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THE TIMES.
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New Bloomfield, Sept. 11, 1877.
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., OUR CIRCULATION, , i ..-
For the Information of ndvertlBersand
others who may be Interested In know
ing, we will state that the present circu
lation of The Times Is between eighteen
hundred and nineteen hundred copies
each week.
The Republican State Convention,
which met at Harrisburg on Wednesday,
nominated Hon. Jaa. F. Sterrett, of Al
legheny, for judge of the Supreme Court;
J. A. M. Passinore, of Schuylkill, for
Auditor General, and W. B. Ilart, of
Montgomery, for State Treasurer.
Senator Conkling very justly says
that no class In this country has a mo
nopoly to the right to call Itself the
working class. We are all workers here,
except the few rich people who live on
Inherited wealth, which, In a majority
of cases their ancestors worked hard
enough for. The cause of the working
classes then Is the cause of the whole
people. Do the strikers consider this ?
The War Department has ordered the
Third Regiment of Infantry, now on
duty at Scranton, Wllkesbarre and Pitts
burgh, to be forwarded to Montana as
speedily as possible. This 1b in accord
anc with General Sherman's recommen
dation, In view of apprehended trouble
from the Indians In that Territory.
General Wesley Merritt, with the Fifth
Cavalry, hast been ordered to proceed to
the Wind River Valley and thence
northward on the Nez Perces trail.
Snow Storm on Mt. Washington.
Mt. Washington, Sept. 3. A heavy
snow storm is now prevailing here. It
commenced at eight o'clock this morn
ing. The thermometer Indicates thirty
degrees at the hotels at the base of the
mountains, where it Is raining hard.
This is the first snow storm on the sum
mit of Mt. Washington since the 22nd
of June. The month just passed is the
first August without a snow storm here
for a number of years.
Co-operation Among Hone Thieves.
Detectives have discovered the ex
istence of a regular organized society of
horse thieves, with officers, signs, grips,
and pass-words, who have been commit
ting depredations in Western Ohio for a
long time and selling the stolen proper
ty in Fort Wayne and vicinity. Mem
bers go by numbers instead of names,
and divide the proceeds of all thefts
equally among tnemseives. These facts
have come to . ght through the state
ments of one Thomas alias Crawford,
who was arrested at Fort Wayne while
attempting to sell a horse stolen by him
in New Madison, Ohio.
( Death of Thiers. '
Louis Adolphe Thiers, ex-President of
the French. Republic, died suddenly on
the 3rd inst., at StGermain. He was
born of humble parents in Marseilles,
April 16, 1707., He was educated at the
lyceum of his native city and the law
school of Aix, where he practiced at the
bar from 1818 to 1821. Then he went to
Taris, and Into Journalism.
For nearly half a century he has filled
France and almost the world with his
fam? as journalist, historian, orator and
statesman. , No one In France has had a
larger share in moulding her destinies,
and nearly all his life has been one long
battle for liberty and constitutional gov
ernment. His first office was under Louis Phil.
. Ippe ; when he brought France through
the dark days of the Commune to the
present Republic. M. Thiers " was a'
statesman of the very highest order, and
his career, which extended over perhaps
the most Important period of French
history, forms a large portion of the an
nals of his country.
65T Farmer's daughters often marry
rakes. Exchange. Yes, and it harrows
our soul to know that the rakes some
times turn out to be threshers. Yonkera
Gazette. Yes, and it makes us scythe
the more when we think of the sickly
offspring. St. Louis Journal.' Why, oh,
why did she allow the rake to cultiva
tor acquaintance. JIawkeye, We hope
that every daughter who marries a rake
may reaper reward. New Haven Jour,
nal and Courier. Alas, then, she'll find
she's spade too dear for her rake, but hoe
cares r No mower of this now N. Y.
Com. Advertiser". But lettuce suppose she
knocks some teeth out of the rake, and
plows furrows through his hair, wouldn't
he make rye faces and seek a separator. 1
New York Life Illustrated.
; , by pun OWN i COK RESPONDENT.
Before I begin1 I want to make a confes
sion. I have been asked to' write a series
of letters for The Times. My object In
complying,' is to put a few dollars in my
purse and to try and please the readers of
this paper. The head-piece, " New York
Life Illustrated," Is neither new, novel
or startling. Most everybody has seen
New York, and those who have not
seen tnust have ; tired of reading about
this metropolis. For fear you will pass
me by without testing my wares, I will
assure you in the outset that none of my
illustrations have ever been exhibited
before. Notwithstanding the title smells
of old books and musty garrets, I shall
endeavor to bring you something new
each week.
In the house opposite to where I write,
a funeral is now taking place. A hearse
stands at the door waiting to bear away
tho remains to the city of the dead. In
the adjoining house a fashionable wed
ding is being held. The gaily dressed
bride's maids and groom's men, with
the many invited guests, are asceuding
the high steps as the mourners are de
scending to their carriages from the ad
Joining house of death. One Is .'.blaze
with happiness and and life while the
other casts forth a shadow of sorrow and
gloom darker than night. The sidewalk
under my window is crowded with pe
destrians who have stopped to witness
the suggestive spectacle. One door opens
to the wedding feast, the next Invites to
the sepulcher of the dead.
Early this morning as I was coming
through the produce market, I met a
Long Island farmer, "What are you
newspaper folks always writing about
people starving In the city, for ?" began
Uncle Josh, throwing a pile of empty
baskets and barrels into his wagon pre
paratory to a start for his home. "If
it's true where are they ? I'd like to
find some one who is hungry enough to
give me ten shlllln's a barrel for potatoes
or if they are starving, they may have
all the truck they want by coming out
on the Island after it." Uncle Josh
owns a large truck farm twenty-five
miles out back of Brooklyn. He Is well
known on the market, having carted In
and sold vegetables hero rom his wagon
during the past thirty-five years and his
word is never questioned. From htm I !
learned that in his neighborhood, acres
of cabbages, tomatoes, peas, beans and
other truck is allowed to go to waste on
the ground, because it will not bring
enough In this city to pay for harvesting
and carting. Uncle Josh said he started,
from home yesterday noon loaded with
potatoes and tomatoes. He had been on
the market all night, and when he got
back home with his empty baskets and
barrels, he would have but eight dollars
over expenses to show for his load. That
Is, his two day's and one night's labor
with team, and the receipts of his load
only cleared him ejght dollars. He said
when he got home he should do as many
of his neighbors had done, discharge his
help and let the stuff rot on the ground.
To-day tomatoes sold for twelve cents a
bushel, and potatoes from seventy-five
cents to one dollar a barrel the cheapest
they have been known in this city for
thirty years. They are so low that the
supply will be cut off, and In a few weeks
will doubtless advance to three times the
present price. The market-farmers of
New Jersey, Long Island and other sec
tions convenient to the city, are suffer
ing more from an exuberant yield this
year, than they ever did by drouth,
grass-hoppers or bugs. Their land, for
once, has been over-productive. This
fact contrasts strangely with the other
well-known fact,that people by the score
are dying dally in this city for the want
of food ; but to one who has nothing
with which to pay, a meal of victuals at
five cents is as dear as If It cost a dollar.
You know George Francis Train. Of
course you have heard of the Train who
ran for the presidency of the United
States in '72. Everybody has heard of
him, but his true history has never been
told. If you will walk with me over to
Madison Square I will Introduce him to
you. No, I can only point him out, for
he never speaks any more to a person
ovet fourteen years of age. However, I
notice that he occasionally gets deceived
in the age of young ladles, and speaks to
those who are two or three years beyond
the standard. This eccentricity began
three years ago, since which he has oc
cupied a bench under one of the trees in
Madison Square almost constantly. He
appears at his seat, both summer and
winter, wet or cold, at precisely six
o'clock every morning, and never leaves
it before ten o'clock at night. In dress
except when mussed by rain or snow, he
lsa picture of neatness. A two thous
and dollar cluster sparkles from his bo
som, and a four hundred dollar watch,
hung to his vest by a two hundred dollar
chain keeps for him the time of day. He
owns a fifty thousand dollar residence in
Madison avenue, a few rods away, the
Inside of which he has not seen for three
years. In its place, he rente a fourth
6tory hall bedroom to a house In Fourth
street near Second avenue, paying there
for two dollars a week, the money being
handed to ft ten year old soil bf his land
lord every Sunday morning. Except In
case of a severe storm he Invariably takes
the blankets from his tied and ascending
through the scuttle, sleeps on the roof.
His landlord stated to me that during the
past year, Traiii had not rubbed above
forty nights from his roof. Even the
coldest nights of last winter found him
there. He never wears any covering to
his head and allows himself but one
regular meal a day, which he takes at
half past five in the morning at a coffee
house on Third avenue, opposite Cooper
Institute. He enters the park Iri the
morning with every pocket crammed
with candles, fried-cakes and crullers.
In a paper bag he brings a half peck of
peanuts. This stock he parcels out to
the children and birds during the day.
The birds partake first of his bounty In
the morning. They have become so ac
customed to his hospitality that the
ground about his seat Will bo covered
with them the moment he arrives. They
alight on his head,and shoulders and eat
from his hand, a dozen at a time. The
children begin to gather around him
about seven o'clock. They are treated
with less generosity than the birds, his
bags and pockets being of less capacity
than their stomachs. Neither the chil
dren nor sparrows seem to think Mr.
Train. Insane. Everybody else about
New York does, but a committee of doc
tors have pronounced him harmless. I
think him Insane, and the cause I attrib
ute to an excessive and disappointed de
Bire for popularity and fame. But I fear
I have already taken the reader too far
on this Train. 'M.
A Terrible Fire Loss of Life. '
New York, Sept. 3. A fire broke
out at 0.45 p. m., In J. P. Hale's piano
factory on West Thirty-fifth street.whlch
was entirely destroyed. It is rumored
that ten persons perished. The flames
extended to the south side of the street,
between Tenth and Eleventh avenues,
destroyed E. M. Connelly's barrel fac
tory, J. Graham & Co.'s silk factory and
several houses adjoining. J. Walker's
charcoal factory, on the north side of
Thirty-fifth street, was also burned.
The fire originated, through Nicholas
Monk, a varnish rubber, who was heat
ing some varnish over a stove. While
his back was turned It got ablaze and the
flames spread like a flash. He fled at
once for his life, giving the alarm as he
ran, but the" windows being open, the
flames swept through the building, find
ing fresh fuel at every step. It Is sup
posed that about 200 hundred men were
employed in the building at the time,
but It cannot be ascertained how many
have been burned. The hatchways in
one corner were open and the flames
rushed to the upper stories as if through
a flue. Several firemen say that from
the windows of the upper story of the
factory, men were calling for ladders for
help, " for God's Bake," but that the
ladders were not long enough, to reach
them, and even if they were they could
not be placed In position, owing to the
intense heat. Some fell to the pave
ment and others, after wildly waving
their arms, fell back Into the burning
mass behind them. The great eight
story mill on Thirty-sixth street fell al
most without warning, and the number
who are burled under . It will not be
known until the debris is moved away.
The wildest excitement prevailed as
the flames leaped to the adjoining build
ings, mostly tenement houses, and men,
women and children fled for their lives.
They Baved nothing and were lucky to
escape with their lives.
Up to a late hour to-night the .num
ber of casualties reported were: Killed
Oliver Pasnlcker, who Jumped from
the top story and was instantly killed,
nnd Annie Smith, smothered In a tene
ment house adjoining the factory. The
injured were: Paul Hess, jumped from
the seventh story window to an adjoin,
ing building, not dangerously injured;
T. Ludwlg, jumped from fifth story,
Blight injuries v James Roland, fireman,
wall fell,burying him under It. The fol
lowing persons employed in the factory
are missing and there is but little doubt
they have been burned up : H. Bede, J,
Gunberger, John Kutsch, James Smith,
Patrick Trainor. ,
Over fifty buildings in all have been
destroyed and the losses are large, with
the insurance probably covering half of
the amount. Some of the most terrible
scenes of the fire occurred in the tene
ment houses. One fireman rescued an
Infant and its helpless father from the
fourth floor, and then at the peril of his
life found another child Just expiring
from suffocation on the top floor. Annie
Sweet ,an occupant of a tenement house,
died from fright.
When the walls fell it became easier
for the firemen to work, and the ex
treme heat subsided somewhat, enabling
them to approach and play on the burn
ing masses. It was noticed that during
the day that no employees were to be
found and therefore persons believed
that they had all perished in the flames,
but yet few" Inquiries were made at the
station house or in the vicinity of the
fire for the missing men during the day.
It Is Bald that many of the employees live
in Hoboken and on escaping, if they
did, went off home at once. 1 ,
A Spider's Fatal Bite. ,
The Providence Journal says : A week
ago last Thursday morning, Martha
Casar, a colored woman forty years of
age, and wife Of James Cresar, proprie
tor of a restaurant ht 118 Wlckenden
street, was awakened from sleep by a
stinging sensation in her under lip, and
found that she had been bitten by some
insect. As the hide cabin in which they
live, on Babcock street, is infested by
numerous spiders, she supposed that
one of them had crawled upon the bed
while she was asleep. During the day
her Hp pained her severely, and at night
It was badly swollen, and had turned to
a purple color. She applied poultices
and such simple remedies, but the swell
ing Increased during Friday and Satur
urday, and the pain extended to her head
and limbs. On Sunday Dr. Mathews
was called and found that the poison had
made its way Into her system so rapidly
that there was but slight hopes of her
recovering from its malignant effects.
However, he prescribed soothing medi
cines and applied poultices, which re
duced the swelling somewhat. OnMon,
day Mrs. Ciesar lost the control of her
limbs, and was obliged to He down on
her bed, from which she never arose.
On Tuesday she gradually became un
conscious, and her face was swollen be
yond recognition, but she was suffering
terribly. She died at 0.40 on Wednes
day night. "
Miss Western's Pin.
Miss Western, of 122 Forsyth street,
told the story of the loss on Saturday
evening of her $1,400 diamond breast
pin. She had stopped under the gas
lamp at South Fifth avenue and Bleeck
er street to look at an advertisement con
taining the number of a house she was
in search of, when a man suddenly
grabbed the pin. He used such force
that the thick velvet to which the pin
was fastened gave way and the whole
front of her dress was torn out. The
thief ran up Bleecker street toward
Broadway. For an instant the force of
his attack stunned Miss Western, but as
soon as she realized tJae situation she
gave chase. She is stout built, and not
framed for very active exertion, but,not
withstanding this, she kept almost
within an arm's length of the thief all
along the block in Bleecker street, and
down Greene to Houstou, where he was
collared by Officer Witson. The specta
cle of a stout lady flying through the
street after a man at 10 o'clock in the
.evening drew ft large crowd, which did
not wonder any the less when Miss West
ern's friend, who if stouter than herself,,
approached In a condition resembling
hysterics. Miss Western had. obtained
a good look at the the thief when under
the gas lamp, so that she had no difficul
ty in identifying him. He gave his
name as John Murphy. He denied the
charge, although Miss Western gave
him her word to let him go if he would
tell her where the cross would be recov
ered. He was remanded to give the
the officers time to catch an. aocomplice
to whom he handed the oross. ,
The Chinese as Shoemakers.
. Some 65 Chinamen are still employed
by Mr. Sampson, at North Adams.Mass.,
and the question of hiring more, when
they go away, or of giving up the exper
iment, has not yet been settled. The
time of many of them is expiring, but
they stay on, and it would not be strange
if quite a number of them, becoming
civllilized and Christianized by - their
wholesome surroundings, should come
to look upon the town as their home. A
remarkable , occurrence , the other day
was the return of one, named Ah. Guy
from his home in China. He went home
two years ago, after ( working,. at shoe
making four years, and, after spending
all his money, wrote to Mr. Sampson
asking if he would take him again. Get
ting a favorable reply he came, and is
now at his old bench.
' O" Some time last week Mrs. Scrlven ,
of La Grange, who is now in Tennessee,
dreamed that her grandchild, a child of
Mr. D. A. Dansby, was dead. Going to
sleep again Bhe had the same dream, and
had It four times that night. Night be
fore last the little child suddenly became
111, and though medical aid was sum
moned the child, to all appearance, died.
".' Animation was suspended, and so far
as any one could tell life was extinct.
In four pr five minutes the child revived.
In a minute or two the same thing was
repeated, the moribund condition lasted
the same length of time, and this oc
curred four times. Of course the dream
had nothing to do with the illness and
suffering of the child, but the two things
form a strange coincidence. The little
sufferer is still alive but is quite ill.
W. J. Rice, Surgeon and Mechanical
Dentist, will visit Bloomfield the first
tm'O weeks of each month, profession
ally. Oftlce at 'Bqulre Clouser's resi
dence. The remainder of his time at
his office in Ickesburg, Perry co., Pft.
2T Call and hear his -price 8
Miscellaneous Newa Items.
tW A landlady said that she did not;
knew how tomake both ends meet. "'Well,"'
said a boarder, "why don't you make one
eud vegetables?" ...
t A Lewlstown Idiot, a tailor by occu
pation, Is so strong a temperance man that
he refuses to make any man a suit of olotkos
who Is engaged in the liquor trafllo.
E3T A boy seventeen yearslold died in
Charlestown, Mass, of hemorrhage 1 re
sulting from the extraction of a tooth six
days bofore, and the Boston Post says that
nine of -his relatives "died from similar
causes.'' -'
tSF1 An Infant daughter of Rev. J. P. !
Ob1,sof Quakertown, Bucks county, fell
out of the third-story window. Bhe alight
ed upon the roof of a kitchen, rolled off.
to the ground and escaped with slight in
juries. 3F Just before leaving Boston for
Europe, Prof. Graham BellJ of telephone
fame, married the daughter of Gardiner
G. nubbard, a deaf mute. He had so.
carefully instructed her that she uttered
distinctly all the responses of the wedding
service.
tW The Pope is said to be in tolerably
good healthy considering his adva need age,
but he Is fast losing his memory, and is
subject to frequent attacks of syncope.
His legs have become stiff, and the doctors
do not think he can last long In his present
condition. W The Lorillards, ( Pierre and George)
of New York, are the richest tobacconists
in the world, and form the oldest house
In America. They are worth three millions,
and have a business which brings them
annually a fortune. Their anoestors found
ed this trade.
CUT" On Monday a week, Mr. Jeremiah
Light, of Cornwall township, Lebanon co.,
employed a man as a farm hand, and be
fore night he was missing, and a dark
brown horse, with the two hind feet white,
about six years old; and sixteen hands
high, was missing also.
Cincinnati, September 8. An excava
tion under a dwelling on Longworth street
undermined its walls and the building fell,
with a crash. Four women were burled In
the wreck, but only one, Mrs. Keam, was
killed. Five men were. Injured, two it is
thought fatally. It is stated that four per
sons are still in the ruins. ,
KW A lady in Cinoinnati sent a descrip
tion of a child she wanted to a foundling
hospital In New Orleans. A day or two ago
she received a reply that a child was on its
way to Cinoinnati, and a few days after,
the messenger of the Adams Express rang
the bell and announced a package for Mrs.
, at the same time presenting a little
girl of tender years wl th an express label
tied to one arm. '
tW Two boys named1 Dlngham, residing
In the township of Elk, Miohlgan, met
with a remarkably close escape from death
by lightning reoently. . They were both in
bed and the fluid came down the stove pipe,
setting the bed clothes on fire and giving -both
boys a severe shook. One of thera
was burned from his head to his feet, and
the blood flowed out of his ear for some
time afterward. He has since recovered.
t3T Three weeks ago a marriage took
place In a Liverpool church, when an up
holsterer aut down, by order oft one of the
parties, some crimson baize.. r When he -was
about to carry it home, the sexton
claimed it on the ground that, as it bad.
been brought into church, it had become
holy, and it wonld be sacrilege to remove
it. In vain the upholsterer protested. The
sexton, full of pious teal, Would , not yield
an inch, and the cloth was left under protest.-
W Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Wilson, ' of
Bridgewater, Beaver county, concluded to
separate. Mrs. Wilson retained the two
children and obtained a divorce. Mr. W.
removed from that city, and for seventeen
years no communication passed between
them, 1 A few months since tho daughter, .
learning of the whereabouts of her father,
wrote to him.' i A correspondence ensued,
the result of which Was- that . the former -husband
and wife were re-united a couple
of weeks since.
tW The body of a young woman, about
18 years of age, the daughter of Davis
Exline, of Caldwell, In Appanoose county,
Iowa, was found in a stable near that place
on Monday last There were marks upon
her throat as if she had been choked. There
was also a mark on the side of her head, .
which had the appearance of having been
produced by a blow. The theory is that
she bad been taken into the stable and
shamefully abused and then choked to
death, but nothing is known as to the facts
in the case. "' "
tReoently when Bishop Wfcittaker, of
Nevada, visited Tybo, the services were
held in a hall which adjoins a place where
the growls of the tiger are constantly heard.
Just as the reverend gentleman had finish
ed an impressive prayer, and in the silence
which always follows air orison in pious -congregations,
and before "amen" could
be said, a loud voice from the adjoining
apartment shouted solemnly, Keno I" A.
smile came over the faoes of the pious,
and the worthy Bishop did his boat to. pre
servers equilibrium..