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Tuesday, December 23, 1873.
Notice to Subscribers.
Subscribers to Toe Times who wish some
other publication and chomo, can bar
either of the following at the price men
tioned :
Peterson's Magazine for 1874 and
The Times, for - - - - $2.73.
The People's Journal, with an en
graving 13 x 19 inches (see advertise
ment) and Tho Times, for - - f 3.00.
Wood's Household Mucnzino and
the splendid cbromo, YO SEMITE,
and The Times, for $3.25.
AH the above Magazines aro monthly pub
ications. Tub legal opposition to tho manner of
talcing the vote on the acceptance of the
Constitution in Philadelphia, fully nroused
those favoring its adoption and the conse
quence was that Philadelphia gave 34,120
majority for the Constitution.
Conventions to framo Constitutions
seem to be unfortunate iu their attempts to
please Perry county, as on the question
of adopting the constitution of 1838 this
county gave a majority of 202 votes against
it. Tho whole majority in the whole State
was however quite small being only 1,313
iu favor of its adoption.
Information lias been received at tho
Department of State, Washington, that the
Virginius was delivered into the bands of
the United States officers at Bahia Honda
at 0 o'clock in the morning of the 10th,and
sailed for Key West at 4 o'clock on the
same day. One act of this eventful drama
bag thus closed.
Tne people of Oregon have preferred
such grave charges against General Grant's
appointee for Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, that tho Senate will have to investi
gate them before acting upon bis case. Mr.
Williams is well-known in Oregon, and his
record can readily be obtained. Should the
allegations made, be sustained, the Presi
dent will of course withdraw the nomina
tion. Coffee has again taken quite an ad
Vance in price. The present rise is no
doubt entirely speculative, and is mainly
due to the fact that the Secretary of the
Treasury desires to restore the duty on tea
and coflee. The hope of the large holders
of the stock of coffee in this country is that
such a tax will be laid and they are holding
present stock, hoping to realize that ad
vance. As the prospects of such a tariff
being laid are, already growing rather dim,
(the House of representatives seeming indis
posed to impose any such tax on tho people)
we expect to see a decline in tho price of
that favorite beverage before long, to at
least the prices of last month. All that is
needed to force such a decline, is for
country merchants to limit their orders to
the smallest possible amount needed for
immediate sales.
A Democratic member from Kentucky, j
Mr. Bock, pays President Grant quite a
compliment for bis management of the
Spanish troubles. .
In the couise of remaiks on a question
before the House, be said :
" If there is anything which the Presi
dent has managed well, it is the nego
tiations with Spain. The President might
have plunged the country into difficulties,
aud paihaps have aggrandized himself at
the expenso of the country ; the course
which he has pursued bas boon extremely
modorato and wise.' ,
Tub second annual convention of the
Illinois State farmers' commenced at Deca
tur on the lGth inst. Tho president of the
association delivered an address reviewing
the growth of the society and its results to
the members. At the first mooting one
year ago only about forty counties were
represented. Now every one of the 103
counties In the State bad its clubs and in a
majority of the counties the farmers car
ried their ticket at the last election.
The Association concluded its session at
Decatur on the 18th inst., after adopting a
platform of which the following are the
main points : The resolutions declare that
every Americau voter should do all In his
power to secure the election of honest and
competent men to office ;' that the farmers
are absolved from all allegiance to old po
litical parties that the repeal of the Salary
law should be retroactive : that large salar
ies are antagonistic to republican princi
ples.
CtT Last Tuesday evening, about six
o'clock, a womau, named Catharine Daley,
aged 65 years, who resided at Juniper and
Itodipan streets,1 while on a visit to a friend
at Seventeenth aud Federal streets, Phil
dulphia, got frightened at a drove of cattle
wblch was being driven by, and fell dead,
The Constitution Aioptel
The result ot the election on Tuesday
last, shows that the friends of the Consti
tution were fully alive to the Importance of
the occasion. In Philadelphia and many
other towns nearly the full votd seems to
have been polled, A large majority being
cast In favor of accepting the Constitution,
Full official returns are not yet received
from all parts of" the State, but enough is
known to show that the majority in favor
of acceptance is over 130,000. This large
majority in view of the gross misrepresen
tations made by the opponents, as to the
eff ect of some of the articles, must bo very
gratifying to the members of the Conven
tion, and shows conclusively that the peo
ple are not quite so blind as some of tho
petty politicians, and members of the
" rings" would like them to bo.
In no senso of the word can this however
be called a party victory, for though a largo
majority of the members of the Convention
were Republicans, the Democrats favoring
reform have united with the Republican
voters iu securing the acceptance of a Con
stitution that will do much towards purify
ing legislation and securing an economical
administration of the public finances. Iu fact
in many counties in the state, the Chairmen
of both party committees joined in urging
upon voters tho importance of supporting
the proposed amendments, while the news
papers regardless of party proclivities, sec
onded their exertions.
Washington News.
The bouse has passed the bill to repeal
the bankrupt law, in the Bhape of a simple
repeal, and an additional section requiring
all pending suits and proceedings to be
wound up under the present law, but with
a reduction of one-half iu fees, costs and
charges.
A bill bas also passed the houso repeal
ing the salaiy bill of lost session as far as
it affected members of Congress, mid fixes
the pay at $0,000 per annum and traveling
expenses. The bill appropriating $4,000,
000 to the navy department was amended
in the Senate by adding another million
aud as amended passed both houses.
A bill was also passed providing for the
payment of the bonds of 1858.
The Senate amended the salary bill
passed by the House, so as to place the law
in force as it was previous to the passage of
the act of March 3rd, 1873.
A joint resolution adjourning until
Jan. 5th, passed both houses.
A great hue and cry is made among
members aud beads of departments about
retrenchment, but the trouble seems to be
that each one is anxious to have the reduc
tion put on "some other fellow," and so
there is a chance that common cause will
be made against the people for the benefit
of office holders.
Accident on the Cumberland Valley Rail
road.
The early passenger train eastward on
the Cumberland Valley railroad, due in
Harrisburg at 7:45, met with an accident at
Middlesex, a station botwoon Mcchanicsburg
and Carlisle, shortly after seven o'clock
Monday morning. The train, consisting
of a baggage and two passenger cars,
drawn by the engine ' Col. Lull," was
thrown from the track by a misplaced
switch. The engine after leaving the
rail fell over on its side, tho baggage car
was thrown on its side, the passenger car
following it rau off the rails and the last
car had only the trucks of the rear end left
standing on tbo rail. The engineer and
fireman escaped with slight injuries by
jumping. No passenger or train band was
injured. The passengers were transferred
to the cars of the up train from Harrisburg
and reached Harrisburg about ten a. m.
It is supposed the switch was tampered
with, as a nut bad been removed and the
rod partly moved out of position. The last
train over the road was the stock express
east on Saturday night, when the track
was " all right" The engineer could not
see the mischief in time to prevent the ac
cidout, owing to the darkness that pre
vailed when the train was passing that
point. Tho damage to the locomotive is
pretty extensive, but the cars suffered very
little.
Distress Caused by Grasshoppers.
The committee on aid and relief for the
suffering homesteaders in uorthwestorn
Iowa report that there are in Osceolo county
200 suffering families ; in Leon county, 100
families J iu Cherokee county 10 families ;
in Sioux county, 200 families; O'Brien
county, 250 families ; Plymouth county, 10
families ; Clay county, SO families ; Dickin
son county, 10 families ; Emmet county, 80
families J Kossuth county, GO families ;
Bueua Vista county, 85 families, and Palo
Alto county, 80 families, a total of 080
families, or 4,000 people requiring immedi
ate relief in the shape of fuel, clothiug and
piovisions, besido seed to sow over 5,000
acres of land that is already broken up.
They recommend that the people of the
stuto .be called upon, to co-operate in , this
great work of relief. The cause of this
distress is the grasshopper plague.
tW A Maine woman ate four quarts of
oysters at one sitting the other day, and
won one hundred dollars by so doing, which
after deductiug her burial expenses, eight-
five dollars, left ber fifteen dollars to com
menoe the next world with, i
Sudden Epidemic In a Hcheol.
Great exoitement was caused in Meriden,
ConnM Wednesday afternoon of lost week,
by the sudden and alarming Indications of
illness manifested by the pupils in the Ger
man school of Rer. Mr. Graeber. ' While a
class was reciting, one of the boys, a lad of
thirteen, suddenly foil to the floor, as if In
a fainting fit, ,. Mr. Graeber hardly had
time to raise him up before another fell,
then another, then one of the girls, and so
on until the pupils were dropping around
him like nine-pins. Seeing that the attack,
whatever it was, was of a general nature,
Mr. Graeber immediately ordered the pu
pils to go out of doors. . They repaired to a
vacant lot close at band, and the teacher,
having revived those he was attending,
went out to look after them when he saw
them falling, one by one, as they bad douo
in the school-room, till upwards of thirty
boys and girls lay writhing in the snow,
perfectly helpless. Their symptoms were
similar to those of sea-sickness, only in
addition to nausea and vomiting, the
victims seemed to lose control of their
limbs. Medical attendance was speedily
procured, and the afflicted children were
cared for and sent homo, when most of thom
recovered, though some were ill next day.
The probable, in fact, the only explana
tion of tho strange attack is, that a large
amount of coal-gas bad escaped into the
room by reason of a dofect in tho furnaces,
and bad thoroughly poisoned the atmos
phere Mr. Graeber had not noticed the
smell of the gas, but persons coming in
from the outer air were able to perceive it.
It is needless to say that the greatest alarm
prevailed among tho parents of the chil
dren so singularly affected, and Mr.Gracber,
who is usually a careful man in reference
to ventilation, was overwhelmed with the
questions of tho anxious all the evening.
Death Sentence Pronounced.
West Chester, Pa., Deo. 13. Udder-
zook was brought before the Court this
morning, when Judge Butler gave his de
cision against granting a now trial, and
gave his reasons at longth. The first aud
fourth reasons, be said, bad been abandon
ed. The propriety of sending the photo
graph to the jury to assist in identification
he did not doubt. The saino might be
said of the letters sent in. The evidence
against the competence of Wilson as a
juror ho regarded as totally inadequate,
and the same might be said in regard to
that against Nichols, whose expressions
show no prejudice against the prisoner,
and amount to nothing more than his
statements before entering the jury-box.
District Attorney Wager then moved that
the judgment of the Court and sentence of
the law be passed. The prisoner being
asked if he bad anything to say why sen
tence should not be passed, replied that by
advice of bis counsel lie should say no
thing at this time. Judge Butler then
passed the sentence of death in the usual
form. The prisoner showed throughout a
great deal of nerve, and appeared but little
affected, while the Judgo was moved to
tears.
Foreign Items.
London, December 10. A dispatch from
Sheffield says that city was visited to-day
by a terrible storm. The wind blew a hur
ricane, and a large number of buildings
aud chimneys were blown down, and many
persons were killed. One iramenso chim
ney crushed the building and boiler located
therein ; the boiler exploded, killing and
wounding several persons. Inconsequence
of the great excitement in the city aud
dense crowds which filled the stieets, but
few details could bo learned at the time
the dispatch was forwarded. The tele
graph lines were prostrated in all directions
but the lines that are now working bring
news that the storm extended all over the
North of England aud far into Scotland.
Sheffield looks as if bombarded, aud the
loss of property is immense. Churches
were unroofed, aud many factories were
compelled to suspend work. The lowest
estimate places the casualties to persons
in that city at seven killed and thirty
wounded, many of them fatally. Dispatch
es show that the hurricane was felt at
Glasgow, Halifax, Dreusbury and Not
tingham, in all of which cities lives were
lost and great damage done. At Leeds it
is estimated that property to the amount
of $100,000 was destroyed. Much damage
was done at West Startlcpool and Durham.
Shipping suffered severely at New Castle
and Shields. A steamer is ashore off An-
drossan, aud the railway station aud sev
eral bouses were blown down In Wilton,
near Harrowgate, on the York and North
Midland Railroad.
IW During the storm recently, a whirl
wind or cyclone caught up the . roof of
Knous' school house in New Hanover twp.,
Montgomery county, and whirled it off the
building in a hurry. One . half the roof
was carried more than three hundred feet
away in nearly a , northerly . direction,
alighting io good condition in an orchard
The other half was torn te pieces.! ,
tW A breach of promise case bas Just
been decided at Forf Wayne. Only one
letter was put Into their case, but that was
conclusive. It was as follows : Mi hart
beets oanly for the, mi ' darlin bunny."
Verdict for the female ; damages not sta
ted.
ftiscellnneoas News Items.
The death of Col. Frederick Dent,
the father of Mrs. Grant, took place at a late
hour' last Tuesday night.- The-deceased
was in his 88th year. Ho complained of
being unwell before, but no alaiming
symptoms were apparent until a short time
before his death, which occurred without
a struggle.
Columbia, S. C, December 13. The Ben
dor family, who are charged with a number
of murders in Kansas, were arrested at
Bivingsville, Spartanburg county, a few
days ago. The father and mother, and a
daughter living in North)Carolina,are being
sought after by the officers of the law. The
family name is Webb.
tW A few days since, as some gentle
men wore passing through the woods at
East Coventry township, Chester county,
they discovered a cavern eight or ten feet
deep. Upon one of the gontlemen de
scending he found in the apartment a rope
twenty-five feet long, a torch, a jug, a hoe,
a piece of candle nnd two boards. Who
inhabited the hole is unknown,
Cairo, Illinois, Dccotuber 13. At Cai'-
bondale to-day John M. Brush, an old and
esteemed army telegrapher, while register
ing his name- at tho Planters Hotel acci
dentally spilled some ink on tho register.
This provoked the auger of the clerk aud
tho proprietor, resulting in tho latter in
stantly killing Brush.
Nashville, December 13. W. B. Wood,
agent of Adams Express Company, at
Franklin, Ky., had his skull crushed and
his safe robbed of $4,200 about 0 o'clock on
Thursday night. There were three men
concerned in the assault and robbery, who
have been arrested. It is feared Wood is
mortally wounded.
Cg1" At a weddiug in Appomattox co.,
Va., on Wednesday night, an Infant child
of Mrs. William Carter was laid on a bed
to sleep. Guests camo in, and not noticing
the sleeping infant, threw their shawls,
muffs, bonnets, etc., on tho bed. When its
mother wont to the bed for her child it was
found dead, having been smothered by the
wrappings thrown ou it.
tW Tho Altooua Tribune Bays : The
store of Charles L. Palmer, at Irwin, was
entered by some person or persons ou last
Friday night a week, and several articles
abstracted therefrom. The burglars de
vised a somewhat novel way to obtaining
an entrance. They bored auger holes all
around the lock on the front door, and
then lifted the entire lock out and walked
straight id and helped themselves. They
were very reasonable in their desires, be
cause after helping themselves to pen
knives, sleeve buttons and tobacco, they
left.
Tweed's Little Book.
" A former resident of Port Jervis, who
saw William M. Tweed shortly after his
conviction, informs us that Mr. Tweed sur
prised him by stating that he proposes to
publish a book, of an autobiographical
character, as soon as he . can secure time
enough to attend to it. Mr. Tweed has
carefully kept a diary of his life, and be
proposes, now that he occupies a felon's
cell, to give the world some startling dis
closures. He proposes to tell the world
bis mannor of doing business, whom ho
bought te serve bis purposes, aud what tho
average price of Albany Legislators is.
Probably no one man in the country has
bad so varied an experience In this line as
Mr. Tweed, and no man can make such
startling revelations."-
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