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THE TIMES, NEW BL00MF1ELD, PA., SEPTEMBER 3, 1878.
THE TIMES.
Aew Bloom field, Sept. 3, 1S7S.
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Thonenioirextell vou llm ilnm to whleli your tinb.
t-rtptlnitlttnnld. Within 8 weekyaltrr money la
tent, If tho date la cbauited. No otlier recoil
la ueceaaarv.
REMOVAL I
We will remove to our new building
on the opposite aide of the street, next
week. We intended to remove this
week, but a rush of Job work prevents us.
The ItErunLicAN Conferees of tho
Eighteenth district, comprising the
counties of Fulton, Franklin, Hunting
don, Snyder, Juniata and Perry, met at
Newport on Thursday and nominated
Horatio O. Fisher, of Huntingdon coun
ty, as the Republican candidate for Con
gress. -
In many parts of the State a strong
feeling of dissatisfaction exists regarding
the law which legalizes the oflke of
County Superintendent. The proposi
tion is made by some, that the abolish
ment of that oftlce shall be made an issue
in the next election for members of the
legislature. There is no doubt that the
oftlce has outlived its day of usefulness,
and that the duties now delegated to that
official could be more satisfactorily per
formed at one fourth of the expense.
Hurrying Into Bankruptcy.
The number of cases now hurrying
into the bankrupt court is astonishing.
To get the benefit of the law applica
tions must be in before September 1st.
A New York dispatch of the 20th inHt.
says:
The bankruptcy clerk's office of the
United States court was besieged to-day
with lawyers, filing petitions in bank
ruptcy of clints. Seventy-live petitions
and schedules were riled and It is expect
ed still larger numbers wilt be riled to
morrow. Among the cases adjudicated
to-daytwcre those of Richard Murphy
and Peter Trainer, well known politi
cians, whose liabilities arealmost a mil
lion dollars. Several old merchants with
liabilities ranging from $10,0(10 to $25,000
filed petitions in bankruptcy to-day.
Yellow Fever Reports.
The reports from the South aro sad
indeed. The following dispatches give
a pretty good idea of the state of affairs :
Memphis, Tenn., August 29. -1 The
condition of our city to-night surpasses
the most sombre imagining of misery.
For the past twenty-four hours, ending
at 6 P. M., 62 deaths have occurred, of
which only 4 were from other causes
than yellow fever. Of these 47 were
whites and 11 colored. The new cases
number 119.
The following report to the Howard's
to-day from the director of the medical
corps of the ten physicians employed
by the association gives some Idea of the
condition of things : I find scorces of
people sick and dying without having
been seen by the physicians. The scenes
of death and distress to-ddy and to-night
are indescribable. Members of the relief
committee have been called to visit sick
persons and responding to calls, found
in some cases corpses lying in beds or on
floors without even a single watcher.
The telegraphers of Memphis organized
an association to-day whose object is to
assist those of their profession who are
and may be taken sick with yellow
fever. Their territory embraces all
points north of Canton, Miss. They
appeal to the fraternity for aid.
New Orleans, August 29. The
"Times" correspondent at Canton,
Miss., under date of the 28th, says : " I
arrived here Sunday last. Pretty tough
times, not a single business house open,
except two drug stores. Once a popu
lation of 3,500 but now only seventy
five whites are to be found here. The
court house is locked up and the officers
gone to some safe place. Nothing but
hearse and coffin are to be seen on the
streets. Some thirty-five or forty cases
of yellow fever here. Many negroes
have died within the past few days. The
few whites now here are scared because
not a single case of yellow fever has
been doctored successfully. No person
attacked has recovered."
A Good Joke on the Potter Committee.
A good joke on the Potter Committee
is known by a few persona in railroad
circles which bas not yet found its way
into print. The members one and
all having procured passes over the
Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railroad,
started on their journey for a " snuff of
old ocean." In due course of time the
conductor appeared and in response to
his cry of " tickets, tickets ?' the PoU
terers handed him their passes. Judge
of their astonishment when he informed
them that they were on the wrong road.
This, lie said, Is the Camden and Atlan
tic Railroad, whereas your passes are
over the narrow gauge Philadelphia and
Atlantic City Railroad.
Here was a dilemma 1 What could
they dor" Potter rallied and made a
grand charge for victory. He showed
by the names on the passeB that they
were unquestionably the V Potter Com
mittee" and he demands of the conductor
that he be passed free together with his
fellow heroes. This the conductor de
clined, as against the rules, unless he
got instructions from headquarters,
" Well .telegraph for your instructions,"
quoth Potter, in anger.
At the first stopping place the con
ductor sent a message to the General
Superintendent at Camden, explaining
matters. Now it so happens that this
officer, Mr. Lister does not take any
stock in Potter or his Investigation, and
he promptly telrgtaphed to the conduc
tor so as to catch the train at Its next
stopping place, " make every one of the
Commltte pay his fare. If they decline,
put them off' tho troln."
The dispatch was presented to Potter
by the conductor, and, with much dis
gust, and many a qualm, the members
"whacked up."
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A Girl's Suicide.
A dispatch from Cleveland, O., is as
follows: A peculiar and highly sensa
tional case of suicide occurred in Mld
dleburg township, in this county, this
morning at 7 o'clock. Miss Hattie
Gray was the daughter of a highly re
spectable farmer named Morgan Gray.
Before breakfast, and after the hired
man had gone for the cows, she asked
her father's consent to her marriage
with the hired man, saying that she
loved him better than any one else in tho
world. Her father utterly refused his
consent, saying that the man, Richens,
by name, had no visible means of sup
port. With this the father went to his
work. He had not proceeded far with
the milking of the cows when he heard
a pistol shot, and ran to. the house with
the hired man. They passed through
several rooms In search of Hattie, but
did not find any trace of her until the
man's room was reached, and there her
lifeless form was found stretched upon
the floor. It seems that upon her father's
departure for the barn she had gone to
her lover's bedroom and taken his revol
ver from a bureau drawer and Bhot her
self through the heart. The ball enter
ed her body just below the left nipple.
The physician who was called thought
that death must have resulted immedi
ately. The lover and her father are
both nearly distracted. Richens says
that on a holiday ride to Rocky river, a
few days ago, he asked her to become
his wife, and, after saying that she feared
they could not live happily together ,she
consented, but at the same time saying
that he might attend her funeral before
her wedding. She wbb an intelligent
and highly respected girl.
A Railroad Man-trap.
Newark, August 25. Shortly after
three o'clock yesterday Willian Ditmar,
residing at the corner of Waverly place
and Lillie street, met a terrible fate at
the Market street depot of the Pennsyl
vania railroad. He was driving his
wagon, No. 52, up Market street, and
just as he struck the crossing of
the railroad track there being no
gates or fences at this most important of
all the crossings in Newark a New
York train came rushing along and
caught Ditmar's horse and wagon, with
Ditmar in the driver's seat, and whirled
man, horse and wagon before it into the
depot, where there is a high stone plat
form. In went the horse and wagon,
and the former was reduced to a jelly
and the latter to fragments. In some
way Ditmar was pushed before the car
cass of the horse and so escaped being
instantly killed, but every important
bone iu his body being broken. He was
still alive, and for twenty minutes was
pinned against the stone platform by the
train until heavy Jack screws were ob
tained, the tender lifted and the unfor
tunate man lifted out. Both thighs and
both legs being broken. So was his right
arm, while his feet were crushed into an
unsightly mass. No language could de
scribe the anguish and suffering of the
poor fellow. He was removed to St.
Michael's Hospital, where he expired.
He leaves a wife and one child.
The Mule and Forty Acres.
A South Carolina orator making a
speech to the colored people, talks to
them as follows :
" Each of you represents $900 ; you
would have brought'that sum in 18(H).
You were freed without our consent,and
now, if you will vote the Democratic
ticket, we will make the Yankees pay
for you, and then we will give you half
the money. There stands old Uncle
Jim. He has a wife and eight children,
for which the north will pay to me $9,.
000, one-half of which I will give to him
and the balance I will keep. Then he
will be independent, and not dependent
upon the cold charities of the world.
This, my dear colored friends, la a prac
tical solution of the ' forty Acres and a
mule' question, and you will someday
be lifted from your poverty by your old
masters. Only vote the Democratlo
ticket, and we will soon be independent
of the contemptible Yankees."
Sorloui Railroad Accident.
Detroit, August 28. A serious acci
dent occurred to an excursion train on
the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad
near Lock wood, Michigan, about noon
to-day by which thirty-five persons were
injured, several seriously and three
fatally. The coaches jumped the track
and went down an embankment. The
train was filled with excursionists from
Manistee and Ludlngton bound for
Grand Rapids. The wounded were
taken to Grand Rapids for medical at
tendance. The cause of the accident Is
supposed to have been a broken rail.
Specimens of New Rice.
The Raleigh Aews says some speci
mens of upland rice have been received
at the Museum of Agriculture, from
Johnston county, North Carolina. The
heads of this rice are like those of the
sugar cane in shape, but are cream col
ored. It is said to be prolific, but the
department is not Informed as to its fit
ness for use.
Stifled In Grain.
A Detroit exchange says : Yesterday
evening Frank Wakeman, a 13-year-old
Fenton boy, ventured Into the bin of
the granger elevator at the Fenton depot
and was Instantly drawn down to the
spout. It was about ten minutes before
he could be got out, and when he was
reached life had fled.
The Rush to Minnesota.
The rush for land this full promises to
equal, if not to exceed, that of last year.
Those thatare there are sending for their
friends, and every train brings in a fresh
lot, and the hotel registers at New Ulm,
Marshall and other land office towns
show arrivals from all parts of the
Union and the Canadas.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C, August 29, 1878.
General Sherman having loft Washington
for a trip South, the rumor was at once
started and widely copied by the press to
the effect that the General bod determined
upon the opening of a war with Mexico,
and bad gone thither to begin operations
in person. The War Department, bow
ever, ridicules this sensational report as
the wildest sort of nonsense. Secretary
McCrary Bays if General Sherman has any
such intentions he has kept them secret
from everybody, including the President ;
and Sherman's aides say that all he took
with him was a hand satchel, and if he
means to stay, and fight Mexico, they will
have to send him fresh linen.
It will be remembered that previous to
the inauguration of Mr. Hayes, it was
averred that a plot was on foot for his as
sassination should he attempt to enter the
Executive Mansion as President ; the man
who created that report was one Maxwell,
who said he bad overheard a party of con
spirators plotting the above mentioned
deed, at a hotel In this city. Mr. Hayes
fully believed this story, and was accom
panied from Columbus on his journey
hither, and all the time till after the inau
guration by a party of detectives as a
guard, of whom Maxwell was one. Di
rectly afterward Mr. Hayes appointed him
as Lieutenant in the Army, to which Gen
eral Sherman and the Secretary of War
both objected, on the ground that Maxwell
was a man of bad character. The Senate
confirmed his appointment, however, and at
once Maxwell proceeded to sell his pay
months in advance, and duplicate vouchers,
realizing from $2,000 to 3,000 by the
transactions. To make a long story short,
this favorite of the President has been de
tected, court-martialed, dismissed from tho
service and sentenced to the penitentiary
for two years.
It is a bard-hearted person who can visit
the shops of Washington pawn-brokers
witli feelings of amusement unmixed with
sadder sentiments. These establishments
are only too well patronized. Ask the pro
prietors who are their best customers and
they will invariably tell you " Government
clerks." "In position?" you ask. "Both
in and out." "Men or women?" "Both,
but more of the fotmer," and this is the
story : The great majority of Government
clerks spend all their earnings as they go.
They acquire expensive habits, luxurious
ways of living and so on. Worse than this,
many especially young men, live utterly be
yond their means, hence they consider the
pawn-broker a blessing to them. When a
clerk loses his office be invariably waits
and hopes for reinstatement and so stays
here without work, until his money is ex
hausted. Then he visits the pawn-broker.
First surplus jewelry goes. The extra
clothing. Then what might be termed
necessary jewelry, watch, &o. And so it
goes on till only the clothes in wearing are
left the hope of redeeming them always
remaining.
So many distressed people are in this
city I And there is very little employment
to be bad outside of the Departments. Do
mestic service is all done by colored people.
All are acrvanta. The South knows no
such person as a " hired man" or "hired
girl." The "help", are all servant, and
the employers are mastora aud mistresses
as much now as in slave times. ' The great
est difference being that wages are paid
and the lash is dispensed with. Hundreds
of the blacks do not hesitate to affirm that
they were much better off and happier as
slave" than they have been since the Eman
cipation, a fact which none who see and
know them can doubt. Omvb.
Miscellaneous News Items.
IW Johnny Steel i (Coil Oil Johnny), at
one time a millionaire of the oil regions, is
now clerking in a grocery store in Denul
son, Ind.
tW A tornado occurred in Grundy coun
ty, Illinois, on Saturday a week, which
destroyed several buildings, killing one
man aud seriously injuring another.
t3F While grubbing up a stump, a
Hunt County (Texas) farmer struck an
old iron pot, holding f 420 in silver and
fifteen $20 gold pieces. On the top of the
money was a silver goblet, marked Myrick,
the name of a family which disappeared
during the war.
About $4,000 have beeu subscribed
in Philadelphia to the yellow fever
fund. Of this amouut $3,000 were con
tributed by Geo. W. Childs, Drexel& Co.,
W. E. Garret & Sons and the Insurance
company of North America.
3?" Thomas and Louisa Bigelow, who
described themselves as Americans were
arrested in London on Monday and re
manded, charged with robbing the Finan
cial Department of the Receiver General at
Toronto, on the 4th of July last, of $5,
000 in money and some Canadian bonds.
The accused declared their innocence,
Tomas Bigelow alleging that the $3, D00
worth of bonds in his possession were
bought at Chicago on the 23rd of June.
tW A curious controversy over a wom
an's heart has arisen at Nice. An Ameri
can lady, who had been converted to Ro
man Catholicism, left sixty thousand dol
lars to the church of Father Lavigne on
condition that she should bo buried within
the precinctB of the edifice. The munici
pal authorities opposed such a step as being
against the health regulations, but the ec
closiastical legatees thought to get over the
difficulty by burying the heart in the
church. The family, however, would not
permit the body to be cut.
A Buit that is bound to create con
siderable sensation has been commenced in
the town of Olive, the parties to the action
being Uenry Lasher, a farmer, who during
the summer season has a number of board
ers at his place, and a young man named
William JameB Davis. During the past
year Emma Bush has been in the employ
of Lasher as maid of all work, and Davis
was her steady company. Recently Lasher
sued Davis, claiming $20 for fire, light, and
use of his room while engaged in courting
Emma Bush.
tW A few months since Mrs. Meister
died under suspicious circumstances in
Allegheny county. This lady was robbed
shortly before ber death of a large amount
of money, and the thief could never be
traced. It now comes to light, that an
Italian named Antonio Marcaci, recently
arrested on some charge, was guilty of
both robbery and murder, together with
Charles Gogga, a son-in-law of Mrs.
Meister. The manner of her death was by
poison, it being administered in a bowl of
soup. Both parties are now in jail, await
ing trial.
Citeyknne, Wt. T., August 27. The
removal of spikes and fish plates a week
ago from a rail two miles east of Medicine
Bow, near a deep ravine, gave rise to a
suspicion that it had been done with a view
to wreck and rob a train. Deputy Sheriff
Widdowfleld and another named Vincent
started on what was believed to be the trail
of the would-be robbers, and not returning
a large party started in search of them.
Last Sunday one of the party returned and
stated that the bodies of Widdowfleld and
Vincent were found in a narrow canon of
Elk mountain, where they probably met a
gang of robbers and were killed.
New York, August 20. The house of
Andrew S. Engle, a wealthy old gentleman
residing at Fairview, N. J., was entered by
four masked burglars on Sunday morning
at ac early hour. The inmates included Mrs.
Engle, an old man named Earl,Mrs. Engle's
son, wife and two children. Then dogs
about the premises were silenced in some
way, and when the burglars got into the
house they first assaulted old Mr. and Mrs.
Engle, bound and gagged them and then
chloroformed them. One hundred dollars
were stolen, when the thieves in rummag
ing about the bouse awoke the other in
mates. A fight ensued between young
Engle and the robbers and one of the lat
ter was shot, but the whole party escaped,
notwithstanding a vigorous pursuit. Sub
sequently a rough looking character with a
wounded arm was arrested in this city,and
be bas been held for identification.
"Yon see," said Dr. Carver, as re
ported in ' Forest and Stream,' " I must be
shooting something or other all the time.
If it isn't a Winchester its a bow and ar
row, for handsome young ladies to shoot
on grass plates at straw targets. Now air
Indian arrow Is a good bit longer, maybe
thirty-two inches, and when a Stoux draws
It chock np to the bow ft fairly hums when
be lots It fly. An Indian arrow has groove
cut In It behind the barb, that is to say, the
one they use In hunting, so that the blood
can flow, otherwise the wood would spoil
and swell. The fighting arrows are nasty
things. The barb is put on the shaft so
that when it bits you the steel, or old hoop
Iron, stays In the flesh when you go to pull
out tho arrow. Dear sakes 1 what ugly
wounds I have seen them make. '
tThe story of Charles Sumner's do
mestic troubles is told by Georgb W. Wil
liams, a colored orator of Cincinnati, who
was in Sumner's law office at the time
Widow Alice Hooper became Mrs. Sumner.
She was a vivacious woman, he says, as
attractive in society as Sumner was oold
and dignified. Mrs. Sumner was fond of
evening parties, at which she would enjoy
herself while her lord and master waited
solemnly at one side. He would often make
special requests for bis wife's departure,
which she would grant at her pleasure
In her desire to manage household affairs,
also, Mrs. Bumner often vexed her hu sband
by sweeping into the waste baskets all bis
clippings, systematically arran ged in rows
on the wall and fastened by pins. The un
congenial couple did not remain long
together. One day Sumner came to bia
office with a darker cloud than usual on
his brow. Soon bis wife's father came iu
and said, in tones half of alarm and half
of Inquiry, "Alice has .gone?" "Yes sir,"
was the stern reply; "Alice has gone," and
afterward Sumner only referred to her
from necessity.
You Can Be Happy.
If you will stop all your extravagant and
wrong notions in doctoring yourself and
families with expensive doctors or humbug
cure-alls, that do barm always, and use
only nature's Bimplo remedies for all yeur
ailments you will be wise, well and hap
py, and save great expense. The greate st
remedy for this, the great, wise and good
will tell you, is Hop Bitters beleiva it.
See "Proverbs" in another column.
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Read and think over these prices
Good Canton Flannel at 8 cents per yard.
Very Heavy Canton Flannel at 10 cents per yard.
A lot of Print!, good atylea,
and fast colors at 5 cents per yard.
Itusches, good style, at 2 and 3 cents each.
Foxed Button Gaiters at II 69 per pair..
Children's sizes ditto at
II 25 " "
The best Turkey Morocco Button Blioe
made, every pair warranted tt 10 " "
Men's Heavy Boots, 12 SO & 13 00 " '
Overalls, 60 cts. " '
A Pretty Tumbler, 40 " per doz.
Goblets, 9i " perdoz.
Also lots of other Bargains too numerous to lpecl
fy. Call and see the stock ; it will
Not Cost You Anything to Look f
The beet Fruit Jar in the Market,
One Quart, f 1 00 per dozen.
Two do l 30 per dozen.
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