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NEW BLOOMF1ELI), PENN'A.
Tuesday, March 4, 187 S.
Alkxander H. Stephens has been
elected to congress from tlie eighth Georgia
district.
In Canada on the 2(lth ult., Mrs. Trask
or and five children were burned to doath,
in their house. . The cause of the fire is un
known. Altoona instead of civinrr a vote for
license, as the types made us say last week,
pave a maioritv of 000 aoaintt it. We
gladly mako this correction.
Two of the Huntingdon papers,the Olobe
and the Journal devote about half of their
space each week to personal abuse of each
other. If their readers are pleased with
such stuff it dosen't take much to please
them.
Additional Notaries Public, can now be
legally appointed by the governor, when
demanded by the publio interests.
.Under this law Gov. Hartranft has com
missioned Lewis Potter Esq., as an ad
ditional Notary Publio for Perry county
It is an appointment which will meet the
approval of tho entire community
TjiE.discusBion in the House of Repre
sentatives last week on the report of tho
committee recommending tho expulsion of
Ames of Mass, and Brooks of Now York,
was exceedingly exciting. The report was
finally amended so as to censure, instead
of expel, and in that shape passed tho
house by a -large vote. The whole of the
proceedings from the first to the last have
been a disgrace to the nation.
. Unpaid Pottage.
We are glad to see. iu a late telegram
from Washington that the Attorney Gen
eral has deeided that tho action of the Post-
office Department in demanding double the
amount of deficient postage upon all letters
not fully .prepaid at the time of mailing, is
not in accordance with law. We long ago
decided the matter in that way, in our
minds, upon principles of equity, believing,
moreover, that, in an age in which all
changes in postal regulations are in the di
rection of cheapening postage, the Congress
of this nation was not likely to take any
backward step .that would throw it out
of the general movement. All honor to
Judge Pascall, of Washington, whose ap
peal to a court of law forced the Postmaste
General to refer his action, in the case
referred to, to the head of the Department
of Justice, .and thus won for the people
their Jong denied right to pay nothing but
what was due. May the day come but
when we dare not hope when the govern
ment, whose proud boast is to be for the
people and by the people, will always in
terpret a law that is ambiguous in its word
ing, or doubtful in 1U construction, in the
way that will be least oppressive to the
people .1
The Price of Type.
- Messrs. 'Geo. P. Rowell & Co., announce
that they have at their warehouse in New
York an assortment of type from one of
the most celobrated foundries in the world,
that of Figging, London, England, which
they will sell at SO per cent, discount from
American scale, when ordered in fonts of
100 pounds and upwards. They also offer
to import large font on special orders at
great discount from the American scale,
and profess to be able to fill the largest
order in eight weeks from date of its
ceipt in New York. They supply sorts in
large or small quantities from their stock
on hand ia New York at the American
scale rate. They assert that if the present
duty on type shall be removed, the price of
the article, both of home and foreign man
ufacture, will immediately fall 40 per cent.
below the present scale.
trjfTliere is near the Boston and Lowell
Railroad, in BomerviUe, a handsome brick
bouse, just disoernible from the cars as
they enter a eut on the road bed, which has
a romantic history. It was built by a ris
ing young lawyer of Boston who. was en.
gaged to be married. lie bad fully fur
iiuhed the bouse in anticipation of soon
making it his borne with his young wife,
when the engagement was broken off for
reasons which, if tbey could be related,
would greatly add to the romance of the
story. The disappointed lover shut up his
new house Just as it was, declaring it should
not be opened as long as, the would have
been bride, should live. That was near
twenty years ago, and the furnished but
untenanted house still standi closed, just aa
it was prepared to weloonio its expeoted
mistress. .
HAIL ROAD ritOSPECTS.
The Boad Sore tobs Built if th Commission-
era do their duty.
According to announcement tho meeting
of the oitizens favoring the railroad enter
prise was held in the Court House, on Uwt
Wednesday evening. This meeting was
held to decide upon what route to take to
reach the Pennsylvania Central.
A charter having been granted for a road
from Dunoannon to LoysvUle, ma Bloom
fiold, and the commissioners named in that
aot promising immediate action, the meet
ing decided almost unanimously to make
Duncannon the eastern terminus. The
shares subscribed were then transferred to
the subscription book of the commissioners,
and the following resolution was adopted
by the meeting.
Jletohed. That the board of Commis
sioners named in the act incorporating the
Duncannon, Bloomfiold and Jjoysville luiu
Road, are requested to at once collect the
first assessment on the shares subscribed,
and proceed to organize the company by
calling a meeting of the stockholders to
elect a board of directors, in the manner
provided by law.
The subscriptions transferred to the com'
mtssioners exceed the amount which the
law requires them to have before organizing,
and if they now fail to act, the fi ionds of
the railroad movement will not be at a loss
upon whom to lay the blame.
The people demand a rail road and hav.
ing placed the necessary subscriptions
for the purpose of organization, in the
hands of the commissioners, will hold
them responsible for any delay that may
occur in organizing tho company. We trust
however, that there will be no occasion for
complaint. Was the carrying out of the
projoct in the hands of those who have
brought tho matter this far, we have no
doubt that within three weeks from this
time the company would be organized and
in working order. Very many have no
faith in tho movement being any thing
more than "wind," and consequently will
not take hold until some steps have been
taken which prove, that something more
than talk is intended. We trust the com
missioners will see that this class of people
will soon have a chance to place their
names on the subscription books.
A Ciirlons Case.
A Memphis paper says : Some months
since in one of our courts there was filed a
petition for divorce, which exhibits a strange
freak of human nature. The petitioner was
married in 1852, and his wife died in Feb
ruary, 1871, leaving surviving eight children
as the fruits of said marriage. Ills mother-in-law
took great interest iu her grand
children, and the complainant in the divorce
bill, at the time, feeling that the grand
mother was nearer and dearer to his children
than any other human being, and was
bound to them by the ties of common
affection, married her, believing that the
marriage would better subserve the interest
of his children, and more largely promote
his own happiness than any other course
then left to him ; hence, on the 10th day of
September, 1871, a marriage was duly sol
emnized between the parties in Shelby
county.
The parties lived together as man and
wife for two months, and it never occurred
to either of them that there was any im
propriety, legal or moral, in such establish
ment of relationship as husband and wife.
The stop was suggested to both parties by
a tender consideration for the welfare of the
eight children. In November, 1871, it was
intimated for the first time to petitioner that
under the laws of Tennessee such a mar
riage was null and void, and greatly sur
prised at such information, petitioner
sought the advice of an officer of the church
to which he belonged, and from those learn
ed in the law, and was Informed that such
a marriage was void, owing to the previous
relationship of the parties.
In November the parties ceased to live
together, and agreed to apply for a divorce
hence they applied for a divorce a vinculo,
or that the marriage be pronounced a nul
lity, and that; the said parties, complainant
and defendant, be declared free from the
supposed obligation and its consequences.
In July, 1873, a decree pro confetto was
granted by the court, annulling the marriage
the parties being within the prohibited
degrees of kindred, and that the defendant
be restored to her original name.
tW A man in Lehigh county read some
where that "the Canadian way of measur
ing a tree is said to be as certain as it is
grotesque. You walk from the tree,
looking at it from time to time between
your knees. When you are able to see
the top in this way, your distance from
the root of the tree equals its height."
So he attempted to measure a certain tree,
just out of curiosity, by walking forward
with his bead between his knees. . Before
his eyes bad reached more than half way
up the trunk be came to the edge of a pre
cipioe sixty feet high, and all of a sudden
began to turn somersaults downward until
he struck the river below. Then he swam
out and went home, aud ho does not even
yet know how high that tree is, or whether
the Canadian theory is correct, and he
does not care J but lie wishes he could find
the man who oouveyed the information
upou the subjoct to the publio. ' He desires
to remonstrate with biiu with a olub.
Miscellaneous News Items.
Political affairs in Bolivia are be
coming more and more complicated. Bus
iness is affected accordingly. ; '
VS News baa been received from Haytl
up to Friday, the 21st ult. A revolution
was momentarily expected to' break out,
and Port-au-Prince had already been placed
in a state of siege.
t2T The spotted fever is prevailing to
such an alarming extent at Thorntown,
Ind., that tho schools and churches have
been closed to prevent the spread of tho
contagion.
C3T"The State Industrial Home for Girls
at White Sulphur Springs, Delaware Co.,
Ohio, was burned on the 24th ult. There
were in the institution at the time 135
poisons. No lives were lost.
tW A man at Watson, Clark county,
Ind., has brought suit against the railroad
company for damages resulting from the
death of bis dog, which attacked the loco
motive and was run over.
tW A family has been poisoned in Kil-
dare, Ireland, by eating cake with arsenlo
instead of soda, the poison having been sold
by mistake. The father is dead and three
children are in a precarious condition.
ESyMuch of the timber which was felled
in Huron county, Mich., by the fires in
1871, has been found to be free from the
operations of the borer, and in good con
dition, and is being hauled to the mills to
be sawed into lumber.
tSfWhilo Mr. Davis, of Muscatine, la.,
took a short trip to Davenport, his bloom
ing young wifo raffled of all his effects and
departed. When he returned, the Sheriff
locked him up in jail for permitting gam
bling on his premises.
2?" Jason Weeks of Bangor, Me., has
had returned to him a Bangor bond for
$1,000, of which he was robbed with $16,000
of other bonds and money, in New York,
over a year ago, being knocked down at the
same time. The bond could njot be sold,
hence the considerate thieves returned it.
t& The severity of the winter in New
England may be inferred from the fact that
residents on the back roads in Washington,
Mass., have been unable to got out with
their teams since Thanksgiving, alt on ac
count of the immense snow-banks in that
section.
HfQeorge Dorsey, special mail carrier
between Dunkirk and Huntingdon, iu Cal
vert county, Md., arrested on a charge of
embezzling letters, bad a hearing before U.
S. Commissioner Rogers and was com
mitted to jail. When arrested Dorsey con
fessed the theft, and a portion of the money
stolen was recovered.
f Hasson Lynch and John T. Abrams,
citizens of Cecil county, were killed by the
8.30 a. m. train from Philadelphia on the
20th ult. While walking the track two
trains passed in opposite directions, and
they stepped out of the way of one in front
of another. An inquest was held, and a
verdict rendered exonerating the company
(W The method adopted for obtaining
wood for fuel during the Minnesota storm
was ingenious. A man would go from tho
house to the wood-pile with a rope tied to
him, to make sure of his not getting lost
even in that circumscribed space, and by
the time he hod reached the house, so groat
was the penetrating force of the snow and
wind, be would be found wet to the skin.
tST The first conductor on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad was Colonel Morton Garrett,
who now resides at East' Brandywine,
Chester county. Prior to opening of the
road, in 1840, he was a conductor on the
Columbia railroad for eight years. When
he eutered the service of the Pennsylvania
Central the rolling stock consisted of one
locomotive, the "Mifflin," three passen
gers and one baggage car. i
(W Four colored meu bought tickets of
admission to the dross circle of the Acad
emy of Music iu Cleveland, but were re
fused admission. One of them forced , his
way in aud was ejeoted by the polioo. A
meeting of the colored citizens was held, at
which it was resolved to bring suit for
damages under the civil rights law,-and a
committee appointed to raise money and
push the matter in the courts. '
IW A few days ag-Mrs. Sarah Allcutt,
of Marcus ' Hook, Pa., received a letter
which was written on tho 6th of April, and
sent from Elk Dale, Chester county, Pa.
on the 0th of April, 1850. It inclosed
two dollar note, on the Wilmiugton &
Brandywine Bank. The letter was nearly
fourteen years iu reaching its destination
and has doubtles been lying in an obscure
corner or drawer in some post oflloe.all this
time.
Murder will out.
At Indianapolis William II. Beck, a blind
man and notorious character, baa made a
confession of tlie murder of two girls, Mai-y
Henneily and ' Catharine (Junior, aged re
spectively eleven and four years. Tho
murder was committed la June, 1870,
along the banks of the White river near
that city, and created th ' most intense ex
citement at the time but was surrounded
by apparently impenetrable mystery, and
no possible clue could be obtained as to the
guilty party. Beck was arrested early last
week. He has become blind since the
murder of the children.
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