THE TIMES NEW BLOOM FIELD, FA.,MAKOII'20, 1877.
THE TIMES.
New liloomfleld, March 20, 1S77.
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OUR CIRCULATION.
For the information of nilverUsersund
others who may lit' Interested In know
ing, we will state that the present circu
lation of The Timks is between eighteen
hundred and nineteen hundred copies
each week.
The Democratic caucus at Hurrisburg
has nominated Hon. A. H. Dill as the
'Democratic candidate for the United
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by
Cameron's resignation.
Hon. Simon (Jamkkon lias resigned
his position as United States Senator In
favor of his son Don. The term of Mr.
Cameron does not expire for two years.
If the attempt to establish his son as his
successor succeeds, it is proposed to have
the name of this State changed to Cam-
ERONV1LI.K.
Thk New Iami'siii uk ki.kction on
Tuesday last, resulted in the success of
the Republican candidate for Governor
by about 3,500 majority. The Republi
cans also elect two members of congress,
while the vote for the third member is
so close that both parties claim it, and
only the official count will show which
party is successful. In the last con
gress the Democrats had two members
and the Republicans one.
The total number of business fail
ures in this State lust year was "S3, and
the total number of liabilities was $15,.
013,375, against $18,247,772 in 1K05. The
average ratio of failures in the middle
states waB one in fifty-seven ; in New
England one in fifty-nine; on the Pacif
ic coast one in sixty ; in the south ono
in sixty-four; and in the west one in
scveuty-two. In Pennsylvania it was
only one in 124. This is indicative not
only of financial integrity but of busi
ness transacted on a proper basis.
The interesting trial of John Merrilt,
who was charged by Mary Knox with
having married and deserted her on the
night of the wedding, and afterward de
nying the marriage, was concluded on
the 12th lust. John now languishes in
jail at White Plains rather than give
bonds in the small sum of $200 for the
support of his wife. His objection to
giving the bonds is that this would be
an acknowledgment that he had married
Miss Knox, and he prefers a brief incar
ceration in jail to a long life of compul
sory love in a cottage. The case is to lie
carried to the Supreme Court.
Pennsylvania Railroad.
At a meeting of the loard of man
agers, Mr. Stanton tendered the thanks
of the Stock holders to the officers of the
road for the efficient management of its
business.
The treasurer's report M as furnished
in pamphlet form and contains the fol.
lowing important features. The debtor
side of the general account shows the
expenditures, &c, to have been $152,
332,450.04. The credit side shows that
there are $3,613,346.00 on hand ; that the
cash in Joint Stock Bank, Londou, is
$1,208,725.83; the material on hand is
worth $3,561,741.81. Total, $152,432,
450.04 , .
The company owns 935 locomotives,
586 passengers cars, 162 baggage, mail,
and express cars, 17,318 freight cars and
1367 road cars. The par value of the
bonds owned by the company aggregate
$45,280,408.17, and of the stock $51,808,
830. The profit on these investments, is
thus shown :
Par value of bonds, ... $4-5,286,400.17
Par value of stocks, - - - 51,808,830.00
Total, - - - $97,005,305.17
Costas per general account, 70,524,800.27
The New Election.
At the request of Mr. Hayes, the plan
for a new election so far 89 South Caro
lina is concerned, has been submitted to
hint. It is a very elaborate document,
reciting the condition of aflairs in the
form of an agreement to the following
points:
First. The recognition of Chamber
lain as governor until a new election can
beheld.
Second. That he shall summon the
legislature, us returned by the canvass
ing board In November, which would
constitute the Senate Republican and
tlie House Democratic. ' '
Third. Tbo legislature thus eoustitu
ted shall pass a law for a new election
and a registration law, us required by
the constitution of the slate; then Gen-
eral , Iiuger, 'commanding the United
Slates troops in South Carolina, is to as
sume inllitury control of the state.
Fourth. Chamberlain and Hampton
nro each to select one member of the
board of registration and General linger
a third, throughout the state,' the latter
to have control of the election, and, pro
hibit all parades of white and colored
clubs and prevent all public meetings
from being disturbed. In each county
the three election officers are to be1 com
posed of one Republican and ono Demo
crat, and General Iiuger is to select a
third. In each county precinct the can
vassing board Is to be composed of one
Democrat and one Republican, to be
named by the respective committees of
each party. The board of state canvass,
ers, to whom all returns are to bo made,
and which is to bo composed of five
members, two of each party, General
Rugcr naming the fifth member, who is
to be an' officer of the United States
army, Is to canvass the returns and de
clare the result.
Fifth. Hampton and Chamberlain to
agree, each in writing, that they will
abide the result of this election.
A similar plan for Louisiuna Is being
prepared and is also to bo submitted to
Mr. Hayes at his request. Senator
Rlaine, ex-Senator, Cameron and others
have ogreed to support this plan for
South Carolina, and It will probably be
pressed for Louisiana.
A Suimif Job.
Pittsburgh, March 14. A well
planned and skillfully executed express
robbery was perpetrated in this city lust
night. Superintendent Bingham, of
the express company gives the follow
ing particulars this evening: Yester
day afternoon when the Ruflalo express
soutli reached Brady's Betid a telegram
was handed Thomas Bingham, express
messenger, which instructed him to
transfer his packages, &c, to J. H.
Brooks, at Templeton and return to
Parker's Landing and wait orders.
This was dated Pittsburgh and was
signed by George Bingham, superin
tendent. Templeton is a small station
on the Allegheny Valley railroad, fifty
miles from this city. The Buffalo ex
press south and train going north meet
there and stop for supper. On the ar
rival of the train at Templeton a man
stepped into the express car and told
Messenger Bingham he was ordered to
relieve him mid tuke his run to Pitts
burgh. Mr. Bingham asked him for
his instructions and he produced a tele
gram uddressed J. II. Brooks, instruct
ing Brooks to relievo Bingham -at
Templeton and bring the express mat
ter to Pittsburgh. Tills was also signet!
George Bingham, superintendent.
'Bingham, after the transfer to Brooks,
took the north train to Parker's and
Brooks came to this city in charge of the
express car. At the depot in this city
his gootls were checked o(F correctly and
ho got in the wagon with the driver to
go with the goods and report at the gen
eral ofilce on Fifth avenue. The rob
bery was committed in tho wagon be
tween the depot and the oillce. He
jumped from the wagon unnoticed by
the driver when less than half a square
from the office. The safe was found
open and money packages amounting to
$4,000 were missing when delivered at
the ofilce. Brooks cut the telegraph
wire this side of Templetou, drew the
wire into a watch house and there, with
a pocket instrument, he sent the bogus
messages.
Tenement Horror.
New York, March 11. A lire at
tended with fatal consequences occurred
to-night in the five story tenement house
No. 27 Ludlow street, occupied by Ger
mans and Polish Jews. The children of
Mrs. Mnnson,who occupied rooms there,
upset a kerosene lamp, and soon the
whole room was in a blaze. She hur
ried out with her children and gave an
alarm. Tho other occupants of tho
building fled in terror. In tho rush
Hattie Manson, aged ten years, and a
baby of seven months, which she had in
her arms, were left behind, and she be
came insensible with suffocating smoke.
Israel Levlne's wife and child were bad
ly burned. In their flight they left be
hind two children, David, aged six, and
Abram, aged eight years. These were
rescued by fliemen,but Abram was dead
and David nearly so. Little Hattie
Manson was also rescued, but no trace
could be found of the baby. The dam
age by the fire amounted to about $2,000.
A Startling Theory. ,
George William Johnson, uuperin
tendent of the Brooklyn Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, writes
to tho Brooklyn Aryut as follows :
Hydrophobia in the dog, I am satis
fied, is the result of the animal having
been inoculated by biting some person
suffering from the disease of intoxica
tion. Startling as this theory may ap
pear, there is not the least question but
that the facts will bear it out. First,
hydrophobia and mania a poht are
identical in most physical conditions
HubjccU dead of either disease presenting
nearly tho samo autopsy. Second, the
saliva of a man dying of delirium tre
mens ami that of a dog suffering from
rabbles bear the same chemical analysis.
Third, the entire system of the patient
suffering from alchollc madness Is so
poisoned that rapid Inoculation, will fol.
low and contact with the virus of the
blood. Fourth, the bite of a man in an
alcoholic fit has been known to result in
hydrophobia. As the application of
these facts :
First. Willi the Canine race hydro
phobia Is never spontaneous ; with man
the disease Is known to be.
Second. There is not a case on record
of a dog having died of hydrophobia
that will not admit of proof if the facts
can be ascertained that the dog had
previously bitten an intoxicated person,
or had been attacked by some other ani
mal suffering from a like inoculation.
Sixty Years Old, and Going lo a Public
School.
Among the regular pupils at the un
graded school on Court street, Spring
field, Mass., is a colored woman full 60
years old, who wos dissatisfied with her
attainments at the night school, which
closed some few weeks ago, and obtained
permission to attend the ungraded school
as long as she chose. "Aunt Lucy"
was formerly a slave, but came North In
the early part of the war. She has had
three husbands and ten children, but
lost all but one daughter in slavery. She
stays out of school Mondays to do wash
ing, but the remaining four days in the
week she may be found with the chil
dren diligently studying. She has tried
to induce some otlier old colored women
to accompany her, but they all refuso for
fear the children will laugh at them.
A Bloody Encounter.
Memphis, Tenn., March 12. The
Jackson, Tenn., Sun, of Friday last,cou
tains an account of u terrible fight in
Madison county, Tenn. ' Deputy Sheriff
Jason W. Tussel, and William and John
Anderson, his nephews, whom he had
summoned to assist him in arresting
three brothers, named Patete, indicted
for carrying concealed weapons, went to
the house of Andrew Patete, their father
for that purpose. Upon attempting to
take tliein Into custody the Patetes, re
sisted, killing Tussel and slightly wound
ing Wm. Anderson? who in turn mor
tally wounded John Patete who died
shortly after the fight. Andrew Patete
was arrested and committed to Jail but
his other sons, after robbing the body of
Tussel, and taking his horse, escaped.
An Extraordinary Homicide.
A tragedy of a' most peculiar nature is
reported from Coal Run, in Ohio. The
young men of the publics school at that
place were preparing for an exhibition,
nnd had under rehearsal an original dra
ma for the occasion. To make the effect
more impressive upon the rural audience
revolvers and bowie knives were intro
duced. In one portion of ' the play, a
young man named Mason was to receive
a dagger, thrust from Stephen Rumble.
A sack of red liqnid was concealed under
ills clothes, and a wooden breastplate
was to protect him from the blow. But
in the excitement of tho rehearsal the
breastplate changed position, and tho
dagger went to Mason's heart. Ho died
instantly, Mason and Rumble were fast
friends, and members of the same
church. .
Washington, March 15. This morn
ing the store of Mr. Fielder Magrudcr,
in this district near Bennlug's Station,
on the Baltimore and Potomac railroad,
was dietroyed by fire, and the bodies of
two men, M. Ebeuezer Largo and his
son John Large, tlie latter a clerk for
Mr. Magruder, both of whom slept in
the store, were discovered in tlje ruins
burned almost beyond recognition. The
first person at tlie scene of the fire dis
covered the body of one of the men on
the rafters with the skull crushed in,
and there is but little doubt that both of
the men were murdered and the store
robbed and then burned.
(gr AtChnrticrs, Allegheny county,
on Monday a week, a five year old son
and six year old daughter of Johu Swee
ny were left alone in a room by their
mother. In her absence the boy play
fully thrust a blazing stick into the oil
can, an explosion ensued, and the
children were soon enveloped in a sheet
of flame. The floor was ignited, but
the blaze soon died out. The little boy
died of his injuries Tuesday morning
after and the little girl a few hours later
in the afternoon. ,
. (Hr A thief undertook to carry off a
hive or two of Italian bees belonging to
Rev. J. P. Smith of York. The bees
fought the intruder, desperately, and
won the victory. . Next morning tho
ground near by was found strewn with
dead bees, and the tracks where a person
had stamped aliout in his agony were
also visible. Mr. Smith now offers five
cents reward for the arrest and convic
tion of the man with a swelled face.
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Washington, D. 0., March 14th, 1877r
Political excitement at an end, the pub
lic interest turns Itself to even smaller mat
ters, personal gossip and spring fashion.
It is only natural that poople should be in
terested in trifles and details concerning
the family of our Chief Magistrate, and
these are now the all absorbing topics of
conversation and meditation, especially
among the fairer sex. President Hayes is
for reform, so is his wife. President Hayes
Intends taking a new stand and bringing
about an entirely new state of nfTHlrs. Bo
apparently does his wife. Both Holds
are certainly Urge enough, and while her
husband is exercising his inlluonce and
power for the promotion of peace, good
feeling and unity between and among the
States, for a hotter condition of civil af
fairs, and for the protection of the rights
of all American citizens, Mrs. linyes man
ifestly intends to Inaugurate new systems
and new Ideas in the sphere through which
her influence extends. And this is not a
small one. Those who know the extreme
to which Washington society ladies carry
the matter of dress are aware that there is
a great work of reform needed In that di
rection, and who so gifted by position to
begin and carry on that work as the mis
tress of the Executive Mansion, lias the
wife of the President of our Nation noth
ing to do but carry on her part of the giddy
butterfly life that wears out our Washing,
ton Indies in so short a time ? Has she no
part to perform besides that of entertain
ing and being eutertained, dressing,' friz
zing, flaming, and showing off generally ?
She thinks there is a better part for her to
take and at the very beginning of her liv
ing among us she has taken her stand,
firmly but in so gentle and truly lady-like a
manner, that the most fastidious can find
no fault with her course. In the matter of
dress she has already participated in the
most brilliant receptions, dinners etc., and
her most elaborate toilet has been a
Slain black silk with folds faced with pale
lue for trimming, and a simple ruif of
Foint lace in the high neck and long sleeves,
n fact, she has already worn this dress
twice in public Of jewels and ornaments
sho has absolutely none, and the only or
nament she has been seen to wear in her
hair has been a single white rose. Her
dresses are rich and good in material, suit
able to her station, but there is nothing
showy or gaudy, or superfluous about her.
Just this first week that she has been among
shows the good that such a woman can and
will do.
As long as the world rolls round people
must be amused, sometimes one thing
serves their purpose, sometimes another.
It matters little to many whether they are
entertained with . a disgraceful scandal
about their nearest neighbor or by means
of a ticket to a Charity Ball, so the amuse
ment comes. Washington usually has her
share of all kinds, and all classes Can be ac
commodated with whatever dolectablo
dishes they prefer. Of late a series of
charitable entertainments have taken tho
place of dancing parties and such gayer af
fairs that preoeeded Lent. These have
been exceedingly interesting and instruct
ive as well as beneficial to certain worthy
objects in a pecuniary sense. This week
we have a fair and musicale combined, giv
en by the Israelites of the District in aid of
the Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation,
which promises to be right pleasant. 'There
are a goodly number of Jews residing in
Washington, highly respected as a class,
and well to do citizens. They have several
churches or synagogues as they are called
and of course a corresponding number of
priests. Wo do wrong in calling them
priests I suppose, for as ProfT. Felix Adler
recently said in reference to the degeneracy
of the priesthood :
"The Jews are honorable excepting in
this regard. For 1800 years since their
Temple wan destroyed they havo bad the
good sense never to tolerate a priesthood
among tbem. Their Habbies have simply
been teachers men distinguished for their
superior learning. But tho same paths of
knowledge were open to all, and they were
thus exposed to constant criticism, retain
ing their inlluonce only on the basis of ac
knowledged merit. It is only during the
Cast 70 years that a Jewish ministry has
een in being. The necessities of the times,
and the decadence of theological learning
which was once the province of every in
telligent Jew, leave the Rabbies in a posi
tion which they never occupied before."
M. M. W.
Miscellaneous News Items.
tW Alfred Rex shot and instantly killed
bis brother at iiarnston P. O., Pa. The
murderer has boen arrested.
tW Dr. Buckler Jones, a well-known
physician of Baltimore, committed suicide
Thursday morning by cutting his throat.
tW Wm. J. Rutter, cashier of the First
Nominal bank of Pottstown, is a defaulter
to the extent of f 17,000.
tW Thirty participants in a recent
masquerade at West Troy are down with
tlie smallpox, supposed to have been
disseminated by hired costumes.
n?" A new style of Stockings has been
brought out in Paris at 500 francs the
pair, but a nicer thing in stockings is said
to have been often seen for less money.
CSyA Maine editor, noticing the mar
riage of a contemporary, remarks of the
bride : "She will do the State a service if
she makes bim a better and more truthful
man."
ISTWra. H. Vanderbilt bas been bull
dozed by bis bretbern and sisters into a
compromise in the matter of the claims of
the latter for a larger allowance io the di
vision of the estate of the late commo
dore. . tSTA violent tornado has passed over
Alabama. It developed in the southwest
and swept toward tho northeast. The
houses on several plantations were demol
ished, and two persons are known to have
been killed.
EST A. M. Messenger, a well-to-do far
mer, living by himself, was robbed and
murdered in bis own bouse situated on the
main road, between Walpole and Wren
than, Massachusetts, on the night of the
8th inst,
tW There were several freshets in the
Susquehanna and Mohawk rivers on Sat
urday a week. The Susquehanna was
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
fifteen feet above low watrt mark at
Wilkesbarre, Rnd the flats between that
city and Kingston were Inundated. The
Mohawk rose to eighteen and a half feet
above low water mark at Sohnectady, and
the lower part of that city was inundated.
IfTThe Boston Advertiser, after re
viewing the memoirs of Miss Martineaii,
says of her that "we Confess with admira
tion that she was a most unoommon wo
man, and that we are deeply grateful tbst
she was so."
IW Several years ago a roan sold a
McKean county fnitner an organ, and took
in payment sixty acres of wild laud worth
two dollnrs an acre. Oil has been found on
it, and it is now worth $1000 per acre.
Oil of which is satisfactory to the orgau
seller.
tW At Minneapolis, Minn., on Monday
night a werk, the dead body of Mrs. Mary
Lyons was found at her residence, her face
and head horribly mutilated and her skull
broken. Her husband, Daniel Lyons, was
arrested on suspicion of having committed
the deed.
tW A Bait Lake City dispatch says that
snow has been falling in the mountains
near that place for the last two weeks. On
Monday a week a snow slide occured near
Alta, killing Matthew Ingram and Jared
Piatt. A cve-in in the Flagstall mino
recently covered five men and killed Henry.
Johnston. No others were badly hurt.
tW The Hartford Times records that on
the closing up of the Smith & Kogers silver
plating concern in New Haven, a few days
ago, preparatory to its removal to Meriden,
the floor of the plating room was taken
up, burned, and the ashes analyzed, with
the result of procuring pure silver to the
amount of $981.
tW More than 20,000 ordinary and about
S00 registered letters were destroyed by
the burning of the postal car attached to a
train on the Buffalo and Chicago Railroad
leaving Chicago on tlie morning of the
Kth. This train collided with a freight
train near Sedan, Indiana, the shock up
setting the stove and burning up the oar
and contents.
tTbe boiler of the eastern-bound pas
senger train on the Northwestern Railroad
exploded as the tfain went into Sterling,
111., on Thursday, killing Engineer Wm.
Watson, Station-keeper Samuel Woloott
and the fireman. The cause of the explo
sion is believed to be that the boiler was
out of water.
Scranton, Pa., March 12. The princi
pal coal companies operating in this valley
will resume work on full time at all their
mines on Thursday, next. More than half
have been idle for many months, and the
announcement of increased activity will be
received with great pleasure by the miners,
among whom considerable destitution pre
vails. tST The "ciub House," a notorious
gambling hell in Washington, was cleared
out by the police on Saturday night a week.
Among the gamblers capured were an ex
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, a pro
minent South Carolina Judge, ande if, 8v
Senator, and several ex-Congressmen. All
spent the night in the station house, and
were released on Sunday after on giving
security. ,
IW William F. Speakman, a resident of
Oakdale, Mass., was arrested recently while
in the act of killing his wife, who was
rescued. The dead body of bis sister,
seventy years old, was found in the wood
shed, the head and body having been al
most cut to pieces with an axe. Speak
man is a mill operative and has been in
sane from the effects of liquor for several
days, aud was drunk when the murder was
committed.
CT Ellen Reiden, the Bridgeport, Ct..
girl who put Paris green in her father's
coffeo, some time ago, has boen acquitted.
The evidence showed that she had been
treated with the greatest cruelty by her
father, and after a brutal beating gave him
the poison, not knowing its dangerous
character, merely to make him sick, that
she might have an opportunity to escape.
An Eastern Shore, Md ., paper says
the oyster trade is alarmingly dull. Com
mon oysters will not bring IO oents- a
bushel in Baltimore. Good oyster are only
worth 20 cents. They retail in our market
at from 25 to 40 cents per bushel in the
shell, and for 75 and 80 cents per gallon,'
and the market well supplied.
FASHION NOTES.
Red crepe Usee is a new ruching for the
neck.
Silk crocheted buttons of medium size
are considered stylish. "
The newest polonaises are so long as to
show but a glimpse of the skirt. Those
tight fitting are considered " tony."
Ribbon bows are used profusely as trim
ming. One arrangement now quite pop
ular, is to place tbem down a polonaise or
skirt in ladder fashion one loop directly
over another. Bows made in Maltese
crosses are also popular. In these long
loops of ribbon cross each other in every
direction.
It is probably that Leghorn straws, al
ways so graceful, will be worn this sum
mer. Another novelty in ladies' hats will
be an open straw, perforated like lace.
" Vesuve" a fierce flame color will belch
forth among spring millinery tints.
Baking Powder, just the thing every,
lady should have in the house. The
best out, for sale by F. Moutimer.
Do You Want One? I have yet several
sewing machines which will be sold at
half price for cash. If you want a bar
gain, now is your time to get it.
F. Mortimer.
Blank Reeelpt Books for Administrators
and Executors. Also blank notes and
all other blanks for sale at this ofilce. tf
Special Notice. Having added a room
for the express purpose of showing car
pets oil cloth and wall paper, we ask
persons wanting any of these articles to
look at our assortment,
tf. F. Mortimer.
The celebrated "Capital Lead, which
is unequalled for whiteness and durabil
ity always-on hand and for sale by ,
tf. F. Mortimer.