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NEW BLOOMFIELD, PENN'A,
Tuestlay, September 16, 1873,
ITW Messrs. E. P. Dowmah Po No. SO North 5th
street, are our dulr authorized nlvertiiiinif atrenta for
,Vliil4ilrlili1a. Aiirortiscra can nuke contructa with
them at our lowoat rutoe.
Baltimore has again boon visited with
a severe fire. This time the Holliday
street theater with several other buildings,
wore destroyed.
TnE New York detectives have arrested
Mrs. Benton, an important witness iq the
Stokes case, who they have been looking
for since the killing of Fisko. It is said
Mrs. Benton saw Stokes throw away his
pistol after the shooting. It is believed
her evidence will bo fatal to Stokes.
Mississirri has a statute that punishes
and removes from office all found guilty of
being drunk. This is a most excellent law,
and, if enforced, should clear the courts of
men who, having no power to govern them
selves, should not be entrusted with tho
law to govern others.
Information has been received here
that the German government has taken an
additional five millions of United States
five per cents. The subscription was made
through the syndicate. This makes about
seventeen millions subscribed by the Ger
man government.
Mr. John Irwin, Jr., of Bollcfonte, Cen
tre county, was last Thursday nominated
as a candidate for State Senate, by the
.Republican Conference that assembled on
that day at Tyrone for the purpose of
making a Senatorial nomination.
The Advance in the price of coffee is
very groat caiiBed by nearly a total failure
of the South American coffee crop. . The
total amount of coffee now in first hands
in this country is not sufficient to supply
the demand for a month, while the receipts
are quite small.
The Republicans of Massachusetts have
repudiated Gen. Butler, and one great
cause of his defeat in obtaining the nomi
nation for governor, was his support of the
"Salary grab." The following resolution
shows the feelings of the convention on
that question :
Jletolted, That the Republicans of Massa
chusetts emphatically disapprove of and
condemn the action of those members of
last Congress, Republicans and Democrats,
who availed themselves of the occasion of
an inoroase of the salary of the President
and of the Judges of the Supreme Court
and of the members of the Cabinet, sup
posed to be just and necessary for the
future, to secure to themselves a dispro
portionate and extravagant compensation
for past as well as for future service.
The convention nominated for Governor
the present officer, Gov. Washburn. Gen.
Butler having withdrawn from the canvass
after seeing he had no show, the nomina
tion of Washburn was m ade unanimously.
On Tuesday last, Sir Edward Thornton
and Mr. Archibald, the Consul-Genoral of
Great Britain, the agents of the British
government to. pay the Geneva award,
called at the Department of State and paid
to the Secretary of State $15,500,000,
awarded by the Geneva Tribunal to be paid
by the government of Great Britain to that
of the United States. The coin had been
already deposited in the . Treasury to their
credit, and these gentlemen transferred to
the Secretary the certificates therefore,
which he immediately doliverod to the
Secretary of the Treasury thus paying into
the Treasury the 110,500,000, to be used as
provided by the act of March 8, 1873. Five
per cent, registered bonds are issued to an
equal amount to bo held iu trust by the
Secretary of State, subject to the future
disposition of Congress, as directed by the
act.
A Few weeks ago a man named John Ir
vln, confessed to the police authorities in
San Francisco, that he was one of the per
ous who committed the Nathan murder
n New York, nearly throe years since
His assertions were received with much
doubt by the New York police, who say
his confession is merely a dodge to got
taken to Now York. Some of his state
ments however, seem to give his confession
a color of truth, as he tells about a memo
randum book which has been missing since
the murder, that had until this time been
forgotten. Irvin says with proper guaran
tees fur his safety iu New York, he will
produce the Nathan memorandum book
and bonds taken from the safo on the night
of the murder. So there is a chance for
the mystery which has so long shrouded
this murder to be cleared away.
tV It is said that an English company
with a capital of $5,000,000 proposo settling
near Birmingham, Alabama.
Balloon Sews. '
The work of inflating the trans- Atlantio
balloon was commenced this morning, and
continued successfully until about quarter
filled, when, at 6 o'clock, the huge monster
began to sway to. and fro in such a ter
rible manner : that it became entirely un
manageable, and foars were entertained
that it would break looso from the fasten
ings. There were during the great part of
the morning only half-a-dosen men engagod
in the work, under the supervision of Mr.
Donaldson, and it was clearly manifest
that unless moie labor could be obtained
tho work could not possibly bo carried on.
Men are sent out to obtain a large force of
hclp,but before thoir arrival Mr. Donaldson
was compelled to suspend the inflation.
The safety-valves were oponod, but the gas
escaped so slowly that it became nocessary
to cut a hole in the balloon. An incision
of about six feot square was m ado by Mr.
D., and the monster at once commenced to
ease down. Meanwhile a large force ot
men arrived, but after a short consultation
between Messrs. Goodscll and Donaldson it
was decided that the ascension must bo
postponed for the present.. The arrange
ments for tho inflation wore of tho most
meagre character, and despite the energy
of Mr. Donaldson the few mon under his
control bocame so demoralized that they
could not bo got to obey ordors. In fact,
as tho balloon swayed here and there they
stood at times as though they were para
lyzed, and in many instances positively re
fused to approach it. The sand-bags were
strewn all around the arena in which the
balloon was placed, and on all sides pre
sented obstacles. A few of the small num
ber who endeavored to assist Mr. Donald
son tumbled over them, and in tho excite
ment becamo almost as useless as thoso
who stood looking on. Thore were up to
this time about fifty persons in the incis
ure, and they too stood around, declining
to give any help. It was noticeable that
up to 11 o'clock Prof. Wise had not ap
peared, nor did he sond any explanation of
his absence, and it is now accepted as a
certainty that be has abandoned his trans
atlantic balloon trip. Our reporter called
on Mr. Donaldson for his statement in re
lation to the postponement. He said that
instead of placing at least one hundred
mon at his disposal, on commencing work
this morning he found only four, but being
determined to make a start, if possible,
he commenced work at 8 A. M., expecting
to hear from Prof. Wise. This gentleman
had not made his appearance so far, and he
was unable to explain his absence, unless,
Indeed, he had abandoned all idea of mak
ing the trip. ' However, I am," said Mr.
Donaldson, "determined that this balloon
shall go up, be tho consequence what they
may." Reporter" How long will It take
to sew the tear up which you have just
made ?" " I cannot say ; it must be done
by hand, and , with tho utmost care, and
may therefore take considerable time. You
see, we must send over to New York for
experienced hands, and by the time thoy
get here it may be too dark to do the
work. 2V. Y. Expreu of the 10th inst.
On Friday another attempt was made to
inflate the balloon, but when about two
thirds full it burst Bnd nearly suffocated
some of the spectators. The enterprise
has been abandoned for the present.
Terrible Accident.
At Willimsburg, Now York, on Tuesday
last a balcony ninety feet long, foil two
stories to the sidewalk, carrying with it
nearly 100 people. The Seventy-first
regiment of N. Y. city had been visiting
the Foiiy-soventh regiment, and were re
turning home, the streets being filled with
thousands of peoplo. Just as the last two
companies of the Seventy-first rogiment
were opposite the building on which was
attached the balcony, it gave way, precipi
tating them on the heads of the people be
low. Tho military immediately halted,
laid down their arms and lushed to the
assistance of tho people. Those who were
hurt were taken to a hospital, which was
contiguous to the building where the acci
accident occurred. Twonty were injured,
including Miss Williams and Miss Vandyke
fatally Daniel Brown seriously, and the
remainder slightly. Many otliers were
scratched and bruised. It is stated that
many of the ladies who wore injured were
robbed of thoir watches and je wolry by
thieves, and many bad their pockets pick
ed. The cause of tho accident was defec
tive iron work.
Singular Accident.
Ono evening last weok, as the steamer
St. John, was loaving her pier at the foot
of Caual street, on hor trip from Now York
to Albany, two brothers, named Daniel D.
and Charles J. Mahoney, who had delayed
on the boat, attempted to jump ashore.
Daniel full into the river. II is wife, who
was on the pier, saw the accident and began
to cry for help. Charles Mahoney full also
into the river, and the passengers on the
boat crowded to the side to see what was
the matter, the gate gave way and
number fell into the river, but Captain
Leary, of the police, rescued seven persons,
who were takon to the nearest hotel and
tooK me train lor Albany, a hat was
picked up, but no person claims it. Tho
steamer never stopped for a moment but
proceeded on her journey.
A Remarkable Harder.
' A few days since Miss namill.of Williams
burg, N. Y., was killed by a friend tinder
circumstances that make it one of the most
remarkable murders on record. So far as it
appears from present evidence the mur
dered women, having a large sum of
money with hor, visited a friend one Mrs.
Merrigan with whom she had long been
on terms of intimacy. That friend strang
led hor with a cord, occupied during the
night the same bed with the body of her
victim, and in the morning saturated tho
bed and room with kerosene, and sot it on
fire to conceal hor crime. Tho nervo, no
loss than the fiendish cruelty, of tho mur
deress excites our amazement as well as
horror. The victim was a curiously eccen
tric young woman. She was educated and
rich, and yet appears to have had no frionds
except Mrs. Merrigan, who before hor final
crime, had stolen money from hor a fact
which does not seem to have affected thoir
Intimacy. It is said that Mrs. Merrigan,
before sotting fire to the room containing
tho murdered body of Miss Hamill, moved
tho furniture into an adjoining building to
save it from being destroyed. Mr. M er
rigan stated in an interview that his wife
had been subject to fits, but he did not
consider that a serious matter. Once she
had a fall, the effect of which she com
plained of as hurtful, but beyond this he
know of nothing amiss with hor, mentally
or physically.
Sufferings at Sea.
The schoonor Abbio Bradford, from
Hudson's Bay, reports the loss of two Now
Bedford whalers, and brings a portion of
the crew of one of thorn. Tho particulars
are as follows : On the 14th of September,
1873, the bark Orray Taft, at anchor near
Marble Island, Hudson's Bay, parted hor
cables and went ashore, landing high and
dry, in such a position that she cannot be
got off. On the 8th of October following
the bark Ansel Gibbs wont ashore at same
place, went to pieces, and is a total wreck.
The Orray Taft had no oil, but the Ansel
Gibbs had 650 barrels of whale oil and 11,
000 pounds of bone, most of which was lost;
a small amount was saved by the Abbio
Bradford. No men were lost at the time
of wrecks, but both crews were obliged to
live on the island until the 2nd of August
last, and, from exposure and lack of prop
er food, were attacked by scurvy. The
winter was foarfully cold, being the most
severe felt in a number of years, so. that
tho natives of tho island died by scores.
Tho wrecked crews suffered exceedingly,
and ten of the crow of the Ansel Gibbs,
and four of the crew of the Orray Taft,
died.
An Outrage and what Canio of it.
At New York on the 4th inst., a brutal
follow, named Ilefferman, outraged a girl
of ten years, named Barrett, and by threats
frightened her into silence until Tuesday
last, when her mother discovered the facts.
Her uncle, Michael Barrett, was told of the
outrage and became so exasperated that he
bought a revolver, came across a man he
thought was Hefl'eiman and fired at him,
but without effect. The man he fired at
proved to be another party, and Barrett,
was arrested. , Meantime Edward Barrett,
father of the child, sought consolation in
drink and was arrested next night for
drunkenness. Wednesday morning the
father was about being sent to jail by Judge
Delmar, when the case of Michael Barrett,
for shooting at a strange man came before
him, and the facts, as above stated, became
known to the Judge, when he released the
father, aud the uncle was bailed, but HoiT
crman was committed for trial. The con
dition of the child is pitiable.
Yellow Fever.
New Orleans, September 12. A dispatch
from Shrevcport to-day to Messrs. Nash &
Hodgson, says :
The oity continues in great need of help.
The yellow fever is of a maliirnant tvue.
does not yield readily to treatment. There
is a great scarcity of people to attend the
sick. R. L. Simmons,
President Howard Association.
A dispatch from W. A. L'llommedieu,
of Marshall, Texas, Telegraph Superin
tendent, to Superintendent, Flanery, of
this city, says everything is in great con
fusion in Shreveport. There were thirty
deaths there yesterday. The fever is re
ported worse to-day.
The following is an extract from a pri
vate letter dated Shreveport, 7 : " The
town is nearly depopulated by tho stampede
and sickness. 'About sixty people have
died, and there are still a groat number
sick. One awful characteristic of the sick
ness is that no ope attacked has recover
ed." Little Rock, September 12. Several
parties who loft Shreveport yostorday re
port the yellow fever on tho increase.
Every stage leaving that city for this place
is crowded with terror-stricken people. A
son of Mr. Brooks, proprietor of tho South
ern Hotel, at Shreveport, who arrived here
yesterday, received a telegram to-night
announcing tho death of his father from
the pestilence. It is rumored that the Red
river raft had something to do with the
pestilence.
Sluevepoit, La., September 12. Up to
4 P. M. to-day there were eighteen deaths
from yellow fever. Whole families are
down with It, and the nurse are worn out.
' ' Look Among Tour Loose Change. .
An expert clerk in a New York city
bank has detected two points of difference
between the genuine and counterfeit $500
notes, which were not mentioned In the
government description, and which are
more easily observed than some of those
mentioned. In the genuine note the Big
nature of Mr. Spinner clearly overllos the
seal, while in the counterfeit the seal has
evidently been stamped on after the signa
ture. In the counterfeit the center star in
the cluster around the nock of the Goddess
of Liberty is defective, while in thn
ulne it is porfect. These differences ought
to be sufficiently easy of observation to
prevent you passing any counterfeit by
mistake.
tW We have rcliablo information to the
effect that an attompt was mado in Hus
ton township, on Saturday night a week, to
blow up a school house. A can of powdor
was Ignited under tho building, ond the
shock was so heavy that it raised a double
floor enough to tip over the table and the
lamps, and elevated the building so ns to
blow out the boards which lay on tho walls
under tho sills. The malice of tho act is
fully developed when we state that a tem
perance meeting was in progress and about
twonty persons were in tho building at the
time of the explosion. The wickedness of
this act is more readily Imagined than de
tailed. Clearfield Republican.
Miscellaneous News Items.
tSS" A negro stole tho carpet from a Ten
nessee church, and cut it up into horse
blankets, and tho congregation all went
over Broad river to see him immersed.
From some unaccountable accident he was
held under the water just one minute too
long.
St. Louis, September 11. The Pleasant
Hill (Nebraska) Newt says tho jail at the
place was burned early on Tuesday morn
ing, and its inmates, four in number, per
ished in the flames. It is supposed the
building was fired by one of the prisoners
in order to effect his escape, but the flames
spread so rapidly he was suffocated.
It is related that a man in Fayette
county, recently, while out gathering
blackberries, heard a rattlesnake's peculiar
note of warning, and looked around on all
sides before discovering that he was stand
ing with both feet on the reptile, but so
close to its head that it could not bite him.
ne changed position immediately, but
killed the snake.
!3F"At Havana, on the 0th inst.. the
square of buildings known as the P laza
Vapor was reduced to ashes. The fire
broke out simultaneously in the four cor
ners of the square, and is supposed to bo
tho work of incendiaries. The loss is esti
mated at over $8,000,000. It is reported
that twonty lives were lost. The scenes
around the burninor souare were excitincr
and terrible, and many parents threw
their children from the balconies to save
them from the flames.
Monroe, La., September 0. Judge T. S.
Crawford and District Attorney Arthur U.
Harris, of the Twelfth judicial district,
were assassinated yesterday, twelve miles
southwest of Winnesboro, in Franklin
parish; while on their way to hold Court at
that place. The bearer of this information
says they were shot seven times and their
brains blown out. The murderers are not
known, but it is thought that personal and
not political differences lod to the assas
sination. Crawford was a Radical and
Harris a Democrat. Both leave families.
CSTTue Pittsburg coroner's record of
Monday a week, . shows three sudden
deaths, all of which were of a rather pecu
liar, and one at least of a horrible nature.
John Hock perished in a cess pool. Thomas
Fitzgerald broke his neck by falling head
backward from his own doorstep, and
John Martin, a fireman, was crushed to
death in a sand bank. Martin had been
working in the bank but a few minutes,
when suddenly, and without an instant's
warning, the gravel buried him. Every
exertion for his rescue was made, but
without avail, life being extinct when he
was reached.
tW Danville was the scene of a terrible
accident a short time Bince. A number of
men were pouring about a ton of molten
motal into molds, when the confined
air expanded by the heat caused an explo
sion, throwing tho red hot metal in evory
direction and burning every man in the
foundry more or loss. The scene for a
time was fearful. The liquid metal fell on
the person of the workmen, burned
through their clothing and ran in streams
down their flesh. The men ran about
almost frantio with pain, and tore their
clothing from their bodies until in a few
moments they stood entirely nakod, and a
fearful sight to behold. -
tW At Memphis, some days since J. E.
White, a prominent citizen, was arrested
on a charge of horse stealing, aud within a
few days subsequent, no loss than a dozon
specific charges for similar offences were
made public He was committed for trial
without bail.
Last week his wife camo to see htm, and
after spending about half an hour with
him, came to the prison gate and asked to
be let out, aud when the guard opened the
gate White presented a cocked revolver at
his head and erlod, " Let me out, or die 1"-,
The guard sprang back and White darted
out and mounted a horse which was in
waiting, and dashed off before an alarm
could be given. Up to dark be hod not
been recaptured. His wife had oarried the
revolver to him in her bustle, and had a
horse in waiting. She was arrested.
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