4 Ijc Ua0mfitto imts. NEW BLOOMFIELD, PENN'A. Tuesday, December 30, 1873. Notice to Subscribers. Subscribers to The Times who wish some other publication and cliomo, can hava cither of the following at tho prico men tioned : , Peterson's JIugnzino for 1874 and The Times, for .... $2.73. The People's Journal, with an en graving 13 x 19 inches (seo advertise ment) and Tito Times, for . . f 2.00. Wood's Household Magazine and i tho splendid chrnmo, YO SEMITE, aud The Times, for $2.25. All tho above Magazines are monthly publ ications. Recokdeu llackett, of Now York, last week sentenced a man to twenty years' imprisonment, for committing rape on a girl eight years old. The Recorder regret ted he could not impose tho death sentence. Owing to tho failure of tho crops in Bon gal it is believed that a famino is inevita ble. At least 11,000,000 of the CO, 000, 000 of people inhabiting the district affected by the scarcity of food will starve to death uu less am is given to tliein. iu the opinion of tho English press the ouly thing to be done is the importation of at least 1,400, 000 tons of food into Bengal. Tho cost of this undertaking will necessarily be enor mous, and its success would bo a splendid proof of tho ability of .modern civilization to combat and vanquish' a famine. Under the New Constution the usual Spring election will take placo on tho third Tuesday of February next, for city, ward, borough and township officers throughout tho State. No election for lo cal or municipal officers can be held at any other time, except to fill a vacancy, iu any city, borough, ward or township of the State. ' The general election for State and County is chnnged from tbe second Tues day of October to tin Tuesday after the first ilonday of November of each year. This Axes the next election for general officers on Tuesday, November 8, 1874. " Bolu Expenses. ' That there should be a reduction in tho Various estimates for the use of the dif ferent departments is made evident by some of the expenses charged in tho report of the Superintendent of the Treasury for last year. Some of the items are ridicu lous. For instance, one of the charges is for hemming towels $350, while the male rial cost $1,410. Another item is still moje strange and would seem to indicate that the wheelbarrow in use in that department is upholstered, for among the bills is the following : , MAncn, 1873. "McDonnof tt Br m. ropalni to Wheelbarrow, .ti.76" Another itom U, " repairs to two wag ons, $2,009.03, and repairing harness $1, 131.68." With such 'charges before them, it is not strange that Congress demands a revision of tho estimates aud a consequent reduction before placing greater tax bur dens ou the people. A Ecmirkatle EccccmUt. The. Pension Committee of tho House of Representatives has decided to increase the monthly stipend of sold iers rendered perfectly helpluas by wounds and exposure during the late war, and who require the constant care of others, from thirty-one to fifty dollars. There are but six hundred and thirty of those hapless veterans in the country, so that this addition to their pen sions involves au increased annual expense to the Troasury of not quite twelve thou sand dollars. One would have fancied that a measure so benign and humane as this, addressed to the relief of bedridden cripples to whom "all is lost except a little- life,',' and who were cut down to this low state iu the service of their coun try which pledged itself to care for them, would hardly have found, in Congress or elsewhere, a solitary voice to oppose it. But such a voice was lifted up, aud it came out of tho throat of Gen Benjamin F. Butler, who urged in committee with great vehemence that these lame, halt, maimed, aud blind survivors of many bloody battles should be herded into squads, and shipped to the military asylums. The object of the increase of their paltry pensions was to en able them to live among their friends and families and in the places of their youth, and to die by their own fireside. . Gen. Bullor rests his opposition to the ' proposed increase on the ground of econ omy. He thinks that the Government is spending too much money, that saving must begin somewhere, and that the right place to begin is with the most helpless of its pensioners the poorest of all its poor. . This thrifty public servant Is the same man who pushed through the last Congress the infamous double-pay and back-pay bill, who was foremost in seizing his share of that plunder, and one of the very fow of the many who were greedy to grab it who had the effrontery to stand up before a crowd and complacently slap the poekot swelled with the spoil and cry out, " There it is ; what are you going to do about it?" Considering theso notorious facts, it would seam that, in this opposition to portioning out among six hundred and thirty stricken soldiers a sum but a little larger than the retrospective stealings of two Representa tives under his favorite bill, is not mado from any dosire to save the nation's mon ey, but as a spite against the soldiers. Washington Correepondenci. Washington, Deo. 19, 1873. One of tho most prominent and striking features ot the legislation of Congress is tho alacrity with which any measure that benefits Congress is passed, and on the other hand the tortuous winding ways through which measures for the relief of the whole people uave to go bclore Decora ing law. The course of Congress has ouly to be watched to confirm this in any person's mind. The salary grab, for instance. Last winter it was passed almost unanimously and very fow speeches made, but now when public opinion urges congress to repeal tins obnoxious measure they debate lor a week or two, a question that is plain, and upon which not a member but had made up his mind ere he came here to take his seat. Just so long as they keep on dis cussing it, so long will they draw their twenty dollars per day. The southern members are opposed to its repeal to a man Their mouth piece Ex-Confedcrato Vice President; Stephens made a speech on Thursday against the repeal of the salary law. The old time eloquence and vim of this man is remarkable, lie is so attenu ated that some person has said it was a pleasure to look at him, because you could almost see his "naked soul." llis argu nient is that brains ajo required for mem bers of congress, antr that this commod ity ought to command in the business vo cation of life from ten to fifteen thousand dollars per anuum. The speaker was under the impression, and was living over again the congress of by gono days, when the people selected men of brains to represent them in the halls of Congress. He forgot that the body of men called Congress that ho was addressing, were pigmies in com parrison to the men who composed the ma jority of congress years a gone. He de livered his speech standing on one crutch. Although his voice is inclined to be harsh it was clear and distinct, and his gestures were vigorous. It usually takes a new congress until after the Holidays to get into a working mood. The organization of the committees is very nearly completed. There has been about five hundred bills presented and refer red already enough to keep congress in session for several years. The nomination of Hon. George II. Wil liams to bo Chief Justice is not looked upon with favor by the majority of congress. At this writing he has not been confirmed. The death of Judge Underwood of the United States District Court of Virginia, took place last Sunday night, and on Mon day, before Underwood was buried, tho President had selected from a score or more of applicants for the vacancy, the name of Col. Hughes, the late defeated He publican candidate for Governor of Virgin ia to fill the position. The Sonate shows a better appreciation of the demands of the people on the salary question than the House appears to and have amended the House bill to the sur prise and disgust of tho members.' Con gress will adjourn over till the 5th of Jan uary. Ph. Notk The nbove letter of our special corres pondent should have appeared last week, but reached us too late. Kd A Wonderful Freak of Nature. A cow belonging to Mr. J. K. Solinger, residing about one mile northeast of town, gave birth to a most wonderful and strangely formed calf. We are not able to give an intelligent aud correct description of the calf, and will refer the curious to Mr. Solinger, who has its hide stuffed, so as to show as near as possible its shape and construction. The hind part of the animal had the shape of a hog, the legs aud hoofs were that of its kind, the lower jaw re sembled the lower mouth of an eloplyut, and the upper part of its head is unusually large and high, resembling the head of a human, eyes rather low down, ears . vory small and well set back upon a slender neck. Two bones running up each side of the head resembling the shell of a turtle, with no bone over the top, nothing but the hide, arid the entire upper part of the bead was filled with water, no solid substance. The teoth iu the lower jaw, resemble that of a hog in form and location. Crestline Advocate. An Artful Euavo. At Highgute, Vt., lately, while Deacon Jeremy Record and his son were iu the woods at work, leaviug tho son's wife, a young woman of eighteon, solo occupant of the house, a man, disguised with a block veil, noiselessly entered tho house, and coming uuperoeived upon the young wo man seized her arms from behind and bound them. He then put a rope around ber neck and secured her to a kettle of boiling water on tho stove, so that she could not move without pulling it upon herself. Then, after threatening to take her lifu if the made uuy outcry or attempt ed to escape, the robber rausacked the house, securing a pocket-book containing $75 aud a lot of household goods. He released Mil. Record, aud again threaten ing ber life If she raised an' alarm made good his escape. ' . Ofllclal Vote Majority for tho New Con stitutien 145,160. Tho official vote from all the counties of the State bos been reoeived at the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, which we give bolow, in connection with .the vote of 1838 : . . Where blanks occur in the vote of 1838, the counties have been since organized. ' 1838 1873 For Avalnat. For Airalnat. Adamsi Siii 442i) 5(7 1m Allegheny. 44ROI 6M NWIS 1ms Armstrong, 2.W7 W 1017 Beaver. avill 1H12' SM17 11S9 Bedford, 1072 27W 2211 774 Berks, 68'i'l 381 911 W Blair. I 17H2 2248 Bradford, 41W 88 4340 Ui Books, 4o.ni anw 4VI 2.W Butler. 2:18.1 712 ii'177 4IK1 Camiirla, 616j 939. 1!I72 1811 Cameron, I 4U fiO Carbon, 174' ?V9 Centre, 2082! lW 21U1 1077 Chester, 387UI 608.'i ftvm 7!7 Clarion, 2287 045 Clearfield. . 9871 199 142 1222 Cllnlon. I 2(74 lt Columbia, l.Vifl! . l.wv 2m 71 Crawford, SUlj f17; ffios 841 Cumberland, va 24ii 3:n ltKM Dauphin, lu'wl .1119 4o:i.r Delaware, 12!9 14.r9' 1HM 797 Klk, j W 229 Krle 31751 4M 02I 742 Favette. 3022! 114" 2727 N1 Franklin, 17231 3315 29J1 1275 Forest, I :wn IS Fulton, I 803 98 Greene, 2:199i 74- WH lStH Huntingdon, H(V 3348! 2MS 494 Indiana, 1248; 1471, IMW 3152 Jullerson, 693 3M 13(K1 912 Juniata, IV.7' 1249 fltil 39 Lancaster, 2355 1UU50! 8102 4147 Lawrence, I 25ns 223 Lebanon, 807 2573! 1S7 1849 Lehigh, 1792 ; 2244, a (72 1W Luzerne. RlW 1141 1 fnWO 2507 Lycnmliiu, 1913; 1477 3S14 1747 McKean, :wil 2 1 093 fl-l Mercer. KlriVi 1475 3X94 2104 Mlfllln, Will 3153 1599 3711 Montgomery, 12481 29 fttM 2959 Monroe, 3690, 4079 li'40 3S1 Montour. 1005 154 Northampton. lfWl 3577 ; 3245 2581 Northuiuberrd, 8H7 2144 3170 1021 ferry, 1210! 1418 1491 lorn Philadelphia, 8.H7 12429 69114 24944 Pike. find 3 i'M Kl Potter, 328i I 549 17 Schuvlklli, 1400 1812 0150 2020 Hnvd'er, ! 408 22311 Somerset, 65 2029 ; 892 2'Mi Sullivan. I ' 54 197 Susquehanna, 2osri 412 row ftil Tloua, l.r74 16 2.V-, 1910 Villon, 452 3185' 1599 317 Venango, t lK87i 448 4710 189 Warren, 1128, 31 2487 128 Washington, 4394' 1570 4020 0.18 Wayne, 1:mii, 09 1500 257 Westmorland, 4105 2224 4081 : 2410 Wyoming, 1750 125 York, 1233 5500 6514 3091 113971 1127591 253.744 108,594 112597 108,594 Majority 1212: j 145,150 Tho only counties giving a majority against the constitution are, Adams, Blair, Dauphin, Greene, Indiana, .Lebanon, Perry, Potter, Snyder and Somerset. A Ifailroad Warfare. The Pennsylvania railroad and Balti more & Ohio have inaugurated a fight which has resulted in a material reduction of the faro ou those lines for long distances. The Baltimore aud Ohio charges that the Penn sylvania railroad has deprived the former of the necessary facilities in the through arrangements between New York and Washington, aad that as a retaliatory measure a reduction of rates to all joints west has been made. The Pennsylvania promptly followed suit over its western route via Harrisburg.- The Pennsylvania road has issued a poster stating that the rates of faro by their route would be as low at all times as that offered by another line. The authorities say they expected this action on the part of tho Baltimore and Ohio railroad and were prepared to meet it, and had issued orders to their agents to that effect. ' They say that the latter road has no right to complain of the action of the Pennsylvania rood, as for fifteen years they were compelled to trans fer their passengers to Washington through the city and were compelled to purchase tickets, that this action of tho Baltimore and Ohio railroad was not for any spirit to oblige tho traveling public, but in spirit of retaliation for something alleged to have been done by their road. . The Pennsylva nia railroad is selling tickets between Phil adolphia and Pittsburg at eight dollars, and between Washington and Pittsburg six dollars, a great reduction. A Desperate Leap. On Saturday lost, shortly after noon, a man passing in view of the Powhatan Cotton Factory, at Powhatan, 2d district was horrified at seeing a young woman ap pear at a window of the fifth-story of that lofty building, and suddenly throw herself out. The windows of this story receding some distance from the liue of the lower stories, the unfortunate woman first struck the sloping roof, and then making several bounds, pitched forward over the eaves of the factory, aud plunged down sixty-five feet to the ground, where sho struck upon her feet with fearful force, and then full forward, striUiug her boad violently against the solid earth, receiving horrible wounds upou her forehead, and also breaking both wrists. , Strange to say, the poor creature was not luetautly killed, but actually rose from the ground, and staggered to the fac tory steps, whero she full unconscious. In tho meantime Henry Bittman, the man who saw her jump fiom the window, ran to that side of the mill, and found the un fortunate woman lying upou the steps in sensible. Dittman immediately gave the alarm, aud in a fow moments sho was sur rounded by a crowd of ho.riflod aud sym pathising employes, who conveyed her to boarding house near by, .where she received the aid of Doctors Fields and Monraonier, who pronounced her case hopeless. ifalfi' more Union. A Bottomless Pit. The Waterville Telegraph has an account of a fire which has broken out in a gully about four miles northeast of Haddam, Washington county, and has continued to burn, apparently in the same spot, for three weeks. A destructive prairie fire swept ovor that locality some time ago, and after days had passed, and the occurrence was nearly forgotten, smoke was observed emerging from the gully. This excited the curiosity of the scientillo ones, and an in vestigation was made, when it was discov ered that the smoke issued from a crevice iu a large stone imbedded in the side of the gully. Some of the wise ones de clared it to be a vein of coal on fire, as there are indications of coal iu that vi cinity. But the smoke docs not smoll like that of coal. It is a clear smoke and as cends in large and steady volumes and floats off over the surrounding country. There are indications of immense fire beneath the surface of the ' earth, and much alarm is felt. At night tho flro aud smoke stream upward toward the dark ompyroan, and darkness is dispelled for a long distance from the place. Double Murder. At Now York on last Thursday morning cries of murder were heard from the window of a five-story building tenement bouso No. 204 Broome street. On the officers enter ing the building they found the body of a man lying in a 1 pool of blood, with his throat cut from car to car, and on entering the room of the deceased found the dead body of a young woman with her throat cut. The walls and stair-ways were lit erally covered with blood, from the room where tho dead body of the woman was found to the second landing, where the body of tho man was found. It was first believed that tho deceased (Michael Ryan) had cut bis Bister's throat and then his own, but tbo police on instituting a Bearch,found the vest of tho murdered man ou the roof, the buttonhole which held a watch chain was pulled out and the pocket rilled, and the box where deceased kept his bank book was missing. On the stairs leading to the roof as well as thereon, barefoot prints were found, and it is the beliof of the police that robbery and murder have been com mitted. So far no clue to the perpetrators has been discovered. Cincinnati December 28. The strike of the engineers and firemen on the Pan Han dle railroad commenced here at noon to day. The strike is against the reduction of ten per cent, ou the wages of the em- ployees from the first of the present month. The agent of the company says that pre vious notice of the reduction was given. Since noon two passenger trains and all the freight trains on the Pan Handle road were unable to leave thiB city. It is report ed that all the branches of the Pan Handle and Pennsylvania Central roads will bo ef fected simultaneously by this strike. Lancaster,' N. H., December 25. A bloody fracas took place at Grovcton last evening, growing out of an attempt by Michad O'Leary and a Frenchman named Blockwell, both intoxicated, to enter a house of questionable repute owned by a Frenchman named Gouye. The result of the fight was the death of Gouye and bis son, a young man, who was killed by O'Leary with a club, the mortal wounding of Blockwell with an axe by old Gouye, and a bad wound on O'Leary 's head from a club used by the female inmates of the house. tW A small dog belonging to a gentle man in Portland, Me., was mrssea uyuis owner for six days. Search was made for him, and he was finally found in a cistern containinz six or eight inches of water. It was evident that he could not have lain down during tbe time mentioned, nor could he have obtained any food, yet he was quite lively and active when rescued from his confinement. A man In New Albany, Ind., was re tin nine from a aeichbors on the night of the lltb. and surprised a party digging a grave in the woods. ' They fired upon him and he retreated, but the next morning found the empty pit. The affair is a mys tery. The Great Wedding Card Depot ! ; THE LATEST NOVELTIES IN WEDDING CAI1DS! LOWEST PRICES. A Larg assortment o Stationery of every . Description. INITIAL PAPER. ALWAYB ON 11AM) ready stamped. Dollar box containing tour quires French paper and two packs Envelopes with the Initials. Bent by mull for 11.25 by TOT. 11. 1IOSKINS, BTATIONEIt, . , , . J2NG HAYEK, AND BTKAM X'OWER FltlNTKH. . 38 B 6in , S13 Area Htroet, rhllailel phla. Important Notice ! Having laid in a very heavy stock of W I IN TE 1. AND lLTU GOODS i. r which must be closed out, I have decided to offer my entire as sortment at prices Regardless of Cost I Persons wanting BARGAINS will " hit the nail on the head," by giving me a call. rXlio Best Xrints only 10 Cents per yard and other goods in proportion. A .splendid assortment of "Winter BOOTS & SHOES is included in the above offer. F. 310UTIMER, New Bloomfield, Pa. November 19, 1873. rjpRIAL LIST, JANUARY TERM, 1874. 1. Oobrlcl Kline et ux vs. Henry Cooper. 2. Kcbeccfi (J. Nevln's use vs. Wm. Kons;h. 8. Sarah Klngsborougb vs. Administrators of Gcorire Orris, deceased 4. Doty fe Purker vs. William Hough. 5. Samuel Moore vs. The P.U. R. Company. 0. Joseph Dunlap vs. Wm. A. Haverstick, et al. 7. George A. Smith vs. John V. Flckes. ' 8. Jacob Btoutfer vs. William Btoutfcr. 9. Samuel Potter vs. William McCoy. 10. C. Livingston & Co. vs. Marlon Foote's Adm'r. 11. C. Livingston & Co. et al vs. Marlon Foote's Adm'r. 13. Jas. T. McElhancy et ux vs. Goorgo Kern, et ux. 13. Michael Bltttlng vs. John Steel. 14. Jacob Oimm vs. Henry Canfl'man. ' 15. Levi T. Smith vs. Hawley & Meredith, lft. J. C. Stewart vs. Marlon Foote's Adm'r. IT. Samuel Llggott vs. William Donnally. J. J. 8PONENBERGER, Proth'y. LIST OF GRAND JURORS,, JANUARY Term, 1874. Bloomfield B. Samuel Dunbar, Wm. Rice. Landlsburg Win. B. Linn. Liverpool U. John Williamson. Duncannon William Penncll, B. A. E. Rife, Jos. Michener. Marysville George Kocher, H. H. Fisher. Tuscarora George Gutshall, John M. Fry. Wtaeatfleld George F. Moyer. Penn John P. Steel, Frederick Wall, Jr. Jackson Issue ButtorrT, William Mumper, William A. Btambaugh, Jacob Snyder. Tyrone William Brlckley. , Carroll John Smiley, Br. ' ' ' . ' Watts-ojohn Hemperly. Toboyne George Kern. Spring Jacob Frownfelter. Greenwood Tobias Helser. fpR AVERSE JURORS, JANUARY TERM, X 1874. BloomOeld B. Andrew P. Nickel, Henry M. Swegar, James B. llackett, John A. Mc Croskey, James B. Clark. Newport D. W. Gantt. ' Duncannon Cyrus Hochlandcr. . Jackson Henry Rmesmlth. Spring W. H. Rlneamlth, Thomas Lebo. Carroll James McQonlgle, Joseph Stair. Tyrone John Stowart, Crelgh Patterson, Benjamin Wormley. Liverpool B. William Noll, Henry Hoffman. Madison William H. Hall, Wm. Shearer. Centre David Holmes, James English, Geo. W. Meek, Solomon Reeder. Oliver Ellas Fisher, Samuel B. Leiby. Greenwood Jacob Baiboar, Jacob Shuman, John Noll, John Bonsall, C. C. Reen, Martin Noll. ' Tuscarora W. L. Janes, George Hench. Penn Lewis Haines, John Mayor. ' Wtaeatfleld Henry Lepperd. Saville Henry Tltzel, David Adams, John Dromgold, Philip Jacobs, John Kochendorfer. Butlulo T Robert Basklns. Howe Lewis Frank. Juniata Levi K. Swartz, Benjamin Gregg, Samuel Watts, John Lenlg. Watts James D. Moore. ASTOUNDING ! $18 IN VALUE FOR $3. A Splendid Holiday, Birthday, Weddins or ' Friendly Froaeut. The ortiflnal, iKipulsr, lsrtte and elwmnt Oil ehr mo, " THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET," "Th old oukeu tui knt-tho fl on-bound blirkot The luon-oovend huokut, wliii b Uumtlu Uie weU," (lifter Jkiioue Tiiom-miH,) ! ' by M iucliMi. 1h Lintiiariorillurn ever imblihlifd, fur U. 'ihiil liw and truly m.leliilid Chnmi", i" all IU ordinal Iwautir uud eii'dllruei', la ollui'eU aa a pruuiium to each ear ly auUMuriber to Demorest's Monthly Magazine, THE MODEL PAMLOlt MAGAZINE OF AMI RICA. The Chroniola lent varntahM on a roller, prwtax ten oouta eilra : or mounted uu eanvaa aud trnteUe.r, aa au till intliilliiK, fifty eulit extra ( wliieb lutMuUe. tf"l;r tati.m) tor mounted ou oauvaH, aud Iu au eluwaut J 1 J lneli Kill frame with arutH!oue cornera, three yarda of crln.S.il ootd. and iiaeked fur ; uiaklits Cue wltola oimiiilete, (luoliiilitiK yrituie, L'Uromo aud aubnerli Uon to the MaifUKlue,) nniy . . ... ,,. Io uot failtoaeud early atuliret the m turn lucent Clironio, the, "()i.u 0km ltooaaT." wlm b. lt. aiaa aud arlWio merit, la quite wiual to ail OU fjiuUtuj WNow ,w 7 Kent aUny Xre In tbe If. H. on receipt of the amount of the eulMt rumou. AOiireaa. W. JENNINGS DtMOREST, ' . baa Broadway, ASsw Jotk. 61 It. 4
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