4 THE TIMES, NEW. BL00MFIEL1), TA., SETTKMBEK 10, 1878. THE TIMES. New Bloomfleld, Sept. 10, 1878. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Ko Cot or Htirotype will ho Inserted 111 this purer nalew llirht face sud uu metal baao. tWTwenty per cent, m fxrem of rcirnlar rules, will be ohanred tor advertiaeuieuM set In Duuble Column. NOTICE TO BUIINCRlBERt. Look it tho flioirM on the label of your paper, Those Mmirea tell vu rim ditto In which yonr sub rrlpllnn lannld. Within weeka alter motley la sent, aee If the data la changed. No other receipt la neceaiarr. The Commission to select a site for a new penitentiary for the Middle Dis trict of Pennsylvania held a meeting In Philadelphia on ' Friday. Charles T. Jones was selected chairman, George I. Young, secretary, and Henry Rawle, treasurer. After some informal business had been transacted, the commssion ad journed to meet at Harrlsburg on the 23rd of this month. i The GREENnACKEiis make their first victory in the Congressional elections. Mr. Bradley Barlow, a bolting Repub lican, has a plurality In the Third Vermont district, nnd is likely to get a majority nt the November election, when the final voting is had to decide the triangular contest. Mr. Barlow was a Republican ; he bolted the con vention, announced his intention of running independent, got the Green back nomination, spent about $20,000, and got the plurality. Vermont Election. Returns from 150 towns indicate the following vote for governor : Proctor, Republican, 27,57-1; Bingham, Demo crat, 12,009; Martin, Greenback, 1,052; scattering 708. This gives Proctor 13, 205 majority. There are 85 towns to be heard from which in 1875 gave the Re publicans 11,732, Democrats 0,740, or a Republican majority of 4,980. If the vote in these towns is about the same Troctor's majority will not be far from 19,000. Illvstrative of the terror that ex ists In Southern towns in regard to yel low fever, is the following: At the town of Spring, on the International railway, twenty miles north of Huston, Texas, the quarantine officer put off a merchant named Hurley, from New Or leans. The citizens ran him out, and, getting up a party of twenty men armed with cow-hides and shot-guns, boarded the next train in search of the officer.- The conductor had received a telegram to secrete him before reaching the sta tion. As the mob was searching the car the conductor signaled the engineer to move off, but one of the mob with a six-shooter got on the engine and order ed him to stop. Finally, Acting Quar antine Officer Nolan appeared on the platform. As he was not the man the mob was looking for they suffered the train to proceed. General Butler for Governor. General Butler has written a letter accepting the nomination offered him by over fifty thousand voters of Massa chusetts. He has announced his in tention of being a candidate, and dis cusses State issues in his usual vigorous style. He has abstained from treating national questions, and will make his canvass on abuses which he claims have existed in the administration of the State Government. The campaign will be a lively one, the General proposing to stump the State as heretofore. The letter will create immense sensation in Massachusetts politics, and will tend further to embarrass the leaders of both the leading parties. Tax Appeals. In Harrisburg on Wednesday tax ap peals were filed by J. M. W. Newlin, in conjunction with the respective County Solicitors, for the counties of Blair, Car bon, Chester, Clearfield, Fayette, Ly coming, Luzerne, Schuylkill, Monroe, Union, Washington, York, Susquehan na, Huntingdon, and Juniata. Large amounts are involved, these appeals be ing from the action of the Board of Rev enue Commissioners, in increasing the county returns of personal property tax able for State purposes. The appeals al lege that the increase was made without evidence, and charged to the counties without authority of law. Judge Pear son has fixed October 23rd for a hear ing of the cases. Yellow Fever Reports. The following will give our readers some idea of the situation in the South. New Orleans. A New Orleans special says: Out of 1,090 deaths reported since the fever be gan, there have been 461 children under eleven yean of age. The fever had its eccentricities. Not a single case has oc curred In the boys' House of Refuge, notwithstanding it is located between the cemeteries and almost in the swamps, and has been condemned by every grand Jury for the past five -years. Adminl. trater Diamond accounts for the exemp tion from fever by the fact that the boys have been regularly dosed with quinine. ViCKsnuno. A Vlcksburg special says : Dr. Norrls, of Chattanooga, who went to work a few days ago, reports having sixty new coses, forty old ones on hand already and more calls than he will attend to, and has writ ten over one hundred and seventy-five prescriptions. He has found, whole families down with the fever, without anything to eat or a single soul near to give assistance, some having been in that condition for three dayB. If the terrible increase of the past few days should continue this place will discount the horrors of Grenada, for there are few here that are not on double duty, and the excitement attendant on these awful times is wearing them out daily by scores. Grenada. A Grenada special says : In all Gre nada there is not a Btore open, not a markeHiouse, not a saloon. The How ards (with the exception of Rev. Mr. McCracken and Dr. Ringgold) are the only people who are at work. I interviewed Mrs. Emma Clay, a Cuban nuree of experience, and her story is that never in her life did she see so terrible and deadly a scourge in Havana or in any other part of Cuba, Mexico or New Orleans. Mrs. Clay states that this is more like a plague than any epidemic of yellow fever ; that the patients turn black and blue in various parts of their bodies before and just after death. The undertaker tells me of the noble and praiseworthy way in which the physicians work, es pecially Dr. Henry Stone, of Natchez, and Dr. W. IT. Beatty, of Mobile, botli of whom he knew to sit whole nights and act as nurses for poor families when they had been acting as physicians all the day. Memphis. A Memphis special says : The atmos phere is heavy with the stench of dead bodies. Several corpses were found, and no one was able to tell where or how they died. It is impossible to describe the condition of affairs here. Four dead men were found in the streets before noon in different parts of this city. There is some improvement in the movements of the undertakers since the Citizens' Relief Burial Corps have taken matters in hand. Destitution and want are on the in crease. White persons, who cannot stand all day in the clamorous crowds of negroes that throng the delivery windows of the supply depots, are suffer ing for provisions. Hundreds who have sick families cannot leave them long enough to procure food, and it is next to impossible to get any one to attend to their wants. Visitor Manford, of tho Howards, en countered a horrible scene upon entering a house on Commerce street, Sunday. Upon a bed lay the living and the dead a husband cold and stiff, a wife in the agony of dissolution. On the floor, toss ing in delirium, where two children of this pair, and beside them their cousins, two little girls, themselves sick. To complete the repulsiveness of the scene, and give it a touch of disgusting horror, a drunken man and a drunken woman, parents of the little fever-baked girls, were reeling and cursing and stumbling over the dying and the dead. MEMrms, Sept. 5. Our city is one vast charnel-house. The undertakers report ninety-six interments for the twenty-four hours ending at 6 P. M. A visit to the county undertaker's to-night discovered the fact that at nightfall there were about sixty more reported dead, but still unburied. The question of disposing of the dead is becoming a serious one. A Woman's Thieving. A Washington correspondent tele graphs as follows : Special Agents Tid ball and Henderson, of the post office department, returned to Washing ton yesterday from Kentucky, where a woman mall robber was arrested. For a long time past complaints have been received at the post office department of the loss of money and valuables from the mails over the route between Bar boursvilleand London, Ky. Registered packages were broken open, rifled of their contents and resealed by the thief. Several months ago a special agent was sent over the route to capture the thief, but he failed in the undertaking. The mail between Barboursville and London is carried once each day by mounted car riers. The mail from twenty-five or thirty side routes passes over this main route. There has been over $1000 stolen from ordinary letters containing money and valuables and from registered pack ages by some person In the employ of the government on the Barboursville and London route. .... .. , Bradford's store Is a post office, only a few miles from Barboursville. Thom as B. Dizney is the postmaster at Radford's. Mrs. Rebecca Dizney, the postmaster's wife, is assistant postmas ter. The eldest eon of the couple is mail contractor and their two younger sons are mail carriers. This combi nation attraoted the susplolons of the special agents. Mr. Henderson placed a registered letter containing marked money in the pouch at one end of the route. Mr. Tldball did likewise at the other end of the line. Each officer followed his decoy. It was found that the contents of each had been abstract ed at Bradford's. On the instant that this was learned both officers went to the village, and, learning that Mrs. Dizney bore a bad character for honesty, and had been In charge of the o ffice during the day, promptly arrested her. At first she denied having committed the theft, but as the officers insisted upon searching her she confessed and took from her pocket the stolen money. She was taken before United Btates Commissioner Faris, of Loudon, and held in $1,000 ball to appear before the grand jury in Louisville on the 7th of next October. Mr. Dizney and his sons denied all knowledge of the robberies. The mails remained in the post office half an hour each day while the carriers were eating supper, and during that time Mrs. Diz ney committed the robberies. She is 47 years of age and the mother of eight grown children. Speedy Justice. Baltimore, Sept. 2. Michael Green, colored, was lynched near Upper Marl boro, Prince George's County,last night, for assaulting MIhs Alice Sweeney. The crime was one of peculiar atrocity. Miss Sweeney was returning to her home on Monday last from a visit to some friends in the suburbs, and in an unfrequented place the negro, divested of all his cloth ing suddenly appeared before her and assaulted her. Miss Sweeney is a beautiful girl of 19, of high social standing, and recognized as a belle in Marlboro. She was left uncon scious by her assailant, but at length she made her way to her home, and there she has since been lying in a critical condition. Green was arrested on the following day, and Miss Sweeney fully identified him. He had a narrow escape from lynching at the time, but was lodged in the jail In Upper Marlboro. After mid night last night the jailor was aroused by some one knocking at the entrance, and looking from his window, he saw a band of masked men gathered around the jail. They demanded admission, but he refused, and with battering rams they forced their way into the corridor. The cell door was quickly burst open, and Green was found crouching on the floor dumb with terror. He was heavily manacled, but one of the lynchers quickly freed him of his shackles. A rope was thrown around his neck and he was hurried out of the jail. Not a word was spoken, and the negro was taken to a grove, some distance from the town, and there ordered to say his prayers. In tho vain hope of mercy he confessed the outrage. Finding his ap peals unavailing he alternated in howls and curses, struggling desperately to es cape. With the least possible delay the rope was made fast to a tree, and the negro drawn up and firmly tied. Before his struggles were over the crowd disappear ed as quietly as they had assembled. The corpse was discovered by the authorities this morning, and, after being cut down, an Inquest was held. Very little effort was made to ascer tain the names of the lynching party, the hanging having been generally en dorsed by the community and a verdict of ' Found hanged by parties unknown' was quickly rendered. A Young Runaway Couple. Philadelphia, September 2. Anson G. P. Dodge, aged 19 years, eloped from his home at Roxborough with a young lady about 14 years of age. A cab was discovered near the house on Sunday evening which drove rapidly away about 10 o'clock. The father of the girl left information at the central police station and this evening Chief Jones received a dispatch from Washington, from a detective whom he sent to that city, stating that the runaways had been cap tured. The father of the girl had offer ed a reward of $500 for their arrest. Awful Disaster at Sea. London, September 3. The excur sion steamer Princess Alice, returning from Gravesend to London, this eve ning, with about 800 passengers on board, was run down off Barking about 8 o'clock by a screw steamer. The PrincesB Alice was struck amidships and sunk almost immediately. The number of persons drowned is variously estimated at from 600 to 600. The higher estimate is the latest and is given by the London steamboat company, the owners of the Princess Alice. The company's wharf is besieged by crowds of people anxious to bear of relatives and friends who were passengers on the ill fated boat. A Woman's Choice, A very neatly dressed young woman, with regular features, dark, patient-looking eyes, visited the health officerUn Philadelphia last week and made appli cation to be sent to the Howard associa tion somewhere In the South as nurse. She stated that her husband was serving a term In the workhouse and would shortly be out. His treatment of her when at home was not of the best) he contributed nothing towards their support, and taking from her all she could earn in order to satisfy his appe tite for liquor. She thought that if sent to some point South In the capacity stated, he would not dare follow her. It was a singular choice as between two evils. Not Friends of Kearney. Newark, N. J., September 4. The workingmen, numbering 000, employed by C. Nugent & Co., leather makers of this city, held a meeting to-day and de nounced Dennis Kearney for assailing the firm in his speech on Mondaynight. Speeches denunciatory of Kearney were made and resolutions adopted to that effect. OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, D. C, September 5, 1878. Was there ever an Administration that was not condemned or a Cabinet that was unchangeable ? Ru mors of changes in the present one have never ceased since the week of Mr. Hayes' inauguration. Now a wide-spread report prevails that Attor ney General DevnnB is pining to be back on the Judge's Bench,' having no taste nor liking for tbe petty questions upon which his present position is continually compelling him to decide, and that he in tends retiring from the Cabinet if he can secure tbo appointment of U. S. Judge of the New England circuit, which oflice has lately been made vacant by tho death of Judge Sheploy, of Maine. Another break in tho Cabinet is anticipated iu tbe case of r. M. Gon. Key, should he accept a nomination for Governor of Tennessee, and although Mr. Hayes has many times expressed a hope and wish that he should close his Administration with his original Cabinet, it is hardly probable that he will be able to do so. Devans would feel sure of tbe appointment he covets but for the fact that Blaine is against him. There is said to be a good bit of animosity existing between the two and this is tbe current gossip concerning it : Just before Mr. Blaine's harsh speech concerning Massa chusetts last winter Mr. Devans bad ac cepted an invitation to one of the former's charming dinner parties, but taking of fense for dear Massachusetts' sake, sent a cold note withdrawing his acceptance of the invitation, without regrets or even compliments to Mr. and Mrs. Blaine. Now this was a climax of rudeness, as nothing short of dangerous illness or death is considered sufficient excuse for neglect ing to fulfill an engagement for dinner in tbe best society. Mr. Blaine accepted it as an insult and shortly afterwards, at a AVhite House dinner where both of these gentlemen were present, when Mr. Devans extended his hand to Mr. Blaine in greet ing, Blaine stared him in tbe face for a few seconds and then . turned his back upon him without a word. I give this gossip for what is worth. General Grant writes to his friends here that he is longing to be at home again. Does his soldior heart long for the turmoil of our military affairs? or his political propensities yearn for the inharmonious eon fusion of the disturbed world of, poli tics? Is he fearful about his chances of a third term in the Presidential nest ? or does he really wish to settle ; comfortably down for life. Here is an extract from a recent lotter from him dated from Berlin : " We are now on our way North through Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Russia. This Fall we expect to visit Spain and Portugal and then settle down for the winter in some pleasant place, probably the South of Italy. In the spring I shall go back to the United States and settle down for life ; where, it is not yet deter mined. My whole trip abroad has been exceedingly pleasant. Every place, in every nation, and by all classes of society, from the rulers to the working people, the greatest civility has been shown me, and the profoundest respect expressed for our countrymen. As pleasant as everything has been, however, I long for tbe time to come when I am to return home. I would goback after visiitng Spain and Portugal in the Fall (I will have visited every conn try in Europe, Egypt in Africa, Syria and Asia Minor iu Asia) only that I have no place to go to. By waiting until Spring I can go to my Long Branch home and have the summer for preparing for a winter home." This evinces no thought of a re-election, but there is no one but believes that tho General would readily accept a nomination should it be tendered bim. Olive. C3F" About five miles from Elberton, Qa., there is a swarm of bes hived cn a fence, and the comb extends from the bot tom rail to the top. Tbe bees are busy at work improving each shining hour. Miscellaneous News. Items. tW At Deckertowri, N. J.j Is a black, smith named A. Quick, and his sign reads r "A Quick Blacksmith." IW The war club with which six child ren were killed thlrty-elght years ago by Indians, at Sanderson, Fla., is now in the field of George P. Canova, and is standing in the spot where it was loft after tbe mur der. I ... tST A tramp arrived in Battle Creek tbe other day from Chicago and was taken deathly sick with fever. Two physicians who were called pronounced it yellow fever, and this created the wildest conster nation. A subsequent medical consulta tion resulted in calling it yellow jaundice. CUOn Septomber 4th a very severe rain storm caused the Lackawanna river to break into the Fatilawn mines. The men are being taken out with difficulty. It ia feared some may be drowned. Later. Frank Fasold, a mule driver, was drowned, the rest escaped. Scranton, Pa., Boptember 4. Heavy rains here to-day washed out the culverts of the several railroads leading into the city. No trains arrived from Carbondale on the 1). & II. C. Co. railroad since 10 o'clock this morning, and none on the Le high and Susquehanna branch of tbe N. J. Central. IW Of nil the feathered tribe, tbe swal low is supposed to be the least pugnacious, or among tbe least disposed to be combative,, and yet a flock of these usually mild-mannered birds attacked a man near Utica, N. Y., a few days ago, knocked him down twice, pierced his bands and face with their sharp pointed bills, and when finally he made his escape from his tormentors it was with blood flowing in streams from every exposed portion of his body. What next ? You Can Be Happy, If you will stop all your extravagant and wrong notions in doctoring yourself and families with expensive doctors or humbug curo-alla, that do harm always, and use only nature's simplo remedies for nil your ailments you will be wise, well and hap py, and save great expense. Tho greatest remedy for this, the great, wise and good will tell you, is II-jp Bitters beleive It, See "Proverbs" in another column. FITS I FITS I The undersigned Iiavf ng )urchased the property formerly owned y J. Bally, on Main Street, opposite Lnsminger's Hotel, and fitted it up into a convenient shop, he is prepared to do Tailohikg in 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. Removal. J. T. Messlmer has remov ed his Shoe Shop to the room adjoining F. B. Clouser's office, 4 doors west of the PostOffice, 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 of Boots and Shoes, which he will sell at low prices. Give him a call. 17 CONSUMPTION CUBED. Ad old physician, retired from practice, hav ing had placed in his hands by an East India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy, for the speedy and permanent care for consumption, bronchitis, catarrh, asthma, and all throat and lung affections, also a positive and radical cure for nervous debility and all nervous coraplalnts.nftcr having tested its won derful curative powers in thousands of casea, has felt his duty to make it known to his snf fering fellows. Acnated by this motive, and a desire to relieve human Buffering, I will send, free of charge, to all who desire it, this recipe, will fall directions for preparing and using, la German, French, or English. Bent by mail by addressing with stamp, naming this paper, W. W. Bherar, 149 Powers' Block, Rochester, New York. , ; ,84d4w IIAPTY RELIEF To all suffering from chronic diseases of all kind. Confidential consultation invited personally or by mall. New method of treatment. Mew and reli able remedies. Book and circulars sent free la sealed envelopes. Address HOWAKD ASSOCI ATION, 419 North Mh Bt., Philadelphia, Pa., an. Institute having a high reputation for honorable conduct and professional skill iow'in HEALTH AND HAPPINESS. Health and happiness are priceless Wealth t their possessors, and yet they art within the reach of every one who will use WRIUHT'S LIVEB PILLS, The only sure CFRE for Torpid Liver, Dyspepsia, Headache, Sour Stomach, Constipation, Debility, Nausea, and all Billions complaints and Blood disorders. None genuine unless signed " Wra. Wright. Fhll'a." If your Druggist will not sup ply send 25 cents for one box to Barrlck. Holler & Co., 70N.4thSt..I'hU'a. , .. . January I, la's, ly ' " " -if XST Friend, a word with yon I If yon are troubled with any (kin diseases or other cuta neous irritation, use Glenn's 8ulphur Soap. Do likewise if your complexion be pimpled, blotched or sallow. Yon won't regret it. Bold by all druggists. Hill's Hair A Whieker Dye, Black or Brown, 50c. SMw. Can't Preach Good. No Man can do a good job of work, preach a good sermon, try a lawsuit well, doctor a patient, or write a good article when he feels miserable and dull, with sluggish brain and unsteady nerves, and none should make the attempt in such a condition when it can be so easily and cheaply removed by a little Hop Bitters Bee "Truths" and "Proverbs," other column. ,,
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