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THE TIMES.
Neto ltloom field, June 4, 1H7S.
NOTICK TO ADVKIITI9KUS.
No tint of BtiTpnlyim will 1m linortcj In this
iiiiImm llitlit fo ftiul on tupta) bane.
tWTwonty ier crtit. in nmi of rriotlar mica, will
ba churned rormtvttrtlnomciitii m-tln Uoublt' Column.
NOTICE TO HI ll IMHF.R.
liOnh st (ho flirorM on tho InWI of ronr fnppr
Tli.pllKiirc tell vnu Mir itme m wtilrli jrr nU
rrliMloti J itnld. s II hln 1 wi'i kH mur nmm-y In
Mnt, toe If the Unto In cliauKou. No other receipt
laneoesHai'v.
Foil the blessings we have hiul, and
the one we can expect, lot un be thank
fu.1. The Legislature bus ndjourued, and
Congress now profuse to adjourn on
the 17th Inst.
Unprecedented Movement of Grain.
Chicago, May 27. The unprecedent
ed movement of grain In this market is
attracting considerable attention and In
dicates a great revival of business. Com
puting the flour as wheat this shows an
aggregate movement for the week of 7,
285,084 bushels of grain, ilgures never be
fore reached in this or any other city on
the continent. To-day's movement was
larger than hitherto recorded.
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Chicago Preparing for a Riot.
v A commltee of business men of Chi
cago have raised the necessary funds for
equipment, and tuken Btcps to organize
a volunteer battery of artillery and four
companies of cavalry. Six cannon for
the former have already been order
ed from New York, and a full equip
ment of revolvers, swords, saddles,
bridles and bridle cloths for the cavalry.
Ill addition, breechloaders have been
purchased to perfect the equipment of
the State militia, and their head-quarters
have been removed to the Exposition
building to be ready for any emergency.
It now seems probable that there will
be no war between England and Russia.
Both parties have made concessions
which meet tho favor of Germany and
Austria. The effect upon this country
is summed up as follows by the Philadel
phia North American :
" It is a harsh thing to say, but the
promise of peace in Europe is a very bud
thing for business. Consols are up be
yond 07, and quite on their way to par.
They are now higher than at any time
in twenty years, and all other securities
are going up with them. This shows
what an enormous amountof idle money
there is in England, and it holds out
little hope to the manufacturing inter
ests. On this side of the water it has
taken away the only motive power that
the markets have felt for a long time,
and assures us that the present prices of
breadstufis, low as they are, cannot be
maintained, and that the coming full
will see provisions of all kinds lower
than ever before in half a century. It is
sad news for those who are "long" of
corn and wheat.
An Invention worth Millions.
Thomas D. Jones' sudden leap from
comparative poverty to the possession of
a million is the talk Syracuse, N. Y.
He saw defects in the common process of
grinding flour, and by a simple inven
tion that has remodeled them, has made
in less than ten months $1,250,000. And,
seemingly, this is just the beginning of
what he is to make. The secret is in the
dressing of the mill-stone that grinds
the wheat.
lie saw that, by the ordinary picking
process, too much surface was made on
the stone. The kernel was crushed. He
wished it to be granulated. The stones
became hot, destroying the strength and
the color of the grain and taking out
gluten. He saw that, by lessening the
surface, these defects must be overcome,
and he set himself to work to overcome
them. He has succeeded.
Recovery from Business Panics.
In an exchange an old business man
takes occasion to correct the prevailing
opinion that the financial and business
panic and consequent depression is the
longest and most severe that was ever
experienced in this country. He says
that the loss of property and the depres
sion consequent to the panic of 1837 was
much greater and of much longer dura
tion than the present. Five years after
the panio of 1837 there was nothing like
the vitality in business, firmness In
prices and abundance of unquestionable
credit that exists at the present time.
Even In 1845 cotton was selling at four
cents a pound, pork at from $4 to $5,and
flour was retailing at $4 per barrel. In
Albany, New York, cargoes of lumber
were sold for $6.50 per thousand, the
freight of which was $6. Real estate in
all cities fell to "ruinous rateB." In
New York city, lots which sold in 1836
for from $35 to $40 per foot front, sold in
1843 for $3.50 per foot. In other locali
ties land which sold for $25 in 1835 was
freely purchased In 1843 for from $1 to
$2. In 1843 not a brick building was
bulit in New York city. This dulness
. was not fully recovered from, or indeed
was there substantial relief, until about
1848. '
Raris hotel keepers are surprisingly
greedy. Twenty-five dollars for double
and fourteen dollars a day single rooms
are some of the prices charged an In
crease of one hundred per cent, on the
usual prices. These rates will have to be
brought down or the Parisians will be
astonished at the way the number of
visitors to tlie exposition will lessen. It
was the low prices at Philadelphia in
1870 which added largely to the success
of the Centennial.
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Presbyterian Assembly.
Pittriuihoii, May 27. This morn
ing's session of the general assembly
was occupied in hearing the appeal of
Dr. Thomas II. Bklnner and Nathaniel
West from tho decision of the synod of
Cincinnati. The action was for disloyal
ty to the Presbyterian church. Dr.
M'Cune, the defendant, was charged
with being In opposition to the terms
of the doctrinal and ecclesiastical basis
of union and proclaiming and advocat
ing doctrines, principles and views at
war with the standards of the Presby
terian church. The records of the case
were read by the clerk and the testimony
in full was gone over.
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The Wisconsin Tornado.
Cincinnati, O., May 28th. A terri
ble tornado passed over a portion of
Wisconsin lust week. A special dls
patch to the Commercial from Madison,
Wis., says: "A large number of citi
zens are visiting the scene of the recent
tornado. The roads are literally jam
med with teams from all parts of the
country, viewing the devastations of the
storm. None of the accounts have been
exaggerated, nor has hardly the half
been told of its destructlvencss. Tho
eastern towns did not sutler as much as
Primrose, Routwcll and Perry. Thirty
lives were lost in this county alone, and
nearly a hundred persons were seriously
injured, while the destruction of prop
erty will reach into the millions. From
the first appearance of the cylcone at
Mineral Point through its whole course
across the Slate, the destruction wus
great. It is estimated that fifty people
have been killed, and from two hundred
to two hundred and fifty have been seri
ously Injured, while scores are left
homeless, many not knowing where
their next meal is coming from. Tho
accounts of survivors are harrowing In
the extreme, and the woe and desolation
everywhere visible are extremely pain
ful." Almost Incredible.
It is hard to believe that any human
being would be guilty of bucIi Infernal
conduct as is told in the following, taken
from a London paper :
A most dastardly practice Is in vogue
in Loudon, especially at the East End.
For some weeks persons have dropped
oranges impregnated with arsenic In ex
posed situations In the streets. This has
resulted in the death of a boy aged nine
years. At the inquest on the body evi
dence was given that a number of poor
children had picked up within the last
few days fruit in the streets, and had
shortly afterwards shown symptoms of
poisoning. The deceased had found an
orange, eaten a portion, and died from
arsenical poisoning which hud been con
tained in the orange.
On another occasion it was found that
a similar attempt was being made in the
north of London. The nurse-maid and
two children of a gentlemen living in
Canonbury had a very narrow escape
from death. The girl picked up in the
street a paper bag containing a couple of
large apples. She took them home, and
cutting one open to divide it between the
children, Bhe found that.fhe core had
been hollowed out and some whitish
powder had been introduced.
She called the mistress' attention to
the fact, and she having read the ac
count of the above mentioned Inquest in
the papers, sent both apples to her med
ical man, who said that they contained
sufficient arsenic to poison half a dozen
people. Nothing is said as to the mo
tive which led to this cowardly course of
proceeding.
Mills siuTfoown.
Fall Riveii, Mass., May 28. Nearly
12,000 out of 30,000 looms are now idle,
in consequence of the stoppage of the
Troy, Stafford, Flint, Chase, Robeson,
Weetamor, the two Tecumseh, the two
Wampanoag mills, and the Border City,
Sagamore and Union mills ; other mills
are expected to Bhut down next week.
Some are running on contracts and can
not stop at present. Many here think
the mills ought to have stopped long ago
and that If the movement should ex
tend now through the whole of New
England as trade would be started in the
full, the Impetus would keep business
moving. By the stoppage of these mills
some 4,000 operatives are thrown out
of employment.
Another Train Robbery.
Salt Lake, May 30. About ten
o'clock last night a party of four mask
ed men boarded the west-bound passen
ger train, just after It left Percy station,
entered the middle sleeping car and pro
ceeded to rob the passengers. They took
a watch and $100 from one passenger,
$50 and tickets from another and a gold
watch and $35 from the sleeping car
conductor. At that time some one
pulled the bell cord, and the robbers be
coming frl gh ten ed J u m ped oft". T li ey fl red
three shots into the sleeper without In
Jury to the passengers. They struck
one passenger with a pistol, cutting his
scalp some. It was all done in three
minutes. The robbers were out of sight
in the darkness before the train was
stopped. The ground being very wet
their trail was discovered, and a large
force of armed men Btarted in pursuit.
The Union Pacific company offer a re
ward of $1 ,000 each for the arrest of tho
robbers.
Fearful Marino Disaster.
Lon don, May 81 . The German iron
clad Grosser Kurfurst wus sunk by col
lision with another iron-clad, this morn
ing, in the British Channel, neur Dover.
It Is feared that over 400 lives were lost.
The Grosser Kurfurst came in eol
llslon with the iron-clad Kooning Wll
helm at 0.45 this morning. The acci
dent took place three miles oft Folk
stone. The Grosser Kurfurst sank almost
immediately after she was struck. The
steamer's boilers exploded as she went
down. Tho weather was bright and the
sea calm at the time.
It Is reported from Dover that only 18
persons out of a complement of 400 of
ficers and men on board the Grosser
Kurfurst, were saved.
Forgiven Too Late.
A young woman giving iter name us
Minnie Mitchell died in Bellevue Hospi
tal yesterday of consumption. She be
longed to a respectable family In Har
risonburg, Va., where she was betrayed
by a man of wealth. Her family then
cast her off, and the man who betrayed
iter paid her passage to this city. About
four weeks ago the landlady of the house
where she boarded wrote to the girl's
mother, Informing her of her daugh
ter's Blckness. Last week a reply was
received, saying that the girl had been
forgiven, and asking her to return home,
but Bhe was too feeble to go. New York
World.
A Lucky Sneeze.
Edward Cahlll, eighteen years of age,
was arraigned before Recorder Hackett
yesterday, charged with robbing tho
poor-box of a Catholic church in the
upper part of the city. He entered the
building by a window, and opening the
box and pocketing the money, was dis
turbed by hearing footstepB. He con
cealed himself In the organ, but the dust
there made him sneeze, and he was ar
rested. The prisoner pleaded guilty ,and
the Recorder, after reprimanding him
severely for robbing achurch, sentenced
him to three and a half years at hard
labor In the State prison. Ar. Y. World.
What an Editor Inferred.
The Indianapolis Herald say s: We are
in receipt of a portrait of a noted revi
valist, subscribed, " Yours in Jesus, E.
P. Hammond." On the back of the card
Is written : "He who being often reprov
ed and hardeneth his neck shall sudden
ly be cut off, and that without remedy.
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass
and a rod for a fool's back." As no bridle
was found In the package, we infer that
brother Hammond kept it for his own
use.
Indianapolis, May 30. The ma
chine shops of the Indianapolis, Peru
and Chicago railway, at Peru, Ind.,
were struck by lightning last night, and
with their contents entirely consumed
by fire. There were three locomotives
and two stock cars In the shops. Loss
estimated at $100,000. No Insurance.
A heavy rain saved the round house and
other buildings and cars.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C, May 80, 1878.
Of course the Electoral Fraud Investiga
tion is talked of more than anything else
here now, unless it be its anticipated re
sults, which it is fully believed on the one
side, will be a great victory ; on the other,
confirmation, many, perhaps a majority,
think a grave error has been committed in
re-openlug this question', but since it bag
been entered upon, it muBt be followed till
a dooision, final and decisive, is reached.
On every hand we hear talk of anticipated
trouble from the laboring classes this com
ing summer which the Qovernment is in no
way prepared to meet and quell. Some
States are drilling militia, but the ory in
Congress is still " Reduce the Army."
There are various chances for trouble just
now. Gloomy people and those who are
disposed to look on the dark side of mat
ters, have plenty to encourage their fore
bodings. The Indians, the Mexicans,
tramps, Fenians, a general ousting of high
officers at the Capital, and various other
unpleasantness, which lie within the bounds
of possibility. But from other and more
reliable sources comes the word that indi
cations of a revival of prosperity through
out the country are not wanting. In cor
roboration of this assertion the fact is men
tioned that for the first time in five or six
years the tide of foreign Immigration has
sot in towards this port, which Is considered
an unmistakable sign of prosperity. Rail
road building has also boon resumed, es
pecially In the fur West, and this has nat
urally reacted on the iron Industries of the
country and will in time produce au In
creased activity In the mills. Then the far
West Is In a piioiiomlnally flourishing con
dition. The bnrvests this year promise un
precodonted abundanoe, and tho tide of set
tlement is flowing in rapidly, new lands are
being brought nudor cultivation, and the
demand for all sorts of manufactured pro
ducts is sure to be large. Foreign com
morce is steadily increasing and these are
tho things to which those who are sanguine
of the future look for onoouragement and
their beliof In hotter times coming.
With what varied imaginings does the
approach of the hot summer season impress
the Waslilngtoulan community 1 It is but
the herald of the most witching gayety to
those whoRO wealth and circumstances ad
mit of a seaside season, or a two or three
months sojourn among the mountains. But
these are few in comparison with the num
ber that must not only remain at home, but
must keep at work for the dally bread that
will not come for the asking alone,
"Faith, without works Is dead." Among
all tho classes, none so excites our sympa
thies as the sick children belonging to poor
families. They seem to actually pine and
weaken and die for the pure air and health
some food of which Nature is so prodigal
and lavish in her country hills and valleys,
hor Holds and farms. Homotimes we feel it
to be altogether wrong that any young
child should know a day of city life. It is
no wonder that so few attain distinction in
these days nor that sickness and crime are
so rampant. Ill health, bad breeding,crlme
and dishonesty go hand in hand. One
roared in tho midst of the foul air and cor
rupt influences so prevalent in many por
tions of a city like this, can scarcely be
puro, either in body or mind. I wonder
that some benevolently inclined person in
this vicinity does not found a summer
home for sick children somewhere down
tho Potomac Somotimes excursions are
given for them, and a day on a green slope
by the shady river Bide with picnic dinner
and the delightful sail down the river and
back is one to be rembered gratefully all
the year by those who are only slight, or
ailing or woak, but such days avail nothing
to the really sick, who need them most, for
if they do venture to avail tbemaolves of
the trip, it is but a sorry pleasure, for they
are too weak for the excitement and fatigue
attondaut upon such an excursion and are
oftonor made worse than better by it.
Whereas, if such could go to the the fresh
and quiot country for a month or two, or
even for as many weeks, the benefit would
almost Invariably be great and telling.
Olive.
Miscellaneous News Items.
tW The dead body of Jacob Keller, of
Luzerne county, was found near his resi
dence on Sunday night. It Is supposed
that he was murderod.
tWQeo. W. Bushong, who oommitted
suioide at Lancaster a few days ago, was at
one time the possessor of $100,000. He
lost it nearly all through intemperance.
A Chinaman who had his queue cut
off In the San Francisco jail has sued the
Sheriff of the county for ten thousand dol
lars damages. It is to be made a test
case.
Packard, a widower, in Milton, Vt.,
has been publicly horsewhipped by one
woman and sued by another for $10,000.
Both charge him with breach of promise to
marry.
1ST Three men started from Wayne Co.,
for Kansas with a wagon and two horses.
The last heard of them was in Clearfield
county. They expect to eat their Christ
mas dinner la Kansas.
Edward Wyman, a farmer, twenty-
one years old, living on Bully Hill, Ve
nango county, went out at seven o'clock on
Friday evening for hunting and was found
on Saturday morning in the woods dead, his
breast bone having been broken by a fall.
C3T Frederick Clark, book-keeper of
Vernon Bros. & Co., paper makers,
Northampton, Mass., has confessed to
stealing cash for about nine years by
falsifying the pay rolls. The amount em
bezzled is supposed to be about $10,000.
Two female tramps entered a resi
dence in an Eastern State, during the ab
sence of the family, took possession of the
guest chamber and went to bod. Their
presenoe was first known the next morn
ing when they appeared in the dining hall
demanding breakfast.
(W 3. G. Tappan, of Boston, has entered
suit against Amherst College for a breach
of the conditions by which it holds a be
quest of his father. The latter left $20;
000 to found a Professorship of the Pastoral
Care, and it is alleged the college neglect
ed to appoint the professor within the stip
ulated time.
Detroit, Mioh, May 27. Thirty thou
sand tons of eoai, belonging to the gas
company and the pork packing house of
Bigley & Co., were burned yesterday. The
loss is $23,000. Bigley & Co. were insured
for f 9,000. The superintendent of the
fire alarm department was precipitated In
to the river by falling timber, but escaped
with severe bruises.
Cincinnati, O., May 25. A special dis
patch says that Win, Day, chore boy in
the family of a Mr. Hamilton t Taylors
vllle, Illinois, on Thursday murdered Mrs.
Hamilton by otittlng her head open with
an axe while she was lying upon a sofa un
conscious in sloep. The act, the boy states,
was committed In revenge for a correction
she bad administered the day previous.
HIT A fow days ago a German woman at
Clnoinnatl made it hot for the Post-office
folks. She had presented a money order,
payable to her husband, who Is some time
dead, and payment was refused unless the
deceased gentleman's signature could be
prooured. The utter impracticability and
absurdity of this put the woman's stento
rian voice to its highest pitch.
tW In Alburg, Vt, a horse got fright
ened the other day in tho field, ran to the
house with a plow dragging at his heels,
dashed Into the kitchen, through tho hall
and out of the front door, scattering and
breaking things and creating a general sen
sation. Mendota, 111., May 27. News reaches
here of an atrocious murdor committed at
Arlington, a small town nine miles west of
this place, on Sunday a week. Samuel
Carney, a young man who had beon re
fused permission to visit Miss Culleublne,
a young lady of his acquaintance, went to
her room last evening, out hor throat with
a razor, shot her with a revolver, and,
being met by Mr. and Mrs. Culleuhine on
ids way down the stairs, shot the father in
the hip, cut Mrs. Cullenbine severoly with
a butcher-knifo, and rushing out into the
yard drew the razor across his own throat
several times and expired almost instantly.
The parents are severely but not fatally
hurt. The daughter lived but a few
minutes.
FACTORY FACTS.
Close confinement, careful attention to all
factory work, gives the operatives pal Id faces,
poor appetite, languid, miserable feeling, poor
blood, Inactive liver, kidneys and lrlnary
troubles, and all the physicians and medicine
In the world cannot help them unless they get
out of doors or nee Hop Bitters, made of tho
purest and best of remedies, and especially for
inch cases, having abundance of health, sun
shine and rosy cheeks in them. None need
suffer if they will nse them freely. They cost
but a trifle. Bee another column.
Books Worthy of Recommendation.
There Is nothing more dispiriting than
languid study- The only way to study with
eflicacy Is to study so heartily that you take no
account of the lapse of time. Study of this
sort can be prosecuted In books which enchain
the attention of students through their appeal
to the Intellect, and in no others. Some so
called school histories are simply chronolog
ical tables, and are Impediments to the ac
quisition of historical knowledge. They dls
guit the student with their monotonous date
and dry statistics and make even the name of
history abhorrent.
We have felt the need of reform la this mat
ter for a long period, and with a great deal of
pleasure are enabled to announce that a long
stride has recently been made In this direction
by Prof. J. C. Kidpath, of the Indiana, Asburjr
University. Ills Grammar School History of
the United States is exceeding dissimilar to
other books tinder the same title, and the
change Is as refreshing as a translation from
arid desert wastes to the fruitful Meld and lux
uriant gardens of civilization. His record Is
that of men who bavs lived history ; of event
whose fame is undying of incidents which
Illustrate and revivify great facts and Impress .
them npon the memory of sentiments which
rekindle patriotism and teach the Import lea
son to the youth of the country that It Is an
honor to be an American citizen. Bncb. a book,
so admirably Illustrated with maps, charts,
diagrams, and portraits so admirably supple
mented with an exhaustive Index, pronouncing
vocabulary, and recapitulation of each chap
ter, upon, the whole, so' comprehensive,
accurate, interesting and conveniently ar
ranged, mast resommend Itself to Educators.
Its style is lucid and easyt simple, yet digni
fied flowing, yet terse and expressive. It Is a
series of word-plotures passing before the eye
like a panorama of the event it describes.
" One thing at a time" Is a good rnle, but
while npon the subject of reform In school
books it will not be thought amiss to mention
that the publishers of the history referred to
(Messrs. Jones Brothers & Co., of Philadel
phia, Cincinnati, and Chicago) are also pub
lishers of a series of improved Arithmetics.
Their author, Prof. Wm. J. Milne is principal
of the Htale Normal 8chool at Geneseo, N. Y.,
and be hat responded to a pressing want in tha
production of these manuals. There are two
books one elementary, the other practical
and are npon what is known as the Inductive
plan t that is, tbey Inculcate the principles of
the rules through easy examples before the
rules themselves are Introduced. By this
means the rules are comprehended at a glance,
because their logic Is previously known to the
pupil. Interest in the study is excited In no
small degree by pictorial Illustrations of vari
ous examples, and the common business and
events of life are adroitly utilized to familiar
ize the beginner with the advantages of the
science of calculation. Thus he becomes a
mathematician almost Imperceptibly to him
self. We are convinced that in recommending
these books to our readers we are performing
good service.
FITS I FITS I The undersigned having
purchased the property formerly owned
by J. Bally, on Main Street, opposite
Ensmlnger's Hotel, and fitted it up into
a convenient shop, he is prepared to do
Tailoring In all iu branches, In the.
beet of style, and guarantee a Good Fit
every time. 8. Bentzel.
P. 8. A stock of choice Tobbacco and
Segars constantly on hand.
April 91878.
Removal. J. T. Messimer has remov
ed his Shoe Shop to the room adjoining;
F. B. Clouser's office, 4 doors west of the-Post-Oftlce,
where he will make to order
Boots and Shoes of all kinds. Repair
ing promptly and neatly executed. H
will also keep on hand a good assort
ment of Boots and Shoes, which he will!
sell at low prices. Give him a call. IT