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STIjc Gttmcs, New Bloomficlft; Pa.
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NEW BLOOMFIELD, FENN'A.
Tuesday, May 26, 1874.
suitable form of the required annual
statement of the district accounts on pages
105 and 100 of the late copy of School Laws
and decisions.
Laws Relatiw to Newspaper Subscriptions.
The following- Is the law rolatiuit to newiaier and
their subucribors :
1. Subscriber who do not irive nxynr notloctothe
rnulrury, are ouiwiitenxl winbtiiir to continue- their mib-
S. Jf miWrlbera order the rtineontinuiince of their
eriwlU'HlH, the iMihliHht'iK may coutiuue to aeud tht-m
until all arrrurnK'H art) l'ttld. M
8. It' mitwcrtl- uetrlect or ref uwo to takfl their twri-
odicalu from the nmcc to wtinui tiny are nireeieu, nit-y
are held reHMtmtMe until they have nettled their bills,
aud order tliennliMcontloued.
i Tf muIum-i-Uk-im move to other nlaepa without In-
formliiK tlie iniblinherM, and tho impei-H are acuttothc
lormer oirpcnon, mey an1 neio rewiooninie.
R The !mirtj have iWiileil that retUHillir to take !P-
uncalled fur, ia priiua facie evidence of lutcutloual
fraud." a ,
6. Any Hrao who retoetvea a newppaper and makes
upp 01 ll, wneuier ue uaa oruereu nor uiil, in ueiu iu mw
... tut a uiiluuipilu.r
7. If ubjioribpin pav in advance they arp bound to
irive notice to tlie imblifdter, at the pud of their time, if
tliev do not wish to continue tnkiiiK it; otherwise the
i.nt'itiulier U aiitlutrl7ea tt Heitd it nil. and the flllliPCrl-
liere will be reHooiiHible until an rxprenH notice, with
-jiaymeut of ail arrears, ia aeut to the pubUKUur.
Tub house has adopted an ameudmont
to the post office appropriation bill allow-
wiug the Agricultural Roport to be sent out
free of postage Two or three hundred
thousand volumes of this interesting work
are alroady published, and are waiting dis
tribution. This branch of Congress seems
disposed to be liberal, but the Senate does
not appear to be so liberally inclined. It
is some time since the Uouso passed the
bill making free the distr ibution of county
papers, but as yet the bill "hangs fire" in
the Senate
. Sumnsr and Wilmot.
Sumner was a man of conscience. Gui-
ded himself by that monitor, he had always
the greatest respect for the conscientious
convictions of others. David Wilmot, the
author of the Wilmot Proviso,' and one
of the ablest speakers in the country, while
a member of the U. S. Senate, set next to
Sumner, on his left. Wilmot.years before,
while a young man, represented the strong
est Democratic district in Pennsylvania in
the Lower House of Congress. Upon con
eluding his maiden speech, John Quincy
Adams, ex-President of the United States,
walked over to Wilmot's side of the house,
patted him on the shoulder, and said
" that is the best speech I have ever heard
in this house 1" Could a compliment come
from a higher source. When Wilmot be
came United States Senator, his old dis
trict had become the strongest Republican
din trio t in the State, and he one of the fore
most of that party. While Sumner and
Wilmot were members of the Senate, a
resolution was offered, I think by Sumner,
exempting from military duty persons hav
ing conscientious scruples against bearing
arms. Sumner voted for it, and Wilmot
gave a decided nay. Sumner turned and
asked Wilmot if he couldn't vote for the
resolution. "Let no man be too con
scientious to fight for his country," t
Wilmot's reply.
Important to School Directors.
It is perhaps not generally known that
the annual publication of a statement of the
fl financial proceedings and - condition of
. each school board in this State is required
S by the school law, and that it is the
imperative duty of each board to comply
with this provision. This published Btate-
rnent should be made by the old boards.
The department will withhold the State
appropriation from all districts that fail to
make the annual publio statement. In
order to receive the amount appropriated
by the state to each school district, the
president of the respective boards must
appear before a justice of the peace and
swear or affirm to the following : That the
schools have been open and in operation
according to the requirements of the school
law, for the term of not less than five
mouths during the school year ; that no
teacher has been employed for or had
charge of any of the schools of the district
during the year specified, who had not at
the time a valid certificate from the county
superintendent ; that the accounts of the
district treasurer and tax colloctor for the
year spocified have been settled, and state
ments in full of the financial operations cf
the district published acoording to law,
The affidavit made by the president must
, be countersigned by the secretary, both
officers of the old board and together with
the annual district report, must be for
warded by the new board to the proper
county superintendent.
The section of law requiring an annual
statement is as follows : " It shall be the
duty of the board of directors to publish an
auuual statement of the amount of mon
eys received and expended, and the
amount due from collectors, and setting
forth all the fluaucial operations of the
district, in not less than ten written or
printed handbills, to be put up in the most
publio plaocs in the district.'-'
In vrouarinir this statement, minute do-
tails of all items need not be given.
Secretaries will find a couvenieut and
A Strange Story of Crime.
In the early part of 1808, five mon liv-
lug at Sacgertown, Penn., entered the
house of a Mr. Lennehoff, a wealthy gen
tleman, at Petroloum Centre, and compel
led him to dolivor up tho key to one of his
safes, in which lie kept a large sum of
money. The jobbers secured over $300,
000, and made good their escape. Two of
them woro aftorwards arrested and convict
ed, and woro sent to the penitentiary.
Two others wore nover heard from, but
one. James eacgor, lias Doon loiiowea oy
detectives ever since. Tho money was se
creted, but before the time appointed for a
division of the spoils Saegor stole the en
tire sum, and fled. Mr. Bennehoff offered
$100,000 for his arrest and conviction. . Af
ter a soarch of six years, the outlaw has
at last been arrested, and is now secure in
the county jail at Donver, Colorado. The
story of his capture is related in the Don
vor Newt, from which it appears that he
was recognized by Mrs. Potter, into whose
husband's restaurant he had gone to get
some oysters. She called him by name, and
ho confessed his identity. Her husband rec
ognized him also, and though ho had once
adopted the outlaw as his son, ho was
ready to brine him to justice because of
some outrage he had penetrated upon a
relative By following the advice of de
tectives his arrest was finr.lly mado, and he
confessed everything. From his own ac
count it appears that ho becamo boatman
on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers after the
robbory and then went to Mexico. From
there he passed into Texas ond entered in
the cattle business for three years. Start
ing north with a drove of cattle he made
his way to Denver and into the hands of
the law. Ho says he intendod to repay Mr.
Bennehoff, but has mot with too many re
verses to do so. The stolen money, he
says, is wnore it can never do lour.u.
Crusaders Before Court.
Cincinnati, May 20. Forty-three tem
perance women arrested last oaiuruay,
were triod in the police court to-day. The
court room was crowded. A great mass
of people unable to got in waited outside
the building. Stanley Mathews and Judge
Ilogan appeared as counsel for the ladies,
Testimony was heard on both sides, and
the case submitted without argument
The charge was for violating oity ordi
nance by obstructing sidewalks. Judge
Marchant stated there had been a tecum
cal violation of law, but in view of the lack
of bad motive on the part of defendants,
he would dismiss them, which he did, with
the admonition that if the act was repeated
they would be liable to arrest and punish
ment.
At the conclusion of the trial defendants
marched to North Baptist church where
loague committees were in session.
They afterwards adjourned to tb Sev
enth street Presbyterian church, where
prayer meeting was held until nearly night,
Frequent remarks were made, but no defl
nite course of action for the future was
laid down.
The temper of the meeting seemed to be
in favor of a discontinuance of visitation
in largo unmbers and for the acceptance of
some new plan.
Tho police commissioners ordored an ad
dress to bo sect to the temperance loagues
communicating the decision of the police
oourt and notifyiug the ladies to entirely
discontinue what is termed prayiug and
singing on tho streets or publio ground.
A Terrlblo Disaster.
At an early hour on Saturday morning,
the 10th inst., a large reservoir located
about 4 miles north of Uaydonville, in
Hampshire county, Mass., burst and flood
ed the country. Tho reservoir covered
about 150 acres and had a depth of water
avoraging about thirty feet, and was used
to supply water to the factories situated on
Mill river, during dry seasons.
The villagos which are affocted by the
disaster ore Williamsburg, Uaydonville,
Leeds and Florence, and are situated on
Mill river, a tributary of tho Connecticut
river, running into tho latter at Northampton.
The mills on the stream reaching from
Williamsburg down to Northampton are as
follows : Thayer's tool factory, twenty-five
men and two button factories, with fifty
hands, men and girls, four set ; woolen
mills of Henry James, fifty hands ; large
brass works of Hayden, Oore & Co., five
hundred hands, and porhaps the largest
and best appointed factory of tho kind in
A Delicate Question.
It seems to be assured that Representa
tive Hellish has become insane. , I bo
sympathies of the publio will attond him. as
well as his friends in this appalling misfor
tune. But a delicate question arises, af
fecting the personal liberty of a represent
ative of congress, now does the house
know that Mr. Mollish is insane? Should
it be possible for the friends of any repre
sentative to be able to put him in duress
without the house satisfying itself that
there is real ground for the detention? A
time may come, as in the contost for the
speakership before the war, when the
abseuce of a member for one day might
change the political situation. How easy
to secure such an absence if members ean
bo taken to an insane asylum without in-
qlury on the part of tho house I The point
is certainly worthy of attention. JVw York
Herald.
Disaster1 In Cincinnati.
Seven persons were burlod in the ruins
of tho house at the corner of Perry and
Central avenues, which foil on the 20th
inst. They were Mr. Murphy his wife,
throe children, a servant girl, aud Win
Whlttaker a carponter, who was passing
on the sidewalk.
t3 Two young couple who woro on their
way to niuorcon, ny a v.;onnecuoui v esi
ern train, to be married on Wednesday,
found when they reached tho depot that
the roads of the village were blocked up
with snow. But they were not to havo
their purpose defeated by snow ; so a min
ister was summoned from the village, and
the four were mado two in the depot,
before an admiring throng of spectators.
Hayden Manufacturing Co., five thousand
Bpindlos, and seventy-fivo or eighty hands ;
tho Diamond Tobacco Works fifteen or
twenty hands ; two extensivo silk mills of
the Nonotuck silk Company, three hun
dred hands ; large brick mill of the North
amp to n Brush Company, sixty to seventy-
five hands ; cotton mill of Greenvillo Manu
facturing Company, five thousand spindles,
and soventy-five to eighty hands ; the
Northampton, formerly the Bay State
Cutlery Company, two hundrod hands; the
Clement & Hawkes Manufacturing Com
pany's mill, agricultural implements, fifty
hands ; tho International Screw and Nail
Company, seventy-five hands, and the large
basket factory of the Williams Manufac
turing Company, one hundred hands.
Up to the present time the numbor of
lives known to be lost, reaches nearly 200.
A correspondent from the scene of the
disaster furnishes the following interesting
account : " About 7 o'clock tho watchman
at the dam discovered a small leak near
the base, but such things had been seen
before and caused no great uneasinoss. In
a low moments, However, trio tricKimg
stream began to run faster and wilder ;. a
considerable gap appeared, and then the
guard suddenly realized the imminence of
tho disaster.
He started on a run for Williamsburg-
Long before he could traverse the two miles
of down-bill road, a loud rumbling noise-
went up behind him, tho wholo embank
ment gave way, and a huge wall of roar
ing waters swept down the valley from hilL
to hill. The motion of the great mass was
not so swift but what the watchman could
save himself by escaping up the hill-side.
aud thence be watched the progress of the-
destruction against which he was powerless-
to utter a word of warning. ;
In the little village below the operatives
had fairly begun their work for the day r
the mills were alive with busy workmen
there were the monotonous whirr of wheels.
the buzz of spindle and loom, and all the
multitudinous sounds that go to make up
the monotone of industry in such a hive of
activity and energy. . ,
In that busy little community of 2,500
souls there wen few who were not up and
abroad at this hour of the morning. For
none of them was there any warning of the
peril which, back of them on the hills, was
sweepiug down, bearing ruin, destruction-
and death. Not until the tremendous wave
80 feet high and of the width of the valley,
throwing up spray like smoke and bearing,
a great mass of timber, earth and stone in
its teeth, was mi sight and fairly hovering
over them did they apprehend their danger.
Looking up at it then in the horrible
moment of agony that was loft them there
was no escape. Toward the coming flood
there was no possible outlet. Unly death
in that direction. , On either, side toward
the hills oh, so far away they looked in
vain. The hill of waters flanked them,
and hope on either side was out off.
Down the valley there was no chance
for the fleetest rider to outrun the hungry
monster that came roaring after. It was
a moment of deadliest terror. Hemmed in,
surrounded, overwhelmed, what could they
do? Thore was nothing left but to raise
white faces and imploring hands to Heaven
and to God's mercy leave their fato.
It was In Williamsburg that the flood
began and whore its effects were most dis
astrous to human life. Fifty-six lives were
lost in this Binglo village. The signs of
ruin ate most horrible. At the empty
reservoir is seen the jagged walls of the
tlam. Below, for a thousand feet and more,
the bed of stream is gouged out in chasms
to a depth of SO feet. Beyond, acres of
woodland have entirely disappeared, leav
ing not a trace behind.
For miles tho fertile moadows have been
destroyed and can nover le regained. Thoy
are gullied and completely covered with
sand and gravel, aud imbedded with great
boulders, many of thorn weighing over a
ton apiece. About one-third of the village
has been destroyed, the Hood having cut a
bioad swath through tho place, carrying
houses down the stream.
The following are some of the romarkablo
incidontH : In Mr. Quigley'i house sat
Mrs. Quigloy two daughters, nnd a sobool
teacher, named Miss Marblo, and having
just finished breakfast, they were sitting
talking whon they heard the noise, and re
treated to tho upper story. While stand
ing there the main part of the house was
wrenchod away, leaving them with but a
thin partition against the swelling tide. .
Their courage did not fail them, how
over, and as they saw a neighbor named
Humphreys floating by on a portion of the
roof of his house they raised the window
and pullod him in. They were all saved,
as were also Humphrey's wife and mother,
who each grasped a child and stood on bods
to keep them abovo the water.
Ryan Moran's tenement, on Main street,
was ono of the few that did not go off, being
saved by the jam above mentioned. Tho
seoond story was, however flooded, and six
children were found huddled behind a bed
in the chamber, up to tholr necks in water
and numb aud half doad with cold.
One little boy oame floating down to
Leeds on a board, from somewhere above.
Luckily he steered for a little knoll, not yet
covered, and throwing away his board he
climbed to the highest point of the knoll.
Still the water rose and only a spot as large
as a table remained, whon the water reached
its greatest height and the plucky fellow
was saved.
Tho widow Knight, 80 years old, and
Jorry Ward, who was helping her out of
her house, were carried down by the cur
rent and wero seen no more. The widow
Snow, aged 75, was earned by her son-in-law,
Deacon Tilton, into a tree, where she
fainted. Mr. Tilton held her weight until
his strength utterly failod, whon she drop
ped into tho seething flood.
A French Canadian, pointing to two lit
tle boys, said1, " I had eight children, but
only those are left." He was afterwards
mado glad, however, by tho news that a
bright little son, three years old, was res
cued while floating down the river on a
mattress.
A baby was seen sailing down the cur
rent in its cradle ; bu t it was soon engulfed
and never seen mere. A boy six years old
floated down from Leeds clinging to the
roof of a house and was finally rescued. Of
one large family t Leeds, all were lost
save tho youngest enild.
IW The Arkansas belligerents are rapid
ly scattering to their homes, and there is
hope that the period of violence inaugura
ted by Brooks' attempt to seize the gover
norship has reached its end. Brooks
command had left Little Rock under agree
ment, and there seems to be a disposition
on all sides to put an end to the state of
lawlessness which threatened to inaugu
rate a civil war. Some arrest of suspic
ious and dangerous character have been
made as a precautionary measure, but all
danger of a conflict may now be looked on
as at an end. The recognition ef Baxter
by the President has restored the-empire of
the law, and Arkansas is once more at.
peace. ' ,
Syracuse, N. V., May 21. The engine
of tho early train north on the Syracuse
and Northern railroad, yesterday morning
went through the draw on the bridge over
tho river at Brewerton. killincr Encinoer
Wiggles, and Conductor Church, who was
on the locomotive. Tho accident was tho
result of pure carelessness on the part- of
the engineer.
ISTMiss Nellie Grant, daughter of Gen-
Grant, was married at tho White House otv
Thursday last, to Mr. Sartorls. The young-.
couple started on a wedding trip to Europe..
This is only the second wedding that ever
occurred in the White House.
$W The subject of cremation burning
instead of burning tho dead is now en
grossing the minds of scientific mon in New
York. It is also the foundation for a num
ber of rude jokes.
W The present Legislature has passed a
law, which has received executive sanction,
restricting the period for squirrel hunting
from the 1st of Septomber to the 1st of
January.
Miscellaneous News Items.
EZF The young lady, out west who re
ceived $1,000 damages for a kiss, is said to-
bo spoiling to be damaged again.
tW A collision ooourred between a coal
and a passenger train. at Merthyr Tydvil,
Wales, by which forty persons were seri
ously injured.
E5T" In a lot of stolen property awaiting
claimants in Cleveland, Ohio, is or was a
satchel containing about two hundred ex
tremely rare old coius.
' The schooner Phoenix capsized in a
whirlwind off Shin- Channel, Keys. Out
of seventeen passengers, five women and
one man were drowned.
' A New Hampshire exchange says: A
ohild of Rev. Mr. Ruland, of Amherst, was
killed in four minutes on Thursday nigat,
by a. dose of poisora bought of peddler for
rhubarb.
" The steamship Costa Rica roprts
that the government at San Jose de Guate
mala had settled with Consul Magee for
tho recont outrage; upon his person by pay
ing him 10,000 sterling.
tiW A letter writer in Austria tolls of
the serious disturbance there early in May,
in consequence of the rise in the price of
beer, as announced by tho Brewers' Mess
at Hatscheck. About ten thousand people
assembled outside the brewery, and i sot
about smashing windows and breakicg.open
the doors, and throwing the machinery,
barrels, furniture, and all they oculd, lay
hold of into the Danube. The riot did not
subside till the proprietors of the establish.
ment declared their willingness to. sell at
the old price.. Since then no fresh- out
breaks have oacurxed. -
EST" About a thousand years ago a colony
of Icelanders, was planted on the westers
coast of Greenland. They were hardy pee-
plo, inured Ucold and meagre living, aad
there seemad to be no reason- why they
should not tuke root in the frown soii of
their new home. They built a stuns
church there and stone houses to live iny of
which the ruins are still to be seen. But
what became of the builders is a quostion
that has nover been solved,, and never will
be. They vanished from alio face' of the
earUi,. and that is all that is known.
Whether cold, or pestilonao, or starvation.
took them off, or whether wandering Bav-
oges killed them, no roan can telL Their
settlement is known ia. history as Lost
Greenland.
EST A solicitor called; on an English lady
of high rauk to inform, her that in the cod
icil of a will in his possession all his person
al property and estates, deer park, fisher
ies, &c, a ore bequeathed to her by a gen
tleman she had never had the ple asure of
knowing. As the gentleman was not yet
buried she went aud saw him in his coffin,
and recognized him as ftaving boon a great
annoyance to her at the opera, where he
had a box nest to lieu. He never spoke to
her, but watchod her so incessantly that
she was under tho necessity of procuring
another box. The lady put herself and
family iu mourning out of respect to her
singular benefactor, and accepted his
strange gift with becoming couslderatioa.
The estates wero a0,000 per annum.
What was Found in a Well.
The body of Wm. Browning, an English
man, was found in an advanced state of
decomposition in a well on tho farm of Mr.
Webster, in the town of Virgil, Cortland
county, on Friday, May 15.
Browning, who owned a farm in the
town of Hartford, loft home on the night
of the 10th of Docembor, since which time
no trace of kim could be obtained until his
body was fished out of the well.
It had been remarked by his family that
a fooling of homo sickness weighed upon
him constantly,, and he often expressed an
intention of returning to England. After
searching in vain for him his friends came
to the opinion, that he had done so.
The body was in a loathsome condition,
and had evidently been in the well a long
timo, probably ever since the night of his
disappearance. Webster's family used the
water of the well regularly. It is supposed
that it is a case of suicide.
The affair creates intense excitement in
the vicinity, especially in the family.
Murder In Carbon Couty.
A horrible murder was committed at
Summit Hill on Wednesday. Kate Leln
baoh, a. young and beautiful girl of 10,
was entioed from ber home and killed in
some low brush just outside of town. The
body was not discovered until next morning
whea a laborer stumbled over it as he went
to his work. The only wounds were on
the head, audi they were evidently made
with a stone. The coroner is holding an
inquest, but no-evidence of importance has
been elicited.. It is believed that the mur
der was committed by a nan who had de
ceived the gkl to hide his guilt. The
psoplo are greatly excited, and threats of
lyuohing ta murderer if he is caught are
openly made.
Thirty Years' Experience of au
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prescription of one oi the best female l'hvsl-
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the adult. It corrects acidity of the stomach, re
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