NEW BLOOMFIELD, TENNM.
Tuesday, August 5, 1873.
Mmwiti. E. P. Bowmaw Co., No. 00 North 8th
, nut Hniv iHhoi1 Hilvitrtjfiliitf lumnta for
Philadelphia. Ailvi'rUnt'n can nuke coutmcU with
them at our lowest rate.
General J. B. Kkrsham, W. D. Porter
and R. M... Sims, a committee of South
Carolinians, have had a conference with
President Grant at Long Branch, the pur
' pose of which was intercession for the ku
klux prisoners of South Carolina. The
President said he was desirous of pursuing
a very liberal policy towards all the con
victs except those guiltyjof violent crimes,
and towards all acousod except those charg
ed and probably guilty of similar crimes.
It is understood that the President will ad
' dress a letter of instruction immediately to
Attorney General Williams in pursuance
of these understandings.
The Buoks county Mirror published
at Doylestown, and edited by Jos. M.
McClure Esq., of this county, evidently
does not like some of the candidates nom
inated last week, if we may judge by the
following which we copy from that paper:
"The Radicals of Perry county have adopt
ed as their standard for legislative can
didates that of Philadelphia. They nom
inated on Saturday last for the Senate a
dead-beat member of the " Third House,"
named Kirk Haines, compared with whom
George Handy Smith wouldn't cut a bad
figure For the House, they nominated a
little Cameron cur of the poodle kind,
whose whole stock in trade is made up of
impudence, assurance and obsequiousness
to the dirty politicians who own him, and
who, when they purchased him, got mighty
little of either soul or body. His name,
it is John U. Sheibley. The honest men
belonging to the Radical party in Perry
will have a fine opportunity next fall to
show whether they deserve to be plunder
ed and misgoverned. If they elect the men
on their legislative ticket they will have
done all in their power to have themselves
both plundered and misgoverned."
A Lawyer in Trouble.
TRatLer a curious case was brought be
fore the Supreme Court, in New York, last
week. 0
The plaintiff, as widow and administra
trix of Ezra R. Goodridge, applied to
Fredorlck A. Lane, then . counsel for the
Erie Railroad Company, and a friend of
P.tSr deceased husband, to act as her at
torney and supply the security she was un
able to furnish as administratrix. Defend
ant made his coachman, John Roony, se
curity for her in $10,000, and the defend
ant claims to have paid himself $57,000
out of these' judgments. Plaintiff states
that, under the circumstances, and as de
fendant's business is a precarious one, she
requl res, as security, to have a receiver ap
pointed.
Plaintiff further alleges that he acknowl
edged having received for her $07,605.10,
but that he claims to have paid out of it
29 per ceut. on $220,000 of debts. Plain
tiff alleges also that of the said $220,000 a
sum of $101,000 consisted of two judg
ments obtained against her by defendant
without her knowledge ; that she trusted
him unreservedly and signed all papers
without question ; that the judgments have
been opened.
Defendant, in reply, denies that he ever
took any proceedings without fully explain
ing them to the plaintiff; he states that his
means are amply sufficient to meet any
claims, and says that his business is not a
precarious one, and that the case is not
one in which a receiver should bo appoint
ed. Decision reserved.
A Hood One.
The Madison Courier tell this of a rev
enue officer who was sent into the illicit
whiskey distilling district in Kentucky,
He know illicit distilling was going on, but
he could get no basis to work from. Com
ing to an Irishman ; who was tolerably
drunk, the officer tapped him on the shoul
der, and said, "My roan, do you want" to
make ten dollars?" "Is it ten dollars?"
said Pat, " sure and I do." "Then" said
. the officer, " show roe a 'private still.'"
" I'll do the same ; follow me, yer Honor."
The officer followed across lots and fields
to the camp of a company of soldiers that
hud been sent there to aid the revenue oni-
eem. The toldiers were in line dress par-
ado. Do you see that redheaded man ?"
" Yo" repliod the oilicer. "He is," said
Pat, Mmy brother. He's been in the ser
vice twelve years. He'll be a corporal af
ter a white, but he is ' a private still.' "
" Ten dollars gone, and no illicit whiskey
found," moralized the officer as he wended
his way back to bis hotel. ,-
tW A young man has been arretted at
Hudson fur spitting tobacco juice on the
back broadths of a young lady's dress. She
had decliued his company from church, and
so he walked behind and had his revenge,
ySCHOOL REPORT.
Annual Report of Silas Wright, County Bu-
pmnwnucni oi acnoois or retry uouuiy, .
for the year ending June 2, 1873.
In submitting this annual report to the
public it should be borne in mind that it
exhibits in the main so far as it relates
to work done, the labor of my predeces
sor Geo. CJ. Welker, Esq., whose death on
the 11th of last March left the visitation
of the schools unfinished, and before my
appointment, commission and the papers
were received in April, the majority of
the schools had closed. I wade short vis
its to seven schools. i
Houses1 New houses have been built
in Liverpool, Carroll, Centre, Oliver and
Seville townships, four of which are
brick and one frame building. The di
rectors oi Newport made one more room
in the brick building and furnished it
fur a high school with new furniture of
the Gothio style.
Grounds. Ihere is not in tbo county
a school-yard or school-grounds that fully
answers the following description, though
upon fair representations of what was in
tended, which we presumed dono, three
have been reportod first-olass. These
were presumed to conform to the follow
ing description in order to be entitled to
first rank: "School grounds of sufficient
size in the country are intecdod to have
an extent of at least half an acre; and in
towns should be large enouih to allow all
the pupils to enjoy exorcise in the open
air, with proper gymnastic apparatus.
School grounds suitably improved, means
neatly fenoed, tree from rubbish of ail
kinds, planted with shade trees and prop
erly prepared as a place for the plays of
children."
Graded Schools. In each of tlie fol
lowing towns: Jlillerstown, Liverpool, New
Buffalo, Newport, Duncannon, Marysvillo,
Bloomficld, Landisburg, Loysville, Rlain,
New Germantown and Ickesburg, are
graded schools, but with a single excep
tion they have all been separate, distinct
in government and different in the mode
of teaching, and yet those schools have a
preparatory and a higher department.
In view of the objects for which graded
schools were establishedMore tiiohouuu
and higher education it is recommend
ed that hoards of directors in these : dis
tricts adopt courses of studies which may
bo. divided into studies for Primary
Schools, Studies for Grammer schools and
Studies for a High school, and that pu
pils be promoted from one grade to an
other when upon examination they shall
have been found proficient in the studies
of that grade. Over the graded ' schools
of each town there should be elected a
principal to teach one of the grades and
take the general control of Bchool affairs
subject to such regulations as may be
adopted by the school board and suggest
ed by the county Superintendent. It is
further recommended that instead of se
lecting the youngest and most inexperi
enced porsons to take charge of .the Pri
mary sohools, that the ripest experience,
most successful practice of teach it g, to
gether with all the other qualifications
that teachers are required to possess, be
considered requisites of the one who is
elected to this position. We apprehend
the highest art ot teaching w the ability
to teach a primary school well.
Visitations. A number of schools in
the districts east of the Juniata river
were not visited on account of the illness
and death of the County Superintendent.
The sohools west of the river were visited
bv Mr. Wm. E. Baker, as Deputy, but
the notes of these visits are believed ' to
have been mislaid or lost, as nono came
into the possession of toe present oilicer
Institutes. One hundred and twenty-two
actual teachers only attended the
last Teachers' County Institute whioh met
at Bloomfield on the sou ot December
The instructors from abroad were W. W.
Woodruff. A. M.. as Deputy Superintend
ent, to whom we are indebted for much
that is valuable in the actual work of in
st ruction. Miss Emma Garfield of Now
York, gave readings and instruction in
Elocution. Rev. Geo. W. Smiley D. D.
oi Pottsvillo, Pa., gave his celebrated lec
ture, Subject: Origin of the North Amer
ican Indians, on Thursday evening.
Valuable assistance must be acknowledg
ed fiom a majority of the teachers pres
ent. Itev. John Edgar, Principal ot the
Bloomfield Academy, gave a lecture on
Monday evening. Other lectures were
given by II. B. Zimmerman, Wm. E. Ba
ker and Silas Wright.
Buffalo township teachofs have the
credit or maintaining the only district In
stitute in the county.
' Attendance. Aggregating e'sti
motes' of non-attendance during the" year
we- have six hundred and sixty-one (Qui
nearty ten per cent, of the entire school
going population of the county, who woro
not in school. This estimate is believed
to bo very nearly correct, and calls loudly
for attention from school officers and pat
rons. ' .
To ascertain accurately the whole num
ber of pupils who are of school age fur
the year ending June 1873, arrangements
are being made and instructions prepared
for taking by the teachers of the several
districts what will be oiled ., Tho Teach
er's School Census of Perry County,
which when completed and taken as a ba
sis, a calculation of ncn-atteudance can
bo made that will BE statistic
School Directors. The frequent de
lays in sending in the Annual reports
calls for special mention of the fact that
it is the duty oi the outgoing secretary to
fill out the report for the closing year and
then hand it to his successor to fill up
the blanks with the names of the officers
elected for the next year, aod forward to
the County Superintendent.
examinations. At mueteen public
and several special examinations 252 pro
visional and two professional certificates
were issued, the latter upon examination
to John $. Cumpboll and II. B. Zimmer
men, both of whom were found proficient
in the long list of studies named in their
certiucates.
Recommendations. 1st. Tliut courses
of study in accordance with the general
principle explained be adopted, and that
Principles be secured for the graded
schools.
2d. That a "Teacher's School Census
of Perry County" be taken by the -teach
ers during the first month ot the next an
nual term.
3d. That the best plans be secured for
the houses about to be erected, and that
none but the best furnituro and appara
tus be placed in these houses.
4th. 1 bat each school board engage
their secretary with the understanding
that he shall at least pay monthly visits
to the schools in the district.
5th. That visitations to the schools by
patrons, ministers and other persons be
enoouraged by the teachers by frequent
personal invitations.
bth. 1 hat the services of the best
teachers that can be afforded by the dis
trict be secured.
7th. That every teacher attend tho
next County Institute to be held at
Bloomfield during the week commencing
Deo. 1, 1873.
8th. And finally that each teacher
and member of a school board become a
subscriber to and a reader of the "Penn
sylvania School Journal."
An Extraordinary Rat Trap.
As an evidence that the quantities of
nerve and downright pluck are not con
fined exclusive to the heroio men of cre
ation there is herewith offered the narra
tion of a circumstance wherein a young
girl bore herself bravely under such try
ing circumstances as would have severely
tested the mOBt dogged determination ever
shown by the averago genus homo. On
Sunday last this young lady was at church,
when, during the delivery of the sermon,
she suddenly became aware that something
of a crawling nature was making an expe
ditious journey up her leg. Startled as
may well be believed, she was for the nonce
bereft of the power of action, and there
forthwith chased each other throngh her
mind extremely lively and fearful appre
hensions touching snakes, rats, and a host
of digusting creatures, but with a determ
ined effort she recovered her presence of
mind and by the time the " thing" had got
a short distance above her knee she clutch
ed it through her dress, with a vice-like
grip, and held on like grim death. Since
the first revelation of the distressing cir
cumstance she had not uttered a sound
nor Indeed given any outward sign of the
mental torture which she must have suf
fered, but sat rigid and composed, firmly
grasping the " horrible thing" which she
knew was some living creature, when upon
being clutched, it gave forth a squealing
sound. For full three-quarters of an hour
the brave girl sat there, as composed as
ever, still retaining her hold until the close
of the service, when she departed home
wards, never relaxing her grip until reach
ing home, when, giving hurried explana
tions to the mother, she fainted dead away.
A quick examination revealed the pres
ence of a rat, dead as a door nail, as the
cause of the unhappy adventure.
Fearful Scene In a Rolling Mill.
A terrible accident occurred on the 80th
ult., at the North Chicago Rolling Mills,
situated in the extreme northwestern sub
urbs of the eity. About a dozen workmen
were engaged in removing an imperfect
blast from one of the furnaces, when sud
denly a large mass of clinker was detached,
making an opening in the furnace, and
there rushed out an immense volume of gas.
which, coming in contact with the outer
air, exploded, filling the place with a sheet
of flame which completely enveloped eight
workmen. Five of them, were so horribly
burned that not one is expected to recover,
Three workmen, Owen Corbett, Thomas
Conner and Nicholas Schevelin were seri
ously, but it is thought not fatally burned.
The loss to the Rolling Mill Company will
be considerable, but the amount hat not
yet been ascertained.
Severe, but Right.
At Rogersville, Ohio, on Saturday night,
diirinir the trial of a man calling himself
Jeff, Davis, for raping a nine-year old girl,
the lights in the room were put out, the
prisoner draaired out of doors and shot
twice with revolvers, and then dragged by
the heels two squares and buug to a tree
till dead. ; .., ; - .
Fools not all Dead.
A young man named Zuber, was drown
ed in the canal at Leesport, Berks county,
a few days ago. The body was left In the
water three hours because the people in
that vicinity thought that no one had a
right to touch it before the arrival of tho
coroner.
A Troublesome Convict.
Among the cluster of convicts that ac
companied Frank Walworth from the tombs
to the Btate Prison was tho notorious
Wos" Allen, and be has added another
Incident to his very notorious prison record
by refusing to join a draft of prisoners,
to be sent to the Btate Prison at Auburn.
When preperatlons were making for their
departure he rushed to his cell, and car
rying with him a largo knife, which he
had evidently surreptitiously scoured from
the dining hall.
With this terrible instrument he rushed
to his cell, and brandishing it over his head,
he defied any one to approach him, and
threatened death to any man or men who
allowed any disposition to capture him. It
is scarcely needful to say that there were
but few signs of that disposition shown,
and " Wes" was allowed to display his
knifo without much molestation. Formid
able as the carving knife was, " Wes" evi
dently did not think it terrifying enough,
and from the stone quarries it is supposed
he obtained a pound of nitro glycerine.
lie pointed with a demon-like derision
to this glycerine as keeper after keeper ap
proached his cell, armed with tho carbine
or the revolver in use in the prison, and
defied them to fire at him. With a sav
age leer in his one eye, tho other having
beon destroyed in an attempted prison
escape, and a Satanic fierceness that gave
reality to his terrlblo threat, he announced
his Intention to destroy the entire prison
by exploding the nitro-glycerine if they at
tempted to main or kill him by shooting
him.
Warden Ilubboll and the keepers thought
discretion the bettor part of valor, and left
him behind the bars, secure in the posses
session of these fierce and deadly instru
ments of destruction. The draft weut on
to Auburn, but " Wes" Allen did not
form one of the party. He still remains
at Sing Sing, a living manifestation o f
what can be accomplished by a convict
who dares.
A Business Chap.
There is an air of business in the follow
ing which one cannot fail to admire. It is
from a Detroit merchant whose wife died
the other day: "Dear sir: I take my pen
in hand to let you know that I am well, but
my dear wife, Insured for five thousand
dollars in your company, is no more. She
died to-day. ner policy is No. . I can
truly say that she was a fond wife and a
good mother. I have the doctor's certifi
cate, so that there will be no trouble about
the policy. She was sick only a short time
but suffered much. Do you give a check
in advance, or must I wait sixty days for
the money?"
Grasshoppers.
A despatch from Sioux City, Iowa,
dated the 28th ult., says : During the last
two days the grasshoppers have been visi
ble in the air. At this hour countless mil
lions may be seen. Their general tendency
seems south-west. Grave apprehensions are
expressed by those familiar with their rav
ages in other parts of the country. The re
sults cannot be other than disastrous, should
the clouds of grasshoppers now hovering
over this vicinity settle here.
Miscellaneous News Items.
tW A prohibition war is being waged at
Ypsilauti, Mich., with considerable success,
the guilty parties are doubtless those
opposed to the efforts to close tho saloons.
fW 3. Dixon, living near Battle Creek,
Michigan, essayed to load hay and smoke a
pipe at the same time. The hay mado
more smoke than the tobacoo did.
t3An old couple living near Sparland,
1111., were recently dlvoroed. The husband
has since married the hired girl aud the
ex-wife taken the hired girl's place.
CBT At a picnic near Muscatine,on Wed
nesday, a black snake, six feet in length,
fell from a tree into a little girl's lap. She
demonstrated a wonderful agility in rising
to her feet.
t3T On Sunday night the offioe of the
City Clerk and Justioe of the Peace, at
Ypsilantl, Mich., was entered ami all the
city records, 1,100 ohattle mortgages publio
dockets, papers and books belonging to
the office taken.
tW At Westerly, R. I., William Cran
dall, oommitted suicide on Saturday night
by drowning himself. He was seventy
seven years old. He hod set some hay on
lire, and boing afraid ho would be accused
of Incendiarism ho drowned himself.
I3T On the 28th ult., the Colfax aud
Grass valley stage was stopped by four
men near Grass valley, who blew open
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s treasure box and
decamped with $8,000. None of tlje pas
sengers were molested.
tW It Is said that a Nevada lawyer had
as a cliout a man accused of murder, and
that the principal witness in his favor
being his wife, who was incapacitated
from giving testimony by reason of her
relation to him, he got the murder trial
postponed, brought suit for dlvoroe in her
behalf and secured it, and then triumph
antly placed her on the stand to secure the
acquittal of her husband. That being se
cured, the oouple were again married.
13T At Baltimore ow the 20th uK. a f-
spectable Gorman, named John Bchwarta
hung himself. Ho married his third wife,
a young girl 10 years old, two rtefc agov
He was 70.
The disparity in their ages was the sub
ject of ridicule among foolish friends, and
the old gentleman was so much annoyed
by thoir taunts that he was driven to des
peration. He only knew the girl two or
three days before he married her.
tW At Philadelphia, on the 27th ult., a
most singular accident occurred. Mary
Truitt, aged five years, was sitting on the
front steps of her residence in tho southern
part of the city. Mrs. Cooper, an occu
pant of the house, went to the attio win
dow with a child's flag staff some three
feet long with a spear head, engaged in
cleaning out the water pipe. The ' stick
slipped from her hand, and falling perpen
dicularly entered the child's skull, causing
instant doath. '
t3T The Rev. Mr. Thompson, In speak
ing of electrical peculiarities, said that he ,
had a man in Wisconsin, sowing grain,
who suddenly stopped and declared he
could not move the guide stakes. Mr.
Thompson laughed at him, and approached
to move them himself, but the moment
his hands touched the wood they were
powerless. A current of electricity stream
ed from them, and it was some time before
they could be moved ; and it was clear
weather, too. '
Dublin, Virginia, July 29. Mr. and Mrs.
Shopherd, a bridal couple from Montgom
ery county, on their way to the Pulaski
Alum Springs, while crossing Cloyd's
Mountain in a buggy during a thundor
storm, the horse 'shied at a flash of light
ning, and threw the party down a precipice
one hundred and seventy feet. The buggy
was destroyed, and the groom badly brais
ed. The bride had her collar bone and
ankle dislocated, teeth knocked out, and
was otherwise badly hurt. A tree in the
way stopped them from going to the bot
tom.
BTMr.H.6, Scofield, of Bridgeport,
performed rather a notable engineering
feat on Saturday, on the new division of
the New York and New Haven Road, from
Harlem to New York. It became neces
sary to lift the draw of the new bridge
across Pelham bay, on this line, a structure
weighing 1C0 tons. To effect this objects
Mr. Scofield devised the plan of building.
trusses, placing them on heavy scows,
floating the latter around under the draw
at low tide, so that the rising of the tide-
would do tho work required. This was
successfully exeouted Saturday. The tide
rose 4 feet 0 inches, and the scows settled
in the water but two feet, raising the draw
sufficiently to make the repairs required.
Of" It is stated that unofficial advices
have been received at the war department
that the court has found all the Modoo
Indians on trial guilty of murder and or
dered all of them to be shot Gen. Davis
is said to bo only waiting the endorsement
of the verdict to carry out the sentence.
The findings in the military commission in
the case of the Modoo Indians recently
tried have not yet been received at the war
department. The proceedings, after being'
reviewed by Gen. Schofleld, will be for
warded to Judge Advocate General Holt,
who examines the testimony and findings
and then transmits them to the secretary
of war and president for approval, before
the sentence can be executed.
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