THE TIMES, NEW nLOOMElELD, PA.. APRIL 23, 1878. THE TIMES. JTew Bloom field, April 'Hi, lSTfi. NOTICK TO ADVEHTISKUS. No On or Stereotyp will lie Inserted In thli raper unless llKht face sml on metal bane. W-Twenty per rent, in eii-ess of reirnlsr rntes, will eohrKeu lor advertisements settu Kmitile Column. OUR CIRCULATION. For the Information of Advertisers, and others Interested In knowing, we make mention of the fact that we begin this year with a circulation of NINE TEEN HUNDRED copies. New York, April 22. President Or ton of W. U. Telegraph Co., died this morning at 7 a. m., of Apoplexy. Governor Hartranft has signed the Philadelphia Kecordqr bill and sent it to the Legislature. He has also sent to the Senate the nomination of M. B. iuay, at present Secretary of the Com monwealth, to be Recorder of Philadel phia for the term of ten years. The U. S. Benate has passed the bill repealing the Bankrupt act and it is thought there will be no danger but what tfee House will concur. It has been, bill that has wrought much evil and should by all means be repealed. Banks and Merchants In many parts of the country have already begun to pay out gold at par, thus anticipating the -date of resumption. Cold at this time is only at a nominal premium of J per -cent, while in Ban Francisco green backs bring a small premium, being pre ferred to gold or silver. Tweed's Funeral. 'ew York, April 17. The funeral of Wm, M. Tweed took place this morn ing. No serniori was .preached, and the services which were sieiple, were per formed by Rev. Dr. Price, of the Protes tant TSpiscopal Church. The coffin, which was of oak, covered with black broadcloth and velvet trimmings, was 6 feet 4 inches long and 22 inches wide. Effect of Payment on ttie Limitation Act. A long opinion ws filed by Chief Justice Agnew In the Supreme Court the other day, in the suit of Maria F. Clark against IT. B. Uaker, et. al., ad ministrators of E. W. Hinksou. Grace end' Clark gave their jaint note to Ilick son, who Indorsed paytnents of interest and principal on it within six years from its date. He did not specify by whom the payments were made and there was no evidence to show it. Upon these facts the question arose whether these payments barred the running of the statute of limitation as to Clark. The Court decides that -such memoranda of payment will not bar the statute in the absence of any evidence as to who made the payments. The judgment of the lower court is reversed and a venire facias de novo awarded. Judges Suars woodiercur and Paxsen dissent. Mrs. Tilton Confesses. New York, April 15. Mrs. Tilton makes the following confession : Mr. Ira B. Wheeler My Dear Sir : A few weeks since, after long months of mental anguisn, 1 told, as you know, a feW.friends whom I had bitterly deceived that the charge brought by tay husband of adultery between myself and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was true, and that the lie I 'have lived so well the last four years had become intolerable to me. That statement I nowBolemnCy reaffirm and leave the truth with God, to whom I also commit myself, my children and all who must surfer. I know full well the explanations that will be sought by many for this acknowledgment of a de sire to return to my husband insanity, malice, everything save the true ana only one, my quickened conscience and the sense of what is due to the cause of truth and justice. During all the com plications of these years you have been my confidential friend, and therefore I .address this latter to you, authorizing and requesting ou to secure its publica. iion. Elizabeth R. Tiltox. Brooklyn, April 13, 1878. Labor Troubles in England. Londox, April 16. The Preston Guardian days; " It is reported that a strike of cotton operatives would stop 5,750,000 epiadles in one district and 1,500100 in another." , The London Timet say that the feeling of both masters and man is becoming stronger. A meeting of the masters at Burnley was held last night. It was resolved to co-operate in enforcing the reduction of operatives' wages. The card-room bands at Blackburn after hearing the report of the deputation which interviewed the masters, unanimously resolved to resist the reduction. Weavers' Association advise that the masters be requested to withdraw the notices of a reduction, when the weavers would continue work. The Manchester Cotton masters to-day received a deputation of operative spin ners who declared they were willing to accept a five per cent, reduction of wages, and if the Masters could not agree to It they would refer the matter to arbitration. The masters replied, de clining both proposals and adhering to their original resolution, that if a strike occurred at any of the mills where no tice had been given of the ten per cent, reduction the remainder of the trade shall " lock-out" at the earliest possible moment, and the amount derived from the reduction at those mills which con tlnuework Rhall beapplledtothefund for assisting those firms whose hands strike. The notices of reduction expire to-morrow. A strike which will efieet 30,000 operatives Is certain. , i . . How an Old Obligation Can be Revived. The Supreme Court has just made a very Interesting decision Involving the limitation of time and circumstances under which a debt can be invalidated. One Dr. Penrose Wiley, of Berks coun ty, received various sums of money from Mary FInkbone, and for which he gave her a due bill dated May loth, 1808, for $475 that being the total of the several suras due her. He afterwards borrowed $30 more from her, and on the same duo bill which Bhehehi forthe$175,acknowl. edged having received and was owing her $30. This last evidence of indebt edness was dated October 11th, 1800. Some six years after this, the doctor col lapsed financially, and Mary attempted to recover the amount due her out of his estate, but it was maintained that her claim was barred by the statute of limi tation. The lower court affirmed this view of tire case, and Mary lost. But nothing daunted, she carried her case to the Supreme Court, maintaining that when the doctor gave the last receipt for the $30 on the old obligation for $175, it was practically renewing the same for a larger amount, and for that reason the statute of limitation could not be plead ed as a bar against her claim. The Su preme Court reversed thedecision of the court "below, and n fit rimed that Mary's claim, was good. . Brutal Attack on two Women One of the Party Shot. PeTTSiiuRGH,April A tragic event occurred about one o'clock last night at the head of Twenty-eighth street, a lo cality which has becorie famous in con nection with the July riots in this city. Mrs. Holmes, wlfeef a pollceman,and Mrs. Dougherty, a sister, started from their homes on the hillside above Twen ty-elghth street to go to the house of their mother, some four or five blocks distant, Mrs. Holmes having left her two children there. 'On their way down they were attacked by two men. Mrs. Dougherty succeeded in escaping, and reaching the foot of the hill fortu nately encountered 'flicer Holmes, who had Just been relieved from duty. She informed liiei of the attack made on bis wife, and he hurried to her assistance, When he readied the spot he discovered his wife lying on the ground ; one man was holding her down while the other had her by the throat, thus preventing any outcry. On the approach of the husband the villains fled, but a well-di rected shot brought one of them to the ground. The name of the injured man isGeorge Wilcox, a married man, with three or four children. He was carried into the West Penn hospital, and It Is thought he cannot recover, Holmes surrendered himself into the custody of the authorities. He feels certain he was justified in the course he pursued. His wife was severely injured in the struggle but was able to be about to-day. Terrible Explosion. Titusville, Pa,, April 18. A few minutes before nine o'clock this morn ing an explosion occurred that shook the city, and in a very few seeonds a dense cloud of smoke that was seen rising from that direction gave evidence that a glycerine explosion had occurred Just South of the city about two miles. Upon repairing to the soene of the ex plosion it was ascertained that the com pound in an old filling Louse of Roberts & Co., had exploded. Not a vestige of the building remained, and pieces of torpedoes were found hundreds of feet away from the scene of the explosion. The loss cannot be ascertained at pres ent, but it is not heavy. The compound that caused the explosion was dynamite. In the city, a distance of two miles from the explosion, large plate glass windows were shattered, and the large business blocks shaken to their founda tions. No one was injured. The ex plosion was caused by the wood fires catching the magazine. Another Curious Woman. The postmaster at Freeport, Arm strong county, is in trouble. She was detected in opening letters placed in her charge for transmission through the mails, and her exact motive for acting so dishonestly has not transpired. Some say the reason was to read the love cor respondence of spoony people in the town and she was only curious ; others that she opened letters directed to Wash ington, to see if any person was trying to secure her position, while still others have their own theories. The woman was caught up by a special detective, who sent a decoy letter addressed to General Harry White. From seventy five to one hundred letters had been opened and reseated Bome In new en velopes and redirected In her own hand writing. One of the male persuasion now licks Btamps in her place. . . . ... . - . - .. An Unpleasant Predicament. The Utlca Herald tells the following matrimonial complication : "A Ger man named Sultz, living at Cherry Val ley, has plnced himself In a rather re markable predicament. His wife has long been an lnvalid,and a few days ago, thinking thnt she was dying, she In sisted that her husband should comply with her oft-repeated request to make her sister his second wife. Nothing would suit Mrs. Sultz but to have the marriage occur before she closed her eyes In death. The ceremony was according ly performed, a neighboring Justice of the peace officiating, and strange to sny Mrs. Bultz No. 1 has rallied and is rapid ly growing stronger, and probably will get well. Mr. Suit is anxious to know how to read his title clear." An Old Case Decided. Cincinnati, April 17. An old case growing out of the slave times was de cided In the United States Court to-day. Henrietta Wood (colored) who was born a slave in Boone county, Kentucky, but was finally civen her freedom, was afterwards kidnapped and taken to Cov ington, where she was delivered to three men Zeb. Ward, Frank Russ and Wil loughby Scott, and after some time she was sold to a planter in Mississippi. She was finally liberated after the war, hav ing served her master for nearly twenty years. Upon Irer return to this city she brought suit .against Ward, claiming $15,000 damages. To-day she obtained a verdict of $2,500. New County of Lackawanna. The bill creating the new county of Lackawanna, was signed by Governor Hatranft last week. The new county of Lackawanna will contain a population of nearly 100(000 people. The popula tion of the remaining portion of the old county of Luwerne, from which Lacka wanna was formed stands at about the same figure. In 1870 the population of the old county was 161,000. Scranton, which is to be the county seat of the pro posed new county, has a population of nearly 50,000. Lackawanna will be the sixty-seventh county in the State, in the order of organization. A Disgusted Lobbyist. A man who visited Colurubus, Ohio, last week, to-secure certain legislation, went away intensely disgusted because, as he said, " there were three Stale Sen ators who agreed to vote for it for $500 apiece, and nw they want $l,O00." No honorable Senator would raise his price in that manner after a fair agreement had been made. A Dog Sets a Good Example. Mr. Stephen Ryder, of Christian Hook, L. I., in going to the railway sta tion at that place a few days ago, drop ped a pocket-book containing $80. A dog accompanied him to the depot, and, on returning, picked up the pocket book, carried it home, and laid it on the stoop, where it was found by Mrs. Ry der. Now let persons who find pocket books be as honest as this dog. Remedy for Hard Times. Stop spending so much on fine clothes, rich food and style. Buy good, healthy food, cheaper and better clothing ; get more and real substantial things of life every way, and especially stop the fool ish habit of running after expensive quack doctors or using so much of the vile humbug medicines that does you only harm, and makes the proprietors rich, but put your trust in the greatest of all simple, pure remedies, Hop Bitters, that cures always at a trifling cost, and you will see better times and good health. Try it once. Read of it in another column. Fatal Fight In a Church. Jacksonville, 111., April 15. In a row which originated in the African Methodist church here last night,Tobias Hannos shot Clarence Hubbard dead, and so badly wounded Wm. Baker that he died to-night. Frivolous Charges. A sub-committee of the Judiciary Committee of the House has agreed to report in the case of Judge Waller, of Wayne county, that there is no ground whatever for an impeachment of him, and that the charges which were pre sented were frivolous. W No change In the war cloud In the Kust. OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, D. C, April 11, 1878. When Chesterfield said that women were ouly children of larger growth, with an In teresting tattle, and sometimes wit, buttliat he had never known one to possess solid reason and good sense, or to net conse quentially for four and twenty hours together it is quite evident thnt he hnd never come in contact with the Washing ton species, maid, wife, or widow. Had he met a Washington adventuress, and if he had gone into good society be would cer tainly have found her, lie would have met his equal, and more too. If he had began to flatter her, as he advised his son to do, on any subject, from her understanding down to theexquislte taste of her fan, under the impression thnt she would gratefully accept the smallest compliment, and greedi ly swnllow the grossest what would have become of that quality of the devil and the graces, Lord Chesterfield ? He would have been "taken lu," destroyed. He might practice his graces, his flattery, his diabol ical je ne seal quoi, upon a (J. B. Benator, on Bon. Cutler, or Sam. Cox ; but with all his knowledge of the beau monde, as it was, Becky Bliarpe might teach him a thing or two that would cause him to admire. The century and a quarter that has elapsed, since Chesterfield wrote, has not left women becalmed In the wake of its mighty evolutions and revolutions. The queen of the Cannibal islands is more tastefully tattooed than was her grand mother, and the belle of this habitat has more In her head, if not in her heart, than had her progenitress of the day of Chester fiold. The Washington society woman lias one grand absorbing passion an en thusiastic devotion to herself that has made her stoical on every other subject ; she may have her smiles and her tears, her joys and her sorrows, but they are not for others. She adores dress, kneels at the shrine of Mammon, burns incense to dear, mealy-mouthed society, fawnB upon the powerful and elevates her exquisite nose at the knock-kneed, pot-bellied, and weak. She is an audacious, preserving, pioneering, little body ; her motto is excelsior, and her Alps is the social ladder. Sooner or later, probably later, she will get married to a sentimental youtb,with well balanced hair, and money ; or, to what she would prefer, money, with only septaugenarian encum brance. Money, subsidiary to self, is the supreme object of her life, and she will se cure it, through marriage if she can, but, at any rate, Bhe will secure it. Since the days of Babylon there have been other careers for women at capitals than mat rimony. C. A. ... .- . . . , Miscellaneous News Items. tW A Pennsylvania, while eating oysters on the shell, found a nickel cent of 1853 partly covered over by the heart of the oyster. There was also an indentation in the shell produced by the cent. t3F" A New York paper says : The bodies of missing men are occasionally found in the lower bay, but the majority are carried out to sea and never overtaken. That is why many mysterious disappearances are never accounted for. tW Not so many days ago a dog in Augusta, Ua., while working a machine for churning butter, went mad and bit a cow and dog, both of which died from madness. It is not stated what became of the people that ate the butter. tW A dispatch to the Patriot, dated Jonestown, Lebanon county, April 12, states that II. II. Leaner, ageut for the Philadelphia and Reading railroad com pany at that place, dropped over dead on the platform of the station at 3:30 P. M., of heart disease. Washington, April 10. On account of the frequent occurrence of mail robberies in Texas the superintendent of mail service asked the department that arms be issued to the postal employees in that State. The department will request the secretary of war to make the issue asked for. Michael Quinn, constable, street commissioner and collector of taxes of Conemaugh borough, Cambria county, has been arrested at the instance of one of his bondsmen, charged with embezzling the borough funds, and is held in (3,000 bail for his appearance at court. EST A piece of gun wadding was the means of tracing out a reprobate who shot a neighbor's horse in Chickasaw county, Iowa. It was a printed piece of paper, and was found to match, so that it oould be read, with the wadding of a ready-loaded gun in the bands of the suspected crim inal. Renova, Pa., April 17. Two tramps, aged about twenty and forty years respect ively, were instantly killed here last might by the lumber on the freight trains upon which they were riding being suddenly shifted upon them. The elder claimed to be a bricklayer from Philadelphia. A book found on the young man had the names of Fred Youger and G. Youger, Lowell, N. Y.( written in several places. Detroit, April 15 Congressman Ells worth, who is visiting his borne at Green ville, was assaulted this morning by J. J. Shearer, a neighbor, and terribly beatou. The external plute of the frontal bone over bis left eye Is fractured and his condition Is critical. It was reported on the streets for months thnt Shearer Intended to horse whip Ellsworth and two or three other gentlemen for alleged interference In bis domestic troubles. New Orleans, April 11. A Galveston, Texas, News'1 speeinl reports another train robbery on the Texas Paclflo road near Mesquite Station, thirteen miles east of Dallas, at 10 o'clock last night. When the train stopped at the depot the engineer and fireman were taken from the engine and plnced under guard. The express messenger and route ogent barricaded themselves In the car, but the robbers saturated it with coal oil, set fire to it and forced them out. The express and mall were then plundered. Conductor Alford and two of the robbers wore wounded. The plundering party numbered fifteen or tweuty. The passengers were not mo lested. FITS I FITS I The undersigned having purchased the property formerly owned by J. Baily, on Main Street, opposite Ensminger's Hotel, and fitted it up into a convenient shop, he is prepared to do Tailobino ill all its branches, in the best of style, and guarantee a Good Fit every time. 8. Bentzel. P. S. A stock of choice Tobbacco and Segars constantly on hand. April 9, 1878. W. J. RICE, Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist, Ickesburg, Perry Co., Pa. "Always at home on Saturdays. Call if you want anything in my line at the most reasonable rates. Domestic Paper Palterns can bo had of F. Mortimer, Fifth Annual Spring Opening of Isidok Schwartz, Newport, Pa., for bargains see advertisement on eighth page. We have been doing an immense trade in Carpets this Spring. The reason is, that we are ollering them so low. Anoth er large lot just received at Ismon Schwartz's, , Newport, Pa. Gentlemen, for a good servlcable suit for Spring Wear, you will find it to your advantage to give us a call. Isidor Schwartz. HEALTH AND HAPPINESS. Health and happiness are priceless Wealth to their possessors, and yet they are within the reach ol every one who will use WRIOHT'S LITER PILLS, The only suro CTJItE for Torpid Liver, Dyspepsia, Headache, Hour Stomach, Constipation, Debility, Nausea, and all Billions complaints and Blood disorders. 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Seud Stamp for Circulars and Samples. ;5lnw KEAKN E Y CHEMICAL WORKS. 6ii Cortland St., N. York. P. O. Box. 3139. ID With what complacency must the lady who uses Glenn's Sulphur Soap glance at her mirror, for there she sees reflected a complexion devoid of blemish. This peerless purifier may be relied upon to remedy all ikin irritations. Sold by all Druggists. Hill's Hair & Whisker Dye, Black or Brown, SO cents. 14 4w. Stop at The St. Elmo Hotel. gf. ELMO HOTEL, 817 & 819 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA. First-Class Accommodations. TEKMS: - . - to SJ.5) per daj. JOS. M. FECER, Proprietor.
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