gave us an idea of the fruitfulness of the
country through which wo were passing.
I his is a country of great ranches. At
Trelford's rancho, where wo stopped for
a short time, the proprietor cut 10,000
acres of wheat alono this year, and will
Bend to market of this year's crop, 70,000
bagsjeontaining over 220,000 bushels. His
rancho contains 20,000 acres, all of
which ho proposes to put under cultiva
tion in another year.
The advantage that this country gives
tne larnicr over tho J'ast is, that befor
tho grain matures rain ceases entirely,
and there is not a drop for tho spaco of
at least tour months, lho grain, there
lore, ripens in dry weather, is cut an
gathered at leisure, thrashed in tho one
field, bagged and piled up as our farmers
pile their wood for seasoning. All over
this country in the fields, wheat is stack
ed and corded in this way, not only with
out danger of harm from tho weather
but all tho whilo improving by exposure,
Foreign News.
An Armistice has been arranged bo
A 1.1
iwecn r ranee ana rrussia to commence
on the 4th and continue to tho 28th inst.
In the meantime the condition of the ar
uiies is to remain the same as at prcsen
and an election is to be held in France by
tho 15th inst.
By this election a Government will bo
lormed with which Prussia can negotiate
and perhaps bo enabled to form a treaty
of peace. At least such is tho hope of
the neutral nations at whoso suggestion
me armistice nas neen arranged.
A Kentucky Breach of Fromlse Case
Theresa Gahlhaus, a young girl about
tho ago of "sweet sixteen," the daughter
of an estimable widowed lady of this city
was wooed and won by Henry Hostettcr,
no relation to tho bitters man,) an old
gentleman who has long since passed the
meridian of life, but who possesses a
resonablo amount of filthy lucro, together
with other property, consif-tmg ot stocks
bonus, and other securities, lhis, ot
tself, was no uncommon occurrence, but
with its sequel, it hns formed a social sen
sation in the neighborhood which will
cfood for the gossips many days hence.
t camo about thusly : Tho old gentle
man whose wife died about three months
go, realized, from sad experience, the
force of the scriptural adago. " It is
not good for man to be alone," and look-
ng about him with an eye to business,
fell with an admiring gnzo upon
Theresa, who was employed as a domes
tic in tho family of a gentleman on 18th
street, and who is said to be a very pret
ty gnl. The old gentleman became ac
quainted with tho girl through his rc-
itions with her brothers, who rent Irom
iiim one of two farms which ho owns in
the country Ilia, suit progressed very
favorably, and he soon brought matters
to a crisis by offering his hand and his
real estate to his inamorata, who accept
ed them with the distinct understanding
that thev wore to bo like tho States of
the Union, " one and inscperable." To
this arrangement, " Barkis was willing
the preliminaries were settled, and tho
marriage ceremony was to take place at
St. John s church, on the 11th instant.
ivcry arrangement for tho wedding had
been completed except, to thc-cxpcctant
bride, the most important one, that of
making to her a jed to two farms in
Jefferson county, valued at $15,000. At
an early hour, on the morning ot the 11th,
St. John s church was filled with an anx
ious and expectant audience, that had as-
sembled to witness the union of Decem
ber and May ; and till a very late hour
was it known that tho old man s darling
had gone back on him. Tho young lady
says that she is only waiting for him to
perform his part ot tho contract, when
she will be ready to fulfil hers, and as she
has waited m vain several weeks lor him
to do so, she yesterday brought suit in
the Jcflcrson court ot common pleas tor
damages in the sum of $20,000. Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
A rrophecy.
Tho following lines taken from " Tal
cyrand's memories" which were written
many years since, have now really come
to pass, and it would almost seem as
though he had been gifted with prophetic
vision.
Wo must not dcludo ourselves : the
European equilibrium, of which we laid
the foundation at the congress of Vienna
will not be eternal. Some day it will
tumble, but it promises us some years
of peace. What threatens to break it up
at a period more or less distant are the
aspirations which are becoming universal
in tho centre ot Germany, lho necessi
ties of defence and of a common danger
have prepared their minds for German
unity. 1 his idea will continuo to develop
and some day one of the great Powers
who form part of the confederation wil
form tho desire to rcalizo this unity lor
its own profit. Austria is not to be fear
ed : being composed of scraps and mor
scls, and having no unity at home, she
cannot dream ot exporting it abroad. It
is Prussia, thon, that should be watched
She will try tho vcuturo ; and if slid sue
cceds, then all tho conditions ot tho ba
ancc of power will be changed, and it wil
be necessary to seek tor iwope a new
basis and a new organization."
Having examined the more or less
difficult circumstances amid which this
reconstruction will bo effected, M. Tallcy
rand indicates Erauco as being tho nation
most interested in combating tho unifi
cation movement, or in seeking to bo
compensated for it. All this reads as
wriuen auer tne lacts, instead ot many
years bclore them.
fliay A terrible accident occurred at
Huntingdon on Thursday evening. At
five o'clock, tho pusscngcr engine lluu
tingdon j of the Huntingdon Broad Top
llailroad, cxplodod her boiler, while tak
ing water, and Jerry Wertz, employed as
engineer hostler, was blown twenty-fivo
feet and was instantly killed. His face
and head were badly mangled. lie
leaves a wife and child. A boy named
Daniel Heck, who was standing on tho
tender, had his eyes and face frightfully
injured by steam, and it is not expectod
ho will live. The engine was thrown
down a ten feet embankment.
A Horrible Case of lVlfe Murder near
Umn, Ohio
A correspondent of the Pittsburg Com
mercial, at Lima, O., telegraphed to that
journal on Saturday :
It has just come to light, to-day, that a
man living about nine miles southwest
of this place, named Bittinger, murder
ed his wife last Monday night. Tho
deed was done by cutting her throat, in
an awful manner, with a butcher knito,
and stabbing her with the same instru
ment in four other different places, and
then threatened to kill the children if
they told of it, and also told them that
they must bury her. It is said they
then dug away some dirt and put her
body under tho porch ot the house. Uit-
tingcr left immediately for parts un
known. Tho children, it seems, remain
ed in fear up to this time, and then in
formed some neighbors, who camo hero
to-day after the coroner, to hold an in
quest. AST" On Wednesday last tho internal
revenue officers, aided by a force of
twenty-five hundred United States ma
rines and regulars, made a grand raid on
the illicit whisky distilleries in the Fifth
ird of Brooklyn, JN. I., and captured
and destroyed over twenty establishments
and their contents. Eight fire engines
were employed several hours in pumping
out tho contents of still and mash tubs
which were afterward completely de
molished by a large force of laborers ac
companying the troops.
In tho early part ot tho anair a mob
hurled several volleys of stones, brickbats
and other missiles upon tho marines un
der Col. Broome, but were routed by a
bayonet charge. Colonel Broome then
warned the crowd that tho troops would
fire if any further violence was offered,
but were not again molested. Assessor
Dutcher was hit twice by flying bricks,
and several revenue officers were more or
ess injured during tho raid.
A girl named Emma Adams, aged
sixteen who lived in llusscl Place, Bur
ton Crescent, London, recently died from
exhaustion consequent on tho want of the
necessaines ot life, lhe medical officer
who was called in to see her said the
room in which she lived with her father,
mother, and nve other children, was
small, in a dirty condition, and there was
no furniture of any description. Deceased
was laying dead on the floor of tho room
covered with rags aud vermin, there
being no bedding. The body was very
much emaciated and unclean. It she
had been properly attended to she would
have lived. The father was out ot work
and said he had not tasted meat for sev
eral days.
BQf Near Cleveland, in the afternoon
of the 1st inst., two magazines containing
15,000 pounds of nitro-glyccrino, explo-
i i . i, ! i n '
aca at rairnon, near ramusvmu, umu
Four persons were blown to atoms, viz.
Patrick Scribner, twf Walones, lather
and son, and Edward Duncan. The
buildings on tho east sido of tho river
were much damaged, and tho shock ot
the explosion felt for miles. Tho loss te
tho glycerine company is not less than
$25,000. Where tho magazines stood
are now two lakes, fifty feet across aud
seventv-flvo feet deep. Tho people of
Fairnortaro greatly excited, as this
the second explosion of the kind within
two months. One of the men killed
leaves a wife and six children, in destitute
circumstances.
f A man named B. B. Smith, who
was supposed to have been murdered by
tho Apache Indians, with twelve others
about a year ago, turned up at Sau Fran
cisco recently. . He tells a very roman
tic story of his capture by a baud of In
dian warriors, under the command of a
Mexican named Montoia, who seemed to
tako an insano delight in murdering tra
ders. Of his party, for Homo reason, ho
was alone spared, and after being retain
ed in captivity for soiuo twenty-eight
days, ho was released aud permitted to
resume his journey. At tho timo tho
massacro was reported tho correspondents
of the California papers declared that
Smith's body had been mutilated beyond
recognition.
IW A stringent moasuro relating to tho
traffic in strong drink has been introduced
into tho Vermont Legislature. It imposes
a flue of $100 for the first offenso on every
person who shall sell intoxicating beverages
in violation of law, and the samo fino with
imprisonment for tho second offense. It
also imposes a fine on persons who shall be
found in a state of intoxication, of $50 for
each offense.
Miscellaneous News Items.
tW Corn sells In Linn
at 40 cents per bushel.
county, Kansas,
tW Sixty-one per cent, of the people of
Mississippi can neither read or write.
tiW The first sleighs of the season were
out on Monday in the mountain districts of
Maine and New Hampshire.
The American surgeons are render
ing valuable service to the sick and wounded
soldiers of both nations.
tiW A young man named John E. Moore
committed suicide at Danville, on Saturday,
by taking two ounces of laudanum.
tW In a court in Boston, Patrick Kell-
ser has been sentenced to two years in
tho State Prison for leaving Lawrence to
engage in a prizo fight at Salem, N. II.
ESP1" Allen and Gallaher, prizo fighters,
were arrested in the vicinity of St. Louis,
on the 1st inst., they having announced to
engage in a pugilistic encounter.
13?" A soldier's monument in a design
submitted bv Martin Millmore, is to bo
erected on Flagstaff Hill. Boston Common,
at an expense ot liitccn thousand aonars.
tST Henry Miller, of Taylorstown, N. J.,
died on Wednesday night, from the effects
of food poisoned by his wife, and during
the post-mortem examination, sho took
poison which caused her death on Thurs
day morning.
C3F" Weston, the pedestrian, has arranged
to walk 4!)0 miles within five consecutive
davs, at tho Empire Kink, N. Y., on Mou
day, November 21. During one of tho live
days he is to attempt to walk 112 miles
within twentv-four consecutive hours. If
successful, tho management ot the Kink
give him a purse of $0000.
KW In Newark, N. J., at noon on the
81st ult., a largo frame building in process
of erection in Pennsylvania avenue was
prostrated by the high wind. Two car
penters at work on the scattolding at the
time wero injured. A dwelling at East
Newark was also blown down, but no one
was injured.
JST At New Orleans, A. B. Long, U. S.
Dtstrict Attorney, was found dead in his
office, with his throat cut, on the 81st ult.
It is thought ho committed suicide, lie
was born in Greenfield, Mass., in 1830,
studied law under Judge Hoar in Boston,
and was admitted to tho bar m New Or
leans in 18G0.
t3F" Whilo tho steamer " Thompson
Dean" was at Cairo recently two men on
board began wrestling in play, and ono of
them tell overboard and was drowned, 'i lie
other, whilo attempting to rescue him, also
fell over and was lost, boon attcr a deck
hand on the " Dean" commonced beating
his wife, when his brother interfered, and
a fight ensued, in which the brother frac
tured the husband's skull.
tW The starch factory of Gcorgo Fox, at
Jackland, ten miles north ot Cincinnati
caught fire between 5 and 6 o'clock on the
1st inst., and was totally destroyed. Loss
about $G0,000, insured for $50,000 all in lo
cal companies, except $5000 in the Lyco
ming county, of Pennsylvania. From sixty
to eighty operatives aro thrown out ot em.
ploymont.
EST" A short timo sinco a lad in Ports
mouth, N. II., in attempting to sepcrate
two roostors who were fighting, came near
losing his eyes. Tho roosters turned on
him and tore Homo pieces of llesh from his
face, and it was with difficulty that they
could bo driven away. Tho boy says they
wero game.
tff An Italian merchant named Murillo
whoso daughter had beon stolen from Now
York, and sent with tho other children to
tho West about seven years since, recontly
tracod her to a reform school in Ohio, and
seemed her release Tho girl was origi
nally earned away by a wicked nurso who
had a grudgo against tho family.
f"A wealthy hypochondriac of Now
Orleans, who believed that his earthly
house was as brittle as glass, and that he
ran in constant danger of breaking it, was
completely cured of tho conceit, a few dayi
since, by the kindness ot two mcciicii
students who followed him about from
placo to place, and when questioned as to
their motives stated that they wero waiting
for him to "break himself," so that they
might havo a chance to pick up tho pieces
for dissoclion.
tW At Now York, on Monday of last
week while firing cannon in tho neighbor
hood of Thirty-fifth street and tho East
rivor. for tho purposo of notifying voters to
rciiistor. a serious accident occurred. An
old shell, fired from a flat boat moored in
tho stream, exploded and threw some of tho
iron into a small vessel anchored in tho
river, sinking it immediately. It is report
ed that two men wero on tho board at tho
time and wero drowned.
If?" Mary A. Stinobaugh, who graduated
from Obcrlin college, in 1804, and who has
latelv become somewhat noted as a Metho
dist preacher, was married a few Sundays
ago, at I'almero, Ohio, to ltov. iionry
Bradford, a Methodist minister. Just bo
fore tho marriago ceremony, Miss Stino.
baugh preached before tho conforonco.
which was in session at I'almero, aftor
which sho stepped from tho pulpit to the
altar, whon tho marriage ceremony was
performed. What a fix tho Rev. Bride
would bo in, if tho Conference should ap.
point her to a distant church from her hus
band.
tSP The inquest on the body of the bur
glar Twcedlo, whose death was caused by
the discharge of a trap gun, whilo ho was
attempting to lorce an entrance into tne
premises of Joseph Agostino, a gunsmith,
on Twenty-third street N. Y., resulted in a
verdict censuring sir. Agostino tor con
structing the infernal machine, and that
gentlemen was accordingly held to bail by
tho coroner to await the action of the
Grand Jury. Recorder Hackctt, however,
investigated tho matter, and rendered an
opinion setting asido tho action of the cor
onor. V&Ttin stated that a recent lotter to
Bismark, marked "private," was opened
by his confidential clerk, who had scarcely
opened it and read a few lines when ne was
seized with violent pains in' the head and
fell back in a swoon. Another clerk picked
it up and felt the same symptoms. After
a little whilo they recovered, and carried is
to a chemist, who soon ascertained that tho
letter had been poiBoncd with vcratim, a
subtlo and dangerous substance, the odor
ot which mounts into tho Drain, ana is
very liable to produce death or insanity.
tW In West Philadelphia, one evening
last week, a culvert caved in resulting in an
accident of a very serious nature. Three
men on horseback, who were passing at tho
timo, wero precipitated into the sewer.
Two of them, together with tho horses,
wero rescued, however, without any serious
injury. Tho third man, whoso name is
James Bleo, was killed by the fall. Theex
citement in tho neighborhood, at the time
of tho accident, was intense as it was sup
posed that all of tho men would bo fatally
injured.
15J" Tho Five Dollar Sewing Machlno pur
chased bv me. January. 1800. from the Family
Bcwmg macuino company, bo jxassau-Dircci,
N. Y., has been in almost constant use ever
since. It has not been out of order once, lias
cost nothing for repairs, and I flud it simple
and reliable In operation, and always rcaay 10
sew. Those friends of mine who use them with
the new improvements aro very much pleased.
The one l havo 1 would not part witn.
MRS. ANN W. (JUTllBUKT.
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