4 pc fUomnluttr Jnus. NEW BLOOMFlELD, PENN'A. , Tuesday, June 24, 1873. l-MMn.r.,P.BmAi( ft Oo.. No. M North ;th troet, nrr our duly authorised advertialwr airenta for I'iilladplplria. ArtviTtincra can make coutracta with ihem at our loweat rates. Thkiik is evidently no nonsense about the farmers of Carroll county, 111. In a -convent km recently they somewhat for cibly resolved " that the increase of Con gressional salaries in those hard times is an infernal outrage upon the working peo ple of the country." We don't remom 4er seeing a more concise statement of pop ular sentiment upon the salary grab. The Supreme Court at Canandaigua, on Friday last, refused the , motion for a now trial in the case of Jones and other inspectors of election, for receiving the vote of Miss Anthony and other's. They were sentenced to pay a fine of $25 each, and costs of prosecution. Miss Susan B. Anthony has been senten ced to pay a ' fine of one hundred dollars and the coBts of prosecution, for illegal voting. So it is decided that women can not legally vote. Why spend money on Foreign missions, when we have such heathons in our own State, as the following item would in dicate; A. prize fight between two men recently 'took place in Bradford county. After 'lighting fifteen rounds, night having ap proached, the combatants resumed next morning and fought one hundred and thir ty rounds, occupying nearly three Lours. The conllict resulted in a draw. The moth er of one of the pugilists witnessed the brutal spectacle and urged her son to do his best An interesting bounty caso was decided iu New Jersey the other day. Iu 18G5 sixty men wero enlisted and credited to Hoboken, which at that time was offering $400 each for recruits. Soon after the enlistment of these 'men the news came of Lee's surrender, and they never went into service. The city then refused to pay the lounty, claiming that the war having closed it was released from its obligation. Recently a test case was brought to recover the $400, together with interest for seven years and ten months, and the Court de cided . in favor of the claimant for the amount claimed. The Man who is Host to Blame. General Grant is the wickedest man con nected with the salary grab. It was whol ly concocted to cover bis scheme for a doubling of bis already more than sufficient jay. If be bad been doing a losing busi ness at $25,000 a year during his first term, ho well understood before he laid his plans for a second nomination, and should not liave entered the campaign ; but it is ab surd to suppose bis salaries were insuf ficient for his legitimate necessities, com forts and even luxuries as President of the United btates. lie committed a gross breach of faith with the people in signing the bill wbicb increased his compensation, nud violated, too, the spirit of the Con stitution, which says his salary shall not Ims increased during the time for which lie was elected President. San Franciteo Ex aminer, Murderers Arrested. New Iberia, La., June 17. Four negroes who murdered Lanot and Suaire last Fri day night at their store, were arrested in that neighborhood yesterday morning. One of them turned States evidence and related how the atrocious crime was com mitted, the plot Laving been made a week bofore. After the close of the investigation by Seymour Suaire, brother of one of the murdered men, uo doubt remained of the guilt of the negroes. By this time people iu large numbers Lad assembled and clam ored for the summary execution of the jnurdereiB, but tbey were saved by the in tercession of Suaire, who then left for this jiluoe, ;The prisoners wero brought here, and on their arrival the indignant citizens, numbering over a thousand, took them to the woods on the east side of Bayou Teche and banged thrco of them to a tree. Much excitement and a small riot have occurred at Newstead Abbey, the for mer residence of Loid Byron, on aocouut of an attempt to close the road, used as a public way for seventy years, leading to the historic abbey. Let us hear from Mrs. low 1 Oraphie. What spit can the Graphic Lave against 'the people of . this nation, to wish such a misfortune to befall them ? , , . v 12T A bill against the city of Roudout, New York, and in favor of Mr. Van Beck, for seventeen dollars' worth of cigars, . used t a firemen's, muster many years ago, baa just been tettkd J'or $300, after going through every court .which had jmlsdic 4 ion Iu the matter. Terrible Freshet In Nebraska. The following account of a military dis aster; has been received at headquarters, Military Division, of Missouri, in Chioago. Captain Alexandor ; Moore, commanding company A, Third cavalry, writing from the field under dato of June 0, 1873, to Major Dubois, commanding a regiment at Fort McPherson, Nebraska, says: I have the honor to report that ; in accordance with instructions, I left for McPherson May 27, 1873, with one flulde, one wagon master, five teamsters, and fifty enlisted men of company F, Third cavalry, for the purpose of patrolling the Republican val ley. May 01st, marched down Blackwell creek about twelve miles and went into camp. About 0 P. M. a terrible freshet, without any apparent cause, rushed down the val loy, carrying everything before it, men, horses, tents, army wagons being swept along like corks. For five days previous we had no rain, and where the wator came from so suddenly I cannot understand. The Valley of Blackwood is about forty five miles long, and one to a mile and a half wide. This entire stretch of country was one raging torrent at least from six to seven feet deep, and how auy men or hors es escaped is miraculous. The only thing, indeed, that prevented total destruction was the fact that my camp was surrounded by a belt of timber on three sides, and as the men were carried off by the current they were enabled to save themselves by catching the limbs of trees. When day broke on the morning of the 1st of June, it showed almost all the men of my company on the tops of trees without any covering except tho remnants of un derclothes beneath them, the torrent still raging. After the lapse of a few hours the water begun to full, and a few men who could swim, got to the hill, afterwards the others, myself among the number, wero got off with life. Up to this nothing was to be seen of what had been my camp except the top of an army wagon which had stuck on a log on the ground, and on this wagon were collected cloven men, who were thus saved. ' Settlers at the mouth of the Blackwood lost almost their entire stock and property. The stock, however, was mostly recovered, when the floods wero down. Part of my company was drowned, and twenty-six horses lost. I remained at the scene of the disaster for four days and recovered five of the bodies of the men and most all of the equipments of the company. A Startling Confession. L ast September a Mr. A. W. Drake, an honest farmer living near Moamqua, died under circumstances indicative of foul play: his mother-in-law, Mrs. York, was keeping house for him. A few days since she was taken suddonly ill at the residonce of her son, in Kansas, whither she had gone soon after the death of her son-in-law, Mr. Drake. A physician immediately detected poison, and told her she, could survive but a few hours. Facing death, she made a most startling confession. She confessed to having poisoned her husband in 1805, Mrs. A. W. Drake, her own daughter, two children of Mr. A. W. Drake, her grandchildren, the wife of E. R. Drake, formerly Decatur, 111., and last Beptember Mr. A. W. Drake. She then went to her son's In Kansas, and a short time ago mado a mixture of poison to ad minister to .him on the first opportunity. Feeling unwell a day or two afterwards, she went to the cupboard, and by a mis take took the fatal dose prepared for her son, which resulted in her own death. Thus passed from life by her hand a hus band, two daughters, a son-in-law, two grandchildren, and herself, while she at tempted to poison her own son, who had offered ber a home for the remainder of ber life. , The Artful Dodger. A person, says a correspondent, with long, fair whiskors, and dressed in the height of fashion, entered a hosier's shop in Vienna, and requested the shopwoman, who happened to be alone, to show him some colored shirts. Every variety was brought out, when ho made his choice, and requested that a parcel might be made up for bim. This being done, "What an idiot I am !" he said j "I have not seen how the shirts look when on, Would you oblige me, mademoiselle, by putting one over your dress ?" The shopwoman hav ing complied with his request, "be so good," he continued, "as to button tho collar and the wilstband, that I may get a thoroughly good Idea of the effect. And now," he added, taking up Lis parcel, " allow me to w1b1 you a good morning I" and in an instant he was outside the door, aud Lad . disappeared the unhappy girl, perfectly stupefied, not daring to follow hlin into the street on account of ber singu lar costume. Her employer, on returning from bis eaf half an Lour later, found her, with the fatal garment still on, crying on the counter. , , KTOntbe 18th Inst., while a number of persons were ou a raft, com posed of two boats and some planks, In a pond Iu Calais, twelve miles from Montpelier, one of the boat filled and the whole party were thrown into the water. ' ' Five of them were drowned, and about the same number were taken from the water unconscious, but were restored. A Mysterious Affair. A Cincinnati paper of the 10th Inst says ! Mr. Henry Strasberg, a merchant of this city, yesterday called on Coroner Maloy, and demanded to have an Inquest on the body of Max M. Peyser, a merchant on Fourth Street, who died under what is considered suspicious circumstances. Mr. Peyser bad married the day before Lis death, aud was silting, on tho morning of bis death, at the breakfast table. Ho then complained of a pain, stood up, went into an adjoining room and fell dead. Dr. Bartholow was called in, and he, togother with a student of the Good Samaritan hos pital, cut open Peyser's body, and prepared to hold a post mortem examination. Upon what authority he did this is not stated. The coronor immediately took the matter in charge, and took the contents of the stomach into his possession for analysis. Dr. Bartholow gave the cause of Peyser's death as consumption. The history of the caso is a strange one. Peyser had been a successful merchant on Fourth Btreet up to about seven months ago, when be became crazy. On a writ from probate court he was Bent to the Longview asylum, and Mr. N. Bettman was appointed admin istrator of his estate, which was valued at $50,000. At Longview he seemed to grow better, and about six weeks ago he was let out, when he resumed charge of his affairs. On Thursday last he married Miss Dora M. Hamann, a lady of about thirty-five (Peyser was about fifty), who had for ten years managed the business at his store on Fourth street, and for whom he had al ways shown great affection. The license for the marriage was got from the probate court. Miss Hamann and her mother had been living at 40 Dayton street, and it was here that Mr. Peyser was married. The morning following his marriage be drop ped dead a few moments after breakfast,as above stated. Miss Hamann is a christian, while Mr. Peyser was a Hebrew, and the marriage naturally caused much talk among those acquainted with the parties, not only because of the difference of relig ion, but because of the respective ages of the pair and their social relations. The man's craziness, bis wealth, his strange marriage aud suddon death altogether makes a story that is being widely discuss ed and excites great comment and conject ure. Alleged Female Poisoner. On Sunday John Early, of Conemaugh borough, died from poison supposed to have been administered to bim by his wife. Early was an industrious man, but fre quently drank to excess, and tho Johns town Tribune says hard drinking was also attributed to his wife. She was also ac cused of keeping a house of assignation and being herself criminally intimate with her male visitors. When her husband objected to ber course of procedure she resorted to the efficient argument of the broom-stick, or any other weapon she could lay her hands upon, to quiet bis objections, and she even went so far as to make threats that she would put a period to hia existence some day. Whether she is guilty of the fearful 3rime which suspicion fastens upon ber now we are not prepared to say, but tho strange manner of the taking off of her husband would seem to Indicate that she may have been guilty of administering a fatal draught to bim, and that from its effects his soul was hurried into eternity. The Cholera. Memphis, June 18. The weather is gen erally clear. There were fifteen interments to-day, of which eleven wero from cholera. Nashville, June 18. Tho cholera is not abating aud there is considerable exoduB of people from the city. To-day three draymeu were attacked on the street. A number of convicts are down with the disease. Thirty deaths from cholora were reported to-day, of which eight were whites and twenty-two colored. Business is al most totally susponded, and commercial in terests are suffering badly. Cincinnati, June 18. Two deathsof per sons from disease presenting cholera symp toms have been reported to-day. in Unexpected Trip. J. E. Van Doreu, an attache of a New York journal, one day last November started on a ducking expedition ; day suc ceeded day, and one weok passed after another and nothing was beard from bim or bis companion. His friend concluded that be was murdered, but a few days ago a letter was received from bim dated at Rot terdam, stating that the boat in which be and his companion were sailing was cap sised, and the latter drowned. Clinging to the capsized boat be drifted out to sea, was picked up by a sailing vessel, and finally reached Rotterdam after an absence of seven months. Two More Fools. Two suicides occurred in St. Johnsville, N. Y., on the 17th. It appears that a physician named A. D. Wheelock, a mar ried man, was paying attention to Miss Ruth Smith. The parents of the young lady objected to his conduct on the ground that be was not divorced, ' For some rea son unknown (proceedings for divorce hav ing been commenced), Miss Smith took arsenlo aud died, and the Doctor, on learn ing the fact, took a dose of morphine ' and also expired. ' ' A Strange Case. On Wednesday last, two girls the oldest aged about 5 years, were missing from their homes In the upper part of Philadel phia. The parents and the police hunted for them until Friday morining, when they were found in a closet in an unfinished house but a short distance from tho res idence of the parents. One of tho little girls was dead when found, and the other so exhausted that great fears of her life are entortainod. The bodies of the children shows wounds and bruises that indicate their ill treatment by some person, but by whom, or for what cause is still a mystery. The closet in which the children were found was so small that the door had to be latched to keep them from falling out, and the physicians say they could not havo remained in there ovor twenty minutes without suffocating, so they must have been put there shortly before they were discovered. A few minutes before the children wero missing the mother of one of them had seen the two children playing together in the yard. Tbey were discovered by a passer by hearing a noise that attracted his attention and caused a search. The building in which tbey were'found had previously been searched thoroughly by one of the parents and an officer. By the direction of the attending phy sician no one is allowed to see or converse with the little one, and the officers have not as yet undertaken to question ber. The examination of the person of the living child also did not reveal any evidence of outrage. The theory now is that some one out of pure hatred of the Mulvay and Ragan families have hiddeu the children to annoy the parents, or that some boys or idiotic person have been the cause of their imprisonment in the closet and now fear to confess. Arrest of a Minister. Rov. C. W. Warren, formerly of Fall River, Mass., but for some timo past a resi dent of Wilmington, N. C, was arrested in that city Monday morning, on the chargo of attempting to obtain valuable letters from the postofiice under fraudulent pre tences. Tho Wilmington Star say ho was taken before a justice, and under solemn promises to appear 'for examination at 3 o'clock p. m., be was released on bail. A few minutes later he took the cars for Goldsboro', and failed to appear for exam ination. A telegram was subsequently re ceived from him stating that he would re turn to the city on Friday. Miscellaneous News Items. tW J. T. Trowbridge, one of the editors of Our Voung Folki, was recently married to Miss Adelaide S. Newton. He probably intends to issue an extra edition of young folks. ' tW By a collision on the Missouri, Kan sas and Texas Railroad, four locomotives were almost destroyed, and several stock cars wore smashed. The four engineers were more or loss injured. t5P A young lady passed too near the leopard's cage at Barnum's show in Dover, N. II., and the animal thrust out his paw and tearing through shawl and dress, badly lacerated ber arm. XW A colored woman in Louisiana has recovered one thousand dollars damage against a steamboat company for refusing to grant her a cabin passage with accom modations equal to those provided for white passengers. tW A steam wagon is to be built very soon to run on the turnpike between Nash ville and Pulaski, Tenn. It will weigh about three thousand pounds, and be able to carry ten thousand pounds, or fifty or sixty passengers with ease. tW On Sunday the 15th inst., Mr. and Mrs. Moses Woods, of Armstrong county, were thrown from a wagon while on their way to church and killed. A daughter accompanying them was also so badly hurt that ber life is despaired of. t2T Robert Collyer had bis now house warmed in Chicago last Wednesday even ing. It was enlivened by dancing, but the best set was a service of silver containing twenty pieces. ' What would the old Puri tans say to having dancing and a silver tea service in a minister's house ? I3f A few nights since a family named Seip, living in Danielsville, Northampton county, retired, pluoing their youngest child, a babe, in a cradle. During the night it was noticed by the parents that the child did not rest easily, but no partic ular attention was given the matter. , In the morning it was found that a rat had made its way to the cradle, and eaten the flesh off the palm and the fingers of one band. ' tWThe Postmaster at Batavla, New York, baa Informed the General Postmaster of N. Y. eity that the mail matter which left there at balf-past 8 on Tuesday morn ing by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, was nearly all burned be fore it reached , that place, ; The matter was nearly all Intended for delivery in the Western States, and inoluded, besides the New York mail, forty-eight saoki of pa pers, aud a large Eastern mail received at Albany. An investigation Las been order ed. '' - " -,v ;' ' ' ' tW A common crime in London . is to entice away children, strip thorn of; their clothing, and then leave them naked iu tho street. Twelve such cases were recently heard before one magistrate. In one of them, a mother who had hunted frantic ally through the streets for her child, was so fortunate as to encounter him, at eleven o'clock at night, in the hands of a women who was dragging him towards Westmin ister bridge, scared, exhausted and stripped of nearly all his 'clothing. The persever ing mother rescued tho child and arrested his abductor. . Paterson, June 18. Last night a pile of timber, pieces of iron, etc, were found lying across the traok of the Erie Railway, near Clifton, and were removed just before the arrival of a long express train, west ward bound. Subsequently one Jacob Sevon, of Passaic, was arrested in Paterson for placing the obstructions on the track, and this morning was fully identified as the guilty person, and was committed to jail. Sevon was put off a train yesterday afternoon for not paying bis fare. . . St. Louis, June 17. Joseph C. Howard, arrested here for stealing horses in Franklin county, was taken up to Pacific City last night to be placed in jail at Union, the county seat. He was put in the calaboose at Union. About nine o'clock P. M. an armed mob of two hundred men took him out and hanged him. He made a confes sion implicating several other men in horse stealing, who escaped. Concord, N. H. Juno 10. Postmaster Neal G. McLean, at Meredith village, is in default to the government in the monoy order business to the extent of ten hundred and fifty dollars, and was to day removed. Buffalo, Juno 18. A little boy named John Ackerman, aged three years, was found last evening with his neck entan gled in a rope of a swing, by which be hod been accidentally strangled to death. tW An insane man attending a circus at Henderson, Kentucky, on the 13th Inst., killed a baby with a large club and injured a number of other persons, some of them badly, in their efforts to arrest him. - The police shot him three times, no is now in chains. 137" At Chilton, Iowa, a young man named Johnson, attempted to kick a ceiling seven and and-a-balf feet high, and fell, dis locating his hip. A revolver which be car ried in his pocket was discharged by the fall, the bullet entering tho thigh of a lad who stood near by. And he did not hit the ceiling after all. tW A. temperance man reports that about ten o'clock, Saturday evening, he met a small boy coming from the direction of Dell Delight, carrying an empty beer keg on his shoulder. In the rear of the boy came an individual who evidently Lad the contents of the keg concealed about his person. t3T On the 15th inst., a train on the Norwich and Wocestor Railroad, was thrown from the track near Dayville, Con necticut, by a tie placed on the track. The engineer, fireman and brakeman were in jured but no one was killed. Three cars were smashed, and the ongine was thrown into a ditch, bottom upwards. ty A portion of Todd county, Minn.,' was visited by a whirlwind recently which carried everything before it. That it was not an ill wind a correspondent of the Sauk Centre Herald, judges from the fact that a lady of Hartford gave birth to a girl during the passage of the storm, having given birth to a boy two days before. tW Mr. John Good and his wife, of Lebanon, both in the 77th year of their age, died, on Thursday a weok. Tbey had been married 50 years, and had lived es- , teemed and respected by all who knew them. They were both buried in one grave. t2T The Rev. Mr. Lampe, of Wheeling, W. Va., pastor of Zion'sChnroh, and teach er of German in the publio schools, was ar rested recently for an attempted outrage upon a girl agod twelve years, one of bis scholars. He denies the charge and has given bail. ' t-ifTbe Aldine for July Is a capital number both as regards Us Art and Literature. It opens with a full-page Illustration, printed In tints, entitled "Catch Him!" It represent! two children, the elder of whom, girl, is hold ing ber little brother up to a rosebush, on which a butterfly is about to alight. This Is one of Mr. John S. Davit' studies of child life, and a very excellent one, too. " Moonlight on the Shenandoah" Is the title of the first of series of five tliustantiona drawn by Mr. J. D. Woodward, whose themes are the scenery of the Old Dominion, which is chiefly selected In this instance from the region around Harper's Ferry and the Shenandoah. They are plcture eaqne and beautiful. Mrs. Elisa Greatorex transports ni back to Old New York. In her Inspired sketch of " Uell Gate Ferry," which Is one of the most characterlBtlo local drawings ever contributed to The Aldine. The Liter tare of The Aldine Is always as excellent as, it is generally more varied, than the literature of any other American magazine There are In the present number four good stories. The more solid articles are a readable editorial ea "The Old Dominion," apropos to Mr. Wood ward's Illustrations j another on " The Frau enklrche, Nuremberg " and "A Life's Ro mance,'a brlef memoir of The Countess Potos kl. The poeuis are " The Bong in the Dark," by Mary K. Bradley end "8ebaltano at Supper," by Margaret J. Preston. Muuo, Art, and literature ar Intelligently and independ ently discussed. Altogether the number Is remarkably good. Subscription price $5.00, In cluding Chromos " Village Bello" and "Cross ing the Moor." " James Sutton 4 Co., Pub. Ushers, Dti Maiden Lane, N. York.
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