THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA, JANUAIIY 23, 1877.
TiHE TIMES.
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, cept awr thanks, for public documents.
IIon.(ko.'F. IIoau, hnsheen elected
United States Senator from Massachuctts
to -succeed Mr. Boutwell.
St. Paul, Minn., January 10. Hon.
W. "Windoiu -was to-day re-olected to the
United States senate.
The Philadelphia Timet says a gener
oueiniknowH person dropped an envel
ope containing $500 into the collection
basket at the Eleventh street "Methodist
Episcopal-church on Sunday 'morning.
At Pottsville hist week the jury
In the caee-of. Jack Kehoe, county dele
gate and a prominent leader In the Mol
ly Magulresin the Bchuylklll region, on
trial there for the murder of F. W. 8.
Lnngdon, at Audenrled, in 1802, brought
In a verdict of murder in the -.first de
gree. Six Tons of Gold.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad coach
277, which arrived In Jersey City recent
ly, contained $3,000,000 in twenty-dollar
gold pieces, the whole weighing six tons.
The gold Wcs contained In fourteen iron
safes, and was accompanied by eight
clerks of the Treasury Department and
Capt,, George F. Trice, of thel'ifth Cav
alry, and eight selected men.
Extensive Counterfeiting.
A St. Louis dispatch snys,: .Several
counterfeit $1000 bills have been ifjoating
about in St. Louis lately. A few days
ago a strangor'ik'poslted two of them at
the Valley National Dank, where they
were received -without suspicion. This
bank subsequently paid out one of them
to the Mechanics' Bunk and the other
to the German Havings Bank, the
" queer" money passing over the coun
ters of each without exciting the Coast
distrust. The latter-named bank paid
out the one received by It to a lady cus
tomer In Illinois. It seems that Treas
ury detectives were In trace of these
Identical bills and -through their efforts
the revelation has been brought about
that both of the bills are spurious. Zt
subsequently transpired that the stran
ger who matle the deposit hail previous
ly endeavored to have the money ehang
od at various other banks, and had even
been bo bold as to offer them at the Sub
Treasury for the purpose. The bills are
dated in 1862, and it in supposed were
printed from the plates which gave so
much trouble in that year, and which
were thought to have been thrown into
New York harbor about that time. The
bills are ingeniously executed, and could
not be detected except by an x pert.
Counting the Electoral Vote The Plan of
Arbitration.
The Joint Committee on Compromise
has finally agreed. The plan Adopted Is
that of a count by tellers ; no rejection
of a Btate except by the vote of both
houses, and a board of arbitration to
settle questions when the houses cannot
agree.
The votes are to be compiled by the
tellers and the tally reported by them to
the President of the Senate, who is to
announce the result. When the votes
from any State are unquestioned they
are to be counted exactly as received.
If the vote from any State is objected to
by a member of either house, the two
houses are to separate, and, after a brief
discussion, are to pass upon the recep
tion of the votes. No vote Is to be re
jected without the concurrence of both
houses in all cases.
When two or more sets of returns
have been received from any State they
are all to be opened by the President of
the Senate, and the houses, voting sepa
rately, are to determine which of them,
if either, shall be counted. If both
houses decide to count any one of these
votes, then they shall be compiled by
the tellers. If both bouses agree to re
ject all, then no vote from the State shall
be compiled by the tellers. But If the
houses disagree in their selection of the
return to be received, then all questions
of law connected with the returns from
that Btate are to be submitted to a board
of arbitration consisting of fifteen mem
hers and constituted as follows :
Five Senators, to be appointed by the
President of the Senate, five Representa
tives appointed by the Speaker of the
House, and four Judges, two of whom
are supposed to sympathize with the
Republicans and two whose bearing is
supposed to be toward the Democracy.
They will be named in the bill. The
Judges are to select a fifth justice, whose
appointment will complete the board of
arbitration.
" The four associate Justices who will
constitute part of the commission, and
who are designated by the circuit over
which they preside, are Nathan ClUIbrd,
of Maine; Samuel F. Miller, of Iowa;
Stephen J. Field, of California, and
William Strong, of. Pennsylvania. The
other four associate Justices, one of
whom will be selected to complete the
commission, are Noah II. Swaync, of
Ohio; David Davis, of Illinois; Joseph
P. Bradley, of New Jersey, and Ward
Hunt, of New York."
The Ice Break at Pittsburgh.
The damage caused to property by the
breaking of the Ice gorge in the Monon
gahela on Saturday night a week is enor
mous. The flood bearing the huge fields
of Ice reached Pittsburgh about six o'clock
on Suntlay morning and bells were rung
and steam whistles sounded giving the
alarm and rousing the citizens from their
beds. In a few moments the banks of
the river were crowded with thousands
of spectators watching the irreslstable
rush of the waters and the powers of
the crushing masses of ice. Everything
gave way before the advancing volume
and the mighty crest surmounting it,
except the bridge piers, and the tug-boats
which happened to bo securely fastened
to the shore. Securely held In the em
brace of these vast fields of Ice were to
be seen coal barges, houses, wooden
docks, and the cabins of two boats and
steamers all moving on to inevitable de
struction. The sight, as described by
the Pittsburgh papers, must have been a
grand and at the sume time an awfully
impressive one. Fortunately the loss
of life whs small, but one man having
been lost so fur as known. The tele
graph apprised the river-men at difler
ent points below of the breaking of the
gorge above, nntl this prevented a great
calamity, as they were enabled to bo on
the look-out for the approaching flood.
The pecuniary losses, however, are very
heavy, hundreds of barges loaded with
coal having been swept away from their
moorings ami sunk, while a number of
tow-boats, steamers, empty barges and
other river craft were either wholly de
stroyed or badly damngod. Roughly es
timated, the losses to river-men are put
down nt $2,500,000 while the conl inter
ests arc believed to have suffered to the
extent of $10,000,000. From every town
almost on the Ohio, from Pittsburgh to
its mouth, the news shows an immense
destruction of property, and the total
amount of damage done by this terrible
ice-flood will not be fully known for some
time to come.
A Case For Investigation.
Miltox, Mass., January 10. A most
terrible cuse of parental cruelty, disclos
ing the imprisonment and neglect for
seventeen years of an idiotic son and the
probable murder of another, has set this
usually quiet borough into an intense
fever of excitement. As the story goes,
.about seventeen years ago a quarrel oc
curred in the family of Joslah Fields, by
occupation a laborer.in which the father,
mother and several sons participated. In
the course of the dispute Joslah, Jr.,
hardly of age, offended his father by his
continued obstinacy, and the latter,as is
supposed, struck the boy a severe blow,
inflicting upon him some permanent in
jury. In order to prevent the discovery
of the deed the wounded lad.it isalleged,
was locked In a chamber. The sudden
disappearance; of the lad was accounted
for in various ways by the people of the
neighborhood, the family giving out
that the boy had run away. Last Satur
day one of the sons died and the privacy
of the family was invaded. One lady
going to a room, from which an almost
over-powering stench emanated, hud
the curiosity to unlock the door and peer
In.
Her testimony is to the effect that a
strange man n All fours, naked, with
long hair and bcatd, ran at her uttering
gutteral sounds, and being apparently
unable to speak distinctly. A' general
alarm followed. The matter was noised
about town and the creature wallowing
in his own filth was readily associated
with the long-missing son, Joslah, Jr.
So much excitement was occasioned that
the select men of the town thought it
their duty to investigate tlie affair. On
Saturday they called in a body, but were
fequested to postpone tbeirlnvestigatlon
until Monday. On the morning named
Colonel Henry W. Russell waited on
the family and found a poor, half-witted
fellow, sallow in complexion from his
long confinement, with a nicely shaven
face and ciopped head.
It turned out upon further investiga
tion that during the Interval between
Saturday and Monday the inhuman pa
rents had their son shaved and put in
presentable shape. His appearance now
is of an ordinary man, who stoops slight
ly, and bas a very sallow complexion
and, what Is peculiar, be Is quite stout.
Of late be has been seen at the windows
of houses with blankets wrapped around
him, and this gave rise to the story of a
" wild man" roving about the woods.
The family assign no reason for having
kept him concealed all these years and
will not allow him to be seen by any one
at the present time. .
What Bdds to the1 terror of the forego
ing story is the fnct that anotherson has
Also been missing for upward of sixteen
years, and at the time of his disappear
ance an old well near the house was sud
denly filled up. The wildest excitement
prevails here, and pending the digging
out of the well the Fields family are un
der survelllanoe.
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A Drunken Man Shot Dead.
David Mundell, residing near Bryn
Mawr, a shoemaker by trade, was shot
dead last week whilst resisting arrest for
drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
Mundell had been drinking to cxccss,and
on Sunday went to the house of Mr.
Sayen, with whom his daughter lived as
child's nurse, and demanded that she
should go home. Mr. Sayen deemed it
unwise to let the daughter comply. Mun
dell made some very serious threats
against the life of Mr. Sayen. A war
rant was Issued and officer Lltzenberg,
securing the services of three other offi
cers, proceeded to arrest Mundell, who
placed himself on the stairway of his
house and defended himself with acorn
cuttcr. After using every effort to secure
him, without avail, the officers fired sev
eral shots, aiming at his legs, with the
intention of crippling him. Mundell
finally received a bullet in the forehead,
killing him Instantly. It Is not known
which of the officers fired the fatal shot.
A Trotting Team of Oxen.
The Cheyenne Leader says : Dexter
the tamer of boviues created a great
sensation on the streets yestertlay by ap
pearing in a carriage drawn by four milk
white oxen, all In harness and driven
tandem. The gay and festive looking
beasts pranced ulong in fine style
" heads up and tails a risln'," us our
John would say. Governor Thayer wus
invited to take a ride, and was driven
about for some time by Dexter. Other
gentlemen also enjoyed the novelty.
Dexter snys that either of his oxen
can trot a mile in 3:47. He offers to bet
any amount of money that he can load
a wagon with 4,500 pounds of freight,
attach his four oxen, and make better
time to Deadwood than any four-horse
or mule team with the same loud can
possibly do.
Had to Back Out.
A curious incident occurred in Woods
town, N. J., lust Thursday. Two butch
ers were driving a wild steer up Muln
street, and at Riley's building the ani
mal darted Into the doorway leading up
to Slape's law office and the lodge rooms,
and actually climbed the stairs and halted
on the second story lunding. Some one
had to get in at a back window, open
one of the doors and back the steer
down stnlrs. He got out without doing
any damage.
C"A Montreal dispatch says the
Dclisle Village municipal election on
Wednesday terminated in a brutal free
fight, In which some forty men were
engaged. The town hall was complete
ly sacked and the polling booth wrecked.
The French-Canadian roughs would not
allow the English to vote, and conse
quently all the French candidates are
elected.
Auotjsta, Me., January 16. Hon.
James U. Blaine has been elected United
States Senator by the legislature for the
short term ending March 4, and for the
long term ending in 1883. The vote in
the Senate stood : Blaine, 20 ; Halnes,2;
absent, 2. In the House: Blaine, 113;
Haines, 86 ; absent, 0.
New York, January 16. J. Milton
Turner, colored, United States minister
to Liberia, has commenced a suit for
damagesunder thecivil rights bill against
the proprietors of the Astor house, for
refusing to let him have rooms in their
hotel.
KiT Berks county calathumplans are
not appreciated by young married men,
and eighteen members of one of - these
" Gideon bands" have been indicted for
disturbing the slumbers of a Benedict
and his bride. ,
Philadelphia, Jan. 16. An exami
nation of the accounts of the late Gener
al Bankson, who recently committed su.
icide, shows a defalcation amounting to
$150,000.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 18tb, 1877.
The Woman Suffrage convention ' has
been held in tbis city during the last two
days and your lady readers, at least, will
be interested in some account of prom
inent women whose names have become
familiar to ua all through the newspapers
and through the books they have written.
I must begin, of course, with Elisabeth
Cady Stanton, President and oldest mem,
her of the association, a sweet, motherly
looking old lady, very like the clotures wo
see of ber but much more lovely and
charming !n her appearance because of
ber color which cannot be represented by
an engraving, and which is as smooth and
pink, and fresh almost as a baby's. I
think she ought to be called "Mother
Stanton." One cannot look at her with
Out thinking of the word. Bbe Is quits
portly, (moving with majesty lather thau
clumsiness. Her hair is white as wool
and she wears it in a high coil at the back,
puffed In front and ornamented only with a
black lace barbe. She Is evidently the
leading spirit among the Huffrsglits, though
Busan B. Anthony might seem to rival ber
In this. The lust named lady in as nearly
the reverse of " Mother Btaoton" as can
well be Imacluod. Tttll, gaunt.bony.angu
larand awkward, stooping a little and
wearing enormous shining spectacles, her
appearance is enough to intimidate any
one man who dare oppose lior when she Is
In earnest. She Is a strong thinking, In
telligent woman, however, evidently well,
rond and acquainted with the world. Miss
Anthony insisted upon voting Inst fall in
New York, for which ofTbiice she was ar
rested and fined a hundred dollars. The
paytneut of this fins bas never been ex
acted but is filed against ber. Mrs. BwIbs
holm, from Pennsylvania, for many years
editress and proprietress of a Pittsburgh
newspaper, and by whose means the bill,
giving married women the right to bold
property in their own names, was passed
some years ago In that State, spoke very
ably on the first day of the convention,
rather reproving the harangues that h ad
previously been made about and against the
men, saying "God bless the men I They've
always pi need their strong breasts between
ns and life's rudest, roughest burdens 1
And they'll always have it to do. They're
willing to! I can't scold thorn muoh I"
Mrs. Matilda Josslyn Gage is another of
the veterans in the city this week. She
and Mrs. Slautnn and Miss Anthony are
the only ones of the original movers in the
cause who Bre now left. Mrs. Htiinton re
marked this yesterday, and said she hoped
they should not have to enter the kiugciom
of Heaven disfranchised, but If it must be
so and she feared it would be her own case
nt least they could but hope for good fruit
from the seed they had sown and are sow
ing. Mrs. Lockwood, Att'y at Law, and
Dr. Mary Walker, both of Washington,
spoke on the second day. Mrs. Lockwood
bas her own Individual grlevanoe as do
most of these good ladles, iu fact in that
she was lately refused admittance to the
bar of the United States Supreme Court.
She introduced a petition in Congress this
week for the removal of legal disabilities
of women, which was roBd In the House,
referred to tho judiciary Committee, and
ordered printed. Dr. Mary Walker was
the only one of the suffragists who appear
ed in anything like a lieform Costume."
Blie wore her usual dress, boots and panta
loons o la masculine gender and outer gar
ment a sort of half-fitting frock reaching
hardly to the knee. This lady is quit a
determined character in her way. Last
evening, the Inst session held by the associ
ation, she attempted to submit a resolution
nt n time when it was out of ordor and so
insisted upon it that President Stanton
sent for a policeman to remove her.
Congressional matters are dully increas
ing in interest. Southern, and other com
mittees are beginning to report and thore
is a general bustle nt the Capital indicative
of importaut business. Barnes, the tele
graph operator from New Orleans who bas
been imptisotied for a week punt on account
of his refusal to produce telegrams de
manded of him by the investigating com
mittee, bas now consented to do so, aud
starts for Louisiana to-day under the sur
veillance of a Sergeant-at-arma, to procure
the papers, ordered to be back and report
here within ten days. Mr. Orton bas also
been allowed to leave tho city to consult bis
physician In New York. M. M. W.
Miscellaneous News Items.
tW B. N. Hawes, the defaulting City
Treasurer of Coviugton, Ky., who absoond
ed recently, bas been arrested at London,
Canada, and will soon be extradited.
tW On a single Hue between New York
and the west more than sixty miles of
freight are piled up on side tracks, and
cannot be moved until the rails are cleared
of the snow. k
tW Advices from several States in the
west show that the storm is very general,
and that from one to three feet of suow is
on the ground. The weather is moder
ately cold in that section. ,
fW Tuesday night three barns, owned
by Thomas Lynam. two miles from Wil
mington, Del., were destroyed by fire,
together with a quantity of grain, twenty,
bead of cattle and six horses. Loss.
$10,000.
tW At Edenburg, Clarion county, Pa.,
on Saturday night a week, twenty-five
frame buildings, occupied as stores, offices,
etc., together with the Edenburg Hotel,
were destroyed by five. Loss about
1(30,000.
tW During a heavy rain storm on Mon
day of last week, a fall of small live snakes
was observed in the southern part of
Memphis, where thousands of them could
be seen on Tuesday. The snakes are from
one foot to eighteen inches in length.
tW A West Chester thief fell off a stool
in jail and broke bis left arm. Not long
after he fell out of bed and broke bis other
arm. The jailor, who does the nursing of
this unfortunate bird is in bope the next
ran win cause a Dislocation or tbe neck.
tSTA. United States mail-bag was on
Sunday a week discovered In the express
office at Montreal, by the agent, and sent
baok to Hew York, it Had been stolen
while in transit from that city to Boston,
and contained drafts and checks to the
amount of $44,301.
HP A man named Hickman was killed
on Bunday a week near M'Keeaport, on
the Connellsville railroad, by being run
over by the ctrs. He was thrown upon
the track in the endeavor to bold a span of
frig btened horses which he bad been driv
ing. tW An Iron bridge spanning French
Creek at Franklin, fell on Saturday night a
week while a sleighing party of four from
Oil City were crossing. One horse was
killed but the other animal and the ladies
and gentlemen escaped unhurt. Pieces of
iron fell all about the party.
1 tar John Kermer, of Philadelphia, had
a raffle in bis lager beer saloon on Saturday
night a week, and while he was ra filing, a
thief was rifling bis bureau In an upper
story. ' The scamp succeeded in getting
away with cash aud bonds worth $2,(300
and has not since been arrested.
Cincinnati, January 10. Last night, at
Dayton, Ky., Mrs. Minnie Bloson arose
from ber bed. after the famllv had retired.
and without arousing the husband took her
Infant and proceeded to ths river and threw
herself and the babe Into the stream. The
bodies were recovered this morn Ing. The
woman was probably deranged.
MS" At Trn' ta v ttf-.l t. 1
tons of powder, stored In the ginning build-,
of the Bobagbtlcoks Powder Mills, explod
ed. Three buildings were demolished.
Loss $20,000. No loss of life la renortad.
The shock was felt for a distance of twenty
miles. The firm had a large stock of pow
der on hand, manufactured for the Russian-
government.
tW The truoks of the express oar on the
Atlantic express going east on the Erie
road broke near Laokawaxen, last week,
throwing the cars from the track to the
loft, striking a passenger car on tbe way
train going west, by which Maggie Burton
bad her skull fractured and two passengers
and one train man were slightly Injured.
Maggie Burton's Injuries will prove fatal.
tW While Mary Jane Aslam's corpse
was laid out for a wake in Liverpool, and
while all tbe inmates of the house had ad
journed to a tavern to gain strength for
me vigii, a Canute npset near tbe body,
which soon set the house on fire, burned
tbe oorpse, and caused intense alarm in the
neighborhood.
HTMr Brush, of Tarport, M'Kean
county, being somewhat new to tbe business
of handling petroleum took bis lighted
oandleand unoovered a SGO-barrel tank to
make an interior observation. The force
of the explosion that followed landed Mr.
Brush far enough from the tank to save
his life though burned severely. The oil
and tank were entirely consumed.
tWA. Heading clerk recently visited his
lady love, the daughter of a farmer, and
sitting down in the kitchen to chat with
her, he hoisted IiIb feet on the table-top and
upset the concern by the huge weight of
his extremities, emptying some five gallons
of milk from the pots into his lap aud over
his Sunday clothes. Moral: When you go
to see a lady, keep your feet on the floor,
or stick them in your Ulster pockets, or
leave them at the door,
tW The advocates of the enactment of
the local option law repealed by tbe
Legislature in 1875, have made preliminary
arrangements for the delivery of temper
ance sermons in all parts of the State, and
will distribute thousands of circulars the
next few weeks, setting forth the work ac
complished under the operations of the old
law, and circulate petitions for singers,
asking for its re-passage, or at least in a
mod tiled form.
tST" After thirty years an inventor has
succeeded in producing an apparatus con
sisting of a table with pedals, an orgtn
bellows, and a keyboard, lu the centre is
an elaborate arrangement, representing
tbe human lungs, larynx, glottis, and
tongue. At the conclusion of the exhibi
tion, in the Grand Hotel at Paris, it spoke
'a piece" as follows . "1 was born in
America. I can speak all languages, and
am very much pleased to see you. I thank
you for your visit."
t"On Chrixtmas day Miss Louisa
Marcellus, aged 80, of New Street, New
Brunswick, while eating some canned
peaches, swallowed a pit. It lodged in tho
throat, and Dr. Williamson being sum
moned, an effort was made to extract it.
Finding it impossible, be forced the pit
down into the stomach. Medicines were
prescribed, but on Friday last Miss Mar
coll us grew worse, and died suddenly.
A post-mortem was held, which resulted in
finding tbe pit in tbe intestines, which
were ruptured.
tW Tbe following are the estimated
damages suffered by coal dealers through
the movement of the ioe in the Ohio,
on the night of the 13th and 14th inst :
At Walter's landing $0, 000 ; at Stewart's
landing $5000 ; at Crail & Wells' landing
$22,000 ; at Walmer's landing $3000; at
Cochenower's landing $2600 ; at Pickle
beimer's landing $6000; at Samuel Brown's
landing $14,000 at the Queen City elevator
$20,000 ; at Collier & Budd's landing $3000;
at Zimmerman's landing $6000; at Salt f
Barges' landing $8000 ; at Licking -river
$T0OO ; two produce boats $3000.
CLOUD BANNERS OF THE ALPS.
Among the most exquisite soenes which
delight the eye of the European traveler
are those wonderful rosocolored cloud
banners, floating from the Alpine cliffs.
But it is only in tbe sunlight that Nature
bangs ont these beautiful tokens. Bo it is
only in the glow of health tbe sunlight
of our inner being that nature reveals
those physical cloud-banners, the "rosy
cheek" and "cherry lip," to praise which
every poet of tbe earth bas Invoked tbe
Muse to aid him. But they are as rare as
tbe cynical Hood conceived Christian
charity to be. Woman, eager to retain
this charm, resorts to French art and rouge.
Tbe effect is similar to that which would
be produced by substituting auctioneers'
flags for tbe delicate glowing cloud-banners
of tbe Alps. If woman would aid Nature
instead of adopting art, would seek health
instead of vainly trying to mask disease,
she would not ouly win the greatest charm
of womanhood health but she would
avert muoh misery both from herself and
others. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip
tion has received the highest praise from
thousands of pale, delicate, suffering
women. One bottle often affords more re
lief than months of treatment by caustics
and other medicines. It is harmless in
any condition of tbe system, and its nse
often renders tbe modest invalid exempt
from that most trying of ordeals per
sonal oousultation with a physician. It is
tbe duty of every woman to become
familiar with tbe causes and symptoms of
tbe many diseases to which ber peculiar
organization renders her liable, and also to
learn tbe proper means of preventing these
maladies. The People's Medical Adviser
contains an extensive treatise npon " Wo
man and ber Diseases." Tbe Author also
advises of domestic treatment, which will
often render the services of a physician un
necessary. - Every woman should read it.
A oopy of the Adviser can be obtained by
addressing the Author, Dr. R. V. Pierce,
at Buffalo, N. Y. Price $1.60 (postage
prepaid).- Favorite Prescription is sold by
druggists.
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