4 ADVEHTISINO RATES I Tranttmt8 Cents per Una for one Insertion. 12 .. two Insertions 15 " " "three insertions. Business Notices in Local Column 10 Cents per line. Notices of Marriages or Deaths Inserted free. Tributes of Respect, etc., Ten cents per line. YEABLT ADVERTISEMENTS. One Square, one year 12 00 Two Squares per year, 20 00 For longer advertisements a reasonable dis count will be made. Ten Lines Nonpareil or one Ineh, Is one square. NEW BLOOM FIELD, TENN'A. Tuesday, August 1, 1871 . . Paper Currency. For several years past, tho Now York Mercantile Journal, which wo look upon as the ablest commercial paper In tho coun try, has advocated paper money, issued by the Government, as a basis for tho national currency instead of gold. In a recent num ber tho Journal again refers to tho subject as follows : " Wo cannot discover a single valid ob jection to a currency of paper issued by the Government, ' the volume of which shall be adjusted at all times by its conver tibility into interest-bearing Government bonds, and re-conversion into legal tender notes in both cases at the option of the bolder. We earnestly desire that our con temporaries of the press should give this matter careful thought at an early day, waiving all prejudice in favor of this or that theory which tradition has handed down to us. Wo say that gold is not now, never was, and never can bo a standard of value. Ten dollars in gold, notwithstanding its present premium, will not bay ns much corn, pork,beef, butter, cheese, tea, or cof fee, etc., to-day, as did one ' half the sarao weight of tho same metal 80 years ago. Gold is a commodity, and its value is gov erned by the law of supply and domand, the same as every otlior commodity, '. and hence the use of it as a basis for our cur rency is a relic of barbarism unworthy of our times. f , , Does our logal tender paper dollar repre sent a dollar or not? . It cannot be said that it is a dollar,and yet that it is not ; that is an absurdity. If legal tender notes are dollars, what right has the Secretary of tho Treasury to pay a largo premium in legal tender notes for 5.20 bonds, npon which the five year option has matured? If they are not dollars, but promises to pay dollars, why are they not redeemed : on demand? They have been for a long time out stand ing, and still the Government neglects to pay them. '' 1 All parties are agreed that the country needs an elastic curroncy that will moet the requirements of trade at all times. We claim that the only method of perfecting our currency is to issue a Government to ken, and make it a legal tender for all debts or demands, publio or private." ( '; . Japan. .. The novelty of college commencements this year is the frequent apearance of Japan ese faces among the students. . The Empire of Japan has sent several hundred young men to this country to be educated. .The universal testimony of the college faculties is that these young men of the feast' are thoughtful, well-behaved, attentive,, stud ious and eager to learn. When these young men graduate and return to their' native land, they will carry with them the elements of more genuine Christianity, and exert a broader and better influence for the Chris tlanlzation of Japan than all the missiona ry dispensers of the Gospel that Christian denominations can send there. Japan is reaching out in every direction, seeking whereof she can advance herself in the arts and sciences, culture and broad de velopment, in Europe and America. The best evidence of this is the employment of lion. Horace Capron at a salary of f 20,. 000 per annum to take charge of her agri cultural department. This antiquated nation with her three .thousand years of seclusion from the outer tworld is now leading the van and will doubtless become the Athens of the East in ;tfie 20th century. ' H7 The national debts of the different icouutries of the world amount to twenty, two thousand millions of dollars. Of tills aumiforty-four hundred millions are due by Franoe ; four thousand millions by great Britain; three thousand millions by the Un.ited States, including individual States, counties, .and town ; sixteen hundred mil Jiojis.by Austria ; fifteen hundred millions by Russia ; one thousand millions by Prus sia aud .the German States; four hundred minions by Holland J twenty-one hundred million by the otherjEuropean States ; and four thousand million by Asia, Africa, South Amerk, nd the other countries of the world. , , tSP Justices of the peace, or clergymen, are hereafter exempt from the penalty of the act of 1820, for marrying persons un der age, unlesi ther do so knowingly or wilfully. . ., , .. , ;.. Chance For Tonng Mechanics, . Tho Navy Department wants thirty intel ligent young men mechanics prefcrrod between the ages of eighteen and twenty two years, to go to the Naval Acadomy at Annapolis as Oadct Engineers, to fit them selves for service in the United States Navy, Their pay while at the Academy is five hundred dollars a year and their board. Their position is the same as that of the senior class of Midshipmen. After two years' preparation, they are graduated as Assistant Engineers in the navy, and then receive the pay, &c, of that class of officers. During their tuition at Annapolis they are taught draughting, mathematics, philos ophy, and the science of steam engineering. Yet, strange to say, that, with all the desire of young men to secure employment, there is difficulty in filling up these thirty vacan- cies in tho Naval Acadomy class of Cadet Engineers. . The following aro the scholas tic acquirements for applicants : Arithmeiie ; the candidato will be exam ined in numeration and tho addition, sub traction, multiplication and division of whole numbers, and vulgar and decimal fractions ; in reduction ; in proportion or rulo of three, direct and reverse ; extraction of square and cube root ; in Algebra, (Bour don's,) through the equations of the first degree ; in Geometerg, (Davies' Legcndre,) through the plain figures ; Rudimentary Natural Philmophy; Heading ; ho must read clearly and intelligibly from thfl English narrative work, as for examplo, Bancroft's history of tho United State ; in Writing and Spelling ; he must write from dictation, in a legible hand, and spell with correctness, both orally and in ' writing ; in English Grammar and English Compoiilion he will be examined as to the parts of speech, the rules connected thcrowith, and the elc mentary construction of sentences, and he will . bo required to write such original paragraphs as win snow mat no Has a proper knowledge of the subject. The candidato will also be required to exhibit a fair degree of proflcency in penoil sketch ing, and to produce satisfactory evidence of mechanical aptitude. Candidates who possess greatest skill and experience in the practical knowledge of machinery, other qualifications being equal, shall have precedence for admission. ' 6urely there must be a considerable num. ber of healthy young men between tho ages of eighteen and twenty with tho above qual ifications who are sighing for just such an opportunity as the above. Applications should be made to Secretary of the Navy j and any one who desires to make such application can be shown how to do it and get other needful information at the Engi neer's office, at tho Philadelphia Navy Yard. . , ' Took Fly Poison for a Congh. An old man living a little distance out of Newburyport was troubled with a cold and cough the other day, and came to town to one of the apothecary shops to get some cough medicine. He took a bottle of it homo with him, as he supposed, and when he coughed he administered a dose to him self. As he described the effect it was ter rific. : 1 ' '' ' lie said that as soon as he took the modi cine it straightened him out as stiff as a stake, and he lay on the floor for two hours, foaming at the mouth, and swelled ' up as big a two. This he thought the effects of his disease, and so he took another dose, and says that it straightened him out stiffer than before. lie lay foaming at the mouth for three hours, and swelled up a big as three..; , .. .When he came to himself he took a spoonful of the medicine and threw it into the fire, when it exploded with a great flash, and what remained in the bottle he dashed against the stone wall. lie then came into the city, and went to the shop where he bought the remedy and told hi story. The attendant listened, and looking round the counter, found the old gentleman' cough mixture, and that a bottle of fly poison was missing. Gagging an Express Wagon Driver, and Stealing Kearly i0,000. About noon on the 25th ult., at St. Louis, one of the delivery wagons of the United States Express Company, in chargo of a driver and messenger, stopped at the mouth of an alley between Fourth and Fifth street to deliver a package in the alley. The messenger loft the wagon in charge of the driver, and while absent, two men jumped Into the wagon, gagged the driver, and drove off. After taking several pack ages from the safe they threw the driver backward into the wagon and escaped. A policeman captured the wagon and driver. A man and two boy stated at the police station that they saw two men jump out of the wagon with packages. The driver told them he had been robbed. They offered to remove the gag but the driver would not lot them. The amount taken is $3,800 in money, and (85,000 in railroad bonds di rected to the Kansas Faclflo Railroad Com pany. The robbers left a number of small packages untouched containing nearly $1,000 in gold. t3T A lad in Hartford, whose fifth birth day occurred last week, asked his parents if the schools would keep open that day, adding, "They didn't on Washington's birthday." ... , The Hartford Puzzle. , A correspondent of the New York Aewt writes, profoundly, a follows : In looking over your valuable paper of yesterday, my attention was drawn to what seems to be a "puzzling problem" to the parties inter ested and the Hartford lawyers, vi., the provisions of a will loft by some one who has departed this life, in favor of his wife and an expected child, which the former was about bringing into the world, the lat ter to have a share, more or loss, of tho estate, according to sex ; that is, if a boy, two-thirds of the property left to go to him, and one-third to the mother ; and if a girl, only one-third of same to go to her, and two-thirds to the mother. The case, as it now stands, owing to the unforsccn birth of twins given by the wid ow a boy and a girl having given rise to the greatest perplexity, and thrown every impediment in the way of a settlement, I have presumed upon myself to solve the matter in accordance with a mathematical point of view, whereby the mother of said twins, in all justice and equity, becomes entitled to the benefit accruing from the un expected event, consoquontly there is no other alternative but to apportion as undor the different shares ol the estate coming to each party, viz : : First. As there aro two children, the property must, to begin with, bo divided into two portions. Second. Out bf tho one portion tho boy is to get his two-thirds and tho mother her one-third. Third. Out of the other portion the girl is to get her one-third and the mother her two-thirds. By this means each party will get his al lotted share, whilo tho partition will bo in conformity with the spirit of the will, and, to say tho least, the mother will get fifty per cent., the boy thirty-three and one-third per cent., and the girl sixteen and two- thirds per cent of the estate. In the hope that this calculation may as sist in settling the 'matter, and undo the knotty legal points which Becm to involve it, I am yours, respectfully. ' '" 1 ''' A Narrow Escape. ' One night last week Mn Haskell, ono of tho new settlors on Bay Creek, 111., a short time after retiring for the night, heard a setting hen making a noise as if disturbed by some wild animal, upon which he got up and went to the coop to see what was the matter. The moon was shining brightly, enabling him to see any objects that were uncovered, i : ' 1 Perceiving nothing that he thought would cause the hen and her' young chick ens to make such a noise, he ran his hand in tho coop and felt under the hen, among the eggs and hatching chickens, to endeavor to find out what was tho matter, when he grasped in his hand a huge ratUosnako. He threw down the reptile and called his wife, when tho snake ran back into the coop and coilod himself around the hen and her brood, continuing his repast upon young chickens. . The lady, learning tho condition of af fairs, returned to the house and soon re turned with the fire shovel and tongs, with which weapons the snake was soon dis patched and drawn from the coop. ' When killed the snake still had a chicken in his mouth which he had not been ablo to swal low, which accounts for his not biting the man while being drawn from the coop by Mr. Haskell with naked hand. The snake is represented to have been about three feet and a half in length, and an extraordinary large one. . ( Curious Case. . i. The following curious story is told re specting the smallpox hospital, at Ham stead, England : A woman, it is stated, who had occupied a bed in one of the wards, was reported to her husband as being dead The necessary funeral arrange ments were accordingly made by the wido wer who himself followed the supposed remains of his deceased wife to the grave. To his astonishment, and it is to be hoped to his delight, the lady whose obsequies had thus been celebrated returned home about a fortnight after her funeral, in a state of extreme surprise at not having received any intelligence during that period from ber husband and family whom she found clothed in deep morning. The expla nation of this misadventure was that the woman had been removed to a convalescent ward, and another patiant who afterwards died bad been put into the bed she had orig inally occupied. The name of he first patient having been Inadvertently left up at the bead of the bed, caused the mistake which gave rise to so much pain and pleas ure. A Tough Girl. Quite a serious accident occurred on Sat urday evening, on the bluff road, west of Lancsboro, Minn. Mr. John McDowell and Miss Eliza Lauu were out riding, and meeting a wagon where it was impossible to pass the gentleman got out to assist the wagon in backing. During his absenco the horses and buggy and lady were in some manner precipitated over the bluff. Strange to say the lady was not dangerously injured. The horses and buggy rolled and tumbled about 200 feet, wrecking the vehicle, only slightly bruising the horse.' A Long Search for a Kidnapped Child She U Found Through Masonic aid. Helen McKibbee a child ten years of age whose father resides in Montrose Pa., has Just been sent home after a forced absence bf over seven months, having beon stolon by a man named naywood a brother of McKibboe's first wife While out walking In September last she was seized by Hay wood and placed in a buggy and driven rapidly away. Just how far they rode Helen does not remember, but it was for many hours, and thon they stopped only for a short time, and she was taken on board the cars, Haywood impressed it upon her mind that if she called him by that namo, mado any alarm, or dared to hold any conversation with strangors her life should be the forfeit. He also tried to flatter her, and between his ferocious threats and his promises of new clothing and fine jewelry the little girl rendered him obedienco. Helen remembers passing through Cleve land and her steamboat rido to Detroit, and then she found herself in Lansing and was informed by Haywood that her home would henceforth bo there. During tho evening of her arrival she was taken to the North end of the city, and to the house of a resident whose character for integrity, hon esty and manly worth has nover been ques tioned until now. She was there told that her name had beon changed to Gage, and that she must never tell any person a word about her other namo, parents or homo. The citizen has several relatives in Lansing and this Haywood is distantly related to each one, this fact probably inducing him to put tho stolen girl into the hands he did. In a few days Helen was provided with books and sent to the Fourth Ward Union School, her name being put upon the records as Gage. As soon as Helen's absence was known every means was used to trace her. The girl had had her photograph taken a few weeks before, and one of them was ro copiod, and a specimen sent to every point and to every official where thore was the slightest hope of success j but every effort failed to track tho villain further than to the point whore he took the cars. A firm of lawyers, U of the parties noted for being equally good detectives, was then secured by the father, and they got out handbills, advertisements, circulars, and sought in every way to discover the girl's abiding place ; but thoy got not so much as a trace. . The victim's parents were half crazed with grief, tho case gained notoriety throughout the whole State, and, as a last hope, the lawyers determined to appeal to the Masonic fraternity throughout the United States for assistance. This was in May last, after seven months of weary and fruitless search. A circular containing a close description of the girl and detailing the circumstances of tho case, was mailed to soveral hundred lodges one of them to that at North Lansing. George II. Greene, W. M., reading tho circular over, it was passed to some of tho brethren, and the neighbors of the man who had the girl in charge came to the conclusion that Helen was the ono sou'ghtafter. ' The lawyers were notified, and one of them accompanied by the father, at once proceeded to Lansing but though thdy thought they had acted with great secrecy, when they reached the house it was found locked and the girl was again spirited away. , Tho search was still vigorously continued and at last a woman who had taken the girl with her, was traced to the interior of tho State, and the officer succeeded in obtaining her and has just placed her again with her parents. The officer are now in search of Haywood in order to arrest him. " Suspected or Killing Three Children. Mary Brister, a girl, 18 years of age, and daughter of Mrs. Weisner, of Pennington, N. J., by a former husband, is accused of causing the death of three children. The children had been left in her charge while her mother and stepfather were away at their dally labor. Two of them died about two years ago, very suddenly, and under suspicious circumstances. A third died a few days ago. The girl said it had fallen from the table to the floor, ' and when she found it, it was dead. A physician was called, who gave it as his opinion that the child had been strangled. The circum stances connected with the death of the last child naturally caused suspicions rela tive to the death of the others. The au thorities of tho township with the friends of the girl have tried to extract a confession from her ; but she adheres to her story that the child died from Injuries received by falling from the table, and that the othors diod by accident. tW A 'spirited widow" has been mak ing things quite lively at Wadesboro, N. C. She was put In jail for biting and scratching ber mother and sister ; and one day last week a change of cells becoming necessary, the magistrate, constable and Jailor undertook to remove her. The magistrate retired with an arm frightfully bitten, the constable did tho same, severely bruised by hi head coming in contact with a bottle " deftly slung" by the charming widow, and of the three, the jailor was the only one that did not leave hastily, a fearful kick from the "lively old girl" rendering him breathless on the floor. Suicide or a Wealthy Farmer. The Lancaster Intelligencer of Saturday evening, the 22d ult., says : ., This morning, about half-past ten o'clock, Coroner Dysart received a telegram dated at the junction of the Lancaster and Read ing railroad, stating that John Hiestand, one of the wealthiest farmers of East ncmpflold township, had committed sui cide ne had been found a short time pre vious, hanging by the neck dead in a corn crib, attached to his fine country residence near Salunga. The coroner, accompanied by Dr. E. Lane Schoflold, at once - left this city, and visited the premises for the purpose of holding an inquest on tho re mains. They have not yet returned, nor have we any particulars of the circumstance Mr. niestand ' was one of the best known citizens In his neighborhood, about seventy years of age, married but childless, owned a very large amount of real, estate and other property, and was highly respect ed. The only causes we have yet heard as. signed for his self-destruction is that he had troublo about some property recently pur chased, which had probably affected- bis mind and induced insanity. It is said also that ho exhibited signs pf insanity several years ago, but had entirely recovered. Freaks of Lightning. On tho evoning bf the 27th ult., at Wash Ington, Pa., during a severe rain storm, Mrs. John Allen waB struck by lightning and instantly killed. Ilor babo was stunned so sevoroly that it did not recover for sever al hours afterwards. " At Darwin, Ohio, on the 20th ult., Mrs. Scgar and her three children wero struck by lightning, and one of them killed. A Mr. Farley was struck by lightning in his house, near Richmond, Va., during a recent storm at night.' His' wife led him him out of doors, and the rain brought him to consciousness, when his first words were: "In torment at last." Mrs. Archibald, of Naples, Me., dream, cd a few nights ago that tho lightning was forging a bolt for her barn, and she got up and turned out all her stock to make the blow as light as possible The next day tho barn was struck, but no particular dam agedone. , .',,',, ' ' . . , EST A collision occurred on .Tuesday evening of last week, between a freight and a gravel train on the Toledo and Wa bash Railroad, near Edwardsville, 111. The gravel train was carrying a number of la borers home from Vork, and. six of them wero Instantly killed and four so badly in jured that their 'recovery Is doubtful. A number of others were moro or less injur ed ; some of them severely. 1 The engineers and firemen of both trains escaped by jump ing off before the collision. V Both locomo tives and a number of cars were smashed. The collision occurred in a short curve, and neither engineer was not aware of the ap proach of another train until too late to prevent tho catastrophe. if .5 A Tragedy. , . A four-fold tragedy occurred in Effingham county, Ga., not far from Savannah, early on Monday morning. Mrs. Ash, a highly respectable lady, ad ministered strychnine to herself and her three children, in a fit of mental aberration. The time was too short, from the time of the discovery of the deed, to procure aid, although a physician was immediately sent for. 1 Ho, however, arrived in time to save the father, who, in his , efforts to discover what the drug was, swallowed enough to render his condition dangerous, Mrs. Ash and her children suffered tho most horrible ogony while the father wa compelled to look on powerless to render the least assistance. LiC A citizen in the upper part of the county has been terribly troubled by light- ning rod venders and a few days since during a fresh attack, lost all patience and burst out with the exclamation 1 " Let us have peace. Put up onb hundred. Put some on the house, some on the pump, one on each cow, and don't forget to put some on the pigs. Scatter them over the place promiscously, and let me rest in peace. JOBINBON HOUBK, (Formerly kept by Woodruff and Turbett,) Wno Eloomfltld, Perry County; Jo. AMOS ROBINSON, Proprietor. This well known Tand pleasantly located hotel has been leased for a number of years by the pres. entproprletor.and he will mre no pains to accom modate his guests. The rooms are comfortable, the table well furnished with the best In the mar ket, and the bar stocked with choice liquors. A careful and attentive hostler will lie In attendance. A good livery stable will be kept by the proprietor. April 8. 1871. tf JAGLE HOTEL NEW BLOOMFIELD, Perry County, Pcnn'a. HAVINU purchased the hotel formerly occu pied by David H. Luiifer, situated on North Carlisle HI tee t adjoining the Court House, I am Prepared to receive transient guests or regular boarders. To all who favor ine with their custom, I shall endeavor to furnish first class accommodations. A call Is solicited. GEORGE DERRICK. Bloomtlcld, March B, I860. (SlOlyt rERRY HOUSE, New BloomBeld, Pa. THE subsorlber having purchased the property on the comer of Maine and Carlisle streets, opposite the Court House, Invites all his friends and former customers to give hlin a call as ) is determined 1 ) furnish Unit claw accommodations. TUUMAH HUTCH, Utf. .Proprietor..
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