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THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA.. MAY 7, 1878.
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and others interested in knowing, we
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NINETEEN HUNDRED copies.
A dispatch from Constantinople says
there i9 great excitement among the
people of Batoum, Bhumla, Varna and
Bcutari, it being reported that the Porte
refuses to evacuate the fortresses at those
places.
The feeling of the Turks is in favor of
resisting the Russian demands for the
evacuation of these fortresses.
A collision has occurred between the
Turkish and Russian soldiers at Baulalr.
Death of John Morrlsscy.
Baratgoa, May, 1. Hon. John Mor
rissey died at 7:30 this evening. He had
seemed quiet and without any unfavor
able symptoms, until half past five,
when an unfavorable change occurred
and he sank rapidly afterwards.
War Looked Upon as Inevitable.
London, April 30. The Times' cor
respondent at Ban Stefano says the im
pression in the Russian army is that
Gen. Todleben's appointment portends
strife. He continues : " 1 am told that
Gens. Todleben and Imeretiusky both
think war Inevitable. The men are be
ginning to talk more of war. The ap
pearance of the" troops and horses when
the Grand Duke Nicholas took his fare
well on Saturday was very satisfactory."
The Pittsburgh Riots.
Harrisivcrg, May 2. The Legisla
tive committee appointed to Investigate
the Pittsburgh riots held their final
meeting this evening. Among other
testimony elicited was the fact that the
troops of Gen. Brlnton in their retreat
from the burning round house at Pitts
burgh to Sharpsburg were almost fam
ishing, and that the only provisions
they received were sent to them by A.
J. Cassatt, Third Vice President of the
P. R. R., who remained in Pittsburgh
during the worst stages of the riots until
Sunday night, and purchased and for
warded wagon loads of provisions to
Sharpsburg. It was testified by General
Brlnton that It was only through the
energy of that official that the Boldiers
obtained any food whatever.
Guilty of Murder in the First Degree.
The trial of Hezekiah or " Kyle"
Shaffer, charged with the murder of his
wife in St. Thomas twp., Franklin co.,
and which consumed a greater portion
of last week at Chambersburg, was
brought to a close on Monday afternoon,
by the jury returning a verdict of mur
der in the first degree. A motion was
made for a new trial.
The crime was committed on the 21st
of February last. On that morning tho
husband of the murdered woman ran to
the house of his wife's father and an
nounced that she had fallen down stairs
and struck her head on the sharp end of
an ax at the foot of the steps. When
her friends reached the house the woman
was in a sitting position, her head lean
ing against the wall. Her head, face and
body down to her waist were bloody and
a number of deep gashes were visible
about the skull. Life had not yet gone,
but during the morning she died. A Vost
mortem examination developed the fact
that fourteen wounds had been inflicted,
a number of which could not have been
produced by a fall or subsequent strug
gles. The evidence on the trial not only
indicated that the husband had murder
ed his wife but that he had administered
poison to her the previous day, the symp
toms which she had then exhibited
showing that she had been poisoned. An
analysis of her stomach disclosed poison
according to the testimony, and one wit
ness testified that Shaffer had purchased
some from him ostensibly to kill rats a
short time before the murder was com
mitted. A Case of Leprosy In a Baltimore Hospital.
Baltimore, April 27. There is a pa
tient at present in the City Hospital
here who is undoubtedly suffering from
elepltantiatis grcecorum, or true leprosy.
His name is Abraham Brown, and he is
a native of New York city, 45 years of
age, a bricklayer. He is a widower with
four children, and after the death of his
wife went to Cuba and South America,
in one of which countries it is supposed
he contracted the disease. About two
years ago, while he was in this city, the
disease first showed itself, the symptoms
lielng a numbness of the muscles of the
face, and numerous tubercles appearing
over the body. On the 4th of March
Inst he went into the City Hospital, and
the physicians, after examination, de
cided it a case of genuine leprosy. The
disease has attacked the neck and hands
and feet, and these portions of the body
are scaly and shrivelled, like a yel
low and faded parchment. Since his ad
mission to the hospital his tongue has
become lacerated. It Is difficult for him
to eat, the tubercles on his body have
become hard, and the flesh on the af
fected parts is gradually sloughing oft.
The attendant physicians sny there is
no hope of saving his life.
The Recent Storm In Kansas.
Kansas has its drawbacks as a pleas
ant place of residence, judging by the
following incidents furnished us by a
friend from Emporia, regarding the re
cent storm in that county:
The most destructive storm ever wit
nessed in Lyon county occurred last
Saturday evening. About half-past four
P. M., the sky was overcast with clouds,
which were driven about by various and
diverse currents in a very singular man
ner. Men stood upon the street corners
regarding the scene with admiration,
which gradually developed Into a feeling
of awe and apprebesion. The lightning
flashes were terrific and the thunder
peals almost continuous for a half hour.
The wind seemed to change its course
every few mlnutes,and sometimes It was
about as difficult to tell Us direction as
Its source. Very soon the houses and the
trees along the Cottonwood were hidden
by the descending torrent ; nearer houses
were obscured one after another. In fact
for a time the people on one side of the
street could not see the buildings on the
the other side. The hail was from the
size of peas to the size of walnuts, much
of it of the latter size. It was driven
with tremendous force, breaking nearly
all the glass exposed on the north side of
houses.
On the south side of the river the storm
was still more severe. Three children
were killed and many persons severely
hurt. Orchards are badly damaged. Many
of the trees are broken or blown out of
the ground, but to understand how bad
ly they are broken, barked and bruised
by the hail, they must needs be seen.
Some small houses were not only knock
ed to pieces, but the pieces were carried
off and there is not a particle of them
left on or near the place where they
stood. The rainfall was tremendous.
The oldest inhabitant never saw such a
flood in so short a time. The wheat
which looked so strong and promised so
largely on Saturday morning, is, in
places, utterly ruined.
The house of Thos. Spillmau was
blown down. Mrs. Bplllman and chil
dren were at home. Furniture all lost.
Passing thence in a southeasterly di
rection, it struck the house of Royal
Kennedy, knocking the building to
pieces. Nearly everything in the house
was lost, and Mrs. It. was badly bruised.
The house of Mr. Burns was unroofed.
The house of Samuel Bogue was then
seized and torn to pieces. The mother
of Mr. B., an old lady 74 years of age,
had her leg broken. The house was a
new one, of good size.
The house of Henry KeyeB, two miles
south of Patty's mill, one and a half
stories, was literally torn to pieces.
Moses Coppock's concrete house occu
pied by his brother and family who late
ly came out from Ohio, was entirely de
stroyed. Much of it could not be found.
His orchard was almost completely an
nihilated, together with the timber
along the creek.' The creek was so com
pletely covered along here with the tim
ber which had fallen into it that a place
could scarcely be found to cross it on
horseback.
William Hodson's house was blown to
pieces. No buildings on his place were
left standing. Mrs. Hodson was fonnd
after the storm, hanging over a fence in
an insensible condition. She had not,
on Monday recovered her mind. A fam
ily, just from Ohio, were stopping with
them, and all were more or less bruised
by the hail.
The house of Mr. Lillibridge, across
the creek from Hodson's, Is scattered
over the prairie. It was a one and a
half story frame. Mr. and Mrs. L. had
been to town, Mr. L. was putting the
horses away, and Mrs. L. had entered
the house, when the southwest corner
was lifted, throwing down the bureau
and overturning the stove and table.
Then the house was moved and in a mo
ment was torn to pieces, leaving Mrs. L.
and her daughter without shelter. Be
fore they could reach a cave, they were
both badly bruised by the hail.
A large two-story brick house, belong
ing to George Suddock, built three years
ago, was almost leveled to the ground.
Near this was a low brick building, put
up for a cook-house, in which the fami
ly, except Thomas, found a safe retreat.
ThoruaB went to the cellar of the main
building, and was in there when the
house blew down, but was saved by the
lower floor which remained in its plaoe.
Borne of the bedding was found in a
tree across the creek. Very little furni
ture or clothing of any value can be
found.
John I. Price's house was blown to
pieces. Mr. Price was In town at the
time. Mrs. Price escaped with her chil
dren, and went to the house of Ellis
Owens. When Mr. Trice got to his
place, and seeing that his house was
gone, and not finding his family, he was
heard for henrly a mile frantically call
ing for his family.
The brick school hoime Bouth of town,
before mentioned, was considered an ex
tra strong building. Two walls were
blown ofT even with the floor, and the
roof timbers and tin were scattered for a
quarter of a mile.
A half mile east of Davis, the house
of David T. Morris was destroyed. His
wife was badly bruised. Everything In
the house was carried away. After the
house went over, Mrs. M. sought refuge
with her children in a cave.
The house of Mr. Workman, a large
one and a half story, with shed kitchen
the entire length of the main building,
an old-fashioned frame, was moved in
tact. The family were in the shed
kltchen,and fearing that the main build
ing and kitchen would separate,and that
somebody would be hurt by falling tim
ber, some of the men held the joists up
by poles, as the house was carried along.
The building at length struck a tree of
12 or 15 Inches in diameter, which was
borne to the ground, tearing It up by the
roots, and upon these the house lodged,
some of the roots coming through the
floor.
Many more Incidents could be given,
but the above is enough to show the ter
rible force of a western storm.
Supposed Murder.
The Lancaster Intelligencer at Tuesday
evening says :
A terrible story comes to us tills after
noon to the effect that William Eckert
and a man named Stewart, both of
Paradise township, yesterday murdered
a fish dealer whose name our informant
did not know, on Mine hill, on the
road leading from Strasburg to London
Grove, Paradise township. It is said
that the parties had a quarrel at a tavern
in the vicinity, and that the fisherman
left the tavern for the purpose of avoid
ing a fight. In the evening as a farmer
was driving over Mine hill he saw the
fisherman lying on the roadside. Leav
ing his wagon he found him in a dying
condition, barely able to say that he had
been assaulted and robbed of $25 by the
men above named. The nearest neigh
bors were at once notified, but before
assistance could be rendered the man
died.
Just before going to press we are told
that the name of the murdered man was
Russel, that after being terribly beaten
his body was thrown under a bridge,
where he was left for dead, but from
which he managed to crawl to the road
side, where he was found.
Truth Stranger than Fiction.
Twenty-two years ago an apparently
unfortunate young woman left a boy
two years old with Mr. John O'Kane, jf
Corning, New York. She left Corning
too. No one from that day to this
knows whence she came or whither she
went. The boy grew to be a man under
the name of John O'Kane. He traveled
and wandered, and in course of his wan
derings accumulated a fortune. He Is
sick, probably beyond cure with con
sumption. He Is anxious to know who
and where his parents are, and of other
relatives. Any information will be
thankfully received by the editor of the
Alleghany " Democrat," Wellsville,
New York.
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Rising Rivers. .
Nashua, N. II., April 30. Tho Mer
rimao and Nashua rivers are still rising.
The Merrimac is now about thirteen feet
above high water mark. The Jackson
manufacturing company had to partially
suspend work to-day on account of the
back water. The Souhegan river is very
high. The owners of property on its
banks are somewhat alarmed. The dam
across Naticook brook owned by Carmi
Parker's furniture manufacturing com
pany, at Thornton's ferry, gave way to
day, doing considerable damage. At
Danforth's Corners the flats are im
passable. Riot In Toronto.
Toronto, April 30. While the
Orange " Young-Britons" and their
friends were returning from a concert at
Point St. Charles last night they were
assailed by a mob of several hundred
Catholic Unionists.
A Mrs. Mechan received four bullet
wounds in the leg. Corporal Tang, of
the Prince of Wales Rifles, also received
bullet wounds. Two Union men are re
ported as shot.
Dr. Helmbold's Lunacy.
New York, May 1. Dr. Henry T.
Hembold, the well known druggist, was
found in the streets acting very strange
ly, early this morning. He wns taken
to the station house and subsequently
sent to Bellevue hospital, where the
physicians pronounced his case one of
acute lunacy, but thought he could be
brought out of it lit a few doys with
care.
Killed by Tipsy Farmer.
Cincinnati, Mayl. A special des
patch from Bellefontalne, Ohio, states
that Deputy Sheriff Rockwell was mur
dered by Amos Inskep, Inst evening,
while levying on the property of the
latter. Inskep is a farmer of very
dissipated habits. A large crowd Is in
pursuit threatening to lynch him.
Doctors Gave Him Up.
" Is it possible that Mr. Godfrey is up
and at work, and cured by so simple a
remedy ?"
" I assure you It is true that he is en
tirely cured, and with nothing but Hop
Bitters, and only ten days ago his doc
tors gave him up and said he must die!"
" Well-a-day! If that is so, I will go
this minute and get some for my poor
George. I know hops are good."
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C, May 3, 1878.
Congressmen walk Bbout the Capitol wish
seeming Indifference these days, never
mentioning the subject of the President's
title unless quizzed by reporters concern
ing it, and then they treat the matter with
such ready levity, or contempt as to show
it to be assumed. The fact is, there is very
much of deep feeling on the subject. The
Republicans do not like their President
and they do not quite relish throwing hira
overboard altogether . What will not be done
with the poor man or to him, does not yet
appear ; but whatever it is, he will scarcely
be disturbed by it judging from his easy
way of taking things in general. The re
ception of hiB party in Philadelphia last
week was another grand affair so like any
of the many trips he has taken in the past
year as to need no description lu detail.
The cheering and responding, speechifying
and palavering, visiting and receiving, din
ners, boquets and serenades the same old
story.
Mrs. Hayes, too, was received with'much
pomp, paraded about the city and presented
with flowers and a book by three or four
years old children whom she thanked with
kisses. People appear to like to bring lit
tle children to Mrs. Hayes' notice, particu
larly because she makes a point of kissing
them and giving them a posy, if she chances
to be holding flowers, which she usually
does whon in public. Somebody has, at
laBt, Baid something unpleasant about Mrs.
Hayes, and it is quite refreshing, after a
whole year crammed full of praises and
compliments, without a word of criticism
or fault finding. AVhen she first came
here, and so much was said and writ
ten about her strict temperance principles,
a temperance division just springing up
hero took for itself the name "The Mrs.
K. B. Hayes Temperance Association,"
and because Mrs. Hayes drank punch at
Philadelphia, and assorted that she had
never said wines should not be used at
State Dinners in the White House, but
that she wished people to enjoy themselves
in tboir own way,this Association has pub
lished a card of whereas and resolves which
end in renouncing the name and declaring
Mrs. Hayes " as complete a fraud as her
husband."
The National Capital is never without its
current gossip or scandal. For the last
month our papers have been full of a cer
tain oase which was before the Court In
which the defendant is a $1,700 Govern
ment olerk, arrested and brought to trial
on a charge of brutal abuse of his four
daughters, all young women the youngest
being 15. He is shown to have beaten
them, knooked them down, starved them,
kicked them aud otherwise so maltreated
them that their bodies will always be scar
red on account of it ; and yet he is acquit
ted and the advice of the Judge is that
"the little family difficulty be settled np
among themselves." Such are the facts,
such is justice and such are some of our
gentlemanly (?) government employees.
This man Machlin is retained in office
while such life-saddened women as Mrs.
Mumford are turned out on suspicion of
disloyalty to the country. Mrs. Mumford
was so watched and so suspected while in
office, and at last discharged for fear she
did not delight to gaze upon the Stars and
Strips that flag that to her must seem a
pall, since her husband was executed
hanged at a moment's notioe by Gen. But
ler's diteotions, for hauling down the Fed
eral oolors from the New Orleans Mint.
Whatever truth or want of truth there
may have been In the recently reported as
sertion of Senator Conkling regarding his
opinion in connection with President Hayes
his title, etc, the faot is clear that the two
men are not friends. Never since Conk
ling's public career began has he been so
completely over-looked by the higk-and-mighty
as he bos been by the present in
cumbent of the Exeoutive Mansion ; and
never sinoe he became prominent politically
has be so ignored President, White House,
and all their beiongingi,a bai been the case
d urlng the last year. Not once bas be en
tered the White House. Not once bas he
"paid his respects" to the Chief Magls
trate. Lofty, haughty, alone, Senator
Conkling bas preserved a most dignified si
lence toward the now President. Omve.
Miscellaneous News Items.
i-General John C. Fremont and
family are said to be in such extreme
poverty as to be suffering for the actual
necessities of life.
tW Near Cuthbert, Ga., a negro was
showing some little ones how he could
handle an old musket, when It was dis
charged and three children were seriously
wounded.
BSf An Albany boy wanted to hear a pis
tol go off, so he put the weapon up to the
side of bis head and blazed away. He
talks of having the other ear cut down to
match.
tW F. S. Pauli, a wealthy citizen of
Soranton, convicted in January last of
forgery, bas been sentenoed to two years'
imprisonment. The forgery consisted of an
interlineation of a lease, whereby Pauli
was enabled to remove the porches from a
building.
W The bill reducing tho salary of the
Governor $10,000 to $8,000 per annum, and
reducing the number of employees in the
different departments about twelve per
cent., bas been defeated for lack of a con
stitutional maj ority, receiving but ninety
six votes. The nays were forty-one.
W Ex.Judge Gleeson, a practicing law
yer of Baltimore and his adopted son, aged
18 years, retired to their room on Sunday
night, and it is supposed thoughtlessly
blew out the gas. Monday morning tbey
were discovered in an insensible condition,
the young man dying in a short time. The
Judge is not expected to live.
W A merchant in Baltimore a few days
ago offered to pay a draft at a bank in the
new silver dollar and the bank refused to
take it. Inquiry into the case revealed
the fact that none of the other banks in
the city would take the coin, though they
could doubtless be compelled to do so under
the law.
Pottstown, April 28. During the
severe storm on Saturday the lightning
struck the dwelling house of a man named
Smith, in Limerick township, this county,
stunning Mrs. Smith and a child. Fire
was knocked from the stove against her
clothes, which caught, but she succeeded
extinguishing the flames.
Boston, April 80. Burglars enter
ed the residence of Ephraim Otis, a lead
ing citizen of. South Scituate, at two
o'clock this morning and took the safe
from a chamber on the first floor, carried it
about half a mile down the road and blew
it open and then got away with the con
tents, consisting of railroad stocks and
bonds representing over $30,000.
tW A woman has no difficulty in mak
ing a government official active. All the
postmasters between New York and Indian
Territory have been busy for six months in
looking for two yellow ourls that werp mail
ed from the Empire City to a lady at Fort
Gibson, and never reached their destina
tion, and now they have found them.
Washington, April 29. Something
very much in the nature of a sensation was
caused here to-day when it became known
that last night a daughter of Senator
Mitchell, of Oregon, bad cast her lot with
an ex-clerk in the Navy Department and
eloped with him. The clerk's name ia
Handy, and be is described as a dashing
young fellow. Miss Mitchell has arrived
at the mature age of fifteen.
Galveston, Texas, April 29. A special
dispatch to the News reports that another
mail carrier was killed by Indians between
Forts Davis and Stockton yesterday. This
is the sixth person killed in that vicinity
during the past ten days. A train from
Fort Davis which arrived at Fort Stockton
to-day was attacked by Indians near
Barella Spring yesterday. Tbe mountains
are reported to be full of Indians.
tW A Savannah man pursued his
eloping daughter, and found her In a hotel
with her new husband. She was of age,
and therefore he could not force ber to re
turn home ; but he was the lawful owner
of her clothing, and he compelled ber to
go to her room and take off every shred of
it. Then be went back to Savannah with a
large bundle under his arm, and the wo
men in the hotel contributed something for
the bride to wear.
tW A few days ago a tramp boarded a
freight train on the St. Louis, Kansas
City and Northern road, and started for
Bt. Joseph, Mo. He was put off the train
at Gower, and after the train moved out
he started for that city. He had proceeded
but a short distance when be discovered a
broken rail, which doubtless snapped in
twain as the freight passed over it in safe
ty. It was on a high, dangerous curve in
the road, and, taking in the situation,
tbe tramp remained to flag the first train
to avert danger and tbe probable loss of
life. The first train proved to be a passen
ger train bound for St. Joseph. He flag
ged it in time, aud the train and its load of
human freight were saved. The tramp
was taken aboard and a purse of money
made up for him. He gave his name and
residence as Sam. B. Kilm, Republican
City, Kansas.