THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIFXD, TA.. OCTOBER 1, 1878.
THE TIMES.
New Bloom field, Oct. 1, 187S.
NOTICE TO ADTEnTlSBBS.
lfo Out or Bterentype will be Inserted inthU ppe
Unless light face aud oo metal bane.
tW Twenty per cent in eirem of reirolar ratee, will
pe uasrurru lur aavertiseiueuui set 10 iuuu miuuiu,
NOTICE TO SUBWCRIBERS.
Look t tho flirnron on the Isbet of your roer.
Thoi)Kiiretl vontlm ilnteto which youranu-
crlpllon In paid. Within S wwki .alter money la
sent, sm If the dnte la ohantred. No other receipt
a necessary.
Noav that the Negroes have been left
to depend upon themselves, they are
rapidly acquiring the means of Belf-de-fence,
and knowledge how to use them
for attack If need be. Only a few days
ago a colored mob took a white man out
of jail at Beulte, La., and riddled him
with bullets, as if they hud been a crowd
of high-toned southern gentlemen and
the prisoner 'only a nigger."
- The Middle Penitentiary.
,The commission appointed by Gover
nor Hartranft to select a site on which
to locate the proposed middle district
penitentiary met at the Lochiel hotel last
evening to read communications from
the counties composing the middle dis
trict, and to map out a prog ramme for
visiting the sites offered.
A special train brought the commis
sion to this city from Philadelphia yes
terday afternoon. The commission was
accompanied by Messrs. Francis Wells,
Philadelphia Bulletin ; Hon. James
M'Manus, Michael Cassidy, Esq., John
A. Wilson, Esq., Mayor Btockley, Geo.
W. Leuffer, Esq., William Baldwin,
Esq., John Morris, Esq., and Thomas
Noble, Esq.
There were .present Col. Charles
Thompson Jones, of Philadelphia, Presi
dent; Henry Itawle, of Erie; Henry
Howell and George.J. Young, of Phila
delphia ; J. K. Moorhead and John
Paul, of Pittsburg. Delegations from
Tyrone, Carlisle and Harrisburg present
ed the claims of their respective sections.
The legislature has appropriated $100,
000 to be applied in purchasing the site
and erecting thereon a penitentiary
capable of holding 250 prisoners in soli
tary confinement. As there are now
confined in the eastern penitentiary at
Philadelphia, 145 convicts, and in the
western penitentiary at Pittsburg, 83
convicts making a total of 230 convicts
sent from counties included within the
district it is likely that the new Insti
tution will be almost filled as soon as
completed. Fifteen acres of land will be
required. Harrisburg and Tyrone have
offered to donate the ground, while
Carlisle says it will do so if asked for by
the commission.'
In addition to the profusion of stone,
iron and coal which each locality puts
forward as an advantage in its favor,
Harrisburg furnishes figures showing
the total population of the twenty-seven
counties in the middle district to be 777,
000, and that the six counties nearest
Harrisburg have more than one-fourth
of the population and one-third of the
convicts.
Tyrone shows that it is within seven
miles of four counties Cambria, Blair,
Centre and Huntingdon that it can be
reached from ten counties in the dis
trict without change of cars, and from
ten others it will have but one change,
and from the remaining seven with but
two changes, a point which they claim
is of some importance in connection
with the transportation of prisoners and
that the state has none of her public
buildings along the centre line of the
state, the Pennsylvania railroad be
tween Harrisburg and Pittsburgh ; and
in furtherance of the state 'policy of
scattering its public buildings, that,
therefore, Tyrone is the more eligible.
Carlisle claimed the best soil, good
drainage and a large, orderly population,
and that produce could be obtained there
at about half the cost of Harrisburg.
To-day the commission, accompanied
by Governor Hartranft, Mayor Stokley
and the state board of charities, will
visit Selinsgrove, Northumberland, and
Williamsport. To-morrow, Lock Ha
ven, Bellefonte and Tyrone will be
visited, after which the commission
will repair to Altoona and remain over
night On Thursday they will inspect
' sites at Huntingdon and Lewistown,and
on Friday M'Veytown, Marysvllle and
Harrisburg will be inspected.
Captain William B. Hart, of this
city, was elected secretary of the com
mission. The meeting adjourned at 11 o'clock
P. M.JIarrwlmrg Patriot of the 24th
inst.
United States Malls Burned.
Information has been received at the
Post-office Department at Washington
that twenty-four sacks of newspaper
mail have been burned by the Health
Office at Mesquite, Texas. As the mails
have not been forced by the Department
past where quarantine has buen estab
lished, the question arises by what au
thority the mails were burned V The
Department will Investigate the matter.
A Lively Struggle with Two Prisoners on
Train.
The Pittsburg Leader says j BlverlfT
D. C. Oyster, of Elk county, arrived In
this city this morning, accompanied by
Deputy-sherlff Winsel, having in charge
two desperate characters named James
Dailey and Patrick Goodman, sentenced
at the recent term of the court of Elk
county for burglary, the former receiv
ing two years and six months and the
latter two years.
The party arrived at Warren yester
day and finding that some hours would
elapse before the departure of the train
at 9 A. M., on the Allegheny Valley
Road, the men were placed in the jail
at that place. Between 8 and 9 o'clock
the sheriff and his deputy started to es
cort the prisoners to the depot. On the
way from the jail to the cars, Dailey,
who is a powerful young fellow about 29
years of age, in some manner slipped
his handeuHs,and breaking away ,started
to run.
The sheriff held to Goodman, while
Deputy Sheriff Winsel started after
Dailey. Finding that Dailey was get
ting away from him the deputy sheriff
fired at him, and the prisoner looking
around when he heard the shot, struck
his head against a tree, and before he
could recover himself Winsel was upon
him, and a desperate struggle ensued,
both being powerful men. Dailey caught
the deputy by the throat,and at the same
time took hold of him with his teeth.
After a moment's struggle a citizen came
to the rescue, and with his aid the pris
oner was overpowered.
When the train was approaching
Irvington, Dailey requested the sheriff
to get him a drink. This the sheriff
did, but as he approached the man Dai
ley kicked the glass out of the sheriff's
hands, and with an oath demanded beer
instead of water. Turning to his com
panion he proposed that they should go
and get some beer. He readily assented,
and a dash was made for the door. The
train was just slowing up at the station
and the sheriff and his deputy sprang to
the door, where another struggle was
inaugurated by the reckless criminals.
The sheriff hesitated to use his revol
ver, as the car was occupied by a num
ber of passengers.lmt just at the moment
a stone-mason came aboard, carrying in
his hand a hammer, which the sheriff
seized, and after some twelve or fifteen
blows with the handle of the instru
ment, finally subdued fhe men and no
further trouble was experienced on the
trip. The handle of the hammer was
broken in the struggle, and both men
used up. One of them, Dailey, though
not considered as seriously injured, was
placed In the hospital at the penitentiary
after his arrival.
An Exciting Scene.
Marquette, Mich., September 24.
About 9 o'clock last evening, during an
examination of witnesses before Com
missioner Maynard, in the case of the
United States vs. Samuel J. Tilden, two
men suddenly entered the office, seized
the books of the New York iron mine,
which were being used in testimony ,and
escaped with them. Warrants were
issued as quickly as possible and officers
started in pursuit. It is supposed the
book 8 have been taken outside of the
State. Considerable excitement pre
vails. Tilden's counsel has been arrest
ed for the theft.-
MEMniis, before the plague, had a
population of 50,000, but of the people
who now remain only 2,000 are in
health. The fever prevails in various
parts of the country included within a
radius of ten miles of the city. Fifteen
volunteer physicians have died in Mem
phis, and twenty others are sick. Eight
Catholic priests and five Protestant
ministers have also perished.
Terrible Work of a Kerosene Lamp.
Providence, R. I., September 24.
Yesterday afternoon the house of Mrs.
Abby Daval, in Portsmouth, was dls
covered to be on fire and when the
neighbors reached the scene nothing
could be saved. The body of Mrs. Daval
could be seen on a bed burningtoacrisp.
By the side of the stove was a kerosene
can, which probably explains the dis
aster. !
Fever Notes.
Two thousand dollars' worth of
blankets will be sent the yellow fever suf
ferers from London, Ont., under an ar
rangement with the United States Treasu
ry Department which gives them free en
try. A couoeit at Gilmore's Garden in
New York on Monday night for the relief
of the yellow fever sufferers in the South,
under tbe auspices of the Fireman's Ball
Committee of the old volunteer fire depart
ment, will net between 8,000 and f 10,000.
There is great suffering at Grand Junc
tion, and doctors and nurses are being
sent from New Orleans.
At Baton Kongo there were thirty-eight
new esses and two deaths reported up to
noon Thursday. At Canton, Miss., two
deaths and twenty-one new eases.
The Secretary of State 'lifts reoleved
from Minister Noyes a ftither remittance
of 4,000 for the yellow-fever sufferers,
which includes 1,000 subscription from
the President of the French Republic and
Madame MacMahon.
Jiot a Beverage.
"They are not a beverage, but a medi
cine, with curative properties of the high
est degree, containing no poisonous drugs.
They do not tear down an already debill
tuted system, but build It up. One bottle
contains more hops, tbat is, more real hop
strength, than a barrel of ordinary beer.
Every druggist in Rochester sells them,
and the phsicians prescribe them." Roch
ester Evening Express on Hop Bitters. 40
Miscellaneous News Items.
tW A live cat was found in a mail bag
at a town in Maine recently. It is su ppos
ed she had a pur-puss in being there.
tW Seveuty-seven Kansas bound emi
grant wagons passed through Des Moines
ono day last week.
CSPAyoung daughter of II. C. Fronce,
of Mahanoy City, was choked to death by
a peanut keruel lodging in her windpipe.
C3FThomas Wardlaw's body was found
in the woods near Musquash, N. B. Tues
day, with the skull crushed in. I lis wife
and her paramour were arrested.
tST'A Lady aged sixty-six years, the
mother-in-law of Rev. Eisenminger, of Ly
coming co., committed suicide by hanging
herself in an outhouse.
tST"Awoman in Richmond, Ind., who
died recently, hod kept $3,000 in gold
secreted for forty years. She didn't
believe in banks.
tW Frank Pike dived into the Boyer
river, Wisconsin, stuck his hands iuto the
mud at the bottom, and came up with a
long lost dinmoud ring on bis finger.
tS A tramp who stole a ride in a car of
flour on the Yaudalia road, in Illinois, a
few days since, was smothered by the car
taking fire. When fonud he was dead.
g" Wm. Buller, of Chester couuty, leap
from a third story window while suffering
from typhoid fever and sustained supposed
fatal injuries.
C5P The Odd Fellows' Bauk of Sacra
mento bas decided to wind up its buisness,
and has made an assignment of its assets,
which it is believed are sufficient to pay
tbe creditors.
E2T On Saturday night an attempt was
made to burn up Taylor Bartlett and family
of Altoona. The fire was discovered in
time to prevent the accomplishment of the
object. . ,
C5PA widow in Reading, who has attain
ed the age of fifty years, has been arrest
ed for firing her own property with the in
tent of destroying the house of her neigh
bor, against whom she had an old grudge.
tWTen persons died from diphtheria at
Sharpsburg, Allegheny county, withiu a
week recently. Iu the family of Mr. Col
lins four childreu have died and another is
dangerously ill.
tW A Bohemian woman, while gather
ing blackberries near Iowa city, recently,
was bitten by a rattlesnake, and died be
fore reaching home. Her body was found
the following day.
CSTA dispatch from Dodge City says
that a fight commenced on Saturday
between the troopB and a band of thiev lug
Indians, several of whom had been killed,
without injury to the soldiers.
Cincinnati, Ohio, September 23. The
second Bection of John Robinson's circus
train on the Cairo and Vincennes railroad
was ditched at Mt. Carmel yesterday, de
molishing five cars. Four employees were
seriously hurt.
Alliance, O., September 23. When
the train carrying Mr. Hayes and party
east arrived here to-day a salute was fired
so close to Mr. Hayes' private car as to
break all tho windows on one side. No one
was hurt.
The woman and child fouud murder
ed ou Sunday near Indianapolis prove to
be the wife and child of William Merrick,
a livery-stable keeper. Merrick was
arrested, but denies all knowledge of tbe
crime.
tW Two men wore arrested in New
York on suspicion of having stolen $2,000
worth of opera-glasses from a Broadway
optician on Sunday ovening. Tbe robbery
was committed at an hour when scores
of people were passing the place.
Additional advices relative to the
tornado which visited a portion of Michi
gan on Friday woek, state that two or three
persons were killed and a number injured
at different points. At Greenville tbe
Baptist church was blown down.
' dP A dealer iu lottery tickets was sen
tenced by the criminal court of Lehigh oo.,'
last week to pay a fine of $1,000, the cost
of proseoutlon, undergo an imprisonment
of thirty days and give bail in $2,000 for
two years for his good behavior.
t3TTha Harrisburg Patriot says : The
river is exceedingly low at present lower
than at any other time this season. Tho
employees at tbe various industrial es.
tablishments from Falrvlew and Worm
leyslmrg fiud it somewhat difficult to push
their boats aoross, morning and evening. '
EST The body of Mrs. Iligby, Garretts
vllle, Ohio, was found in . tbe vat of tbe
Homeeopatblo College, at Cleveland, on
Saturday. The College authorities had
the body dressed and restored to the
friends, bub the chief mombers were
arrested and held to bail. The affair
cuines much excitement.
tW A singular scene was witnessed on
the St. Lawrence, a few days since. Dur
ing a storm, a floating island passed down
the river. It contained near two acres
of meadow land, with hay in the wiurow,
and some in the cocks, ready to Store in
the barn. It measured seven feet in
thickness.
GSome of the boys of Carrollville,
Wis., made a midnight parade, wrapped
in sheets, and starting from the village
graveyard. Their idea was to scare who
ever saw them. They succeeded. Three
men went into convulsions at the sight,
one sick man weut into a relapse, and a
girl broke her arm by a fall iu climbing
hastily over a fence;
Teiuie IIaute, Ind., September 21.
William Foreman, residing a few miles
north of this city near Centreville, has just
been arrested on a charge of causing the
death, yesterday, of Miss Jennie Murdock,
a member of a respected family in the same
neighborhood, by efforts to produce an
abortion to cover up his crime of seduction.
The matter has created great excitement.
Cincinnati, September 24. A dispatch
states that James Mullen, a wealthy farm
er and bachelor, residing near Gower, Mis
souri, was fouud ou Sunday moruing lying
near his barn, dead. The body was fright
fully mangled, nearly all the flesh having
been eaten off the bones by the hogs. The
supposition is that he fell from the barn
loft, breaking his neck. The horses and
cattle were tied in the barn and nearly
starved when discovered.
Allentown, Pa., September 24 A ter
rible boiler explosion took place at the
school slate factory of the Lehigh slate
works, at blatington, at a quarter before
1 o'clock this afternoon. Frank Kenuett,
the engineer, was instantly killed. Wm.
Hunt was badly wounded, and several oth
ers were seriously injured. The boiler was
thrown about forty feet, burying itself in a
rubbish bank. Tbe engine house and the
wash bouse were completely wrecked.
Detroit, Mich., September 22. A spe
cial from Saginaw Bays: "A quantity of
Bhingles and about 15,000 feet of lumber on
the docks there were blown into the lake,
1,600 trees were blown across the track of
the Iowa and Southwestern railroad, and
a considerable amount of damage to prop
erty along the Hue was done. At Ogeman
Springs a man was struck by allying board
aud had his arm broken aud was otherwise
badly injured. The Ogeman mill and oth
er properties there were damaged to the ex
tout of about $1,500. The roof of the de
pot wbb blown off and considerable damage
done to curs ou tho track at that place."
Communicated.
Patent Flour.
One of (lie greatest Improvements of the times,
mid one that greatly Interests the public. Is the
the new machine that has been put in the Flour
ing Mill of Milton B. Kslielnmn, of Newport. It
is a Smut, Purltler, brought here from Michi
gan, the name kind of a machine that makes the
Patent Hour from the Western spring wheat,
which Is decidedly the best flour made, and al
ways commands the highest price In the Eastern
markets. It Is the same make of machine that Is
in the Harrisburg mill, and Is the only one In
1'erry county, It cost three hundred dollars, and
Is a nice piece of workmanship. It was put up by
Mr. W. J. Bell, of Lewisburgh, . Fa., a practical
Millwright.
Now a word about the working of the machine.
Every observing person knows that each grain of
wheat has a growth of hair or fuzz on its point,
mid this Is the most dllllcult part of the grain to
clean. It has delled the Ingenuity of tiie Bmut
Machine Makers, and in spite of the mostdlll-
f:ent care of the Miller In scouring the grain, and
ii bolting the chop the fuzzy stult will work Itself
through the bolting cloth, and darkens the color
of the Hour; unlet a goodly portion of the re
turns Is run to the feed, aud then the turnout of
flour is too small. This machine is so constructed
thatinsteadof the revolving reel of the ordinary
bolt. It has a flat shaken sieve gently vibrated,
covered with very line HoltiugCloth broughtfrom
Germany. And while the material to be purified
is passing over the seive; It Is evident toevery
one that the heavy partioles which Is the good
Hour will lay next the seive and pass through the
meshes: while the light portion, which is the feed,
(and called Hhlpstutl ) will be carried along on t he
top. and finally be shaken oil the toll end. But
this is not the most Important partol the machine,
for while this Is going on there Is a suction fan on
the top of the machine running at the rate of six
hundred revolutions per minute, which draws
the air upward through the seive, and carries
with It all that hairy tint stuff, and deposits it in
a dust room, to be old for feed. Any person who
has not seen the machine working can hardly re
alize the amount of this very tine stult that it
takes out, which formerly went iuto the flour.
There is no doubt that the late Improvements in
Mill Machinery make flour of a better quality
than our grandmothers baked with, and many
ask, Why is it that we don't have better bread 7
My answer is, that we do have better bread, and
a great deal better bread on an average: but it is
now as then a great many of our housekeepers
never rightly Warned Hie art of perfect baking,
aud It is at best, but guess work with them, and
it gives them great comfort to put all the blame
on the poor Miller because he Is absent. Andthere
are a great many men who think when they have
bad bread, that every other family has bad bread
too. but tills Is a very erroneous Idea, for I know
from experience that there is a great deal of good
bread made, snlendled bread, and from home
made flour. There is a very good reason why
our tlour requires more care In baking, than did
the old time tlour and it Is this, our Millers do not
have as good wheat to grind, and the causes are
two: Klrst, the old farmer had the wheat from
the Virgin soli, where Uod had placed the ele
ments or nature to make perfect everything that
grew; there was no trouble then to raise good
and large wheatcrops. The Hist farmers here did
not have to change seed every two years, nor sow
three crops to reap one. Where manure is plenty
and proiwr'.y applied, the ground may be kept In
nearly the original condition, but it is guess work
and as likely to be wrong at right. The second
cause is that the old time farmer out his wheat at
the proper time, and let it cure ou the shook; the
present farmer allows It to become dead ripe ou
the stalk; sunburnt ou tho swath, and theu hur
ries it iuto the baru so hot and dry that it never
sweats, or goes through that maturing process
that nature Intended It should. And the Miller Is
expected to make as good flour, and as much of It
as If he had perfect wheat, cut and cured In
Proper manner. Positively, If the Miller now
shoulddlseard all the Improvements of the last 60
years he could not sell a barrel of flour.nor would
a farmer take him the second grist to grind.
There Is not one operation between the wheat in
the bag, and the flour In the sack, that has not
been greatly improved by Important discoveries
and new machinery. Every one of these had tn
be introduced by some one more enterprlslna
than the rest. 1 herefore the Miller must lie con
tlnually at great expense and risk, trying and
buying Improved machluery to counteract tiie de
terioration of the grain, and the more fastidious
tastes of the people; and he who takes the ad
vance In it deserves the sympathy of every con
sumer of flour. raooitEss.
JHE ST. ELMO HOTEL,
817 & 819 ARCH STREET,
PHILADELPHIA,
has reduced the rates to
PER 1JA.Y.
The high reputation of the house will be main
tained In all respects, and the traveling public
will still find the same liberal provision for their
comfort.
The house been recently refitted, and Is com
plete In all Its appointments. Located In the im
mediate vicinity of the large centres of business
and of places of amusement, and accessible to all
Kin I road depots and other parts of the City by
Streetcars constantly passing its doors, It Oder
s lieclal Inducements to those visiting the City on
business or pleasure.
JOS. M. FEGErT Proprietor.
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Read and think over these price
Good Canton Flannel at 8 cents per yard.
Very Heavy Canton Flannel at 10 cents per yard.
A lot of Prints, good styles,
aud fast colors at S cents per yard.
Itusches, good style, at 2 and 3 cents each. '
Foxed Button Gaiters at 81 C9 per pair.
Children's sizes ditto at
(1 25 1
The best Turkey Morocco Button Shoe
made, every pair warranted ti 10 " "
rs. These Shoes are made to order for ourtraile
by the best Manufacture in the country, and are
all made from the best stock. We can warrant
the quality In every particular.
Men's Heavy Boots,
Overalls,
A Pretty Tumbler,
Goblets,
2 50 & f 1 00 " "
50 ets. "
40 ' per doz.
92 " per doz.
Also lots of other Bargains too numerous to speci
fy. Call and see the stock; it will
Kot Cost You Anything to Look I
F. MORTIMER,
Neiv Bloomfield, lya.
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J. M. GIRVIN & SON.,
FLOUR, GRAIN, SEED & PRODUCE
Commission Merchants, '
No. 64 South Gar, St.,
BALTIMORE, MD.
We will pay strict attention to the sale of all
kinds of Country Produce aud remit the amounts
promptly. 451yr.
J. M. GIRVIN & BON.
HUNT'S
The. Great Kidney
Medicine la fiot a new
compound ft bu ben
before the public a) yean
and db(1 by all classes.
by all classes.
ilt'NT'g TtKlHElJ V
has MVed from llncrr rtntr
r disease and death hun
m m VtM Gil lua lL-m II mven no hr Phv.l. i..,.
i ami wuo nave been
to die. llUNT'H HEittF.Dir cure- all Hi,
raiea of the Kidney. Bladder, and I rluarv
Oriam, Jtropay. Urvfl, IMabrtes. anl
Inrniulnenre and ltetentlnn of Urine,
ii D N T'rt 1 K1WEM Y encounmo. .leep, mate i
appetite, braces up the tyatem, and renewed hpaltu
Is the reeult. HUNT'S KHMEDV eurei Fain
In the Hide, llnck, or l.olna, Uenrral Urbil-
table. and TTUtete a Went nnver ImfnrA fiimtahtri tft A,A
ftfinH, 111 MlimiTIIV 1. nm v v.ri.
puhilo, and the utmost reliance may oe placed In It.
One trial will
Ylnre you.
bend lor pamphlet to
WM. B. CLARKK.
MV 1 UIMM UJI.
S3Bly
INSTATE NOTICE. Notice is hereby given
Lj that Letters Testamentary on the estate of
Bernard Roth, late of Jaoks.ni township. Perry
eount v. Pa., deceased, have been granted to tho
unders gned, residing lu Blaln. Perry comity. Pa.
All persons Indebted to said estate are request,
ed to make immediate payment, and those hav
Iiir claims to preseut thent duly authenticated lor
etUemeutto BRN.T. F. BHOEMAKEK, ,
UAV1U HOIH,
C. H. SMttET. Attorney. Executors,
beptemuur IU, la".