4 l)e GKrncs, Htm Bloomfteltr, )a. NEW BLOOMFIELD, PENN'A. Tuesday, September 2, 187S. 1ST- Mwm. E. P. Bowmaw t Oo., No. 80 North 6th ptrmrt. are our duly authorized advortiatutf atrpnts for Pulladnlphla. Advertisers can make contracts with tliom at our lowest rates. TnB State Agricultural fair will be held at Erie, commencing September SOtli, and continuing until Oct. 8d. The officers of the association are endeavoring to make the fair even more successful than it was last year. About $7,000 have beon expend ed this summer in improving the grounds and erecting a grand stand capable of seat ing 2,500 persons. A Letter from Philo, Illinois, says tho nineteen car-loads of corn, shipped by the granges from the Tolouo to Toledo, re alizes ten to twenty per cent, above the usual profit. Encouraged by this, the granges have called for more cars, and are going to erect elevator buildings and ma--chinery of their own. Tns Farmers Granges in this State are distributed in the different counties as follows: Berks county has eight granges, Mont gomery three, Chester two and . Lebanon, Cumberland, Crawford, Lancaster and Lycoming each one. The state grange will meet in Reading next month, at which it is expected thirty granges will be repre sented. An important decision has been render ed in tho State of Indiana, in which the rule is laid down that when a railroad com pany sells a ticket it is with the under standing that the passenger will be furnish- ed with a seat. The facts of the case are as follows: A passenger in Indiana lately re fused to give the conductor his ticket until tie was supplied with a seat. The train being crowded, the conductor could not comply with his request, and put the pas- sengoroif the car, throwing his baggage -after trim. The latter entered suit against H?be company, and was awarded $2,000 damages by the jury which tried the case. Stmoeratio State Convention. The convention for nominating State Treasurer and Supreme Judge, convened at Wilkesbarre on Wednesday last. For Judge of the Supreme Court, Judge James R. Ludlow, of Philadelphia, received the nomination on the second ballot. For State Treasurer the following gentle men were placed in nomination : . F. M. Hutchinson, of Allegheny, Freder ick Lauer, of Berks, William Willis, of Perry, Edward Perks, of Centre, Joseph Laubaoh, of Northampton, and William Ryan of Bckuykill. Oa the second ballot F. M. Hutchinson, received 1 a large majority of the votes and liU nomiuation was then made unanimous. The convention gave Hon. R. M. Speer, of Huntingdon a most severe rebuke for accepting his share of the "baok pay steal." ' The committee to report on 1 per manent 'offioes,' had selected Speer : for President, and when that portion of the report waa reached, A. H. Glatz, of Tork, interrupted the convention and moved a non-concurrence of the convention in the report of the committee, so far as read, giving as his reason that Speer had, as a member of congress, taken back pay. The motion and remarks of Mr. Glatz were re ceived 1 with great ' applause by a majority of ' the convention. Mr. Speer replied, de fending his actions as a publlo man,' and loading bis services and ' fqalty ' to the deniocratlo party; and asking the conven tion not to give way to the personal clamor of the hour. ' " ". , : , . ' Other speeches were made concerning the " salary grab" ' and when one speaker attempted to defend the law, and the ac tion of Mr. Speer, he was hissed down by tho .' convention. '. The result was that Mr. Bpcor's name was t withdrawn, and Dr. A. Kubingcr was made Chairman. , ', ' ' Among the resolutions passed, the fol lowing will please a large majority of the American people, regardless of party : Jieiolted, That we condemn without re serve the act of congress granting addition l salaries and back pay grabs as unjust end unjuKtilluble, and demand Its imme diate and unconditional : repeal, and we denounce., every member of . congress, ' wlietlior republican or domocrat who sup ported it, , ' 11 .... , , , ati I ' ' ' New Disease anion (r Swine. Mr. William Kkpp, of Union township, Berks county, lost three valuable hogs last week, f fom, a new and singular .disease. The hogs had been In , excellent condition, were well tawd for, and manifested no in dications of sickness, They were sudden ly scUod with the disease, however, and after running around la a circle for about a quarter of an hour fell over dead. i Frauds In the IT. 7. Custom House. The daily Qrapltio makes the following remarks regarding affairs in the New York Custom House : " The Custom House investigation dis closes an exceedingly discreditable con dition of things. It is difficult to obtain the exact facts in reference to the two or three cases which have excited public at tention ; but underneath tho criminations and recriminations of implicated parties, and the information that has come to light and is unquestionable, two points ore clear. There has been a series of extensivo and systematic frauds on the Government by some of our merchants, who have resorted to false invoices and have bribed Custom House officials to increase their profits and enable thorn to compete successfully with other importers. One instance of this sort has led to another, until a number of mer chants have been drawn into questionable practices for self-protection who had no in tention of defrauding the Government, and would greatly prefor doing business in a perfectly legal and honorable way. And, in the second place, the Government has beon systematically defrauded by some of its employes, who have acted as special agents of importers, and have received bribes for making false returns, and have resorted to innumerable arts and dovices to enrich themselves. The practices have been carried on in such a systematic, un blushing way that it is strange they have not been exposed and punished, as they deserved, long before this, especially as they seem to be well known to their su periors. Perhaps tho latter were so com promised by similar transactions that they could not punish their subordinates with out exposing their own guilt. The more thoroughly the matter is looked into the more extensive the ramiflations of this inquiry, and the more complete the cor ruption of officials sooms to bo. Surprise has been expressed in some quarters that there has been no united and overpowering protest against the abuses and coiTuption of the Custom House on the part of our merchants. But the reason is obvious to all are who familiar with the facts. While many of our importers are directly or indirectly implicated in dam aging transactions, which they do not care to have brought to light, vory few of them can afford to court the persistent hostility of the Custom House officials and tho Power behind them. , These men have the mercantile community in their grasp, and can ruin the business of almost any large importer who should provoke their resent ment. Moreover, our merchants know perfectly well, that, were tho present Custom officials driven away, their places would immediately be fillod by others of the same character, aud hositate to' drive away a partially sated brood of vultures when a hungrier flock will rush in to de vour whatever they can And. There is no chance of eff ecting the noeded reformation so long as tho Custom House is colonized by political vagrants and mere party hacks, and its offices are given as a reward for political services in the caucus-room and on the stump. It is the system that makes the mischief, and the system is far too profitable to those interested in its main tenance to be given up for an honest and efficient Civil Service. And so long as this corrupt and pernicious system is adhered to, there will be dishonest officials and de frauding importers, and the abuse of the Customs Department will furnish the advo cates of free trade with their strongest ar guments against any tariff whatever. , We had hoped that the, Administration would replace the present corrupt system with the Civil Service the country demands and our mercantile interests, imperatively re quire ; and we are assured that an attempt will soon be made to introduce a thorough system of Civil Service into the Customs Department. When we got rid of the per nicious doctrine that " to the victors be long the spoils," and appoint our officers for life or during good behavior, we may expect something like honesty and efiioiency in the publio service. : . .. i . i- , , . Immense ' Meeting of Grangers 'in Ulisourl ' An immense meeting of. grangers and veterans of the Mexican war was held last week at Sweet Spring, near Brownsvlllo, Mo. ) Nearly 15,000 people, were, present. Many came from a great distance. . A good many prominent men, including, members of the legislature and members of the press were also In attendance. ' :,; It Thomas C. Allen, master of the State grange, opened the grango 1 part of the meeting with a speech, in which he ridi culed the lack of interest bestowed on the farmer's movement at the outset, but It had now become a great power and at tracted attention from all quarters and all parties. He behoved the farmers were the nobletit class of people In existence, and it was time they had something to say about publio affairs. ' .. . ; . . The grangers are growing, and before January , thore will be twenty-four states prominent in the tnovomeut, H warned monopolies not to crowd them or . they might ihftke them go'too far, ;,!' ' ,;" 1 'Major G,' W. Gllson, ' of St, 'Louis, 'ad dressed the Mexican veterans, after which a committee was appointed to prepare an ' address to congress on the subject of ' pensions. A Devastating Aerolite. The barn of Mr. Nathan Nye, in Wost Sandwich, Mass., was totally consumed by Are recently, during a thunder-storm. The lightning stroke was seen by a man about half a mile distant, who states that when within about twenty degrees the bolt ap peared to change, and looked as if fire was being poured from a bucket and waved it self to the barn, entered, and immediately the whole barn was in flames. Afterwards, among the ruins, about a barrel of greenish-looking, porous, but extremely hard substance was found, scattered about, principally In one corner. There was no thing abont the barn to molt Into and form such a peculiar, lava-like matter, and it is supposed to have descended with the lightning. A fragment has been Bent to Profossor Agassiz, for examination. Fall from a Train. Deitrich Reuter, a German butcher, of Evansvillo, Indiana, fell from the Paciflo express train east, Wednesday morning, near Thompsontown, and was severely in jured, lie arrived here on the southern express and had his wounds attended to by the Pennsylvania railroad company's physi cian at the City hotel. Subsequently he was removed to the city hospital, where he will receive treatment until he recovers. His injuries consist of a broken right arm near the elbow, severe contusion on the right side of the head and wounds near the elbow and band of left arm. Mr. Reutor's wife was on tho Paciflo express when he met with the accident, but did not And out that be had been hurt until she reached Harrlsburg, supposing that he had gone in another car from the one Bhe was occupy ing. ITarmburg Patriot. A Resurrection. Westminster, Md., Aug. 27. There was no little excitement here to-day, occasion ed by the following somewhat singular in cident : William D. Matthias, a young man twenty-two years old, who has been engaged for the past six months in selling sewing machines in this city, and immedi ate vicinity, died, as was supposed, about three o'clock last evening, with braiu fever. Ho was placed in ice and there remained forty hours. To-day the relatives and friends of the family assembled together for the purpose of paying their last tribute of respect to the dead, when it was noticed his skin had assumed quito a natural ap pearance, and on further examination it was found that life was not quite extinct. He is now in the hands of the physicians, and from last acoounts was doing well. Cattle Disease. A dispatch from St. Louis, says ' the Spanish fever, or Texas cattle disease has broken out in the dairies In this city, aud some twenty-five cows have died within the past two days. . It is not known how the disease was communicated to the dairy cattle, but the sanitary officers are making a thorough investigation of the matter. There is no evidence of the disease in the stock yards, and every precaution will be taken to prevent the spread of the plague. Suicides. Bank officers have taken the suicide mania. On the 28th ult, Wm. S. Boyor, President of the Shoe Manufacturer's Bank, of Boston, cut his throat. The same day J. II. Rosenquest, cashier of a Tarrytown Bank, shuffled off the mortal coil with a pistol. The day previous, the Cashier of the Brooklyn Trust Co., took the same method of leaving this world. A Youthful Murderer. ' During a quarrel in New - York, last week Thomas Payne, aged twelve yoars, tabbed and mortally wounded William Farrell, aged thirteen. Payne bad whip ped a smaller boy, and Farrell interfered, when Payne drew a pockot-knife and stab bed Farrell near the heart, . Payne was ar rested. ... ,; tW A despatch from St. Louis, on the 25th ult-,' says General John F. Benjamin, of Shelhina, was shot to-day by James Harloy, his gardener. The ball entered the General's leftside, but it is not' known whether the wound Is of a dangerous char acter. ' The affair grew out of some bus iness transactions. Hurley is In the habit of getting drunk, and when In that con dition is very quarrelsome. ' Gonoral Ben jamin formerly represented this district in Congress. "'- ' ' 1 tW At West Chester, on the 28th, ult, a i Mrs. Peterson attempted to kindle a fire by pouring kerosene oil upon it, when the can containing the fluid exploded, set ting her clothing on Are, when Bhe escaped Into the street, and, by her torriflo screams, brought persons to her aid, but hor clothes were in flames, and before she could be dU vested of thetn or the flames extinguished, she was so badly burned that she can sur vive but a short time. '.) ' IW. Miss Lizzie A. Stewart, daughter of Ansel Stewart, of Fair Haven, and Miss Cordelia Torry, of Boston, "on, Saturday last, went In bathing at Quissit, a small loluud near Falmouth, got beyond tholr depth, and their cries for help brought Mr. Hardy Davis, of Falmouth, to. their , aid, but the ladies drew hhu under water, aud all three were drowned. Miscellaneous News Items. IW A fire caused by a stroke of light ning last Week in Antwerp, Belgium, burned a $400,000 building. EST A fire doing damage estimated at a half a million dollars occurred In Belfast, Me., last week j one woman was burned to death, and over 130 families are homeless. t3T Sheriff Low, who was shot by the mob while conveying the old man ICesslar, from the court room to the depot, died last week at Fulton, Mo. His death creates a profound sensation. tW Tho Philadelphia Herald'$ balloon expedition, which ascended from that city on Monday landed In New Jersey, ten miles east of Egg Harbor, having traveled fifty miles In fifty minutes. E5TDr. II. L. Showalter fatally cut the throat of his wife Thursday evening at their residence, No. 58 St. Paul street, Balti more, and then cut his own, inflicting a most frightful gash. 53?" The steamer Huntsville, with ono hundred and eighty head of cattlo, swamp ed eighty miles below Cairo, 111., Tuesday night. The cause of the accident Is at present unknown. Half of the cattle were drowned. None of the crew were lost. EST A Nowport letter In a New York paper declares that tho writer pulled a young woman out of the sea, in circum stances of some danger, after which she embraced him in an effusion of gratitude, and in so doing stole his watch. 83F Miss Seavey, of Belmont, N. H., a maiden lady, aged sixty years, died oh the 21st ult., of voluntary starvation, having refused food for twenty-eight days. A sister of the deceased died in the same way a few years since. tW A young man named Sheaffer em ployed in the Lancaster gas works was horribly burned last week by a coal oil lamp. Just as he applied the match to the lamp it exploded, and most of the burning oil was thrown over his body. Port Jervis, Now York, August 25. Valentino Hoechst, saloon-keeper, shot and Instantly killed a boatman named Corrigan, this afternoon. Corrigan was intoxicated and threw stones through the windows of the saloon. Hoechst was arrested. Des Moines, August 20. The engine of a freight train on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad exploded yesterday near Atlantio, killing J. Dyer, brakeman, and badly scalding the engineer, George Crane, and a Areman named Harry Morgan. CU" About two o'clock, last Monday morning a week, a barn belonging to Hugh W. Collins, of Colerain township, Lancas ter county, was destroyed by fire and with it 400 bushels of oats, large quantity of hay, etc., entailing a loss of about $3,000 on Mr. Collins and $500 on his tenant. Brooklyn, August 27. Louisa Hill, aged nine years was enticed into a boat and outragod in the woods near Mosheth yesterday by Louis St. Clair, aged twenty, two. She was subsequently found and conveyed home. Her injuries are fatal, St. Clair was arrested this morning. tWA. dispatch from Sing Sing says the special Chicago express, which left New York at ten o'clock Tuesday morning, when three miles north of Sing Sing ran into a team of horses driven by a farmer named Cyrus Hillicker. The horses were Instantly killed, the wagon shattered ' and Hillicker sustained fatal injnrles. - ' ' EST The postofllco at Perry Station, in Pope county, Arkansas, on the line of the Fort Smith Railroad, having been broken Into by thieves two or three times lately, and the postmaster having reported that he could not protect the malls, Special Mail Agent Edgarton has discontinued the office. " ' . tW A short time since, two drovers be longing to Westmoreland county, were ar rested in West Philadelphia, by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, charged with crowding sheep and calves into the same car, and keeping them with out food or water for forty -seven consecu tive hours. They were fined ten dollars and coBts. tW On the night of the 12th ult., the large barn of Joseph Stormer of Windsor township, York county, was struck by lightning and entirely destroyed. A mule, a young mare and all his harvest of the present year, together with a number of farming implements were also consumed. Mr. Stormer had an Insurance of over $3000 on the property destroyed. ' t"3TA girl named Louisa Ross who left her father's residence, near Beaver creek, on the 15th Inst, and came or was brought to a house of doubtful character in Uagers town, at night, died on Monday under sus picious circumstances. Her friends know nothing of her whereabouts until her death. A jury of ' inquest is sitting, aud criminal developments are expected. , ' SIT The N. Y. Utrali asserts that a great change of climate from the Rocky Mountains to California is in progress.; It learns from Salt Lake City that they have hod iu that basin this month more heavy showers than ever before in August, and this increase in the summer rainfall flora Wyoming to Nevada has been steadily go ing on since tho completion of the, Upion aud Central Paciflo. iron artery across the Continent. tW On the 2oth, ult., as the express train on the New York Central R. R., was . approaching Batavia it ran Into a carriage, killing both occupants, James Anderson and Donnls Dolaney. One of them was thrown a number of yards Into a field and tho other was dragged along until the train was stopped. His body was horribly mangled. The englneer.John Day, stopped the train as soon as possible and got off the engine to see what was donei In passing in front of the looomotive he saw it covered with blood and brains, and was so over come by the shock that he walked but a few steps when he fell. Ho was carried into a smoking car and died in a few min utes. taf The way passenger train on the Pennsylvania Central Railroad which left Philadelphia at 11 :30 last Wednesday.came in collision near Downlngtown and ran into tho rear end of a stock train. The cars and the cabooso of the latter were thrown from the track and the flagman, John McDowell, was killed. The engine and express and baggage cars of the pas senger train were also thrown from the track, causing a blockade of the road. There were no other casualties than the one mentioned. tar A few days ago a servant girl em ployed in a family on Locust street, west of Twentieth, Philadelphia, went into the cellar to got a scuttle of coal. Shortly after the family heard cries, and proceed ing to the cellar they found that the girl had disappeared under the floor. It was discovered that a comparatively thin cov ering of earth had caved Into a deep well, and the girl had fallen about twenty-five foet below the surface and lodged there, yet a considerable distance from the bottom of the well, the exact depth of which is not known. When taken out sho was much bruised and nearly suffocated. Detroit, August 29. The night express wost on the Detroit and Milwaukee Rail road last night, consisting of a baggage car, two coaches, one sleoper and two emi grant cars, became disabled in consequence of the engine throwing a driving wheel off a mile east of Muir. It was followed by a through freight, which ran Into the pas senger train, killing four women and one child, and injuring ten others, all emi grants. Medical assistance was at once prooured from Muir. None of the injured are dangorously hurt. The emigrants are Icelanders. tar At the recent accident near Chicago, a Mr. Little, of Springfield, 111., while in the agony of death, sent for the sleeping car conductor, told him his name, made his will and signed it, and handed over his watch and jewelry to be sent to his wife and family, and then requested the con ductor to leave him and help those to whom help would be of avail. That man was made in the heroic mould. He was hor ribly scalded, boiled and mutilated, and yet he would not die until he had perform ed his last duty like a man. tar Lake Tahoe, Nevada, has a curiosi ty. Half a mile from shore a tree stands perpendicular in eighty feet of water. It projects ten feet above the surface, and is fastened so firmly to the bottom that it af fords safe moorage to tho largest crafts on the lake. ' tST Blane, the conductor of the coal train on the Chicago and Alton Railroad, which caused the ' recent terrible loss of life at Lemont,was arrested and committed to jail last week. . ; . ; , , ,,- ; GREAT INDUCEMENTS ,; TO 1JUY ,, REAL ESTATE ! EIGHTY-FIVE LOTS have been sold fn Six mouths, In the Mew Town o( , G II I E It CITY, Schuylkill County, Pennsy 1 yania, At EAST MAHANOY JUNCTION, and close to four dllterent KailroHda and the greatest Anthra cite Coiil Trade ill thetSUte. The laud Is level and clear ui stoue. The lot-owners are forming a BUILDING A8 HOCIATIUN to build houses and start up Munu tacturlng liusluewi. . i , , T will continue to sell lots at (125.00 a piece and sllow Five Vrars time to raise the money. HI. of each lot is as X 160 feet. - -; I am also prepared to start the new town of ORANGE CITY, TLOMDA, to be located on the North Side of the Fernandlna audCedur Keys ltallroad.half way between Hart's Kuad and Cauihau t one lot In each rjquare will be given free of charge to the first iwrson who builds a house on it as the town will have One Hundred features. One Hundred KinlgranU or tattler from any part of the world can obtain Lots for notltingbv building oa them. The balance of the Lots will be sold to any iwrnon for the mm of 1123 a piece and tlve years time allowed to ralae the money, the size of each lot to be tOX16D feet; nearly nil the lots are coveted with splendid yel low flue Timber. ; I have also for sale som of thi beat . " YELLOW PINE TIMBER LAND, Extending from tlie new town to St. Mary's Elver, In navigable Klver) which winds around In a horaetdioe form at from tlve to ttfteen miles dis tance o!t. The land produces the very best frultn, such as Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Figs, Grapes, IVaches, sic, and crops ot Cotton, Hugar Cane, ' Hay, Corn, Potatoes, io., with but little cultiva tion. - Price (10.00 er Acre, and live years' time allowed to raise the money. The Orange City lot-owners and farmers will also form a Building,. Assoviatlou to put up buildings aud erect manu factures, 4iet , , , ., , i ar For further uartleuuirs address JAMES II. GK1ER, 1 POTTSVILWE, . SCHUYLKILL COUKTY, PA. V Or 13'iulre of the Agent here. 7 23 tt
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