4r Ijc Mwtoi' New Bloomfutt JJa. NEW BLOOMFIELD, PENN'A. Tuesday, June 17, 1873. Mmn. E. P. BnwMn k Co., No. M North Uta r.'.rtwt, arp our duly Slth-tr1fi1 sdvprtlnliuf tKvnU for 1 'hilftdplphln. AavertlHers can niukfl oontructa with tiiem at our lowettt rnUw. A subscriber from Urbana,Ohio, writes us that the potatoe bugs have eaten up the early potatoes, and are now setting around tfie feuce corners waiting for the later ones to get lnrge enough to make an at tack on. Plans of Flshway s. One or two persons owning models of (i a'u ways having submitted the same for adoption or rejection to the Commission era of Fisheries for the State. It has oc curred to the Commissioners that there may be others who possess such plana ' and who would wish to do the same. ' Such persons are hereby notified that they may end plans or models to the room of the Commissioners any time pefore the 25th of June, and tbey will receive due attention at the Commissioner's hands. Plans or models may be sent to the Com missioners at Harrisburg, at the expense of their owners but the Commissioners will not hold themselves responsible for the re turn of the same. ' : Address "The Commissioners on Fish cries, Committee Room, No. 0, State Cap itol, Harrisburg, Pa.," This invitation we publish at the request of the Commission ers, and it is hoped other papers will no tice the same. . Stokes. The Court of Appeals by a unanimous opinion, has granted a new trial to E. S. Btokes for the murder of Fisk. There ate two opinions written, one by Judge Orover and the other by Judge Kuppalto. The charge to the jury is held to be er roneous on the point that the law pre sumes murder from the fact of killing, and calls on the prisoner to mitigate or justify. Also, that there were errors in excluding proofs of threats by the deceased to kill tho prisoner ; also, an error in permitting Mrs. Morse to contradict Jennie Turner in a collateral matter called out on the cross , examination of Jennie, namely, as to wheth er she left Mrs. Morse's against her wish, mid because the detectives were said to be after her soon after the homicide. There are other points discussod, but those are the principal ones. When Stokes was informed of the de ' cision he expressed himself well pleased. His counsel, relatives and friends soon ar rived at the Tombs, and there was a good deal of rejoicing among those interested in the decision of the Appellate Court. Coun sel say that upon the next trial they will prove to the satisfaction of the New York public that there ha been gross apprehen sion of the case from the day of tho trag edy, and they will be able to establish the ftct of bis innocence by evidence of , an overwhelming character. . . . A Remarkable Murder Trial. , ' At Dover, Del., on the 11th inst., in the West murder case the jury returned verdict of not guilty, on the ground of self defense. Dr. Isaac C. West was put on trial for tho alleged murder of a colored laborer, Henry Tumor, commonly called ' 1 Cooch" Turner, the crime having been committed on the evening of Monday, De- comber 2, 1873. In some manner and for some reason as yet unknown, West killed Turner in the dusk of evening, in the office of the foimer. ne cut off the head, hands ana feet ; skinned the body with a pocket knife ; and then attempted to burn the skin white with alcohol, with the Intention if the burning proved successful, to replace the Bkin on the body.' He made several at tempts to get rid of the remains of his victim, butwas unsuccessful. These at 1 tempts occupied bis time from Monday evening until the following Wednesday morning, when an effort was made to de stroy the building by an explosion of pow der, in the hope of obliterating all traces of the murdered man. This also proving unsuccessful, Dr. WeBt loft 'Dover, but soon returned and gave himself up to the filieri ff. After hU incarceration he made a detailed confession to the Attorney-Gen oral, alleging that Turner was about to ai.sault him when he struck bim in self- defense, and was horrified to find that the Mow resulted in death. This confesson was generally discredited. Dr. West is about thirty years of age, a native of Del aware, and very respectably connected. He is a man of more than ordinary intelligence. a graduate of Dickinson College, at which place he studied both law aud medicine; The prisoner was remanded to Jail, ah In. mcimem lor arson, Having wen found against bim. ' Foreign Items. London,. June 9. A diBpatoh just re ceived from Alexandria, Egypt, says a large conflagration Is now in progress in that city. A vast amount of property has been destroyed. The magnificent palace of the Sultan is now' in flames, and will probably be reduoed to ashes. Great ex citement prevails, and every effort is being made to arrest the progress of the confla gration. . "' London, June 0. A dispatch from Dub lin says a great fire is now raging in that city. A crowd of persons whose object is plunder hinder the efforts of the firemen to extinguish the flames. At one time they stoned tho firemen and a detachment of soldiers which had been brought to the spot to preserve peace. The latter charg ed on the mob, wounding many of tbem. The mayor of the city, who was present, was hit by one of the stones. Intense ex citement prevails in the vicinity of the fire and the scene during the charge of the troops was fearful. Property to the value of $1,000,000 has already been destroyed. Hamilton, Ontario. June 12. This morn ing a man named Fields attempted to split open the head of his wife with an axe. She escaped from the house, but not before re ceiving a cut which will probably prove fa tal. Fields then deliberately , cut the throats of his two children, aged three and five years. Fields had been drinking hard for some time. Bursting of a Grindstone. This morning about 8 o'clock, a large grindstone, weighing over 2,100 pounds, burst into four fragments while runuing at the rate of 200 revolutions per minute, in the grinding and polishing establishment of Peter Wirth, Christian street, north pf James street. One of the fragments weigh ing about 500 pounds, was hurled through the ceiling and out of the window of the building, landing in the middle of Daniel Brown's lot, more than a hundred feet dis tant. Another fragment, weighing about 800 pounds, was thrown through the ceil ing and lodged In the second story of the building. The other two , fragments were thrown, respectively, in the front and rear ends of the pit in which the grindstone worked. Only a moment before the acci dent, tho grinder was sitting on his "sad dle," (a very heavy oak log, three or four feet in length.) He had scarcely loft his seat, when the stone burst, splitting his saddle into splinters and landing in frag ments in different places as above describ ed. , Nobody was hurt by the accident, and though the building is considerably shat tered, the loss will not probably exceed $150. LancatUr Intelligtnetr. , Crime. Fred Bickes, living at Decatur, Illinois, went home . last week after a throe days' debauch, and was invited to take a seat at the supper tablo by his mother, whereupon he commenced abusing her with vile lan guage. His father remonstrated, and told him he must cease or leave the house, at which he drew a revolver and shot his father in the face, inflicting an ugly but not dangerous wound. ' He then fired a ball into his own brain, and at last accounts he was in a dying condition. Dr. Lewis E. Meyers, dentist of Middle town, while drunk on the evening of tile 11th Inst., stabbed, supposed fatally, his father in the breast near the heart with a sharp instrument. Meyers is in custody. A man named Golding was taken from his house In Leavenworth, Crawford co., Indiana, a few days since by a band of men and nothing has been beard of him since. Golding was plaintiff in a suit to compel Crawford county to complete its subscrip tion to the stock of the Louisville, New Albany and St. Louis Railroad Company, which a number of citizens claim to have been voted by fraud. ' James M.McDermott, of Cincinnati, was shot dead last week while attending his stand in Sixth street market, by' W. C. Daniels.. The partios had quarreled on Sunday night previous. FeU Into a Well. Last week, a widow lady named Smith, residing about 8 miles south of Lucas, Ohio, paid a visit to her son-in-law for the pur pose of spending a day or two with him, and who also resides in the vicinity of Lu oas. The son-in-law unhitched the horse from the buggy and was about leading it to water and while doing so he was about to place upon the back of the horse one of his little children to give It a ride, but before he succeeded in doing so, the horse com menced backing and backed on to an old covered well one hundred feet doep, which gave way and the horse with the harness on was precipitated, tail foremost, to the bottom of the well. No effort was made to get him out and he was at once covered up. Truly, a lucky escape for the child. - A Careful Old Lady. Old Mrs. Turner, of New Albany, Ind., had an old musket lying in her shed, and fearing it might full into the hands of some careless person, she placed the stock in the stove Intending to burn it from the barrel. The old thing went off shattering Mrs. Turner's left leg above the knee. , The limb was amputated, but it is probable she will die. ' The gun however, was .'put out of harms way. A Tough Story. I The Huntingdon Monitor says: A short distance below Petersburg arc the "cliffs." They are about 450 feet high and at an an gle of about 70 degrees. On Thursday last, James Claybaugh, of ; that plaoe, while en gaged hauling stone from the top of these cliffs, with a two horse team, in making a turn too near the edge, the team went over, turning several Bomorsets and lodging about twenty feet below. The driver went down to where the horses had lodged aud discovering that one of them was choking, cut the tangled harness when it rolled down the entire distance, , over ten distinct and almost perpendicular slopes, the last of which is full thirty feet. The horse, in stead of being killed or terribly mangled, was scarcely injured at all, and when Mr. Claybaugh reached the foot of the slope the horse was on its feet as though nothing had happenod. The other horse was drawn up to the roadway on the top of the clifl by ropes. Massacred. On Saturday the 7th inst., while a party of seventeen Modoo prisonors, including five warriors, were being conveyed under a small escort, a party of Oregonians took them from the care of the guard and delib erately slaughtered them,: The outrage meets a general condemnation. The war riors killed were Shacknasty Jim, Bogus Charley, Tehee Jack, Pony, and Little John. , Miscellaneous News Items. IW About three weeks ago two men in Baltimore were slightly bitten by a dog which they were leading. A few days since they both died of hydrophobia. , t2T Of the 184 young men who presen ted themselves as candidates for admission as cadets to West Point, forty-nine have been rejected, and the remainder, eighty six, passed their examination creditably. Among the lattor is Frank P. Blair, Jr. tJT A foolish young man iu Savannah, Georgia, fired his revolver in the bung hole of an empty, kerosene barrel. The barrel burst, breaking his nose, gashing his fore head, and knocking him more senseless than he was at first. , fW During a recent fire in Boston a steamer which was located at a hydrant on Mason street, sucked au eel from the pipe three foot long, seven inchos in cir cumference, which weighed three and one half pounds. W A Memphis jury, having convicted a man of murder, now finds that the sup posed murdered man is living. The ques tion is whether the verdict shall be rescin ded, or the man allowed to murder his victim. t3JA few mornings since the Pacifio Ex press eastward ran through a trio of calves near Tipton, but, as the engineer thought, without injuring any of them. On arriving at Huntingdon, in oiling his engine, the en gineer discovered one of them dead, on the platform above the pilot. IW At Cohoos, N. Y., June 12th, four men named Patrick Carney, John Maher, Jos. Brown, and John M'Mahon, were buried alive, while excavating for a new gas holdor on Mohawk street. Brown and M'Mahon were rescued, Maher and Car ney were smothered to death. fW AU the Esquimaux who have been brought to St. Johns from the Polaris ' are said to be suffering with severe coughs : their own climate being more congenial to them. One would think that coughs and colds would be more common with people living six months on a cake of ice. - tW Among the effects of JamesWardeu, of Albany, New York, who' recently died in London, were a loaded revolver, a box of cartridges, three full bottles of morphia, some partly full and some empty ones, a bottle of chloroform and a quantity of prussio acid. The jury rendered a verdict of suicide. tSTThe house of Joseph Dalrymple, near Goshen, Ind., was totally consumed ou last Wednesday, and Mrs. Dalrymple, her daughter, aged 10, and a son of 10, per ished in the flames. The little .boy had taken a lighted candle up stairs and left it burning beside his bed. tS" Lincoln Munn, a lad about fourteen years of age, son of Mr. A. Munn, or Illi opolis, 111., had his foot caught in a corn sheller a day or two since, and before the horses attached to the machine could be stopped the foot and ankle were literally ground to pieces. The same lad. bad three fingers chopped off a year or two since. tW Miss Alice Johnson, an attractive young woman, started a barber-shop in a Kansas town the other day. AH the wives in town seemed moved by a common im pulse to present their husbands with some little love-token. By a remarkable coinci dence thoy all selected razors and brushes and mugs. " , . tW At SteubenviUe, Ohio,' on the 10th inst., at the house of a miner , named George Edmones, a can of gunpowder, weighing 23 pounds, exploded, killing three children and fatally wounding an other. . The can had been ' placed in a cup board, aud in the absence of their parents the children set fire to it. t2T On the night of June 10 there was a severe rain storm at . Memphis, accom panied by immense sheets of electricity. In an hour and a half . 2.7Q Inches of rain fell. It is feared that groat damage has been done to the planting interests in the adjacent country, but the sanitary con dition of the city is greatly .improved., ', tW General Sohoiiold telegraphs to Davis at Boyle's Camp, to appoint a Com mission on the spot for the trial of the Mo doo prisoners. Tom, a Piute Indian pris oner, having attacked a guard at Fort Alcatraz, the latter fired and killed him, putting six bullets In his body. The Or egon papers denounce the massacre of the Modoo prisoners in unmeasured terms. tW Roports from ' Memphis dated the 11th inst., says: The cholera is undoubt edly increasing. There were eighteen in terments against eleven yesterday, while undertakers had received at six P. M. or ders for fourteen burials to-morrow. The weather continues cloudy and sultry. - Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Inte rior under Buchanan, is laying dangerously ill in this city with cholera. tyTho Peoria Review says (but we don't believe it) an engineer on the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railroad, in approach ing the trestle work just across the river, last evening, saw what he took to be a cow on the track, ne shut off steam , and whistled lustily, and just as he came up to the animal it sprang over the fence and disappeared in the water. It proved to be a fair specimen of the Illinois river bull frog. This is tho engineer's story. " ' ' ' tS" A fire damp explosion occurred at the Henry Clay Colliery, near Shamokin, Pa., Tuesday afternoon last' Eleven persons were taken out shortly after the explosion, eight of them dead, John Hays, the inside foreman, being one of the latter. McArthur, the general fore man, was among the number rescued alive. There were from fifteen to twenty-five persons still , in the mines, at last accounts, but energetio efforts were made to get them OUt. . . . ... ; , j,. i ; tW Merritt Wheeler, keeper of a disor derly house in Auburn, murdered his mis tress, Fanny Sterling, Tuesday night, by holding her by the hair of the head, and kicking her till the blood gushed from her mouth and ears, and then stabbing her in the forehead. This ' is the sixth murder committed in Cayuga County since the 1st of January last. Wheeler is in custody. ' tB A man went into a drug store in Smithport, Cameron county, and demand ed some whisky. The boy refused to furnish it, telling him he roust wait until the proprietor of the Btore returned. While the boy was temporarily absent, Beckwith helped himself to what he supposed was whisky, but got hold of a poisonous corn pound which caused his death in forty minutes. tfA young man in Indiana, Pa., se duced a young, lady, under promise of marriage, more than two years ago, and left suddenly for the far West, in order to escape the consequences of his villainy. A half brother of the injured lady procured a requisition from Qovornor Geary, and fol lowed the fellow for two years, finally catohing him at Lincoln, Nebraska, about two weeks ago. He returned with his prisoner last week, and had him put under bail for trial. - . , On tho 1st inst., Wm. Berry of Sha mokin, and John Berry of Mt. Pleasant, Shuylklll county, drove two valuable horses in a buggy on a visit to some friends In Jordan township, Northumberland oounty, and when near Wm. Startle's Hotel, one of the horses accidentally stumbled, ' and broke both front legs off below the knee. As no other relief could be given him he was immediately killed, and put .out of misery. . , , ,. , , ?:; 7. . ; tW George L. Fulmer, " a bartender em ployed at Downing'! billiard hall, 828 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, was . found about 4 o'clock Thursday morning, by Officer Patterson, of the Third district, un conscious, in front of the Girard Bank, on Third street, with a severe wound in his head behind the left ear;. He was immedi ately removed to the Pennsylvania Hospital where the physicians in - attendance de clared the wound to have been tuji result of a pistol shot. , and stated, . that there were but slight hopes of the wounded man's .re covery. 1 :'!.,.-.. . .. ;..t.., . t3ff" A very serious accident ocourred at the Eastport, (Me.) gas works on the 10th inst. Repairs were to be made, and a young man named Hiram Laurence went down into the gasometer to let off the water. The gas overcame him and he fell from the ladder into the water. His broth er Edward went down to get him out and he too was suffocated, and fell. Another brother, James, tied a rope around his body and was lowered down, but he bad to ue drawn up immediately. He was nearly dead when taken out, and now lies in a precarious condition. The other two were dead when taken out. ' Dissolution or Co-Partnerehlp. NOTICE Is hereby given, thai the partnership heretofore exlntiitir Iwttriwa Michael Ultttllir and W. II. Kud, trading ind doing business under tne iinin ana Biyie 01 Jiliuug m ivmi.in Hie mw- niinitla l.nul ....uu I .. .1.- I 7. .. W...U U..M..1.. l'orry eouuty, Pa., In tlili day dissolved sad all persons Knowing lliciuseives luueuieu w aaiu firm are requested to uiako payment to Michael Hitting within ten days. MICHAEL BITTING, WM. 11. Itl'U. April 23, 1873. tfew Advertisements, L. KELLUM li CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers In - CJuaiioK and Fertilizer. ., .J GENERALLY. ; ... , TERUVIAN, BAT, ORCHILLA GUANOS, LISTER BROS. 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