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THE TIMES, NEW BLOOM FIELD, PA., JULY 9, 1878.
THE TIMES.
New JUmftM,Jvty 9, 1S7S-
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! neceesarv.
Marine laeels becoming a fashiona
ble amusement among the ladies. O,
for the dollar of our dads to hire some
body to patch up the well worn panta
loons !
Benjamin Hunter, who has been
on trial for the murder of Armstrong In
Camden on January last, has been con
victed of murder in tlie first degree. The
murder was committed to secure the in
surance which Hunter had on Arm
strong. The case is a remarkable one
and will rank agmon the most noted
criminal cases on record.
It is many years since this town was
so quiet on the fourth of July or the
night preceding it, and that Is the report
from nearly every part of the country.
It Is not an evidence of patriotism to
make a great noise and we note the
change in the manner the "Fourth"
was celebrated this year as proof of
progress in civilization.
A Law This State Should Have.
Virginia's new criminal code will be
come operative on the 1st of July. Un
der It one or more whipping-posts will
be established in each city and county
within the Commonwealth. In the
future there will be no imprisonment
for petty larceny, except for second of
fences, and where, in the Judgment of
the justice or judge, the condition of a
female offender may render stripes un
advisable. The Legislature determined
on this change at the last session in view
of the crowded condition of the prisons,
the cost of maintaining convicts, and
the impoverishment of the Common.
' wealth's financial resources. The right
of an appeal from the judgment of a
justice to trial by jury is, of course, re
served. There issome division of opinion
as to the necessity for the re-establish-nient
of the whipping post, but the
majority of the people undoubtedly ex
pect great things from It as an economi
cal and crime-preventing measure.
Terrific Storm.
. Pittsburgh, July 5. The storm yes
terday afternoon raged with terrible ef
fect on Sandy Creek. It was almost as
disastrous to life as at Ross' grove, while
the damage to property and the crops
was very great. From the Information
that has been received nearly the whole
of the village of Sandy Creek was made
a wreck, the flood which rushed down
the valley being from six to seven feet
deep at some places. A house occupied
by Abner Conner and his wife was
washed away. In it were Abner Con
ner, his wife, Ira Long, a man named
Boyd and a man whose name was not
ascertained. They were all drowned.
The bodies of Mr. Conner, Mrs. Connor
and Mr. Long were recovered this morn
ing. At the time of the storm there were a
number of persons with buggies and
other vehicles, visiting in the neighbor
hood. Two men had taken the horse
out of the vehicle and when the rain got
pretty heavy they stepped into their
carriage, expecting it to soon pass over.
A stream of water came pouring down
the hills, which increased in quantity
and force very rapidly. Soon the car
riage began to move, and then it was
deemed prudent to crawl out and climb
up the hill. In the midst of the most
terrible flashes of lightning they started
up, one of the men leading the horse.
They had ascended about 150 feet when
a tree fell, completely covering with its
branches the horse and the gentleman
who had charge of it. After a great ef
fort the man and the horse were extri
cated, when the horse suddenly lost its
footing and rolled down a distance of 150
feet. The men supposed the animal had
been killed or permanently maimed.and
moved on up to a place of shelter. At
the end of the storm, when they return
ed to look for it, they were surprised to
find it standing up, well and hearty,
with apparently no injury at all, except
& few scratches and bruises. The car
riage was washed away and broken to
pieces, but none of the gentlemen were
injured.
Fire on the Water.
MEMrnis, July 2. About 2 o'clock
this morning a fire broke out near the
boiler hold of the Anchor line steamer
Cipital City, from Vicksburg to St.
Louis, while lying at the elevator, and
in a few minutes the whole boat was
wrapped in flames, the officers, crew and
passengers barely escaping with their
lives, leaving clothing and everything
behind.
As soon as the fire was discovered Cap-
tain Crane ordered to cut loose In order
to save the elevator, but the gate held
the boat hard against It until pulled off
by a tug, while the boat floated down a
hundred yards, among some trading and
wood boats, and was burned to the boiler
leck after setting those boats on fire.
The elevator was soon burned to the
water's edge, and, with a large amount
of valuable merchandise Is a total loss.
There are numerous conjectures as to
the number of lives lost, but up to this
writing only one body has been found,
which lies on the deck of the Capital
City, only the trunk being left, and thus
far it has not been identified. One pas
senger was severely burned in trying to
save his baggage. Capt. Crane thinks
the fire was the work of an incendiary.
The total loss will exceed $200,000, the
greatest portion of which falls on the
Anchor line company, of St. Louis. As
the books and papers of the boat and
elevator are lost, it is Impossible to ob
tain a reliable list of either losses or
insurance.
Another body supposed to be that of
the lame deck passenger for St. Louis
from Point Lookout was found in the
wreck of the Capital City this afternoon
with a leg and arm burned off. The
body was burned to a crisp.
Some twenty bags of government mail
was destroyed and the remainder more
or less damaged. The boat had 20 bales
of cotton and 200 sacks of cotton seed
and a lot of miscellaneous freight for St.
Louis, all of which was lost. There
were in the elevator 2,000 pieces of bag
gage, 1,000 barrels of oil, 1 ,000 barrels of
meal, 400 barrels of flour, 200 bales of
hay and a large amount of miscellane
ous freight, little of which was covered
by insurance. It is estimated that the
total loss by the fire will reach $250,000.
Farmers' Troubles.
The destruction of reaping machines
by tramping Communists In Ohio and
Indiana is getting to be of such frequent
occurrence as to thoroughly alarm the
farmers, who fear that it is the begin
ning of an organized crusade against ag
ricultural machinery. Notices are nightly
posted about the rural districts, warning
farmers who are in the midst of har
vest against the use of patent reap
ers. In return the farmers are posting
notices warning the tramps that any
man who is caught burning their barns
or stacks or reapers will be promptly
shot.
The number of reapers already report
ed destroyed is not less than twenty or
thirty. A few of the more timid farm
ers are discarding marchines and cut
ting their grain by hand. Most of them,
however, will not heed the incendiary
notices, and will protect their property
at all hazards. Any man who desires
work can -readily secure it now in the
harvest field. In some places hands are
scarce at $1.25 per day and board. Farm
ers think the bread or blood plea of barn
burners is not well-founded.
Fond of Wine.
"Ion," in Social Notes, writes as fol
lows : " I chanced not long ago to be
taking refreshment at a confectioner's
near the Strand. A well-dressed lady
entered and took a bun and a glass of
sherry. The sherry she drank, the bun
she put into her reticule as a thing not
wanted. I had time to spare; when she
left the shop I followed her ; saw her
enter another and do the same. A little
further on she entered a third, with the
same result. She then called a cabriolet
and drove home. It Is not unlikely that
she had taken six glasses of sherry at
six different confectioners' counters."
Again: " A gentleman was examining
the tradesmen's monthly accounts with
a view to payment. On going through
that of the grocer he was startled by the
amount charged for tea six pounds in
four weeks and said there must be
some mistake. The grocer at first gave
confused answers, but when directly
charged with fraud confessed the truth.
Four of the items should have been not
tea but sherry. Since that occurence
the husband and wife have lived sepa
rate; she is ' under restraint.' "
A Singular Case.
A man with strange ideas resides in
St.ouis. He believes that direct con
tact with another human being results
in a loss of a portion of the electricity
and magnetism that is absolutely essen
tial to sustain and prolong existence.
He also believes that such a loss may be
produced in a greater or less degree by
objects which have been touched by other
human beings. Consequently, the gen
tleman in question, by always wearing,
day and night, one pair of Parisian kid
gloves, and sometimes two, has never
allowed himself to touch the hand of his
fellow man. At meal time he takes the
precaution of wearing two pairs of
gloves and of also having the handle
of the knife and fork which he uses
thoroughly enwrapped in twine.
In riding on the Olive street cars,
which he takes every afternoon at five
o'clock in order to reach home, he re
frains from handing his ticket to the
conductor with his fingers, and instead
picks out the ticket from a little book
fastened to his coat, and with his teeth
allows the conductor to take the ticket
from the end of his tongue. The gen
tleman is said to be worth $80,000.
A Strange Cause for Lock-law.
The Seneca Falls Courier of the 20th
ult., tells the following singular story In
connection with the announcement that
John E. Laugdon, long a resident of
that city, died on Tuesday of lock-jaw :
" On Saturday, the 8th inst., Mr. Lang
don shaved off his beard and the next
day felt a stiffness about his Jaw. On
Monday, the symptoms being worse,Dr.
Lester was called, and concluded that it
was a case of trismus.' On the follow
ing day spasms developed in the muscles
of the jaw, neck and back, and then the
doctor pronounced it to be lockjaw. The
spasms continued, with occasional re
laxations, until the hour of his death, at
noon on Tuesday. No efforts of medi
cal skill were spared, but It was impos
sible to afford him relief. The muscles
of the neck and limbs stood out promi
nent and were tense and rigid."
A New Dodge of Burglars.
Two men the other day drove up to
the door of Henry Hanschell, 111., and
requested the privilege of depositing a
box they had with them In the house
for the night, which was refused, but
they were allowed to place it In the
store. The next morning the men
called for the box, but the storekeeper
had missed a piece of cloth from his
counter, and on further examination he
found that he had been robbed of $500,
and consequently refused to let them
have the box. The storekeeper obtained
assistance, secured two men and opened
the box, when lo! out jumped a man,
and In the box were found the money,
goods, etc., which had been stolen.
A Queer Court Room.
On Saturday, at the court ground In
Blackankle, Oa., the magistrate took his
seat on a wagon, which was standing in
the shade of a tree, and commanded the
bailiff to open the court. The command
was obeyed, the first case on the docket
was called, the witnesses examined, and
the case ready for discussion by the
lawyers, Col. M. and Hon. D., who
mounted the wagon, one on the tongue
and the other on the coupling pole. The
bailiff took his stand at the breast chain
to move the wagon in the shade as the
sun passed around.
Express Messenger Robbed.
Painesville, Ohio, July 1. At 1:30
this afternoon an express messenger bag
containing $21,000 was stolen, and as yet
no clue to money or thieves has been
found. The bag was delivered to the
messenger at the city office, who, with
the agent of the American Express
Company and driver, all rode together
on the wagon to the Painesville and
Youngstown depot, a distance of half-a-mile.
On their arrival there neither the
bag nor its contents could be found.
Terrible Disaster.
A storm of wind and rain passed over
Sharpsburg, Allegheny county on the
4th Inst., which played sad havoc with a
picnic party. The Sunday school of tho
Lutheran church were gathered in sugar
grove as the storm began and for lack of
other shelter got under the trees and into
the wagons. The whirlwind blew over
a number of the trees, crushing to death
seven persons and seriously wounding
twenty others.
Death by Sunstroke.
Thomas L. Mull died from sunstroke
on Wednesday afternoon while working
in a hay field for George Hess, In Derry
township, Mifflin county. The deceased
was 32 years of age and in excellent
health. He fell dead Instantly while
following the wagon conveying a load of
hay from the field.
C5 The brutal husband has been given
a chance in an English police court with
astonishing results. Mrs. Wilson, of
Preston, had her husband arrested for
knocking her down, kicking her about
the body and on the forehead in a fear
ful manner with his heavy clogs, etc
She came to court all done up in ban
dages and faint from loss of blood, and
the magistrates were about to give the
brutal assailant six months when it oc
curred to them to ask the mal-used
woman to remove the bandages and let
them see for themselves her fearful inju
ries. She consented with much reluc
tance, and they found she didn't have a
scratch, scar or bruise on her. The brutal
husband, however, had been engaged in
some sort of disturbance in the house, so
they fined him five shillings on general
principles.
Miscellaneous News Items.
C3f The cruelty of which a Wisconsin
wife complains in her suit for divoroe is
that her husband tied her securely and
shaved ber bead. The defouce is that she
bleached her black linlr to lemon color by
the use of acid.
Trot, N. Y., July 1. This morning
two men carroted Thomas Buckley, treas
urer of the Albla knitting mill company,
on the Albla horse car, securing 3,000,
which he was taking to the mill to pay off
the bands. The robbers escaped. The
police are scouring the country in pursuit
of the robbers.
tW The body of Mrs. Henrietta Wer
thelmer who mynterlously disappeared from
the West End Hotel, Fort Washington, on
Tuesday Inst, was found in the river at
Yonknrs, Now York, recently. The fact
that ber dress and jewels were undisturbed,
and that no mark of violence was found
upon the body, confirms the fact that the
tally committed suicide.
tW The Alpena county, Mich. Pioneer
editor has been shown a string of eleven
copper beads that wag taken from under a
large pine stump when it was pulled. The
skeleton of a man, so far decayed that it
crumbled at the touch, with it were two
hundred flint arrow heads and a tomahawk
and about four pounds of these beads in
four strings, were found directly under the
stump. Probably the relics of some ancient
Indian warrior.
Albany, N. Y., June 80. At 9:30
o'clock last night an oil train was thrown
from the track ten miles west of this city,
on the N. Y. Central road. The oil took
fire and Piatt Smith, a brakeman, of
Crntesville, who bad been thrown under
one of the cars met with a fiightful death.
The accident was occasioned through the
malicious removal of a rail. Nineteen cars
were wrecked. The engineer and firemen
were slightly injured.
IBB1" Jim Younger, one of the famous
Missouri outlaws, now in the Miunesota
penitentiary, is failing, and likely to die.
He was, when captured after the attempt
to rob the Northfield bank, shot in the
mouth, and the wound has never healed
nor can it be healed. But three of his teeth
remain, and the dentists are unable to put
a plate in his mouth so as to enable him to
eat with ease.
t The discovery of another cave in
Kentucky, not far distant from the great
mammoth cave, but immensely exceeding
it in extent and beauty, is another feather
added to our national cap. This new sub
terranean discovery will, doubtless, draw
many visitors, as it has been explored for
twenty-three miles, contains wide and
beautiful avenues, broad and deep rivers,
navigable for fourteen miles, and abounds
lu wonders and beauties hitherto not dream
ed of. The mammoth cave is a pigmy
compared with it.
Wilmington, Del., June 80. The acci
dent which occurred to the Southern ex
press train, near Claymont, Del., last night
was caused by a railroad tie which had
been placed across the track under one rail
and over the other. The engine and the
baggage, mail and two express cars were
thrown from the track and wrecked, the
three passenger cars remaining on the
track. George Babe, engineer, and his
son, N. O. Babe, fireman, both of Phila
delphia, were killed, both being horribly
mangled. Christian Krauch, a boy of Bal
timore, Md., and a man supposed by pa
pers found on his person to be William R.
Hough, of Chicago, who was stealing a
ride, were also killed. None of the pas
sengers were injured. Henry Brown, for
merly employed by the Philadelphia, Wil
mington and Baltimore railroad at this
place, was arrested last night at Claymont
for placing a tie on the track.
Later Brown has since confessed the
fiendish act. He accompanied the coro
ner's jury to the scone of the disaster, il
lustrated to them the manner in which he
arranged the ties so as to throw the train
off. He was then remanded to the jail at
New Castle.
Indigestion.
The main cause of nervousness is indi
gestion, and that is caused by weakness of
the stomach. No one can have sound
nerves aud good health without using Hop
Bitters to strengthen the stomach, purify
the blood, and to keep the liver and kid
neys active, to carry off all the poisonous
and waste matter of the system. See other
column.
Removal. J. T. Messlmerhas remov.
ed his Shoe Shop to the room adjoining
F. B. Clouser's office, 4 doors west of the
Post-Offlce, where he will make to order
Boots and Shoes of all kinds. Repair
ing promptly and neatly executed. He
will also Keep on hand a good assort
ment or Hoots ana isnoes, wnlcn he will
sell at low prices. Give him a call. 17
Ladles, call and see our elegant stock of
rarasois, ans, Ties, bnawls, Skirts, &c.
See advertisement.
- I. Schwartz.
Clothing was never lower We have an
elegant assortment. See advertisement.
I. Schwartz.
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS.
Health and hannlnesl are priceless Wealth tn
their possessors, and yet they are witUiu the
reaea oi every one who win use
WRIGHT'S LITER PILLS,
The only sure CURE for Torpid Liver, Dvppla,
Headache, Hour Stomach, Constipation, Debility,
Nausea, and all Bllllous complaints and Blood
disorders. None geuulne unless slimed " Win.
WriKht. Phll'a." 11 your Druggist will not sup
ply send 2f cents tor one box to Burrlck, Roller &
January 1, 178, ly
IRON FRONT!
OPPOSITE
3L Mc G OTWALT
HAS JUST OPENED
The LARGEST QUANTITY
and FINEST ASSORTMENT
of Goods ever brought to
BLOOMFIELD!
READ HER PRICES,
AND SEND FOR SAMPLES !
All Wool Black Cashmere, 75 cte.
Black, Alpacca from 15 cts. to 75 cts.
Twilled Debege, 20 cts.
Hamilton Alpaccas, 15 cts.
Florence Suitings, 4-4 10 cts.
Knickerbocker Suitings, 8 cts.
Organdy Lawns, 4-4 15 cts.
Cambrics, 4-4 9 cts.
Cretonnes, 4-4 lo cts.
BANK
BUILDING
nes, 4-4 lo cts. 1
per yard, 0, 7, and 8 cts.
le Trimming, per yard, 10 cts. V
idery, from 4 to 65 cts. J
lades, from 60 cts. to $2.75
s, from 6 to 11 cts. V
Prints, per yard, 0, 7, and 8 cts.
Chenille
Embroidery,
Sun Shades,
Muslins,
0-4 Sheeting, 25 cts.
42 and 43 inch Muslin, 12 cts.
Grenadine from 10 to 25 cts.
Black Hernani, 35 cts.
2 Button Kid Glove
$L00
Ladles Hosiery, from 8 to 35 cts. pr pair.
Children's Hosiery, from 5 to 30 cts. "
CLARK'S COTTON, 5 cts.
Ladies Feb. But. Shoes
Ladles Kid " "
Laced Gaiters,
Low But. Shoes
$2.25 to $2.50
$2.75
$1.00 to $1.85
$1.60 to $2.00
Ladies', Misses', and Children's Shoes of
every Size and Price.
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION !
Linen and Florence Suits order
ed at any time by giving
Bust Measure.
Butterick's Patterns ordered
Uli all J H1I1C.
Please give me a call or
order by mail.
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