in K tiMfs?,' NEW Ht,biFlKi.i), ilA.1srii,,n:M'i)Kit 25; 1877.
THE TIMES.
New Moomfleld, Sept, 1877
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our Circulation.
For the Information of advertisers ami
others who may be interested in know
ing, we will state that the present circu
lation of Titr. Times Is between eighteen
hundred and nineteen hundred copies
each week.
Tiik Democrats of New Jersey havo
placed General Geo. B. MeClellnn In
nominations as their caniiuiato for gov
ernor. As New York has claimed him
as a resident of Mint Btate heretofore, Ave
supposo that New Yorkers will now
crow -about furnishing candidates and
perhaps a governor for another Btate.
We presume It will now be in order to
get shovels ready for a fall campaign.
A New Source of Wealth.
Within a few years, the far west is
furnishing a tiew source of wealth In its
supply of borax. Until very recently
the southern part of Europe furnished
nearly all the borax for the world. Now
the monthly production of California
and Nevada is about 200 tons per month.
The principal refining point is Colum
bus, Nevada, and the distance from
there to Wadsworth, the nearest station
on the Central Pacific Railroad, is about
300 miles over a desert country. The
means of transportation is a train com
posed of three wagons, the pole of one
fastened in the axle of the preceding.
Twenty-four mules are harnessed to the
first wagon. In this way the load of
about SO tons is distributed on the six
axles, an important precaution, as the
route lies over sandy plains and marshes
where roads are unknown. When a
difficult place is reached, the thrde wag
ons are separated and the whole force of
mules is attached to one vehicle at a
time, which Is thus hauled over or
through the obstacle. Generally the
owner of the train conducts it, aided by
one or two assistants, and in the last
wagon Is stored the necessary provision,
which includes both food and water, for
men and animals. This journey adds
about 11 cents to the cost of the borax
per pound. From Wadsworth to San
Francisco the expense of transportation
is li cents additional a pound. The total
cost per pound in Ban Francisco is about
SJ cents. i
Not Going Homo to Vote.
The New York IlcruhVs Washington
correspondent says : There is no truth
in the report that the Ohio clerks and
employees in the government service
here have been ordered to go home to
vote at the state election next month.
Whatever may have been the practice
in former years no persuasion will now
be employed to , induce government
employees to go home and take part in
their state elections. The exercise of the
right of suffrage will not, of course, be
denied to any who may wish to . leave
Washington, but the time they devote
to enjoying this prerogative will be de
ducted from the thirty days' leave of
absence granted by law to each govern
ment employee. Futheruiore application
for leave of absence will need to be
made in the usual formal manner and
will be granted only when the employee
can be spared without detriment to the
government service. So said Secretary
Schu rtz, on the eve of his departure for
Louisville, when questioned on the sub
ject Not a single application for leave
of absence has yet been filed in the de
partment of the interior, and so far as
known hardly a dozen Ohio men have
expressed their intention of going home
to vote. And yet there are about six
hundred Ohio republican votes lying
around loose in Washington which
could bo utilized next month were the
old system of the free passes and a
holiday to every voter still in vogue.
The English Cotton Strike One Hundred
and Six Mills Closed.
The U. 8. consul at Liverpool in
forms the department of state that the
operatives in the cotton mills of Bolton
and vicinity, to tho number of ten or
twelve thousand, struck on the first of
the present month, rather than submit
to a reduction of five per cent, in their
wages. One hundred and six mills are
closed in consequence. It was stated
that the men are in good financial con
dition to continue the strike, and that
contributions are supplied by other asso
ciations. These operatives struck, also
in 1674 against a reduction of five per
cent., but submlted to arbitration, which
decided against them. The five per
cent, was, however, restored in 1875,
and the present strike is occasioned by
the attempt to take It off again. Unless
arbitration la again resorted to the pres
ent strike is likely to prove a (stubborn
one, for while the men assort their
ability to remain out an Indefinite time,
the mill otVners, on account of the con
tinually decreasing American markets
for their goods, tho famine now raging
In India and the eastern war, are said to
be well pleased to have their places clos
ed for some time.
I
An Illinois Mystery.
Jacob Ably, a farmer, residing in the
town of Council Bluffs, was assassinated
by some unknown person about 0 o'clock
Sunday while he was1 engaged In remov
ing milk from the spring-house to the
cellar for the night. -The weapon used
was undoubtedly a gun, which was
loaded with buckshot.' Two shots were
fired, both of which took effect, one in
the head, funking a great hole In the
skull over the right eye, while the right
breast was pierced by nine balls.
A bullet hole was found directly be
hind the left shoulder. 1 Strange to say,
Mr. Ably lived until 0 o'clock next
morning, and was in possession of his
full faculties up to within a hour of his
death. lie executed his will during the
nlgbt,and talked freely about his nlfiilrs,
but did not know front Whence the shots
were fired or who wns the author of the
crime. The whole thing Is involved In
mystery, baffling the skill of the officers
engaged In investigating the murder.
The terrible affair has caused the
most intense excitement in the neigh
borhood, and a vigorous search Is being
made through the woods for the mur
derer. Tracks were discovered leading
from the house across a meadow nnd
through a potato patch to a small
stream about a hundred yards distant
from the premises.
On the morning of the 4th of Jan
uary last the wife of Ably was found
hanging from the limb of a tree back of
the house. The coroner pronounced it a
case of suicide, the evidence tending to
show that the woman stealthily left the
house at midnight and committed the
deed. But it is now believed that the
woman was taken from the house in
some manner and hanged by unknown
parties.
The St. Lawrence Rapids.
Tho Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, after
making tho trip down the rapids above
Montreal, concludes that " there Is real
danger in it." Of the Indian pilot he
says : " He was the first man to take a
steamboat over these rapids. For thirty
years he has been driving these steeds
down this rocky and dangerous road,
and he knows the path well. But I
notice that while we are in the rapids
his face is in dead earnest, the eye keen,
the lips set, the muscles tense, and when
we are passed a laugh breaks over his
face, as if once more he realized the
triumph of doing well a difficult duty."
The passage is described as follows:
41 The previous ones were rapids ; this Is
almost a little cataract. Before, we saw
the waves beat into foam upon the
rocks ; once we discerned the rocks be
neath the foam ; but here they push
their sharp and cruel heads above the
waters. These pour about them and
over them, but always In tho one direc
tion ; never with returning wave. Now
we no longer seem to be in a miniature
storm at sea, but In the very heart of a
rocky current. The tortuous channel Is
bounded with visible rocks on the one
side and on the other. The Captain re
quests the passengers to keep their
places; moving to and fro may throw
the steamer out of her course and Into
danger. The pilot holds herhead firm
ly for the rock that threatens to pierce
her strong sheathing through until al
most within reach from the lower deck,'
then, with a sudden turn, swings her
round, cheats the rock, and alms for
her greedy fellow on the other side. So,
veering from Scylla to Charybdis, we
pass the last rapids."
A Good Moth Exterminator;
A curious accident occurred at Platte
burg, New York, the other day, by
which the First Presbyterian Church
was damaged to a considerable extent.
It appears that the sexton had been
sprinkling benzine upon the1 cushions
and carpets to kill the moths with, which
the carpets and upholstery were infest
ed. About two-thirds of a banel of ben
zine was used in this manner. ' He then
went down into the lecture room and
made his preparations to start a fire in
the,furnace. He Ignited a match when
a shock came which threw him some
fifteen feet and rendered him insensible
for some time. The shock caused an'
alarm, and those who arrived first and
entered the audience room found the
atmosphere hot and Impregnated with
gas, the carpets and cushions on fire in
places, several of the memorial windows
ruined and the heavy outside front door
blown out'in the street. The theory of
the explosion is that the gas given ofl by
the benzine being heavier than air, a
considerable quantity leaked down
around the furnace registers into the
lecture room, and when the sexton lit
his match It exploded. The damage Is
variously estimated at from $500 to
$.1000. It is thought that as a moth ex
terminator the plan was a success.
Mysterious Disappearance.
A few days after the recent Four Mile
creek disaster a valise M-ns found down
the creek which has been broken open
and rifled of its contents. In It' was a
letter of late date from' Frank L. Put
nam to George Wolfe, dated at Rock
well, Iowa. Investigation proves that
Putnam wrote such a letter, and that he
knew Wolfe, who was traveling for the
Monitor Manufacturing Company, Cin
cinnati. It is supposed he was on the
fated train, but no trace of him has been
discovered and his whereabouts is a
mystery.
Certain it Is his body was not In the
wreck, nor could It have been washed
down the creek. How his valise' came
where it was found Is also a mystery, as
It was not where it could have been left
by the flood. Wolfe isdescrlbed as nine
teen years old, five and a half feet high,
weight 1.15 pounds, light sandy hair,
freckled face, blue ot gray eyes, scar on
upper Hp, and one tooth missing under
the scar ; face powder-burned, especially
on the lower lip. The whole affair is
rather mysterious.
Gold Express Robbery.
Omaha, Neb., September 10. A bold
robbery was perpetrated on the Union
Pacific Railroad, at Big Springs, Neb.,
last night.
As train No. 4, east-bound express,
pulled up In front of the station and the
express messenger opened the door to
deliver for the station, about half a dozen
masked men forced their way Into the
express car, and with drawn revolvers
compelled express messenger Miller to
unlock the safe, containing over $00,000,
mostly gold coin, with which they es
caped. The party consisted of about 12 or 13
men, some of whom, while the rest
were In the express car, went Into the
telegraph office and made tho operator
destroy his instruments to prevent his
reporting the occurrence. The robbers
then mounted their horses and started
north.
Strange Accident, on a Track.
At the Rush county, Ind., fair, a few
days since, aB the horses were warming
for the second heat in the 2.40 race, Kay
Armstrong, driver of High Jack, and
John Spencer, driver of Red Hot,
collided at the first corner from the
stand, at a 2.40 speed. 1 Both men were
thrown quite a distance and the sulkies
shivered Into splinters. High Jack then
passed on a few rods and ran into Win
der, breaking his sulky to atoms and
injuring the driver, Sftmp. Wilson,
slightly.
The three horses then started around
the track with pieces of their sulkies
still hanging to them, very badly fright
ened, and the greatest excitement pre
vailed. After some dangerous explqlts
by Red Hot and High Jack, they were
finally caught. Winder kept on at a
break-neck speed until he had run
around the track five times, and back
and forth on the last quarter a number'
of time, and until It was impossible for
him to go in the race.
After the Chinese.
San Fuaxcihco, September IS. Last
night the Chinese quarters of Grass
Valley, except one house, were burned.
Over forty buildings were destroyed. A
supposed incendiary attempt was made
to accomplish the same purpose a few
days ago. This morning a body of
armed men left Rose vl lie, Placer county,
and proceeded up the Auburo road warn
ing all Chinamtm, numbering some sixty,
In the seven camps visited, to leave be
fore midnight under penalty of death.
Some left at once. Twelve at Bardock's
camp refused to leave, though threaten
ed. The proceedings were conducted
quietly and no violence offered. It is
believed by Wednesday not a Chinamen
will remain in the township. The re
fuges are mostly gathering at Falsom.
A Female Mariner In Court.
There was a tough customer before
the Boston police court the other day in
the person of a woman calling herself 19
years old, who has several years worked
as a common laborer dressed in male
clothes without detection, and who had
been at sea several times as an able sea
man before the mast. : She had a man's
suit in her trunk when arrested, and
says she has knocked down many a
man while wearing it.
A Bogus Murderer.
John Henderson, an Englishman,
walked into the Sixth District Police
Station on the 17th of last August and
asked to be taken into custody, stating
that he had murdered Sergeant Wheeler,
of Troop E, Eighteenth Hussars of gate,
England, in January last. He was taken
liefore Magistrate Pole, to whom' he
confessed the crime, even to the most
minute particulars. 1 The magistrate
committed him and the English Consul
here was advised of the niattef. It was
ascertained that such a murder had been
committed. -Henderson, not relishing
his diet, afterward denied the story he
had told, and said he had made the
bogus confession in order to obtain a free
passage back to England. Last week he
was again arraigned before Magistrate
Pole, and the British Consul ' having
learned that he was not the murderer, he
was discharged from custody.
'"' SuicTdThT Jail.
Albany, N. Y., September 17. A
young man giving the name of Frederick
Ballantyue, of No. 110 Front street,
New York, committed suicide in the
jail here yesterday by cutting his throat
with a common table knife. He regis
tered at the Clarendon hotel here three
weeks ago and is supposed to have been
an agent for a New York tea house and
his real name is Fred. , Boundly. He
had been drinking very hard since his
arrival here and for the past four days
had been an inmate of the jail, put there
by friends to keep him from drinking.
A Dangerous Luncheon.
WlNDsoit, Vt., September 1G. John
Hubbard left his home in Clarement, N.
II.', yesterday noon, to visit this place.
Ills M'ife prepared luncheon for him, and
he ate It just before arriving here. He
was immediately seized with convul
sions, and the physicians pronounced it
a case of poisoning by strychnine. He
is now out of danger, and an investiga
tion will be made. Mrs. Hubbard ar
rived here to-day. She visited her hus
band, and denies all knowledge of any
poison being placed in the food. ,
Chattanooa, September 21. The
abundant crops of cotton, corn and
fodder In the valley of the Black War
rior, Alabama, have been entirely swept
away. The river suddenly rose sixty
three feet, which Is within two feet as
high as it was In the terrible freshet of
June, 1872. The planters had Just com
menced picking cotton and had not
hauled the corn and fodder from the
fields. It is estimated that 30,000 bales
of cotton have been destroyed. Most of
the planters are ruined, and it is doubt
ful If the actual necessaries of life can
be secured now. The town of Tuscaloosa
is about at the head of the devastated
section. Merchants had advanced heavi
ly on these growing crops.
Rome, N. Y., September 21. The
west bound Chicago express train, due
in Rome at 6.15 P. M., was thrown into
collision with a pickup freight train by
a misplaced Switch one mile west of
Rome depot. Both engines were com
pletely wrecked, and the mail and bag
gage cars were ground together 'in an
almost solid mass. The fireman of the
express, said to be Wm. Hendriokson,
of Albany, was instantly killed and
badly mangled. Joseph Durgin, of
Utlca, brakeman of the freight train,
was killed. J. L. Tunnard, of Troy, a
mall agent, has died from his injuries.
George W. Fitch, Oneida, mail agent,
had his right thigh and back injured.
By the death of Mr. Klock, form
erly of Reading, a new field has been
opened for punsters. We presume his
time had run out. AUcntown Chronicle.
Perhaps Mr. Klock, as his name im
plies, was one of the Reading " strikers,"
and was killed In the riots. Xorristown
Herald, Maybe he was a light weight,
and couldn't strike hard when old Death
tackled him. We can figure nothing
else out of the case, looking at the face
of the thing. Phil'a North American.
We presume ho was run down. ,
Miscellaneous News Items.
tW Mr. Cyrus Gould, a Providence
machinist, who was bitten by a Newfound
land dog about three years ago, was seized
on Friday last with symptoms of disease
resembling hydrophobia.
EST" Lewis Myers, Couuty Treasurer,
from whose office at Wapakonetta, Ohio,
30,000 were claimed to have been taken
on the night of September 0, was arrested
on Friday, charged with complicity in the
robbery.
tW Edward C. Dyer, a stock dealer of
East Liberty, Allegheny couuty, was mur
dered about sixteen miles from Columbus,
Ohio, on Friday night. It is supposed he
was first robbed of about $2,000 uud after
ward thrown into the river. ,
Rockfokd, 111., Bept. 15. The roof of
the, business bouse occupied by John B.
Lander & Son fell in, last night, , entirely
destroying the building and stock of goods.
Mr. Lauder and two olerks were killed, and
two others fatally injured. , ,
. (3P Sorew making machines are now
being manufactured at the Cambria iron
works, and if they prove a success it is pro
posed to erect . buildings and establish
works of sufficient capacity . to tura out
ten thousand gross of screws a day. .. !
CUT The Grand Duke Nicholas allows
po pilfering by the troops under bis com
mand. Any offender detected is tried by
court martial and shot. So strictly is the
order obnyod that Gen. Zotoff himself had
to do without oh i ok ens for some days be'
cause the Bulgarians refused to Sell him a
fowl for his private table ' ;
VW Wm. Devers, a farmer residing a
few miles north of Ada, O., drove into that
town Saturday evening a week with a
splendid horse and hitched on Main street.
Some unknown party took the horse out of
the buggy and put in its place an old horse
one bnndred dollars inferior to the one
taken. ' . . ' ,
EST The fallowing is a literal copy of an
address upon a letter recently mailed in
New York : "For mister patrick Davy
Crarston, rhode inland in the state of neu
yoik to be Handed to bridget o flalierty teu
be handed for her sister ann madigan pau
tucket rhodd Hand ten remain la the post
offls till called for monday week."
tfT D. M 'Bride an Allegheny oounty
grand juror, has been arrested on a charge
of participating iu the recent Pittsburgh
riots. It is alleged that he was on Cliff
street with a gun in his hand on the Sun
day on which the trouble occurred, and
that he endeavored to incite people to the
commission of unlawful acts.
tSJudge Hall, of the Bodford and
Bomerset districts, was taken suddenly ill
last week with congestion of the lungs,
and is at present lying in a precarious con
dition. His serious Bickness makes it nec
essary for some other presiding judge to
take his place at the opening day of the
regular Bedford county term of court.
t3T,Four prisoners, nomod Sponcer,
McKuhn, Waltenbaiigb, and- Woods, es
caped from the Armstrong county jail on
Thursday. The prisoners crowded behind
the door at the hour the sheriff usually
entered the jail with ice for ubb in the
culinary department. The minute bo
opened it they shoved him roughly in and
he fell down, while tho men broke out,
dosing the door behind them, and before
the official could recover himself they were
out of sight.
tW The ground of acquittal from mur
der upon which a young colored man es
oaped at Rockport, Ind., recently, was that
he believed h is victim to be a ghost. He
was passing through the woods at night
with a gun, when suddenly a white object
appeared iu his pathway. Terror-stricken,
be mechanically raised his weapon, and
fired, bringing the ghost down mortally
wounded, which turned out to be a colored
neighbor walking home with a white sheet
wrapped about him.
t" A Rhode Island, woman who died
recently expressed a dying wish that Bhe
should not be buried or placed in a tombv
Her husband consequently built a stone
cottage on the shore of the bay, exactly
like an ordinary dwelling externally, in the
cellar of whioh her body is kept. The
building has but one room, which is fitted
up with furniture they had in thoir . parlor
when first married, and the surviving mem
bers of the family spend an hour or so
there in devotions every Sunday.
tW The Philadelphia and Erie mail
train north, duo at Muncy Pa., at a quarter
before eight o'clock, collided with a freight
train near that place on Saturday morning,
a week. The baggage and express cars,,
with their contents, were totally destroyed
by fire. Express messenger Jacob Steiu
manand Engineer William Attick were
burned to death in the wreck. Two cars-
oi wneac ana several coal oil tanks were-'
burned.
IW About two months ago George
Duncan, living at Seney station, on the
Sioux City and St. Paul road, went to
England to seoure $25,000 which a deceas
ed relative loft, for him. While he was
tbere a brother turned up bis toes, and
left him another fortune.. A few days be
fore he started for home an aunt died,
leaving his name in her will for another
big sum. He hurried away, fearing the
whole family would die.
tW Samuel Crotzer, residing in the
lower end of Harrisburg, while playfully
throwing some water over one of bis com
rades, from a glass tumbler, started to run
with the empty glass in his hand. He
stumbled and fell, breaking the glass to
pieces, when portions of fragments cut a
deep gash into bis wrist, which severed
several of the tendons and one of the arteries,
causing the young man to bleed freely.
The loss of blood rendered him quite ill,
and he is not considered entirely out of
danger yet.
Houston, Sept. 17. A storm similar to
that of September, 1875, struck Galveston
at an early hour this morning, prostrating
the wires and covering the bridges with
water, thus cutting off all communication.
An engine left here at 10 A. M., . to learn
the extent of the damage, and found the
track under water for a mile in the vicini
ty of ths bridge. The wind blew from
thirty-five to forty miles an hour all day.
No trains had arrived from Galveston since
yesterday, and it is impossible to find out
anything about the damage at that place.
There was no damage, and but little wind
here. At Indianola the wind reached the
velocity of fifty-two miles an hour.
W. J. Rice. Surgeon and Mechanical
Dentist, will visit Bloomfleld the i ikst
two weeks of each month, profession
ally. Office at 'Squire Clouser's resi
dence. The remainder of his time at
his office In Ickesburg, Perry co., Pa.
3T Call and hear his prices. 2S