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NEW BLOOHFIELD, PENN'A.
, .Tuesday, January HO, 1874.
Notice to Subscribers.
Subscribers toTnR Timrs who wish some
other publication and chomo, can have
cither of tho following at tho prico men
tioned :
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ment) and The Times, for - - $3.00.
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AU the above Magaziuesaro monthly pub
ications. We return our thanks to Mr. John II.
Sbeibley, member of the legislature from
this county for legislative documents.
: In tho distribution of legislative offices,
Perry County was not remembered. Of
course the reason for this was there wera
no applicants for any offlco.
Tiik unemployed workmen in Now York
liavo been giving the police of that city
considerable trouble, and indications of
riotous conduct are frequent among tho
crowds that gather in various parts of the
city. .
A Conflict exists in Texas between the
newly elected and the retiring ovoiuor.
The old officer claims executive control
of affairs until April, while the governor
elect claims that his term commences now.
The President has been asked for troops to
settle the difficulty, tut refers the parties
to the courts, and declines to interfere.
Trouble is apprehended.
The House of Representatives at Wash
ington, have by a very large majority pass
ed a resolution declaring, "that in their
judgment there is no necessity to increase
taxation or to increase the publio debt by
a further loan, if there shall be economy in
tho publio expenditures ; aud in view of the
condition of the national finances, the
House will reduce the appropriations aud
publio expenditures to the lowost point
consistent with the proper administration
of public affairs."
The people will cordially support their
representatives in carrying out such a de
sirable programme, us they are , neither in
the humor or tho condition to bear increas
ed taxation. : ...
Tub Gettysburg Star Sentinel says :
At a meeting of the Bar of this couuty last
week, after full conference of opinions, it
was unanimously agreed that it was desir
able to have Adams county made a sepa
rate Judicial district. Oui correspondent
W. developes some of the reasons which led
to this determination. Besides this is the
auomolouB condition of the county under
the new Constitution. All the surrounding
counties, Franklin, Cumberland and York,
are made separate Judicial districts, leav
ing Adams isolated. If attached to either
of these counties, which have a constitu
tional right to elect a separate Judge, it is
questionable whether our county would
Lave any voice in the election of Judge.
The remaining alternative is either to be
attached to some distant county of leas
population than 40,000, or to be made a
separate Judicial district. Tho latter seems
to be preferred. 1
Tub nomination of Hon. Caleb Cushing,
to be Chief Justice of the United States
has been withdrawn by the President in
consequence of a determined opposition in
the Beuato to hi confirmation. One , of
the reasons given by the senators for op
posing this nomination was that be had
never been prominently identified with the
Republican party. To most persons the
fact that he had not been a prominent pol
itician would seem to bo a strong recom
mendation as to bis fitness for a position
where party bias should be entirely exclud
ed. It is also said that Mr. Cushing hav
ing written a letter recommending a friend
to the favorable notice of Jefferson Davis,
in March, 1801, was an evidence that be
was not loyal to the Union at that time,
and consequently, though be had been con
tinental advisor to every administration
since that time, was not fitted for the po
sition to which he had been nominated.
If the charge is true that be was disloyal
ho is unfit to represent this nation in Spain,
aud yet the same Senators who opposed
bis appointment as Chief Justice, readily
voted to confirm him as Spanish miuUter.
It is therefore evident that the true reason
for the opposition has not yet beeu made
manifest, and it may be that some Senator
is desirous to secure the position of Chief
Justice for himself.
ITo new nomination for the office has yet
been made.
Congress has repealed the salary bill
passed the 8d of March, 1873, and placed
all salaries as they were previous to that
date, except the salary of the President
and Justices of the Supreme Court.
A W asliington special says : A Senator
who was in conference with the President,
Tuesday, states that lie will return to
Congress, without his signature, the bill
repealing the salary steal, accompanying it
with a recommendation that it bs reconsid
ered, and an amendment added reducing
the pay of the Chief Executive to twenty
five thousand dollars a year, he agreeing to
forego bis constitutional right to the in
crease.
Should tho President tako such a step it
would add very much to bis popularity, as
people will romembor that tho law making
the increase received the approving signa
ture of the one to be benefited by it, only
twelve hours before- this term began. Un
dor tbeso circumstances it was certainly
bad tasto if not a violation of the spirit of
the Constitution to sign it, but the excuse
for so doing was, that a veto would
doprive the judges of an iucreaso in salary
to which they were entitled. Here now is
a chance to givo tbem tholr increase of sal
ary, and nt the same time wipe out all the
obnoxious features of the "salary grab"
bill.
Jlurrisburg Correspondence.
Hahkisbuko, Jan. 17th, 1874.
The most of the time of the Senate this
week has been spent in considering tho
election bill offered by Mr. McClure. The
bill was considered in caucus by tho lie-
publicans, and many important changes
agreed upon, which were subsequently in
corporated into tho bill. Upon final vote
being bad, 15 votes were cast for it and 8
against it, but' under the New Constitution
it requires a majority of tho whole Senate
to pass any bill, consequently the majority
of 7 on the vote failed to give the bill the
required number of votes. Further con
sideration was postponed until Tuesday
next. It is very unfortunnte that partisan
prejudice was allowed a place iu the dis
cussion of a measure in which both parties
should be anxious only to secure to the
voters an honest and fair ballot.
The speaker of the Senate on Wednes
day last, anuounced the formation of the
standing committees. In the formation of
these committees, the speaker has been
very liberal towards the minority, as ho
has placed Democrats at the head of four
of them.
Mossrs. Wallace aud Dill, are chairmen of
two sub-ooramittees on constitutional
reform, while Mr. Cbalfaut is chairman
of tho eommitteo on Publio Priuting, aud
Mr. Albright chairman of the committee
ou Mines aud Miuing. Petitions have beeu
presented contesting the seats of Senator
Lam on of the Third District, and the seat
of Senator Dill, from your district. From
the subsequent report of the Judiciary
committee regarding this matter, it is not
probable that either of these contests will
be pushed.
Iu the House, on Wednesday last, the
oath under the 'New Constitution was ad
ministered to the members. The standing
oommittees for the House were anuounced
yesterday, by speaker McCormick. He
has not shown as much liberality towards
the Democrats, as was shown in the Sen
ate. I notice that the member from your
county, Mr. John II. Sheibley, has a place
on four committees, viz : Ways and Means,
Printing, Agriculture and Compare Bills.
The Superintendent of Publio Schools, in
a communication yesterday, requested the
Legislature to investigate the charges
made against Rev. A. L. Guss, formerly
Prinoipal of the Cassville Orphan School
and the subject was reforred to the com
mittee on education in both Houses, the
committees to act in conjunction. This is
a good move, as the charges against Mr.
Guss, are scandalous, and justice to him
demands that if not true they should be so
declared and if true the cause of morality
demands that be be punished.
i lie Senate lias already adjourned until
Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock, and it is
probable that the House will adjourn this
afternoon until Tuesday evening or Wed
nesday morning. QUID NUNC.
A Engine Runs Away.
On Friday morning an engine attached
to a freight train in Sunbury suddenly broke
loose from the tender and started off at a
full run. The engineer was in the office
receiving order at the time, and the fire
man, who bad opened the throttle valve to
tart the train, stepped into the tender,
when the coupling suddenly broke. The
engine ran rapidly on to Northumberland,
aud passed Montandon with such speed
that it was bard to tell, remarked au eye
witness, whether it wo a locomotive or a
wheelbarrow. Finding that she could not
be overhauled, order were given to open
the switch at Milton an " ditch her." The
witch tender had barely time to exocute
the order when she came thundering up
the track, and was immediately thrown off,
running for a square or more on the ground,
causing the stone to fly in all directions,
oue of which passed through the window
of a bouse. When throwu off she bad one
hundred pound of steam, aud wa good
for Williamsport if ber progress had not
been so uddenly (topped. There wa
much excitement along the road, a the
mail train was known to be approaching.
She made the distance from Sunbury to
Milton, eleven miles, iu seventeen minute."
Fires.
A fire on Tuesday morning burned the
residence of Jacob Stelner, on Sixtieth
street, N. Y. Los twelvo to fifteen thou
sand dollars. Stoinor was instantly killed
by jumping from a window. Mrs. Stelner
and the daughter, Tabitha, were found in
one of the upper rooms suffocated. Mary
McGuire, a servant, bad ber thigh fractur
ed in attempting to escape. The fire was
caused by a defoctive flue.
Boston, Jan. 13. A large fire has beeu
raging for several hours at Natick, Mass.,
in the businoss portion of the town. Sev
eral steamers have boon sent from Boston
to aid in suppressing the (lames. The
loss already has reached half a million
dollars. Nearly the whole business portion
of the village is destroyed. Only three
stores were saved. The loss is estimated
at five hundred thousand dollars. Charles
T. Sherman, an engineer of the lire depart
ment, was killed by a falling wall.
Rail Road Troubles.
Whiting, N. J., January 13. The en
gineers of tho Now Jersey Southern Rail
road by preconcerted arrangements and at
the instigation of all other employes of the
company, last night, after taking their
several trains to their destination, ran their
engines to the headquarters of the motive
power of tho road at Manchester, and there
disconnected them, which action has com
pletely closed up the business of the road,
and of all other roads depending upon them
for connection. The cause of the strike is a
failure of the company to pay the month's
wages which they owe them. The track
has been torn up in several places to pre
vent trains of other roads from running on
the New Jersey Southern company' track.
In Earnest.
About a week after tho passage of the
Bntler-Uurlbut substitute in the House,
says tho St. Louis Republican one of the
Northwestern Republicans in that body
showed me a letter from the Chairman of
his State Central Committee. It read
thus :
You are all actintr the d n fool. The
people are iu no mood for fooling or trifling,
and here you go on just as if it was all fair
weather ami just as if there was no trouble
with our old fashioned majority. I tell
you the people don't want any patching up
of a bad job, and they wont have it. They
simply want the jobwipodout altogether
patchwork and all.
tW A professional betting man made a
good thing of it on the occasion of a fire
which lately broke out at the cotton-sampling
offices of at firm in Liverpool. While
tho conflagaration was at its height aud
the burning cotton was being thrown out
of the windows upon the flags below, a
number of brokers stood in the street dis
cussing the sura which the waste would
realize. One friend offered to bet a guinea
that (the burned cotton would fetch 15,
and as. this was apparently far beyond its
value he found no difflcutly in finding per
sons willing to take the bet. This he did
until twenty people bad accepted tho wa
ger for a guinea each. He afterward went
to the sale and bought the cotton for 10,
which he then sold for 13, sustaining a
loss of 4 upon the purchase, but pocket
ing sixteen guineas as his net profit upon
the transaction.
tW A complicated case has made its way
up to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts.
Mr. Perkins, a tardy traveler, wanted to
catch a trait that was starting out of
Boston sooner than suited hi leisurely con
venience. He ffered Mr. Gage, a hack
man, two dollar to get bim to the depot in
time. Mr. Gage did it, but in doing so
drove faster than the ordinance allowed,
and was arrested. He argued that the oc
casion and the extra compensation condon
ed his fault, whereupon be was also prose
outed for taking more tbau the regular
fare. Competent counsel have fought bis
case to the cost of $1,000, and now the final
decision is that he must pay the fines origi
nally imposed for oharging an extortionate
fare and fast driving.
CSTIIon.' Sydney Clarke, of Kansas, is
o much opposed to railroad that be made
the journey from bis home to Topeka la a
lumber wagon. lie is a granger candidate
for the Senate of the United States, and is
putting himself in proper training.
Foreign Items.
Madrid, January 13. The intransigent
insurrection continues at Barcelona, and
there has been considerable fighting In the
suburb. The governor of Madrid has ar
rested all the officer of the Saladero prison
because of the escape from that Institution
of an assassin who waa to have been ex
ecuted to-day.
The Captain general has issued an order
to the republican volunteers of Madrid dl
rectlng them to surrender their arms to
day. All who disobey will be tried by
court martial.
The authorities will search the city for
conceal id arm to-morrow.
London, January 15. A dispatch from
Portsmouth report an alarming conflagra
tion now raging in the government naval
dockyard at that city. The fire broke out
iu the warehouse early this morning, and
notwithstanding the exertion of the fire
men the flame have oontiuusd to spread.
The workmen in the yard are assisting the
firemen to extinguish the flame.
Miscellnneoas News Items.
X3T Lancaster has a pedestrian who
walked five miles an hour recently and has
gone over a distance of sixty miles on a
stretch.
HT Mrs. William Hall, an aged widow
of Kittanning, was fatally burned a few
days ago by her clothes taking fire at the
grate.
E3F" A Clergyman at Hazleton recently
appended a note to a wedding notice in a
local paper announcing that it was the
099th couple ho had married.
tW Out of one hundred jurors drawn
for the last torm of the Mayor's Court in
Scranton but twenty-one wore capable of
writing their names. .
tW The idiotic Tom Morton, arrested
some time since on the charge of incendiar
rism at Sunbury, Pa., and subsequently,
has been placed in the Danville lunatic asy
lum. New York, January 13. Ex-Senator
Graham, defaulting president of the Wall
kill national bank, was sentenced to-day to
ten years imprisonment in the Albany pen
itentiary. tW A well dressed, able bodied man
astonished people in State street, Boston,
New Year's day by walking up and down
with a large placard on his hat bearing the
inscription, 41 1 want work."
tW A feather-bed was thrown out of the
window of the burning house of Henry
Myers, at Cambridge City, Ind. After tho
excitement had subsided, it was found that
a sleeping babe bad been thrown out with
the bed, aud was thus saved from death.
tlf" A couple in Colebrook, Mass., tied
their sick child to the bed and went to
church. Thoy were gone four hours, and
when they returned tho neighbors, attract
ed by tho prisoner's cries, had broken in
the door. The parents were arrested.
VW An enthusiastic St. Louis sporstman
went out with his gun to secure a pot-pie
for dinnor, and being very intent on getting
good shot he stepped oil' to the edge of
the roof and went down forty feet, amid
the explosion of fire arms and a flapping of
wings. The pigeons escaped unhurt.
(ST Mike Hannegau, a rough and des
perate prisoner in Winona, Minnesota,
kindled a fire on the iloor of bis cell, and
trusted to the chance of a hole being burn
ed through before be was burned up. The
latter result had been nearly accomplished
when the keeper discovered and quenched
the flames.
t2T" A youug lady In Jeffersonville was
recently made tbe victim of heartless
practical joke. She was almost overwhelm
ed with confusion by the discovery that
she had been walking the street with a
placard pinned to the back of her dress
upon which was printed, " 2,000 children
wanted."
Mrs. David Cleveland, of Pawlet,
Vermont, tried to burn camphor over a
kerosene lamp, and it will never be known
whether it was tho camphor or the kero
sene that first exploded. Mrs. Cleveland
thinks it was the camphor that burned her
neck, and the kerosene that set fire to her
dress. ' '
They have caught a Chicago preach
er in tho act of stealing bis sermon. A
thrilling discourse delivered by him ou the
occasion of the loss of the Ville du Havre
was ascertained to be a transcript of a
sermon preached by Dr. Chapin of New
York when the Arctio was shipwrecked
some year ago.
Brooklyn, January 13. Special police
man R. M. Murdock, employed at Green
wood cemetery, residing in Twenty-second
street, shot his wife, .. Emma E. Murdock,
through tbe head, killing her instantly,
last night. She was entering tbe house by
the rear at ft P. M., aud he mistook ber
for a thief.
A family residing in Beaver avenue,
Allegheny, were thrown into intense ex
citement on Thursday night, by the noise
made by a skillful burglar. A strong force
of policemen were hastily summoned, and
thorough investigation instituted, which
resulted in the discovery of a hug black
cat, masculine gonder, frolicking around tbe
garret. No arrest.
tW A German farmer In Wiscensin hav
ing missed some grain from his barn, set
a fox trap so a to catch tbe arm of any
one who should attempt to open the dooi
of that edifice. About midnight the thief
was taken in the tiap, and bowled lustily
in hi anguish, but he wa aot released by
tbe farmer until morning, when he waa
thoroughly flogged before he was set at lib
erty. X3T Wooden shoe are highly recom
mended by the agricultural societies and
Government of Europe,a it is shown that
many disease resulting in Impaired consti
tution and even iu the loss of life have re
sulted from wearing leather shoes iu wet
weather, A practical workman from France
ho been called recently to Germany to su
perintend their manufacture. They are
light and easy to wear, and provided with
a email cushion within the upper aide to
obviate any pressure on that part of tbe
foot. They are of a neat, pleasant appear
ance blackened or varnished, large enough
to accommodate comfortable stockings, and
provided with leather straps. Their prices
range from 21 to 80 cents, and a very few
pairs would last a life time.
tW A young lady, a music teacher of
Elmira, waa recently suffering ' from
typhoid fover, and became to all appear
ance dead. The attending physician pro
nounced life extinct, and the remains were
taken to Uornellsville for burial. At the
grave when the coffin lid wa removed to
allow the friends to take a last look at the
remains, the body wa found in a state of
perspiration and still warm. Measures
were at once taken to restore conscious
ness, but without avail, although signs of
life wore visible for several hours after
ward. tW The grocery store of George Alder
ton at Saginaw City, Mich., wa complete
ly demolished by the explosion of a can of
gunpowder, and is now a mass of ruins.
A little daughter of Mr. Alderton, aged
four years, was instantly killed, and Mrs.
Alderton badly burned. A clerk named
Williams was also severely injured. The
accident is supposed to have been caused
by the little girl putting lighted matches
into a can containing nearly ten pounds of
gunpowder.
Z. K. Pangborn.editor of the Jersey City
Evening Journal, was waylaid on the 12th
Inst., by JohnDaley, an internationalist,
whom Pangborn had ordered out of bis
office. Pangborn was struck on the head
with a club, knocked down and badlv In
jured. Robert Bumstead, president of the
board ol aldermen, and another roan who
interfered in his behalf, were both stabbed
in the face. Daley, who was organizing a
force to parado with tho workingmen has
been arrested.
tSMr. T. P. Baily writes from Hum
boldt, Iowa, that at least oue good result
is apparent in that section as a result of the
panic. Speculators who have held large
bodies of land at exorbitant prices, and
who have thus kept out settlers, are being
compelled to sell, and farming lands which
were formerly held at from $8 to $10 per
acre can now be bought for half that sum. '
In consequence, settlers are flocking in
rapidly.
tW A portly gentleman crowded him.
serf into a horse oar next to a young man,
who said "Perhaps you wouldn't crowd
in here if you knew I had just bad the
small-pox?" "Oh, that's nothing," was
tbe reply, " for this is the first time I have
been out since I bad it myself."
V
t3T A country paper exclaims : " Lives
there a man with soul so detd, who never
to himself bas said, I'll pay before I go to
bed, the debt I owe tbe printer ? Yes,there
are some we know full well, who never
such a tale could toll, but they, I fear, will
go to well, the place where there's no
winter."
PHILADELPHIA AND READING R. R.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
Monday, Nov, 11th, 1873.
TRAINS LEAVE HAHKISBUKO AS FOLLOWS :
For New York, at 5.30, 8.10 a. m. and 2.00 p. m.
For Philadelphia, at 6.30, 8.10 a. ni. 2.00 and
4.0ft p. m.
For Heading, at 6.30. 8.10 a. m. 2X0, 4.05 and
7.40 p. m.
For Pottavllle. at 5.30, 8.10 a.m. and 4.05 p.m.
and via Schuylkill aud Susquehanna Branch at
3.ini p. m.
For Allentown, at 6.30, 8.10 a. m. 2.00 and 7.49
p. m.
The 6.30 a. m. and 2.00 p. m. traln9 have
through cars for New York.
The S.10 a. ni. and 100 p. m. trains have through
ears for Philadelphia.
SUNDAYS :
For New York, at 5.30 a. m.
For Allentown and Way Station at 6.30 a.m.
For Heading, Philadelphia aud Way Statious at
tOOp. m.
TRAINS FOR HAKKISBUKO, LEAVE AS FOL-
LOWS :
Leavo New York, at S.00 a. m. 12.40 and 5.30
PLive Philadelphia, at 9.15 a. m. 8.30 aud 7.15
p. m.
Leave Heading, at 4.15, 7.40, 11.20 a. m. 1.50,0.00
and 10.15 p. ni.
Leave FotUvllle, at 6.00, 9.10 a. m. and 4.35 p. m.
and via Schuylkill and Huwiueuaana Branch at
8.05 a. in.
Leave Allentown, at 2.10 a. m. 12.25, 4.35 and
8.5ft p. m.
The 2.10 a. hi. train from Allratown .and the
4.15 a. m. train from Heading do not run on Mon
days. SUNDAYS :
Leave New York, at 5.30 p. m.
Leave Philadelphia, at 7.1ft p. n.
Leave Headline, at 4.15, 7.40 a. m. and 10.15 p. m.
- Leave Allentown, 2.10 a. in. aad 8.55 p. in.
J. E. WOOTTEN,
General Superintendent.
Reading, January 20, 174.
Chapped Hands, face, rough skin, pimples,
ringworm, salt-rheum and oilier cutaneon af
fections cured, the kln made soft and smooth,
by Juniper Tar Soap, made by Caswell, Haz
ard A Co., New York. Be certain to get the
Juulper Tar Soap, as there are many lutiUUou
made with common tar which are worthless.
Id4w
Store Stand for Sale. A tlrst class cana
Grocery Stand with every convenienoe, sit
uated one mile south of Liverpool and in
a good neighborhood. The subscriber
wishing to go west, will sell at a bargain to
tbe purchaser. For further particulars,
call at the residence or address,
WILLIAM FRY,
80 18t Liverpool, Perry Co., Pa.
SPECIAL. NOTICE. Havinir laid lo an
unusual heavy stock which must be
closed out, I am selllnar off at greatly re
duced prloeu. Persons i?Hnj goods
of any kind will make money by giving
me a call.
ZlJr BeHt prints only 10 oents per yard,
and other goods at same reduced price.
V. MOBTIMEE.
Terms to Cluts.
Our terms to olubs will be tbe same as
tbey were last year viz :
Ten copies will be sent for 111. 00
Twenty copies " 20.00
In each case the person Rotting up the
club will be supplied with au extra copy.
s
HAWL8 AND BLANKETS for sale at
Funic price at J". Mobtimkb's.