THE TIMES NEW ISLOOMl'IELD, PA., JANUAUY 2, 1877. THE TIMES. Xtw llloomfleld, Jan. 2, 1877. NOTICE TO ADVEHTISKHS. No Ont or Stereotype will ho Itmprlfd In ttali papnr vdImr livht fftcw aud on luoUl bwe. MTTwunly mrwnl.tn rat of repniltr ntm, will be chanced fur advertiiemenu net In Double Ooiumn. NOTIt'K TO SUnHCIIIBERS. t.nek it the lliniree on the lubel of ronr paper, 'ThonctlnirrHtcn ynu thti date to whlcli Tnlr rrlalUn la nld. Wiibln wwk alter iuoim v 1 eut, ace If the Ute li cliaiwed. No other receipt a necewary. OUR TERMS FOR 1877! The rates at which Tub Tuies will be furnished to clubs and single subserlb ers for the coming year are as follows : W1TI1IN THE COUNTY, Single copies $1.25. 10 copies for $11.00. 20 copies (or more at me rate,) for f 30.00. OUT OF THE COUNTY, Single copies - fl.50. 10 copies ... for f 18.00. 20 copies (or more at same rate,) for $-34.00. To the person whe get9 p a club of twenty new subscribers we will, In ad dition to sending an extra copy of the paper, furnish a splendid oil chromo. tEg" Single subscriptions or clubs may be sent In now, and the paper will be sent from the time toe money Is re ceived UNTIL jANUMtY 1878. Other Publications. Any of our subscribers wishing some other publication in connection with The Times can have either of the fol lowing by remitting the amounts men tioned below : Tfu Timet and Peterson's Magazine for $2.75, " " " Harper's Magazine " $4.5o, ' " " Harper's Bazaar " $4.60, " Harper's Weekly " $4.50, " " " Demorest's Monthly " $3.50 " " "UtteN's Living Age " $8.00, The above offer includes postage fo the year. Grows Belter as it Grows Older. The North American of Philadelphia, which is the oldest daily in America has put on an entire new dress and com. meneed a new vdlume at a reduction in price. The North American is a relia ble newspaper, Republican in politics, and deserves lite success it has so long enjoyed. AVith the Improvements recently made we consider it Tar the best paper publish ed in this State, and fully equal to any newspaper in the United States. The North Amcrrcarils sent to any address, at eighteen eents per week. If you want a good city daily send for it. The steamship Celtic, which arrived at New York from Liverpool on Monday, brought 200(000 in gold coin. The steamship Labrador,froin Havre,brought $50,000 in specie. A. J. E. Shtseh, candidate for Con gress in the Norfolk, Va., district,at the late election, against John Goode, Dem ocrat, will coutest the latter's right to a seat on grounds of fraud. New Hami-shire is the only State that requires IteGovcrnor and legislators to be Protestants, and its Constitutional Convention now recommends the aboli tion of the religious test. An attachment lias been issued to com pel Mr. Barnes, the manager of the Western Union telegraph office at New Orleans, to appear before Mr. Morrison's committee in that city, bringing with him the required telegrams. Bhent, who is charged with forgery, having been surrendered on the 21st,and having sailed from Livrpool,the depart ment of state lias notified the British minister that the President is prepared to respond to, and to make requisition for, the surrender of fugitive criminals under the treaty of 1842. Perils of Light-House Building. The men employed inconstructingthe foundations for the light-house on llace Rock, in Long Island Sound, seven miles from New London, had a perilous experience recently, and narrowly es caped being frozen to death. Already several lives have been lost in the con struction of this work, but fortunately all were rescued in this instance. On the occasion referred to a rumor was cir culated that the house for sheltering the men on the rock had been carried away by the winds and waves, and as the weather was unusually severe,the rumor gained credence, and In passing from mouth to mouth, became greatly exag gerated, causing much alarm among the friends of the men. As seen through a powerful glass the derricks on the rock resembled towers of crystal, and as as certained later they Were covered with ice to the tops as thick as a barrel. The names of the men on the rock were : O. W. Gates, Alonzo Fone, John Rose, Alfred Paulbcrg, John Wood and Erastus H. Noyes six in number. They had for shelter a small house constructed of matched boards, and were well pro vided with fuel, water and provisions, besides A quantity of canvass, which could be used to advantage In case of emergency. Captain Thomas A. Scott who had charge of the work, saw a sig nal on the rock for assistance, and he immediately put off in a small smack. On arriving at the rock he found every Inch of it covered with ice. The men said that the house had shifted a little in consequence of some supports having been washed away, and at night they transferred their bedding to the cistern over which they erected a tent and re tired. The sea was constantly breaking over the rock, and some of the water found its way into their improvised lodging, subjecting them to a pretty thorough wetting. At 2 o'clock in the morning they turned out and proceeded to elevate their beds, and to accomplish their purpose they were compelled to clamber over the rocks to the house in order to obtain material to assist them in their work a trip which was attend ed with great peril. Having protected their beds from the inroads of the sea, they again retired, and suffered consid erably from the wetting they had re ceived. When taken off by Captain Soott all were suffering more or less, but no serious results ensued. Bottomless Wells. An "eastern paper says that in the great valley between- the North and South mountains in Pennsylvania, commonly called the eastern ridge, i well was dug some years since in Frank lin, nd another in Cumberland county, thirty or forty miles from the former, which led to a discovery affording a sub ject for interesting speculations. After proceeding in each instance to the depth of about thirty-six feet, the bottom of of these wells suddenly gave way (but fortunately, when the workmen had re tired), and a torrent of water gushed up A lead was sunk with fifty fathoms of line without finding any obstruction They remain at this time untouched and of unknown depth. The presumption is that there is a subterranean lake in that quarter, and how far it extends un der the base of the vast primitive ruoun tains, situated between the Susquehanna and Pittsburg, will never be ascertained unless by some terrible convulsion of nature they should be precipitated In the tremendous abyss. A Ga3 Transaction. Gas was escaping in the American Exchange Bank, 128 Broadway, New York, Friday evening, and Ed. Condor, bank messenger, went down with a light into the basement of the building to fix the meter. An explosion followed, and Condor was knocked senseless on the floor. All the windows In the building. which were of plate glass, were broken involving a loss of about $10,000. The furniture and walls of the building were also injured to a great extent. The con cussion smashed forty valuable plate, glass windows in the Equitable building nearly opposite, but the amount of the damage could not be ascertained. It shook the German American and sev. eral other buildings in the vicinity. Con. dor is seriously but probably not fatally injured. A Queer Suggestion. The most practical plan we have thus far seen for lessening the danger of theatre fires, is that suggested by Col Gib.on, of the Gibson IIouse,Cincinnatl It Is simply the construction of a large ventilator on the roof over the stage, to be opened In case of fire. This will act os a chimney, drawing the flames into shaft and giving them vent. In all cases, of fire originating on the stage the flames have instantaneously shot into the audi torium, simply because the draft is I that direction. The force of this draft 1 familiar to all who have felt the wave of cold air which comes from the stage whenever the curtain rises. A large opening in the roof which would create an upward current, would hold the flames on the stage for the ten or fifteen minutes necessary to empty the house i good order. Don't You Wish You Had Been There? An Irwin county, Ga., man tells this to the Americus Republican : There is near his house what is called "Big Lake," which began to run out about three months since, at on opening in the bot tom about the size of a flour barrel, and up to a short while ogo ran down from a mile wide to several long, to the dimen sions of a few acres, when the whole country, far and near, came to witness the sight and get fish. Everybody was supplied with all he could carry away of the finest sizes and. qualities of the finny tribe. The basin now presents bluffs sixty-odd feet deep, and will probably refill In the course of a year or two. Terrible R. R. Accident. On Friday night a terrible accident happened to a train on the Lake Shore It. R. near Astubula O., when a train of Beven passenger cars fell through a bridge. It Is reported that seven coacnes and all the express cars were burneu. About one out of every five persons Was killed or wounded. A heavy snow storm prevailed at the time and the weather was Intensely cold. Many who were not burned or killed, were frozen. Probably one hundred persons were killed, or wounded. . Saw Only One of Tlifim. An Inebriated Jerseyman In New York, led by flaming posters advertising the play of " The Forty Thieves" at Niblo's, went to the box office and called for a ticket, at the snme time throwing down a $5 greenback. On receiving In return $3 and a ticket (he had expected to pay about fifty cents), the astonished countryman, looking first at the money and then at the ticket, exclaimed,' " II-h-how much d'yer asked to (hie) Hde these "Forty Thieves' V" The ticket- seller informed him that the price Was $2. "Well," said Jersey, throwing back the ticket and looking sharply at the official, "you may k-k-keep yer ticket I don't care about seeing the other thirty-nine." A Bunghole Casualty. A Mr. Spiers, who lives near Green ville, Ala., filled a whiskey barrel with new syrup, and upon going into his smoke-house after night to see if the bar rel was leaking, and holding the candle near the open bunghole, the gas, which was escaping, took fire, and a loud ex plosion followed, hurling Mr. Spiers stunned to the ground and hurting him considerably. Strange occurrence. Killed by Corn-fodder. Timothy Sedgwick, of West Hartford, Conn., lost three valuable Jersey heifers iu one night, last week, caused by eat ing corn-stalks upon wnien mere was what is known as smut. He immediate ly stopped feeding the stalks, most of them having this smut, and has lost none since. ' A curious circumstance in connec tion with skull measurements Is seen in the relative capacities of the male and female skull. The former is the larger in every nation and people, but as the nation becomes more civilized the size of the women's Bkulls becomes relatively smaller and that of the male larger, iteckoning the male skull to nave a uniform capacity of 1,000, in negroes the female skull has a capacity of 084, in Hindoos of 032, in Malays of 023, in Sclavonians of 003, In Irish of 012, in English of 800, in Germans of 838. San Fkancihco, December 20. Ad vices by steamer Oceanic from Asia, say that a fire In Tukio, Japan, November 20, swept 05 streets, destroying 6000 houses. Five hundred lives were lost, The loss of property is estimated at $10,000,000. The residence of the Aus trian minister was burned and that of the United States minister narrowly es. caped. Prompt and effective measures for the relief of the sufferers have been taken by the government. The burned region is being rapidly rebuilt with the introduction of great improvements. KiT A Baltimore policeman found a family In an awful plight. Every mem ber had been stricken with scarlet fever, and three children hud died, not of the disease, but of starvation. There was not a morsel of food in the garret, and every available article or furniture or clothing had long before been pawned. The wife was abed, unconscious, and the husband had stretched himself on the floor to die. This case has incited an organized effort to succor the destitute persons of that city. ffy A few months ogo an elegantly dressed woman, the wife of a rich mer chant, was so drunk id a Baltimore st., that she could not stand, and . a 'police man arrested her. Her husband secured her release, and the Incident was made a secret. She promised never to drink in toxicating liquor again. Lately she was found lying drunk in a gutter, and this time the husband would do nothing to hide her shame. She was publicly fined in a police court, and discarded by her family. CiT A quail iu Paris deserves a place in history The bird has been kept for two years in a cage with other quails destined for the market. Whenever a customer appears,;the quail we epeak of perches on one leg and frizzles himself up into a fluffy ball, which is a sign of Illness In quails. .The customer looks at him with disgust and says, " No, not that quail ; the bird is sick ;" and so this ingenious volatile lives on in peace and comfort, while his companions deiwrt one by one to their allotted toast. ' C3TThe Franklin ItcpogUory is in formed of another caso of shooting at Shade Gap. It says, a correspondent writes us, Mr. Ilea, brother of Dr. Ilea, of Shade Gap, was Bhot by a "Hr. Bice, the ball entering his neck. Is not able to say whether the wound Is dangerous1. Some family difficulty Is supposed to be the cause. JOLlflT, Quebec, December 20. The convent at St. Ellaalretli was destroyed by fire last night. One hundred persons were in the building and the panic was very great. Nine children were suffoca ted and. their bodies recovered. It la said four" more children are mling. Loss, $0,000, partly insured. Captain Boyton has Accomplished his promised task of swimming down the liver Po from Turin to Ferrera, ft. dWhance of 800 miles, In ninety-six Wurs, without a single stoppage Potts vit.lb, Pa., DeCemVr 28. Mrs. 'Kinney was burned to 'deftlh at St. Clair, Pa., this morning by Una explosion of a Coal Oil lamp. Hx husband was also se verely burned. OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. WabtkNton, D. C, Deo. 28th, 1870. When my Republican friend Jones con- trrs a cabinet, for President-elect Hayes, be puts uen. uomiy, ot unio in as post master Ueneral, always: and the equally elected Mr. Tilden has Mr. Hewitt ready fur the same office. Both of theBe gentle man are well fitted for the place. General Comly would make au annual report as in teiesting and lively as a novel of Charles Reade's, and Mr. Hewitt has paid particu lar attention to jrost uiuoe analis. Hut 1 mention the coming Cabinets only to sug gest a citizen ot Washington, Mr. W. W. Corcoran, for tbe office of secretary of the Treasury, ana express a nope that, wnetu er Mr. Tilden or Mr. Hayes becomes Presi dent, this one appointment will be made Mr. Corcoran bas been familiar, as a bank er, with Uovernnient nuances, for thirty years, and more, and has the confidence of everybody on this side tbe Ucean and of all the capitalists abroad. I am net one of those wbo think: the country's credit de pends, at this time, on any one man, but it is reasonable to suppose that such an ap pointment as is suggested would add to the confidence lelt by all the world in our Be curities. Mr. uorcoiau is, i believe, a Democrat, but is not a politician. 1 here is danger that Congress, in its de votion to the subject of the Presidency. may ueiay the usual ana necessary appro priations. Exoept the Pension bill, no appropriation bill has, so far. been reported As the present uongress goes out ot power on the 4tk of March, and all exisiting ap propriations expire on tne ttuth ol J une, it is feared the rresident will have to oall an extra session prior to the regular session iu Uecomoer next. 1 lie expense and confusion incident to an extra session may be avoid ed if our law makers will drop purely po litical matters for awhile and do the business they were elected to do. One of the party leaders in tbe House was yesterday led into a little extravagance in discussing political affairs, and was fit tingly rebuked by a number of tbe other party. The rebuke was so much deserved and so well administered that 1 give a pas sage from it : "I very, very deeply regret that my colleague, in a time like this, when the country needs all its wisdom, all its equipoise, all its fairness, all its calmness, saw lit to say that the people would defy tne authorities or tne v nlted States in a certain contingency. I don't bold a commission to speak for all the peo ple of the United Slates, but I venture the opinion that the man who is most likely to receivo the rebuke of all good citizens of both political parties, just now, is the man who suggests violence as a mode of settling any national question ; and it is of tbe very essence of violence for a Representative to appeal to the people to resist the plain processes of law. in an hour like this,tbe man who shakes a brand of tire among tbe trains that load to tbe magazine of publio passion is the man that ought to be most se verely censured by the fair-minded and just people of the United States." And every word of this is truth. This city, in the absence of Congress for the holidays, is agitating itself over an ef fort to close tbe gambling houses that from time immemorial have been open to the principal streets. I do not know that this city is a sinner above all others in this re spect, but certain it is that all gambling games have been carried on here without interruption and iu the roost publio man ner, iu deltunoe of tbe plainest of anti- gambling laws. It is behoved the present ellort will result, at least, in confining "the tiger" to less conspicuous quarters. Tho Daily Uhronidc, Kepuulican paper here, is offered for sale. It was started in 1862 by (.'ol. John W. Forney, now of the f hiladelpbia l'rcsa, and during tbe war was a power with tbe administration and with politicians throughout the country. Of late years its circulation and influence have declined and it bas been run at a loss. In a future lotter I will give you in teresting particulars as to the other papers hero, their politics, prohts, losses, expenses, editors, cvo. saxon. . Miscellaneous News Items. tW A Georgia negro stolo ten cents from bis brother, , bought powder with it, and went hunting. Un returning be was shot dead for tbe offenoe. tST" Louisiana guarantees to supply, this year, one-eighth of tho sugar required for consumption in tbe Lulled sutes -UU, OU0 hogsheads. tW Still another death from tbe bite of a spitz dog in New York. Is it not about time to suppress that handsome but dan gerous little animal ? t"The New Orleans "Times" remarks "Northern democrats are dismayed bo- cause the south steadily refuses to knock a chip on Uncle cam's shoulder." CST Peter B. Soott was arrested in Boston on Saturday a week for embezzling $20,000, the property of tbe lato Rev. Bernard McFeoloy. tW At Gilbertville, Mass., on Friday niL'ht, Mrs. Martin Carrol fell down one of the stairways of her residence, and was instantly killed. tWThe editor of the Chicago "Times" was walking along with bis ears up above bis sealskin hat when a boy said, "Mister, vou are coiug to lose one of your shin-' gles." tW Moody bas found a girl in Chicago, 10 years old, and ordinarily intelligent,wbo had never board the n:,neof ciirlat except In profanity, and w'j0 had fi0 ,dea of wbo be was. . son of George Hoffaoker, of Perry township t MM(Ter oounty ,ged twelve VT while wrestling with two neighbor Vi recently, was thrown to the ground, tns other Doys railing on him, mulcting in juries from which he died shortly after. tW Many a farmer's boy eoea into some city, and struggles along until middle life, with nothing to snow for his labor, except that be has thoroughly learned that a half starred lawyer or olerk is less to be envied than a well fed farmor. ' While his wife was at court, prose cuting a suit for divorce, at Rlohraond, Indiana, (Saturday a weeK, Henry W. Sonnickson, took a speedier method at his bouse. He shot himself and saved lawyer fees. IW All physicians In Texas, under tbe new law, are required to appear before the oounty board of examiners, appointed by tbe District Court, and stand an examina tion in chemistry, anatomy, physiology, and materia medlca, before they can have legal assistance in collecting their bills. tW At Des M'oiHeB a day ot two ago a ruffian who is urcrcr sentence of imprison ment in the penitHtaliary for an attempt to murder a girl, f as permitted to marry ber the afleotionate idiot having agreed to the sacrifice before starting for prison. Tbe objections to scandalous proceedings of this kind are many and patent. tW A census of Reading, Pa., taken by tbe Sunday Review of that city, ptaces the present population of the plaoe at 40,109 an increase or or; a since tbe census of 1870. For a long time a dispute has been pending between Reading and Scranton as to the relative population of the two cities. Tbe Review's oount puts Reading ahead. I3f" At a recent examination in one of the schools in Washington the question was put to a class of small boys : "Why is the Connecticut river so called ?" A bright little fellow put up bis band. "Do you know, James?" "Yes, ma'am 1 Because it connects Vermont and New Hampshire, and cuts through. Massachusetts ?" was the triumphant reply. tlTThe "Independent knows of a Meth odist prayer meeting in which a brother thanked God that no member of bis fami ly was among the killed in tbe Brooklyn calamity, for be had no doubt that all wbo had perished were in bell. Another broth er arose and said that, if be had to die, be would ratber go from a theatre than from a prayer meeting in which such sentiments were uttered. IS" A San Francisco young lady receiv ed an invitation to attend the theatre the other evening just as the Chinaman came for ber wash. She hurriedly made out a list of tbe washing, and answered the in vitation. Then she sent the list to tbe young man and kept the answer to his note. There was soon a very much eon fused young man, a very much mortified young woman, but no theatre going for either of them that night. ' Visible from Battle Hill, in Green wood cemetery, there is a quaint looking building known in its neighborhood as the "Bleak House," and which many people not given to superstitious belief says is haunted. It bas really been quickly aban doned in succession by several families wbo became its tenants, and at present the pro prietor finds it impossible to obtain an oc cupant.. It is situated directly opposite tbe mound in which the poor unknown of the lirooklyn Theatre dead are sleeping. The building is quite new, and elegantly ap pointed, yet nobody will live there. ' Eif An American lady who bad been visiting friends in Canada, crossed the St. Lawrence at Cape Vincent last week, and oourteously invited the customs officer to examine ber baggage. "There is nothing but wearing apparel in tbe trunks," she remarked with a pretty smile. The offioer unlocked tbe largest trunk and pushing aside a heap of stockings and overturning a layer of dress materials, pounoed upon a dozen bottles of French brandy. "Do you call this wearing apparel ?" be asked stern ly. "Why yes." replied tbe lady, "they are my husband's night caps." , tW At Oil City, Pa., at 2 P. M- on Monday, the boiler-bouse of the American Transfer Company's station took fire, fol lowed by an explosion or tbe boiler, which ' was thrown against an iron tank contain ing about 15,000 gallons of oil, bursting tbe tank and setting fire to it. Total loss on tbe oils was about 85,000 barrels and five iron tanks, two of which were owed by Mewhiuney Brothers, two by Cochrane and one by tbe American Transfer Company. There were also five Lne Railway boiler cars burned. The loss is estimated at $20,000 ; partially insured. tW A sensation occurred at the National Theatre, Washington, during the matinee 1 performance of the "Two Orphans," on Christmas afternoon. A person iu the gallery was seized with a tit, and the dis turbance caused aery of ."light," which was interpreted as "fire," whereupon a great com motion ensued. Tbe doors were opened, and many rushed from the build ing, three or four being bruised during the excitement, but no oue was seriously hurt. The cause of the panio was soon ascer tained, order was restored, and the per formance continued to a diminished Audi ence. 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