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NEW IJL003IFIEL1), PENN'A.
Tuesday, December O 1S70.
Congress met yesterday. The mem
bers elected this fall do not take their
seats until the 4 th of March, when the
Forty second Congress commences its
session.
The news regarding the war in Frauce
is quite contradictory. Despatches from
French sources nay that tho attempts
to break through the Prussian lines
around Paris have been successful, while
Prussian reports say that tho French at
tempt to raise the siege has been an en
tiro failure. Ono thing however is sure,
and that is that during last Thursday
and Friday, terrible fighting has been
going on iu the vicinity of Paris. A few
days will probably give us reliable news.
J6A terrible accident occurred in Ce
dar street N. Y., last week, a boy named
William Shcehan, aged 12 years, who
lived with bis parents at No. 34 John
street, was instantly killed. Sheehan was
employed as press feeder at the printing
establishment of George W. Philips on
the top floor of No. 56 Cedar street and
having nothing to occupy his time that
morning, went out ou the roof of the
building in company with another boy,
named John Monolt, aged 1G years.
The two boys began a game of ball,
and in their excitement climbed over the
roofs of tho adjoining houses until they
reached that of No. 48, where the acci
dent occurred. Manolt was too much
horrified at the death of bis companion to
bo able to give any clear explanation of
the occurrence, but it is Bupposed that
Sheenan lost his balance while at play
and fell headlong to the street.
$25,000 Dollars For A Wife.
A Mr. Win. C. Conover has just dc
gun three suits at Morristown,N. J., two
for $10,000 each against his father-in-law
and mother-in-law for harboring his wife,
and another ogainst a neighbor for $5,
000, for " tresspassing upon his wife.
An investigation has elicited the following
facts:
About two years ago, William C. Con
over, then employed as a freight clerk
in the offices of the Morris and Essex
railroad in Hoboken, won the affections
of Miss Eliza Muchmore, eldest daughter
of a lumber merchant of that name, who
is highly esteemod in Morristown, X.
J. I
They were marriedand the father-in-law
showed his good feeling toward the
groom in a note for $1,000. Conover then
procured a team of horses, wagons and
neeessary paraphernalia for the starting
of a coal yard. Mr. Muchmore also went
security for tho payment of his son-in-law's
coal and wood bills, aud allowed hint
the use of certain stables, sheds, &.O.,
with a house in which to live. Mrs.
Muchmore also gave him 8500 in cash
and for a while the horizon of Mr. and
Mrs. Conovcr's life was bright.
After a lapse of three months tho young
groom's appreciative friends elected him
to the position of Town Clerk, to which
no salary is attached, this offico required
his abscenee from his wife in the evenings
and appears to have necessitated his con
stant frequenting of the drinking saloons
of Morristown.
A horse and buggy, with gay robes
whip and trimmings, were also found
neeessary, and were added to the appur
tenccs of the coal yard. The young wife
pined in her solitary home, but kept her
sorrows to herself, not even complaining
to her parents, Late hours and boon com
panions of his new life seems to have led
to the utter ruin of young Conover. After
a year and three months of - wedded life
the suffering wife, while visiting a neigh
bor's house, was taken' with' hysterics
which so alarmed her ' host, who was a
friend of her father, that ho immediately
ran to him and' informed him fbf his'
daughter's condition. Mr. Muchmore
came to her assistance at once, and was
for tho first time told the story of her
wrongs, wheroupon he took her home to
his own house.
A formal demand was soon afterward
made by tho husband for his wifo through
an ex-Councilman of tho city who was
driven to the door by Conover. Tho lat
ter caught sight of his mother-in-law at
tho door and immediately threatened her
life. For this ho was arrested, and released
on 8500 bail. The girl refusing to jro
back to him, ho began tho suits for $25,
000 ns stated above.
A Battle Between 31 Incrs.
A dispute between parties for the pos
session of the Bonner aud Creole mines
at Piocho City, Nevada, culminated in a
battle at the placo one day last week, in
which W. G. Sullivau was killed and ten
other men wounded, and two precipitated
down the shaft of the Creole, seventy feet.
These two escaped with abut a few slight
hurts. Tuesday evening a party took pos
session, holding the mine until 5 o' clock
ou Wednesday afternoon, when they were
attacked and drawn out by a party of tho
Creole men. irouble had been looked
for all d;iy, for it was rumored around
town that a party were arming to tako
posscssian of the mine, by force if neces
sary. At the time of tho httack nil trouble
was supposed to be over for the day at
least, but as soon as 'the firing com
menced tho mountain side was black
with people. The crowd was allowed to
approach within a hundred yards, when
they were hailed and forbidden to ap
proach nearer. None of the wounded
are considered in any great danger, but
their wounds arc very painful. Tho
following are the names of those wound
ed : James Finlcy, Thomas Newland,
Jack White, Albert DolifF, John Morgan
and Courtney. Tho names of those who
foil down tho shaft are not yet ascer
tained. Over sixty shots were fired in
the skirmish. The parties retaining pos
session of the Creole mine after the fight
were arrested by Sheriff Kane on Wed
nesday evening. They were brought be
fore Justice Clapp on Thursday morning,
and upon their waiving an examination
were held under $5000 bail, which was
given.
Elopement and Suicide.
The elopement and attempted suicide
of II. E, llaskius, a Hudson City jew
eller, with Miss Jenny Boyd, daughter
of John Boyd, ex-Chief Engineer of the
Hudson City Fire Department, have fur
nished an abundance of food for gossip on
the hill, whero tho young couple were
well known. The friends of the young
man are rcticient, andhavemado arrange
ments for his departuro from Hudson
City as soon as he recovers. .
Two weeks ago Miss Jennie, with a
well-filled carpet bag left her homo at
West End to visit her uncle's family in
Patterson, whero she was to remain a
week or two. But on the next day she
took a homeward bound train on the Erie
Railway. At tho west end of the tun
nel Miss Jennie left tho cars and was
joined by llaskius, who had crossed from
St. James Hotel, carpet-bag in hand, aud
tho couple went away on an eleven days'
tour. A day or two subsequently Mr
Boyd met his Paterson nephew, and
asked, " How is Jennio V Young Mr.
Boyd replied : " Why she started for
home yesterday.',
Mr. Boyd at once instituted a search
for his daughter, which proved unsuc
cessful. Fearing she had been forcibly
abducted, ho advertised for information
respecting her. The inquiries resulted
in ascertaining the fact that llaskius had
also disappeared. .
On their return on Saturday morning
last at the depot of Wc3t End, Ilaskins
heard the rumors of threats to shoot him
down on sight, if he ever returned to
Hudson (Jity, and losing his mental poise
ho wandered off down to Bergen Point
and took poison. AT. Y. Sun.
jfcr In Muskingum county, Ohio, a
man named Dutton had been out coon
hunting, and, after returning homo and
retiring, dreamed in his uneasy sluiubcr
that he had caught the coon and struck
it against a tree killing it. lie was
awakened by the frantic screams of his
wife, and to his horror found that he had
picked up his little infant daughter and
dashed her against a bedpost killing her
almost instantly.
- ISa?" A ring wa? found by a lad last
week in the water at South Beach, Nan
tucket, which was lost, by a lady while
bathing twenty years ago. Tho ring was
returned to her. ' ; 1 ' ' .'';''
$&r The Titusvillo Courier says that
on Wednesday of last week, Mr E. llolph,
proprietor of Titusvillo bath house, iu
driving a pipe for a well for tho uso of
Iits baths, struck a vein of clear water,
which immediately commenced to flow,
discharging a stream tho full sizo of tho
pipe 11 inches and with sufficient
ibrco to elevate it a soot above tho sur
face of tho ground. The well was only
down a depth' of 12-feet, and another 1 J
inches, was driven down near it a depth of
14 feet, when another vein of water was
" tapped" with about the same results.
It is estimated that about 1,000 barrels
of water flows from each of these wells
every 24 hours. In the immediate vi
cinity of these flowing wells numerous
wells have boon driven to the depth of
25 and 30 feet beforo water has been
found, and then only in pumping quanti
ties. fiojf" On Thursday evening, says tho
Indianapolis Journal on tho 28th ult.,
a murder was committed at Fortville,
I fancok county, a short distant from the
city, on the Bellcfontaino road, which
is horrifying in its details, and more so
from the fact that it was committed for a
sum of money less than $5 in amount.
John A. Mcssler a well-to-do bachelor
farmer, in that neighborhood, was found
in his barn on Friday afternoon with a
bullet hole iu his head,, and dead upon
tho barn floor. It is supposed the murder
was committed on Thursday evening, as
ho was last seen then, and tho fact that
he lived alone accounts for the body not
being found until Friday. The murderer
or murderers, had first shot him through
the head with a rifle, the ball entering
over the left eyc.and leaving tho head jnst
behind the right car. A stake was then
used to beat his brains out, after which
the house was ransacked, and less than
$5 worth of- valuables secured. Mr.
Messier was an Odd Fellow, and a gentle
man very highly respected in tho neigh
borhood. Tho cause of death was undoubt
edly a desire to plunder his house but
who did the deed is not known, and sus.
piciou points to uo one. A despatch uu
nouncing the murder was sent Friday
evening to Lieut. Stevens, ol tho police
force, who at once set detectives at work
looking up the case.
Miscellaneous News Items.
XW The Massachusetts Supreme Court
lias decided that a contract ma do oil Sua
day and carried into effect, cannot be re.
pudiated by either party.
tW Mary Kenedy, a nativo of Ireland,
aged 102 years, died a few days since at
tho rcsulonco ol her son an Albany.
tW At a horseflesh depot in tho Rue do
la Kofiuettic Paris, notico is criven:
"Horse meat of first quality on sale from
tho stables of Com to do la Grange."
tA Wealthy citizen of Boston is
building tho most expensive private resi
dence ever erected in that city. It will
cost $400,000.
EST" Bananas are successfully and profit
ably raised in tho neighborhood or Palatka.
Florida. A ecntloraan of Orange countv
now realizes $125 a month from nine plants
set out three years ago.
SESThe Western communities are agita
ting lor iron passenger care on railways.
and also for tho a bolition of fires for heat
ing the cars. They want hot water in
pipes instead of coal in stoves.
I3T The will of the late Silas E. Bur
rows, of Mystic, Conn., coverered CO shoots
of foolscap. All the executors having de
clined to servo on account of its length.
l no court has appointed an administrator
tlTA letter from Paris iu the Pall Mall
Gazatto Rays : "It is strange and painful to
seo groups of well-dressed women looking
in at the windows of pork butchers and
tripe shops with tho same eager curiosity
with which they used to gazo at ribhous
and bonnets."
tlTIii St. Joseph, Mo., the other day,
two twin fiislors Diavcrt a frame or "kpvhii
up" for the hand of a young farmer, and
tho winner married the man within a week,
IW Charles Wolf, of 1201 Wood street,
shot Iris wifo and child, and shot himself.
last week. Wolf is dead, his child shot
; through tho arm, but the wile is unhurt.
t3f The latest sensation at Jacksonville,
111., has been occasioned by the matching
of a bear against a St. Louis tigor bull-dog.
the fight was to come oil' in the liOth inst.,
and is expected to draw a large audience
HP" A mau named Spal, who kept a
clothing store at Parker's Landing, aud
was burnod out at tho recent tiro at that
place, was arrested, on his arrival at
Parker's, on Thursday, charged with sot
ting tiro to his building, which resulted in
the burning of tho town. lie had an insu
rance upon his his goods, and a young
woman who had been his mistress for a
long' time, exposed him, stating that
he sot lire to the building to get the Insu
rance., lie is now confined in jail at Kit
tanning. Other evidence appears strong
gainst ntm. ' .,.. .r f
tW Mrs. Magdalena Spinner issues tho
following pronunciamcnto In a late number
of the Warren Mail: "Whereas, my hus
band' Jacob Spinner, has lett my bed and
board without just cause or provocation,
I hereby forbid any ono to trust or harbor
liim on my account, as I shall pay no debts
of his own contracting. I have boarded
liim about 23 years from my own hard
earned money. ITenco, if any body wants
him, whilo I am alive, they aro welcome to
him.
"MAGDALENA SPINNEIt."
tSTA boy sixteen years old,, named
Henry Bnshell, tried to kill himself last
week by swallowing fivo cents worth of
oxalio acid. Ono account states that ho
was a good Sunday-school boy and " wanted
to bo an angel." Another says that his
father accused him ot stealing, and he
wasn't like Washington, for he'd "rather
dio than own up." ITo will get well.
Towanda has a flro every Wednes
day night for tho past two months, and the
pcoplo there havo begun to look upon its
weekly recurrence as a matter of course.
Tho insurance companies aro beginning to
rcvoko their policies, and tho citizens aro
making the most strenuous efforts to dis
cover tho incendiaries.
12?" James Odium, of 58 Main street,
Brooklyn, called at tho East Tliirty-fiftli
street police station last week, and told
Sergeant McConncll that his daughter
Mary Ann, eight years of age, was kept in
pawn by Patrick Hayes, ol Thirty-second
street near First avenue, in default of tho
payment of thirteen dollars duo for the
child's board. This being a kind of prop
erty not legally pawned, tho polico had tho
child released.
tW Mr. English, keeper of tho toll-gate
on Fairfax turnpike, having been bitten in
tho hand last August by his dog, which
had gone mad, died last week in horrible
spasms. Iu his sano moments ho implored
his friends to lcavo him. Ho was chained
down to tho floor, several men being
unable to bold liim down.
EST A young lady was recently left wait
ing lour hours lor her intended bridegroom
at an Indiana church. At length tho an.
nounccmcnt came that the courage of the
young fellow bad given out at tho last
moment, and ho had blown ins brains out.
For The Bloomfield Times.
Andcrsonburg Orphan School.
Mh. Editor: I had the pleasure of
spending thanksgiving day this year at
the Soldier s Orphans' School, at Anderson.
burg. I believe it is conceded that this is
ono of the best conducted schools of tho
kind in tho State. Mr. Motzerand his ex
cellent lady, who have tho caro of this
school, aro very much beloved by tho or
phans, than whom you will never meet with
a happier or a better behaved set of boys
and girls. They call Mr. and Mrs. Motzor
by no other name than Papa and Mamma ;
and to these children they truly act the
part of father and mother, and this not
from policy, but from a heart overflowing
with gcnuiuo Christian sympathy. As an
illustration of this, Sampson Lanchart has
been at the school since early last spring
without an order from Superintendent
McFarland. Speaking of the boy, Mr,
Motzor remarked : 1 could not turn him
awav. And so ho lias been teaching, board.
ing and .clothing the boy for over seven
mouths gratuitously. 1 ho boy is a bright,
young lad, and was admitted on order in
tho last of October. Mrs Motzer has
another soldier's orphan in bis school for
whom he is tenderly caring, but who is too
young to roceive an ordor lor admission.
Professor Win. II. Hall, who has the care
of the department of instruction, has a
very nappy laemty ot controlling tho school
and imparting knowledge. The school
numbers between 130 and i50 orphans.
There is no comparison in good behavior
between this and our common schools.
have never heard a boisterous or unkind
w.ord from any of tho children, and I havo
frequently been among them. Kinder lit
tle hearts you do not meet with anywhere.
Their mental improvement is everything
you could expect. The oldor ones are
perfectly familiar with tho multiplication
table, and with tho maps hung around
tho wall. As an illustration of tho form
er they will mentally follow you in a ques
tion ofthis kind, and as soon as you aro
through proposing the question if you do
not speak too fast, be ready with the an
swer. Ex. Take 10, add 9, subtract 8,
multiply by 5, subtract 12, add 7, rosult,
and thoy will answer 30.
As an illustration of the latter, as soon
as I would touch a State upon the map
with tho pointing rod, thoy will call out its
name, and ho on any of tho countries of
Europe ; and w hon I gavo them tho pointing-rod
and requested thorn to point out tho
seeno of tho war of. Europe it was instantly
done.
With regard to tho singing, I would re
mark, thero is at times a little harshness on
tho part of tho boys. I would suggest to
them that tho beauty of music lies in the
softness and sweetness of tho voice, ;not in
the loudness, and when wo cannot sing
loud without harshness wo had better not
sing loud. Tho louder tho butter if it is
only soft and sweet, but by all means avoid
a grating harshness.
Some of these boys and girls w hoin tho
State is educating iu those schools will un
doubedly mako their mark in after life, and
will repay the State for her motherly caro
of them. It is true, tho State Is not edu
cating them as an object of charity, but of
debt, which she justly owes to thcin for tho
life of their fathers so nobly given in de
fence of our government, but she will be
doubly paid in their usefulness hereafter.
; Yours, truly, J. J. Hamilton. , .
Nov'r. 1
87
A Splendid Assortment of
DRY - GOODS,
Suitable for tho Season are now for Bale by the
subscribers,
AJT LOW PRICKS!
OUll STOCK OF
Shawls and Casimorcs
Will be found the most com
pletc of any in the County.
Aldo, A Splendid Assortment of
O 1 o t li ,
FOK FALL AND WINTER.
V. MORTIMER & CO.,
NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA.
Us8tlie Red Horso Powders.
HOUSES CURED OF GLANDERS. Aaron
Snvder. U. S. Assistant Assessor, Mount
Aetna, Pa. C. Bacon, Livery Stable, Sunbury, Pa.
Horses Cured of Founder. Wolf & Wllhelm.
Danville, Pa. A. Kills, Merchant, Washington
ville, Pa. A. Slonaker, Jersey.
Horse Curort of Lung Fever. Hess & Brother.
Lewisburg, Pa.
Horse Cured of Colic Thomas Cllngan, Union
County, Pa. Hogs Cured of Cholera. H. Barr,
H. & A. Cadwnllader. Cows Cured. Dr. J. M.
M'Cleery, 11. MeCormick, Milton, Pa.
Chickens Cured of Cholera and Capes. Dr. U.
Q. Davis. Dr. D. T.Krcbs, 0. W. Sticker, Joh n and
James Finney.
Hundreds more could he cited whose Stock
was saved.
German and English Directions. Prepared bjf
CYRUS BROWNJ
Druggist, Chemist and Horseman,
4 41 Wilton, Pa., Northumberland co Fa.
New Carriage Manufactory ,
On High Stkket, Fast of Caklislb St.,
New Bloomneld, Penn'a.
THK snbserlber has built a large and commodi
ous Simp on High St., East of Carlisle. Street,
New Hloomtlcld, Pa., where he Is prepared to man
ufacture to order
Osi i i i a g e s
Of every description, out of tho best material.
Sleighs of every Style,
built to order, and finished In the most artlstie and
durable manner.
49- Having superior workmen, ho Is prepared
to furnish work that will compare favorably with
the best City Work, and much more durable, aud
at much more reasonable rates.
XT REPAIRING of allklndsneatlyand prompt
ly done. A eall Is solicited.
SAMUEL SMITH.
I Hi
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l!)f Broadway, New York.
P. O. Box M. 4 47 8m
870
TO CONSUMPTIVES.
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address Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON, ,
No. 43 (dar Wv, New York.,
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